Successor of the Forbidden Jutsu

is episode 145 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Synopsis
The Magaki Group have a meeting with their leader about the kinjutsu. Elsewhere, Team 7 tricks Hotaru into letting them stay as her bodyguards until they reach her Tsuchigumo village. After reminiscing about the past, Utakata wakes up, only to come across the ninja bandits, and fights them until he is cornered by their barrier ninjutsu, which soon explodes with him inside. Team 7 finally reach Hotaru's village, and they leave her in the village's care, but Naruto senses something troubling and heads back to the village, suspicious of the villagers' attitudes towards Hotaru.