Ep 160: Will We Take It or Will It Be Taken From Us?
The Okay Temple’s Battle!

The bounty hunter wakes and tries to get up and leave but flinches in pain. Naruto and the others wake as well. Naruto stops him and Kiba shows him his wanted poster. He explains how it was Gosunkugi who killed an innocent family of three to steal money.

Flashback: He lived in a little village on the border of two countries as a blacksmith. On the day of a festival he had left early to deliver a special katana. The gate was half open when he arrived. He fended off Gosunkugi’s attack with the katana. Gosunkugi escaped and Toukichi found the bodies. People arrived and saw him at the scene of the crime. He was captured and no one believed his story. He cut himself loose with a small knife and escaped. He wandered around until saw the wanted poster for Gosunkugi. He then decided to capture him and prove his innocence in order to return to the village. In order to obtain info, he became a bounty hunter himself.

Naruto and his team leave to continue their mission. Meanwhile the bearded bounty hunter is back but he tells Toukichi that he can get him injured at anytime, for now he’ll take Gosunkugi.

Stone country’s village’s government economics and military are all under the priest’s hands. The temple called Soumon is the large temple on the mountain. The Golden Bell is being raised to the temple. It is used as a landmark to draw tourists to the tourism area. Kiba comments that it’s asking to be stolen and Naruto thinks that is Gosunkugi’s target. As the team walks around, Akamaru notices something, a broken wall. When the team investigates, Gosunkugi’s men appear. Hinata activates her bykugan and sees the enemy also coming from underground. She warns the team and they jump up to avoid the nails. Toukichi also appears and as they fight Gosunkugi’s men, the bell has reached the top of the temple. The leader was underground and the men were all clones. The team realizes Gosunkugi and his men are with the bell. They run up the temple steps but find the guards knocked out and the bell gone. Then Gosunkagi’s men appear. Hinata uses jyuuken. Kiba uses gijuu ninpou, juujin bunshin: ninja art beast transformation, beast /human clone and Akamaru transforms into Kiba. Together they perform gatsuuga. Naruto uses kage bunshin for his Uzumaki Naruto Rendan. Toukichi cuts down one enemy.

After defeating them, Akamaru signals that Gosunkagi is riding on the golden bell being lowered by rope onto a boat. The team and Toukichi slide down the rope. Gosunkagi uses ninpou, kiteinu shawaa: non-slicing shower, and needles come from his mouth. But Naruto’s kage bunshin takes the damage and Naruto is able to land a punch. But then Gosunkagi cuts the rope. He and the bell fall onto the boat but the team falls into the sea. Toukichi throws out a hook line and catches the top of the bell and is dragged along with the boat. He leaps over the bell, cuts Gosunkagi's sword in half and knocks him on his back. Then chains appear and wrap arounf Toukichi from the other bounty hunter who announces he has caught both of them. Guards appear but the team is still in the water unable to do anything.

The team looks on as the villages denouce Toukichi. Gatsu berrates them for making him a criminal without doing any decent research first and crumples up the wanted poster. The feudal lord holds up the wanted poster of Gosunkagi and says he was the one who comitted the murders. He has been caught an confessed. Toukichi is released and the team returns to Konoha. But they worry about Tsuanade’s reaction to their failed mission.

Review: This is it? The most crappy, zero-effort ending of all the filler episodes, ever.

Notes:

Gosunkugi killed 500 people?

Gatsu - bearded bounty hunter

Sazanami Toukichi - Wanted for 1 million ryou.

Thoughts: How did they get Gosunkugi to confess? Torture?