After 2 and a half years Naruto finally returns to his village of Konoha, and sets about putting his ambitions to work, though it will not be easy, as He has amassed a few (more dangerous) enemies, in the likes of the shinobi organization; Akatsuki.
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Creepy children, urban legends, rampaging madmen, cursed dolls, corporeal phantoms, tragedies that haunt the present, even urbanite ideas about the depravity that lurks under tranquil rural exteriors (thank you Deliverance)—Abe crams so many of them in that before long the book is more silly than scary. This wouldn't be nearly the sticking point that it is were Abe able to synthesize his disparate inspirations convincingly or at least coax a killer climax out of them, but they're all jumbled together willy-nilly and the climactic "pop-psychology saves the day" scene would be hilarious if it weren't so dispiritingly lazy. Also, that "ha, gotcha!" on the last page should have been left to rot in the cesspool of bad eighties slasher flicks that it came from.