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can't wait for the next chapter! but what i don't understand is, are all of the things at the bottom of the statue in the akatsuki's hideout a bunch of zetsu's? or clones of the akatsuki? and if they're zetsu's, i wonder why they are so powerful, or atleast enough to fight a ninja army, considering we have only seen zetsu recon throughout the entire series.

Why can't skankuro just die?