Focus: The Symbol of the Leaf

Stage two surrenders to stubbornness: the rubber ball detonates off Naruto's palm, fueled by a memory of the Fourth's face on the mountain and a grudge against everyone who called him hopeless. Jiraiya marks the kid's palm with a spiral — concentrate everything here — and reveals stage three by cruelty: a perfect Rasengan in one hand, an ordinary balloon in the other, utterly still. Power and rotation, contained. The hardest stage is making the storm invisible. Meanwhile, Orochimaru's ruined arms find their own road to Tsunade.