And sappiness aside, I think there is some elegance in the fact that this time Sasuke had a moment of introspection regarding his friendship with Naruto, mirroring the one that Naruto had during their first battle at the VoE.
Still, I don’t entirely get why Naruto’s words actually reached to him this time when every prior attempt at “Talk no jutsu” had failed. Was the fact that the fight ended in a draw? That Naruto literally gave an arm for him? The blood deprivation? Or just that this is the penultimate chapter so the hatchet had to be buried somehow?
Anyway, next one is the ending and it will have colored pages. Bring it!
Three possibilities:... Waiiiitt. Naruto has both hands in "The Last," according to all the artworkand stuff.
1) Naruto will use his “Ninja Jesus” powers to regrow their arms.
2) Kishimoto will finally remember he has a main heroine that is a prodigious medic nin.
3) They will hunt down the surviving White Zetsu and Spiral Zetsu (seriously, what happened to those guys?) and transplant their arms.
Sigh… The shipper in me wants to believe but considering how marketing always lies and that as time passes is increasingly apparent that the author is just trolling the shipping fandom for kicks and giggles… I’m just keeping my hopes down.Speaking of, two things point towards a NaruHina ending for me. First, apparently the tagline for The Last is "The final story is a first love." Also... the Soundtrack CD cover.
Still, putting that aside as well as my trepidations that they might continue the series in anime form, there are other things revealed about the movie that interest me, like the fact that the villain is a direct descendant of Kaguya and the Sage, or that Hanabi will have a role in it.