Ep 146: Abandoned Dreams The Shadow of Orochimaru

 


There’s a huge crater after the explosion. Pakkun notes that Iruka’s smell has disappeared. But then Iruka appears from under a slab of stone. Naruto notices that he’s wounded. Tsubaki arrives and tends to Iruka’s wound. Pakkun observes that the two have some kind of relationship and holds up his paw and flexes his pinky. Tsubaki apologizes to Mizuki and tells them about his visit to her and asks to join them, but Iruka won’t allow it and says she will get in the way of the mission. But she says she knows where he’s headed so they follow her.

Meanwhile Mizuki enters a farm/lab area where two medics are working. He knocks them out then performs a seal and the tattoo on his arm reveals characters, possibly the ingredients. He then steals some medicaments.

Tsunade has been informed that the Nara laboratory was attacked. A shinobi arrives with a report from Narake (the name of the facility) that indicates Mizuki was involved. Narake hold many medicinal ingredients and is in the middle of the mountains. The ingredients that were stolen match the ones on Mizuki’s note. Tsunade doesn’t understand what the ingredients would do for a chuunin. She starts to research the ingredients to find out Mizuki’s intentions.

Tsubaki tells the team that Mizkui wants to seek out Orochimaru’s strength. He wanted the forbidden scroll as an offering to Orochimaru.

Tsunade realizes now what Orochimaru is doing. A shinobi (possibly Iwaki) enters to report that all prisoners have been accounted for except Mizuki, Fuujin and Raijin who escaped together. Tsunade immediately becomes concerned.

Ino, Shikamaru and Choji are running out of chakra while the Stupid brothers are still going strong despite being bound by all three.

Mizuki thinks back to when he met Orochimaru, right after he killed a comrade on a mission. Orochimaru uses genjutsu to bind him. Orochimaru appears from a tree, but it doesn’t seem like it’s his physical body. He says he saw Mizuki kill his comrade. Mizuki defends his actions. Orochimaru shoots out a snake from his arm and it wraps itself around Mizuki and bites him on the arm to form the skull like tattoo. Orochimaru tells Mizuki to seek him out when he’s ready and leaves behind a sheet of paper with the ingredients.

Back in present, Mizuki enters a cave. He takes out a kunai, sticks it into a slot in a rock and the stones part to reveal a room with a small desk and chair. He pulls out the eighth stone from the right and pulls on the chain behind it. The floor opens and a mechanical device in the shape of his tattoo rises from the ground and Mizuki laughs hysterically.

He prepares the various ingredients and pours the solutions onto the strange device. He presses a button and the solutions flow together to form a red solution.

Naruto’s team arrives. Pakkun senses something and says it’s the smell of disruption. Mizuki comes out and drinks the red solution in front of them and starts to transform.

Review: Interesting episode, nice tie into Orochimaru.

 

Notes:

Narake = Shikamaru’s dad’s lab facility

Kebia = another lab

Nara case# 23 has something to do with white blood cells

 

Thoughts:

Were Iruka, Mizuki and Tsubasa on the same genin team?

Why couldn’t Pakkun smell Iruka yet can smell disruption?

It appears that Mizuki has been in that hidden room before yet he seems surprised when he sees the mechanical device open from the floor.

Maybe the note Orochimaru left Mizuki were directions to this site.

Mizuki activates the cursed seal via the solution rather than the special pill Sasuke took. It takes effect immediately while Sasuke had to spend a night in a barrel.