Episode 408 The Cursed puppet
Sakura focused episode
Sakura Ino and Choji continue to the tower wtith both scrolls they need.
Sakura faints due to chakra exhaustion. She has a flashback to training with tsunade where Tsunade teachers her the Byakugo and Soso Seizei techniques.
Sakura has trouble thanks to her low chakra but in bad ass sakura fashion crafts a third chakra pool she can use for surgery and battles while putting chakra into the byakugo pool.
Sakura wakes up as a new team confronts them the leader is a psycho with a puppet that if it gets hair or blood can be used as a focal point for a mind transfer jutsu.
the puppet master controls Ino and makes her fight Sakura. while choji has to fight the other 2
Choji get large but the puppet master controls him. Ino goes into chojis head to face her
Sakura thianks about Naruto and Sasuke while trying to build chakra up to protect Ino and free choji.
break away to Sasuke who confronts Karin and Suigetus and gets a measure of them deciding to bring them both with him when the times right.
Cliffhanger ending with giant choji throwing a punch at Sakura and Ino.
Good episode all told some back story revealed.
Would have fit in well if the ending had been different