A Place to Return To

As Yūkimaru sleeps, Naruto watches over him. Yūkimaru notices that the crystallised camellia from Guren is no longer cracked. Gozu rescues Guren at the bottom of the lake and Yukimaru, who has lost his ability to control the Three-Tails due to the scale of his exertion, leaves with Guren and Gozu. Tsunade orders the teams to return to the village to regroup because of their wounds, and her calculation that without Yūkimaru’s abilities, neither Orochimaru nor the Akatsuki would also be unable to capture the beast. She sends ANBU to keep watch over the lake. Tobi and Deidara, meanwhile, return to the lake. After Deidara kills the ANBU members, the two Akatsuki members lure out the Three Tails, capturing it easily.