"Two Heartbeats: Kabuto's Trap"
Sakura just can't deal with it! Orochimaru orders Kabuto to kill her but make sure she doesn't suffer.
FLASHBACK to the begining of the Sauce retrieval arc.
Sakura demands to know what Orochimaru did with Sasuke's nubile young body. He orders Kabuto to tell her as he makes his exit. Kabuto runs down what we all know from the end of the last arc; He couldn't wait any longer and used another strong young man's body. Sakura is glad and assumes that the Sauce is somewhere here but Kabuto warns her that not everyone prepared with the cursed seal lives, we get another FLASHBACK to the forst of death. Kabuto calls Sasuke nothing more than a memory. Sakura passes her bluff check. Kabuto keeps going though, saying that she'll join him in the afterlife.
Cue ridiculous panning up of Sakura's face interposed with memories of Sasuke including the one above. Sakura is crying and seeing Sasuke as Kabuto throws a kunai right between her eyes...and we fade to black.
Naruto stage right with a Kunai deflection! Kabuto is shook; he took a serious L last time these two met. Naruto cuts a promo here; when he makes promises he sees them through, brother, it's his ninja way! He tells Sakura to hide as he starts making Shadow Clones and taunting Kabuto. Kabuto responds by taking about ten Kunai out and whipping them at anything that moves. He's surrounded!
He's in a pinch! Oh wait a minute, Kabuto isn't some scrub; he does the Misty Flames Dance Jutsu which appears to be a spray of Kerosene out of his mouth, ignited by the various candles in the hallway. Naruto(s) on fire! Stop, drop, and roll!
Oh wait, that's the Rasengan noise. Kabuto is sent through multiple pillars. Handed another loss from the kid in the jumpsuit.
...or not. Chakra threads of fate. They are connected to each other's hearts, take that shippers.
If Kabuto dies, Naruto dies too. Naruto is of course shook by this. Two hearts beating as one! Kabuto promised his body to Lord Orocimaru, eat that Jaken!
Yep, that just happened. Sholololololololo. He squeezes, they both die. Let's die like lovers. Sakura has a plan but it's futile, Chakra is stronger than hemp!
Even Lady Tsunade couldn't rip those cords sister and you don't even lift.
Naruto cuts another promo. He doesn't need no stinking heart to beat a two time loser like Kabuto nor his master when he's got a promise to keep.
Kabuto is gonna do it, he's gonna kill him with...green stuff.
Enter Sasame with a spell tag of evil's bane. Cuts right through the thread. Two hearts no longer, their bond is BROKEN!
He's still down though!
Oh, right, Naruto still likes Sakura. What is Sasame doing here? Gamakichi too! Naruto explains how he was saved. He was going to drown up against the ceiling of the pitfall but Sasame found the room above him and accidenily opened the trap, allowing Naruto to float to the surface.
Chakra threads are a Fuma clan secret technique which is why she knew how to counter it. Naruto does some quick detective work here and figures out...
It was Aizen all along! Wait no, Eureka. She was a Fuma Jonin. Where is her cousin? Where is the Sauce? Eureka is talking about how "close" the cousins were and how it would be better if she didn't see him in his current state!
Cut to a rather Orochimaru looking fellow in a chair...who says Sasame. We know where this is going, a filler screw job.
What lies behind the gate, the truth? It opens on its own! Out walks Fakamaru. Another damn mask. It's not the Irashi you knew...
It's the other two filler villains combined into one Resdient Evil monster!
Naruto cuts one final end of episode promo with the original line of calling Orochimaru a snake.
NEXT EPISODE: "Sakura's Determination"