Chapter 317 preview by pokefreak.

[Hara!]

Thanks PF, and god help you if your'e lying.

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The title is "Beginning of the Nightmare!!"

Tobi's officially become a member of Akatsuki and is off with Deidara hunting down the Three Tails, a weird turtle-like thing.
The colour pages show someone running away from the two Akatsuki members. She is a woman with purplish hair and a flower hairpin.
Yamato's real name is Tenzou.

Naruto asks Kakashi about people who use wind type chakra, and apparently Asuma is very skilled at it.
Wind type is the best for short- to mid-range fighting, and therefore there's not many who use wind type.
For wind chakra, you divide the chakra into two, then knead them like you're finely sharpening them by rubbing them together.
Around then, the monk who left earlier goes to see Tsunade. Tsunade says to not let them get away from the Fire Country, and to contact a newly-formed 20-person team.

[u_nick]

sounds pretty cool.

looks like maybe we'll get Asuma to come join in on the trainging for Naruto? that would be nice.

[Nomnomnom]

If they're sending a 20 man team out, somebody is going to die, say goodbye to some random new found character, or better yet, they kill off somebody who's already been introduced?

[Denisa]

Somebody is going bye-bye. It will be interesting if the 20 man team includes any of the rookie 9 and Team Gai. Maybe it will include people we haven't seen in a while like the original Ino-Shika-Cho, Shino's dad, Hyuuga Hiashi, or Genma and Anko.

Would Kishimoto kill any of these off?

So Asuma is a wind type user too? Asuma is everywhere in this arc! I still say it's only to set up his death. And wind is better for close and medium range? I thought wind would be best for long range attacks? Something doesn't add up. Sounds like Naruto is going to learn how to attack close up with wind like Asuma with his blades.

[Nomnomnom]

Wind is good for long range attacks to a certain extent but is thusly easily dogdge able, like slashes of wind can be evaded, if you can feel them comming. The master of wind would most defenitly be temari though, considering her attacks don't move in the ||| like a slash would but in - - - - --- - - - -'s.

With medium and short range you could say cut your apponet to pieces with the attacks.

[Suki]

OMFG. Dynamic Dragon you have done it this time! Congrats!

[Denisa]

Wind is good for long range attacks to a certain extent but is thusly easily dogdge able, like slashes of wind can be evaded, if you can feel them comming. The master of wind would most defenitly be temari though, considering her attacks don't move in the ||| like a slash would but in - - - - --- - - - -'s.

With medium and short range you could say cut your apponet to pieces with the attacks.
Actually it sounds like Temari might not be a "true" wind type at least the way Kishimoto is going. She throws her chakra in the air and uses the fan to direct it and attack from long range. She doesn't create wind like the spoiler describes. She is more of a weapons specialist like Tenten since that fan requires a great deal of skill to master.

Gaara and Baki seem more in line with what's going on. Baki had that Blade of Wind attack, that killed Hayate, and that was short range and didn't need a tool. He created it himself through his chakra like how the spoiler describes.

Some people are now saying this pic is a fake. It looks way too real and this is Wednesday. I looks like one of those monsters Godzilla use to battle.

[Suki]

If it's a fake, that's a pretty damn good picture DD drew. He draws a style very simillar to Kishimoto's. So I wouldn't be suprised. Plus, he has his own doujin.

[Denisa]

Only he could pull that off. He did one with Kabuto that everyone thought was real.

[Suki]

Yeah, that was brilliant.

[Denisa]

Another strange thing. The spoiler calls this thing a "turtle" and the three tailed is suppose to be the Isonade(dark blue three tailed shark with three dorsal fins)

It would look nothing like the picture. It's not a given that the three tailed would have to be the Isonade, but it follows closely with Kishi's mythology. And it also has ties to the Samehada. Very odd.

[abomination]

I'm not taking this seriously untill an actual chapter is availabe, raw or otherwise. The image looks very much like Kishi's style ( and also appears to have been taking in a book with a digicam ), but it looks like it's something that you would find at the end of a chapter, but why in color. I thought Kishi only does color inserts of the first page(s).

To what it is, hell if I know. Looks like a monster you would see in One Piece or a Godzilla movie. They say it's a turtle-like thing, but that looks nothing like a turtle to me. The speculated upon 3 tailed bijuu was Isonade , a shark, but that has absolutely no resemblance to a shark whatsoever. Isonade has 3 tails, 3 dorsel fins, and a horn on it's head. He could come up with something else, but he has a Japanese mythology theme going on. Why he would want to deviate from that, no clue. Also , wasn't it speculated upon that the only Bijuu left for Akatsuki to obtain was Kyuubi ? Unless, I interpreted Kakuzu's map wrong and him saying they only had 1 left, I assumed they already had the 3 tailed Bijuu, so what would be the need to have it appear like this.

I don't know. When an actual chapter and translation is available, it might set some things straight.