Yota!
Please!
Stop it!
Yota!
Yota!
Sakura?
!
Did you just say "Yota"?
!
Is he there too?
!
What do you mean, "there too"?
He's with you also?
Not only Sakura!
But with us too!
Including Kiba!
Oh boyâ ¦ He's really going at it.
There are four Yotas?
I wonder if Yota is angry at usâ ¦ Maybe that's why he came to each of us.
Because we let him die.
Yota is not a ghost.
He was reanimated and is being controlled!
Get your act together, Choji!
Hold on a sec!
So with Reanimation, you can be resurrected lots of times like Shadow Clones?
!
Not until nowâ ¦ I'm positive it's Yota I'm facing.
Which means, all of you could be seeing that white guy!
You mean, White Zetsu!
So he's not the real one?
!
But this snow is Yota'sâ ¦ Noâ ¦ As long as the real one is performing the jutsu, it's possible.
Or should I say, the one controlling Yota.
Everyoneâ ¦ These guys aren't Yota!
So you don't need to feel guilty!
I'll take on your guilt!
Soâ ¦ Take them downâ ¦ Take down the Yota impostors!
Narutoâ ¦ Sorry, Yotaâ ¦ Lingering Snow Yotaâ ¦ Super Expansion Jutsu!
Shadow Possession Jutsu!
Yota!
Even if he is an impostorâ ¦ Let's go, Akamaru.
You've gotta be kidding.
Yotaâ ¦ Back then, we tried to save Yota.
Butâ ¦ So I'm alone againâ ¦ Not really.
There's six of us plus one dog!
We all came.
Huh?
Whatâ ?
You guys!
You can't just walk in uninvitedâ ¦!
That's no way to talk.
You looked so lonely right up 'til now.
Geezâ ¦ It's so nice outsideâ ¦ If you stay cooped up like this, no one will want toâ ¦?
!
It's raining.
Huh?
Is it Yota?
We're going to get Yota back!
Where are you from?
What village?
I don'tâ ¦knowâ ¦ about complicated stuffâ ¦ Ask me easy questions.
Where are you from?
What village?
We're getting nowhere.
We should ask Lord Third to come before things get more intense.
Was it genjutsuâ ¦?
Noâ ¦ Hey!
Stop it!
Get down from there!
Idiots!
As if I'd do that!
I'm Naruto Uzumaki!
I'm a ninja!
What?
He's one of the students from the Academy who was with the boy in custody.
Try and catch me if you can!
All the ninja in the village!
Come and get me!
â That damned brat!
â Hold it!
Sun showers?
He's such a pain in the buttâ ¦ I heard Lord Third's Mountainside Image is badly damaged.
I heard that too.
He lives in our village.
How could he do such a thing?
Yikes!
Did you see anything?
No.
It was probably my imagination.
Probablyâ ¦ Please, I beg you.
Let me goâ ¦ Shadow Possession Jutsu complete!
â Yota!
Hey!
â Yota!
â Hey!
Yota!
â Are you okay?
Everyone!
Shikamaru, you're amazing, after all.
You did a jutsu on grown-up ninja!
Are you some kind of genius?
Nopeâ ¦ He's still wet behind the ears.
Shucks!
Don't move.
Anyone who threatens the welfare of the village will be treated harshly, even if they are children.
He could be a spy.
You've gotta be joking!
Yota isn'tâ ¦ Yota isn't like that!
Yota isâ ¦the first friendâ ¦ I've ever had!
Friendâ ¦ Yeahâ ¦ My friendâ ¦!
Yota!
Run!
This river is deep.
But we have to cross itâ ¦ They're probably coming after us already.
If only we could walk on waterâ ¦ We have to do it.
Let's go someplace where Yota can be free!
Naruto!
â Choji!
â Choji!
â Shikamaru!
â Shikamaru!
â Yota!
â Yota!
Yota!
Yotaâ ¦ Thank you.
Yota?
!
â Yota!
Yota!
â Yota!
â Yota!
â Yota!
Yota!
Yota!
â Yota!
â Yota!
Yota!
Yota!
Yota!
Get a grip, Yota!
Yotaâ ¦ It's all right now.
Yotaâ ¦ Come on, wake up.
Thank goodness, everyoneâ ¦ It's okay now.
No, you're the one who's okay!
Snap out of it, Yota!
I'm alreadyâ ¦ No, Yota!
I'm sorry, if I hadn't been so recklessâ ¦ It's my faultâ ¦ We should've tried a different wayâ ¦ Yota!
Yotaâ ¦ I'm so sorry.
It's time for me to go.
What're you talking about?
!
From now on, we'reâ ¦ I'll never forget about you guys.
But you guys, forget about me.
Don't be ridiculous!
How can we forget you?
!
â Yeah, he's right!
â It's true, Yota!
You have to forgetâ ¦ otherwiseâ ¦it will be painful.
Yota, I'mâ ¦ Yoâ ¦taâ ¦ And so we forgot about Yotaâ ¦ About all the fun we hadâ ¦ That we were all friendsâ ¦ And I was alone once again.
I never wanted to forget.
If I were to forget youâ ¦ I'd rather live with the guilt of letting you dieâ ¦!
Yota, do I have toâ ¦ make you suffer one more time?
!
How can I bear that?
!
That'sâ ¦ Narutoâ ¦ It's me.
Yota!
Yotaâ ¦ It's our secret tin can telephoneâ ¦ just between you and me.
Whoever is controlling him won't be able to hear us!
Naruto!
That voice inside your head!
Yota!
â Yota!
â Yota!
It's Yota!
Sakura!
Shikamaru!
Ino!
Choji!
Kiba!
Akamaru!
I'm sorryâ ¦ I'm sorryâ ¦ I'm so sorry.
Why are you apologizing?
We couldn't save you.
We let you dieâ ¦ That's why everyone'sâ ¦ Narutoâ ¦ Everyoneâ ¦ Don't worry yourselves over that.
Because when I met you guys, I was already dead.
I was reanimated, then I met you guys.
I was already dead.
WEATHER FOR SALE I was born into a clan that DISTANCE: 2.
44 MILES possessed the strange ability to control weather.
We went from village to village.
Selling weather was our trade.
Even in my clanâ ¦ I was especially good at controlling the weather.
But I was born very weakâ ¦ and I d*ed.
I d*ed, butâ ¦I wasn't allowed to die.
Yotaâ ¦ Be useful nowâ ¦ The snakeâ ¦and the glasses fellowâ ¦ They said they were testing Reanimation andâ ¦ they left me in your village, Naruto.
I wasâ ¦so sad.
Yotaâ ¦ Yotaâ ¦ We're so sorry we couldn't stay with you.
Oh no, don't be sorry.
You know, it was so tough when I was aliveâ ¦ I was always alone, no matter where I went.
But after I d*ed, I wasn't alone anymore.
I met all of youâ ¦ And it was so much fun.
I was resurrected at that river once moreâ ¦ And I had to live alone all over again, although I was deadâ ¦ But I had my memories of all of you, so it wasn't hard.
And it's too bad it had to be this wayâ ¦ but I got to see you again!
You've grown up so much, Naruto.
You too, Sakuraâ ¦ And Shikamaruâ ¦ Ino tooâ ¦and Choji.
Kiba and Akamaru, you look like you're doing well!
Yota!
So let's have more fun!
Who cares about Reanimation?
!
It'll be like old times!
All together!
We'll be happy, and mad, and sad, and have fun!
Whatâ ¦is this?
!
Kon kon konâ ¦ Kon kon konâ ¦ I'm so happyâ ¦ I'm having funâ ¦ Yota!
Narutoâ ¦ Everyoneâ ¦ Thank you!
I'm going to go while I'm still happy.
Now this time, don't forget me.
I want you to remember me.
No, Yota!
I have no regrets nowâ ¦ I can really die now.
Bye-bye, Narutoâ ¦ Everyone!
I hope tomorrow is a sunny day!
Yotaâ ¦!
I didn't expect to lose this many of my pawns.
So then, what's my next move?
Maybe I'll stir things up on the b*ttlefield.
To think I'd have to resort to sending in you guys as well.
But I think you'll be useful in taking back the powerful pieces that I've lostâ ¦ Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "The Reanimated Allied Forces" That's what you sacrificial pieces are for.
Tune in again!