Original subtitles

-I take it the preparations are complete.

-Yes, Lord Orochimaru.

-Good.

Then at last I will get a new body

and the world will get what it deserves.

[laughter]

-Go, Kabuto.

I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to your return.

-Everything's ready, Yukimaru.

Time to go.

-I wonder.

Is there a place I can go back to?

This place we're going to.

Have I been there before?

-Lord Orochimaru tells me he's very much

looking forward to your return.

-But return to where?

Is this the place I'm supposed to go back to?

-Lord Orochimaru has such high hopes for you.

You must do all you can to live up to them.

[explosion]

[weapons clanging]

[laughter]

-Just a few left.

[laughter]

-That's enough slaughter.

If the rest of you want to save yourselves,

you'll come work for me.

Mm-hmm.

All right.

Then.

Follow me.

[laughter]

-(VOICEOVER) In order to pull of Orochimaru's plan,

I need to draw out Yukimaru's power.

I must get results from these tests

before handing him over to Gurin.

I must, no matter what it takes.

-You never know how many times around it's going to take.

I guess it all depends on where exactly you put it,

and how tightly you wrap it.

You'd think that by now I should know how many times it's

going to wrap around, but you never know 'til you finish.

-Hmm.

Let's go.

-It's almost time.

[theme music - in Japanese]

-Hehe.

-I just have to say, the dumplings you serve here

are absolutely delicious.

Of course, with a lovely thing like you serving them,

they couldn't be anything else.

-Oh, well, really, you shouldn't say that.

-In fact, as good as these dumplings are,

I bet you're even tastier, aren't you?

[giggling]

-Finally made it.

Let's get to work and start training, Pervy Sage!

-Hang on.

Let's wash off the dust from our journey first.

-Yeah?

-Remember, healing your arm is part of the training process.

These hot springs are great for broken bones.

-Mm-hmm.

-Besides, hot springs are a lot of fun.

[giggling]

-Research.

Time for more research, hahaha!

-You haven't changed a bit, have you?

I knew it.

You've forgotten what happened when Grandma Tsunade caught

you sneaking peeks at the ladies--

-No!

I could have sworn this was a co-ed bath last time I

was here!

Oh, what the hell happened?

-Well, maybe they changed their policy

because of guys like you.

-Oh, be quiet.

In all the time I've been teaching you,

haven't you learned anything?

Why do you think I keep doing this, anyway?

-Because you're a pervert.

-You idiot.

My research for the Makeout Series

is a cover for Shinobi training.

I've trained myself to go unseen by guards

who happen to be women.

-Keep telling yourself that.

-Uh, anyway, like I said, this hot spring's

really for your broken arm.

Healing that is the first step in the process.

-Oh, man.

This is such a waste of time.

Can't we just get on with it?

-You know, you really can be annoying sometimes.

-Hmm?

-Hmm?

Just you never mind about this.

I'm as fit as a fiddle.

-I've been training so hard lately

so I don't have to rely on the Nine-Tails power.

Because what's the point of having powers like mine if you

just end up hurting everybody instead of helping them?

Nothing I've tried so far has been enough.

Isn't there some kind of long-range jutsu

you could teach me?

-Huh.

Well, listen to you, talking like a veteran Shinobi.

-(VOICEOVER) Ochimaru, huh?

-Dad!

-Multiple Legs Barrage!

[grunt]

-(VOICEOVER) I swore to myself I wouldn't let anything like that

happen to Akamaru ever again.

[bark]

-That's right, boy.

-Kiba.

What are you thinking about?

-I was just remembering how our mission to rescue Sasuke

turned out, and if it's really Orochimaru's hideout

we're headed for.

Well, I'm wondering if this mission might not just

turn out the same way.

-What?

You getting nervous, Kiba?

-Not on your life, Kakashi-sensei.

Besides, with everybody talking about how Shikamaru and even

Naruto were able to beat the Akatsuki,

I want a chance to show that I've

been training just as hard as they have.

-It's essential that I demonstrate

the results of my training as well.

-Huh?

-Unlike the rest of you, I've rarely

been allowed the opportunity of going on missions

with the group and showing what I can do.

-Oh, come on.

Don't tell me you're still upset just because you

didn't get to go on one mission.

-That, and the fact that Naruto didn't recognize me

after all we've been through.

-Of course Naruto didn't recognize you.

No one can even see your face with that stupid thing over it.

-That shouldn't matter to an old comrade.

-Come on.

The important thing is that we're together now.

(VOICEOVER) They're right, though.

I want to show what I can do, too, if only

to make Naruto acknowledge me.

-(VOICEOVER) They've all become so much stronger and more

dependable.

Hmm.

Even him.

-Pervy Sage.

I've gotten a little stronger, don't you think?

-Huh.

Honestly?

You don't seem that much different from the rookie

of three years ago.

-Huh, you think so?

-Well, maybe you're right.

If being smarter means what you say it does,

I'll remain a fool my entire life.

I'm going after him, and I'll do it alone if I have to.

I'll create my own incredible jutsu!

-So, Naruto.

Do you still feel the same way as you did three years ago?

-I never go back on my word.

Because that's my ninja way.

-Hmm.

That answers that question.

(VOICEOVER) I felt that way about a friend once.

All it brought me was a sense of helplessness and regret.

Naruto's felt that, too.

For three years.

But he's never given up on his friend.

He's never forgotten him.

He's continued to train.

He still nurses the same desire to bring Sasuke back

to the Leaf, even at the cost of his own body.

Heh.

Maybe the idiot has matured in his own idiot way.

Just a teensy, weensy little bit.

-You think so?

Yeah, but if I'm going to bring him back,

I've still got to get much stronger.

-Hmm.

(VOICEOVER) Maybe he can do it.

They say, wherever someone is still thinking of you,

that place is your home.

-Hmm?

Ha.

Yeah.

-This must be one of the ANBU Black Ops who sent the message.

What is it?

You sense something?

-We don't need to sense anything, do we, Akamaru?

[bark]

-You can smell it.

There are going to be a lot more bodies up ahead.

-Well.

I thought my nose was pretty keen, too, but-- which way?

-This way.

-Keep on your toes.

-Huh?

What is--

-Oh-- somebody help me, please.

-A curse mark.

Orochimaru's curse mark.

Like on the ones before.

-(VOICEOVER) There's no doubt we've discovered

Orochimaru's hideout, but what the hell happened here?

-Faint traces of chakra.

There are two.

No, more.

There's a lot of them!

-Let's go, Kakashi-sensei!

-Yes.

There's no time to waste.

-All right, move.

But watch out for traps.

[gasps]

-How horrible!

-What the hell happened?

-It would seem they've been fighting each other.

-They had a falling out?

-Let's find out from them what happened.

[bark]

-What is it, boy?

-Oh, no.

-We'd have been flattened if Akamaru

hadn't sniffed out that escape route.

[bark]

-Haha.

Good boy, Akamaru.

-So they did lay a trap, after all.

-Not for us.

-Huh?

-I doubt the enemy has any idea we're even in the vicinity.

I think that trap was set off to destroy the evidence.

To destroy the hideout itself.

-But all those people still inside!

-Yeah.

Pretty ruthless, all right.

-Orochimaru.

He's going to pay for that.

[bark]

-Stop wasting time.

Move it!

-Well, in as much as we've located Orochimaru's hideout,

we've achieved our mission.

-But we can't really say it's been a success, can we?

-Hmm?

-We can't return to the Leaf without having gathered

any information about his current whereabouts and plans.

-He's right, Kakashi-sensei.

-There is one bit of information that we've learned.

Well, that was a timed explosion.

Whoever set the timer had to have been here recently.

-What?

-You're right.

And if they're still in the vicinity,

we should find out what we can from them.

-Good.

Then it's decided.

Let's get after them.

-Leave everything to me.

My parasitic insects are masters of picking up an enemy's trail.

-Hey, if anybody's a master of tracking the enemy,

it's Akamaru here.

[bark]

-Yes!

And don't forget me.

-Where are we all headed, anyway?

Where is she taking us?

-Huh.

Probably right back to Orochimaru.

-If so, you know what that means, don't you?

[laughter]

-No, don't do it.

Please, I'm begging you.

No!

[evil laughter]

Augh!

-I don't think we'll survive another round

of his experiments.

-You can say that again.

-Yeah.

But he scares me.

That guy-- we're going up against him?

-Right now, it's just the woman.

-Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

All we have to do is take the woman out and we're home free.

-I'm for it.

-I say we kill her.

-Hey.

Who said you could take a break?

[gasp]

-That'd be me.

-One, two, three--

-We're through listening to you.

---four.

-We've taken a vote amongst ourselves,

and we've decided you're dead, lady.

-12, 13, 14, 15.

I count 16 of you.

Is that right?

-What, are you scared?

Hehehe.

Hey!

She's scared.

-Scared of you?

-You really think you can defeat all 16 of us?

Foolish woman.

-I'll tell you what's foolish.

Going into battle without carefully

assessing your opponent's strength.

Crystal-Style.

Crystal Prison.

-My insects have detected the enemy.

-Oh, man.

Those guys had no idea what they were getting themselves into.

They weren't only hopelessly outclassed,

they were hopelessly stupid.

[laughter]

-Are you trying to say you're smarter?

So, are you coming, then?

-Well, I, uh--

-Yeah, of course we're coming.

It's not like we were running away.

We were just avoiding an unnecessary fight.

-(VOICEOVER) Hmm.

Well, I can't face Orochimaru without any followers.

-I pledge my loyalty.

-There is no need.

Betray me, and you will die.

-A jutsu that imprisons the victims in crystals!

-Earth-Style?

-I've never seen anything like it.

-My insects suffered the same fate.

-(VOICEOVER) No.

It can't be.

-All right, then.

Ready to begin your training?

-Yes, sir.

I'm good to go.

-OK.

To start things off, I think we'll

try a simple jutsu using your wind chakra.

-A simple jutsu?

-Mm-hmm.

Do you remember that ninjutsu we were working on

during our last training period?

-Hmm.

Well, I remember we did lots of different stuff.

-I mean the one in which toads were involved.

-Oh, yeah!

-Yoo-hoo!

-Ahhh!

Yeah, that one got a little weird for me, actually.

-Ah, you remember.

Good.

I thought it might have been too soon back then,

but I think you can handle it now.

-Uh, really?

-It's a collaboration ninjutsu in which two jutsu are combined

in order to make a single, stronger jutsu.

-Ah!

Yeah, I know about that.

When we took on that Akatsuki guy,

Captain Yamato combined his Water-Style

with my Wind-Style to make that Hurricane Vortex jutsu.

-Good.

If you know it, that makes things easier.

Summoning jutsu!

-Oh!

Jira, it's been too long.

-Ahhh!

-I apologize for having to make you come so far, Gamariki.

-Oh, don't be silly.

Don't mention it.

Such old, dear friends as you and I are.

-Ahh!

What's Gamariki doing here?

-Oh, Naruto, you're here too, huh?

Hmm.

-Ugh.

-The two jutsu have to be in perfect sync

for the collaboration ninjutsu to work.

Yamato matched your timing exactly

to produce his Hurricane Vortex jutsu--

-Um, you can forget it.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

No way he and I can ever be in sync.

I mean, look at him, he's hopeless.

-Hold on, hold on.

I'm not the problem here, I can tell you that.

And anyway, of all the giant toads

you could have picked, why'd you have to pick this one?

-Do you want to master this new jutsu or not?

-Yes.

-So starting from this moment, you

will be training with Gamariki.

And you'll keep on training until your timing

and his are in perfect synchronicity.

Understood?

[sigh]

-Well, if you insist, Jiraiya, I guess we have no choice.

-Yeah, but, uh, wouldn't this combination thing

be even more powerful if you and I

combined our jutsu, Pervy Sage?

-The obvious problem with that is,

I won't be around all the time, but you

can summon toads whenever you want.

-Good point.

Yeah.

But, uh-- come on.

Is his jutsu really that strong?

-Huh?

Oh.

Gamariki.

Watch carefully.

-You'll be gentle, right?

-Hiya!

-Woah, man!

Guess you're a lot stronger than I thought, Mr. Gamariki.

-Mm-hmm.

-Once our timing was in perfect sync,

I let my chakra flow into his Water Pistol jutsu.

[gulp]

-Your wind chakra should work especially well

with his water chakra.

With practice, the two of you will do even better than that.

-Better than that?

Well, all right then.

I'm ready.

Bring it on.

Let's do it.

-First we'll work on your sense of rhythm.

-Hey-- what sense of rhythm?

-One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two.

One, two, one, two.

One, two, one--

-Ow!

-Ow!

-(VOICEOVER) This toad and me.

-(VOICEOVER) Me and this kid?

-I don't think this is going to work.

-Oh, boy.

Is this going to be rough.

-You summoned me?

-Yes.

I thought perhaps it was time to test you.

To see the level of power you've achieved.

-I see.

[laughter]

-Not even a flicker of fear.

You're very confident taking me on, aren't you?

-I'm ready.

Any time.

Just say the word.

[theme music - in Japanese]

-That does it.

I quit.

I've had enough of this guy.

This training is a total waste of time.

-Oh, get a grip.

Learning to combine your Wind-Style

his Water-Style is the key to achieving

the collaboration ninjutsu.

-Hey, if it can't be done, it can't be done.

I need to find someone more compatible with me.

-Idiot!

You can't summon anything with your arm the way it is.

-That's what you think.

You're forgetting how fast I can heal, Pervy Sage.

Next time.

Encounter.