Ino manages to break Saya's hold over Choji, allowing him to redirect his charge on Sakura to Team Saya with Saya unable to dodge it. But it turned out that "Saya" is actually a puppet and the leaf gennin decide to continue towards the main tower, Sakura feeling that she is as weak as she was a few years ago to be protected by her team mates. Eventually regrouping with her team, not longer caring for the Chunin Exams, Saya wants revenge on the leaf gennin while they are still exhausted. Team Saya makes their move when Sana uses her Sandstorm jutsu to fence Sakura, Ino, and Choji in so Saya can overwhelm them with her Cursed Sand Puppets. As Choji fends off the dolls, he learns too late that one of them is Mamushi in disguise as he poisons both him and Ino. Sakura, recalling her surgery and the request to Tsunade for an acceptance in the Chunin Exams, manages to replenish her chakra and sends Team Saya flying off in one blow. She then removes the poison from her allies and thanks them for letting her join their team. Elsewhere, while training Naruto, Jiraiya asks Gerotora to weaken Minato's seal so the youth can harness the Nine-Tails's chakra. But this results in Naruto losing control and transforming into his four-tailed jinchuriki form for the first time. By the time Naruto came to on a hospital bed, he finds Jiraiya with a deep scar while assuring the youth that it was not his fault. Jiraiya then asks Naruto if he wishes to give up, Naruto tells him that he won't despite how impossible it seems right now.