Jūgo of the Northern Hideout

"Jūgo of the Northern Hideout"edit
北アジトの重吾­ (Kita Ajito no Jūgo)
Episode data
Previous	"Guardian of the Iron Wall"
Episode	Naruto: Shippūden #117 (Watch Online)
Next	"Formation!"
Arc	Itachi Pursuit Mission
Manga	Naruto Chapter #349, Naruto Chapter #350, Naruto Chapter #351
Music
Opening	"Light of a Firefly"
Ending	"My Answer"
Air dates
Japanese	July 09, 2009
English	April 10, 2012
Debut
Characters
Ahiko Guren Takishi Tsukushi
Jutsu
Afterglow Piston Fist Sage Transformation

"Jūgo of the Northern Hideout" (北アジトの重吾, Kita Ajito no Jūgo) is episode 117 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Synopsis

Sasuke, Karin and Suigetsu head to the Northern Hideout, where they plan to recruit Jūgo. Karin warns them that Jūgo is an individual with repressed maniacal urges who becomes homicidal when he snaps, and that Orochimaru extracted fluids secreted from his enzymes in order to create his cursed seals. At the hideout, they discover that the guard is missing and are subsequently attacked by a prisoner, who is in the second stage of his cursed seal. Having killed all the guards, the prisoner decides to attack Sasuke, only for Sasuke to cut him down with his sword. As they enter the hideout, they are faced with various other prisoners also in the second stage of their cursed seals, and Sasuke asks Suigetsu to deal with them without killing them.

As Jūgo sits in his cell, he recalls on how he was once cooled off during a murderous rampage by Kimimaro, who had promised him that he would be there for him. Musing that Kimimaro is no longer with him, Jūgo constantly states that if a man were to walk through the door, he would kill him, only to continuously state that he would do the same if it were a woman. As Sasuke's team make their way through the hideout, Karin sends Suigetsu down the wrong hallway in order to be alone with Sasuke, and leads him to Jūgo's cell. As Karin unlocks the door, Jūgo states that if it is a woman, he would kill her; however, just as she is about to open the door, Jūgo claims that he would kill whomever if it is a man, and is greeted by Sasuke, who opens the door. Jūgo enters into a partial transformation and attacks Sasuke, who also undergoes a partial transformation into the second stage of his cursed seal. Repelling Jūgo's attack, Sasuke tells Jūgo that he is not here to fight but to merely talk to him.

In Konoha, Naruto and Sakura are summoned to Tsunade's office, where both she and Jiraiya tell the duo that Orochimaru has been killed by Sasuke. As Sakura wells up in tears, Naruto cheerfully exclaims that he knew Sasuke would not lose to Orochimaru and proudly asks whether this means Sasuke would be returning to the village, only for Jiraiya to tell him that returning to Konoha isn't part of Sasuke's plan.

Credits

Role	Seiyū			English Voice Actor
	English	Japanese	Rōmaji
Naruto Uzumaki	Junko Takeuchi	竹内 順子	Takeuchi Junko	Maile Flanagan
Sakura Haruno	Chie Nakamura	中村 千絵	Nakamura Chie	Kate Higgins
Jiraiya	Hochu Otsuka	大塚 芳忠	Ōtsuka Hōchū	David Lodge
Fifth Hokage: Tsunade	Masako Katsuki	勝生 真沙子	Katsuki Masako	Debi Mae West
Sasuke Uchiha	Noriaki Sugiyama	杉山 紀彰	Sugiyama Noriaki	Yuri Lowenthal
Suigetsu	Takashi Kondo	近藤 隆	Kondō Takashi	Grant George
Jūgo	Shuhei Sakaguchi	阪口 周平	Sakaguchi Shūhei	Travis Willingham
Karin	Kanako Tojo	東條 加那子	Tōjō Kanako	Ali Hillis
Kimimaro	Toshiyuki Morikawa	森川 智之	Morikawa Toshiyuki	Keith Silverstein
Fortress prisoners	Kanji Suzumori Takafumi Kawakami Tomoyoshi Fukazu	鈴森 勘司 川上 貴史 深津 智義	Suzumori Kanji Kawakami Takafumi Fukazu Tomoyoshi	Keith Silverstein Travis Willingham Patrick Seitz
Ino Yamanaka	Ryoka Yuzuki	柚木 涼香	Yuzuki Ryōka	Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Kakashi Hatake	Kazuhiko Inoue	井上 和彦	Inoue Kazuhiko	Dave Wittenberg