Summaries of episodes

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Episode 160 Shippuden

The 9 tailed refused to have another animal help Naruto through merging. Meanwhile, the new animal summoning pain is revealed to be a corpse reanimated.  

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Episode 161 - Shippuden

Konohamaru takes on one of the Pains and successfully lands a rasengan while learning the guy's jutsu.  

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Episode 162 - Shippuden

After learning about Naruto's location, the Pains retreat and the final one uses his Almighty Push to destroy the village. Naruto is summoned by Lady Shima who is one of the elder frogs.  

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Episode 163 - shippuden

Naruto begins to attack the Pains and gets the upper hand in a hurry.  

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Episode 164 - Shippuden

Because of Sage mode, Naruto is able to use rasen shuriken, but only a limited number of times.  

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Episode 165 - Shippuden

Sage mode eventually fails and Naruto is captured. It is unclear of what Naruto will do to free himself of this situation.  

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Episode 166 - Shippuden

Hinata, tired of seeing Naruto hurt, decides to fight pain and is now on the brink of death yet again.  

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Episode 167 - Shippuden

Naruto begins to lose total control and nearly transforms entirely into the 9 tails, but Minato stops him just in time from the depths of Naruto's mind.  

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Episode 168 - Shippuden

Minato talks with Naruto for a while then redoes the seal. Promising that it would be the last time he did so. Naruto then confronts the last fake Pain and beats him with a rasengan after withstanding his almighty push with shadow clones. He also found out where the real pain is.  

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Episode 169 - Shippuden

Naruto finds and confronts the real pain wanting to hear his story before deciding whether to kill or forgive Pain.  

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Episode 170 - Shippuden

A filler episode where Naruto goes looking for the 4th Hokage's legacy.  

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Episode 171 - Shippuden

Part 2 of this filler episode turned out to be a simple training drill made up by Kakashi and Guy sensei to determine where the ninja were at before the final round.  

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Episode 172 - Shippuden

Nagato begins telling his story of how his parents were killed by leaf ninja and how he met Yahiko and Konan.  

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Episode 173 - Shippuden

Nagato continues his story, telling how Hanzo the Salamander had betrayed the rain village and how Nagato became the leader of the Akatsuki.  

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Episode 174 - Shippuden

After hearing the remainder of Nagato's story, Naruto chooses that although he still cannot forgive Nagato for what he did, he believes in Jiraya more and chooses not to attack Nagato. Therefore Nagato chooses to undo some of the damage that he had done.