Naruto Shippuuden Episode 61

[Kraco]

As for if he was thinking they were after Naruto that isn't possible, there was no way they would know that Naruto's team would go to help the fire temple if they started to rob graves. It has to be Sora with out a doubt.

While I agree it was Sora they were after, your statement is still not entirely accurate. These ninja were from the same Fire Country, so they could have easily had an insider in the hidden village supplying them intel, including who's in the team. They might have counted on Naruto being in. After all, this kind of mission is still the best one to give to Naruto; no need to travel to distant lands when the trouble still resides within Fire Country.

[Jessper]

While I agree it was Sora they were after, your statement is still not entirely accurate. These ninja were from the same Fire Country, so they could have easily had an insider in the hidden village supplying them intel, including who's in the team. They might have counted on Naruto being in. After all, this kind of mission is still the best one to give to Naruto; no need to travel to distant lands when the trouble still resides within Fire Country.

That is a bit of a stretch, the best mission to give to Naruto as stated by everyone else is none at all. Asuma's team would have been ready to go unless they happened to plan this out with Akatsuki. These kind of assumptions don't seem to fall under a master plan, but with this anime I suppose anything is possible.

[Kraco]

That is a bit of a stretch, the best mission to give to Naruto as stated by everyone else is none at all.

Oh, really? And what do you think would happen if they just tried to let Naruto sit and rot back in the village doing nothing? Either he would disturb the life of the whole village beyond redemption or he would wander out on his own seeking trouble. Nah, psychologically and practically this is the best kind of mission: Something real because Naruto always wanted hard enough missions, yet it's still relatively close to Konoha should something happen, like Akatsuki appear.

[Abdula]

Oh, really? And what do you think would happen if they just tried to let Naruto sit and rot back in the village doing nothing? Either he would disturb the life of the whole village beyond redemption or he would wander out on his own seeking trouble. Nah, psychologically and practically this is the best kind of mission: Something real because Naruto always wanted hard enough missions, yet it's still relatively close to Konoha should something happen, like Akatsuki appear.

The dude is supposed to be doing his training that is so important that Kakashi would develop this new training method so he could accomplish in a week what would take him about 20 years. That is what he is supposed to be doing. This filler really just screwed up the timing and pacing of the story not to mention various other things. There were a few events that was supposed to happen before Naruto's training started that made his training and especially the time it would take very important.

Sora = Jinchuuriki. It would be one hell of a stretch but they definitely could do it if they wanted to. It wouldn't fit with the manga at all but its not like they actually cared about that since Shippuden started. But making him one would take alot of work thats if they are interested in doing it properly plus that would have to mean that some time in the future they would ofcourse have to make Akatsuki capture him and seriously things are bad enough already. This filler isn't bad but it really messes things up and it doesn't compare to what was supposed to be happening .

[Jessper]

Oh, really? And what do you think would happen if they just tried to let Naruto sit and rot back in the village doing nothing?

He could train. Seriously this kind of a plan leaves far too many things up to chance, if they go with that route I'll go ahead and be mad about how retarded it is no matter the justification they give at this point.

Edit: Didn't notice the new page when I posted so what I replied with has already been said, oh well.