Still nothing...
Could it have failed?
No, there definitely was an impact.
But nothing's happening...
Hinata, can you see anything?
N-No... Not even with my Byakugan...
Naruto...Naruto won't come back?
Did it reach Naruto?
Furthermore, it seems to have awakened the Three-Tails.
Shizune!
Sealing team! Standby for the Three-Tails!
Right!
Sai!
Take Yuukimaru to a safe place.
Right!
- Let's go. - No!
I'm staying here until Guren returns!
I'm sure she's all right.
Huh?
We're all thinking of Naruto, that's why he'll return here.
If you think of her, Guren will return too. No doubt about it.
Now then...
Okay.
Go!
We will begin the Four-Corner Sealing Jutsu.
Four-Corner Sealing Barrier...
Bind!
The challenge starts now...
Until the Sealing team has the Three-Tails,
it's up to us to suppress it.
Now then, we'll see just how well my Wood Style works
against the Three-Tails.
All we can do is try...
Counterattack of the Curse Mark
We'll wait here. All right?
Okay.
Drink... It will ease your fatigue.
You can tell what I'm thinking...
Everyone tells me that I can't read their moods.
I doubt that. Really...
Dark Smoke Sphere
Stay hidden, okay?
Okay.
Water Shield Shot!
Hide-and-seek, eh?
I've come for you, laddie.
I've been able to determine Yuukimaru's potential
and the limit of his power.
However, the Hidden Leaf are trying to seal the Three-Tails once again...
If by any chance, they are successful in sealing the Three-Tails...
When Sasuke achieves the skills he needs...
The time for my reanimation will be near.
When that happens,
both the Akatsuki and Leaf Village will be a hindrance.
Our current operation is preparation for when that happens.
We won't have to worry about
the Akatsuki using the power of the Three Tails, but...
It will force a big change in Lord Orochimaru's future strategy.
We must avoid that...
If I use this, we may lose Yuukimaru...
However, rather than lose the Three-Tails...
Never mind...if I lose Yuukimaru!
I'll use Yuukimaru's remaining power to make the Three-Tails go wild,
and destroy the Leaf Ninja...!
Where's Kabuto...?
Huh, I heard everything.
So Four-Eyes isn't here?
So there's no one to give us orders...
We're not the same as before.
There's no need to hang around you anymore...
Well, it looks that way...
You guys are so easygoing.
What...?
You guys are just cast-offs... pawns who are no longer useful.
And you don't even know that I've got you in a vital spot.
Say that again!
You're not one of us anymore!
Want to settle it now?
Settle?
What?! What's so funny?!
It's about time!
What...?! My body feels strange...
I can't stop shaking...
Hey, what's happening?!
Fools!
You should know that there's a risk to attaining power!
I heard your power has some side effects!
Side effects...?!
Yeah...
And left alone, it will eat you up from the inside out.
N-No... I don't want that to happen!
N-No way... I don't want to die!
Unless you get the drug from Kabuto before the time limit,
you'll destroy yourselves with your own power!
Kabuto entrusted the drug to me.
If you say you won't betray Lord Orochimaru,
I just may give it to you.
All right. I swear my loyalty.
H-Hurry...give me the drug.
Know this! No matter how hard you try,
you will never be able to escape Lord Orochimaru's grasp.
Kabuto said this...
We've stopped the Three-Tails' movements.
And he wants to see that power once more.
No!
When I take that medicine, my head feels like it's going to burst...
Shut up! You will not refuse!
Guren hasn't returned yet! And maybe, she'll never return!
Do you want that?!
No... No!
Then stop being fussy and do as I say!
O-Okay... One more time. Just one more time...
Yeah... this is the last time.
Here it comes...
Is that from Sai?
It seems Guren's fellow Ninja have powered up and attacked Sai.
Huh?!
Any word from Kiba and the rest?
No, not yet.
No way...
Akamaru, you saved me...
If we hadn't hidden underground due to your quick thinking...
Lee... Tenten...?
They couldn't have...!
Thank you, Akamaru... I'm okay.
You're all okay.
Not at all.
If I didn't summon a protection Wall from my scroll,
we'd have been goners...
Lee was no help, rushing in like that...
I-I'm mortified...
After Guy Sensei often warned me that pride is a Ninja's enemy...
I didn't expect it... That they'd be so strong.
No...
That transformation isn't normal. We must notify everyone!
Yes...
This fog... We're already in their trap...
Protect the Sealing team!
Right!
Dark Smoke Sphere!
Water Shield Shot!
- Yamato! - Right!
Wood Style: Giant Forest!
Why you--! Getting in the way!
Wood Style: Giant Forest Jutsu!
Parasitic Insect!
What? Hey, stop!
Nooo!
What's wrong, Akamaru?!
Everyone, stop! Something's strange here.
The enemy?!
No... This is...
It doesn't look like the enemy at all...
Tenten! You can tell what Akamaru is feeling?!
Sai!
This is the Three-Tails' fog...
The sealing isn't complete yet.
It's coming...! It's coming!
Gather your Chakra!
- Yes! - Right!
Cha!
Here it comes!
Swallow it, Yuukimaru.
Huh?!
Swallow all of it! You want Guren to return, don't you?
Okay, I'll do it.
Because the place I'll return to is where Guren is...
I made it back...
Feeling pain means I'm still alive.
Naruto...
Wake up! Naruto!
Yuukimaru... you're okay?
This is no time to babble in your sleep!
We made it back...?
Yeah...
Yuukimaru... Where's Yuukimaru?!
Multi-Smoke Clone.
No... Stop!
It tickles...
What?!
Oh dear... Your cute little bugs are shapeless now.
Well, now for the main show. Here I come!
This is interesting... I'm taking this!
Arise Smoke Dragon!
Like Sai reported...
they're totally different from before.
Sh-Shizune Senpai...!
Ino has reached her limit... But...
Ino! Just hang in there!
Shizune...
No way! Not that power again!
Yuukimaru!
Yuukimaru may not forgive me when he finds out...the whole truth.
Are you still mulling over that?
I'm prepared to protect Yuukimaru, but...
If I were you, I'd keep thinking of him!
Even if I'm despised, or rejected... or resented!
Whether he thinks that I'm the place to return to or not...
has nothing to do with it!
Yeah, you're right! I'll become the fool too...just like you.
Next time: "Memory of Guilt"
YAMATO'S ROOM Shino Aburame, who loves to collect insects...
is our guest today.
Getting right to the point...
Shino, you're a member of the prominent Aburame family in Leaf Village,
and you're always calm and cool. Is the rest of your family like you?
Silence. Namely...
I see. Silence signifies that you are communicating
with the insects you host inside your bodies?
Yes...
I understand that in the Aburame family,
you do something special from the time you are born?
That is a secret family Jutsu...
From the time you are born, you host insects inside your body,
sustain them with your Chakra, and co-exist.
Is that a simple way of putting it?
Yes...
And you use the insects in your secret Jutsu to do things
like tracking, healing and cloning.
And that is your secret family Jutsu, is that correct?
Yes...
Can you demonstrate for us?
Here...?
It's okay if you can't.
We're running out of time, so please do it quickly.
Well then...
Oops! It's already time. Our guest was Shino Aburame.
It's...over already...?
Tune in again!