10 Second Anime - Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 339

Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 339

Sasuke to Kage Shippuuden - Episode 10. Yay, the kages are back almost capturing Madara. Boo, Madara went full power and is going to kick their butts. Itachi undoes the Reanimation Jutsu and says goodbye to Sasuke.

We check in with the Kages' battle against all the Madara clones, and they're not doing so hot. Ohnoki, the Hidden Stone Village chief rallies them for a final attack. Madara sees that he should have done something about the old man before now, since his battle experience is making things harder than he thought they would be. As the kages are about to seal Madara, he explodes in a huge ball of chakra and shows off his ultimate Susano'o. It's big. Madara brags that it's a good thing he's not fighting Tsunade's grandfather Hashirama, otherwise the mapmakers would be too busy making corrections. He says that as he casually lops the top off a mountain.

Meanwhile, back in the cave, Itachi learns the last few hand signs to undo the Reanimation Jutsu, and Sasuke laments that getting to be with his brother again raises his anger toward Konoha village. As Itachi makes Kabuto undo the jutsu, he flashes his sharingan at him, and shows Sasuke his memories of the days before he massacred the Uchiha clan. The Uchiha were on the verge of open rebellion, and Danzo, as the commander of the secret military police, orders Itachi to take out the entire clan before the Hokage orders it, in return for allowing him to spare Sasuke. His best friend Shisui offers his own eye to Itachi to save it from being stolen by Danzo. This was a contentious point much earlier in the story of Naruto, because Shisui committed suicide soon thereafter, instead of joining the clan's revolt, and Shisui's sharingan had unique powers coveted by others. And finally, Itachi meets Tobi and offers to join his mercenary group in exchange for the safety of the village and his little brother thereafter. All those little loose ends in Itachi's story finally tied up.

Before he disappears, Itachi makes sure that Sasuke knows that everything he did was for the sake of the village and his little brother. The rest of the reanimated former heroes and villains of the ninja world begin to disappear too, and we see a brief flash of the guy this show is supposed to be about. Madara is about to smash the kages, when he feels the effects of his reanimation ending too. If you think that's enough to put Madara down, well... We're almost back to Naruto Shippuuden. Almost there.