10 Second Anime - Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 355

Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 355

Kakashi Shippuuden continues, three years later. Mullet-style Kinoe? Danzo needs a sharingan. More monster movie Orochimaru.

It's three years after the last episode, and Kakashi's voice hasn't changed. At least Kinoe's hair grew. Is that a mullet? Business in front, party in the back? Chibi Kinoe had the same style when he was rescued by Danzo, so maybe he's reverting after the contact with his clan.

Danzo has been using his implanted sharingan too much, and it's going blind, so he tasks Kinoe and his partner with stealing Kakashi's, since he can't go after the Uchiha clan members. He gets his chance a few years later during the massacre, though.

Meanwhile, Kakashi gets sent to secure and search through one of the many research bases they have been finding during the last three years after Orochimaru went rogue. This is a perfect chance for Root's ANBU to grab Kakashi's eye, and blame his disappearance on a booby trap.

Kakashi is too trusting of Kinoe, or maybe he's working a bit of psy-op on him to make him falter later, but he stresses a couple of things to Kinoe. First, a ninja mission is not absolute if it sacrifices your team. He learned that from his dad's suicide over similar circumstances, and from Obito's death, and later, Rin's death. Second, the wood-style jutsu is an important treasure for their village because it can control the 9-tails jinchuuriki. Kinoe answers back that the sharingan is also important for the same reason. Nice future note to touch on, since these two guys will be Naruto's teachers much later on in the story. Hey, that's the name of that show I'm supposed to be watching...

As they search through the ruins of Orochimaru's lab, with Kinoe's partner waiting as backup, Kinoe takes his chance to take out Kakashi. A stray reflection gives him enough time to evade a fatal strike, and we're in for a long battle. Kinoe uses Rin's death as a goad on Kakashi when Kakashi tries to convince Kinoe not to go through with his mission. We see that Kakashi already knows how to use Shadow Clones like Naruto does, and Kinoe is already using with wood-clones.

As a bit of characterization, we flash back to Danzo rescuing Kinoe from Orochimaru's experiments. Orochimaru had already presumed the last child dead, but he breaks the test chamber with a wood-style projection when he hears they're going to dispose of him. Danzo personally trains him, and becomes a surrogate father figure to him. It's difficult to say no to a mission in those circumstances.

The battle progresses, but Kakashi is still the more able ninja, and his lightning chakra has an advantage over Kinoe's mix of earth and water chakra. However, they awaken another Orochimaru monster in the lab, and it looks like the form he takes right before he possesses a new body. Damn Monster Movie Shippuuden...