I was also baffled by the de-cripple-ified Ranmaru, mabye the Curry of Life is the cure for all disease, seeing as how it probobly kills anything microscopic in it's path.

Also, do you think they recoverd the lightning swords that Raiga dropped, those things seemed pretty bad ass and I would hope they didn't just leave them sitting around on top of some mountain. Imagine the power boost if Ten-Ten had those cool ninja-fied swords in one of her scrolls.

I think the point of this Konohamaru thing will just be a 'Naruto sucks at leading, but has so much charisma, and chakra, that it all works out' anouncment, Konohamaru and co. are just along to witness, and annoy the hell out of us. And how bad off must Konoha be if their giving three man teams to Genin

...at least it might be funny...