A full moon hangs over head as Ebisu gives up trying to convince Jiraiya to help, dropping an "I believe in you," but it doesn't look it's going to make the Mountain Toad rethink his life anything. We cut away to Gaara perched on top of a carp statue, looking thoughtful. The Sound Ninja Dosu wanders up to him, casually saying that he thought he'd crush Gaara now and avoid the rush to fight Sasuke. He wants to try sound vs. sand, and I start to wonder if this means that Temari might not get a bye after all. Then something... odd happens. Gaara says in the full moon, "his" blood boils, and then his shadow starts to go all Lovecraftian and a smoke trail annihilates Dosu. The sand kid comes back to himself, breathing hard. Yikes. Close by, the Sand Village's sensei and Kabuto watch without the pants-wetting horror they might have. The sensei asks if it's okay that Gaara offed Dosu like that, and Kabuto cheerfully says that plans for Sasuke have changed and Dosu wasn't needed any more. Hayate drops some eaves! Sand Ninja's worried that if it's out Kabuto's Sound, their plot to destroy Leaf Village is done. Kabuto says he let them find out on purpose to see how they'd react. The Sound Ninja's just all kinds of too clever.
Kabuto gives them their orders from Orochimaru, and before they part Kabuto lets it slip that Hayate's not quite as stealthy as he'd like to be. Poor TB-sensei. The Sand Boss says he'll take care of Hayate for Kabuto as a favor. The Sand Villager catches up to Hayate on the rooftops a ways away, and Sandy's amused to find out it's a Proctor. Hayate coughingly draws his sword and goes for Leaf Style Cresent Moon Dance. He sweeps around in, well, a crescent around the Sand Ninja brings his sword down on his opponent's shoulder. Sand Shinobi is impressed, it's a very good technique and all, but it's a sword made of something. The Sand's sword is made of the wind, and he lets poor Hayate see how sharp it is.
Hot Springsville, with Jiraiya on the prowl. A trio of nubile nymphs frolic in the water, and while this is surely great inspiration for the next volume of Make-Out Paradise, it doesn't have a thing to with Naruto's training. He's forced to Sexy Jutsu it up to get his new mentor's attention back, offering "service" and as a brief note? Ew. This is just what the Pervy Sage was waiting for! To be touched by a beautiful women who turns back into 12-year-old kid. The girls break for lunch as Jiraiya decides it's time to start dropping knowledge on the kid. Mountain Toad wants Naruto to build up the special red Chakra, but no dice. The sensei monologues that as of yet, Naruto can only summon the red Chakra when Naruto's emotional state is at the right agitated pitch, as we've seen. Naruto wants to know why he has to use the other chakra for the technique, and Jiraiya says only that kind will be able to power the technique he's going to taught. Then our boy asks how Jiraiya knew he had the chakra in the first place. Because he's a sage, duh! The Pervy Sage starts tugging on Naruto's face like an overly affectionate great-aunt, telling him it would be a shame not to be able to use the red Chakra. It's all part of Naruto developing his own style, and the other Chakra is an edge that he can exploit over other people.
As an example of the cool stuff he can, Naruto can learn Summoning Jutsu, like Kakashi's adorable Ninja Dogs. Naruto's ready to learn, but first he has to empty his regular Chakra - so he Shadow Clones to do it as fast as he can, with an all-Naruto battle royale. Jiraiya: "Good thinking considering he's stupid." Heh! The Narutos go at it, and it's about as elegant as you could expect. Jiraiya: "My, this is a sexually unattractive scene." Oh, take it out of your robe, Mountain Toad. Wait, no, don't do that. Once Naruto's triumphed over the last three Clone Narutos, his regular Chakra meter's finally on 'E.' Naturally, he collapses. With Naruto's empty vessel, we can begin the lesson! The Summoning Jutsu works like it has for everybody else so far, the addition of blood to mystic signs. Mountain Toad calls his giant toad, and the amphibian hands Naruto a contract to be binded in blood so Naruto might call upon the mighty power of the... toad. Contract signed, Naruto goes for his first summon! It is a mighty... tadpole. HAHAHAHA. The giant frog is less than impressed, as is the guy on his back. A quick jump back to Hidden Leaf Village, and the crows have been after Hayate's corpse when the Anbu come across him. Poor guy.
Next Episode: Sakura and Ino visit Sasuke, assuming they don't kill each other first.
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