Original subtitles

-Where in the world could he have gone off to?

It's like he just disappeared--

[breaking glass]

-Huh?

-Hold it!

Slow down, Sora!

-Oh!

Oh, no.

[crowd murmuring]

-Lady Sunned, there's someth--

-Sakura.

Sorry, I can't talk now.

I've called an emergency meeting of all the team captains.

-What happened here, my lady?

-Sora tried to kill me.

-No.

-Has there ever been a power outage this big before?

-This might not be your ordinary blackout.

-Yeah.

Something's not right.

-Mmm.

-Oh!

-What are you talking about?

Everything's fine.

We have the Hokage looking after us, don't we?

You don't think the Hokage can handle this?

Stop whining and calm down.

-Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

-That's right.

As long as the Hokage is with us.

[background chatter]

-Well, it's not the main circuit breaker.

That means we stand by on Area Three, right?

-Right.

Just like it says in the field manual.

Meanwhile, the off-duty team leader

should be meeting with the Hokage.

-Well, then.

-Huh?

-Grr!

[chewing]

-Woah.

That is too delicious.

There we go.

I'm all fueled up and ready for action.

You coming, Shikamaru?

-Yeah.

-No you don't!

-What the heck's going on?

-All the power is out.

-Oh, man.

I really don't like the dark much.

-Something strange is going on.

It could mean trouble.

-What?

-Close and secure the main gate!

-The signal system is secure, my lady.

You'll be able to communicate instructions

if an attack should come.

-Excellent work.

(VOICEOVER) So now it comes.

Just when I've dispatched so many of our Shinobi the

to Hidden Rain border.

-As you're probably aware, the entire village

is without electricity.

There's always the possibility that this power outage

occurred by accident.

However, since we've been unable to make contact

with the main power station, the safest course

is for us to assume that this is an act of deliberate sabotage.

Therefore, I'm placing the village on Level Two emergency

security alert.

-Huh?

-Company Three, fan out and cover the east, west,

and north gates.

Company Two, go to the main gate.

Company One will go to the power station

and find out what's going on.

Asuma.

You'll remain here.

Keep your eyes open, everyone.

Dismissed!

-Sora tried to kill me.

-He what?

-Fortunately, he was interrupted.

-Just a minute.

You-- you were attacked, Lady Tsunade?

By Sora?

-Naruto is pursuing him now.

Go after them.

Hard as it is for you to believe, it happened.

Find Sora and take him prisoner.

-Right.

-Huh?

-What is it?

-I thought-- it was like the forest moved just now.

[birds calling]

-Is it an earthquake?

[shivering]

-Sorry, travelers, but this village

has been cordoned off for security reasons.

I'm afraid we can't let you proceed any--

[gasps]

[laughter]

-Ahhh!

-What's that?

-It's confirmed, my lady.

We're under attack.

An attempt is being made on the main gate.

Our security units have engaged the enemy.

-And so it begins.

-Hmm.

-Move out!

Keep them away from the main gate!

-Status report.

-Idiot!

Don't order them to approach head on!

-Grr.

I'll take over from here.

Engage them only from a distance.

[theme music - in japanese]

-The enemy is still approaching.

Our units have now engaged.

They're one kilometer from the main gate and closing.

-Naruto.

-They headed that way.

-Cut it out!

Wait, damn it!

-Augh!

[grunting]

-What were you trying to do by attacking Grandma Tsunade?

-Leave me alone!

This has nothing to do with you.

-It has everything to do with me.

Huh?

[grunting]

-Hmm?

-Barrier Defense Seal Jutsu.

Eight Gate Lock-up!

-What the hell?

-Huh?

Hey!

-There's another one at the east gate.

-The west gate, too.

-Huh?

-Lady Tsunade.

What is happening?

-Raise the alert to Level One.

We're on maximum alert.

All reserve units to the main gate at once.

-Yes, my lady.

-Find Shikamaru.

Tell him to start working on defense countermeasures

immediately.

-Right.

-Sakura.

Get yourself ready to move out, too.

-Yes, my lady.

-What the-- what's going on down there?

-It's them.

They've come.

-Huh?

Wait a minute.

Who has come?

What do you know?

-A defense barrier?

-A defense barrier?

-What?

That doesn't make sense.

-Enemy appears to have erected some sort of defensive barrier

around us.

-A defensive barrier?

-Wha-- what's that?

-He means a defense barrier.

-Huh?

-Ugh.

Don't you see?

It's a barrier used for defense.

Like a wall for defending against enemy attacks,

or to keep an enemy outside from getting in.

-But the enemy is outside, so why would they put it up?

It's like defending against themselves.

It's weird.

-No.

Maybe not.

-Huh?

-Maybe it's not intended to keep them out, but-- to keep us in.

-That's right.

For some reason, they want that barrier

to keep us trapped here in the village.

-Now what do they have in mind?

-We are four individuals, made one by a common resolve

to pursue the cause of the Land of Fire.

It is this indomitable resolve that has brought us here.

Lend us your ears for but a brief moment,

for there is not much to say.

We have only one purpose.

The greater glory of the Land of Fire

with the Feudal Lord Supreme.

-The existence of the Hokage in this village

poses a lasting threat to the supremacy

of the Land of Fire's Feudal Lord.

There can only be one true King.

Don't you understand?

There is no longer any reason for this Hokage of yours

to exist!

-Why, you--

-We didn't expect your approval.

Nevertheless, you will help us achieve our purpose.

Even after you die.

-But I remember learning that there's

no way to get in or out of a defense barrier.

-Yes, quite right.

The enemy must be employing some kind of special jutsu

to penetrate the barrier.

The situation is this.

We are trapped inside, while the enemy can come and go

as they please.

Now that they've been allowed to infiltrate the village,

we go to Stage Two, as outlined in the Sneak Attack

Countermeasures manual.

-You name it, we're ready to fight right now.

-Right!

-Yeah!

-Not yet.

-Before we can counterattack, we must evacuate the civilians.

Your job is to round up everyone in the village

and guide them calmly and swiftly to a safe place.

Are you up to it?

This is your first A-Rank mission.

-You bet we're up to it.

-Go.

I'm counting on you.

Meanwhile, I'll do what I can to stall for time here.

-It's going to take more than words.

-We won't let you touch the Hokage.

-(VOICEOVER) If we can just hold until reinforcements get here.

-Hmm.

Fudo.

-Yeah.

-Earth Style.

Impermanence!

-What?

Get back!

-Lady Tsunade.

I'm ready.

-Now that the battle's been joined,

there's going to be desperate need

for medical ninja such as yourself.

Go.

-Right.

-(VOICEOVER) It hasn't gone perfectly,

but we've done just about all we can.

Why, then, do I still feel so uneasy?

[grunt]

-It's just one thing after another.

These guys are too much.

Huh?

-Earth Style.

Ultimate Revival Jutsu.

Soil Bodies.

Rise, fallen Shinobi.

Rise and live again!

[groan]

[laughter]

-You are about to die facing our army of dead Shinobi!

-You don't know anything about me.

-You're right about that.

Who are those guys?

What have you done?

-The Leaf tried to eliminate me.

What do you expect?

-Grandma Tsunade would have never done that!

-Yes, they did!

I just tried to get them before they got me!

-I finally found you.

-Asuma-sensei!

-It's the backstabber Asuma!

-Huh?

-Sora.

Why did you attack the Hokage?

She is not the one you're after.

[laughter]

-The one you want revenge on is me.

-Let go!

I'm only doing the exact same thing you did.

You chose to side with your king by killing my father.

-King?

-I'll return the favor by killing her.

-What are you talking about?

You're not making sense.

-No.

It's true.

-What?

-Sora.

You called Lady Tsunade "king" just now.

-(VOICEOVER) The Land of Fire doesn't need two Kings.

The Leaf is just a military asset.

The Hokage is superfluous.

We already have a man at the helm.

The Feudal Lord.

-According to Toschi'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 Danzo 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.

-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.

-(VOICEOVER) Now I understand.

But that means--

[gasp]

-This is bad.

-What is it, Asuma-sensei?

-If my guess is right, the village

is in even greater danger than we feared.

[groans]

-No pushing!

Everyone stay calm, and keep moving!

-The enemy's objective is more than just conquest.

It's mass slaughter.

-Say what?

-Nonsense.

What makes you think that--

-It must be.

-Why did the grave robbers steal the bodies

of the four Lightning Style Shinobi?

It's because they sought the power

of those particular Shinobi.

They wanted the power of Lightning Style Jutsu.

They've hit upon the means of harnessing that power,

and using it to wipe out the village and everyone in it.

-Wipe out the village?

-Sora.

Is this really true?

They'll destroy the whole village?

Thousands of villagers.

You want their lives on your head?

-I don't know.

I don't know anything!

-Sora!

-I must join the others.

-Huh?

-I have to stop this before the worst happens.

Naruto, you'll have to deal with Sora.

-Got it.

-(VOICEOVER) Finally, it all makes sense.

What Sora said.

His use of the word "king."

There's no doubt about it now.

The one who attempted that coup in the Land of Fire

is the same one who's behind this.

-Charging process, complete.

[theme music - in japanese]

-What did you say?

-These guys attacking us.

They're Shinobi from the Land of Fire?

-Yeah.

Those markings mean they belong to the Kohaku clan

from that village on the border.

-But I thought most of the Kohaku clan

were supposed to have been destroyed

in that attack on their village.

-Maybe they've been raised from the dead through some kind

of reanimation jutsu.

-That's horrible.

It's unforgivable.

To take all these people's lives just to turn them into weapons?

-Next Time.

Revived Souls.

[theme music - in japanese]