As a prefacing note: I woke up deathly ill this morning. Morning being 2:30 am. So, so far my Christmas has been less than stellar.
BUT.
NOW THE NARUTO CHAPTER IS OUT.
AND WE SHALL SEE JUST HOW MUCH MORE BROKEN MY BRAIN CAN GET.
~A splash page of Danzou looking actually kind of badass with his HORRIBLE EYE-FILLED ARM and some roots in the background, of course it's symbolic.
~The little "character sentence" on the side reads: "A greedy dictator? Or perhaps a noble personification of a shinobi? The 'roots' run deep." I say he's neither--he's just an asshole. An annoyingly efficient, sociopathic asshole, but just an asshole, nonetheless. /DETERMINED TO HATE DANZOU
~Karin's like, "I AM GOING TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THIS GOD-MODDING PLOTHOLE." Go, Karin, go!
~FIST SMASH! Effective? Probably not.
~And Danzou's just like, "LOL, TROLLING FROM UP HERE, TOO." Meanwhile, Karin establishes that we're not in a genjutsu. Ooooohh...
~MOAR SMASHING
~Sasuke goes for the double-kill with Amaterasu on top of Susanoo. Effective??
~Well, it catches him, anyway. Madara observes that Sasuke's going to wear himself out. And then Karin's got this face like "OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHAT NOW???
~Danzou does SOMETHING FREAKY. And Sasuke's summoning something!
~OH MAH GAWH IT'S A GIANT ASS HAWK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS /brb, fapping at the symbolism
~Madara's like, "oh hey, when'd he get that?" ASKING THE QUESTIONS THE FANDOM WANTS TO KNOW.
~And also, Sasuke makes some hot faces when Danzou mentions Itachi...again.
~eeeeeeew one of Danzou's arm-eyes closes, eeeeeew :C
~AND THEN KARIN GETS TO MAKE SOME HOT FACES, OH YEAH I AM GLAD TO SHIP THIS \o/
~Goddammit, Danzou manages to say things I agree with again, WHY DOES WHAT SASUKE NEEDS TO HEAR HAVE TO COME FROM THAT CREEPER AUGH.
~Danzou appears to be mostly using wind-based techniques. The logical thing to do would be to use Fire against them and turn it back on Danzou, Sasuke. But he's not listening.
~holy shit panel of Sasuke and Danzou facing off and hnnnnnngh Sasuke stop looking so pretty when Danzou's on screen, it creeps me out to be excited by a panel with him in it.
~SASUKE SLASHES THE ARM OFF YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
~BUT IT DISAPPEARED OH NO
~why the hell won't he DIE, I just--OH MY GOD CROWS
~OH MY GOD WHAT.
OH MY GOD WHAT.
OH.
MY.
GOD.
WHAT.
I actually do have more to say in depth, but I have to leave for Christmas Eve Mass, so I'll just leave you with this.
PLOTBLENDERS NEVER DIE, BIZNATCHES.