Breakthrough (episode)

" Breakthrough " ( 突破口 , Toppakō ) is episode 280 of the Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime.

## Synopsis [ ]

Boruto confronts Kiseru about Batta 's and Fugō 's deaths. Kiseru questions Boruto's trust in Rokuro 's word over his. Boruto questions him about the communication device Batta stole from him. Kiseru runs away from the gate, Boruto chasing him. Shamo and Yatsume discuss Boruto's leading attitude. Namua 's wound is deeper than they thought, so Shamo goes ahead to ask if Rokuro has first aid kits, also updating him that Kiseru might work for Ōga . Rokuro is confident he has found an exit. Namua wishes he could sleep once more without nightmares before dying. Shamo returns with Rokuro, who has determined that if Kiseru is working for Ōga, they can make him reveal how to leave. Despite his injury, Namua holds the closing gate open so the other three can go after Boruto, and loses consciousness. Kiseru can't get a message through the device, Boruto sees he has it back. Kiseru offers his 7 card, but Boruto is uninterested in it. The other three arrive and surround Kiseru. Yatsume questions him about his dream, and he admits to the lie. He escapes by digging down with Fire Release , the others following him to an underground cave system. Kiseru attacks the ceiling, causing parts of it to collapse.

Shamo protects Yatsume with his Earth Release . Rokuro baits Kiseru out of hiding, and sends a parasite at him, which Kiseru pulls out before it gets inside him completely. Rokuro attempts to send several at once, but Kiseru burns them, using the flames to sneak close to Rokuro and land a hit on an injury he failed to hide from Kiseru. He's about to kill Rokuro when Boruto's Vanishing Rasengan hits him, causing him to retreat. Rokuro warns Boruto that Kiseru intends to separate them so he can take them out one by one. The shinobi who trapped Mitsuki bait him, Sarada , and Kawaki , surrounding them. Kiseru reaches Shamo and Yatsume, and targets Yatsume first, hitting her in the gut. She lures him to a water pool, where she uses Lightning Release . He resists it. Boruto yells at him to stop, Shamo attacks him Earth Release , causing him to retreat and drop a scroll. Yatsume is scared and asks Boruto to stop Kiseru. Sarada recognises the shinobi who ambushed them as Konoha Anbu , their leader allowing them to share intel. They're from a joint team from the Five Great Shinobi Countries investigating recent mass disappearances all over. Shamo is surprised by the contents of Kiseru's scroll. The Anbu reveal Kiseru is part of their team who was sent undercover to investigate the disappearances, his role as an Outer also an infiltration mission. The Anbu suspect the one behind the disappearances is a remnant of Kara . Kawaki wants to know about Kiseru's Kara intel, but they explain that Kiseru, along many other elite jōnin sent to investigate have vanished. The only information they have received back from any of them was not to trust anything, though they don't know what to make of it. Shamo rushes to warn Boruto that Kiseru isn't Ōga's subordinate before the two fight again while Yatsume stays behind, injured. Boruto's accusation of everything being an illusion with him makes Kiseru realise what the warning meant. Sarada thinks that Boruto might be working with Kiseru if they are together, but the Anbu say that they aren't able to reveal their identity even to those they trust. They add that Kiseru volunteered for the mission to save his friend, who also went missing investigating it and delivered them their only warning. They reveal that Kiseru has advanced medical ninjutsu knowledge, and are concerned about how he is faring with the strain of solitude, unable to trust anyone, and being suspected by everyone. Kiseru and Boruto fight. Shamo tries warning them it's a misunderstanding, putting himself between them. Boruto stops his attack, but Shamo is hit by Kiseru's. Shamo hands Boruto Kiseru's scroll. Kiseru couldn't trust anyone because someone tried to frame him for killing Batta. He stabs Boruto, shocking the arriving Rokuro and Yatsume, telling him the maze is actually a genjutsu . He performs a jutsu, leaving everything to him, and passes out. Boruto wakes up in a white chamber, where everyone is held in suspended animation.

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