1 00:01:30,370 --> 00:01:32,780 The Ties that Bind 2 00:01:32,830 --> 00:01:35,080 This is the Allied Shinobi Forces Jutsu! 3 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:37,910 How pitiful. 4 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:40,030 Yeah. 5 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,370 This hope that they're all clinging to doesn't exist. 6 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,990 Just like their very lives, at this point. 7 00:01:51,490 --> 00:01:53,490 It seems Ten Tails is ready. 8 00:01:54,080 --> 00:01:56,240 Fifth Gate of Closing! Open! 9 00:01:57,950 --> 00:02:02,120 So this time, they're coming after us, not Ten Tails... 10 00:02:02,660 --> 00:02:03,660 Well... 11 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:06,240 Taking the enemy's brains is a fundamental strategy... 12 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,450 I'll follow the strategy and... 13 00:02:08,490 --> 00:02:11,660 take down those two, who are the brains of the Ten Tails! 14 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:13,950 For that to work... 15 00:02:14,620 --> 00:02:17,080 they would need to stop the Ten Tails first! 16 00:02:23,660 --> 00:02:26,910 What?! I thought we had immobilized the Ten Tails! 17 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:29,330 Are you okay?! Damn it... 18 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:50,910 My shoulder's dislocated... 19 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:53,200 Look at the Sensing Water Sphere... 20 00:02:53,740 --> 00:02:56,030 It's practically like a small planet. 21 00:02:56,370 --> 00:02:58,370 But that's...impossible! 22 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:00,990 So we didn't immobilize Ten Tails, after all? 23 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:02,990 It merely stopped moving on its own 24 00:03:03,030 --> 00:03:05,280 in order to amass power and undergo transformation? 25 00:03:05,660 --> 00:03:07,410 How are we going to be able to stop it? 26 00:03:07,830 --> 00:03:09,240 And now we can't target those two either! 27 00:03:10,030 --> 00:03:14,950 But we have to stop that thing or else it's over for us. 28 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,450 I'm about to pee myself... 29 00:03:19,660 --> 00:03:22,240 Instead of freaking out, infuse your chakra! 30 00:03:22,660 --> 00:03:26,160 Be ready to move as soon as we get the plan from HQ! 31 00:03:26,490 --> 00:03:29,080 We must immobilize Ten Tails... 32 00:03:29,450 --> 00:03:33,620 or else we can't go after the brains that are controlling it... 33 00:03:34,030 --> 00:03:35,910 But how? 34 00:03:36,030 --> 00:03:39,080 Even with the jutsu of my clan who specialize in immobilizing... 35 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,910 the effect would be miniscule compared to the amount of chakra expended. 36 00:03:44,950 --> 00:03:45,660 Inoichi! 37 00:03:45,780 --> 00:03:46,990 Link me to Kakashi! 38 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,030 Roger! 39 00:03:48,580 --> 00:03:49,990 Kakashi, it's me! 40 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,200 There's something I want to confirm 41 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,160 regarding the intel from the last battle sequence... 42 00:03:59,620 --> 00:04:02,910 It's going to start getting more difficult to control Ten Tails soon... 43 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,410 Reinforce your bond with it using Hashirama's cells. 44 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:12,160 Don't you want to check out Ten Tails' power in its current state? 45 00:04:12,990 --> 00:04:14,080 First, let's... 46 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,780 Yes, let's show them... 47 00:04:19,580 --> 00:04:20,990 ...despair! 48 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,120 Shikaku, I'm going to let you go for now! 49 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,370 What's the matter?! 50 00:04:31,410 --> 00:04:32,410 This is... 51 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:33,830 No way! 52 00:04:35,990 --> 00:04:37,450 Lord Shikaku! Lord Inoichi! 53 00:04:38,330 --> 00:04:40,910 My Kamui won't make it in time! 54 00:04:41,580 --> 00:04:43,120 Displace it upwards using an Earth Style technique. 55 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:44,120 Right! 56 00:04:57,620 --> 00:04:58,950 That far away? 57 00:04:59,620 --> 00:05:01,950 It's so much greater than all the previous Tailed Beasts! 58 00:05:02,490 --> 00:05:03,700 What power! 59 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,870 It's wobbly from just that little counter... 60 00:05:07,910 --> 00:05:09,450 Its control isn't perfect yet. 61 00:05:09,490 --> 00:05:10,240 Next! 62 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:33,200 Unbelievable! Such a far-off city destroyed in an instant! 63 00:05:38,990 --> 00:05:42,030 It's been acting strange for a while, it seems to be aiming far away! 64 00:05:42,660 --> 00:05:46,120 So all the cities, and people are within its range of fire? 65 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,080 Then that means the evacuated Feudal Lords, 66 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,620 everyone protecting the villages... 67 00:05:49,830 --> 00:05:52,450 plus all the citizens of each nation aren't safe? 68 00:05:52,990 --> 00:05:57,330 Our shinobi on the battlefield are fighting to protect everyone else... 69 00:05:58,830 --> 00:06:01,780 Those two are trying to eliminate our reason for this war. 70 00:06:10,030 --> 00:06:11,490 That's the direction of--! 71 00:06:14,620 --> 00:06:15,410 Th-This is... 72 00:06:15,950 --> 00:06:17,120 What's wrong, Lord Ao?! 73 00:06:19,660 --> 00:06:21,030 Please listen to me calmly. 74 00:06:27,780 --> 00:06:28,870 Here, eh? 75 00:06:30,490 --> 00:06:32,120 Well, Shikaku... What do we do? 76 00:06:32,620 --> 00:06:34,950 Just keep doing what we must do. 77 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,120 It will be our last act. 78 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:39,120 Put me through to everyone on the battlefield. 79 00:06:39,830 --> 00:06:41,950 I have a plan to stop the Ten Tails! 80 00:07:21,990 --> 00:07:23,740 Finally got them. 81 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,990 We've now smashed the brains of the Allied Forces. 82 00:07:27,330 --> 00:07:29,030 Like I said before, it's fundamental strategy. 83 00:07:32,620 --> 00:07:33,620 Shikamaru... 84 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:35,780 We're in the middle of a war. 85 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:37,830 Don't waste any words on me. 86 00:07:39,370 --> 00:07:40,240 Or on Ino. 87 00:07:43,660 --> 00:07:47,120 Like Dad said, we just have to do what we have to do. 88 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,910 Wait... What exactly just happened?! 89 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,040 You are the key to our plan. 90 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:04,990 Not about that! 91 00:08:05,650 --> 00:08:08,610 I'm asking what happened to Shikaku and Inoichi?! 92 00:08:14,450 --> 00:08:16,240 Neji! Rotate clockwise! 93 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:17,200 Got it! 94 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:18,900 - Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation! - Eight Trigrams Palm Rotation! 95 00:08:19,530 --> 00:08:20,780 A-Amazing... 96 00:08:23,450 --> 00:08:24,860 Don't just stand there spacing out, Naruto! 97 00:08:25,350 --> 00:08:27,390 This is a battlefield and we're in a war. 98 00:08:28,770 --> 00:08:29,640 People will die! 99 00:08:30,770 --> 00:08:33,310 But if we are defeated and lose this war... 100 00:08:33,430 --> 00:08:35,430 everyone will die! 101 00:08:36,390 --> 00:08:38,310 Of course I know that! 102 00:08:39,140 --> 00:08:42,680 Shikamaru and Ino's father would likely say, that as shinobi, 103 00:08:42,850 --> 00:08:44,970 they're glad to have died before their children. 104 00:08:45,430 --> 00:08:47,350 Just as my father did. 105 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:53,850 Naruto, your power is critical to the plan. 106 00:08:54,390 --> 00:08:56,430 So until we execute it... 107 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:58,270 We must protect you, Naruto! 108 00:08:58,850 --> 00:08:59,600 Hinata! 109 00:09:00,970 --> 00:09:01,930 Know this! 110 00:09:02,390 --> 00:09:04,470 The Hyuga are the mightiest among the Hidden Leaf! 111 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:08,180 There he goes... I was hoping to take them down 112 00:09:08,220 --> 00:09:10,220 before they started with the speeches, but... 113 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,220 It's hard to control Ten Tails well. 114 00:09:14,470 --> 00:09:17,640 This ought to do until the next transformation, but... 115 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:19,890 Afterwards... 116 00:09:19,930 --> 00:09:23,770 I suspect only a Jinchuriki will be able to control it. 117 00:09:25,220 --> 00:09:27,930 Though for me to become the Ten Tails' Jinchuriki... 118 00:09:28,310 --> 00:09:31,310 I'll need to be fully alive, 119 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,020 not hosted within a corpse as a Reanimation. 120 00:09:35,390 --> 00:09:38,270 Reanimations like you are perfect for large-scale suicidal attacks. 121 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:40,350 But the reason you haven't launched 122 00:09:40,390 --> 00:09:44,020 the Ten Tails Tailed Beast Bomb at them, blowing yourself up as well, 123 00:09:44,270 --> 00:09:47,520 is because I'd get caught up in it and die too. 124 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:51,350 And the reason that would be a problem, 125 00:09:51,930 --> 00:09:54,270 is because in order for you to truly be brought back to life 126 00:09:54,310 --> 00:09:56,100 and become a Jinchuriki... 127 00:09:56,390 --> 00:09:58,350 you need me to sacrifice myself 128 00:09:58,390 --> 00:10:01,640 and perform the Gedo Art of Rinne Rebirth on you. 129 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,470 In short, you're in a delicate position right now 130 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,560 where you're entirely at my mercy. 131 00:10:09,020 --> 00:10:10,470 Don't forget that. 132 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:14,680 Well, well, that rug rat sure has become the wily fox. 133 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:18,560 I never considered you a friend. 134 00:10:20,470 --> 00:10:21,600 Fine then. 135 00:10:22,470 --> 00:10:25,470 You decide our next move then. 136 00:10:26,270 --> 00:10:27,180 We continue. 137 00:10:27,930 --> 00:10:32,180 They will know despair...thoroughly. 138 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:37,470 Wood Style! 139 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:38,890 Cutting Sprigs! 140 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:40,520 There's so many of them! 141 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:41,600 Just try to evade them. 142 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:43,810 My Mountain Jutsu should at least slow it down 143 00:10:43,850 --> 00:10:46,470 until Nine Tails' strength returns. 144 00:10:46,930 --> 00:10:48,930 Except I need some time to build up enough chakra! 145 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:50,100 Hold on, everybody! 146 00:10:51,060 --> 00:10:52,770 Cha! 147 00:10:54,770 --> 00:10:55,890 So many! 148 00:10:56,310 --> 00:10:57,810 My Rotation can't keep up! 149 00:11:02,430 --> 00:11:03,470 Thanks, Neji! 150 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,560 I can activate Sage Mode now! 151 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:07,890 I can't keep relying on you geniuses! 152 00:11:08,020 --> 00:11:09,390 Now it's my turn! 153 00:11:10,020 --> 00:11:11,520 Rasen Shuriken! 154 00:11:17,020 --> 00:11:18,470 Here's a few more! 155 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,310 Eight Trigrams: Air Wall Palm! 156 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,350 Damn it! A focused attack! 157 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:39,600 There's too many! 158 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:41,430 Hinata and Neji's Air Palms won't be sufficient... 159 00:11:41,470 --> 00:11:42,560 Byakugan! 160 00:11:55,310 --> 00:11:57,600 Earth Style! Mountain Jutsu! 161 00:12:00,890 --> 00:12:02,060 Medical Team! 162 00:12:02,430 --> 00:12:04,390 Where are you?! There's a critical injury here! 163 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:05,770 Hurry! 164 00:12:08,140 --> 00:12:09,180 No... 165 00:12:10,140 --> 00:12:12,060 I'm no longer... 166 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:14,560 Neji... 167 00:12:15,270 --> 00:12:16,020 Brother... 168 00:12:20,470 --> 00:12:21,770 Naruto... 169 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:26,560 Lady Hinata... 170 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,600 is willing to die for you. 171 00:12:31,970 --> 00:12:35,720 So...you hold more... 172 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:39,600 than one...life in your hands... 173 00:12:43,390 --> 00:12:49,430 And it seems...that my life too... may have been... 174 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:52,430 one of them.... 175 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:57,890 Why? Why did you do this here? 176 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:01,520 You were going to change the Hyuga! 177 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:11,020 Long ago, those words of yours, freed me from the shackles of fate. 178 00:13:14,810 --> 00:13:17,600 Why would you go so far for me? 179 00:13:18,470 --> 00:13:21,310 Even give up your life... 180 00:13:22,810 --> 00:13:28,180 Because...you called me a genius... 181 00:13:30,970 --> 00:13:34,770 Unlike me, you're not a failure! 182 00:13:36,890 --> 00:13:38,060 Father... 183 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:42,720 I finally understand... the freedom you felt... 184 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:46,600 choosing to die in order to protect your comrades. 185 00:13:55,470 --> 00:13:58,020 Didn't you say you wouldn't let your friends die...? 186 00:13:58,890 --> 00:13:59,930 Naruto! 187 00:14:07,390 --> 00:14:10,470 I'll never let my comrades die! 188 00:14:20,850 --> 00:14:26,180 Those words... "I'll never let my comrades die." 189 00:14:27,430 --> 00:14:32,060 Now look around you... and say it again! 190 00:14:45,180 --> 00:14:48,020 I told you to say it again! 191 00:14:50,390 --> 00:14:52,850 As the bodies of your comrades grow cold in your arms... 192 00:14:52,890 --> 00:14:55,310 take in their deaths! 193 00:14:58,270 --> 00:15:01,060 Neji's...dead?! 194 00:15:04,850 --> 00:15:06,600 Hizashi, forgive me... 195 00:15:07,430 --> 00:15:08,390 I let Neji--! 196 00:15:09,390 --> 00:15:11,600 This will continue... 197 00:15:12,220 --> 00:15:16,020 And your flippant words and ideology shall become lies. 198 00:15:17,180 --> 00:15:19,930 This is the end result of hope and ideals. 199 00:15:20,430 --> 00:15:22,180 This is reality! 200 00:15:23,390 --> 00:15:24,390 Naruto... 201 00:15:25,020 --> 00:15:27,020 What is there for you in this reality? 202 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,430 Your mother and father are gone, as well as your master, Jiraiya. 203 00:15:30,470 --> 00:15:33,100 And if you keep standing against us, 204 00:15:33,390 --> 00:15:36,680 you'll continue to lose your friends one by one. 205 00:15:38,310 --> 00:15:39,770 This shall become a world 206 00:15:39,810 --> 00:15:42,350 where no one who acknowledges you will exist. 207 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:45,560 Obito... 208 00:15:46,850 --> 00:15:49,060 The only thing that awaits you... 209 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,430 is your worst nightmare, which you know quite well! 210 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:58,430 Solitude! 211 00:16:06,770 --> 00:16:10,390 You've become exactly like the old me, Obito. 212 00:16:11,180 --> 00:16:13,270 Naruto will give up shortly... 213 00:16:13,430 --> 00:16:16,220 Which will break the will of the Allied Forces. 214 00:16:16,430 --> 00:16:18,680 Why must you cling to reality? 215 00:16:20,140 --> 00:16:22,560 Enough of this... Now come join us, Naruto! 216 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,560 Brother Neji just said, 217 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:43,470 that you hold more than one life in your hands. 218 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,720 Do you know what he meant? 219 00:16:49,770 --> 00:16:51,390 "I'll never let my comrades die." 220 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:56,680 Neither those words nor the conviction behind them are lies! 221 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:00,220 Because he was able to successfully store them in his heart, 222 00:17:00,270 --> 00:17:01,930 and live them out to until the end! 223 00:17:02,350 --> 00:17:03,560 Brother Neji did! 224 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,470 It's not just you, Naruto... 225 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:14,430 We all hold those words and feelings in our hearts. 226 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,220 They're what bind our lives together... 227 00:17:18,770 --> 00:17:20,520 and make us comrades. 228 00:17:22,770 --> 00:17:27,310 If we all give up and discard those words and feelings, 229 00:17:28,100 --> 00:17:30,600 Neji's final act will have been for nothing. 230 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,560 And that is when... your comrades truly die! 231 00:17:36,430 --> 00:17:38,140 For you are then no longer comrades. 232 00:17:39,470 --> 00:17:40,720 That's...how I feel. 233 00:17:45,270 --> 00:17:49,930 So, stand with me, Naruto. 234 00:17:51,390 --> 00:17:54,350 Because never going back on one's word... 235 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,390 is my Ninja Way too! 236 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:01,640 Naruto... 237 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:06,350 Lady Hinata... is willing to die for you. 238 00:18:07,270 --> 00:18:10,350 So...you hold more... 239 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,390 ...than one life! 240 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,060 Don't forget about me! 241 00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:16,220 I know. 242 00:18:16,390 --> 00:18:17,890 I take my bonds seriously! 243 00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:20,430 I'd never abandon my comrades! 244 00:18:20,810 --> 00:18:23,560 But in reality, Neji is... 245 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,970 Stop your rambling! 246 00:18:26,470 --> 00:18:30,140 I'll beat you up and take over your body for good this time! 247 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,470 And did you also forget? 248 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,270 Your mother and father did the same thing Neji did 249 00:18:36,310 --> 00:18:37,430 just after you were born. 250 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,560 They sealed me, their archenemy inside you, 251 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,520 and entrusted the future to you and died. 252 00:18:44,890 --> 00:18:49,930 Your life was already linked to two others from the time you were born! 253 00:18:52,470 --> 00:18:55,430 Will he just stand back and see how Naruto responds...? 254 00:18:57,310 --> 00:18:59,270 It seems Naruto makes him uneasy. 255 00:19:01,270 --> 00:19:02,180 Enough! 256 00:19:05,140 --> 00:19:06,390 Don't be hasty! 257 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,930 You're going to harm yourself as well as Ten Tails! 258 00:19:08,970 --> 00:19:10,100 I don't care! 259 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:12,060 Ten Tails hide is tough! 260 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:16,560 They're going to hit us! 261 00:19:17,770 --> 00:19:19,430 Recharging completed! 262 00:19:19,890 --> 00:19:21,220 Be careful, Lord Bee! 263 00:19:21,430 --> 00:19:22,560 Go get 'em! 264 00:19:28,270 --> 00:19:29,600 Take this! 265 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:46,520 Lord Bee! 266 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:48,100 Don't go overboard! 267 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,350 There's no need to worry... 268 00:19:50,390 --> 00:19:52,930 Protecting the Alliance is my territory! 269 00:20:04,060 --> 00:20:05,560 That's right. 270 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,720 It wasn't just Mom and Dad. 271 00:20:08,930 --> 00:20:10,390 Yeah... 272 00:20:10,430 --> 00:20:13,390 It hasn't just been my life... 273 00:20:14,020 --> 00:20:15,430 up until now. 274 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,100 Thanks, Hinata! 275 00:20:29,180 --> 00:20:31,890 It's all thanks to you standing by my side. 276 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:35,850 And Neji... 277 00:20:36,930 --> 00:20:38,680 Thank you. 278 00:20:46,220 --> 00:20:49,640 Naruto's hand is so big... 279 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,470 and strong, but most of all... 280 00:20:55,770 --> 00:20:57,470 Let's do this, Hinata! 281 00:20:58,470 --> 00:20:59,430 Yeah! 282 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,470 It's comforting! 283 00:22:38,270 --> 00:22:40,850 I haven't been able to save many comrades... 284 00:22:41,850 --> 00:22:44,560 An existence where one can only await one's death inside a cage... 285 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,100 It's a nice analogy. 286 00:22:46,140 --> 00:22:49,270 You're all exactly like that brat who just died a pointless death. 287 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:53,720 Neji's will isn't dead yet! 288 00:22:55,180 --> 00:22:58,640 Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "Those Who Dance in the Shadows." 289 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:04,930 THOSE WHO DANCE IN THE SHADOWS 290 00:23:05,060 --> 00:23:10,350 Tune in again!