98... Guren is too fly

In this episode, a small battle breaks out between Guren and the group of hidden leaf ninjas. Hinata is still a hostage at this point, but later saved my narutos summoned frog ally. Guren demonstrates her power when she turns Naruto's new water pistol jutso against him. She stops the water blast with one hand and turns it all into a pink crystal shard dragon that she uses to increase her mobility. They Hidden Leaf ninjas strategically save Hinata and flee when they realize they have no chance agains Guren and her unique jutso. Kakashi's Sharingon doesn't even work against her power. Kabuto makes an eery appearance in this episode to forshadow the awakening of the three tailed beast in the foggy lake. Yaamatu had to take this medicine which releases his hidden power to summon the beast. Orochimaru had made a comment to Guren previous to her mission which said that she was the only one who could do it. This is where that comes into place. She created a hexagon of giant crystal pillars around the area in the pond where the beast is to be summoned. Is this beast a relative of the nine-tailed fox? If so... o shit.

97... the crystal barrier

So it seems that in the past three episodes, they have been trying to set up for this grand battle against Guren the Crystal Master. In this episode, not alot happens except for Guren sets up her crystat barrier trap that Naruto manages to break thru with his new water pistol jutso. Guren also shows some of her skills by demonstrating her different jutso techniques using the crystal jutso. She is quickly becoming more and more of a badass villin, who I see quite possibly becoming good with the help of little Yamato. Hinata's stupid,weak self of coarse becomes the hostage in this battle, but will eventually be rescued. I wouldn't mind if she was killed off. I can't stand her weak little voice and her equally weak techniqes. What a worthless ninja. On a side note, the Leaf villiage is quickly learning about the crystal jutso with the study of Shino's insects. This may be imparative to the success of the mission... see ya'll lata!!

Episode 96... Hinata's pathetic fight.

Ok... so I know that the back-up team is made up of third rate genine ninja, Hinata and Akamaru for real disappoint me with their weakness in this episode. I thought that since they have aged so much from the regular Naurto series that they would have demonstrated new jutsu and show alot of improvement, but that is not the case. Hinata's weakness is unbearable. She is trapped in the fog of her opponents who are just sub characters and have no real talent. She uses her Bakugon (special way to see using justsu) to fight her rubbery opponent, whithin five minutes she needs help from Kiba and his dog Akamaur. Of coarse he comes to the rescue. The only 2 suprising parts about this whole epsisode was that Kikashi could barely hold his own against the muscle expanding bandit and that the enemies fled because they were surrounded by the new breed of incects. Personally, i hate the back-up team and i hope that Guren messes 'em all up next episode, except for Kakashi (he's the only one worth something).

Finish the Training and Go!!

The Hidden Leaf Village has been trying to hide the most recent mission to find Orochimaru from Naruto in fear that Naruto will use his newest and most dangerous wind jutsu. Jaraiya knew that Naruto would eventually become involved so Jaraiya sent out a message to Hokage Tsunade telling her that his involvement would be inevitable. Of coarse Naruto did find out about the mission and is determined to learn a his new jutsu (wind water combo with the toads). While his team who is playing back up to the reconnaissance team already on the mission is waiting on him to quickly master his new jutso, the current reconnaissance team is in need for more time for the bug master to use his powers to create more of the new species of insects that are immune to Guren's powerful and mysterious crystal shard jutsu. I predict that the next episode will be the beginning of a crazy battle between Guren and the 8 Leaf village ninja. I personally like Guren and hope that she doesn't die in this battle despite the obvious foreshadow of her death by her boy companion. Good luck Guren! ( I always root for the bad guys!! lol)