Naruto Chapter 397

[rockmanj]

I guess the hunch that Itachi really was a good guy was correct (much to a lot of people's chagrin, I suppose.) I just wonder how he transferred the mangekyou to Sasuke just by touching his forehead...

[Tobydelaroka]

I really wanted to believe Itachi is a good guy... but what if Tobi is lying? Just another conspiracy theory to use Sasuke bla bla bla... Kyuubi is bad... and go kill Naruto.
Tobi had the same scar like Naruto?
Aww no Naruto next week? damn it! so much puzzle...
k going to sleep.

[Tenbatsu]

So this means sasuke got all itachis mangekyou teqs?.. Does that mean he got susano...? And if he activates his own mangekyou will it automaticly become an eternal since it got itachis "eye powers" ?

[Sidnne]

I guess the hunch that Itachi really was a good guy was correct (much to a lot of people's chagrin, I suppose.) I just wonder how he transferred the mangekyou to Sasuke just by touching his forehead...

I'm trying to think back to the chapter, without actually going back to look at it, but I seem to remember the blood running down from Sasuke's forehead and into his eye. Did that happen or am I imagining it? If that happened, that could explain it.

What I find much more interesting is:
Madara's face had similar whisker like lines on it like Naruto's does. It takes effort to draw three lines on a face which leads me to believe they were put there for a reason. We know the Yin chakra of the Kyubii went to Naruto and the Yang chakra is somewhere else. I may be misremembering and it's the case that only the Yin chakra that is able to mix with Naruto's at the moment and that key unlocks the Yang chakra which is also in him, in which case this next theory is moot though. However, if the Yang chakra is somewhere other than Naruto then I think it's possible Madara could have managed to get his hands on it from wherever the Fourth decided to stuff it and make himself a Jinchuuriki.

Those don't really look like whisker lines to me. They have a fleshy depth to them and appear to be more like wrinkles or scars.

Also I think Itachi told Naruto everything a few chapters ago when they had a conversation that was left out. So Naruto probably knows everything now and in a couple of chapters Naruto will have a MS that Itachi gave him or some other badass power.

That's right. I had forgotten all about that. We still never found out what Itachi said to Naruto. That's bound to raise a few questions now too.

[DB_Hunter]

Interesting chapter. I suspected all along that Itachi was a good guy, and I think I'm one of the few people who is glad that he has proven to have been so. I agree its a bit lame that managed to transfer his MS to Sasuke by just a tap. One thing is clear now though, and that is that throughout the fight Itachi never intended to harm Sasuke, and that is why Sasuke didn't get owned right from the start. Why Itachi decided to get killed by Sasuke, that remains to be seen.

Does anyone have an explaination as to how, after getting hit by Amaterasu, Madara just calmly walks back from the darkness with no damage after a brief struggle? And can someone point out the chapters where Itachi spoke to Naruto in secret? As I remember it were they not interuppted when Itachi detected the arrival of Sasuke? I don't think Itachi actually managed to tell Naruto what he wanted, and that was one of the reason why Naruto was chasing Itachi as well.

I'm still holding out that Itachi is alive somehow. I know its a very bleak prospect now, but his death was just too sudden. Unless Madara gives a convincing explaination as to why Itachi literally just dropped dead, I'm thinking he is in some sort of trance or something.

[Abdula]

I'm trying to think back to the chapter, without actually going back to look at it, but I seem to remember the blood running down from Sasuke's forehead and into his eye. Did that happen or am I imagining it? If that happened, that could explain it.

Those don't really look like whisker lines to me. They have a fleshy depth to them and appear to be more like wrinkles or scars.

That's right. I had forgotten all about that. We still never found out what Itachi said to Naruto. That's bound to raise a few questions now too.

Yes it was Itachi's blood that went into Sasuke's left eye and I'm pretty sure the fact that blood began flowing out of that same eye when Tobi activated his sharingan was no coincidence.

I don't think they look like whiskers either, they look like old scars, similar to those one would have if say their face was crushed by rocks but I'm not going there.

I don't know why you guys think something happened between Itachi and Naruto because as DB_Hunter stated we weren't shown anything to suggest that something did happen. He tried talking to Naruto and Naruto attacked him, then he asked him one question which Naruto was answering when Sasuke arrived and then Itachi left.

[Sidnne]

I don't know why you guys think something happened between Itachi and Naruto because as DB_Hunter stated we weren't shown anything to suggest that something did happen. He tried talking to Naruto and Naruto attacked him, then he asked him one question which Naruto was answering when Sasuke arrived and then Itachi left.

Yes, Naruto attacked Itachi, but then Itachi did his raven illusion and said "I only wish to talk with you." Then is skips to the scene with Tsunade and Jiraiya speaking for a few pages and goes back to Itachi and Naruto with Naruto laying on the ground.

Naruto asks "why?" The "why" could be either in response to Itachi wanting to talk to him or perhaps to something Itachi said to him. The fact that it switched scenes is what leads me to believe that there may have been some type of conversation between them during that "missing" time. If it didn't switch scenes then I wouldn't think anything of it.