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[whoosh]

[grunt]

-Whenever facing an opponent with superior abilities,

make sure you have the advantage of superior numbers.

You taught us that lesson.

[chuckle]

-You've gone to all this trouble for me?

Is this any way to treat an old man?

-By order of Lady Tsunade, we are

to detain you and escort you back to the Leaf Village.

[whoosh-clink]

-What's this?

He's from the Hidden Rain.

[japanese theme music]

-If you find a friend's mood is suddenly changed for the worse,

cause might even be something as simple as a subtle change

in his diet, much like differently colored noodles.

[growl]

-I have no idea what they're talking about.

-Well, I don't either, really.

-That's my point.

Come on.

There's gotta be a better way than this to understand

why people behave the way they do.

-Sakura has told me that I should

try learning through real life experience.

-Careful.

With Sakura, that can mean a lot of butting horns and locking

heads.

I mean, she's into violent, real life experiences.

Listen to her and you're liable to, um,

end up back here in the hospital.

-All the same, it seems to me, butting heads

is the way you and Sora have chosen to try and understand

each other.

[growl]

-Well, in any case, I'm not very good at that kind of thing.

I guess I'll just have to keep studying.

-What's up with that guy?

I don't get it.

I thought he was finally settling

in here in the village.

What happened to him?

-(VOICEOVER) Lord Donzo.

-Asuma and Yamato?

-Yes, they've been summoned.

-Explain yourself, Donzo.

With tensions running so high with the Hidden Rain,

why would you choose this, of all times,

to try and make contact with shinobi

from a neighboring land?

I want an answer.

-Wait.

Just a moment, my lady.

I've seen this person once before, when I was in the ANBU.

He went missing while he was on a mission.

His name is Totsji.

-So you're saying this man was the spy

that Lord Donzo sent to the Hidden Rain.

-You thought you'd sniff around on your own, did you?

I have no idea what you were looking for in Hidden Rain,

but you are going to tell me what you found out.

Was the Hidden Rain responsible for those earlier attacks?

[chuckle]

-You really are badly informed if you don't even

know that much.

Princess Tsunade, while you pursue

your policy of moderation, your complacency

is destroying this village.

-I take it, then, you refuse to talk.

Very well, then.

In that case--

-Don't bother.

You're just wasting your time if you

think you can get him to talk.

-There's more than one way to go about this.

-You summoned me, my lady.

-I'm counting on you , Ibiki.

-Leave it to me.

Give me 10 minutes and I'll have him singing like a bird.

-Huh?

-Tsunade, where is your patience?

A hokage is supposed to be above this sort of thing,

going so far as to drag Ibiki into it.

Really, such tactics.

They're unacceptable.

-There, there, now.

I'm sorry about all of this.

-Poor Danzo.

Tatsugi wasn't only spying for you, you see.

All that time he was sending information to us, as well.

[chuckle]

-He is no traitorous spy.

He's a loyal citizen of the Leaf.

-According to Tatsugi's reports, the Hidden Rain

was not involved in the attacks on the border villages.

More significantly, it appears that the mission assigned

to him by Donzo was to track and monitor

the movements of those four grave robbers, the ones who

violated the hidden tombs near the Temple of Fire recently.

-Well, what did he find out?

-It is just as you all feared, I'm afraid.

What those four were really after all

along was that boy, Sora, from the Fire Temple.

-Tsunade, you know about the incident

the boy caused in the past at the Fire Temple, don't you?

-Yes.

-I don't know how it came to be, but there's

no doubt the boy possesses a great power of some kind.

Power equal to, if not greater than that of the Guardian

Shinobi 12, whose tombs were ransacked.

-And you welcomed him with open arms.

You brought this strange and dangerous power

into our own village.

Since you are supposed to be the village's guardian,

you must act quickly.

You must decide what is to be done.

-Yes, I understand.

But we can't just send him back to the Fire Temple.

Perhaps if we kept him under lock and key.

-No, no.

The seedling must be torn out by the roots

before it can spread and threaten the village.

-Elimination?

-I wanted to show you your true power.

SORA (VOICEOVER): Why?

Why must my power make me an outcast?

Not this time.

Not this time.

Old man Asuma.

-Tsunade, you are the hokage.

The decision is yours.

You must decide what is best for the Leaf Village.

-I won't--

SORA: Let go!

Let go of me, you masked monkey.

-Quiet down.

-Sora.

-We caught him hiding in the rafters.

-I heard everything.

Elimination, huh?

Is this power I have really that much of a threat to you people?

You're no different than those fools at the Fire Temple.

-You carry the seeds of disaster in you.

-Donzo!

-You're all cowards and fools, everyone of you.

Comrades, huh?

To hell with Team Kakashi.

-Sora.

-Well, I guess that's what I get for trusting in people again.

This is what I get for believing in all of you.

-Quiet, Sora.

That's enough.

-Asuma, there's something I need you to tell me, now.

Was it you?

Are you the one who killed my father?

-The one who killed your father is none other

than ex-guardian shinobi Asuma Sarutobi.

-Who murdered my father?

Was it you?

-It was me.

I'm the one who finished it.

Well, and by that, I mean I, I killed Kazuma.

-Asuma.

-Kazuma.

-Now, I understand.

[growl]

-What's happening?

-How dare you.

You had no right.

How dare you.

-Stop.

[growl]

[gasp]

ASUMA (VOICEOVER): That right hand of his-- Sora.

ASUMA (VOICEOVER): That right hand of his-- Sora.

What kind of power is that?

-Who gave you the right to kill my father?

You had no right.

-Are you all right, Sora?

-Naruto, why did you-- you little idiot.

When are you going to stop butting in?

-Don't blame me.

You said it yourself.

-I've come to back you up.

-Funny, I don't remember calling for backup.

-Well, as long as I'm here, I guess I'll give you a hand.

-As long as I'm here, I guess I'll give you a hand.

Hey!

Who's the jerk who attacked Sora, anyway?

-The Foundation.

-Sora!

Naruto.

Are you OK?

[grunt]

-Don't worry.

I'm all right.

-And as for you, you betrayed your comrades.

You stabbed my father in the back.

And I will have my revenge.

-Sora.

-No.

-That stupid jerk.

-Naruto!

FIRE TEMPLE MONK: He mustn't get out.

No matter what.

All the gates have been closed and locked.

-We have to restrain him with the destruction

of the evil seal.

Hoo.

-Too much.

But not even he is powerful enough

to destroy the sealed Iron Walls beyond.

-What?

-The same dream, just like before.

-The real problem is there are two great kings.

The Land of Fires feudal Lord and the hokage of the Leaf.

There will always be distrust and confusion,

as long as there are two kings of equal strength.

Two can never decide as quickly as one

how to react to a crisis.

Kazuma's ultimate goal was very simple.

To unite all the factions of The Land of Fire,

and make them one.

But his efforts to bring the two kings together came to nothing.

In fact, that was the very thing that

ended up tricking him in the end.

The people of this village, like most people,

always stick with their own king.

That's what Asuma did.

He preferred his own hokage.

He doesn't understand what makes this village shine.

It's only catching the reflected light of the true king.

It's the Land of Fire that makes it shine.

Ultimately, The Land of Fire was Kazuma's only cause.

And it was for that cause that he

had entrusted you with your powers.

-My only cause is avenging my father.

-And that's all right.

But try and look beyond your personal objectives,

and see the greater revenge that Kazuma envisioned.

Join me, Sora, in fulfilling Kazuma's dream.

Join me and I'll see you get as many opportunities

as you like to deal with Asuma.

-The other king, the hokage.

-Sora!

Sora.

-Man, this guy.

What a pain in the neck he is.

So I guess that's as far as the scent goes, huh?

-Boy, your recuperative powers never cease to amaze me, Naruto.

We've had everybody looking for him everywhere.

He might have left the village.

-No way.

I've got a strong feeling Sora's still

here in the village somewhere.

-Maybe so.

Anyway, try and get some rest tonight.

-Right.

Sora.

That chakra.

I sense chakra that's full of-- full of rage.

No doubt about it.

It's Sora.

-Grandma Tsunade.

Sorry, but-- you OK?

-Yeah.

-Sora.

-What sort of chakra is this?

-No.

-Stay out this.

-Why-- why are you attacking her?

-Just get out of my way.

-Leave, Tsunade.

-Wait.

-Sora.

Naruto.

-Wait.

Sora.

[MUSIC - NICO TOUCHES THE WALLS - BROKEN YOUTH]

-Hey, look.

All the lights have gone out in the village.

MALE KID: Maybe everybody's gone out.

FEMALE KID: Nah.

It must be a power outage.

Just our luck.

MALE KID: I really don't like the dark much.

FEMALE KID: Don't worry.

The lights will probably be back on soon.

MALE KID: Yeah.

What if they're not?

FEMALE KID: Well, good question.

What do you think, Konohamaru?

KONOHAMARU: I've got a bad feeling.

FEMALE KID: You do?

KONOHAMARU: Things have been crazy in the village lately.

I just hope nothing bad's going on.

NARUTO (VOICEOVER): Next time, Lockdown of Darkness.