Friday, December 19, 2008

Episode 16 - The Broken Seal

We start with Sakura's scream rousing Sasuke and Naruto, though the latter isn't doing much moving per se. The cry of his crush object brings Naruto back to his feet, we get a Chakra-charge, and Naruto tries to find a way out of the ice cage but gets ice-needled for his efforts. Things look pretty grim for our heroes, with Haku ready to end things. Sasuke reminds us that he will do Great Things, and parries all of Haku's needles with one of his own. Haku throws even more needles, and Sasuke blocks most of them while covering Naruto. Naruto is irritated at this turn of events, so irritated he passes out. Haku's duly impressed by Sasuke's speed and ninja sense, but also reckons that the kid's just about at his limit. The kid's got depths, though - Sasuke focuses through Haku's mirror feint and saves Naruto and himself from pointy death. Haku can't believe it, and can't believe it even more when he notices that Sasuke has a little Sharingan of his own going on. Haku knows the longer the Kekkei Genkai goes, the more it goes in Sasuke's favor with the Sharingan active. I really hope the guy Sasuke wants to kill isn't actually Kakashi. Sasuke's stunned when Haku pulls a fast one and goes for Naruto instead.

Outside of the land of ice mirrors, Zabuza taunts Kakashi for that whole 'devoted to others' nonsense, having sliced him up good. In accordance with Vime's Law, Zabuza is a Bad Man and thus gloats his ass off. Sakura's worried about Sasuke, instead of everybody else's neck, and it'll be nice when Inner Sakura can start punching people. Kakashi tells her not to worry, re-iterating from earlier why Naruto and Sasuke are awesome. When Kakashi name-drops Sasuke's clan, even Zabuza calls it 'tragic.' Whoa. Kakashi charges into the mist.

Sasuke's all battered, but still has the energy to complain at Naruto, and this is already a theme. Naruto is stunned that Sasuke protected him, and so is Sasuke. Still, I guess he could be might have some fondness for his first kiss. Heh. Naruto flips out over this, I think maybe because it was mostly instinct for Sasuke to do the hero-thing. The Uchina's pincushion collapses into Naruto's arms, Sasuke saying he vowed not to die before he killed his brother (so probably not Kakashi, good) and telling the Knucklehead Kninja not to die either. Haku finally comes to, and his views on people dying are unsuprising. This only serves to piss Naruto off even more, and something... strange starts to happen. A swirling pillar of fire starts to surround Naruto, and he's clearly him his Limit Break. Haku's about to flip his shit, Naruto's got the gravelly voice going, there's flying debris, he regenerates his wounds and even goes one further and starts to wolf out a bit. The Demon Fox rears its head in the flames, and everybody's about to lose it, particularly Kakashi because he's the only one who knows what's going on. Naruto's literally gone magic Demon Fox feral. Holy shit.

Next Episode: DEMON FOX!

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