"Sakura..." "How is Lady Hokage?" "I see." "Sakura Guy Sensei prepared this medicine." "Please give it to Lady Hokage." "Lee..." "Lady Hokage healed my body." "MEDICINE I want to do whatever I can to help her recovery." "I'll be straight with you." "Give up being a ninja." "There are numerous bone fragments in the area around important nerves." "Moreover they are deeply embedded." "You're not physically capable of carrying out the missions of a ninja." "Guy Sensei..." "Please tell me!" "Why did this kind of thing happen only to me?" "What should I do?" "Ano suiheisen ga toozakatte iku That horizon between us is drifting away" "Aosugita sora ni wa ashita sura egake nakute The blue sky can't even describe the next morning" "Iki mo deki nai kurai yodonda hito no mure There is a group of idle people who can't breathe" "Boku wa itsukara koko ni moguri kondanda?" "Since when did I become like them?" "Kanashimi nante haki dashite mae dake mitereba ii n da kke Would it be better if I just looked ahead and let my sorrow vent out?" "Sore ja totemo matomo de irarenai But then I couldn't be very honest" "Subete wo boku ga teki ni mawashite mo hikari wo kasuka ni kanjiteru n da Even when I hand everything over to my enemies I can faintly sense light" "Soko made yuke sou nara..." "I wonder if it will make it all the way down to me?" "Iki wo shitakute koko wa kurushikute I want to breathe but I'm having difficulty here" "Yami wo miageru dake no boku ja ukabu houhou mo nai daiba I simply look up into the dark as a diver without a means of surfacing" "Iki wo shite mite I just want to breathe" "Tada no shiawase ni kitsuitara mou nidoto oborenai yo If only people showed me some happiness I won't ever drown again" "THANKS TO [HorribleSubs]" " Leaf's History" " Ah the Medicine of Youth" "Ino!" "Are you here to check up on Lee too?" "I knew you'd be here." "I came here to look for you two." "You weren't at Sasuke's so I figured you'd be here and waited." "Ino don't tell me you went to visit Sasuke alone did you?" "I just thought you were visiting as an excuse to make a move on him." "Speak for yourself!" "I told you I was just looking for you two!" "For what?" "!" "The three of us are going on a mission!" "Mission?" "Why us three?" "Sasuke from your team is in bad condition." "As for our team Lady Hokage has called up Shikamaru and Choji to help with Village repairs." "It's a D-rank mission so they're probably scraping together whoever is available." "We finally get a mission and you just spoiled it for me with the way you put it." "Yo!" "Bushy Brow!" "Oh Sakura..." "Shouldn't you say "Oh Naruto"?" "How are you feeling?" "Oh yes..." "I'm fine." "R-Really I feel great!" "Especially since Guy Sensei made me this special youth drink!" "Oh thanks." "My hand slipped." "It tastes awful!" "This is no energy drink!" "Oww!" "Idiot!" "What are you doing?" "!" "If you're going scold me Sakura could you do it before hitting me?" "Th-That was my last special youth drink." "Was it that precious to you?" "I-I'm sorry." "Until now I drank five liters daily and never missed a single day." "Five liters?" "!" "You mean this awful-tasting thing?" "If I kept drinking it I would recover without fail." "That is what Guy Sensei said." "If you have the guts to drink this super-bad stuff you'll have no problem getting well." "Your Ninja Way is to never give up right?" "You're right." "HIDDEN LEAF HOSPITAL" "HIDDEN LEAF HOSPITAL I'm gonna go and see Guy Sensei." "Naruto!" "We have a mission!" "Wait for me at the South Main Gate." "I'll be right back!" "Cripes!" "He'll never change." "Is this the Forbidden Jutsu that will destroy the body of the practitioner?" "I'm prepared for the worst." "Please teach me that Forbidden Jutsu!" "Everything is for my dream." "Guy Sensei?" "Oh Naruto." "What is it?" "No..." "Well it's about Lee's medicine." "I see..." "You already gathered data." "Well done!" "Huh?" "!" "One ingredient is absolutely essential for Lee's medicine." "And that is the jofuku flower!" "Jofuku flower?" "The jofuku flower is a mystical plant that grows in one place only." "At the foot of Mount Jofuku at the border of the Land of Fire." "It is said to glow in seven colors and cures all sorts of illness!" "Mount Jofuku..." "It's a rare flower that is difficult to obtain." "So..." "If you had the flower you could make the medicine?" "Huh?" "!" "Then I'll go get them for you!" "Hey wait wait!" "Will you let me finish my sentence?" "!" "Just you wait Bushy Brow!" "I'll get it right away!" "Hey I know!" "That's odd." "I know it was around here." "Found it!" "Naruto is late." "What is that idiot doing?" "!" "I know he's worried about Lee but we have a mission." "Sakura!" "Sorry to keep you two waiting!" "Naruto..." "What's with that get-up?" "It looks sorta familiar." "I'm gonna search for a medicinal herb for Bushy Brow." "This outfit helps me get in sync with Bushy Brow." "Not bad eh?" ""Not bad" you say?" "Can't you tell from our reaction?" "Come on Naruto!" "Have you forgotten that we have a mission!" "But I have to go to Mount Jofuku to get some medicinal herbs." "Mount Jofuku?" "Yeah!" "Mount Jofuku!" "For this mission our destination is Mount Jofuku." "Huh?" "!" "You mustn't do that Lee!" "You were told to take it easy until the surgery!" "I'm sorry..." "But I thought I should build up my strength a little." "Lee..." "I understand how frustrating this is for you." "However in do-or-die situations where you can't forge ahead or fall back sometimes staying still brings about the best result." "Having faith in yourself and waiting quietly until the time comes." "That too is courage Lee." "Yes..." "Naruto Lady Hokage treated Lee right?" "Of course!" "But hasn't Lee seemed out of sorts lately?" "Like he has no energy." "That can't be helped." "He was badly injured." "It's not that." "He's not positive like before." "He missed his rehab sessions a few times too." "Even today the usual Lee would..." "Sakura so that I can protect you I'll get better a day sooner." "No an hour a minute a second sooner!" "It would have been more normal if he welcomed me like that." "Just for you?" "But..." "I think Sakura has a point." "Remember his injuries were so serious even the Medical Team couldn't heal him." "It wouldn't surprise me if a complete recovery was impossible." "If Lee were told that..." "Granny Tsunade will absolutely make him well!" "I'm just saying that sometimes it's not right to give someone false hope!" "Huh?" "You may want to cheer him up but sometimes it can become a burden that has the opposite effect!" "That's why you should stop telling Lee to "hang in there" so casually Naruto!" "Bushy Brow isn't such a softie." "When I watched him battle Gaara during the Chunin Exam" "I thought he was an amazing guy who was ready to put his life on the line." "Until the very end until he lost consciousness he stayed on the attack." "I realized he was a guy who would never ever give up." "There's no way I can understand the suffering he's going through now." "But he's doing everything in his power to overcome it." "I believe in him." "That's why I want to tell Bushy Brow to hang in there!" "Naruto..." "By the way what's our mission?" "Now you ask?" "We're to deliver a secret message to a village located at the foot of Mount Jofuku." "That's an easy one." "Let's finish it up quickly so I can go pick some jofuku flowers." "Say let's take a break." "I want to grab something to eat." "Say Sakura?" "Were you even listening just now?" "Are you going to the jofuku forest?" "Y-Yes." "We need to find some medicinal herbs." "You'd be wise to turn back." "Why is that?" "In these parts it's called the lost woods." "Villagers don't go near it." "The lost woods?" "This was the site of ancient battles." "The ghosts of ninja who were killed here wander the forest." "That's the legend." "Gh-Ghosts?" "My slipper strap broke!" "My mirror broke!" " It's all bad luck!" " It's all bad luck!" "There's no such thing as ghosts." "They're just fake rumors!" "Old lady more tea please!" "That was one creepy old lady huh?" "She was scarier than a real ghost!" "DO NOT ENTER That was so mean of her." "DO NOT ENTER" "DO NOT ENTER Huh?" "What's that?" "Looks pretty suspicious to me." "Isn't this the forest the old lady was talking about?" "So the jofuku flower is in there?" "All right!" "Our mission comes first Naruto!" "I'll be right back!" "He never listens!" "What'll we do?" "We can't just leave him." "DO NOT ENTER" " It's all bad luck!" " It's all bad luck!" "A flower that glows in seven colors." "Just like Guy Sensei said." "Naruto!" "Sakura take a look." "This is the jofuku flower?" "I never heard of a flower that glows in seven colors." "There are flowers that even florists don't know about?" "Well this is a medicinal herb!" "Guy Sensei can make Bushy Brow's medicine with this." "What's that?" "Could it be...a ghost?" "What is that?" "Doesn't it look similar to the jutsu to control sand?" "The one used by Gaara of the Sand." "G-Gaara!" "What's he doing here?" "Let's retreat for now!" "You're right!" "Naruto!" "Why attack us all of a sudden?" "He seems to be after Naruto." "Ino..." "He's wide open right now." "Can you check out his real identity?" "You got it!" "Mind Transfer Jutsu!" "No way..." "What happened?" "There's no consciousness there." "You're dealing with a different me today!" "Can't keep...running away!" "You keep copying Gaara!" "Well then..." "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" "I don't have taijutsu like Bushy Brow." "But..." "I have my own style of fighting!" "He even has sand armor!" "Well then how's this?" "!" "U-zu-ma-ki!" "Naruto Barrage!" "And for the finish..." "Rasengan!" " Naruto!" " Are you all right?" "!" "I beat it." "Finally Bushy Brow can..." "Hey!" "What are you doing to the precious jofuku flowers?" "!" "You're going to make them wilt!" "Who is that?" "Our apologies." "Here is the secret message." "You live in this lonely forest all by yourself old lady?" "Not old lady." "My name is Furofuki!" "As a Medical Ninja from the Hidden Leaf" "I'm studying the jofuku flowers." "It's what I love doing so leave me alone!" "Umm..." "That thing we encountered is like a guardian deity of the jofuku flower?" "When an attempt is made to pull it out the jofuku flower protects itself." "It searches the perpetrator's mind for an image of his archenemy transforms into it and then attacks." "We were thinking of Gaara." "Too bad we didn't think of Choji." "Then we coulda won easily!" "If you hadn't trespassed into the jofuku forest this would never have happened." " We're sorry." " We're sorry." "Sure am." "I-It's so heavy!" "Are these all jofuku flowers?" "Yes." "Your mission is to take this back to the village." " Ino..." " Ino..." "Blame the one who ordered this mission not me." "Rejoice Lee!" "I brought you the greatest gift today!" "It's my handmade special stamina recovery pills of love!" "These herbal pills were made with my sweat tears and love!" "And filled with the warm friendship of your comrades!" "Friendship of my comrades?" "Yes." "The medicinal herb necessary to make these were obtained by none other than Naruto and his team." "Sakura?" "Yes Sakura and Ino." "Which means these herbal pills are filled with Sakura's love too." "Sakura..." "In order to repay your kindness" "I will recover a day sooner." "No an hour a minute a second sooner!" "If you eat a hundred of these you won't need to fear surgery!" "One hundred right?" "Oh wait..." "Now hold on!" "So how many must I eat daily?" "I see you're not making the same mistake this time." "Bravo Lee." "However this time it's 100 in one day!" "I won't let you suffer alone!" "While you are eating I'll do 1000 speed push-ups!" "["U Can Do It!" by DOMINO] THANKS TO xRiikox mewpudding101 naruto.wikia.org" "Shiranai wo riyuu ni nigete bakari de Always running away blaming it on the unknown" "Raku na michi wo susumu no wakantan da yo ne It's easier to continue on the easy way right?" "Demo ima dakedo kono isshu wa But this moment that is only now" "Dare no mono demo naiyo Doesn't belong to anyone" "What's going on What's going on?" "Chiisaikoro ni egaiteta There are times when I wander" "Naritai jibun ni naru tame ni on the thing I wrote when I was a kid" "Nani shite nani wo mirebaii notte that was about "What I should do and what I should see" "Mayocchau toki mo aru yo ne dakedo to become the me I want to become" but" "(Anytime) Kitto ima daiji na mono (Anytime) I'm sure that the important thing right now is" "(Anytime) Sore ha koko ni aru kara (Anytime) right here so" "(Anytime) Kowagaranai de sono mama (Anytime) Don't be afraid stay as you are and" "Ikou shinjite let's go believe in it!" "Shiranai wo riyuu ni nigete bakari de Always running away blaming it on the unknown" "Rakuna michi wo susumu no wakantan da yo ne It's easier to continue on the easy way right?" "Demo ima dakedo kono isshu wa But this moment that is only now" "Dare no mono demo naiyo Doesn't belong to anyone" "What's going on What's going on?" "Hey hey hey I think U can do it!" "Yoku mimi wo sumasete kimi wo yobu hou e Perk your ears and listen to the direction your name is being called" "Hiru no aida no aida made sagashite mite yo go searching from building to building" "Mitsukaru yo kitto you'll find it I'm sure" "Jibun wo ugokasu nanika That something that moves yourself" "Why do I have to train to break free of genjutsu now?" "Don't you remember what your goal for training was?" "Huh?" "To bring back Sasuke of course!" "Sasuke possesses the Sharingan." "Naturally he will learn to master genjutsu." "Unless you have the means to counter that you can't possibly achieve your goal." "Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "Gutsy Master and Student:" "The Training"" "We shall now begin training to break genjutsu!" "THANKS TO Aegisub Project  JagatNaruto" "Tune in again!"