I'm really curious about what's going to happen that invalidated the Goketsu conversations, I must admit. We based the plan around what eaglejarl said about where Jiraiya, Noburi, and Keiko are, and this was almost two weeks ago so there would've been plenty of opportunity to redact those things if the QMs decided that couldn't be so. This leads me to two broad possible explanations:
- The change in situation only got decided on recently, as a result of one of the interim chapters.
- Jiraiya, Noburi, and Keiko are all there like eaglejarl said, but the conversations would've gone so much differently than the original draft that there was no salvaging the scenes.
For the life of me I can't decide which option scares me more.