List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes (season 5)

Naruto: Shippuden (Season 5)
Season 5 Cover
No. of episodes	24

The episodes of the fifth season of the anime series Naruto: Shippuden are directed by Hayato Date and produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo. They are based on Part II of the Naruto manga series by Masashi Kishimoto. The fifth season began airing on December 18, 2008 on TV Tokyo in Japan, and finished on June 4, 2009.^[1][2] The season is referred to by its Japanese DVDs as the chapter of The Three-Tailed Demon Turtle (三尾出現 Sanbi Shutsugen). A total of six volumes were published by Aniplex between June 3, 2009 and November 4, 2011.^[3] This season follows the Konohagakure ninjas in a mission to find the criminal Orochimaru.

On January 2, 2009 Viz Media and Crunchyroll began providing subtitled Naruto: Shippuden episodes.^[4] The English dub of this season premiered on July 30, 2011 on Disney XD; episodes 89 to 97 were broadcast until the show was removed from Disney XD's schedule.^[5][6] The season continued on Neon Alley with episode 98 on December 29, 2012 and ended on January 7, 2013. Its first twelve episodes were collected in a DVD box by Viz Media on October 11, 2011.^[7] Additionally, Manga Entertainment collected its first episodes alongside the last ones from the previous season on November 7, 2011 in a 2-disc DVD set in the United Kingdom.^[8]

This season uses five musical themes: two opening themes and three ending themes. "Closer" by Joe Inoue is used as the opening theme for episodes 89-102. It is replaced in episode 103 by "Hotaru no Hikari" (ホタルノヒカリ, "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!!!" (バッチコイ!!!, "Bring It On!!!") by Dev Parade was used as the ending for episodes 91-102. It is replaced in episode 103 with "Shinkokyū" (深呼吸, "Deep Breath") by Super Beaver.

Episode Listing

No.	Title	Original airdate	English airdate
89	"The Price of Power" "Chikara no daishō" (力の代償)	December 18, 2008	July 30, 2011
After Naruto's fallen down, Kakashi finishes off Kakuzu, and they return home. At Asuma's 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 Kakuzu's 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 Konoha's latest victory and sends Kabuto to meet with a woman named Guren.
90	"A Shinobi's Determination" "Shinobi no ketsui" (忍の決意)	December 25, 2008	August 6, 2011
An ANBU sends a message to Konoha moments before he dies, having discovered what may be Orochimaru's current hideout. 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 Orochimaru's 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. After Kabuto returns to Orochimaru, Sasuke meets a boy called Yūkimaru.
91	"Orochimaru's Hideout Discovered" "Hakken — Orochimaru no ajito" (発見 大蛇丸のアジト)	January 8, 2009	August 20, 2011
Guren takes twenty-one survivors from the hideout and leaves to meet with Orochimaru, Team Kurenai and Kakashi arriving minutes later to her lair and find the barely subjects before they are forced to escape when the hideout's self destruct sequence occurs. 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 arrived, 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 remaining prisoners crystalized to Kakashi's 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. 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.
92	"Encounter" "Deai" (遭遇)	January 15, 2009	August 27, 2011
Kabuto brings Yukimaru to a lake, subjecting the boy to state of pain with pills and a chakra amplifying helmet in an attempt to draw out a mysterious creature. Guren branches off from her men to meet up with Orochimaru as he had Sasuke fight an army of Sound Ninja as training. Sasuke defeats them all, sparing the his beaten opponents as he wants to kill only Itachi. At the hot spring village, Naruto has enough of working with Gamariki and decides to continue his training with Gamakichi and Gamatatsu despite still not understanding the concept of connecting to another person's heart. Kabuto and Yukimaru arrive at the Hot Springs Village where Naruto and Jiraiya are, with Naruto encountering Yukimaru.
93	"Connecting Hearts" "Kayoiau kokoro" (通い合う心)	January 22, 2009	September 3, 2011
Naruto continues his training with Gamakichi and Gamatatsu until taking a break while Jiraiya secretly leaves when a lead on the Akatsuki is presented to him. When Naruto wakes up, he finds only a letter from Jiraiya to return to the Hidden Leaf Village and continue training. But after returning home, Naruto learns that neither Gamakichi nor Gamatatsu can use Water Style ninjutsu. As these events unfold, Tsunade receives one of Shino's crystalized insects for analysis while one of Guren's men, Rinji, learns about the presence of Kakashi's team through a bat that he sent out.
94	"A Night of Rain" "Ame hitoyo" (雨一夜)	January 29, 2009	September 10, 2011
Kabuto entrusts Yukimaru to Guren, who is told her ability is needed and that her success in this take is the only way Orochimaru will reconsider making her his vessel instead of Sasuke. But Yukimaru falls ill on their way to meet with her group and Guren is forced to spend the night in a cabin. In the morning, Guren finds Yukimaru playing an instrument that his mother gave him. After giving him a crystalized camellia that will never die as long as Guren lives, Guren and Yukimaru head back out. Meanwhile, as Naruto tries to teach Gamakichi and Gamatatsu how to use Water Style ninjutsu, as Kiba discovers that the enemy may be using bats while Tsunade decides to send out Yamato, Sakura, and Sai to support Kakashi and Team Kurenai.
95	"The Two Charms" "Futatsu no omamori" (ふたつのお守り)	February 5, 2009	September 17, 2011
As Guren meets up with her group, consisting of Rinji, Gozu, Kigiri, Kihō, and Nurari. Guren proceeds to head her team out to deal with the leaf ninja after Yukimaru gave him a memento of his mother's, Kakashi, Hinata, and Kiba move out while Shino stays behind to find some of his insects that developed immunity to the crystalization and breed more. Kakashi and the two Team Kurenai members soon find themselves attacked by Guren's forces. At the same time, after Gamatatsu finally learned to use Water Style, Naruto learns of his group's mission with Team Kurenai and talks Tsunade into letting him join. Tsunade agrees, with Naruto using what time he had left to master a collaboration jutsu with Gamatatsu.
96	"The Unseeing Enemy" "Miezaru teki" (見えざる敵)	February 12, 2009	October 1, 2011
In the woods, Team Kurenai fights Guren's men. Hinata and Kiba get stuck in a smoke screen prepared by Kigiri and Hinata is seriously injured by Nurari's attacks. Kakashi is stuck battling Gozu, and isn't able to finish him off as his opponent has the upper hand in speed and force. Just as Rinji and his team are about to kill Hinata, Kiba and Akamaru return to save her. They are then forced to retreat by the arrival of Shino and his insects. Meanwhile, Yūkimaru remembers his mother.
97	"The Labyrinth of Distorted Reflection" "Ranhansha no meikyū" (乱反射の迷宮)	February 19, 2009	October 8, 2011
In Konoha, Tsunade discovers they have an enemy using Crystal Style, an ability to crystalize almost all surrounding matter on a molecular level. While on his mission with Team Kakashi, Naruto meets Yukimaru once again and talks to him. Guren puts a gigantic Crystal Labyrinth over the forest trapping Team Kurenai inside. Guren then prepares six Crystal Clones that she sicks on Kakashi and Team Kurenai. Hinata defeats one clone but is locked up in a Crystal Prison by another, Guren using her as hostage as Team Kakashi reaches the borders of the labyrinth and Naruto uses his new Jutsu with Gamatatsu to bust a way in.
98	"The Target Appears" "Arawareta hyōteki" (現れた標的)	February 26, 2009	December 29, 2012[9]
With Guren's Crystal Labyrinth shattered, Team Kakashi arrives to help Team Kurenai retrieve Hinata and fall back. Guren decides to let the Leaf ninja retreat and rendezvous with her men at their base. Though Hinata survived crystalization by coating herself in her chakra, she is left weakened and left in Sakura and Sai's care while the rest go after Guren. Kabuto appears before Guren's group and escorts them to the lake, allowing only Guren and Gozu to come with him and Yukimaru. Once the boat is in position, having Yukimaru in agony again, Kabuto has Guren create five Crystal Pillars around them to harness Yukimaru's chakra to summon the mysterious creature under the lake: the tailed beast known as the Three-Tails.
99	"The Rampaging Tailed Beast" "Arekurū Bijū" (荒れ狂う尾獣)	March 5, 2009	December 29, 2012[9]
Yukimaru summons the Three-Tails and immobilizes it while Guren tries to capture it, but it manages to break free and attack. Kakashi tells Naruto to investigate the lake, while they find Rinji and the others. Rinji and his men prepare an ambush, but Hinata, Sakura, and Sai arrive to avert it. Naruto summons Gamakichi and Gamatatsu and approaches the Three-Tails, where they see Yukimaru and learn of his allegiance to Guren. Trying to save Guren as he believes he is meant to be by her side, Yukimaru tries to suppress the Three-Tails once more before managing to escape with her.
100	"Inside the Mist" "Kiri no naka de" (霧の中で)	March 12, 2009	December 29, 2012[9]
Guren is rendered unconscious and relives her past as Naruto is caught in an illusion about Sasuke. After Kakashi finds him, Teams Kakashi and Kurenai conclude that the Three-Tails is creating a Genjutsu-inducing mist. After Guren wakes up, Yūkimaru suffers another fever and passes out. Tsunade hears of the Three-Tails and assembles Shizune, Ino, Tenten and Lee to go and seal it before the Akatsuki do. Naruto and Sakura talk about the home that people should return to before Naruto heads off without a word to find Yūkimaru.
101	"Everyone's Feelings" "Sorezore no omoi" (それぞれの想い)	March 26, 2009	December 31, 2012[9]
Naruto runs into Guren while trying to find Yūkimaru, and battles her in a short fight. Yamato and Kakashi find Naruto and bring him back to the group. Kabuto tells Guren that Yūkimaru is only a tool to control the Three-Tails, which upsets her. Meanwhile, Shizune, Ino, Tenten and Lee meet up with the other Leaf to tell them of their new mission to seal the Three-Tails before Orochimaru's group or the Akatsuki could capture it.
102	"Regroup!" "Saihensei!" (再編成!)	March 26, 2009	December 31, 2012[9]
With Tenten and Lee assuming their previous positions, Sakura and Hinata are reassigned to be part of the Three-Tails sealing team with Shizune and Ino. Kakashi divides the rest of the group in two: himself, Naruto, Sai and Shino to deal with Guren while the rest protect the sealing team. Tenten passes Naruto a scroll for the mission that the Fifth Hokage gave to her. In a new development, Rinji turns out to be Kabuto's spy on Guren as he attempts to extort Kabuto for having helped him thus far.
103	"The Four-Corner Sealing Barrier" "Kekkai Shihō Fūjin" (結界四方封陣)	April 9, 2009	December 31, 2012[9]
The teams set off, with Naruto getting in trouble with Shino after introducing him and Sai to each other. The sealing team prepares a search and barrier jutsu to seal the Three-Tails. Kakashi's fighting team is suddenly attacked by Gozu and Guren while the guarding team begins fighting as well. Lee and Tenten overpower Rinji's subordinates with ease, with Kiba and Akumaru quickly sending the three enemy ninja flying to save face. Meanwhile, Naruto angers Guren saying it's his fault Yūkimaru went over to 'her side' and that he won't allow her using him as a tool.
104	"Breaking the Crystal Style" "Shōton kuzushi" (晶遁崩し)	April 9, 2009	December 31, 2012[9]
After upsetting Deidara, Tobi decides to go seek the Three-Tails on his own and stumbles onto the sealing team in the middle of their work. Meanwhile, Shino's bugs manage to counter Guren with Kakashi stopped from killing her by Gozu, who apparently dies protecting Guren. The guarding team stops Rinji from interfering with the sealing team just as Kabuto reveals to Guren the truth that the woman she killed years ago was Yūkimaru's mother.
105	"The Battle Over the Barrier" "Kekkai kōbōsen" (結界攻防戦)	April 16, 2009	January 5, 2013[9]
Guren pleas with Kabuto to not have Yūkimaru use his power as she intends to capture the Three-Tails herself, heading to the lake as a distraction while Rinji attacks the sealing team. While the plan worked, the monster breaking free when the seal falters in the struggle, the Three Tails attempts to kill a knocked-out Guren before Yūkimaru consciously uses his power to order the beast to stop. But this was later revealed to be Kabuto's scheme to force Yūkimaru to freely use his power consciously to protect Guren.
106	"Red Camellia" "Akai tsubaki" (赤い椿)	April 23, 2009	January 5, 2013[9]
With Tobi witnessing the events before running off to find Deidara, Yūkimaru falters with the Three-Tails attacking him and Guren. Yūkimaru attempts to suppress the tailed beast, but he is gradually unable to maintain his power due to his low chakra reserves. Guren places Yūkimaru with a Crystal Style shield to protect him as she fights the tailed beast head-on. But Naruto joins the fray as well and, despite their efforts to defeat it by targeting its eyes, the Three Tails swallows them alive. In the aftermath, Kakashi, Shino, and Sai find an unconscious Yukimaru with Kabuto frustrated that the boy is in leaf ninja custody.
107	"Strange Bedfellows" "Goetsudōshū" (呉越同舟)	April 30, 2009	January 5, 2013[9]
Sakura and Ino heal Yūkimaru with Shino, Lee, and Tenten guarding them while Kakashi, Shizune, Kiba, Sai, and Hinata search for Naruto. In the belly of the Three Tails, Naruto is confronted by Guren before she collapses from her earlier wound and resolves to treat her injuries. Guren awakens and is shocked that Naruto has treated her wounds, the two getting into debate over Yūkimaru's well being before finding themselves evading a horde of mini Three-Tails. Upon evading the creatures, and having a better understanding of Guren's resolve to protect Yūkimaru, Naruto conjures numerous Shadow Clones to look for a way out of the beast's stomach. Elsewhere, after Rinji delude them into thinking that their injuries by the leaf ninja are fatal, Kigiri, Kihō, and Nurari allowed Kabuto to brand them with Curse Marks before given orders to retrieve Yūkimaru by any means.
108	"Guidepost of the Camellia" "Tsubaki no michishirube" (椿の道標)	May 7, 2009	January 5, 2013[9]
Naruto and Guren help each other from the hungry mini Three-Tails as Rinji's men attack Lee's group. Yūkimaru and Kakashi devise a plan to track the Three-Tails with the boy's power and get Naruto and Guren out. After Naruto and Guren escape from an illusion making fog, Naruto begins to realize Guren's good intentions. Yūkimaru then plays the song his mother taught him right above where the Three-Tails is submerged and Kakashi makes a crack in the beast's barrier; Naruto and Guren hear the tune and blast their way out.
109	"Counterattack of the Curse Mark" "Juin no gyakushū" (呪印の逆襲)	May 14, 2009	January 7, 2013[9]
With the Three-Tails about to resurface, the Sealing Team prepare to contain it again while Kakashi tells Sai to take Yūkimaru somewhere safe. But Sai ends up being attacked by Kigiri, Kihō, and Nurari who take Yūkimaru to Kabuto, who sees the only way to achieve Orochimaru's goals with the Three-Tails is to sacrifice Yūkimaru for the cause. The enemy ninja find Rinji waiting for them and decide to take their leave before they suddenly begin to suffer pain. Rinji explains to the three ninja that the power they obtained from Kabuto is killing them and only the pills he was entrusted with will quell the side effects, giving it to the ninja after forcing them to swear undying loyalty to Orochimaru. As Kigiri, Kihō, and Nurari overwhelm Kakashi, Yamato, and Shino as the leaf ninja are defending the Sealing Team from them, Rinju uses Yūkimaru's feelings for Guren to have the boy eat a handful of pills to increase his power at the likely cost of his life.
110	"Memory of Guilt" "Tsumi no kioku" (罪の記憶)	May 21, 2009	January 7, 2013[9]
The Sealing Team continues to seal the Three-Tails with Katsuyu's help while Kakashi, Yamato and Shino managed to defeat Kigiri, Kihō, and Nurari in their respective battles. Kakashi's group is joined by Sai, Kiba, Lee, Tenten as they prepare to find Yūkimaru while unaware that Nurari is far from dead. Meanwhile, Naruto and Guren find Yūkimaru as Rinji was about to give the boy a lethal dose to increase the boy's power. Rinji then reveals the truth to Yūkimaru that Guren killed her mother to use his power in anger, only for Yūkimaru to forgive Guren at Naruto's behest that Guren is different from who she was then. Rinji tries to attack Guren, but Naruto protects her and Yūkimaru while Rinji is revealed to be Kabuto in disguise.
111	"Shattered Promise" "Kudakareta yakusoku" (砕かれた約束)	May 28, 2009	January 7, 2013[9]
Kabuto explains that he killed Rinji, and that Orochimaru wants the Three-Tails for an upcoming war. He summons Rinji's corpse to attack Guren. Guren manages to fight back by crystalizing herself along with Rinji. The huge crystal, with Guren and Rinji inside, drops into the lake, causing Yūkimaru to believe that Guren is dead. His grief causes the Three-Tails to fly into a rage. Naruto uses his Collaboration Jutsu to assail the Three-Tails, forcing it underwater. Naruto goes to Yūkimaru, and tells him they will go home together.
112	"A Place to Return To" "Kaerubeki basho" (帰るべき場所)	June 4, 2009	January 7, 2013[9]
Gozu rescues Guren at the bottom of the lake and Yukimaru, who has lost his ability to control the Three-Tails, leaves with Guren and Gozu. Tsunade orders the teams to return to the village to regroup because of their wounds and sends ANBU to keep watch of the lake. But Tobi brings Deidara to the lake and the senior Akatsuki member kills the ANBU members before they lure out the Three Tails and easily capture it.

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