"Run! The Curry of Life"
We start right off where we left. A stormy valley. Raiga and Lee. Raiga asks Why. Lee responds that he wants to get so strong that Guy-sensei smiles with pride, that's his way of the Shinobi after all. Raiga understands this; Guy can be the one to hold Lee's funeral as he charges up with two lightning bolts hitting him. Ninja Art: Thunder Dragon Tornado. Lee is shook. The dragon heads underground.
Karashi carrying a vat of curry is being pushed by his mother while Twenty carries Ranmaru. Karashi is complaining about the weight but Granny will have none of that.
Lee isn't doing well against the Thunder dragon. Lots of cartoony sound effects here. Twenty and Ranmaru decide to go on ahead while granny gives her the you go girl.
Raiga is wondering what state Lee is in. Was he "evaporated to the bone"? Not quite as Twenty and filler Haku run by. They double back and Tenten tries to snap Lee out of it. Karashi and Sansho are right behind though and I bet you know where this is going. Quick, the CURRY OF LIFE. Nice and hot. They'll help Lee but Twenty needs to deliver this to Naruto and Neji, and at the first syllable of Neji's name she drops Lee's head to the hard stone like a sack of flour. She tells Ranmaru to wait here as she goes to help Naruto. Karashi gets the business and knuckles to the head from his mom and delivers curry to Neji. Granny has Ranmaru hold Lee's mouth open while she pours the CURRY OF LIFE down his gullet. He's still out though! Ten seconds later though he snaps to, throwing Granny Sansho aside and grabbing her ladle going berserk on the curry cauldron! I guess he's ok.
Twenty is mad that she can't feed Neji by hand I guess as she calls Naruto a doofus for getting zorched to death. The CURRY OF LIFE works wonders on him too as he wonders what the fuck she is doing. "Oh I guess this means you're awake." Naruto is confused because he thought she had fallen off the cliff. She dismisses that, it was an obvious trap you dolt.
Naruto is LEGIT SHOOK at this. Karashi at least wakes up Neji first before giving him the curry. He isn't manly enough though and passes out after one bite. NEEEEEEEJJJJIIIII! Lee is drunk with CURRY.
We get a brief FLASHBACK to why this is. When Karashi was hurrying to lift the giant vat of curry into the carrier he knocked a bottle of "mysterious red liquid" into the CURRY OF LIFE and they obviously had no time to fix it. A bottle of wine! It should be just as effective as Lee cackles madly. The comedy is over for now as Raiga shows up and the omnious music starts. Raiga is going to do the job right this time when Ranmaru shows up to talk with him. Twenty runs down the recent events with Naruto behind a rock. Ranmaru saved Raiga with his chakra, we saved him with a face promo pep talk and the Curry of Life. Karashi and him are no longer evil for real this time. Raiga wants to kill some more people...and Ranmaru helps him out. Ranmaru makes a bunch of fog so they can leave, telling Raiga that he'll be his eyes and that the ninja are all dead. Peaceful resolution?Well I guess if accidental death+suicide is considered peaceful. Twenty knows the score. Ranmaru is trying to atone by killing both of them, leading him off of the cliff. Naruto is shook but before he can help DRUNK LEE steps on the scene.
Drunk Lee charges forward, pushing Raiga close to the edge with a flurry of mainly missed punches and kicks. Raiga is impressed by his recovery as Lee almost pukes up his lunch. Dodging lightning bolts while doing the worm and various other floor gym-kata, then running forward and kicking Raiga straight up below the jaw, sending Ranmaru flying. Good guy Naruto is there to catch him though. Raiga lands right at the precipice of doom and is worried about Ranmaru. He's had enough and Lee will pay! Ninja Art Thunder Armor. He's made of lightning and charges forward! Lee punches him right in the gut though and both are knocked back. Raiga would have been toast without his thunder armor. Raiga has gone back to offering Lee a funeral.
Not so fast! Naruto and Ranmaru are on the scene. Ranmaru wants Raiga to eat the CURRY OF LIFE, it's blend of delicious spices will show him that we are all connected (no seriously, this is not me messing around, this is the crux of his argument) and that they can live together in peace. Raiga can't handle those words from his eyes and ears, if he doesn't stop spouting them they can no longer be as one! Bonds breaking! Ranmaru wants Raiga to kill him, he won't give up Lee. If Ranmaru dies Raiga as he was will die. Raiga needs to give him a funeral to preserve the Ranmaru that was. Naruto isn't going to have this and makes around fifty Shadow Clones as Lee regains concisnous. "Thatsa lot of Narutos" as he simulates puking and passes back out.
It is a lot of Narutos. Raiga no sells them as he uses ranged AOEs primarily. Karashi is still trying to rouse Neji. Tenten wants him to get a move on so she picks up the plate of curry and feeds him some as Karashi flips out. Now she has done it, Neji is dead. Back to Naruto cutting a great promo on Raiga. What kind of monster would kill his eyes and ears? He doesn't want to be by himself anymore, he wants to laugh with everyone instead of crying with Raiga. You're free now brother, no more funerals for you or anyone. Raiga has had enough and talks about his credentials. One of the seven swordsmen. Do you know Kisame? He can't stand him, gonna give him a funeral. He hates all the seven swordsmen. Ranmaru is his only friend, but he doesn't need him anymore. Their bond is broken, no longer two halves of the same soul. Raiga is charging up to the very limit and nukes all the shadow clones. Except for five of them which do the clone spinning axe kick and shadow clone body slam, bringing Raiga to the edge of the cliff.
Quintuple uppercut! Ranmaru is finally free as Raiga goes flying and asks the lightning to give him "a funeral worth remembering" as a ball of lightning hits him he fades into dust.
Karashi is teaching his junior apprentice how to make the CURRY OF LIFE. Put you r all into it as he knocks Ranmaru around. Granny Sansho isn't down with that though as she clods him in the back of the head. "It's about a hundred years too soon for you to be preaching about the family curry." They are on equal ground! The ninjas are leaving Ranmaru in Granny Sansho's capable hands. Granny wants them to each a special curry to give them vim and vigor for the long trip home.
It's the reddest curry Twenty has ever seen. Naruto's eyes are burning just looking at it. Lee quickly switches over to adoration though. Neji makes excuses, Lady Tsunade will kill them if they are late, Naruto hastily agrees and Tenten makes apologizes as they carry Lee away.
NEXT EPISODE: "Follow My Lead! The Great Survival Challenge" 
