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Season 4
72 :04x01 - A Creeping Threat (Aug/21/2008)
Asuma apologizes at the grave of the Third Hokage for not understanding his advice concerning what the "king" of the Fire Country is. At the hospital, Naruto and Sai recover, despite Naruto's desire to resume his training. Tsunade receives a report from Kakashi that Akatsuki is on the move. Elsewhere, Yugito Nii, the Two Tails Jinch?riki, struggles against Hidan and Kakuzu and unleashes the Two Tails, but is defeated and captured. Hidan and Kakuzu then turn their attention to the Fire Country for their next target.
 
73 :04x02 - Akatsuki Invasion (Aug/28/2008)
Naruto proceeds to the next step of his training, the cutting of a waterfall. Hidan and Kakuzu reach the Fire Temple and fight Chiriku, so as to obtain the bounty on his head. After defeating him, they move out to claim the bounty and thereafter target the Nine Tails Jinch?riki Naruto.
 
74 :04x03 - Under a Starry Sky (Sep/04/2008)
The second stage of Naruto's training continues, while Tsunade sends out twenty teams composed of four ninja each to deal with the Akatsuki members in the Fire Country. Shikamaru leaves with Asuma, Izumo and Kotetsu, whereas Ino and Choji leave with Raido and Aoba. After putting in considerable effort, Naruto clears the second stage of his training, but collapses from hunger and exhaustion almost immediately afterward.
 
75 :04x04 - The Old Monk's Prayer (Sep/11/2008)
Asuma mourns Chiriku's death, and realizes that Hidan and Kakuzu are trying to claim the bounty on his head. Meanwhile, Hidan and Kakuzu take Chiriku in for their payment. Meanwhile, Kakashi shows Naruto what the true goal of his training will be. It is also revealed that Kakashi can perform the Rasengan.
 
76 :04x05 - Akatsuki vs Team Asuma! (Sep/25/2008)
Kakashi reveals that while he knows how to perform Rasengan, he cannot combine his own lightning-based chakra. He adds that even the Fourth Hokage, who created the move, could not combine his elemental chakra with the technique, but that Naruto might be able to. Asuma sends word to other teams about Akatsuki’s location and proceeds on despite his concern about Akatsuki’s strength. Kakuzu turns in Chiriku’s corpse despite Hidan’s complaints, and says that he is partnered with Hidan because he cannot kill him. The stress of the training causes Naruto to be enveloped in the Nine-tails's "Demon Fox's Cloak", but Yamato suppresses it.
 
77 :04x06 - The Climbing Silver (Sep/25/2008)
Asuma’s team reaches the bounty station and ambushes Hidan. Izumo and Kotetsu attack Hidan, but are unable to kill him despite stabbing his vital organs. Asuma tells his teammates that if they retreat they will be killed and Konoha will be endangered. Shikamaru realizes that Asuma is considering sacrificing himself to help defeat the enemy, based on what he knows of Asuma's shogi strategy. Asuma begins fighting Hidan, while Shikamaru distracts him by forcing him to dodge Shadow Sewing. Hidan cuts Asuma on the cheek and steps into a circle of blood as Asuma uses a jutsu to engulf Hidan in a cloud of ash. Asuma then sets the cloud ablaze, supposedly killing Hidan.
 
78 :04x07 - Given Judgment (Oct/02/2008)
Asuma’s fire jutsu strikes Hidan, but much to the team's suprise, Asuma is also burned. Hidan reveals his ability: By ingesting an opponent’s blood and standing in a ritual circle drawn with blood, the "curse" links him to his opponent and all damage inflicted on him is also inflicted on the opponent. Asuma rushes at Hidan but collapses after Hidan stabs himself in the leg. Shikamaru realizes Hidan needs to be in the circle for the curse to take effect, and uses his shadow possession jutsu to force Hidan to step out of it. Asuma forces himself to stand up and beheads the restrained Hidan.
 
79 :04x08 - Unfulfilled Scream (Oct/02/2008)
Hidan’s immortality enables him to stay alive even with his head cut off, although he cannot move his body. Kakuzu sews Hidan's head back on with threads that sprout from his body. Izumo and Kotetsu try to attack Kakuzu, but he manages to grab them both by using his body threads, restraining them and suffocating them as well. Hidan, now able to move again, returns to the circle and stabs himself with the blades of his scythe; he finishes it off by stabbing himself in the chest with another spike, fatally wounding Asuma.
 
80 :04x09 - Last Words (Oct/16/2008)
Asuma collapses, mortally wounded. Shortly thereafter Ino, Chouji, Aoba and Raido appear as the team's backup. They are unable to defeat the Akatsuki members, but the Akatsuki Leader orders the two back to seal the Two Tails. Hidan and Kakuzu retreat, warning the group that they will return. Ino tries to treat Asuma, but fails, as Hidan's attacks had damaged vital organs. Asuma leaves advice for his students, mentioning that he now knows who the "king" that the ninjas Konoha must protect it. As he smokes a final cigarette, he dies of his injuries.
 
81 :04x10 - The Sad News (Oct/23/2008)
Naruto struggles to combine shape and elemental manipulation in his new technique. Elsewhere, the Akatsuki begin sealing the two-tailed beast, and the Akatsuki leader reveals that Akatsuki plans to use the tailed beasts to cause conflict, serving as mercenaries at a lower cost than the ninja of the hidden villages, replacing them and eventually taking over the world. News of Asuma's death reaches Konoha just as Naruto realizes the solution is to use two shadow clones instead of one.
 
82 :04x11 - Team 10 (Oct/30/2008)
A funeral is held for Asuma, but Shikamaru does not attend it, choosing instead to sulk at home. After careful prodding by his father during a game of Shogi, Shikamaru works through his emotions, and comes up with a strategy to defeat Asuma's killers, Hidan and Kakuzu. Team 10 visits Asuma's grave before setting out for revenge, but Tsunade stops them, telling them that they need a four-man squad and backup for the mission. Kakashi then volunteers as the leader when it becomes clear Team 10 has no intention of backing down.
 
83 :04x12 - Target: Lock On (Nov/06/2008)
Tsunade tells Sakura that Team 7 will be Team 10's backup if Naruto finishes his training within 24 hours. Shikamaru quickly adjusts the team's strategy to include Kakashi. After Hidan and Kakuzu are found, Shikamaru pins the shadows of the Akatsuki pair with Asuma's blades imbued with his chakra. He uses Hidan to attack Kakuzu, but Kakuzu had secretly detached his arm during Shikamaru's attack. The arm removes the blade pinning his shadow and he dodges Hidan. Choji then attacks Kakuzu from above.
 
84 :04x13 - Kakuzu`s Abilities (Nov/13/2008)
Choji's spiked cannonball is ineffective against Kakuzu's special ability, which enables him to harden his skin with an Earth element technique. Naruto struggles to perfect his new technique within the 24-hour time limit and learns about the strengths and weaknesses of the elements in relation to each other. Kakuzu gets struck by Kakashi's Lightning Blade right through the heart, but survives and produces four masked entities from his body, one of which dies, as it had been struck by the Lightning Blade. Kakuzu then uses the masks to attack Team 10 with Kakuzu using powerful wind, lightning and fire jutsu.
 
85 :04x14 - The Terrifying Secret (Nov/20/2008)
Shikamaru realizes Kakuzu has five hearts, which enables him to survive otherwise fatal wounds, and he must be killed five times before he dies. He states that in order to be able to defeat the two Akatsuki members, he must first draw Hidan away, and uses Shadow Possession Jutsu to lead him to a forest. Kakuzu launches a combined fire and wind jutsu on Kakashi, then pins him down and prepares to take his heart. At the same time, Hidan apparently cuts Shikamaru on the cheek and prepares to use his ritual to kill him by stabbing himself.
 
86 :04x15 - The Genius of Shikamaru (Dec/04/2008)
Hidan stabs himself, but instead of mortally wounding Shikamaru with his curse, he destroys another one of Kakuzu's hearts. Shikamaru fails to behead Hidan, so he pins him down with his shadow possession. It turns out that the vial contains Kakuzu's blood. Kakuzu is temporarily incapacitated. His other hearts return to his body, with one sacrificing itself to become his heart. Just as Kakuzu is about to finish them off with another fire/wind jutsu, Team 7 arrives just in time to stop the attack with a wind/water jutsu combo.
 
87 :04x16 - When You Curse Someone, You Dig Your Own Grave (Dec/04/2008)
Sakura and Sai leave to help Shikamaru. Hidan attempts to break out of Shikamaru's weakened hold on him, but Shikamaru uses a new technique to pull the explosive tags he set up onto his body. Shikamaru then opens a trap hole he had prepared, and reveals that his plan was to bury Hidan beneath the Nara family woods. He has a vision of Asuma entrusting his "will of fire" to him, then uses his lighter to ignite the tags on Hidan. Meanwhile, Naruto readies the jutsu he has been developing, Wind Style: Spiraling Shuriken.
 
88 :04x17 - Wind Release: Spiraling Shuriken (Dec/11/2008)
Naruto attacks Kakuzu with Spiraling Shuriken, but his attack dissipates before he can land a hit. Meanwhile, Shikamaru uses an explosive tag to fill in the hole containing Hidan's broken body and still screaming head. He is joined by Sakura and Sai, and they head back to the others. Naruto again creates a Spiraling Shuriken, this time sending a shadow clone carrying it as a decoy. Kakuzu takes the bait, and Naruto lands a direct hit with a second Spiraling Shuriken, obliterating both of Kakuzu's replacement hearts and tearing his body apart.
 
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