NARUTO - EPISODE SIXTY-EIGHT: Zero Hour! The Destruction Of The Hidden Lead Village Begins!
BOOM.
Explosion in the top box. Shit is popping off everywhere. Gaara's siblings are out to get him. ANBU versus Sand. The Ninja guarding the Third gets knifed to death. The Third is grabbed from behind by the Kazekage who takes him at knife point to the roof. Oh hell no, it's the Sound Four! They've got some witty banter. Some ANBU are going to get involved. Nope. The Sound Four put up a death barrier. ANBU black ops suffer their first big humiliation in the series. The stadium was compromised, the Hokage kidnapped. Guy and Kakashi are discussing this when they are confronted by Kabuto in his disguise and some random Sound Ninja hidden in the audience. Genjutsu, pretending to be ANBU. Sand has betrayed the Leaf. The treaty was a ruse all along. The course of history has changed forever. He's gonna start a war! Joekage wants peace. Fear of death makes one more cowardly with age...Sarutobi-sensei. The wall guards (including Steve Blum) are talking about missing that Uchiha kid instead of paying attention to the giant and really obvious summoning circle out in the woods. Ten guesses to what they summon. Giant colossal titan snakes that run right through the wall. Paper bombs aren't gonna cut it.
Sand Ninjas Run Deep.
Temari and Kankuro are trying to get Gaara to resume his mission. Gaara just wants to kill Sasuke for making him bleed. Baki shows up to scold them. Gaara starts flipping out. Gaara is almost out of chakra and his wound is deep. He shouldn't have tried to transform so soon. They need to come up with a new plan. Baki tells them to retreat and fix him up. The operation will continue when his chakra returns. Baki is going to fight JYB and the Sauce. The siblings jump over the stadium wall. JYB asks if Orochimaru is the host of the party. Baki doesn't know or care. JYB tells him that he's already Chunin level and that he needs to go track down Gaara, but that this isn't a game son. Shino sees Sauce jump away and so does Kakashi.
Kazekage is still having fun with the Joekage. Oh well, he wanted Gaara to jar the sauce when he transformed, but no matter. He wanted the Leaf and the Sauce. Correction, he just wanted the Sauce. Kazekage thinks he has won already....but the Joekage taught him better years ago...right Orochimaru?!? DUN DUN DUN! I mean I guess it's kinda surprising that the Kazekage was Orochimaru. He did let the cat out of the bag at the beginning of the episode though. Oh well, we get Orochimaru's dope ass theme out of the deal. The Third knew this day was coming, but he gives him the stank eye. Orochimaru told him that he should have picked the Fifth Hokage before today, because he's going to die! Iruka is having recess with some young ass kids at the academy. Having kittens about Naruto. But he musn't play favorites. He wants Naruto to win! Konohamaru and his pals laugh at him daydreaming. Konohamaru wants him to call off the class but no dice. They see smoke coming from the arena. So do the other wall guards, who have a chat about Orochimaru's backstory from Ibiki, the proctor of the written exam. They had a falling out over Orochimaru's inhumane experimentation and he was driven out of the village. Ibiki met him as a kid and thought he was a demon in human's clothing. He was legit shook. A report comes in, the Sand are attacking! Oh did I mention the giant snakes are three headed hydras?
A Lost GIF from Casshern Sins
Guy and Kakashi notice Orochimaru. Sakura stands up. She's shook, he's after her boy. Who is also G-O-N-E. She stands there uselessly as two sound ninja come to decapitate her. Kakashi dispatches them and tells her to lay low while he thins their numbers. Kabuto is standing there, doing nothing. Guy and Kakashi are back to back, murking fools. Leave the Hokage to the ANBU Black Ops. Kakashi thinks the third can handle himself.
Owie.
Orochimaru is crying. Is it from happiness or sorrow from killing his own teacher. He goes to strike with his knife...and puts it right in his palm. He's no longer sleepy! He walks away from the third. He doesn't hold a grudge either. No goal or motive. Orochimaru has a goal, he doesn't like a world that lies still. Finds it boring. To get the world he desires he needs to crush the Leaf! Kakashi and Guy continue to fight off the sound. He's glad he taught Sakura genjutsu as she really has a gift for seeing through it. He orders her to wake up Naruto and Shikamaru. Naruto will be delighted to get an A rank mission. Sakura is SHOOK.
BONUS GIF:
I think he's a bad guy.