That sand ninja is going to take shikamaru's girl

Pretty sure you were joking but skikamaru has a kid with here

Throw away episode.

this and the next may be the "failures" arc, and not part of the manga, however, this was still written by Kishimoto, it was simply cut from the manga... this is not a Junki Takegami filler. that's why its actually pretty good and worth watching.

the great big war :p