The 7th Chapter of the Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring has already been released on Thursday, and readers were instantly blown away by the massive amount of revelations dropped in this week's issue.
Entitled the Genetic Slave, Chapter 7 continued to delve deeper into the identity of Shin, the new villain of the story and leader of the new Akatsuki, and his association to Orochimaru. Sarada Uchiha also found out the answer to the question she's been seeking all this time, learning that her initial suspicion regarding her relationship with the woman she saw with her father in the portrait of Team Taka was right from the start.
Takeaways from Chapter 7 of Naruto Gaiden:
Shin is Orochimaru's Experiment - Trying to locate the hideout of Shin and rescue Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke decided to go to one of Orochimaru's underground laboratory, hoping they could seek vital information from the Legendary Sannin that would unlock the mystery behind their recent foe.
Orochimaru, who appeared before Naruto and Sasuke a lot younger than his previous look, confirmed that Shin was one of his experiments with unique ability to live longer through his clones. He also added that Danzo's right hand with Sharingans originated from Shin, who developed a great fascination of Sasuke's elder brother, Itachi.
Sarada is Karin's Daughter? - Confused on who really is her mother, Sarada asked Suigetsu to help her solved the mystery about her true identity. Out of curiosity, Suigetsu collected what appeared to be an umbilical cord he believed taken at the time Karin was born and extracted Sarada's saliva as DNA samples. After placing these specimens in the DNA machine, it was revealed that both samples were a match, thus indicating that Karin is Sarada's mother.
Sarada Completely Activated Her Sharingan - While it's not the first time the Sharingan manifested in Sarada's eyes, she however completely activated it after learning the result of the DNA testing. Trying to know what was bothering Sarada, Naruto approached the Konoha genin only to find out that Sasuke's daughter already activated the Sharingan out of pure hate towards everyone who lied to her.
Chapter 7 certainly shed light about the real nature of their current enemy in Shin, and boosted up the speculation that Sarada is not the product of Sasuke and Sakura's wedlock. Based on the turn of events in this issue, Naruto creator Masashi Kashimoto is trying to insinuate the readers to believe that Karin is the mother of the young Uchiha. However, there's a feeling in the air that this issue is still far from being solved as there's going to be a lot twists waiting to happen in the succeeding chapters.