Naruto Shippuden Episode 270: Golden Bonds
Ino-Shika-Chō and Darui combine body, shadow, mind, transport, and sealing work to defeat Kinkaku without pretending any one fighter could do everything.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 269: Forbidden Words
Atsui is punished for speaking, Samui is punished for silence, and Darui survives when leadership changes the word that defines his daily voice.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 268: Battleground!
Shikaku’s formation reaches the battlefield as Darui faces the Gold and Silver Brothers, Gaara divides his force, and old family wounds become enemy weapons.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 267: The Brilliant Military Advisor of the Hidden Leaf
Shikaku reorganizes the Allied Shinobi Forces when Darui, Gaara, and Kakashi face simultaneous crises tied to reanimated legends and village history.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 266: The First and Last Opponent
Kakashi’s division defeats the mist through tracking and sealing as Haku’s controlled body repeats the sacrifice that ended Team 7’s first major battle.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 265: An Old Nemesis Returns
Kakashi and Sakura meet reanimated Zabuza and Haku as Kabuto turns old grief, bloodline techniques, and the Seven Swordsmen into battlefield weapons.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 264: Secrets of the Reanimation Jutsu
Kabuto reveals Reanimation Jutsu’s mechanics through a lethal demonstration while Naruto learns that tailed-beast power demands balance rather than total control.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 263: Sai and Shin
Sai faces his reanimated brother, protects him from Deidara’s explosive trap, and discovers that their completed picture book can break Kabuto’s control.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 262: War Begins!
The Fourth Shinobi World War begins when Kankurō’s unit must rescue controlled allies, survive Deidara’s bomb, and face Sasori’s stolen bodies.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 261: For My Friend
Gaara stops old village hatred from breaking the alliance and turns Naruto’s friendship into a shared reason to enter the Fourth Shinobi World War together.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 260: Parting
The final anniversary retrospective follows Sasuke’s defection, the retrieval mission, and Naruto’s first Valley of the End failure.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 259: Rift
Sasuke’s failures against Gaara and Itachi turn Naruto’s growth into a threat the Sound Four exploit for Orochimaru.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 258: Rivals
The Chūnin Exam retrospective tracks Naruto’s growth, Sasuke’s recognition, and the fear hiding inside their mutual rivalry.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 257: Meeting
The anniversary retrospective revisits Naruto and Sasuke’s first rivalry, Team 7, the bell test, and the Demon Brothers ambush.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 256: Assemble! Allied Shinobi Forces!
The five great villages organize one allied force under Gaara while Kabuto and Tobi mobilize White Zetsu and reanimated shinobi.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 255: The Artist Returns
Kabuto turns Deidara into a diversion, attacks the living island with Manda II, and captures Yamato to strengthen the White Zetsu army.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 254: The Super Secret S-Rank Mission
Aoba turns an animal survey into a fake S-rank mission while the alliance moves the living island and hides the coming war from Naruto.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 253: The Bridge to Peace
Izanagi rewrites the death Konan carefully engineered, but her final red paper carries Yahiko and Nagato’s first hope home and leaves Naruto as its bridge.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 252: The Angelic Herald of Death
Konan refuses to surrender Nagato’s remains, names Naruto as their bridge to peace, and reveals a paper-bomb ocean built around the masked man’s limits.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 251: The Man Named Kisame
Kisame’s memories reveal a life trained around killing to protect secrets before capture forces him to apply the Hidden Mist’s final order to himself.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 250: Battle in Paradise! The Odd Beast vs. The Monster!
Naruto exposes Kisame inside Samehada, then Guy answers the intelligence escape with the Seventh Gate and a tiger the chakra-eating shark cannot consume.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 249: Thank You
Minato and Kushina turn their final minutes into protection, sealing, ordinary parental advice, and the gratitude Naruto waited a lifetime to hear.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 248: The Fourth Hokage’s Death Match
Minato answers Kurama’s attack and the masked shinobi’s intangibility with a marked-kunai feint, a perfectly timed Rasengan, and sealing knowledge.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 247: Target: Nine Tails
Naruto learns that love filled his first moments before a masked intruder turned Kushina’s labor, Minato’s devotion, and the weakened seal into targets.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 246: The Orange Spark
Kurama’s hatred nearly swallows Naruto until Kushina’s chakra appears with an embrace, sealing chains, and the family history he never knew.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 245: The Next Challenge! Naruto vs. Nine Tails!!
Passing the Waterfall of Truth lets Naruto enter the jinchūriki chamber, where control still begins through extraction rather than partnership.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 244: Killer Bee and Motoi
Motoi confesses how grief became hatred of a child jinchūriki before Bee’s rescue turns years of guilt into the possibility of honest repair.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 243: Land Ahoy! Is This the Island of Paradise?
Killer B refuses Naruto’s rushed request for training, sending him toward a truth no rap imitation, heroic reputation or public praise can bypass.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 242: Naruto’s Vow
An Iwa–Kiri rendezvous becomes an ambush until Naruto protects the survivor seeking revenge and forces both villages to answer the history beneath the attack.
Naruto Shippuden Episode 241: Kakashi, My Eternal Rival!
An accidental SOS brings Kakashi to Guy’s ship, where a warning about chakra-copying enemies turns an affectionate rivalry into an identity test.