Ep. 221: Naruto menandatangani gulungan Gerotora untuk menguasai chakra Ekor Sembilan sementara Kabuto bersekutu dengan Tobi.

With Naruto hesitant to sign Gerotora's scroll, the toad explains to Fukasaku that Naruto must be mentally able to extract the Nine Tails' chakra while separating it from the monster's will. Naruto, remembering the previous times that Nine Tails took over his body, signs the scroll in hopes to master it so he can fight Sasuke as an equal. After Gerotora forced himself down Naruto's throat, the youth is instructed by the Great Elder that he will meet the octopus from his prophecy on an isolated island. Meanwhile, after fully mastering his new abilities since absorbing Orochimaru's remains into himself, Kabuto Yakushi appears before Tobi while summoning the Reanimated corpses of Itachi, Sasori, Deidara, Kakuzu, and Nagato. Kabuto offers the surprised Tobi an alliance between them, offering his army of Reanimated ninja for Tobi's use in exchange for Sasuke. While Tobi initially refuses, he accepts upon seeing the figure within a sixth casket that Kabuto summoned. But Kabuto also deliberately lured the pursuit group under Anko to the Akatsuki's base. (Source: Wikipedia) Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown arc: (7/22)
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