1 00:01:30,420 --> 00:01:35,130 My First Friend 2 00:01:37,170 --> 00:01:41,330 He would never give up on his dreams, or on reality. 3 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,330 That's the kind of guy he is. 4 00:01:48,540 --> 00:01:53,540 And the way he forges ahead draws others towards him. 5 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,880 He makes you want to reach out when he's about to stumble. 6 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,170 And the greater the support behind you, 7 00:01:59,790 --> 00:02:01,250 the closer you can get to your goal. 8 00:02:08,460 --> 00:02:10,040 Naruto's path… 9 00:02:12,130 --> 00:02:12,630 Take this! 10 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,580 Massive Rasen Shuriken! 11 00:02:19,290 --> 00:02:21,210 If comrades that you trust, gather around you… 12 00:02:21,790 --> 00:02:24,710 Hope can take physical form and become visible. 13 00:02:25,790 --> 00:02:27,130 That's what I believe, Obito. 14 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:29,750 Perhaps… 15 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,960 That Wood Dragon will absorb your chakra! 16 00:02:40,670 --> 00:02:44,170 Your chakra-stealing ninjutsu has now been nullified! 17 00:02:44,670 --> 00:02:45,830 In other words, you can't move 18 00:02:46,210 --> 00:02:48,960 nor will you be able to extract chakra with your next ninjutsu! 19 00:02:50,540 --> 00:02:52,750 Good timing, son of the Fourth! 20 00:02:53,170 --> 00:02:56,540 Let's get him with this and seal him away! 21 00:03:02,130 --> 00:03:06,210 Naruto aimed his attack over there, so that's where Madara is! 22 00:03:07,290 --> 00:03:08,580 Naruto, this way! 23 00:03:09,670 --> 00:03:10,290 Let's go! 24 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:11,880 Thanks, Sai! 25 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:13,540 Don't waste any time! 26 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:15,460 Now's our chance to seal him! 27 00:03:15,750 --> 00:03:18,210 We won't let Naruto's attack go to waste! 28 00:03:18,380 --> 00:03:19,080 Right! 29 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,580 Without any orders… without a single word… 30 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,250 Everyone is galvanized into action… 31 00:03:27,540 --> 00:03:28,080 Naruto… 32 00:03:31,130 --> 00:03:32,790 And I'm one of them… 33 00:03:34,630 --> 00:03:35,080 Shukaku… 34 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,540 I'd like to borrow the power of your Sand to seal Madara. 35 00:03:40,420 --> 00:03:42,630 You mean, the Grand Sand Mausoleum? 36 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:45,500 That's right… A giant one too. 37 00:03:48,330 --> 00:03:51,750 I'm not bound to a Jinchuriki anymore. 38 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,880 What makes you think I'd listen to you after all this time? 39 00:03:56,710 --> 00:03:59,750 I'm not ordering you. I'm asking you. 40 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:01,670 If you refuse, fine. 41 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,500 I'll just ask one of the others. 42 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,080 Naruto Uzumaki, huh? 43 00:04:10,580 --> 00:04:16,210 Seems you've become friends with that Fox Demon's brat, Gaara… 44 00:04:16,630 --> 00:04:19,540 If you're not going to help, let's talk later. 45 00:04:19,710 --> 00:04:20,670 I'm going. 46 00:04:22,250 --> 00:04:25,540 That tone you're using ticks me off! 47 00:04:26,420 --> 00:04:29,040 As they say, if a fox has seven tricks, a tanuki has eight! 48 00:04:29,670 --> 00:04:33,000 And I, the Demon Tanuki, will not lose to a stupid fox! 49 00:04:34,630 --> 00:04:37,420 I'm not doing this because you asked! 50 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:40,420 I'm doing this because I want to! 51 00:04:41,670 --> 00:04:42,880 Lead the way. 52 00:04:44,330 --> 00:04:45,130 It's this way. 53 00:04:45,830 --> 00:04:46,750 Now then… 54 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:47,920 Wait up. 55 00:04:48,250 --> 00:04:48,790 Huh? 56 00:04:51,670 --> 00:04:53,670 We'll help too. 57 00:04:56,250 --> 00:04:59,250 That's why I want to help you too… 58 00:05:00,290 --> 00:05:03,960 Don't worry. We're not doing this on a whim. 59 00:05:04,670 --> 00:05:06,630 We want to help Naruto. 60 00:05:10,420 --> 00:05:11,420 I'm grateful. 61 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,630 Sand Shinobi human, are you a friend of Naruto too? 62 00:05:20,580 --> 00:05:21,750 It's a monster! 63 00:05:22,290 --> 00:05:23,380 Stay away! 64 00:05:24,250 --> 00:05:25,880 Use the buildings as a shield! 65 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:27,830 But do not go inside! 66 00:05:28,130 --> 00:05:30,040 If they collapse, you'll be buried alive! 67 00:05:52,330 --> 00:05:53,210 Are you all right? 68 00:05:54,830 --> 00:05:55,630 Yeah… 69 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:02,750 That's my kid brother? 70 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:05,670 H-He's just a—! 71 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:25,960 Hello! 72 00:06:30,580 --> 00:06:31,500 Hello! 73 00:06:36,710 --> 00:06:38,170 Hello… 74 00:06:53,630 --> 00:06:54,500 Run! 75 00:06:57,710 --> 00:06:59,000 W-Wait…! 76 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:01,080 Help! 77 00:07:01,460 --> 00:07:02,920 Don't leave me by myself! 78 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:09,540 I hate it… I hate it! 79 00:07:10,670 --> 00:07:13,960 People hurt others and others hurt them… 80 00:07:14,170 --> 00:07:16,170 That's how they learn to survive. 81 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,670 But it's not that easy for one person to hate another… 82 00:07:33,670 --> 00:07:35,290 It's not bleeding, but… 83 00:07:36,540 --> 00:07:39,710 it really hurts right around here. 84 00:07:41,500 --> 00:07:43,250 That is a wound of the heart. 85 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,920 It's a troublesome wound that only the love from another can cure. 86 00:07:48,630 --> 00:07:49,960 Love? 87 00:07:51,170 --> 00:07:52,580 Love is a feeling 88 00:07:52,670 --> 00:07:56,210 that desires to serve a precious person who is close to oneself, 89 00:07:56,290 --> 00:07:58,460 to love and watch over that person… 90 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:01,500 Die! 91 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,000 Don't get involved with him. 92 00:08:06,830 --> 00:08:07,710 Stupid! 93 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:09,130 Don't look. 94 00:08:09,540 --> 00:08:10,420 Get lost! 95 00:08:12,420 --> 00:08:14,040 Your name is Gaara… 96 00:08:15,540 --> 00:08:17,420 A demon that loves only itself. 97 00:08:17,630 --> 00:08:23,290 One that loves only itself and fights only for itself. 98 00:08:24,790 --> 00:08:28,500 Because you were never loved. 99 00:08:50,790 --> 00:08:53,330 He's just a monster! 100 00:09:22,790 --> 00:09:25,170 D-Don't you feel anything? 101 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:26,750 Kankuro… 102 00:09:27,630 --> 00:09:28,630 They were our friends! 103 00:09:33,460 --> 00:09:36,630 You killed…friends from our village… 104 00:09:36,710 --> 00:09:38,000 Don't you feel anything… 105 00:09:38,630 --> 00:09:39,500 right here?! 106 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:41,630 Doesn't your heart hurt?! 107 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,380 If you don't shut up, I'll kill you. 108 00:09:49,750 --> 00:09:52,380 I was a killing machine from the time I was born… 109 00:09:52,710 --> 00:09:54,500 An uncontrollable monster… 110 00:09:55,540 --> 00:09:57,830 My mother died giving birth to me… 111 00:09:58,210 --> 00:10:01,710 The village ignored me… my siblings avoided me… 112 00:10:02,500 --> 00:10:05,830 I was made a target for assassination by my father… 113 00:10:07,830 --> 00:10:09,500 I was alone… 114 00:10:09,540 --> 00:10:12,040 And a solitary weapon didn't need a heart. 115 00:10:14,330 --> 00:10:17,670 Then I was sent as a weapon to destroy Hidden Leaf Village… 116 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,670 where I met him. 117 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:38,790 Let's go. 118 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:43,290 Hey, you there… 119 00:10:44,580 --> 00:10:45,950 What's your name? 120 00:10:48,450 --> 00:10:50,330 Gaara of the Sand. 121 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,040 I'm curious about you too. 122 00:10:53,410 --> 00:10:54,410 What's your name? 123 00:10:56,750 --> 00:10:58,370 Sasuke Uchiha. 124 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:04,700 Hey! Hey! And what about me? 125 00:11:05,330 --> 00:11:06,450 I'm not interested. 126 00:11:07,330 --> 00:11:09,080 Naruto Uzumaki… 127 00:11:09,540 --> 00:11:13,910 My first encounter with him was uninteresting. 128 00:11:15,790 --> 00:11:16,580 However… 129 00:11:17,790 --> 00:11:20,040 I'm definitely going to win! 130 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:22,870 But with every little incident, 131 00:11:22,950 --> 00:11:25,540 his words and actions towards his friends 132 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:29,120 began to send ripples through my heart. 133 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:34,450 Why you! 134 00:11:34,540 --> 00:11:36,370 What were you trying to do to Bushy Brows! 135 00:11:37,620 --> 00:11:39,120 I was trying to kill him. 136 00:11:40,450 --> 00:11:43,330 If you get in my way, I'll kill you too. 137 00:11:43,910 --> 00:11:46,120 As if someone like you can kill me! 138 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:48,330 I keep telling you to cut it out! 139 00:11:48,950 --> 00:11:51,330 This guy has monster-like strength. 140 00:11:51,700 --> 00:11:54,660 I have a real monster inside me. 141 00:11:54,750 --> 00:11:56,330 I wouldn't lose to a guy like him! 142 00:11:58,290 --> 00:12:02,200 Furthermore, he started to have an effect on me… 143 00:12:02,540 --> 00:12:07,160 He wasn't like the others who merely aroused hatred in me. 144 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,250 Just what are they to you? 145 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:14,040 He's my friend! 146 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:20,040 If you even attempt to hurt him, I'll pummel you! 147 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,200 A friend?! 148 00:12:21,250 --> 00:12:22,790 Don't make me laugh… 149 00:12:22,870 --> 00:12:25,580 I only fight… 150 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:31,250 for myself! 151 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:34,120 Because he resembles me… 152 00:12:34,290 --> 00:12:36,250 Because he has gone through life 153 00:12:36,330 --> 00:12:39,250 with the same loneliness and sadness as I have… 154 00:12:39,450 --> 00:12:43,290 That guy who continued to fight in solitude for himself, 155 00:12:43,370 --> 00:12:45,330 I thought he was strong. 156 00:12:50,330 --> 00:12:55,200 But that's not the meaning of true strength… 157 00:12:56,250 --> 00:12:59,040 If one fights just for oneself in solitude, 158 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,080 one can't become truly strong… 159 00:13:06,250 --> 00:13:08,200 Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu! 160 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:17,000 Na-Ru-To! 2K Uzumaki… 161 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,500 Barrage! 162 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:22,540 There's no way… 163 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:30,160 I can lose… to a guy like him! 164 00:13:33,450 --> 00:13:39,450 The more I drove him into a corner, the harder he fought back… 165 00:13:39,580 --> 00:13:41,250 Summoning Jutsu! 166 00:13:47,370 --> 00:13:49,120 Transformation Jutsu! 167 00:13:52,660 --> 00:13:55,000 Get up, you jerk! 168 00:14:00,870 --> 00:14:03,120 Time and time again… 169 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:05,910 after hitting rock bottom… 170 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,330 Die! 171 00:14:11,410 --> 00:14:13,410 You bastard! 172 00:14:26,830 --> 00:14:28,160 Why…? 173 00:14:28,410 --> 00:14:31,040 What kind of strength does he possess? 174 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:33,160 Why? 175 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:38,160 Why do you go so far for others? 176 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,370 Because they are my precious friends who saved me from that hell, 177 00:14:46,450 --> 00:14:52,450 of being alone, and who acknowledged my existence. 178 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,750 Love… 179 00:15:01,290 --> 00:15:03,870 Is that why he is so strong? 180 00:15:05,910 --> 00:15:09,290 This day would come to hold special meaning for me… 181 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,700 I learned that he grew up under the same circumstances as me, 182 00:15:12,790 --> 00:15:15,700 yet he chose a different way to live… 183 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:21,200 And that my strength was directly connected to this. 184 00:15:23,290 --> 00:15:27,370 I just have to work hard and carve out a future for myself. 185 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:30,620 And I must not run away from my path of solitude. 186 00:15:31,660 --> 00:15:33,120 If I do that, someday… 187 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,370 I can be like him. 188 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,750 So as a shinobi who belongs to the Sand, 189 00:15:39,830 --> 00:15:41,830 I will aim to become the Kazekage. 190 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:44,950 In order to connect with this village and live in it. 191 00:15:45,660 --> 00:15:46,750 Gaara… 192 00:15:48,410 --> 00:15:51,040 Watching Naruto Uzumaki makes me feel this way. 193 00:15:51,830 --> 00:15:53,540 A connection with others… 194 00:15:53,910 --> 00:15:58,250 Until now, that only meant hatred and a desire to kill. 195 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:04,120 So just what is this connection that he keeps talking about? 196 00:16:04,790 --> 00:16:08,120 After all this time, I understand a little bit about something… 197 00:16:11,290 --> 00:16:14,290 Suffering and sadness… even happiness… 198 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:18,750 can be shared with someone. 199 00:16:19,910 --> 00:16:21,540 Naruto Uzumaki… 200 00:16:22,250 --> 00:16:24,950 He has known the same suffering I have… 201 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:26,870 And he has taught me 202 00:16:26,950 --> 00:16:29,620 that it is possible to change one's path in life… 203 00:16:30,410 --> 00:16:34,830 I, too, want to become the kind of man that everyone looks up to… 204 00:16:35,870 --> 00:16:38,160 Instead of just being a weapon to be fearful of. 205 00:16:39,290 --> 00:16:41,660 As the Kazekage of the Hidden Sand. 206 00:16:43,660 --> 00:16:49,330 I was able to take a step forward, away from my pessimistic life. 207 00:16:50,580 --> 00:16:53,080 And I became the Kazekage. 208 00:16:53,250 --> 00:16:55,000 I have gained more friends, 209 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,250 and I continue to strive to be someone who is needed by others. 210 00:16:58,660 --> 00:17:03,080 And with my head held high, I stood as his equal, 211 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,200 and step by step, 212 00:17:05,290 --> 00:17:09,080 I aimed for the day when I could be acknowledged as his friend. 213 00:17:10,290 --> 00:17:11,330 However… 214 00:17:26,750 --> 00:17:29,160 Whose…hand is this? 215 00:17:31,450 --> 00:17:34,120 Oh…it's my hand. 216 00:17:38,410 --> 00:17:44,080 Have I become someone who is needed by somebody? 217 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:46,200 Huh? 218 00:17:46,750 --> 00:17:48,080 What is this? 219 00:17:50,290 --> 00:17:51,200 It's me? 220 00:17:57,330 --> 00:17:58,870 That's me… 221 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:02,870 I really wanted to be needed… 222 00:18:04,330 --> 00:18:08,370 Why? Why did I desire that? 223 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:13,290 Why am I someone who desires that? 224 00:18:14,290 --> 00:18:18,200 Those eyes… that nose, that mouth… 225 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:22,160 Why? 226 00:18:23,910 --> 00:18:26,330 Why is that Gaara? 227 00:18:28,330 --> 00:18:30,200 I was inside that… 228 00:18:30,910 --> 00:18:34,120 No… Actually just what am I? 229 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,200 That's what I feel I am… 230 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:43,120 But actually…what am I? 231 00:18:44,370 --> 00:18:48,250 Just a small feeling? 232 00:18:49,790 --> 00:18:52,040 Gaara… Gaara! 233 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:53,410 Who is that? 234 00:18:53,620 --> 00:18:55,330 Who are you calling? 235 00:18:58,410 --> 00:18:59,450 Who is it? 236 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,290 Who's hand is this? 237 00:19:03,830 --> 00:19:06,500 Oh… It's just my hand again… 238 00:19:09,620 --> 00:19:11,200 My hand… 239 00:19:13,950 --> 00:19:14,910 Me? 240 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:18,160 Who am I? 241 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,160 I… 242 00:19:25,330 --> 00:19:27,080 I am… 243 00:19:35,580 --> 00:19:39,500 When the Akatsuki extracted the Tailed Beast from me… 244 00:19:39,870 --> 00:19:43,750 I died, but was revived… 245 00:19:44,290 --> 00:19:45,790 thanks to Granny Chiyo 246 00:19:45,870 --> 00:19:48,250 who used a Forbidden Jutsu to exchange her life for mine, 247 00:19:48,330 --> 00:19:50,950 and Naruto's chakra. 248 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:52,790 So long. 249 00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:54,620 Right! 250 00:20:01,790 --> 00:20:05,080 Normally, people shake hands when they part. 251 00:20:05,450 --> 00:20:07,750 But I'm not so good with stuff like that… 252 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:08,950 So… 253 00:20:11,450 --> 00:20:13,580 I thought I've been doing my best 254 00:20:13,660 --> 00:20:17,200 in order to be accepted by you as a friend. 255 00:20:18,330 --> 00:20:21,160 I thought I had to become someone who was essential to others… 256 00:20:21,250 --> 00:20:24,580 someone people looked up to… 257 00:20:25,330 --> 00:20:26,200 But… 258 00:20:32,870 --> 00:20:34,830 But on that day, we… 259 00:20:34,910 --> 00:20:38,410 came to understand, and accept each other… 260 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:41,080 We were already friends. 261 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,120 What's wrong? 262 00:20:44,580 --> 00:20:47,160 I asked if you are Naruto's friend? 263 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:48,870 Yeah… 264 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,830 He's my first friend. 265 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,330 Is that right? 266 00:20:57,620 --> 00:20:59,290 All right, let's hurry. 267 00:22:38,540 --> 00:22:40,450 I'm curious about what happens next with Gaara… 268 00:22:40,540 --> 00:22:42,080 But the next episode is a little extra feature. 269 00:22:42,330 --> 00:22:47,000 In the Hyuga Clan, Hinata and Hanabi were very close sisters! 270 00:22:47,870 --> 00:22:50,830 But the destiny of hatred within the Hyuga 271 00:22:50,910 --> 00:22:53,330 caused their feelings to pass each other by. 272 00:22:54,250 --> 00:22:58,200 Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "The Adored Elder Sister." 273 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,700 Can't destiny be changed? 274 00:23:01,790 --> 00:23:04,950 THE ADORED ELDER SISTER 275 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:08,580 Tune in again!