Hotaru unleashes the power of the forbidden technique and when she looks around her friends lie unconscious. They awaken quick and start their assault. They manage to seal the assholes hands but Hotaru starts glowing and sucking in the chakra from everywhere around her,charging the forbidden technique.

After lots of talking Shininami takes off and Naruto goes after, leaving Utakata to watch after Hotaru as she sucks in the chakra around her, until she blows up supposedly. It’s no joke it seems, she explodes but Utakata used some weird jutsu or something to contain the explosion and everythings fine, almost to convenient.

Hotaru and the others return to the village where the villagers now accept her. Utakata plans to stick around to and help watch over things. As Naruto and his comrades bid Hotaru and the rest goodbye it makes me wonder if we’re done with Utakata. As he goes to send a message he’s intercepted by Akatsuki, seems he’s a Junchurriki and they got him. Thatsucks Utakata was cool, and if Naruto and them would of just stuck around a littlelonger they could of helped, I guess that’s just how it goes. Guess it means it wasn’t a total filler since it ended with all this. Did anyone else know he was a Bijuu and I just missed it? Oh well I expect the next episode to be back to main story, let’s hope so.

Naruto Shippuden #151