10 Second Anime - Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 352

Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 352

Kakashi Shippuuden continues. Orochimaru becomes a rogue ninja, and the 3rd Hokage's ANBU is on the hunt. Danzo sends his wood-style user to their fallback base to meet Orochimaru there. He finds things about himself as well.

We finally got a name for the ninja we know as Yamato, whom Kakashi calls Tenzo. Danzo calls his wood-style user Kinoe. He has a special mission for him: meet Orochimaru at their fallback base because he's on the run from Sarutobi, who confronted him on his experiments. Kakashi tries to go toe to toe with Orochimaru, but the experience levels are too much, and Orochimaru's snake eyes intimidate him. I'm not sure if it was a genjutsu or not, but it looked like Kakashi was paralyzed by fear, or perhaps the hypnotic stare that some snakes use before they strike. Sarutobi prepared a going away present for Orochimaru, though, a booby-trapped snake, which injures him greatly.

Meanwhile, Kinoe finds the fallback base. Along the way, showing that he's still a kind-hearted lad, he saves some baby birds he knocked out of a tree with his wood-style powers. The base is in the trunk of a large tree, occupied by the Iburi clan. Iburu (燻る) means to smoke, so I guess that's fitting that the whole clan has unstable smoke bodies. They are indebted to Orochimaru, who has been experimenting with his curse mark to make them more stable. A little girl there recognizes Kinoe as Tenzo, her younger brother, who was taken from them. It makes sense that only an unstable formless body could handle the Senju cells without exploding into random tree branches. Kinoe has no memories of this clan, only some vague ones of being in test tubes with other children who disappeared one-by-one. This is also the first time we see Tenzo use his scary serious face.

Outside the base, Kakashi has summoned his hunting dogs, and it's been a long time since we've seen Pakkun. He warns Kakashi that trying to sniff out a snake is going to be hard since they don't sweat much. Orochimaru seems to be making progress towards the fallback base too, but Kakashi may have found the entrance before him. The Iburi clan sees a figure approaching their main hall, and it is... the cliffhanger for the next episode. Weird that they didn't show the tracking dogs give Kakashi a pointer towards Orochimaru's location, but that Kakashi found the base entrance randomly.