I was so excited over that Rock Lee/Gaara fight that I completely forgot to save any pictures from it. But I think we all remember it being epic as shit.

Kishimoto definitely had different plants for Kabuto initially. It's a shame because they seemed pretty interesting or at least better than what we ended up with.

I fucking love how few shits Shikamaru gives for this entire process.

Fucking Christ, Jiraiya's opening act was hilarious. When the hell did people stop making hilarious expressions in Naruto? Even ten years later I guffawed at his excitement over Icha Icha Paradise's popularity.

Thanks for talking as if I know what any of this terminology means. Next thing I know, you're gonna start talking about hyperresonances and fon slots. (Sorry, Tales of the Abyss reference only Greene will get.)

I shit my pants years ago at this panel because chakra in the anime was blue, not yellow. I wonder why they changed it; perhaps it'd look too much like Dragonball Z? The blue made such an impression on me that literally until I reread this just now I completely forgot its original color.

I always found this insane. Do you know how much pressure you have to put down to be able to break the skin of your thumb and make it bleed profusely instead of ooze out? How the hell is he not breaking the nail? Also, is that Minato's signature next to his?

Fuck, is this what Naruto would've looked like if he passed the chuunin exam? We missed so much.

I actually read this and was completely surprised upon discovering later it was Kishimoto's. I liked it quite a bit and was disappointed it was a one shot. Maybe he's working on this now that Naruto is over.

Yeah, Kishimoto had different ideas for the bijuu too.