Shattered Promise

"Shattered Promise"edit
砕かれた約束­ (Kudakareta Yakusoku)
Episode data
Previous	"Memory of Guilt"
Episode	Naruto: Shippūden #111 (Watch Online)
Next	"A Place to Return To"
Arc	Three-Tails' Appearance
Music
Opening	"Light of a Firefly"
Ending	"Deep Breath"
Air dates
Japanese	May 28, 2009
English	January 24, 2012
Debut
Jutsu
Wind Release: Toad Oil Bullet Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet

"Shattered Promise" (砕かれた約束, Kudakareta Yakusoku) is episode 111 of the Naruto: Shippūden anime.

Synopsis

Kabuto explains that he had killed Rinji after the latter wanted to report directly to Orochimaru himself as Kabuto's equal. Using his Dead Soul Technique to summon Rinji's reanimated corpse, he has Rinji attack Guren. In order to protect Yūkimaru, Guren shields him with her Crystal Release: Crimson Fruit and attempts to fight Rinji, only to realise that Rinji's Bat Controlling: Ultrasonic Mind Waves renders her Crystal Release useless. Sneaking up behind him, she disables his arms and crystallises both of them, and they tumble off the cliff and into the ocean. Believing Guren has died, Yūkimaru's anger and rage increases as he summons the Three-Tailed Turtle. The power boost causes the Four-Corner Sealing Barrier to break as the turtle goes on a rampage.

The Orochimaru Search Team find themselves about to be attacked by Nurari, who has absorbed the corpses of his two comrades. Kakashi intructs Yamato to bind Nurari with his Wood Release while he strikes it with his Lightning Cutter; Kakashi, however, is forced to abandon his attack and move out of the way as the Three-Tails breaches out of the water and eliminates Nurari. Kabuto, glad that Orochimaru's plan of using Guren to ignite Yūkimaru's rage has worked in another way, departs in glee, leaving Naruto to deal with the enraged Yūkimaru. As there is a barrier preventing him from reaching Yūkimaru and the Three-Tails is heading their way, Naruto decides to deal with the tailed beast on his own.

Due to the fact that his Rasengan fails to land a blow and his Wind Release: Rasenshuriken is forbidden, he summons Gamakichi and Gamatatsu in order to use his Wind Release: Toad Gun. However, Gamakichi reminds him to use his head, as the turtle is amphibious and lives in a lake and would not be affected by a Water Release technique, even it is augmented by Wind Release. Naruto remembers his training with Yamato, in which Yamato had told him about Nature Transformation and how each elements had their weaknesses, and how he was a perfect match for Sasuke since his wind would augment Sasuke's Fire Release. He exclaims that he has a plan to combine his wind with fire before realising that none of them possess fire and that fire does not beat water. Gamakichi, however, tells him that he knows how to use Fire Release and that fire with a high enough intensity should be able to evaporate water.

Under Gamakichi's instructions, Gamatatsu heads back home in order to ingest toad oil as Naruto summons him back a minute later. Using the same principle behind his Wind Release: Toad Gun, Naruto infuses his wind chakra with Gamatatsu's Toad Oil Bullet to create a new cooperation ninjutsu technique — Wind Release: Toad Oil Bullet. They then aim their technique towards the Three-Tails' weak spot, his eye, only for the Three-Tails to counter with his Water Release: Great Water Mass Bullet. Gamakichi uses his Fire Release: Flame Bullet in conjunction with Naruto and Gamatatsu's to create another new technique — Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet. The three-way collaborative technique proves hot enough to evaporate the Three-Tails attack and to temporarily defeat it. With their problem being dealt with for the time being, the toads dispel themselves as the barrier surrounding Yūkimaru fades away.

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
Kakashi Hatake	Kazuhiko Inoue	井上 和彦	Inoue Kazuhiko	Dave Wittenberg
Yamato	Rikiya Koyama	小山 力也	Koyama Rikiya	Troy Baker
Sai	Satoshi Hino	日野 聡	Hino Satoshi	Benjamin Diskin
Shizune	Keiko Nemoto	根本 圭子	Nemoto Keiko	Megan Hollingshead
Katsuyu	Mamiko Noto	能登 麻美子	Noto Mamiko	Mari Devon
Kiba Inuzuka	Kosuke Toriumi	鳥海 浩輔	Toriumi Kōsuke	Kyle Hebert
Hinata Hyūga	Nana Mizuki	水樹 奈々	Mizuki Nana	Stephanie Sheh
Shino Aburame	Shinji Kawada	川田 紳司	Kawada Shinji	Derek Stephen Prince
Rock Lee	Yoichi Masukawa	増川 洋一	Masukawa Yōichi	Brian Donovan
Tenten	Yukari Tamura	田村 ゆかり	Tamura Yukari	Danielle Judovits
Ino Yamanaka	Ryoka Yuzuki	柚木 涼香	Yuzuki Ryōka	Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Kabuto Yakushi	Nobutoshi Kanna	神奈 延年	Kanna Nobutoshi	Henry Dittman
Guren	Eri Miyajima	宮島 依里	Miyajima Eri	Erin Fitzgerald
Yūkimaru	Mika Kanai	かない みか	Kanai Mika	Laura Bailey
Rinji	Yuya Uchida	内田 夕夜	Uchida Yūya	Sam Riegel
Kigiri	Yoshimasa Hosoya	細谷 佳正	Hosoya Yoshimasa	Steve Blum
Kihō	Kenichiro Matsuda	松田 健一郎	Matsuda Ken'ichirō	Troy Baker
Nurari	Kentaro Tone	利根 健太朗	Tone Kentarō	Ezra Weisz
Gamakichi	Yoji Ueda	上田 燿司	Ueda Yōji	Dave Wittenberg
Gamatatsu	Tomo Shigematsu	重松 朋	Shigematsu Tomo	Dave Wittenberg