TGNH Ch. 5 - Complete!

[Valles]

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I'd envisage a moment's shocked silence and then Naruto (IIRC correctly, the only one who got least mauled) going: "Sugoi! How'd you do that!?"

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Heh. I'd had Sasuke raising that issue, but you're right - it's much more IC for Naruto.

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a) they have no reason to believe that he knows more than they do about the other Sakura (although Sakura after reflection, might ask what could have made her turn out like that)

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Mm. Well, for your second point, the next scene doesn't start until after the cleanup is finished and they've set up camp for the night, and for your first, one of the things I'd wanted to do for thematic reasons is to have Genin!Sakura as the person with the best insight into Hell!Sakura's thought processes - precisely because of how much that understanding would disturb her.
The other thing about this scene is that it's not so much the kids walking up to N. and demanding answers as him reasoning that, hey, this is their lives they're trusting him with, so he owes them no small amount of honesty.

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"... How are you still moving?" He does have a big chidori hole through him and an arm gone at this point, right?

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O.O Oh, dear. You're right about that... During the fight he was running on about two parts adrenaline, three parts training, and four parts sheer stubborn, but after...
Hm.
Ja, -n
(Well, more like the Chidori hole ran through the long axis of the arm, but that's the overall effect, anyway.)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."