| Episode 38 | |
|---|---|
| Title(s) |
Infiltrate Akatsuki's Hideout! |
| ← Episode 37 | Episode 39 → |
Episode 38 was aired on December 18, 2012.
Premise[]
Part 1: Infiltrate Akatsuki's Hideout![]
Team Guy is on a mission to find Akatsuki's hideout and when finding it, Lee and Tenten manage to inflitrate, but must not blow their cover.
Part 2: A Desperate Escape Plan![]
Lee and Tenten have to sneak out of Akatsuki's hideout and before they get into a one-on-one fight with Deidara, Guy and Neji come to the rescue.
Summary[]
Part 1: Infiltrate Akatsuki's Hideout![]
Team Guy gathers in the forest as Might Guy explains their mission. The team is supposed to go check a possible hideout for the Akatsuki group. If the Akatsuki does appear, they are to refrain from battling and instead only observe their actions and then report to the Hokage. Rock Lee and Tenten set out together to search as Guy and Neji Hyuga search other areas.
Tenten and Lee eventually find a large cave and decide to look inside it, though Tenten believes it to be too cliche for the Akatsuki to use a cave for a hideout, though when Lee finds a closet full of spare Akatsuki cloaks, Tenten begins to believe that it really could be one of the Akatsuki's hideouts, although Lee only believes that several close friends decided to by the same cloak. Tenten warns Lee to leave the cave before they are seen, but decides it is too late when they hear the voices of Deidara and Sasori quarreling about what true art is. In rush to hide themselves, Lee puts on an Akatsuki cloak and puts Tenten in the back. Recognizing Lee, Deidara pulls him aside and reveals that he bribed Tobi to keep quiet about their previous encounters. Not wanting to reveal anything about the Akatsuki to Lee, who believed that he was a performer of some sort, Deidara tells Lee that the hideout is in actuality the main office for the "Ninja Art Club" he is in. He explains that the group will not welcome outsiders and may treat him as a spy. As Lee and Tenten are about to leave, Sasori mentions that Lee must be the new recruit that Zetsu had been scouting. Other Akatsuki teams arrive, Kakuzu and Hidan coming first and Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki appearing second. At the sight of Itachi, Tenten realizes she has seen him in the Bingo Books and recognizes him as Sasuke Uchiha's older brother and the perpetrator of the Uchiha Clan, confirming her beliefs that she and Lee were in an Akatsuki hideout.
Part 2: A Desperate Escape Plan![]
Seeing as Kisame may recognize Lee, due to Lee being the spitting image of Might Guy whom he had previously battled, Lee attempts to change his face, though he only succeeded in making an odd face. Itachi decides to test Lee's strength and puts him under a Genjutsu with his Sharingan. Tenten transfers her own chakra into Lee's body to dispell the illusion, impressing Itachi who believed him to break free on his own. Then, Pain and Konan appear and Hidan introduces Lee as the new member to them. Konan approaches Lee and Deidara thinks to himself that Konan will see through their facade, though she creates a bouquet of paper flowers for him as a welcoming gift. Before Pain starts the actual meeting, he decides to test out Lee's strength as their "new member." Deidara volunteers as his opponent and before they begin to fight, he tells him he will make a large explosion and in the fray, Lee will escape. Before they can begin, Guy appears with Neji under his Akatsuki cloak, explaining in his mind that when Lee and Tenten did not show up for at their rendezvous destination, Neji used his Byakugan to find them and saw there whereabouts in the hideout with the Akatsuki. Guy and Lee clash and converse while grasping each other's hands. Guy tells Lee his plan to escape is to force his way out using his guts. While trying to cause an explosion to form an escape route for Guy and Lee, Deidara is hit by Lee, causing the clay bird he was holding to fall from his hand near Sasori were it exploded, causing Sasori to try to control Deidara with his chakra strings, though they snagged onto Konan, Kisame and Kakuzu, causing Kakuzu to attempt to use his Tentacle Punch on Sasori, though Sasori dodged and instead, the attack hit Hidan and Pain. As all the Akatsuki members were distracted by their fight, Lee and Guy managed to escape before the hideout exploded.
After the hideout was destroyed, Tobi and Zetsu arrive, wondering what had happened while they were away. Sasori blames the destruction of the hideout on the "new guy" and Hidan gives a description of Lee, causing Tobi to recall he and Deidara's past interactions with him and blurts out the information. The episode ends with Team Guy returning to Konohagakure.
Trivia[]
- Yamato cameos: 2