Spoiler-jutsu kicks my ass

[rachelmanija]

I went to the manga shop to pick up the latest volumes of Naruto. As I grabbed the latest one, one of the two ten or eleven-year-old boys standing there examining them said, "Oh, that's the one where [GINORMOUS AND TOTALLY UNEXPECTED SPOILER HAPPENS!]"

"...what?" I said. "WHAT?! HEY! I DIDN'T KNOW THAT!!!"

I had the volume in my hand, and I bopped him atop the head with it. (Not hard!)

"Dude!" said his friend. "Don't blurt out spoilers like that."

"Uh, sorry," said Spoiler Boy.

"You SHOULD be sorry!" I retorted ungracefully.

The shop employees attempted to console me ("you should have hit him harder!"), but the damage was done. It was just like Kakashi getting spoiler-attacked, only worse.

And then I went home and tried to console myself by printing the yaoi-illusion since stupid Viz censored it by transforming it into a silhouette, only the site linked on reread_no_jutsu is virus-infected and completely crashed my computer, forcing me to type from a net cafe until tomorrow, when hopefully the computer repair place can fix it. (Details at oyceter.)

...please do not put spoilers in comments, or I will hit you with a shrink-wrapped volume of Naruto.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I was hating Sai for being YET ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER, and a boy at that, when very girl but Sakura was apparently twiddling her thumbs back home.

[octopedingenue]

...huh? Maybe she gets left behind on a later mission I haven't read yet, but Sakura was with them all the way on this round of ZOMG Rescue Sasuke that introduced Sai. In fact I adore the Sakura/Sai dynamic; he magically brings out the het around her, because she tops him SO HARD.

Nonetheless: another female character would've been awesome. Sigh.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

That's why I said "every girl but Sakura"!

Also, it couldn't be a girl because it would have violated the sacred rule that every ninja team must be 2 boys and 1 girl. A team of 1 boy and 2 girls would have resulted in the destruction of the universe as we know it.

[octopedingenue]

Noooo, you said "very girl but Sakura," which I thought meant "the extremely female but cripplingly Sakura-esque Sakura was left behind." ;P

I'm relieved you understand these important things so well!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Pft. I thought I had you trained to automatically fix my typos in your head!