Shattered Promise

Kabuto reveals that he did away with Rinji for daring to report to Orochimaru as his equal, then raises the dead man's body with the Dead Soul Technique and sets it on Guren. Guarding Yukimaru behind her Crystal Release, Guren finds her crystals nullified by Rinji's ultrasonic control over bats. She disables his arms, crystallizes them both, and the two plunge off the cliff into the sea. Convinced Guren has perished, Yukimaru's grief boils over and summons the Three-Tailed turtle, whose surge of power cracks the sealing barrier and sends the beast on a rampage.

Nurari, having absorbed the corpses of his two comrades, moves on the Orochimaru Search Team. Kakashi orders Yamato to pin him for a Lightning Cutter strike, but the Three-Tails erupts from the water and wipes Nurari out first. Pleased that his scheme has ignited Yukimaru's rage regardless, Kabuto withdraws, leaving Naruto to face the beast. Barred from the boy by the barrier, Naruto takes on the turtle alone. With his Rasengan ineffective and Rasenshuriken off-limits, he summons Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, only for Gamakichi to point out that water attacks are wasted on an amphibious foe. Recalling Yamato's lessons on nature transformation, Naruto reasons toward combining wind and fire.

Part of the Three-Tails' Appearance arc, the episode builds to a three-way cooperation ninjutsu. Gamatatsu fetches toad oil, Naruto fuses his wind chakra with it for the Wind Release: Toad Oil Bullet, and Gamakichi adds his own Flame Bullet to form the Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet. The blazing torrent boils away the turtle's counterattack and drives it back for the moment, after which the toads vanish and the barrier around Yukimaru dissolves.