Charge Tactic! Button Hook Entry

Peering into the lair with his Byakugan, Neji cannot pin down Gaara because Naruto keeps yanking him about, though he does glimpse the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path without grasping its nature. When Guy fails to smash the blocking boulder, Kakashi deduces a Five-Seal Barrier is at work, meaning four additional tags must be torn away in unison with the one on the rock. Neji marks every tag, and Team Guy fans out by radio to reach them.

Inside, the astral projections of most Akatsuki fade as their owners depart. Only Deidara and Sasori remain in the flesh, tasked with killing the intruders while keeping the Nine-Tails host alive. The job of seizing Naruto, once Itachi's, passes to Sasori, and Itachi remarks that the boy is the type to charge in loudly before anyone else. The leader departs, leaving the pair to wait.

Outside, the seals are ripped free together, collapsing the barrier, and Sakura's monstrous strength pulverizes the boulder. The team slips through with the Button Hook Entry and is met at once by Deidara and Sasori perched on Gaara's corpse. The sight drives Naruto to draw on the fox's chakra, his eyes reddening and whiskers thickening, as strange blobs begin forming around each member of Team Guy.

Kakashi identifies the entrance's protection as a Five-Seal Barrier requiring all five tags to be pulled simultaneously, and Neji locates them for Team Guy to disable. The barrier falls, Sakura shatters the boulder, and the rescue squad enters. Responsibility for capturing Naruto shifts from Itachi to Sasori. Discovering Gaara's body beneath the two Akatsuki, Naruto begins tapping into the Nine-Tails' power, while duplicates start manifesting in front of Team Guy through the Mirrored Sudden Attacker Technique.

The episode falls within the Kazekage Rescue Mission arc and adapts two source chapters. The captured Nine-Tails jinchūriki is ordered taken alive rather than killed, a directive that shapes how Deidara and Sasori approach the coming fight.