Ebisu meets Jiraiya as Naruto sleeps and asks about Jiraiya’s purpose for visiting. Meanwhile, Dosu confronts Gaara about his match with Sasuke. Gaara, uber-freaky now during the full moon, goes psycho and transforms into his ultimate form (which we only get a silhouette of). Still seeking out blood, Gaara quickly kills Dosu.
Elsewhere, Hayate catches Kabuto conversing with Sand nin, Baki. Kabuto admits Orochimaru ordered him to abduct Sasuke. Baki warns him that if Konoha learns of his intentions, it may be problematic for the Sand’s plans to crush Leaf Village. Kabuot hands him a scroll which contains battle plans and an account of Gaara’s abilities to take back to Kazekage. Sensing he’s just overheard some ultra-sensitive info, Hayate tries to sneak way to let the Hokage know immediately, but Kabuto and Baki are on to him.
Baki then confronts Hayate on the rooftop. Hayate attacks with Konoha-ryu Mikazuki no Mai (Dance of the Crecent Moon) Baki and deliver a striking blow to his shoulder. Baki is able to block before any major damage is done and, keeping control over Hayate’s sword, performs a wind attack to slash Hayate.
The next day, Jiraiya continues his girl watching activities as Naruto desperately tries to get the pervert sennin to train him. Finally he gives up and transforms into sexy no jutsu to sweet talk Jiraiya. Jiraiya gives in and soon lectures Naruto on controlling Kyubi’s chakra. Naruto has tremendous difficulties tapping into the red chakra, and Jiraiya realizes that Naruto can only utilize Kyubi when he’s in a life threatening situation or enraged. However, if Naruto can learn to tap into Kyubi’s power source, it will become his greatest weapon. He also explains that because Naruto has such great stamina, he should focus on power rather than control and learn to release as much chakra as possible. To do so, he decides to teach Naruto how to summon. (Kuchiyose-no-jutsu)
To summon, the summoner must make a blood contract with an animal. He will then be able to call for their help in battle with ninjutsu. The technique itself is a space-time ninjutsu. However, in order for Naruto to learn this, he must first use up all his regular chakra so he can tap into Kyubi’s chakra. Naruto quickly does Kage Bunshin and engages in a battle royal with his 20+ clones.
Soon, Naruto has won and is completely exhausted. Jiraiya then slices his hand and uses his bleeding hand to summon a toad. The toad then gives Naruto the summoning contract that was handed down from prior generations. If Naruto is to summon them, he must write his name with blood. Then, he is to put blood on each of the fingertips of one hand and place the bloody handprint underneath his name. To summon, he must channel the chakra and use the hand he made the agreement with to call forth a toad. The seals used in summoning are boar, dog, hen, monkey, and sheep.
Naruto does the necessary actions and soon, the contract is official. Excitedly, Naruto summons his first toad… er tadpole.
Meanwhile, the other Konoha nins find Hayate’s dead body and realize there’s trouble…