The Story of Sai and Shin – Naruto Shippuden 263

Naruto Shippuden 263 impressed me quite a bit. It showed the missing part of Sai’s past where it all changed for him. The mysterious character that he drew on his book is finally revealed as his own brother, unlikely to be his biological brother. Kankuro fights and captures both Deidara and Sasori with the help of Omoi. The fight which Sai requests at the end is denied by Shin as he doesn’t want to fight his own brother, plus he saw the image.

We start Naruto Shippuden 263 continuing from last weeks episode. Kankuro opens his seal of Sasori’s body puppet. Sasori notices that he’s got a puppet which will not serve him. Sasori connects his chakra threads to Shin as there’s a bomb within the stomach of Shin, and Sasori and Kankuro both fight it out. Omoi steps in to help but Deidara wants to blow them up, he does this and Shin’s body explodes when the Secret Black Technique – Salamander has been released which imprisons Shin.

Sai shouts his brother’s name as it explodes. Omoi was protected by the puppet while Sai was hit pretty hard. The book which Sai holds is lying on the grass. Sai notices that Deidara called Shin a bomb. As Shin regenerates, Sai gets damn pissed and draws a bird. Then he draws two large human like which literally smash the hell out of both Deidara and Sasori from the sky.

Kankuro opens his technique, Secret Black Technique, where he brings his puppets out and traps both of them in there. As Deidara starts to push himself to blow himself up, Omoi sticks his sword into one of the slots which hits on Deidara’s shoulders preventing him from doing so. Sasori is also stopped from doing anything as Kankuro also holds him in place. Kankuro uses Triple Iron Maiden to lock Deidara in place.

Both Sai and Shin start to talk, they go back to their past where they were both equally matched. But Shin was just a little better. At that point, Shin goes to the side where he starts choking blood, we see that he stops Sai from getting further, because he may not want him to get any closer.

Later on that day, Sai and Shin start to eat their dinner, when Sai asks how long they’ve been there because he wants to always be with Shin. Shin remembers that he has a present for Sai. Sai opens it and is surprised that it’s a sketch book. Sai tells Shin that the book will be dedicated for both of them as he’s going to draw both of them.

After a few years, Danzo pits both of them together to fight since it seems as thought that only one of them can go through. Sai tells Shin that he wont attack, but Shin does the opposite as he wants to kill him. As Sai tries to escape, Shin receives a heart attack. He falls to the ground and Sai goes to help him.

Sai notices that he’s choking blood, Shin tells him everything. He wanted to last until this point where they can both have a sparring match until Sai wins. Sai knew that two comrades would go up against each other but he didn’t know it would be Shin. Shin tells him to discard all emotion and go to the Foundation to tell him that he’s won. He obeys and goes. Here Shin does.

Back to the present, Shin notices that Sai has his own name. Plus he’s notices the image. At this point Shin’s corpse starts to degrade as Shin starts to feel emotion. Sai cries and it seems as though that Sai has finally gotten his emotions back.

Kankuro still has Deidara and Sasori captured. Kankuro reminds Sasori about the fight that he had with Granny Chiyo and Sakura. Kankuro mentions that Sasori tried to erase his soul from his puppet, but he couldn’t do it because Kankuro can still feel it inside the puppet that he had made. Kankuro reminds Sasori of everything that he was, this brings back a lot of emotions for him which starts to turn him to dust just like it did with Shin.

Sasori asks Kankuro to keep both his body as well his mothers and fathers together, as it would help him to pass them along his family line, from him to his son and to his son. Deidara starts to interrupt, but can’t since Sasori has already started to feel emotion.

They notice that both Shin and Sasori had both sacrificial victims to allow for the justu to work. They thought that the Jutsu was perfect but the jutsu itself has a flaw. Kabuto notices what had happened and takes note of everything. He tells himself that he’s got a good idea of how the Edo Tensei works.

Kabuto tells Tobi(Madara) yo head out to the battlefront for which he will be able to fight. He says that he is going hide and focus on the jutsu. Tobi notices that Anko was able to discover the Hideout, even when Kabuto knew. Tobi suggests that he purposely lured her there, at this point he hates Kabuto because he planned for an Allied Shinobi Force and Tobi with Zetsu to destroy each other, But that won’t happen because Tobi mentions that he will use Kabuto to his will. Naruto Shippuden 263 ends here.

That was an amazing episode for a long time now! The past of Sai and Shin has been told, plus the battle is about to begin because Tobi is being sent to the battlefront. This is getting exiting even more! During next week’s Naruto Shippuden 264 episode, we dive deeper into the war. Tobi requests for Kabuto to show him how the Edo Tensei works, while many Zetsu’s appear.