Bitter_Medicine
Personally I like it more and more. The old Naruto could get pretty boring at times and this makes it more interesting and gives it more of a story then just random fighting.
I just wished they had stuck with arc similar to zabuza and haku, no darkness, they weren't even evil, they were just doing what they told. because in the end ninjas are only tools of war. To me they were the most fleshed out villians in the entire series.
Pein, itachi and sasuke were DARKNESS villians, while the rest have only been evil for the sake of being evil.