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July 26, 2012

Naruto Shippuden Episode 268 - Slow, But The War Is Just Beginning


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 Alternative title:
Naruto Shippuden (German)
Naruto: Hurricane Chronicles
ناروتو شيبّودِن (Arabic)
ナルト 疾風伝 (Japanese)
火影忍者疾風傳 (Chinese (Taiwan))
나루토 질풍전 (Korean)

Genres: action, drama
Themes: ninja, revenge
Objectionable content: Significant

Plot Summary: Naruto Shippuuden is the continuation of the original animated TV series Naruto.The story revolves around an older and slightly more matured Uzumaki Naruto and his quest to save his friend Uchiha Sasuke from the grips of the snake-like Shinobi, Orochimaru. After 2 and a half years Naruto finally returns to his village of Konoha, and sets about putting his ambitions to work, though it will not be easy, as He has amassed a few (more dangerous) enemies, in the likes of the shinobi organization; Akatsuki.

Episode Title: Battleground

You can watch this series, and others, for free legally here: http://www.crunchyroll.com/naruto-shippuden

The fire nation fuedal lord is talking about decorations and awards @ Rewriting Life
The Fire Nation Feudal Lord is a complete moron.
While the shinobu wage their war, the fuedal lords are playing politics. Unbeknownst to them, Zetsu in his complete black and white body has appeared just outside of their castle. Not all of the fuedal lords have arrived at the hiding place; one is still being transported with a large caravan of shinobi warriors. Zetsu suddenly goes on the attack, dodging passed the advance guard surrounding the castle, he jumps through an upper window to where he knows his targets to be. Except that he is mistaken and the fuedal lords are not where he was expecting them to be. From out of one of the fake fuedal lord's back comes anet to trap the intruder, but Zetsu calmly retreats back into the floor and vanishes completely. Elsewhere at the real hiding place of the fuedal lords, one of the guards can only stare at the fuedal lords as they talk about awards for winning the war and such. He as on an expression of disbelief mingled with digust with how carefree they all are. His surperior tells him the importance of getting such an award would be, without it how would you guage a ninja's honor? Zetsu is following the caravan from a safe distance and he can listen in on their conversation  through the land itself. Such a fearsome power.

On the field of battle, the army of white Zetsu's has come within reach of land. They are just a hair length's width away. facing them directly are those of the Allied shinobi force. It is Raikage's personal bodyguards who deal the first strike, delivering a beastly lightning attack into the water, zapping many Zetsus. Tenten starts the barrage of projectiles as soon as the army jumps into the air. The rest of the army follows her example, and then those who were waiting for close combat have finally got their wish, as the white Zetsu army broke free and touched the coast. Old friends are now forced to do battle with one another as Asuma and Tsunade's lover run into Chouza (Chouji's dad). Elsewhere on along the coast, Hinata's father must do battle with Neji's father; that's right, this is a brother's duel. Before the two brothers meet in a death battle, they share a few words with one another, mostly it is the deceased brother who speaks about his death and his life's duty (protecting the main family) and how iroic it is now he is standing before the main family as an enemy.

Neji and Hinata are fighting back to back @ Rewriting Life
Such a sweet scene between cousins.
Hinata's father tells his brother that Neji has broken free of the destiny of their families, and his daughter as well. The younger brother is surprised behind all measure. Together, in a separate field of battle, Negi and Hinata are fighting another white Zetsu army while standing back-to-back. Hinata's father tells his brother that it is no longer about the branch family living to die to protect the main family, but friends and comrades who will protect each other. If that is so, then by all means, and he is really wishing for this, Neji's father wishes to die peacefully by his brother's hands. The two finally charge forward and lock hands in battle.

The third Tsuchikage is flying thorugh the desert to meet up with Gaara and the main army. Along the way, he remembers Gaara speech when he took the helm of lead general on the field. He was such an inexperienced pup back then, but sometimes people want a young and charasmatic person to lead them. Elsewhere, Kankuro is leading his squad through a dense forest. Deidara is still locked up inside of Kankuro's puppet prison. He is complaining about the harsh treatment, but can you really blame Kankuro for this, when Deidara will attack even he if doesn't want to? Standing in Kankuro's way is his grandma and some others who are dead that he knows well as either friends or enemies. His grandma congrtulates him for being able to stop Sasori. Deidara knows this voice, as soon as he recognises it, he demands that she help him if she is here to help him. One of the ninja with Chiyo grandma is a ninja who is an enemy of both Akatsuki and the Five Great Ninja Nations. He has no reason to help Deidara, and besides, he loathes this particular jutsu, the Reanimation Jutsu, for he has no control over his own body. Kankuro orders a retreat on his signal.

Temari's eyes are creepy @ Rewriting Life
The look in her eyes, she has found the best of all chicken.
Orders from headquarters are making their rounds across all of the battle fronts. It seems that Nara's battle strategy is finally bearing fruit. Shikamaru is told to take half of Gaara's force with him to meet up with First Company. Temari can't believe her ears, but Shikamaru agrees with their strategy. He goes on to say that the enemy has a stronger Kekkei Touta than they have. A few of the younger ninja in back are eavesdropping and when Temari notices that they don't know what a Kekkei Touta is, she volunteers to tell them, however she sucks at explaining things and orders Shikamaru to tell them about it, even though it is Shikamaru who is supposed to be the one giving out the orders. Shikamaru first explains about the five basic chakra properties (Wind, Fire, Earth, Water, and Lightning). Normally a person only has one chakra element. The more you have, the better off you will be. Kekkei Genkei shinobi are those who are born with two chakra elements and fuse those two to create an entirely new element, just like how Captain Yamato has created the Wood element from Earth and Water. And above Kekkei Genkai is Kekkai Touta in which a person has fused three chakra elements together. All of this relates to the only person he knows to have Kekkei Touta, the second Tsuchikage, Mu, who was brought back to life using the Reanimation Jutsu, and who is currently heading for their position as they speak. Shikamaru smiles as he knows that headquaters have sent their Kekkei Touta user, the third Tsuchikage, to replace half of Gaara's forces when they leave. He has just arrived and is now standing next to Gaara on the sand pillar.

The fight at the beach is really heating up when the end of the episode comes.

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Raikage's bodyguard strikes a pose @ Rewriting Life
"Believe it!"

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