Another GREAT chapter from Kishi! woo! I loved how Naruto went off like an A-bomb. KABOOM! (Yes, like that

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Any who... on to my prediction and analysis of the chapter.
Personally, I don't think that Hinata is dead. I noticed a few things that I think Kishi put in to suggest that she isn?t. (I can?t post links yet, so I?ll just tell page #/panel)
#1 (And probably most obvious): Hinata finally confesses her love for Naruto, and I don't think that Kishi is so heartless to killer off within a few pages of her doing so

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#2: Page 14 panel 3 (middle left): I believe that kishi blocked her from view with the debris from Shinra Tensei so we have no idea where Pain actually stabbed her. For all we know, Pain stabbed her in the hands like he did Naruto, and she's just unconscious. It isn?t like with Kakashi where we KNOW he was shot through the head with a nail. (Or through the Sharingan eye) Or pa frog was stabbed through the chest. (More like through entire torso, he's so small

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#3: And finally the overall feel final pages. I believe that pain just wanted Naruto to think that Hinata was dead to finally get him to show the Kyuubi, and Hinata is just unconscious.
As for my prediction to the next chapter, I have a few possibilities, each more unlikely than the last.
1) Naruto fights with the kyuubi and gains control, then using the extendo-arm thing he used against Orochimaru, picks up Hinata and moves her over to Tsunade and Sakura. Then he continues to fight/annihilate pain.
2) Team Gai arrives, Neji sees that Hinata is severely wounded and on the brink of death, and he reveals that the mark on his forehead serves another purpose, namely that he can sacrifice himself to save a member of the main branch family. ( I know I'm going to get some hate replies from Neji lovers from this one, but it's just a prediction)
3) Pain walks towards QB Naruto, turning his back on Hinata, she slowly gets to her feet and does a 64 palm strike on god realm. Naruto sees that Hinata is still alive, senses that the kyuubi is going to go on an all out rampage in pain/Hinata's general direction, and forces himself to stop (by either learning to control the Kyuubi's chakra, or plain suppressing it with willpower.) so that he doesn't harm Hinata.
Sorry for such a long post, I just couldn't help myself after such an amazing chapter :3
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gogo!