Meanwhile, team Kakashi takes a short rest for the night. Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi and Temari move through the forest and recall their past about Gaara and how he countered his beast, about the chunin exams and Sasuke.ĭeidara and Sasori follow the tracks to their destination while Chiyo and her brother try to use all of their knowledge and jutsu to try to heal Kankuro. Temari gets the bad news and joins Team Kakshi to search for Gaara. The Sand Village repairs the damages around the mountain area and remove the explosives set on the walls. Tsunade, immediately understanding the emergency, assigns Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi to rescue Gaara. An expert deciphers the letter and reports that Gaara, the Kazekage of the Sand has been attacked and kidnapped by a bandit. The Hidden Leaf receives the emergency letter from the Sand village. Kankuro ignores Baki’s efforts to stop him and immediately sets out in pursuit with a platoon to rescue Gaara. Gaara, his strength completely exhausted, is whisked away by Deidara. However, this provides Deidara with the opportunity to capture Gaara. In order to protect his village from Deidara’s explosive clay, Gaara uses his chakra to create a giant sand shield. Naruto and Sakura defeat Kakashi in the survival challenge and Tsunade assigns them to a new three-man squad led by Kakashi, who tells them they are now his equals. Gaara is quick to detect Deidara’s presence, and an aerial battle ensues with Deidara on his giant paper bird and Gaara atop sand. The combination of Naruto and Sakura’s new powerful techniques forces Kakashi to use his Sharingan right off the bat. Learning that all of his friends now outrank him, Naruto gives a copy of Jiraiya's new book Make-Out Tactics to Kakashi Hatake, who challenges Naruto and Sakura to the bell retrieval test to evaluate their new skills.
It’s an older Naruto, who has returned from a two and a half year training journey with Jiraiya. Naruto Shippuden 491 ends here.Ī pretty good episode if you ask me, it looks like Shikamaru is in some serious trouble here, he’ll most likely play some mind games with Gengo in the next episode, Naruto Shippuden 492, titled “A Cloud of Suspicion”, should be good, can’t wait.A figure passes through the gates of the village hidden in the leaves. Sai launches a snake to capture Shikamaru, to which he realises that he needs to to do something about this, he says his farewell as he tries to kill himself. Both Ro and Soku have also been captured here. Shikamaru is shocked as Sai betrays him too. Sai is freed as we finally see that Sai has also been persuaded by Gengo. The explosives go off as Shikamaru is ready. It seems that he’s somehow getting into everyone’s head, Shikamaru too. All while Gengo’s words are affecting everyone. It seems like Gengo’s plan is to kill him, all while Shikamaru and others are setting up explosives. He has a special person tied up who was captured, Sai is noticed by Shikamaru and others. They need to focus on this mission as well as to get Sai back. Shikamaru, Soku and Ro all prepare for all of this that is about to happen. Shikamaru is told that he needs to keep his clothes in order as Gengo is about to address everyone. They see that there is something important going on. We see that Gengo and his crew were all killed, except for him, this is how he developed his own technique of hiding, as he was buried below the corpses. Somehow he managed to get Ro in a head lock to which they mention that he has a horrible past. He mentions that Gengo opened their eyes by getting rid of the lords. The guy also seems to have forgotten who they are as Shikamaru wants to force him to talk using his shadow technique. They also notice that one of the ANBU has captured or transferred over.
They kicked out the lords of the village. They go to the village to see that it’s quite busy, it used to be really bad, but now it seems like Gengo helped out the economy. They’ve also got some info on the village and the buildings itself. Soku returns to Shikamaru and Ro, they mention that they can now move around freely. It seems that Sai’s team doesn’t have a reliable picture or anything of Gengo. Naruto Shippuden 419 begins as both Ro and Shikamaru are looking at Soku’s dead body, but she faked just so she would go unnoticed.