Hate Among the Uchihas: The Last of the Clan!

Jiraiya answers the ambush with geography: the inn's corridor ripples and becomes the gullet of a mountain toad, walls of summoned stomach closing on the Akatsuki pair. Itachi's escape costs him black flames — Amaterasu, burning a hole through flesh that shouldn't burn — and the pursuers vanish. In the wreckage, Guy retrieves a broken Sasuke for the hospital while Jiraiya makes the call that defines the next ten episodes: the only medic who can fix Kakashi, Sasuke and Lee is a woman who swore never to return.