Yeah, and I think that the tentacle things that come out of the summoned monsters minds have the ability to eat souls... or something like that. A la Sealing Jutsu that the 3rd used on Orochimaru... it looks like it at least, since one of the things was about to bite Shikamar and, while he avoided it, he still got hurt and it looked like the tentacle was biting a smoke-like arm...


Anyway, it'll be long before Shikamaru's fight ends. Tayuya still has to go on to level 2, and Shikamaru will be in a pinch again, and then he solves it, looks like he dies... and I just wanna see what happens with Naruto, Kimimaro and Sasuke (though I can live without Sasuke).