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Naruto Rewatch - Episode 3 - Team Seven!
I feel like this shot from the opening might be false advertising. Because Sasuke doesn't smile.
Another morning in Konoha, the birds are chirping… and wait, no kabuki noises?
Our hero wakes up in his bed, takes off his adorable sleeping cap (are those even a thing?) and looks at his swimsuit babe calendar. It’s October 15th – and he has an explanatory meeting. Because it’s a special day, Naruto treats himself to cup ramen and milk for breakfast. I write treats himself while I throw up a little in my mouth, btw.
Naruto's decoration - the thing behind him reads やったら人生 yattara jinsei, which a Japanese friend told me has no real meaning on its own, but google translate says means: I get life (lol), jinsei definitely means life, yattara can mean to do, to get, etc. Or maybe it has something to do with yatta jinsei, which would just mean hooray life! It's weird. The other thing behind him is 常勝 joushou - invincible. If you've been thinking about getting a sneaky Naruto tattoo that could also just be any random dudebro's "meaningful" kanji tattoo, this would be ideal! (Meanwhile, I'm seriously thinking of getting a red 青春 on the sole of my right foot, perfect sneaky Naruto-themed tattoo, you guys, I have found it! Although I probably won't actually do it...)
Okay, with the title card, the kabuki noises make a reappearance. Dang.
Naruto puts on his forehead protector and leaves his apartment. After Naruto has a short run-in with Konohamaru, who tries to challenge him but falls flat on his face (Rivalry Count: 1) (btw, what’s with all these 火posters on the walls? Do people need to constantly remind themselves that they’re in Fire Country?), anyway, after this encounter, we meet Sakura! Who’s getting ready for the meeting. We also hear her mom’s voice – you see, Sakura has parents! And they’re not even dead! – telling her to hurry. Sakura’s reaction, let’s be honest here, is a little over the top, but how else is the audience supposed to be introduced to Inner Sakura? The little voice inside Sakura’s head that tells her to kill people and set fire to things true feelings, I guess?
Sakura owns this, you guys! And she never wore it! Imagine if she had worn it and Lee had seen her!
Sakura gets going as well, musing about how she’s not a girl (not yet a full-fledged kunoichi). In front of a flower shop, she meets Ino, they greet each other passive-aggressively, then powerwalk to school to the soundtrack of flutes and drums and kabuki guy. Dang, when will he leave? (Rivalry Count: 2)
At the academy Naruto is asked why the hell he bothered to show up to a meeting for graduates when he didn’t even graduate, except that he did graduate and he has the forehead protector to prove it, so take that, Shikamaru.
Meanwhile Sakura and Ino argue about who got to school first, completely forgetting that coming to school first is totally the mark of the uncool nerd, this whole argument makes no sense, and is quickly forgotten as soon as Sakura lays eyes on…. wait for it, no, Naruto, it’s not you! It’s… Sasuke!
Everyone wants to sit next to him all of a sudden, which… wait, he’s been sitting there the whole time, surely those other girls (and is that a boy?) could have sat next to him before Ino and Sakura even got there? But they didn’t. They only realize how hot Sasuke is after Sakura and Ino remind them of their role in this manga/anime.
Cut to Sandaime and his jounin, who seem to be having a crystal ball watch party in the Third’s office. We learn that Sasuke is the top rookie in his class and he’s also an Uchiha and a survivor. Whatever that means. Hm.
Here's the thing they don't tell you about life: sometime after puberty you will go through a wonky phase looks-wise while your magaka is still figuring out how to draw you; it's just a part of growing up. Poor Kurenai, though.
Back to Naruto who was shoved aside by Sakura and is pretty pissed. He hops on the desk in front of Sasuke, crouches down like that’s a normal thing any person might do and gives him a piece of his mind until a boy in the row in front of them makes a wrong movement, pushing Naruto towards Sasuke. (Rivalry Count: 3)
this does not need words, it speaks for itself.
It’s the kiss-scene, you guys! Naruto and Sasuke’s first kiss! Let’s be honest, it’s a little weird, and the fact that a bunch of grown-ups are watching via crystal ball and commenting on it doesn’t make it better.
Team time! We get team seven: Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke! Team eight: Hinata, Kiba and Shino And team ten: Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji!
Sakura wants to eat lunch with Sasuke, but he’s nowhere to be found. Naruto wants to eat lunch with her but she turns him down (pretty cruelly too, I like Sakura, but this is not her finest hour) and goes to search for Sasuke.
Naruto finds him instead, and under team ten’s watchful gaze gets beaten by Sasuke (those sound effects, wow, I wish they would reuse them for the Pain fight) who coolly leaves the scene. This outcome is only natural, comments Ino, since Sasuke is the strongest kid in their class and Naruto is dead last.
Sakura is sitting on a bench and fantasizing about Sasuke and what he might do to her wide forehead when he shows up and actually talks about her forehead and what he might do to it, okay, that’s not weird at all. The next thing he wants to know is how Sakura feels about Naruto. She tells him Naruto’s just annoying and goes in for the kiss. Just as Sasuke wants to reciprocate, he suddenly holds his stomach and excuses himself. What a time for diarrhea!
this is a weird one. 15cmまで, to 15cm, up to 15, until 15 cm, what does it mean? I was thinking maybe this is about the toilet paper? As in if there's only 15 cm left, get a new roll, but wouldn't that be too little? It's a toilet mystery.
It was Naruto all along! With his new kage bunshin no jutsu he overwhelmed Sasuke, tied him up and transformed into him. While Sasuke frees himself, Naruto is on the toilet and plans his next move. He’ll be mean to Sakura so she’ll hate Sasuke!
Except that the real Sasuke is already there and guess what, he’s super mean! Well, Sakura does put her foot in it with her strange orphan prejudice. She should really check her parent-privilege, and Sasuke tells her so in no uncertain terms by throwing her words back at her: “You’re annoying.”
Finally, Sasuke and Naruto clash, but before any kind of showdown can happen, Naruto, crippled by diarrhea, runs back to the bathroom. Sakura has a revelation on the bench, being told you’re annoying hurts, so she’s going to try to be nicer to Naruto from now on! And she does try, but Naruto runs off to the toilet again (why’d he even leave?).
Cut to Naruto’s apartment where Sandaime and one of his jounin (okay, we all know it’s Kakashi – I actually made a high-pitched noise when he appeared for the first time: Kakashi’s here!) hang out. Kakashi picks up the carton of milk. It’s expired, huh. Oh, and the Uchiha kid is on your squad too, says Sandaime, good luck with that! (He actually pretty much says that, it's like "Yeah, I gave you the shittiest kids, what did you expect? I mean, Asuma's my son, so I'm not gonna saddle him with this bullshit and Kurenai's a pretty lady and we all know how I feel about pretty ladies - still haven't got all the blood out of my pipe, if you know what I mean - and then there's you, so have fun with that.)
Kakashi too went through a wonky phase there, but look underneath the underneath and see the bishi he will become.
Absentmindedly shaking his carton of milk (it brings all the boys to the yard), Kakashi senses that things might become complicated (the poor guy has no idea) and we’re treated to a cut to Naruto on the toilet, with sound effects and everything. Yeah, this is going to be… something.










...I completely forgot about Sakura's awesome, never worn jacket. She need to wear that jacket. For justice.
She could fight crime in that jacket. Maybe it's her secret superhero outfit. Oh no, now I'm thinking about fic in which Sakura is secretly a superhero.
Now I'm thinking about fic where she accidentally ruins her dress on her first day, and wears that jacket instead. Kakashi takes one look at her and assumes a mini-Gai Minato-fan, and flings her into endless Taijustu and speed training that Sakura is too busy trying to suck up to him to protest. Her patheticness confuses him, but he assumes it's normal until all the hardwork that Gai's always babbling about kicks in.
...Maybe she could be a superhero too, though. A superhero on accident. She puts on the jacket because it's super cool, and then plays with her headband, making it into a bandanna and covering her hair, and then suddenly a mugging outside her window!
It's a really cool jacket!