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"Assassin of the Moonlit Night" (月夜の暗殺者, Tsukiyo no Ansatsusha) is episode 76 of the original Naruto anime.

Synopsis[]

Seeing Sakura's determination to protect Sasuke, Gaara remembers his childhood with his uncle Yashamaru. They talked about pain — with Yashamaru explaining to him that the pain dealt to the heart takes the longest to heal and the only cure to such wound is love. Gaara, in time, made a deep bond with his uncle, feeling the pain going away with Yashamaru's love. One night, after he accidentally killed a drunk who looked at Gaara as if he was a monster, Gaara was attacked from behind by an assassin. Gaara's sand protected him as always and he in turn attacked the assassin. After taking out the assassin, Gaara went to check on his attacker's identity, shocked to discover that it was none other than Yashamaru.

In the present, Naruto is now standing in front of Sakura and Sasuke, ordering Gaara to let them go. When Gaara asks who Sasuke and Sakura are to him, he states that they are his friends, and that he will pulverise Gaara if he continues to hurt them. Gaara responds by hurting Sakura, and asks why Naruto hasn't pulverised him yet; Naruto clenches his fists and rushes towards Gaara.

Credits[]

RoleSeiyūEnglish Voice Actor
EnglishJapaneseRōmaji
Naruto UzumakiJunko Takeuchi竹内 順子Takeuchi JunkoMaile Flanagan
Sasuke UchihaNoriaki Sugiyama杉山 紀彰Sugiyama NoriakiYuri Lowenthal
Sakura HarunoChie Nakamura中村 千絵Nakamura ChieKate Higgins
Kakashi HatakeKazuhiko Inoue井上 和彦Inoue KazuhikoDave Wittenberg
GaaraAkira Ishida石田 彰Ishida AkiraLiam O'Brien
TemariRomi Park朴 璐美Paku RomiTara Platt
YashamaruSoichiro Hoshi保志 総一朗Hoshi SōichirōBrian Beacock
PakkunShinpachi Tsuji辻 親八Tsuji ShinpachiJB Blanc
Might GuyMasashi Ebara江原 正士Ebara MasashiSkip Stellrecht
OrochimaruKujiraくじらKujiraSteve Blum
Suna childAyaka Yamashita山下 亜矢香Yamashita AyakaWendee Lee
Suna villagersYoji Ueda
Masayuki Kato
上田 燿司
加藤 将之
Ueda Yōji
Katō Masayuki
David Lodge
Kim Strauss
Sam Riegal
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