I'm up to chapter four now of Naruto, so at the rate I'm going I should be done perhaps six years from now.

Man, I forgot about this. I wonder if he still uses this picture on his ninja ID. Like, assassins from other countries look up his information and this picture comes up. Oh crap, if Kishimoto referenced this late in the series, I think I'd forgive him for a lot.

I kinda miss Inner Sakura (I remember she was pretty much the only special Sakura had in the early days of the video game series), but lack of appearances is more to Sakura's development: She's now more comfortable with herself, so she doesn't have to put up a front anymore and no longer is such a shallow person. Or so I say, but I think Kishimoto just couldn't think of any more interesting scenes with her and dropped it as a concept.

How the fuck did I forget about this???

And thus without much ceremony a team of legend was created.