Episode 401: While Lee fights with Shira, Neji learns that they sustain more damage. As Shira sets limit chakra points on Lee to prevent him from using the Inner Gates, Lee breaks the points and uses one of the gates and Shira activates the Seven Heavenly Breaths. Both boys fight until Lee uses the Fifth Gate to defeat Shira who thanks him. That evening as the guards inform that Fu, Kegon and Yoro are jonin, Gaara uses his Third Eye to spy on the team.
Episode 402: Team 8 is ambushed by the Hidden Grass's Team Kazami, who need the Earth Scroll. Kazami takes on Hinata while his team mates Burami and Muyami deal with Kiba and Shino. Once identifying Kiba as the holder of the Earth Scroll, Team Kazami lead a joint effort to successfully obtain the Earth Scroll with Burami using his unique Smell Sphere jutsu to immobilize them. But Team 8 manages to fight Burami's jutsu through sheer willpower as Muyami summons a giant mole named Moguranmaru that he and his team mates escape on. Shino managed to plant one of his kikaichū on Moguranmaru so he and his team can pursue Team Kazami. After surviving the quicksand trap. Team 8 continues to pursue Kazami with Kiba's sense of smell to track them down.
Episode 403: As Kazami, Burami and Muyami senses and erases the scent, Team 8 confronts to fight but failed to retrieve the scrolls from them at the middle of the desert. Team Kazami and the giant mole fails to trap Team 8 in the quicksand, after Akamaru pees on the sand to stop it. Team 8 defeats Team Kazami to retrieve both scrolls.
Episode 404: Team Ajisai flees from Komugi's, while capturing the Jinchuriki to get Intel on others. That night while having dinner with Lee and Neji, Tenten walks off to recall her training memories. The next morning after arriving at the ruined temple and fighting each other, Lee accidentally brakes the giant tiles and the exploding bomb cause Tenten and Ajisai to fall into the underground. As Tenten recalls about her, Guy and Kakashi, she recovers and offers water to Ajisai.
Episode 405: As the rest ceasefire and enter the ruins, Tenten negotiates with Ajisai while returning to the surface. They escape from the giant ant who leads them to the nest. While both teams fight against the ants Ajisai and her panda fail to break the wall, but Tenten summons a big amount of water to destroy it and drown the ants. Team Guy, Ajisai, Fuyo and Suiren apologize and part ways.
Episode 406: As Sakura punches to kill the giant scorpion, she, Ino and Choji recalls their memory about their lives after the events of Part I. Skipping her father's training, Ino asks Tsunade to learn medical abilities like Sakura. She successfully does after reviving the octopus within three months. Back in the present day, Team Ameno use Hexagram Seal to sense that Sakura's group are moving forward.
Episode 407: As both teams confront to fight each other, Ameno cloaks Kōji and Shishio, but Sakura and Choji counters them. Ino using mind sensing art to allow Sakura and Choji to defeat Team Ameno. At the oasis, Team Ameno heals Sakura, Ino and Choji while they keep two scrolls. Both teams part ways with promises to meet in the next round.
Episode 408: As the group take an alternate route, Sakura had once used the Strength of a Hundred Seal and they confront to fight with Saya, Mamushi and Sana. At first, Saya uses Puppet Imitation Jutsu to possess Choji into attacking his friends. Ino uses Mind Transferring Jutsu to force Saya out of Choji's mind. As Karin uses Adamantine Attacking Chains to capture Suigetsu who is sent back to Orochimaru's hideout, Sakura recovers her chakra.
Episode 409: While Sakura and Ino recovers, Choji resists against Saya and damages her puppet body. The real Saya inside the doll, Mamushi and Sana swear revenge against Sakura, Ino and Choji. Later, Jiraiya watches Gerotora weakening the seal and Naruto resisting the Nine-Tails' chakra. Sana traps Sakura, Ino and Choji with the Sand Storm Jutsu and Mamushi attacks Ino and Choji, before Sakura replenishes her chakra and sends Team Saya off in one punching blow. Sakura removes the poison from Ino and Choji.
Episode 410: Gaara's Third Eye observes the event about Team Fu discussing each other and Team Matsuri planning to get the scroll. As Fugi and Hōichi plan to seal Shukaku in a tea kettle from Gaara, Fugi summons the sandstorm to engulf everyone that the siblings and other genin take shelter. As the headquarters notice the storm and the guards find Gaara's sand clone at the office, Matsuri, Yukata and Mikoshi fall into the quicksand. Overhearing and rushing to rescue them, Fu recalls her past friendship with Shibuki and uses Blue Joro Spider to save them before Gaara tells her about Naruto. Fu keeps the earth scroll and leaves before Hōichi confronts Gaara.
Episode 411: Asuma, Yuhi and Guy observe the sandstorm and ignore the sand ninjas under jurisdiction. While the sandstorm subsides, the siblings and all genin escape to safety. Hōichi nearly manipulates the shadows of Team Matsuri with the biwa and captures Gaara with the sealing chains to pull Shukaku out from him and Chomei from Fu for arriving. Matsuri informs Team Guy that Hōichi is extracting the tailed beasts from Fu and Gaara.
Episode 412: As Team Matsuri gives two heaven scrolls to Team Guy and work together, Yuhi, Asuma and Guy notice that Gaara and Fu are trapped in Hoichi's chains. As Fu creates the protective cocoon on her and Gaara with chakra threads to suppress absorption, Lee, Matsuri, Yoro and Kegon failed to damage Hōichi's Dharma Barrier: Celestial Pillars. Neji cuts to open the cocoon with Tenten's chakra sword and uses Gentle Fist: Chakra Point Needle to make the chains go haywire and transforming into a black line marks that ties Hōichi. Not before Neji saves Hōichi, Fu thanks and asks them to be friends.
Episode 413: Gaara orders his people to cancel the third part of the Chunin Exams and confronts Fugi who uses seppuku to pay his mistake. After fighting with Matsuri who keeps the heaven scroll with her team, Shira and Yome left Sen at the Sand Village to join the special forces, Ajisai dies on her final mission and being stored for use as one of the vessels for the Path of Pain, Hidan and Kakuzu captures Fu, and Tsunade promotes the rest of the Leaf Genin to Chunin and Neji as Jonin.
Episode 414: After Naruto Uzumaki loses Kurama to Madara, Sakura Haruno attempts to save him while Gaara transports them to Minato in order to have Yin-Kurama sealed into Naruto to save him. As Sakura learned her medical ninjutsu is unable to reverse the effects of Kurama's extraction, she resorts to slicing open Naruto's chest and manually pumping his heart. Meanwhile, a distraught Karin is being kept from healing Sasuke Uchiha by Tobi using a miniature version of Hashirama's Wood Style: Several Thousand Hands. Though Karin attempts to counter with her Adamantine Attacking Chains, Tobi impales her with a wooden staff that shoots out several branches. But Karin bites her arm and heals herself as Suigetsu then comes to her aid with his Water Gun: Two Guns. Though Tobi manages to dodge Jugo's attempt to grab him, he is immobilized by Orochimaru placing his curse-mark on the White Zetsu. Karin then resumes running Sasuke as she senses an ominous chakra at his location after Madara left him to die. Meanwhile, Madara absorbs the restored Ten-Tails to become its jinchuriki before making his way towards Obito to reclaim his remaining eye. Along the way, Madara pauses for a moment to spit out the Benihisago and Kohaku no Jōhei from his mouth, which lands on Lee and Guy as they are retreating with Tenten. As Minato and Kakashi Hatake prepare to force Black Zetsu off Obito, Yin-Kurama alerts Minato to Gaara and Sakura's arrival. After learning the situation, Minato decides to transfer Yin-Kurama into Naruto while Gaara helps Kakashi in holding off Black Zetsu. But the transference is intercepted by Black Zetsu as he absorbs the Nine-Tails chakra.
Rating: 9/10(Average)
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