i know that i had been bitching like crazy about how the fight was going at the beginning but having just caught up with everything from ch 269, i'll admit that the fight wasn't that bad at all--- but only when you read one chapter right after another. i still can't believe i read 2 months' worth of manga of sakura actually fighting =P but now we know that apparently everyone in konoha has a fighting chance with the akatsuki. hell, if sakura can survive, everyone else can. except for maybe hinata ;D

i HIGHLY doubt this'll happen but wouldn't it be a nice twist if sasori's spy subordinate of orochimaru was kabuto? it'd save kishimoto the effort of drawing a new character and having to come up with a marginal character background, if anything =P