The orphans begin ninja lessons under an ailing Naruto, but Miina's strange warnings prove real when the snakes inside him erupt into a raging four-tailed beast that even Kabuto cannot command.
Shaken by a nightmare, Miina hurries to Dokku in the dark for comfort. Far off in a graveyard, Kabuto Yakushi readies another reanimation. Come morning, Leo, Faz, and Lando are itching to start their ninjutsu training with Naruto, who is feeling ill. Reminded that he made them a promise, Naruto throws himself into the lessons with such energy that even Shiseru joins in out of curiosity. Meanwhile a reborn Deidara and Hidan's cloned body bicker over their situation after cutting down several Hachō Village militiamen, and are soon cornered by more fighters alongside Yamato and Sai.
Haunted by visions all day, Miina approaches Naruto once they reach home and repeats the phrase get out. Reading it as rudeness, Shiseru slaps her and the girl bolts. Disonasu then arrives, and to everyone's surprise the Tonika Village Head is with him, greeting his grandchildren and pressing past a claimed eye injury to ask Dokku for the fragment of treasure entrusted to him the night of the invasion. Miina alerts them that something is wrong with her grandfather, and it becomes clear he has been reanimated.
Kabuto shows himself and a fight breaks out as Naruto doubles over in agony. Miina rushes to him, again telling him to get out, and by some unknown means forces the snakes out of his body. The dark pool takes shape as a four-tailed Version 2 form of Naruto that Kabuto tries and fails to seize with a talisman. The creature begins striking at everyone around it while the group watches in terror.

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This is the third chapter of the Power arc, numbered 292 in Shippuden. It marks the point where the ingested snakes manifest as a tailed-beast-cloak transformation outside of Naruto's own control, a threat neither Kabuto nor the villagers can restrain.
"Power - Episode 3" is episode 292 of Naruto: Shippuden, the third part of the Power arc, in which Naruto begins training the orphans of Tonika Village while the snakes he swallowed erupt into an uncontrollable four-tailed transformation.
The Power arc is a six-episode anime-original story in Naruto: Shippuden, and "Power - Episode 3" is its third installment, centered on Kabuto Yakushi's reanimated shinobi and Naruto's growing crisis with the Nine-Tails' chakra.
Miina repeatedly tells Naruto to "get out" after sensing something is wrong, and she ultimately forces the snakes he swallowed out of his body by some unknown means, triggering his four-tailed Version 2 transformation.
Disonasu arrives with the Tonika Village Head, his own grandfather, but Miina realizes something is wrong, and it becomes clear the old man has actually been reanimated by Kabuto.
Kabuto Yakushi tries to seize Naruto's four-tailed Version 2 transformation with a talisman but fails as the creature begins attacking everyone nearby.
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