But Jiraiya instead trains Naruto to use synchronizing jutsu, giving the youth a partner Gamariki to work with despite they mutual dislike for each other.

They are based on Part II for Masashi Kishimoto s manga series.

The fifth season aired from December 2008 to June 2009 on TV Tokyo.

It is also referred to by its Japanese DVDs as the chapter of The Three-Tailed Demon Turtle (, Sanbi Shutsugen ).

A total of six volumes were published by Aniplex between June 3, 2009 and November 4, 2011.

The anime only season follows the leaf ninjas attempting to stop the Three-Tails, and help a boy named Yukimaru.

Episodes 89 to 98 were broadcast until the show was removed from Disney XDs schedule, citing the more frequent violence shown later on in the anime.

The season premiered on Neon Alley starting with episode 99 from December 29, 2012 to January 7, 2013.

The complete season would make its English television debut on Adult Swim s Toonami programming block and premiere from November 15, 2015 to May 15, 2016.

The first twelve episodes were collected in a DVD box by Viz Media on October 11, 2011.

Additionally, Manga Entertainment collected the first episodes alongside the last ones from the previous season on November 7, 2011 in a 2-disc DVD set in the United Kingdom.

Closer by Joe Inoue is used as the opening theme for episodes 89-102.

It is replaced in episode 103 by Hotaru no Hikari (, Glow of Fireflies) from Ikimono-gakari.

The first ending theme is Long Kiss Good Bye by Halcali used only for the first two episodes.

Bacchikoi (, Bring It On) by Dev Parade was used as the ending for episodes 91-102.

It is replaced in episode 103 with Shinkoky (, Deep Breath) by Super Beaver.

After Naruto Uzumaki has fallen down, Kakashi Hatake finishes off Kakuzu, and they return home.

At Asumas grave, Shikamaru tells Kurenai he will protect her unborn child.

He plays Shogi with Shikaku and reveals what Asuma told him: the king that Konoha must protect is the next generation.

After studying Kakuzus corpse, Tsunade tells Kakashi not to let Naruto use Rasen Shuriken again because it will permanently destroy his ability to manipulate chakra.

Meanwhile, Orochimaru learns of Konohas latest victory and sends Kabuto to meet with a woman named Guren.

As Kakashi is ordered to go on a reconnaissance mission with Shino, Kiba and Hinata to find the hideout, Naruto is bothered over being warned not to use the Rasen Shuriken due to its extreme risk.

Naruto is reunited with Jiraiya, who offers to train with him again.

As the events occurred, Kabuto relays Orochimarus message for Guren carry a mission and she initiate a death battle among the experimental subjects in her care with the survivors to be her subordinates.

Guren takes twenty-one survivors from the hideout and leaves to meet Orochimaru, Team Kurenai and Kakashi arrived minutes later to her lair and find the barely alive subjects before they are forced to escape when the hideouts self destructs.

Miles away, sixteen of the surviving subjects refuse to be experimented on by Orochimaru any further and attempted to kill Guren.

By the time Team Kurenai and Kakashi arrive, the insects Shino sent ahead of them subjected to the same fate as the sixteen subjects, Guren and the remaining five subjects had left and the leaf ninja found the rest of be crystalized to Kakashis horror.

Meanwhile, as Kabuto escorts Yukimaru to their destination, Naruto and Jiraiya reach a hot spring with the former wanting to learn a ranged attack to use.

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