Naruto out getting ramen, tied up, brought back by Shizune and the medical ninja squad.
Naruto wants to go off and train...and he'll get to that in eighty episodes.
Sakura is next, goes over what a failure she is, flashback to asking Naruto to bring back Sasuke.
Back to Naruto, broken bonds, broken bones, The Sauce's slashed headband.
Naruto is tied up in the hospital bed with Virgin hair rope. They probably got a lot more of that from Naruto fans nearly a decade later.
Sakura Visits Naruto and tells him...to not bring back Sasuke? She's going to step up and do it herself! You go girl!
Jiraiya is in the house! Eating Naruto's fruit, asking him to get a move on with the training. Naruto...wants to hold off? Toad Hermit sees Sakura leaving the hospital and draws...conclusions.
Cut to Tsunade. Her pervert senses go off and Jiraiya does the Batman swing into her office. She accuses him of being a peeping tom. He accuses her of being old. He asks for a favor...
Back to Naruto. He uses his superhuman strength to bust out when he figures that Sakura is leaving to go look for the Sauce.
As she is leaving the village a headbandless but orange jumpsuited Naruto shows up with a serious case of bed head. He's not gonna stop her as long as he can come along. Naruto says that a squad has three members so enter our guest character, Jiraiya! He's threatening imprisonment for deserters!
Swerve, he asked for this mission. To the Land of...Rice Paddies (Naming places is not the filler's strong suit.)
J-man says they are going to serve...under him very pervertedly!
In a flashback from maybe three minutes ago Jiraiya calls Sakura and Naruto two of the most valuable Genin. What a sarcastic bastard. Tsunade thinks the mission is risky even with a Sanin!
Sakura is seeing shit as they do the fly through the trees montage. Namely The Sauce's flat ass.
Naruto is bored by the land of the Rice Paddies. Lots of...Rice Paddies. The lord was tricked by Orochimaru to get a bunch of free land.
Jiraiya claims Orochimaru is here
but he doesn't have any idea where the village hidden in the sound is.
Jiraiya is trying to shake down Naruto for cash again. He succeeds in stealing both their lunch money in his quest for ass.
He smells the sweet scent of whores and goes to the sketchest brothel imaginable.
Naurto and Sakura are on the edge of town talking about what the hell the Pervy Sage is up to. Sakura is still moping about not doing anything...very apt conclusion there.
These ladies of the evening are clearly evil! Swerve it is a bandit bar! Swerve he is going to kill those fools.
Sakura and Naruto are also plagued by bandits, including a masked character of the day girl.
I'm sure she won't show up later in the arc. Caltrops!
The legendary Sanin being chased away by a bunch of thugs! Can't use their powers or else it'll ruin their secret Ninja mission! Naruto is Legit Shook by this revelation!
At least the ending is pretty cool!
NEXT TIME: "A Town of Outlaws, the Shadow of the Fuma Clan"