Expect Me When You See Me

Yeah, it actually feels like they're starting up a new plot now instead of an extended, "Let's reintroduce the characters." scene. Ino was the last of the old genin we needed to see again. And my only complaint about the new plot was the obvious sidelining of Kakashi so they could do it. Poor guy. It reminds me of how in One Piece, Luffy is always being sidelined at the beginning of fights for the weirdest reasons, just so everyone else can fight. Of course, since Kakashi isn't the main character, he also doesn't get a chance to fight at the end (Unless masked guy really is Obito... and that's a whole other can of worms.) I'd rather have him sidelined than dead though (since that is the fate of all good teachers when their students grow up in fiction - luckily, Kakashi isn't all that good a teacher *L*).