Sai, investigating the Land of Silence, sends a cryptic message back to Leaf Village; Shikamaru decides to head for the Land of Silence with Soku and Ro, but the team must pass through a heavily guarded checkpoint first. [490]

Cast: Shôtarô Morikubo, Naomi Kusumi, Aya Saito, Atsushi Ono, Satoshi Hino, Hirokazu Sekido, Minoru Kawai, Shôgo Nakamura, Ryûichi Kijima, Yô Tokinaga, Steve Blum, Ray Chase, Greg Chun, Ben Diskin, Lucien Dodge