PSA: Flist purge. Nothing personal. Just dropping a series.
It really sucks when you're behind on a series. You don't get to fangirl with everyone else. I noticed that everyone in my flist (well those that read Naruto anyway), was all squealy happy about this chapter. I was of course avoiding spoilers, and I was not expecting anything like this at all. I can understand what everyone was so happy about.
THE SAND SHINOBI ARE BACK!!!!! ♥♥♥~
Temari. Kankuro. GAARA! *melts* A few weeks ago, I don't remember with whom, I had a thread with someone discussing Gaara and wanting to see him come back in the series.
The sand shinobi returning was inevitable. I really wanted to see how much they'd grown since the Chuunin exam, but I wasn't expecting them to show up like this. It was a very very pleasant surprise. Naruto never fails to find something for me to squee happily (or not so happily, but you love it anyway) about in nearly every chapter.
I LOVE KISHIMOTO MASASHI. He reminds me why, despite everything else, no matter how many series' I get into in between, I will keep coming back to this series. (And with my amazing attention span, loving a series this much for over 3 years is a feat.) It's like coming home really, after being led astray. <3