He Flies! He Jumps! He Lurks! Chief Toad Appears!


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 * Episode Number: Naruto Episode 57

Sypnosis of Last Episode
Last episode was: Live or Die: Risk it All to Win it All!. This is the episode in which Naruto still tries the Summoning Jutsu, but to no prevail he still summons a little frog, but faints from overusing chakra. Jiraiya wakes Naruto and takes Naruto into which it can be relaxing and soothing (hot spring bath, Ichiraku Ramen (in which Naruto wastes his money), and hug Sakura (in which she punches Naruto). Jiraiya then pushes Naruto off a cliff, realizing that the only way to release the chakra is by emotional rage or danger of death. Naruto then enters his sub-consciousness and sees the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. The fox gives Naruto chakra after Naruto says that the wants chakra. Naruto then regained his consciousness and used the Summoning Jutsu, and summons Gamabunta.

Plot
The episode starts off when Naruto summons Gamabunta and he appears to save Naruto from falling to death. Naruto then falls on Gamabunta with a great bump. He then goes around to see if he really did it or not, “big four legs, a giant mouth, and no tail! I did it! I actually summoned a toad, not a frog!” Jiraiya then says that he was finally able to do the Summoning Jutsu, but the chakra he used was unstable and even summoned “him,” Gamabunta, “Even I can’t control Gamabunta”.

While Naruto cheers, Gamabunta then shouts: “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, YOU LITTLE SNOT!” Naruto then suddenly jumps back in shock. “I get some fresh air! AND THEN WHAT? I GET SUMMONED HERE!!!” Naruto takes another step back in shock. Then Gamabunta faces Naruto and asks: “Hey little snot, where’s Jiraiya?” Naruto then says that he wasn’t sure of who Jiraiya was. “HEY I’M PRETTY SURE YOU KNOW, the person who calls himself as the toad sage!” Naruto then says that if it was the “pervy sage”. Naruto then says that Jiraiya was up in the cliff. In anger, Gamabunta starts yelling out Jiraiya’s name, and in the midst, behind a tree, was Jiraiya, knowing that he can’t let Gamabunta see Jiraiya. Gamabunta then says: “That little pervert, summoning out here! And even worse, he puts a little snot on my head!” Naruto then sits on Gamabunta and said in a little nervous voice, that he summoned Gamabunta. “A little squirt summoned me? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Gamabunta laughs out loud and says that this little squirt couldn’t summon Gamabunta. Naruto then gets serious and shouts at Gamabunta: “LOOK! Since I summoned you, big toad! Then I’m supposed to be your master, all right, you stupid toad, acting this at your master!” Gamabunta then shouts back at Naruto, making him fall off Gamabunta and hanging on to his pipe. “YOU THINK THAT YOU CAN ORDER AROUND THE MASTER TOAD OF GAMABUNTA!!!???”

Gamabunta then says to calm down and he’ll make him his underling. Gamabunta then grabs Naruto with his tongue and puts Naruto back of Gamabunta. Then: “Here we go!” Gamabunta then jumps off from the cliff fall (with Naruto airsickness) and he lands with a great big crash, sending waves of wind around him. He then gets Naruto off, and leaves, saying that he needs a little stroll. Angry, Naruto runs up to Gamabunta, uses his chakra to stick on Gamabunta and lands on his nose and stays there. “Hey! Since your not going to show any respect, I’ll stay here ‘til sunset and you’ll have to be my master!” Gamabunta then agrees, and he tries to shake off Naruto, saying that it wasn’t going to be easy. Naruto grabs on to Gamabunta’s nose and was Jiraiya (far away from them) was using his telescope to witness the event. He then hears girls, and looks behind them to see them. “Sorry, Naruto. Wish I can help you, but I have to work on my…research!” Gamabunta then shouts out for Naruto to get off (in which Naruto resists.

The scene changes to Konoha where Team 10 went to eat barbecue again. Outside, Kankuro witnesses of what they’re doing. “Heh, they’re going to that restaurant again, for a reward for training so hard.” Temari then asks Kankuro that shouldn’t he be watching Gaara? Kankuro then says that he doesn’t care, knowing that Gaara won’t go away. Kankuro then started to discuss about the plan they’re talking about before they came to the Hidden Leaf Village.

They then think back when Baki tells them that they’ll be joining with the Sound, and annihilate Konoha. Temari starts fighting back that many sacrifices were made to make the Treaty Alliance, if they break it, many people will die! Baki then says that shinobis are tools, just the same as Genins. “Ever since the stupid prime minister of our village has made the pact between the Hidden Leaf, our military supplies have been cutting short! Saying that this way will be cheapter! We’re suffering, and that’s why shinobis like you were created.” He then knocks the wall. The picture of the prime minister moves slightly. “That’s why at the will of the Kazekage, we’ll teach the stupid prime minister of how dangerous we are!” Knocks the wall again, the picture is ready to fall. “We will destroy Konoha! If we don’t, our supplies will be short and we will lose our ability!” Knocks the wall, hard for the third time. The picture falls off from the wall and lands with a “thunk!” Baki then says that this mission is fully counting on Gaara.

The scene changes back to where Gamabunta tries to shake off Naruto. “Got to use my chakra!” Before Naruto could do it, Gamabunta violently shakes Naruto, depleting him time to use chakra. Gamabunta then runs from forest to forest and then jumps to a lake. He then swims on the lake (in which an I-need-a-breath Naruto still holds on) and jumps back up. Then, Gamabunta swims really quick, making it harder for Naruto to hold on. Jiraiya then focuses on Gamabunta and sees that Naruto is really going over his limit. He then hear the girls of how beautiful of the rainbow up in the sky, in which a gleeful Jiraiya agrees (thinking that the girls are referring to him).

The scene changes into the Village Hidden in the Sand, where in the Kazekage resident, Baki tells the Kazekage that everything is going as planned, saying that the three safely advanced to the Finals of the Chunin Exams. Baki then gives a scroll in which it was a pact about joining with the Sound. He was then dispatched (after an argument concerning about why Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro were at the Chunin Exam) and was then traveling back to Konoha.

The scene changes where Naruto still holds onto Gamabunta, where it’s almost at sunset, “Great! It’s almost sunset! Now, I just have to hang on a little more!”(Naruto’s thinking). Gamabunta then starts to get really annoyed, and thinks: “It’s a shame that I can’t ask to get him off, so I’ll have to do my only way to do it.” Then Gamabunta tells Naruto that he’s hoping to ready to die! Jiraiya then sees in shock of what Gamabunta was ready to do. Gamabunta does another great big jump (in which Naruto gets airsick again) and lands heavily on the waterfall (where the girls were). Jiraiya then yells out of what happened to his girls.

Naruto, shocked by the landing, spins around on top of Gamabunta to balance himself. He then falls off, “No! I can’t fall right now! Not when I’m really close!” Naruto then does Shadow Clone Jutsu in which about 15 Narutos were standing on top of Gamabunta. Jiraiya was then of how amazed to see that Naruto still had enough stamina to use Shadow Clones. The Narutos then started to make a link (or a chain) to bring up the original Naruto.

The original Naruto then starts to laugh at the Chief Toad’s face and said that he won the deal. He then immediately faints, with Jiraiya in an awe-struck mode in which he knew that if Naruto falls like that, he will die. In mid-point of falling off 100m, Gamabunta catches him in time with his tongue. He then sighs that Naruto has got guts. Jiraiya, relieved, starts to leave, but with a smirk, he throws the scroll where all the humans sign to summon toads. It lands right in front of Gamabunta and then reads Naruto Uzumaki’s name, realizing that Naruto did summon him.

Conclusion
Gamabunta then uses his tongue to roll up Naruto to his back; he then said that no one had dared to ride on his back, other than the Fourth Hokage. He then knows that Naruto is completely out of strength, so then he says: “I should let him to go to a hospital in which somebody would care for him.” The scene changes to the hospital, “BOOM!” The doctors then look outside to see what happened. But, they only see Naruto on the ground (smiling) and Gamabunta’s footprint, leaving it for a signature.

Trivia

 * This is the introduction in which Naruto starts to use something called Shadow Clone Link, in which this technique is used in countless anime episodes and was used in all the movies (the first movie is when he chases the air blimp)
 * Temari and Kankuro were also discussing about the Chunin Exams last time in which Temari got defeated pretty easily.
 * The deal in which Naruto sticks on to Gamabunta is all a filler part to make the episode more funny, and more exciting.
 * During the deal, Gamabunta jumped at some point, and Naruto tries to stay in the air, he does it for 2 seconds (virtually impossible) and falls.

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