With the Three-Tailed Beast readily approaching, the Barrier Sealing team is point to make sure it doesn't surface. However, Kabuto - unwilling to fail Orochimaru - is out to recapture Yuukimaru at whatever the cost...

Kabuto finally appears before Naruto. Learning that Orochimaru used Guren's and Yuukimaru's feelings for his own purposes, an enraged Naruto enters battle against Kabuto.