Naruto is rushing to pick some tulips when he slips and falls. When he comes to he sees a rock with weird tag with Kisuke on it. Not knowing why he takes it and goes home. At night he is awaken by a ghost with apparent amnesia, because he does not know who he is or why he is there. Naruto determines to help the man by asking around if anyone in the village knows him. Sakura remembers seeing a hospital door with Kisuke Maboroshi sign. Naruto and Kisuke visit Kisuke's burned down house and looking at a red tulip Kisuke now remembers how he died. Kisuke was heading Anbu Black Opp investigating infiltration of spies in Hidden Leaf Village. He suspected ninja by name Sabiru or taking over control of Hidden Leaf's defense system, but he had no proof. Finally he follows him, confronts him and fight breaks out. Sabiru uses Soul Detachment jutsu to kill Kisuke.
Kisuke's ghost now traveling with Naruto have to find a way to stop Sabiru from putting into place security network of Hidden Leaf. Naruto cloned into Kisuke tries to explain but to no avail. Kakashi cloned in for Kisuke along with Naruto confront Sabiru and Sabiru admits to killing Kisuke's wife. His cronies see it all and kill him. Kisuke is very grateful and asks Naruto to bring red tulips to his grave.
"Nothing good ever happens when you're around Sasuke" says Naruto as he blames Sasuke for allowing Sakura to get captured. Title of next episode of Naruto Shippuden 194 is "The worst three legged race". Check out this preview of Naruto Shippuden 194. Watch it here at TailedFox on January 13th, 2011!