The seventh Naruto film and the forth Naruto Shippuden film Yamato, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno, and Sai are assigned on a mission to capture Mukade, a missing-nin. They all have chakra-knives, which are used to attack. They set out for the once florious historic ruins of Rouran, a city with one thousand towers and is located in the middle of the desert. They pursue and corner the missing-nin. Mukade's goal is revealed to travel to the past and take over the Five Great Shinobi Countries with the power of the Ryumyaku, an ancient chakra flow deep underground Rouran. He unleashes the power of the Ryumyaku, which is seen to have been sealed by Minato's hirashin kunai, caausing a light to envelop Naruto and Yamato, who was tring to stop Mukade. Sai stops Sakura from getting sucked in by the Ryumyaku by getting her on his ink bird while Sakura cries out Naruto's name. naruto and Yamato are sent twenty years into the past. When Naruto awakens from this time slip, he meets the queen of Rouran, Sara.