Episode(s): One & Two
Title: (Naruto Returns)
Air Date: February 15, 2007
Recap:
The episode first opens up with Naruto and Sakura, each racing through these strange hallways trying to find something and realizing that they are each running out of time as they each search through the doors on a different hallway. What they're trying to find at the moment is not known until Naruto shouts out "Sasuke!" Then there is a big explosion in the underground hideout that opens the earth up to sunlight, like a crater whole in the earth's surface. The two each race from a different side of this underground hideout, Sakura comes to see that Sai getting up off the ground to look up at something as Sakura runs over to Sai. Sakura hears her name be called and turns to see with shock that its someone she knows and whispers "S-asuke-kun". Naruto catches up and hears the words that Sakura speaks, as she looks in total shock of what she's staring at. It's none other then Sasuke, wearing an outfit familar to Ochimaru and his six man crew that went to originally take Sasuke away from Kohana.
For a period of time, Sakura, and Naruto are staring at Sasuke who is high up out of the crater, along with Sai staring at Sasuke. Naruto then says Sasuke's name and Sasuke says Naruto's name as if question if its really him..the scene then goes into a flash back of the two's last final fight when they were kids, revolving around family bonds as Sasuke explains his pain to Naruto on wanting to kill his brother and deciding to join Ochimaru to get stronger in order to kill Itachi. While these flash backs are going Naruto slowly says "Why??", "Then why?", "Why didn't you kill me back then?! Isn't that your way of breaking bonds?!! Sasuke!!"
Sasuke replys "It is simple. Its not that I didn't cut those bonds." From here there's another flash back, this time its between young Sasuke and Itachi as Itachi tells Sasuke how to achieve the Ultimate Sharingan... by killing your best friend. Flash back ends and Sasuke explains that he didn't want to give his brother the pleasure of him, Sasuke taking the same path on achieving the Utimate Sharingan, that he decided to seek other methods.
Then all of a sudden Sasuke jumps down and face to face with Naruto and draps his left arm around Naruto's right shoulder as if their old friends again.. Naruto stands there in total shock. Sasuke then teases Naruto on saying "Come to think of it, isn't your dream to become Hokage?", "If you had time to come chase after me, you should be training. Isn't that right Naruto? That is why this time, my whim,... you'll lose your life." As Sasuke says this, he uses his right arm to take hold of a sword strapped to his back and slowly unseths it, as Naruto is taking in what Sasuke just said to him. Sasuke's sword is finally out of its holding and is cocked to the side, this is when Naruto says, "Can someone who can't even save one of his friends become Hokage? What do you think Sasuke?"
A moment passes before Sasuke changes his hand position on the sword and drives it into Naruto's side as they look at each other and then a crunching sound is heard before it goes black... It then fades into the Cage where the Nine Tail Fox is within Naruto's body... the fox laughs and says "Naruto. Lets show them our power." Naruto then opens his eyes slowly as his face has deep shadows from being in the area where the Cage for the Nine Tail Fox is... When Naruto opens his eyes they look as if he's under the command of the Nine Tail Fox.. The Kyuubi continues to laugh and says, "What's wrong?" Then these pink bubbles start to manafest itself in front of the Kyuubi's cage and takes on the appearance of the Kyuubi as a bubble being like bathtime bubbles being his skin and bursting here and there. The Kyuubi askes Naruto why he's not wanting the great demon power to use to destroy Naruto's enemy and that Naruto is nothing without the Kyuubi's demonic power. Naruto continues to stare down the Kyuubi with eyes that are detached from the real world. The Kyuubi goes on to try and convince Naruto to release the seal in Naruto's body to free the Kyuubi in return the Kyuubi will give Naruto all his power. Naruto entrance makes an attempt to reach for it.. all of a sudden Sasuke hand goes out to make to gesture to stop. Naruto is shocked to discover that Sasuke managed to get within Naruto's body to where the Kyuubi is being held, as Sasuke has his flat palm facing the Kyuubi.
Sasuke smerks when he says out loud that he finally has discovered how Naruto constantly has this great unlimited power when it comes to fighting. The Kyuubi then talks to Sasuke knowing that he's an Uchia and how much power he has and then goes to say, "Such would be the power of the Sharingan, that cursed clan's power." The convo between Sasuke and Kyuubi is that its not the first time the Kyuubi has seen his family's Sharingan..and to say that you are the Kyuubi..from Sasuke. The Kyuubi fires back that Sasuke's eyes and chakra are more sinister then the Kyuubi himself and just like Uchiha Madara. Sasuke grabs a hold of the bubble Kyuubi and pulls on a part of it.. causing the bubble version of the Kyuubi to burst appart and become a stream of bubbles floating through the air, as Naruto stares in shock at what Sasuke has done. Sasuke then goes to say, "And you expect me.... ...to know that person?" as some of the bubbles fly past his face. This scene ends and the opening credits and clip begin.
Though it is still unknown the true purpose of that scene when its for an episode way further down.. pretty much its a clip for when Sakura and Naruto are joined with Sai to go find Sasuke and bring him back.
After the opening credits and clips to scene goes into hearing people talk on a radio communication on trying to locate something.. We soon discover is Konohamaru's team (two years older) as they're chasing after something in town and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake as they go to capture something. Soon they corner it and turns out to be nothing more then the cat that Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke first chased after in their first mission. And just like Naruto, Konohamaru gets scratch up badly on the face.
The scene then changes as the Konohamaru and his friends are in the mission room of the Ninja Academy. And we see again the cat unhappy to be back this its owner and it cries in tears on being back in possesion of that woman. Ebisu sensei turns out to be the sensei that overseas this team and says with unhappiness that this mission shouldn't have taken this long to complete. Konohamaru fires back "I can't draw out my true power on such lame missions!" Lady Tsunada says for now it will only be D-Rank missions, especially since these three just graduated from Ninja school. Konohamaru flops down onto the floor and sits cross legged stating, "I'm not satisfied with that! I'm going to be the Seventh Hokage in the future!" Lady Tsunada interested in this statement and questions, "The seventh? What about the sixth?" Konohamaru smerks and says, "The sixth will be Naruto-niichan!" When everyone in the mission room hears this, they are taken back at hearing Naruto's name being mention... since Naruto left with Jayrai sensei to train on becoming stronger.
After this Konohamaru and his friends wonder how much stronger Naruto has become the same as Lady Tsunda and Iruka-sensei.. This is where Lady Tsunada makes the comment, "Instead of the Seventh Hokage, he's more like the second Naruto." As Iruka sensei wonders how Naruto is doing and has flash backs to the last time he saw Naruto when he was a kid and wanted to become stronger to bring Sasuke back. Then there is talk amoung the three, that its about time for Naruto to return with Lord Jairaiya to return from Naruto's trainning. Lady Tsunada makes a comment that those two better return cuz there a big things that are coming.
Then there's a cut scene where we see Jairaiya walking in the woods with by guess is an older Naruto.. those two walk through the main gates for Kohana. That's when two ninjas who are at the main gate are shocked to see who it was who just came through.
The Konahamaru and his friends come across Sakura who's out to get the afternoon trafficing report that have entered through the main gate of Kohana. Sakura is listening to Konahamaru talk about their recent mission and she tells him that she did that with her commrades when they were younger. So Konahamaru and his friends tag along as Sakura goes to get the report. Goes to the main gate to get the report and those two ninjas say that there is something special in town now. Sakura says that it couldn't be, so Sakura and the others go search Kohana; as Naruto jumps on top of a metal pole and announces that he has returned. He then sees Lady Tsunada's face on the stone mountain of all the past Hokage's and makes a sly comment about it.
(To Be Continued- its getting late I'll finish this another day.)
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