Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto) is a shinobi of Konohagakure and a

descendant of the Uzumaki clan. He became the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailson the day
of his birth — a fate that caused him to be shunned by most of Konoha throughout his
childhood. After joining Team Kakashi, Naruto worked hard to gain the village's
acknowledgement all the while chasing his dream to become Hokage. In the following
years, through many hardships and ordeals, he became a capable ninja regarded as a
hero both by the villagers, and soon after, the rest of the world, becoming known as
the Hero of the Hidden Leaf (木ノ葉隠れの英雄, Konohagakure no Eiyū, Literally
meaning: Hero of the Hidden Tree Leaves). He soon proved to be one of the main
factors in winning the Fourth Shinobi World War, leading him to achieve his dream and
become the village's Seventh Hokage (七代目火影, Nanadaime Hokage, Literally
meaning: Seventh Fire Shadow).

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Background

A newborn Naruto with his mother Kushina.

Naruto was born on the night of October 10th to Minato Namikaze (the Fourth Hokage)
and Kushina Uzumaki (the second jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails). He was named after the
protagonist of Jiraiya's first book, which made the Sannin his
godfather.[14] The Third Hokage made special arrangements for Minato to preserve
Kushina's seal containing the Nine-Tails while she gave birth to Naruto in a remote
location, escorted by midwives and Anbu. A masked man, Tobi, tracked down their
location, however, killed the midwives and Anbu, and captured Naruto, forcing Minato
to quickly rescue him and teleport him to a safe house.

Minato and Kushina protect Naruto from the Nine-Tails.

With Minato gone, Tobi captured Kushina and released the Nine-Tails from her, using
it to devastate Konoha.[15]Minato saved Kushina and left Naruto in her care before he
went to protect the village,[16] eventually defeating Tobi and freeing the Nine-Tails
from Tobi's control. Returning to Naruto and Kushina's location, Minato realised the
only way to stop the Nine-Tails was to seal it within Naruto, believing that his son
would someday need the fox's power to defeat Tobi when he returned.[17] Since the
Nine-Tails' chakrawas too immense to seal into an infant, Minato sacrificed his
soul to split the fox's chakra in half, sealing the Yin half within himself and the
Yang half within Naruto. After telling Naruto how much they loved him, Minato and
Kushina succumbed to their wounds from protecting their son from the Nine-Tails and
passed away.
Orphaned, Naruto grew up not knowing who his parents were, receiving only his
mother's surname, as Hiruzen wanted to protect Naruto from his father's
enemies.[18]Minato's dying wish that Naruto be regarded as a hero was honoured by the
very few who could put aside their pain and losses caused by the disaster, while the
majority of Konoha, however having no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his
birth, openly ostracised and resented Naruto for containing the beast that devastated
the village and took many lives; some even viewed Naruto as the Nine-Tails itself.
Soon, the Third Hokage forbade anyone from mentioning the Nine-Tails, hoping that the
younger generation would not blindly hate Naruto as their parents did.[19] However,
Naruto's peers emulated their parents' hatred of him, despite not knowing why. This
social isolation caused Naruto to crave acknowledgement, which he would gain by
pulling pranks.

Naruto meets Hinata.

On the day of his enrolment in the Ninja Academy[20] - Naruto first met Hinata Hyūga,
who was being picked on by three bullies. Despite not knowing her, Naruto immediately
came to her defence, but he was outnumbered and knocked unconscious, and the bullies
damaged his red scarf. When Naruto awoke, Hinata thanked him for helping her and
returned his scarf to him, but he let her keep it. He was unaware that the girl's
growing affections for him began from that moment onwards.[21]

Naruto and Sasuke in the Academy.

In the Academy, Naruto became a student of Iruka Umino, who acted as a surrogate
older brother to keep him in line and help him work harder. Naruto also met his
class-mate Sasuke Uchiha and tried to befriend him, since he was alone as well.
Jealous of Sasuke's skills and popularity, however,[22] he developed a one-sided
rivalry in his pursuit to prove himself just as good as, if not better than, Sasuke,
wishing that someday, Sasuke would accept him as an equal.[23] Naruto also grew close
with the owner of Ramen Ichiraku, Teuchi and his daughter Ayame, being welcomed as
their favourite customer.
Personality

Naruto's ninja registration photo.

Naruto is characterised as boisterous, exuberant and unorthodox, quite similar
to Hashirama Senju.[24] He inherited his mother's verbal tic, as he ends his sentences
with "Dattebayo!" (だってばよ!) when excited or frustrated. Though he responds best
to competition and is not afraid to ask for assistance, Naruto is relatively naive,
simple, and slow to understand principles or situations. He often requires an
oversimplified analogy in order to grasp explanations,[25] and can even forget some
concepts that he himself noted earlier if he is too emotional.[26] Naruto is aware of
his faults, and admits he acts strong to mask his embarrassment and frustration about
them.[27][28] Despite his naivety, Naruto can be quite observant, picking up on things
others miss and retaining information casually gathered through conversation.[29]
Growing up as an orphan who suffered years of hatred and social isolation by Konoha's
villagers has influenced Naruto's character in a number of ways: he is heedless to
formality and social standings, addressing certain people with nicknames instead
of honourifics, although by the time of his adulthood, Naruto has slightly outgrown
this trait, as he stopped referring to Lee as "Bushy Brows" and calls him by his
name;[30][31] he has picky eating habits of ramen, his favourite food; he has a
perverted side that manifests as uses of the Sexy Technique or attempts to peep into
women's baths;[32] he didn't understand the real meaning of "love" and believes that
loving and/or being loved by someone and ramen are both the same. Despite his quirks
and the criticism they earn him, Naruto is said to have a personality that draws
people to him,[33] inspiring friendship and loyalty through acts of genuine kindness
that could change a person's world view. He is thus able to build meaningful
relationships that he lacked in early life; the Sage of Six Paths believes Naruto's
kindness is a special gift that allows him to save Kurama from its hatred.[34] Naruto
deeply cherishes these bonds and will go to great lengths to protect them, best seen
with Sasuke after his defection from Konoha. Naruto's time at the Falls of
Truth revealed that a part of him hated the villagers for ostracising him, only to
admire him after he saved them during Pain's Assault. This allowed Kurama to
manipulate Naruto's rage until he confronted it and learned to let it go, becoming
greater than what he suffered.[35]

Naruto promises Sakura to return Sasuke to Konoha.

Another of Naruto's prominent traits is his desire for acknowledgement; his pranks
around the village were for people to notice, or at least scold, him. Therefore, he
dreamed of one day becoming Konoha's Hokage, the epitome of acknowledgement and
respect from everyone in the village.[36] Knowing his dream is a long, arduous and
seemingly impossible path, Naruto developed his own nindō of never going back on his
word. This life-long philosophy serves as the cornerstone of Naruto's great self-
confidence; he believes he can accomplish any goal with enough hard work and
perseverance, no matter how big the obstacle is or how long it takes to complete it.
This guides him in many aspects of life besides a battle, such as his promise to
Sakura of bringing Sasuke back to Konoha. Over time, his goal to be Hokage grew from
a desire for acknowledgement to a desire to help and protect the people close to him,
which Tobi attributed to the Will of Fire.[37] His nindō is reinforced by his
understanding that shinobi were meant to endure through hardships.[38] His belief in
hard work and perseverance made him detest people who would use insincere shortcuts
to achieve their goals, as he disqualified his son from the Chūnin Exams for using
the banned and unfair Kote, and expressed disgust at Momoshiki and Kinshiki
Ōtsutsuki for their reliance on harvesting from Chakra Fruits to lazily gain
power.[39]
After the death of his master Jiraiya, talking to his father Minato and listening
to Nagato's tragic story, Naruto grew to understand the cycle of hatred and vowed to
break it in order to bring real peace to the world.[40] To that end, his participation
in the Fourth Shinobi World War is not only to protect his friends, but also to bear
and erase the world's hatred all by himself. After encountering a reincarnatedItachi
Uchiha, however, Naruto realises that he cannot handle everything alone and that he
must allow his friends to support and fight alongside him. As he does so in war's
climax, his fighting spirit inspires the Allied Shinobi Forces to join him and keep
fighting to end the war as well, ultimately becoming an example for many people to
admire, follow, and believe in.[41][42]

Naruto becomes shy around Hinata.

Naruto first met Hinata Hyūga when they were children, where his open kindness and
courageous spirit earned him her admiration, which grew into love. On his part,
Naruto remained largely oblivious to Hinata's feelings for him and even considered
her "weird" because of her shyness around him. However, things change during the
Chūnin Exams in Part I when they began to interact more and support each other,
causing Naruto to like her as a friend.[43] In Part II, as Hinata becomes willing to
risk her life to protect Naruto, he in turn sees her as a strong person despite his
speechlessness at her love confession. Naruto did grow to love Hinata subconsciously,
but he was never able to consciously realise it because he kept "fighting" for
Sakura, which was just another way for him to compete with Sasuke. During The Last:
Naruto the Movie, Naruto finally recognises the love that Hinata has always had for
him, causing him to become more bashful and protective of her, just as she was for
him. Realising that she alone has always had faith in him and that she has always
been there for him, he reciprocates her feelings and desires to be with her for the
rest of his life.
As an adult, Naruto becomes wiser and more mature, though he retains some of his
negligence for honourifics.[44] Although he finally achieves his dream of becoming
Hokage, its many tasks not only overwhelm Naruto at times, but often leave him unable
to spend time with his family, particularly upsetting his son Boruto. He admits that
part of this stems from not having grown up with a father himself, making it
difficult for him to know how to interact properly with his own children, mostly with
his son.[45] Naruto is also more responsible in his duties as Hokage and as a father:
he forbids use of the Kote in the Chūnin Exams as it diminishes a shinobi's true
potential; he is disappointed by Boruto's cheating in the exams and even removes his
forehead protector in front of the audience after lecturing him. Nevertheless, Naruto
deeply loves his family, as he creates shadow clones to tend to them while he's busy,
protects them in times of danger, spends time with them when he can, and expresses
pride in his children's successes.[39] He in fact adopts Hiruzen's philosophy that
everyone in the village is his family, believing that true relationships are made up
of love rather than blood relations.[46] His refusal to give his son any special
treatment due to their blood-relationships, along with the insistence that the boy
professionally addresses him as "Seventh" or "Hokage" while in the office, is a
testament of Naruto's lack of bias and prejudice.[39]
Appearance
According to Jiraiya, Naruto strongly resembles his father:[47] he has blond, spiky
hair and blue eyes, while inheriting the shape of his mother's eyes and face.[48] His
trademark characteristic are the three whisker markings on his cheeks. During
the Fourth Shinobi World War, Dan Katō initially mistook Naruto for Nawaki due to
their stark resemblance.[49] Naruto was rather short for his age during Part
I,[50] though he grew to be taller than Sakura in Part II.[51] Naruto originally wore
green goggles on his forehead, though he discards them upon becoming a genin.

 Naruto in Part II (left) and in Part I (right) respectively.

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In Part I, Naruto wore an orange and blue jacket with a white collar, a white swirl
with a tassel on the left side, and a red Uzumaki crest on the back. He also wore
orange pants with a shuriken holster on his right knee, blue sandals, and a
blue forehead protector, given to him by Iruka after graduating from the Academy. In
Part II, Naruto wears a more form fitting outfit after wearing out his original one
while training with Jiraiya,[52] with a T-shirt or mesh armour underneath. While
retaining the swirls and orange pants, the blue pieces of his outfit changes to
black: his forehead protector (which is now longer), sandals, and orange jacket, the
black colour showing more prominence than the blue did originally. During his battle
with Pain, Naruto briefly wore a short-sleeved red coat with a black flame pattern
around the hem and carried a large scroll on his back.

 Naruto in The Last: Naruto the Movie.

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Naruto loses his right arm after the Fourth Shinobi World War, though it is later
replaced by a fully maneouverable prosthetic arm made of Hashirama Senju's cells,
wrapped completely in bandages. In The Last: Naruto the Movie, Naruto grew taller
again, cut his hair short and wore a black elastic forehead protector. Over his pants
and sandals, he wears a black uniform jacket with an orange zipper and buttons on the
waist and sleeves, which can be folded up at times. He has a red armband with an
Uzumaki crest on his left arm. After becoming Hokage, Naruto dons a garment similar
to his father's: a white cape that has a red flame pattern around the hem, is held
together by a red rope, and has the kanji for "Seventh Hokage" (七代目火影, Nanadaime
Hokage) written vertically down the back. Underneath this, he wears an orange
sweatshirt with black stripes (reverse in the manga version of Boruto: Naruto Next
Generations), black pants and sandals. He occasionally wears the traditional Hokage
headpiece, but has stopped wearing a forehead protector.
Abilities

Naruto's combined senjutsu and tailed beast influence over his trademark techniques.
Naruto was an inept student in the Academy, having failed to graduate three times
before successfully becoming a shinobi. Through sheer determination, however, his
skills rapidly improved in Part I by defeating strong shinobi such as Neji
Hyūga, Gaara, and Kabuto Yakushi, earning acknowledgement from the Sannin for his
potential.[53] Under Jiraiya's tutelage and training at Mount Myōboku, Naruto became
strong enough to fight and defeat members of Akatsuki, which ultimately earned him
the praise of Konohagakure as a hero of Hokage-material.[54] Naruto's participation in
the Fourth Shinobi World War led to the defeat of many of the
reincarnated Kage[55]and tailed beasts.[56] He also could defeat opponents who
threatened the fate of the shinobi world, such as Obito Uchiha, Madara Uchiha,
Sasuke, Kaguya and Toneri Ōtsutsuki. Others believed Naruto had surpassed the
previous Hokage and was the central key to winning the war.[57][58][59] By adulthood,
his prowess earned him the position of Seventh Hokage, and is regarded as having
command of overwhelming jutsu.[60] Viewed as the strongest shinobi of his era[61] and
in history,[62]Sasuke is the only person capable of matching him.[citation needed]
Chakra and Physical Prowess

Naruto sharing Kurama's chakra through physical contact.

As an Uzumaki, and a reincarnation of Asura Ōtsutsuki,[63] Naruto has massive reserves
of strong chakra, at least four times greater than Kakashi's, and described
by Karin as "bright and warm."[64][65] His initial poor control of it was offset by his
sheer reserves.[66] Naruto's reserves were so large, he could fight for three and a
half days of constant battleagainst several powerful opponents. Only by the end of
his battle against Sasuke did he show exhaustion, and even then could still fight to
a standstill and eventual victory.[67] Naruto's control improved greatly over time: he
could transfer his chakra to others,[68] and perform one-handed hand seals.[69] He
later received chakra from all of the other tailed beasts, and Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki,
which increased his reserves even further. Naruto's powerful life force grants him an
extreme longevity, healing power, stamina, and vitality;[70] this allowed him to
survive the extraction of a tailed beast for a while.[71]Naruto also learned how to
counter genjutsu from Jiraiya, but had limited skill in using it.[72] In adulthood,
Naruto's chakra is powerful enough to destroy high-level barriers simply by releasing
chakra in his enhanced form.[73]

Naruto attacking Gaara with his Naruto Uzumaki Two Thousand Combo.
While naturally a short-range fighter, Naruto was not adept at the use of taijutsu
during Part I, as he required the use of unpredictable attacks to surprise combat
experts like Kiba Inuzuka and Neji .[74][75] He often utilised shadow clones or
Kurama's chakra to simply overwhelm his foes; with the former, he created techniques
such as the Naruto Uzumaki Combo and its stronger versions.[76] Although these tactics
resume in Part II, Naruto becomes much more adept at taijutsu due to Jiraiya's
training.[77] After Fukasaku's tutelage, he was capable fending off a pair of skilled
kenjutsu users on his own.[78][79][80] Two years after the war, Naruto's taijutsu
improved to such an extent, that he could defeat dozens of opponents without
requiring shadow clones or enhancements.[21]
Body Modifcations
After having lost his right arm during his final battle with Sasuke, Tsunade cultured
an artificial prosthesis for him using the cells of Hashirama Senju. Though he has
yet to display any special abilities from the artificial arm's unique cellular
composition, like the Wood Release or self-sustaining without nourishment, the arm
has further augmented his stamina healing capacities. However, similar to Madara and
Obito's own usage of these prosthesis, he can easily remove and replace it.[81] After
Momoshiki's defeat, Naruto took inspiration from his chakra absorption technique and
had Katasuke Tōno and the Scientific Ninja Weapons Team develop a new prototype
mechanical prosthesis for him. This artificial limb possesses the ability to both
absorb and neutralise an opponent's techniques, though they have yet to replicate
Momoshiki's ability to discharge them as a counterattack.[81]
Jinchūriki Transformations
Main articles: Jinchūriki Forms and Nine-Tails Chakra Mode

Naruto's Version 1 form.

As the jinchūriki of Kurama's Yang half, Naruto had access to a massive chakra
reserve, which was at least a hundredfold greater than Kakashi's.[64] Due to his
inheriting his mother's unique chakra capacities and being Kurama's jinchūriki for
practically his entire life, Naruto's chakra had more effectively mixed with the
fox's,[82] allowing him to perform several chakra-taxing techniques unhindered.
Originally while accessing Kurama's chakra, typically through sheer rage, enhanced
Naruto's abilities, the fox's negative influence made Naruto more aggressive. While
essentially remaining himself up to accessing a Version 1 state, Version 2 would make
him lose control and turn feralforms, requiring outside assistance to suppress
Kurama's power through various methods and regain control. These drawbacks caused
Naruto to rely on his own strength instead of Kurama's, until he proved capable of
controlling it completely. By the time he became the jinchūriki of Kurama's Yin half,
he could access his Version 1 form without any loss in his mentality.[83]

Naruto transforming from his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode into his Kurama Mode.
Realising he could not avoid using Kurama's power, Naruto sought to control it with
help from Killer B, the jinchūriki of Gyūki, and unexpectedly, his own mother,
Kushina. Upon succeeding and taking most of Kurama's chakra, Naruto attained Nine-
Tails Chakra Mode, which greatly increased his physical parameters. As he didn't have
Kurama's cooperation, Naruto needed to exercise extreme caution while using the form,
as the chakra exchange could cost him his life. Eventually, when Kurama acknowledged
Naruto's life-long strength of character, and Naruto learnt the fox's true name,
their new-found friendship granted Naruto access to Kurama Mode, which further
increased his physical parameters. This cooperation of Kurama also provides Naruto
with an immediate resistance from genjutsu. Two years later, he could isolate the
form to one hand, either to enhance his strength, or to block attacks.

Naruto's Tailed Beast Mode.

Failing to transform into a replica of Kurama at first, Naruto instead achieved
a Tailed Beast Mode in the unique form of a life-sized transparent avatar of chakra.
In it, he could create Tailed Beast Balls and revitalise the life forces of any who
entered the shroud,[84][85] heal severe burns,[39] or have them temporarily don chakra-
cloaks.[86] After he became the jinchūriki of Kurama's complete self, Naruto was
capable of manifesting the demon fox outside himself for a period akin to summoning,
allowing both to fight as separate entities. Naruto had also received chakra from the
other tailed beasts during the Fourth Shinobi World War,[87] which made him a human
pillar for the power of Ten Tails.[88] This allowed him to access their unique
abilities himself, or infuse them into his Rasengan and its variants. With an
infusion of all nine different tailed beasts' respective chakra inside of him, Naruto
has become a medium to connect all the tailed beasts to communicate with each
other.[89]
Ninjutsu
Naruto using the Summoning Technique.
In the Academy, the Sexy Technique was the only technique that Naruto could perform
successfully, which had no practical use other than to shock his instructors. Later,
he learned new ninjutsu from Jiraiya, able to summoning toads from Mount Myōboku to
assist him, and use them to crush enemies from above. He became skilled
in shurikenjutsu, able to throw weapons quickly and with precision,[90] or barrage an
enemy using shadow clones,[91] Naruto's repertoire expanded to fūinjutsu upon
receiving Gerotora near the start of the Fourth Shinobi World War.[92]

Naruto sensing and fighting Madara's shadows.

Naruto can also sense chakra through his enhanced modes. He could identify chakra
signatures from vast distances in Sage Mode,[93] detect negative emotions in Nine-
Tails Chakra Mode, and empower his sensory abilities to the highest possible level in
Six Paths Sage Mode,[94] which allowed him to sense the invisible shadows of Limbo. In
the anime, Jiraiya introduced Naruto to cooperation ninjutsu, learning how to combine
his techniques with others to create an even more powerful one.[95] The collaboration
techniques he performed with other individuals typically utilised his own elemental
affinity, such as the Typhoon Water Vortex Technique with Yamato, the Wind Release:
Toad Gun with Gamatatsu, and the Scorch Release: Halo Hurricane Jet Black Arrow Style
Zero with Sasuke.
Shadow Clone Technique

Naruto using the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique.

See also: Images of Naruto using Shadow Clone TechniqueNaruto's first trademark technique
was the Shadow Clone Technique. While back in the Academy he failed to perform a
basic illusionary clone, after briefly studying the Scroll of Seals, to save Iruka
who risked his life for Naruto, he overcame this by performing the Shadow Clone
Technique on a mass scale. From then on, Naruto's skill with the Shadow Clone
Technique blossomed to great heights. Having unusually high chakra reserves, Naruto
could use this technique to create hundreds of shadow clones and retain a decent
amount of chakra in each one with relative ease.[96] He could use them to outnumber or
deceive his enemies in combat, manoeuvre himself in mid-air, transform into weapons,
scout areas, or test an opponent's abilities.[97] During his elemental-affinity
training, Naruto learnt that the user of a shadow clone receives all of the knowledge
and conditioning clone gained once they had dispersed. This method allowed him to
drastically speed up his training, as he could in effect gain years worth of
experience in just days. By the time he became Hokage, Naruto's usage of this
technique on mass-scale and prolonged-periods allowed him to constantly perform
multiple simultaneous tasks throughout the village daily, although he does have a
tendency to overexert himself, leaving him exhausted afterwards.
Rasengan

Naruto using the Rasengan.

See also: Images of Naruto using RasenganNaruto's second trademark technique was
the Rasengan, a one-handed technique created by his father. Due to his poor chakra
control, Naruto often used a shadow clone to form the spherical shape while he
provided the chakra. Over time, Naruto developed larger versions of the Rasengan,
perform it faster,[98] and even have his shadow clones maketheir own Rasengan. During
the Fourth Shinobi World War, he learned to use the Rasengan and its variants unaided
with a single hand, or even form one in both hands simultaneously.[99] He also
increased the size of his standard Rasengan, making it noticeably
larger.[100][101][102] Naruto had also shown the ability to release the Rasengan as an
energy wave,[21] or as a projectile in the anime.[103] Using senjutsu or Kurama's
chakra, Naruto could create more powerful and elaborate variations of the Rasengan;
using the latter, he even developed the Super Mini-Tailed Beast Ball, performing it
in a similar manner to the Rasengan.
Nature Transformation

Naruto and his shadow clones create a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

Naruto's natural affinity is Wind Release, which he learned from Asuma
Sarutobi to flow into his weapons to increase their offensive might.[104]Using shadow
clones, he couple the complete difficult task of adding his elemental nature to the
Rasengan, something no one, including his father, had been able to succeed at. One
shadow clone helped form the Rasengan, while the other provided the Wind chakra,
which produced the Wind Release: Rasengan and the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken. Two
years after its creation, he became skilled enough to form a Rasenshuriken without
any shadow clones and throw it in his base form,[21] a feat which he previously could
only do while using his enhanced modes. He also created different-sized variations,
and could even use two Rasenshuriken simultaneously.
After gaining the Six Paths Senjutsu, Naruto can utilise all five nature
transformations, as well as Yin–Yang Release.[105] He could make perfect use of the
latter to revitalise life-forces, heal whomever he touches, and restore missing
organs.[106] After gaining chakra from the respective tailed beasts, Naruto can also
use Shukaku's Magnet Release, Son Gokū's Lava Release, and Kokuō's Boil Release.
While mainly relying on Wind Release as a genin, as Hokage, Naruto expanded his
fighting style to include Earth Release, which he utilises in the form of sturdy
earth walls.[107]
Senjutsu

Naruto's Sage Mode.

Naruto later trained in senjutsu at Mount Myōboku, which was only possibly due to his
high chakra reserves. Unlike Jiraiya, he was able to perfectly balance natural
energy with his chakra, and enter a complete Sage Mode, symbolised by the orange
pigmentation around his eyes. Using Sage Mode made Naruto's techniques stronger,
enhanced his physical parameters,[108][109][110] and allowed him to utilise the Frog
Kata taijutsu style.[111] Since Fukasaku was unable to fuse with Naruto and gather
natural energy for him (due to Kurama's interference), Naruto had to employ shadow
clones instead to maintain the technique. Once they disperse, the natural energy they
absorb would transfer to the original, allowing him to use Sage Mode for a number of
times. However, creating more than five shadow clones overall would disrupt the focus
of the clones gathering natural energy. The need for this method diminishes over time
as Naruto became capable of entering Sage Mode much faster.[112] However, after
finding unity with Kurama, Naruto overcame this problem and learned to combine Sage
Mode with Kurama's chakra to further enhance his abilities, such that he could
resist Nagato's control and shatter Truth-Seeking Balls.
Six Paths Sage Mode
Main article: Six Paths Sage Mode

Naruto's Six Paths Sage Mode.

With the power given to him by Hagoromo, Naruto gained access to the Six Paths Sage
Mode (六道仙人モード, Rikudō Sennin Mōdo).[5] In this mode, his eyes become yellow and
his pupils take on a cross-like shape — without manifesting the orange pigmentation
around his eyes present in Sage Mode. Going further, Naruto could also don a new
chakra cloak, similar to Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, which he could access instantly and
maintain much longer than his standard Sage Mode.[113] Naruto's physical attributes
and techniques are further augmented,[114][115][116] to the point where he could
dodge attacks at the speed of light. The mode granted him flight and immunity from
Truth-Seeking Balls.

Naruto's Asura Kurama Mode.

Naruto can also manifested nine Truth-Seeking Balls, composed of all five
basic natures, Yin–Yang Release, and Six Paths Sage Chakra. He could mould the balls
into staves and platforms, fire them as projectiles, convert them into Tailed Beast
Balls to create Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken, or transfer them to his shadow
clones. Naruto also retained use of his Tailed Beast Mode avatar of Kurama, which
rivalled Sasuke's Complete Body — Susanoo in size and power.[117] Using shadow clones,
he could create and combine three Kurama avatars into a single construct with three
faces and six arms, similar to Asura's.[118] This state allowed Naruto to infuse two
massive Rasenshuriken with natural energy.[119]
Intelligence

Naruto reveals himself after disguising as a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

While headstrong and often acting without thinking, Naruto's years as a prankster had
given him a cunning imagination that was useful in battle. He was a
remarkable tactile learner, able to learn better through executing a task rather than
understanding the theory of it.[120][25] Once they see him in action, even the likes of
the Second Hokage revise their thoughts about Naruto's intellect and instinct in
battle.[121] After meeting Hagoromo, Naruto gained the innate ability to grasp the
nature of chakra and comprehend all universal things,[122] allowing him to quickly
master the new powers he received. By adulthood he had became a capable teacher
during the blank period, instructing students at Konoha's Ninja Academy and training
them to become ninja.[123][124]
Naruto's most famous mental skill lies in his ability to deceive his opponents, as he
made effective use of even the most simple techniques to trick the deadliest of
opponents.[125] He could formulate multi-step plans or backup plans in the thick of
battle,[126] and act quickly even when given new information.[127] His strategies
typically involved shadow clones. He could direct his opponent's attentions towards
one of his clones to disguise his own movements, transform his clones into objects or
other individuals for surprise attacks, and could seemingly make himself predictable
by creating a pattern, only to throw off his opponent by breaking it. He has even
thrown in what others would call random, completely useless supplementary
techniques at powerful opponents and successfully created a decent opening for a
counterattack.[128] Naruto is rather observant, able to notice details others may
overlook and subsequently take advantage of them to overcome his opponents.[129]
Stats
Databook Ninjutsu Taijutsu Genjutsu Intelligence Strength Speed Stamina Hand seals Total
First 2 1.5 1 1 2 2 4 1 14.5
Second 3 2 1 1.5 3 3 4 1 18.5
Third 4 3.5 2 3 3.5 3.5 5 1.5 26
Part I
See also: Plot of Naruto
Prologue — Land of Waves
Failing once again to graduate from the Academy, a disappointed Naruto is advised by
one of his instructors, Mizuki, to steal the Scroll of Seals and learn a technique
from it in order to graduate. As Naruto struggled to learn the Shadow Clone
Technique, Iruka Umino tracked him down and realised that Naruto was tricked by
Mizuki into stealing the scroll. Mizuki attacked them and told Naruto about the Nine-
Tails sealed within him, claiming that Iruka hated him because of it. When Iruka
risked his life to protect Naruto, however, he saw through Mizuki's lies and used
the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to defeat him, prompting Iruka to happily grant
Naruto his graduation from the Academy. Naruto would later befriend Konohamaru
Sarutobi, grandson of the Third Hokage, and teach him several perverted or useful
techniques.

Team 7's group photo.

Naruto was eventually assigned to Team 7, partnered with Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura
Haruno under the leadership of Kakashi Hatake. During their first meeting, Naruto
shared his love of ramen, his hobbies, and his dream to become Hokage. To test their
qualifications, Kakashi gave the team a bell test, stating that whichever of the
three takes one of the two bells on his person will officially become genin. Instead
of hiding like Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto tried to take the bells from Kakashi by
force, only to be easily defeated, hung upside-down from a tree and tied to a wooden
post in an attempt to steal lunch. After Sakura and Sasuke fail as well, Kakashi
explains that the goal of the test was to use teamwork, to do together what none of
them could do by themselves. He is persuaded to allow them to try again after lunch,
but instructs Sasuke and Sakura not to feed Naruto. They feed him anyway, needing him
in top-form if they're to work together. Kakashi sees this and, because they care
more about the team than listening to his instructions, allows them all to pass.

Naruto and Sasuke team up against Zabuza.

After a series of uneventful D-rank missions, Naruto is able to secure a C-
rank mission for Team 7: escorting Tazuna to the Land of Waves. Soon after leaving
Konoha, they are attacked by the Demon Brothers. Naruto is paralysed with fear,
forcing Sasuke to step in to disarm them and protect Tazuna until Kakashi can capture
them. Tazuna confesses that assassins have been hired to kill him but that he
couldn't afford the bodyguard detail he needs. Although the mission is now A-rank in
nature - far beyond the skill of genin - Team 7 decides to continue with it. Angered
by Sasuke's taunting of him, Naruto cuts his hand to bleed out the poison he received
earlier, vowing to never waver again. When they arrive in the Land of Waves and are
confronted by Zabuza Momochi, Naruto is overwhelmed by the battle between Kakashi and
Zabuza before he is knocked aside by Zabuza's water clone. Remembering his vow,
Naruto regained his confidence and teamed up with Sasuke to free Kakashi from
Zabuza's Water Prison. In the end, Zabuza is seemingly killed by Haku, allowing Team
7 to escort Tazuna back to his house.
Kakashi finds Zabuza's death suspicious and decides to train the team in case he
returns. He has them perform the Tree Climbing Practice to improve their chakra
control, which will help them against Zabuza. Naruto becomes frustrated after several
failures and asks for advice from Sakura, who herself mastered it from the start. Now
rapidly improving, Naruto competes with Sasuke to finish the training, each
determined to outdo the other. One day, Naruto encounters Haku (albeit unaware of his
true identity) and they each discussed their dreams and desire to protect those
precious to them. After Haku leaves, Naruto finishes the training with Sasuke but is
left exhausted, so Team 7 leaves him behind the next morning as they resume their
escort duties. Naruto awakens and arrives to assist Team 7 in fighting Zabuza and
Haku, but, unaware of how Haku's Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystalswork, he joins Sasuke
within the prison.
Naruto's first use of the Nine-Tails' chakra.
Naruto cannot break free with his shadow clones and Sasuke cannot melt the ice with
his fire. As Haku moves in to kill Naruto, Sasuke uses his body as a shield to
protect Naruto and seemingly dies. Enraged by Sasuke's apparent death, Naruto
unwittingly accesses the Nine-Tails' chakra for the first time, allowing him to
destroy the ice mirrors and defeat Haku, breaking his mask. Realising his opponent
was the boy he met before, Naruto calms himself. He is asked by Haku to kill him,
since he feels of no further use to Zabuza. Before Naruto can do so, Haku immediately
stops him and goes off to save Zabuza from being killed by Kakashi, sacrificing his
own life. When Zabuza refuses to appreciate this, Naruto angrily scolds him, stating
that Haku gave up his life to save someone precious to him. Touched by his words,
Zabuza, using Naruto's kunai, killed Gatō and many of his henchmen before he himself
dies. Sasuke soon awakens, and when their injuries heal, Team 7 leaves for home via
Tazuna's newly-constructed Great Naruto Bridge.
Chūnin Exams
Team 7 resumes its series of unremarkable missions. For their performance in the Land
of Waves, however, Kakashi decides to enter them in the Chūnin Exams taking place in
Konoha, which greatly excites Naruto. Because they've only recently graduated from
the Academy, the three feel they must give strong showings to prove themselves. When
they enter the exam hall, the team is met by Rock Lee, who challenges Sasuke to a
fight; Naruto tries to attack Lee in jealousy, but is easily swept aside. The fight
is interrupted by Might Guy, after which Naruto notes that the bandages around Lee's
arms signify his arduous taijutsu training.
During the exam's first stage, the participating genin are given a written test, the
goal of which is to cheat without getting caught. Unaware of this, Naruto struggles
to answer the questions, so Hinata Hyūga, who is seated next to him, offers to let
him to copy off her paper. Despite the temptation, Naruto declined Hinata's offer,
claiming that he isn't the type to cheat and that they might be disqualified if they
are caught. Before the tenth question can be given, the genin are presented with the
opportunity to forfeit; Naruto refuses to do so, declaring his refusal to give up and
his goal to still become Hokage. His determination to face the tenth question despite
the potential consequences inspires the rest of the genin to do the same, and so they
pass the first stage.
For the second phase, teams enter the Forest of Death with the objective of obtaining
a set of two scrolls, one of which they are given at the start. Naruto becomes
separated from his team and is attacked and swallowed by a giant snake. He manages to
kill it and regroups with his frightened teammates against Orochimaru. Angered by
Sasuke's sudden cowardice and resignation, Naruto engages Orochimaru using the Nine-
Tails' chakra, defeats his giant snake, and taunts Sasuke before
Orochimaru suppresses the Nine-Tails' chakra, rendering Naruto unconscious. After he
awakens, Team 7 continues its search for the second scroll, which they eventually
gain by defeating Team Oboro, allowing them to pass the second stage.

Naruto defeats Kiba.

In the preliminary matches of the exam, Naruto was pitted against Kiba Inuzuka and
his dog, Akamaru. Believing the match to be an easy victory, Kiba and Akamaru
overwhelmed Naruto with many high-speed attacks, so Naruto tricks Kiba into knocking
Akamaru out of the fight by using the Transformation Technique, shocking all
spectators. Naruto then disorients Kiba by farting in his face and defeats him with
the Naruto Uzumaki Combo (which he invented from watching Sasuke's Lion Combo). When
Neji and Hinata's match begins, Naruto is enraged by Neji's ruthless tirade against
Hinata and cheers Hinata on to defeat Neji. Although Hinata is defeated, Naruto wipes
up her blood and vows to defeat Neji in the finals.

Naruto meets the Nine-Tails.

During the month of training, Naruto first meets Jiraiya (who knocked out Ebisu,
Naruto's original teacher) and trains under the Sannin to improve his chakra control.
Recognising Naruto as the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, Jiraiya removes the seal Orochimaru
had placed on Naruto to ease his control and begins teaching him to how use the Nine-
Tails' power by summoning toads. To accelerate Naruto's slow progress, Jiraiya pushes
him over a cliff, causing Naruto to enter his subconscious and meet the Nine-Tails.
Working past his fear, he bravely demands chakra from it as "rent" for living in his
body. The Nine-Tails complies and Naruto summons Gamabunta, though he exhausts
himself and ends up in the hospital, where he is visited by Shikamaru Nara. After
talking, he and Naruto stop Gaara from killing Rock Lee in the next room and listen
to Gaara's story of his childhood, which Naruto finds very similar to his own. Gaara
prepares to kill them, but Might Guy intervenes and forces Gaara to retreat. On the
day of the finals, Naruto meets Hinata at the Third Training Ground and expresses his
doubts about his upcoming match with Neji. Hinata reassures Naruto that he never gave
up because he always had the strength to overcome his own failures, admiring him for
it. Reinvigorated, Naruto thanks Hinata and tells her even though he first thought
she was weird, he now likes her.

Naruto vs. Neji.

Facing Neji in the first match of the finals, Naruto began by creating shadow clones
to overwhelm Neji's with sheer numbers. Deeming Naruto a failure who could never
defeat a genius like himself, Neji easily defeats Naruto's clones and seals his
chakra with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms. Determined to prove Neji's ideals about
fate wrong, Naruto tapped into the Nine-Tails' chakra and, revitalised, clashed with
Neji. When the smoke cleared, Neji emerges and Naruto lies defeated. This, however,
was only a shadow clone, and the real Naruto burst from the ground beneath Neji,
defeating him with an uppercut. Before he is declared the winner, Naruto tells Neji
that creating clones was once his shortcoming and that Neji needs to stop believing
in inescapable fate. When Sasuke finally arrives for his match with fought Gaara,
Naruto is envious of Sasuke's improvements, but is later put to sleepalong with most
of the audience, commencing the Konoha Crush.
Konoha Crush
Sakura wakes up Naruto so they can pursue Sasuke, who was pursuing Gaara himself.
They arrive in time for Naruto to kick Gaara away before he can kill Sasuke.
Partially transformed into Shukaku, Gaara knocks Sakura unconscious and binds her to
a tree, forcing Naruto to battle him, with little success. Naruto relates to Gaara's
painful life as a jinchūriki, but he is not willing to let anything to happen to
Sakura and Sasuke. Determined to protect his friends, Naruto creates an army of
shadow clones to relentlessly batter Gaara, forcing him to fully transform into
Shukaku, to which Naruto responds by summoning Gamabunta.

Naruto defeats Gaara.

Gaara puts himself to sleep to give control of his body to Shukaku, forcing Naruto
and Gamabunta to figure out a way to end the jutsu. They do so by transforming into a
giant fox (the Nine-Tails in the anime) to restrain Shukaku, allowing Naruto to
awaken Gaara with a solid punch to the face. Shukaku's influence disappears, but
Gaara regains control and traps Naruto with his sand. Naruto escapes by tapping into
the Nine-Tails' chakra, and headbutts Gaara when he is close enough, destroying
Shukaku's form. Exhausted from the fight, the two leap at each other for one final
exchange, and Naruto punches Gaara, claiming victory.
Naruto and Gaara fall to the ground, unable to move. Slowly crawling towards Gaara,
Naruto explained that he also suffered a painful and lonely life, but was later saved
by having friends. To that end, he will do anything to protect them, even if it means
killing Gaara. Understanding Naruto's true strength, Gaara retreated
with Kankurō and Temari with a new outlook on life, while Naruto passes out from
exhaustion and is returned to Konoha with Sasuke and a rescued Sakura. A few days
later, Team 7 attends the Third Hokage's funeral.
Search for Tsunade
Jiraiya is tasked with finding Tsunade, a candidate for Fifth Hokage, and convinces
Naruto to accompany him by promising to teach him a technique stronger than
Sasuke's Chidori. Stopping at an inn in Shukuba Town, Naruto was approached by Kisame
Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha of Akatsuki, who intend to capture the Nine-Tails. When
Sasuke shows up and furiously attacks Itachi, Naruto gathers the Nine-Tails' chakra
to help Sasuke, but it is absorbed by Kisame's Samehada. Jiraiya soon arrives and
drives off Itachi and Kisame, but Sasuke is left mentally and physically damaged by
Itachi. Might Guy appears and takes Sasuke back to Konoha, but not before giving
Naruto a spare green jumpsuit.
To prepare for the next encounter with Akatsuki, Naruto begins learning the Rasengan,
completing two of its three learning steps. Taking a break from training, Naruto and
Jiraiya eventually found Tsunade and her assistant Shizune at a restaurant. When
Tsunade refuses the offer to become Hokage and insults all who held the title, an
angry Naruto challenged her to a fight and attacked her with an incomplete Rasengan,
only to be easily defeated. Impressed by his progress, however, Tsunade makes a bet
with Naruto: if he can master the Rasengan in a week, he gets the First Hokage's
Necklace; if not, she gets his wallet. Naruto agreed and spent the week trying to
perfect the Rasengan, but has no success and collapses from exhaustion. Once he
recovers, Naruto heads out with Jiraiya and Shizune to stop Tsunade from meeting with
Orochimaru.

Naruto defeats Kabuto with the Rasengan.

They arrive to see Tsunade, who never intended to aid Orochimaru, in the midst of
battle with Kabuto Yakushi. When Tsunade is incapacitated, Naruto fights Kabuto in
her place and eventually defeats him with a perfected Rasengan, which he formed by
using a shadow clone. Naruto collapses almost immediately afterwards, his heart
muscles torn by Kabuto, but Tsunade successfully manages to heal him, gives him the
necklace he wins, and accepts the position of Hokage. After Orochimaru and Kabuto are
defeated, Naruto and the others return to Konoha, Tsunade confidently believing
Naruto would someday become a great Hokage.
Land of Tea Escort Mission
Main article: Land of Tea Escort Mission
Sasuke Recovery Mission
Naruto visits a recovering Sasuke at the hospital, but is immediately challenged to a
fight, to which Naruto eventually agrees. The fight escalates quickly, culminating
with Naruto using Rasengan and Sasuke using Chidori. Kakashi arrives and deflects
their attacks into opposing water towers before they can clash, Naruto unknowingly
doing more damage than Sasuke. Distressed by Sasuke's behavior, Sakura informs Naruto
of the cursed seal Sasuke received from Orochimaru, though Naruto assures Sakura that
Sasuke would never abandon Konoha for power. Unfortunately, Sasuke does just that and
Naruto joins the Sasuke Recovery Team in order to bring him back; he promises a
tearful Sakura to do so before he leaves. En route to Sasuke, the team encounters
members of the Sound Four, each of which battles a member of the recovery team, while
Naruto engages Kimimaro. Overwhelmed by Kimimaro's taijutsu skills, Naruto is saved
at the last minute by Rock Lee, who volunteers to fight Kimimaro while Naruto heads
after Sasuke.

Naruto fights Sasuke.

Naruto finally meets Sasuke at the Valley of the End. His pleas for Sasuke to come
back to Konoha and warnings that Orochimaru will take his bodyfall on deaf ears.
Naruto starts attacking him, ready to take him back to Konoha by force if necessary.
Undeterred, Sasuke responds by tapping into his cursed seal and landing a series of
heavy blows on Naruto. It becomes painfully clear to Naruto that Sasuke is fighting
with an intent to kill, so Naruto utilises the Nine-Tails' chakra to overpower
Sasuke. Naruto says that Sasuke is like a brother to him and that he will do anything
to protect that bond. Sasuke vows to sever that bond, but acknowledges Naruto as an
equal by putting on his forehead protector. They continue trading blows, with Naruto
eventually manifesting a fox-shaped cloak and Sasuke entering his cursed seal's
second level. Naruto clashes his Rasengan with Sasuke's Chidori, and within the dome
of resulting energy they trade final blows: Sasuke punches Naruto and Naruto
scratches Sasuke's forehead protector.
When the energy dissipates, Naruto lies defeated, but Sasuke spares him and continues
his way to Orochimaru, leaving his scratched forehead protector behind. Kakashi
and Pakkun arrive late and failing to retrieve Sasuke, leave with Naruto. In the
hospital, Naruto once again promises Sakura to bring Sasuke home someday to Sakura
that he would someday bring Sasuke home. Soon after, Jiraiya arrived with an offer to
train Naruto for preparation against Orochimaru and Akatsuki in three years and to
give up on Sasuke, as he is no different from Orochimaru. Naruto accepts Jiraiya's
training, but refuses to give up on Sasuke, satisfying Jiraiya.
Original Anime Arcs
See also: Plot of Naruto

Naruto leaves with Jiraiya.

In the anime, Tsunade gives Naruto several missions with members of the Konoha 11 to
keep him busy while Jiraiya collects more information about Akatsuki. As in the
manga, Naruto later departs with Jiraiya to begin his three-year training, after
making a determined gesture at the Fourth Hokage's statue.
Interlude
Gutsy Master and Student: The Training
In the anime, shortly after leaving Konoha, Jiraiya and Naruto discuss the fact that
Naruto will need to learn how to counter genjutsu if he hopes to be a match against
Sasuke the next time they meet. Naruto practices with Gamariki to dispel genjutsu,
but he struggles with it and his chakra keeps hitting Gamariki, who doesn't
appreciate it. Naruto follows Jiraiya to the Genjutsu Tree Village to try a different
approach, but they discover the village has been taken over by Kandachi. They free
the villagers and then attack Kandachi, who Naruto eventually defeats with his newly-
created Big Ball Rasengan. As they leave afterwards, Jiraiya is pleased by how
similar Naruto is to Minato Namikazeand hugs him, which Naruto is bothered by.
In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths
Two years into their training, Naruto's control of the Nine-Tails' chakra has
improved significantly. Jiraiya tries to give him more access to the Nine-Tails'
power and uses Gerotora to weaken Naruto's Eight Trigrams Sealing Style. Seizing the
opportunity, the Nine-Tails mocked Naruto for his inability to save Sasuke, using
Naruto's negative emotions to force him to enter a version 2 form with four tails.
Not in control of his body, Naruto attacks Jiraiya and nearly kills him before he
manages to suppress the Nine-Tails. Naruto has no memory of what happened and Jiraiya
doesn't tell him, instead shifting Naruto's training to other pursuits, including
keeping his anger in check so that the Nine-Tails won't flare up again.[130]
Part II
See also: Plot of Naruto: Shippūden
Kazekage Rescue Mission
Naruto and Jiraiya return to Konoha after two-and-a-half years of training, where
Naruto becomes surprised by Tsunade's newly-formed statue on Hokage Rock. He greets
his old friends afterwards: he gives Kakashi a copy of Icha Icha Tactics as a gift;
he catches up with Sakura, whom he has become taller than; he gets back into a
competition of Sexy Techniques with Konohamaru Sarutobi, only to be violently
reprimanded by Sakura. Kakashi reforms Team 7 with them and gives them another bell
test, but unlike last time, taking the bells from him is the real objective. As with
last time, Naruto launches a first attack before the test officially begins, but this
time it nearly succeeds. Despite their improved abilities, Naruto and Sakura were
still unable to get a bell through conventional means, and it was only by Naruto's
threat to spoil the latest Icha Icha novel that they distracted Kakashi long enough
to take the bells.
While Team 7 tries without success to find a mission to go on that Naruto won't
complain about, word reaches Konoha that Akatsuki has kidnapped Gaara, the Kazekage.
Team 7 is sent to Sunagakure to assist in rescuing Gaara. On their way to Suna,
Naruto explains that Gaara was kidnapped because he is the jinchūriki of the One-
Tail, just as Naruto is the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails. Upon arrival in Suna,
Naruto defends Kakashi from Chiyo's assault when she mistakes him for his father.
Team 7 gathers what intel they can on Gaara's kidnappers and leave to go after them;
Chiyo volunteers to escort them since they aren't familiar with the country around
Suna. Naruto promises a recovering Kankurōto rescue Gaara before they leave.
While en route to an Akatsuki lair, they are confronted by Itachi Uchiha, who traps
Naruto in a genjutsu. Sakura and Chiyo release him, allowing Naruto to team up with
Kakashi and defeat Itachi with a Big Ball Rasengan. The Itachi is discovered to be
an impostor, so they continue to the Akatsuki lair, meeting up with Team Guy, who
takes down the barrier over the entrance so that Team 7 can get in. They find Gaara's
body finds with his kidnappers, Deidara and Sasori. Deidara flies off with Gaara's
body with Naruto and Kakashi in pursuit, leaving Sasori to Chiyo and Sakura. Naruto,
enraged, makes repeated failed attempts to rescue Gaara before he is calmed by
Kakashi, who uses his new Mangekyō Sharingan to distract Deidara with Kamui. Naruto
retrieves Gaara's body, but seeing it drives him over the edge: he furiously attacks
Deidara and beats him mercilessly into the ground. Discovering that it was a Clay
Clone, Naruto slips into his two-tailed form in rage, but is restored to normal by
Kakashi via the Chakra-Suppressing Seal.

Gaara awakens, with Naruto by his side.

Deidara escapes, while Naruto and Kakashi regroup with Sakura, Chiyo, and Team Guy.
Sakura attempts to revive Gaara, but the removal of Shukaku has caused him to die.
Naruto breaks down in tears and angrily lashes out at Chiyo, saying she had no right
to make Gaara not only a jinchūriki, but also lose his life because of it. As
atonement and with Naruto's aid, Chiyo sacrifices her life to revive Gaara; as the
jutsu nears completion, Chiyo voices her faith in Naruto's ability to save Gaara and
to become Hokage. Naruto greets Gaara when he awakens, and a few days later, Teams 7
and Guy attend Chiyo's funeral in Suna. Before returning home, Naruto and Gaara shake
hands (Gaara using his sand) as a sign to their close relationship.
Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission
During her fight with Sasori, Sakura learned of an opportunity to meet with a spy in
Orochimaru's ranks in a few days' time, hoping it will lead them to Sasuke. Kakashi
is left bedridden from his fight with Deidara, so Yamato leads Team 7 as his
replacement. Replacing Sasuke on the team is Sai, whom Naruto actually encounters
earlier and dislikes, declaring him an inferior version of Sasuke. Sai is happy for
this distinction and proceeds to degrade Sasuke for defecting from Konoha, forcing
Yamato to use his Wood Release to break up their fight. Naruto is constantly
exasperated by Sai's lack of empathy and his ridicule of Sasuke, but resolves to work
with Sai if it means saving Sasuke.

Team 7 confronts Orochimaru and Kabuto.

Yamato disguises himself as Sasori and goes to the Tenchi Bridge to meet the spy
while Naruto, Sakura, and Sai hide nearby. The spy, Kabuto Yakushi, begins telling
Yamato about Orochimaru's organisation, but they are interrupted by the arrival of
Orochimaru, who teams up with Kabuto to fight Yamato, having intended to kill Sasori.
Team 7 comes to his aid and Orochimaru, recognising them, taunts Naruto about Sasuke.
Naruto is enraged and strikes him, using his version 1 form to make his attacks more
devastating. Naruto's rage intensifies as he submits to the Nine-Tails' influence: he
destroys the Tenchi Bridge and eventually advances to his version 2 form while
fighting Orochimaru. Naruto is soon forced back to the destroyed bridge, where,
unable to tell friend from foe, he unknowingly attacks Sakura when she approaches
him.
Yamato restrains Naruto with his Wood Release and suppresses the Nine-Tails'
influence, but its chakra leaves Naruto's body badly damaged. After Sakura heals him,
Naruto wakes up unable to remember what happened, but is surprised by the devastated
landscape. When they realise that Sai is missing, Yamato reports that he has joined
with Orochimaru and Kabuto. On the way, Yamato secretly takes Naruto aside and tells
him that he is the one who attacked Sakura. He encourages Naruto to use his own
strength instead of the Nine-Tails in order to protect his loved ones. The team
locates Sai, whom Yamato has placed a trace on, at Orochimaru's lair and capture him.
Restrained, Sai asks why Naruto is determined to save him; Naruto replies that his
bond with Sasuke is too precious to be broken and that he will do anything to protect
it. Intrigued, Sai switches sides, helping them capture Kabuto and then searching the
base for Sasuke on Naruto's behalf. While he's gone, Yamato goes through his
belongings and finds evidence that Sai has been assigned to assassinate Sasuke.

Sasuke prepares to kill Naruto.

When they find Sai, he explains that he truly does want to help retrieve Sasuke, and
in fact has already found him: Naruto and Sakura are speechless to see Sasuke again.
Sasuke reacts with indifference to them, but Naruto remarks he can't become Hokage
without saving his friend. To demonstrate that they mean nothing to him, Sasuke
quickly neutralises them all. As Naruto struggles to avoid the temptation of using
the Nine-Tails, Sasuke suddenly appears in Naruto's subconscious using his Sharingan
and suppresses the Nine-Tails. He then prepares to kill them, but is persuaded not to
by Orochimaru and leaves without further comment. Naruto is upset at having failed
once more to bring Sasuke home, but is reminded by Sakura that they need to become
stronger and Team 7 returns to Konoha.

Twelve Guardian Ninja

Main article: Twelve Guardian Ninja (Arc)
Akatsuki Suppression Mission
Once Kakashi is done recuperating in the hospital, he assembles Naruto, Sakura, and
Sai to discuss their failed mission to retrieve Sasuke. Kakashi believes the best way
to match Sasuke is for Naruto to create a new jutsu. As the training began, Naruto
discovers that his nature is wind and learns to use the wind nature. Ordinarily, such
training would take months or years, but Kakashi advises that Naruto, by training
alongside hundreds of shadow clones can do the same training in a mere fraction of
the time. With Kakashi's instructions and the training grounds created by Yamato,
Naruto quickly masters how to use the wind nature. The next step is more difficult
for him: combining that nature with the Rasengan.

Naruto defeats Kakuzu.

Like Kakashi and Minato Namikaze before him, Naruto fails several times in trying to
combine his nature with the Rasengan; his frustration evokes the Nine-Tails' chakra
at times, which Yamato suppresses. With further advice from Kakashi, Naruto finds his
solution using two shadow clones: one helps him form the Rasengan and the other adds
his wind nature. When they receive news that Asuma died in battle with members
of Akatsuki, they take a break to attend Asuma's funeral. Kakashi leaves Yamato in
charge of overseeing Naruto's training so he could help Team 10 avenge Asuma. Having
finished his jutsu, Naruto and Team Yamato went to provide assistance, arriving in
time to save Kakashi and Team 10 from Kakuzu. Naruto engages Kakuzu alone with his
newly-created Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, though it dissipates on its first use and
Naruto is rescued by Kakashi and Yamato. The technique succeeds the second time,
destroying two of Kakuzu's hearts and putting the last one on the brink of failure.
Kakashi finishes off Kakuzu and they return to Konoha.
The Rasenshuriken injures Naruto's arm after use and he is forbidden to use the
technique ever again. When they visit Ichiraku Ramen, Naruto has a hard time eating
while his arm mends, so Sakura opts to help, before the responsibility falls to Sai,
then to Kakashi. As they leave afterwards, they are met by Konohamaru, who
demonstrates his Sexy: Girl on Girl Technique; Naruto approves but Sakura is
disgusted and violently reprimands him. In the manga, Konohamaru responds with Sexy:
Boy on Boy Technique; Sakura approves but Naruto is disgusted and violently
reprimands him.
Three-Tails' Appearance
Main article: Three-Tails' Appearance
Itachi Pursuit Mission
News reaches Konoha that Sasuke has killed Orochimaru. Realising that this is a good
opportunity to try once again to reunite with Sasuke, Kakashi combines Teams 7 and 8
into an Eight Man Squad with the mission to find either Sasuke or his assumed target,
Itachi. When they split up to search, Naruto, because he's a target of Akatsuki, is
given a protective escort in the form of Hinata, Yamato, and Bull. Their group
encounters Kabuto, who offers them intel on Akatsuki and its members, his thanks to
Naruto "inspiring" him to overcome Orochimaru after absorbing his remains. Kabuto
then escapes.
Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant

Naruto and Itachi converse.

After regrouping and Kiba Inuzuka detects Sasuke's trail, Naruto creates shadow
clones to search the area faster, one of which encounters Itachi. Itachi repels
Naruto's attacks and insists he only wants to talk. He asks Naruto what Sasuke means
to him and what he will do if Sasuke ever moves against Konoha. Naruto replies that
he is Sasuke's brother – a better brother than Itachi is – and that if Sasuke ever
attacks the village he will defend it without killing Sasuke. Itachi is happy with
this answer and gives Naruto some assistance for this purpose: a special crow that he
stores within Naruto's body. Itachi left, and Naruto continued his search, eventually
finding Sasuke.[131]
As they near Sasuke's location they are intercepted by Tobi of Akatsuki, who prevents
them from progressing and who is invulnerable to their attacks.
Fated Battle Between Brothers
As the group continually tries to attack Tobi, he dodges the attacks with ease.
Naruto tries several times to attack him with his Rasengan, but without success. Tobi
attempts to use a hidden jutsu to attack the teams, but fails at it. Eventually,
Zetsu comes to tell him about Sasuke and Itachi's fight. Tobi leaves when he receives
news that Sasuke has killed Itachi, and Teams 7 and 8 try to reach Sasuke before he
does. Unable to find where Tobi has taken Sasuke, they are forced to return to
Konoha.

Six-Tails Unleashed
Main article: Six-Tails Unleashed
Pain's Assault

Naruto mourns Jiraiya's death.

As Naruto contemplated his meeting with Itachi, he was called to the Hokage
Residence to hear sombre news: his master Jiraiya was killed by Pain, the leader of
Akatsuki. Grief-stricken, Naruto blamed Tsunade and spent the day mourning his
teacher's death, depressed that Jiraiya cannot see him become Hokage. After being
comforted by Iruka and Shikamaru, Naruto helped to decipher Jiraiya's dying message
and eventually they succeed. Understanding that Jiraiya had bought him time for his
own fight with Pain, Naruto went to train with the toads of Mount Myōboku to
learn senjutsu. Naruto trained to harmonise with nature, a process he sped up by
using a limited number of shadow clones. He rapidly progressed through the training
stages and attained a perfect Sage Mode, which Jiraiya was unable able to do. News
of Pain's Assault on Konoha reached them, they began to mobilise for battle.

Naruto arrives to fight Pain.

As Naruto, Fukasaku, Gamaken, Gamahiro, Gamabunta, and Gamakichiwere summoned to the
centre of Konoha, the group was confronted by the Six Paths of Pain, who had just
destroyed the village. After destroying the Asura Path before it could attack
Tsunade, Naruto told her to make sure everyone left the battle to him. After a brief
skirmish with Animal Path, Naruto and the toads defeated the Animal, Preta, and Human
Paths before running out of senjutsu chakra. Naruto revealed that he had two shadow
clones waiting back at Mount Myōboku to revitalise him with natural energy. Naruto
went back on the offensive, dispatching the healed Preta and Naraka Path, before the
Deva Path regained its full power. Pain killed Fukasaku and used the opportunity to
capture Naruto, pinning him down to the ground.

Naruto pinned down by Pain.

With Naruto restrained, Pain opened up his reasons for Akatsuki, their plan for the
tailed beasts, and the peaceful world he wanted to create. Though Naruto rejected his
notion that using a weapon to force peace, he could offer no alternative. Before Pain
could depart with Naruto, he was attacked by Hinata Hyūga. Declaring her love for
Naruto and vowing to protect him, she continued to fight against Pain before she was
subdued and critically wounded. Believing Hinata to had been killed, an enraged
Naruto erupted into his six-tailed form. Resisting the First Hokage's Necklace's
attempted to quell the transformation and destroying it, the Nine-Tails attacked
Pain, forcing him out of the village to get close enough to his actual body to use
the Chibaku Tensei, trapping Naruto within the small satellite. The technique was not
enough to stop the Nine-Tails, however, as it simply progressed to eight-tailed
form to force its way out of the satellite. Meanwhile within his subconscious, Naruto
was tempted by the Nine-Tails to open its seal to save him from the pain of not
having Pain's answer for peace. However, before Naruto could, Minato appeared, having
left some of his chakra within the seal in case of an emergency to protect his son.
Overjoyed at meeting his father, but angered that he would condemn him to life as a
jinchūriki, Naruto listened to his father encouraging him, confident that he would
find a way to break the cycle of hatred. After repairing the seal, Minato disappeared
and the newly-inspired Naruto prepared to resume his battle with Pain.

Naruto defeats Pain.

Confidence restored, Naruto was greatly relieved to learn that not only had Hinata
survived, but nobody was injured during his rampage. After clever use of shadow
clones, Naruto destroyed the Deva Path with a Rasengan, defeating the last of Pain's
Six Paths. Using one of Pain's Black Receivers, Naruto followed the chakra signal
to Nagato and Konan's position. Confronting Nagato, Naruto listened to Nagato's story
that turned him into Pain and came to understand why he made the actions he did.
Despite not forgiving him, he told Nagato he would not kill him and would instead try
to create the better world that their teacher wished for. Moved by Naruto's
determination to create a better world, Nagato decided to put his trust in Naruto and
sacrificed his own life to revive all the people he had killed in Konoha. Naruto
helped Konan retrieve Nagato and Yahiko's bodies for burial in Amegakure, and Konan
left Naruto a bouquet of paper flowers for him, symbolising their new alliance.

The village greets Naruto upon his return.

Naruto then created a memorial for Jiraiya and left the flowers and a copy of The
Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi by a rock with the kanji for teacher (師, shi).
While the exhausted Naruto walked back to the village, he was found by Kakashi who
carried him the rest of the way. Upon arrival, Naruto was greeted as a hero by the
villagers, his dream of acknowledgement being realised at last.
Past Arc: The Locus of Konoha
Main article: Past Arc: The Locus of Konoha
Five Kage Summit
Sakura informs Naruto that Tsunade fell into a coma and that there's nothing that can
be done to bring her out of it. While they talk, they are approached
by Tazuna and Inari, who have come to help rebuild Konoha. They ask about Sasuke,
which Naruto avoids going into detail about so as to spare them and Sakura a
discussion about Sasuke's defection. After Tazuna and Inari leave, they receive news
that Danzō Shimura has become the next Hokage and that he has ordered Sasuke be
killed as a traitor. Naruto and Sakura approach Sai to ask him how they can convince
Danzō to change his mind, but Sai is unable to
help. Omoi and Karui of Kumogakure overhear them talking about Sasuke and they ask
for information about Sasuke, wishing to kill him for his role in Akatsuki's capture
of Killer B. Naruto leads Omoi and Karui away to spare Sakura pain, but refuses to
reveal anything about Sasuke. Instead, Naruto allows the Kumo-nin vent their anger by
beating him, to which Karui obliges until Sai stops her and the Kumo-nin retreat.
Recovering later, Naruto asked Yamato and Kakashi to take him to the Land of Iron, so
that he could ask Fourth Raikage to pardon Sasuke. Upon arrival, the Raikage rejected
Naruto's request even with Kakashi and Yamato's assistance and berated him for
defending a criminal. Naruto went to a local inn to ponder his next course of action,
but was soon confronted by Tobi, who wanted to understand Nagato's change of heart.
Naruto ignored the question and demanded to know about his plans with Sasuke. Tobi
told him about the Sage of the Six Paths, the Uchiha clan, and the truth about
the Uchiha Clan Downfall, all of which now drove Sasuke along a path of
vengeance against Konoha and anyone else who would dare cross his path. Naruto
insisted that that he could still get through to Sasuke, but Tobi laughed and left,
saying that Naruto and Sasuke were fated to fight again.
While Naruto was practising his Sage Mode's sensory abilities to locate Sasuke, he
was interrupted by the arrival of Sakura, Rock Lee, Kiba and Sai. Sakura attempted to
dissuade Naruto in his attempts to bring Sasuke back to Konoha by falsely telling him
that she loved him. However, Naruto knew she was lying and he rejected her confession
and her proposal to abandon Sasuke, stating it had nothing to do with his promise to
her. After Sakura's party left, Sai's ink clone revealed that the rest of the Konoha
11 had decided to kill Sasuke themselves to prevent another war, while Sakura planned
to kill Sasuke herself, at Sai's unintended insistence. Gaara, who attended the Five
Kage Summit that Sasuke attacked, arrived and revealed Tobi's declaration of
the Fourth Shinobi World War, telling Naruto how they would be fighting Sasuke to
protect Naruto, but he did advise Naruto to consider for himself what was the right
thing to do. After hearing that most of his friends have turned against Sasuke, who
now wanted to unleash his vengeance on just about everyone, Naruto hyperventilated
and passed out. When he awoke, he was told by Yamato that Kakashi went to stop Sakura
from dealing with Sasuke.

Naruto and Sasuke clash.

Using a shadow clone as a decoy, Naruto escaped from the inn and followed Kakashi,
arriving just in time to save Sakura from being killed by Sasuke. He tried once more
to reason with Sasuke, sympathising with his pain and acknowledging Itachi's
sacrifice. However, Sasuke was unmoved and declared his resolve to destroy Konoha and
sever the Uchiha's connection to the shinobi world. Naruto then clashed his Rasengan
with Sasuke's Chidori, realising that everything in his life he could have easily
gone down the same path of Sasuke. Despite his jealousy of him, he had come to like
Sasuke and was glad to have met him. Undeterred, Sasuke gave Naruto two choices: kill
or be killed; Naruto chose neither. Tobi and Zetsu arrived and prepared to depart
with Sasuke. Naruto resolved that if he and Sasuke were to battle again, they would
kill each other, but he was willing accept it as he would shoulder Sasuke's hatred
alone. Sasuke vowed to kill Naruto first and left with Tobi and Zetsu, while Naruto
and his teammates returned to Konoha, with the captive Karin. Naruto explained the
situation to his friends and asked to fight Sasuke alone, determined to get stronger
for their upcoming battle.
Power
Main article: Power (Arc)
Paradise Life on a Boat
Main article: Paradise Life on a Boat
Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown

Naruto meets with the Great Toad Sage.

As Naruto was about to eat at Ichiraku, he was suddenly summoned back to Mount
Myōboku by Fukasaku. He learns from the Great Toad Sage's fortune that he would meet
an "octopus" and would battle a "young man with powerful eyes." When Gerotora was
summoned to give Naruto the "key" to the Eight Trigrams Seal, Naruto knew he would
need the Nine-Tails' power for the battles to come and accepted the key. Naruto was
sent back to Ichiraku, where some of the villagers asked for his autograph. Naruto
was unaware of that the five Kage were planning to keep him from the upcoming Fourth
Shinobi World War for his safety on a remote island in the Land of
Lightning with Yamato, Might Guy, Aoba Yamashiro, and other Konoha-nin as security.
Once at the island, Naruto met Killer B, the jinchūriki of Eight-Tails, and requested
to train under him after marvelling at B's mastery of his tailed beast. B refused as
he was on vacation, despite Naruto's best efforts to impress him. However,
when Motoi heard Naruto bumped fists with B, he took Naruto was taken to Falls of
Truth, where B trained to control the Eight-Tails. Following Motoi's instructions,
Naruto sat on the platform in front of the waterfall and closed his eyes to see his
true self: Dark Naruto, who berated Naruto on how quickly the Konoha villagers
changed their opinions of him and exclaimed that the Nine-Tails liked him better.
Inside his mind, Naruto fought his dark self, but found that they were evenly
matched. Breaking out of meditation, Naruto questioned Motoi about B's history in
order to learn how to conquer his inner darkness.

Naruto fights the Nine-Tails.

Naruto reminisced about how B and Gaara changed everyone's opinions about them and
began to doubt if the Konoha villagers sincerely trusted him. After witnessing B save
Motoi from a giant squid and resume their friendship, an inspired Naruto returned to
the Falls of Truth and confronted Dark Naruto again. With Naruto now having faith in
himself, Dark Naruto began to weaken as he asked what his reason for existing was.
Naruto answered by hugging him, accepted Dark Naruto as a part of him while thanking
him for pushing him to become a better person. Dark Naruto finally relented and
faded. B led Naruto and Yamato to a special room in the secret temple behind the
waterfall, where Naruto was prepared to fight the Nine-Tails for its chakra. Within
his subconscious, Naruto unlocked the seal and engaged the Nine-Tails in battle
using Sage Mode. Though he appeared to have the upper hand and drain the Nine-Tails'
chakra, the fox instantly planted its own hatred within its absorbed chakra,
consuming Naruto.

Naruto meets his mother.

Just before Naruto was completely consumed, the spirit of his mother, Kushina
Uzumaki, appeared. Naruto believed that Kushina was the Nine-Tails in disguise,
earning a hit on the head and an immediately apology from her, who hoped that he did
not inherit her short-temper. Realising Kushina was his mother, he tearfully hugged
her and the love-filled reunion purged the Nine-Tails' hatred within its drained
chakra. With renewed confidence from hearing the story of his parents, Naruto battled
the Nine-Tails once more. With his mother's assistance, Naruto successfully weakens
the fox long enough to separate it from its chakra. Attaining the Nine-Tails Chakra
Mode, Naruto imprisons the emaciated and infuriated Nine-Tails within a new, stronger
seal, apologising to it as it faded into darkness. Afterwards, Naruto learned from
Kushina about his heritage, the truth behind the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha, and
how his parents gave their lives to protect him. Naruto told his mother that he could
finally understand what a parent's love felt like and that he didn't blame them for
what happened, instead feeling glad to be their son. As she fades away, Kushina
tearfully hugged Naruto, thanking him for letting her and Minato be his parents.

Naruto attacks Kisame.

In the real world, Naruto demonstrated his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to B and Yamato
before sensing Kisame Hoshigaki of Akatsuki hidden inside his Samehada via his
negative emotions. When Kisame attempted to escape, Naruto used his blinding speed to
quickly smash Kisame into the wall, though his foot get stuck. Yamato helps Naruto
out while B pursues Kisame and they regroup to see Kisame's defeat by Guy. Kisame is
restrained for interrogation, though he breaks free of his confinements through sheer
will and summons sharks inside a water prison to eat him alive. Shocked by Kisame's
suicide, Naruto observes that even those in Akatsuki fight for their comrades. They
examine the intel that Kisame was trying to send, which turns out to be booby-
trapped: they are each caught in a water prison and are trapped alongside a shark.
Another shark, meanwhile, is able to escape with Kisame's intel. After they escape,
Naruto is tasked with evacuating the giant animals into the Island Turtle's shell and
logging the island's ecology as part of his "official" S-rank mission. He remains
unaware that it is a ploy to keep him away from the war.
Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation
Main article: Fourth Shinobi World War: ConfrontationNaruto returned to the Falls of Truth
with B to start practising his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, specifically learning how to
use Tailed Beast Balls. Since Tailed Beast Balls couldn't be made without the Nine-
Tails' cooperation, Naruto tried to create the Tailed Beast Rasengan as a workaround.
While struggling to balance the jutsu's composition, he sensed a distant source of
the Nine-Tails' chakra. Naruto left the Falls of Truth to investigate and was met by
a contingent of Konoha-nin, amongst them Iruka Umino. Iruka tried to convince him to
go back to his training, but Naruto bypassed them and, from entering Sage Mode,
sensed the ongoing Fourth Shinobi World War. Naruto became angry that they would try
to keep the war a secret from him and that they wouldn't let him help. Iruka
apologised, yet still made an effort to restrain him. Naruto escaped and found
a Self-Repairing Barrier, preventing him from leaving by himself. B, at Iruka's
request, decided to join him and together they broke through the barrier.

Naruto states his resolve to the Nine-Tails.

Shortly after, the Nine-Tails pulled Naruto into his subconscious, berating him for
squandering its chakra and calling him naive for thinking he could stop the war by
himself. When the Nine-Tails failed to once again tempt Naruto with power, the fox
went off to claim that his attempt to put an end to hatred was futile, using his
history with Sasuke as proof. Naruto responded by pinning the fox down, refuting that
it was the one who was being naive and confidently exclaiming he would find a way to
deal with Sasuke and end the war. Before he leaves, Naruto also promises to resolve
the Nine-Tails' own hatred someday, unnerving the fox.

Naruto outpaces A.
On their way to the battlefield, Naruto and B were met by the Fourth
Raikage and Tsunade, both intent on stopping the jinchūriki. B tried to convince the
Raikage to let them go, and when that failed, Naruto tried to get around them, but
the Raikage's Lightning Release Chakra Modewas too fast for that. The Raikage became
increasingly aggressive in his determination to stop Naruto and B from joining the
war effort, going so far as to threaten to kill Naruto if it would keep Akatsuki from
capturing the Nine-Tails. First B and then Tsunade joined Naruto in arguing to allow
them to fight, which the Raikage relented to once Naruto dodges his maximum speed. On
Tsunade's orders, Shikaku Naracontacted Naruto and informed him about
Akatsuki's White Zetsu Army and the accompanying Impure World Reincarnations. Naruto
and B soon afterwards encountered a squad of seeming Allied forces, but with his
Nine-Tails Chakra Mode's ability, it allowed him to detect them as disguised Zetsu.
He quickly defeated them and sent shadow clones to various other battlefields to lend
assistance.

Naruto fights Nagato.

Naruto and B soon ran into the reincarnated Itachi Uchiha and Nagato. They greeted
Naruto and briefly caught up on what had happened since their deaths, but were
quickly forced to attack by their summoner, Kabuto Yakushi. Nagato advised Naruto and
B on how to counter his jutsu while Itachi, between his own attacks, recalled the
crow he planted in Naruto during their last meeting. Itachi activated
the Kotoamatsukamiof the crow's Mangekyō Sharingan to release himself from Kabuto's
influence. Itachi joined Naruto and B in fighting Nagato, first by neutralising
the Rinnegan Summoningand then saving them from being killed by Nagato. Nagato, his
personality now suppressed, tried capturing them with Chibaku Tensei, which the three
combined efforts to destroy. While Nagato was distracted by their attack, Itachi
sealed him with Susanoo. His personality restored, Nagato used his last moments to
apologise and put his faith in Naruto. Afterwards, Itachi destroyed the crow, its
Kotoamatsukami too valuable to let fall into the wrong hands. He left to find Kabuto
so that he could end the Impure World Reincarnation, but not before telling Naruto to
let his friends support him and leaving Sasuke's reform to him.
As Naruto and B continued onwards, Naruto's shadow clones started arriving at various
locations. In the anime, shadow clones were able to: save the members of the Sasuke
Recovery Team from the reincarnated Sound Four's Space–Time Technique Formula:
Underworld Turnover;[132] update Tatewaki about the fates of the children he was
responsible for during life, granting him peace and allowing him to return to the
afterlife;[133] run in to Yota, a childhood friend, and giving Yota a chance to play
with him again before releasing himself from the Impure World
Reincarnation;[134][135][136]assist Omoi in saving the Thundercloud Unit.[137]

Naruto defeats the Third Raikage.

A shadow clone arrived at the site of the Fourth Division's battle with various
reincarnated Kage. Naruto was able to land a sneak attack on Mū, allowing the Third
Tsuchikage to seal him before he could say anything. The Tsuchikage went to
help Gaara fight the Second Mizukage, leaving Naruto to fight the Third Raikage along
with the other members of the Fourth Division. Like the Fourth Raikage, the Third was
very fast, easily dodging most attacks. The few attacks that did land had almost no
effect, his body's natural defence was too high, and the Raikage's offences allowed
him to break through every attempt to contain him. When Naruto noticed that the
Raikage had a scar from his fight with the Eight-Tails years earlier, he contacted it
via B to ask how the Raikage received the scar. Upon hearing the Eight-Tails' answer,
Naruto surmises the scar was self-inflicted, confirming it as he manipulates the
Third into piercing his own body. The Third is sealed and Naruto regroups with the
Tsuchikage and Gaara, who already defeated the Second Mizukage.
Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax
Main article: Fourth Shinobi World War: ClimaxShadow clones arrived at all the remaining
battlefields, securing Impure World Reincarnations, weeding out the Zetsu that had
infiltrated the Alliance's ranks, and defeating any other remaining Zetsu. Victory
seemed near when the Sensor Division detected a new threat near the Fourth Division:
Mu, who split himself before his sealing, and the reincarnated Madara Uchiha. Shocked
by this revelation, they all wondered who the masked man, Tobi, really was. Madara
gave them little time to discuss it and attacked them immediately. He cut swaths
through the Fourth Division's ranks and used his Rinnegan to avoid the clone's, the
Tsuchikage's, and Gaara's counterattack. Wishing to eliminate them all at once,
Madara dropped a meteorite on them.

The Nine-Tails chooses to help Naruto.

While the survivors regroup, Madara tried to summon the Nine-Tails. Although it
failed, the fox sensed the attempt and offered some chakra to help fight Madara,
preferring Naruto over the Uchiha. The shadow clone used the Nine-Tails' chakra to
counter Madara's Nativity of a World of Trees with Big Ball Spiralling Serial Zone
Spheres, though the extended fighting left the clone exhausted afterwards. Madara
moved in to capture it, but was parried by the arrival of Tsunade, the Fourth
Raikage, and the Fifth Mizukage. The Five Kage vowed to deal with Madara themselves
and asked that Naruto should instead focus on defeating Tobi. The clone dispersed
just as the real Naruto converged on Tobi. Naruto and B clashed with Tobi's
reincarnated jinchūriki, styled like a Six Paths of Pain. During the fighting, Naruto
referenced another Madara and asked who Tobi really was. Realising his lie was
exposed, Tobi refused to accept any particular identity, believing it to be
irrelevant. Naruto was not satisfied with this answer and vowed to break Tobi's mask.

The jinchūriki clash.

B entered Tailed Beast Mode to clear the surrounding forest that was giving him and
Naruto a disadvantage against the reincarnated jinchūriki. He then tried to seal the
jinchūriki, but Tobi had them enter Version 2forms to escape at the last second. The
increased strength of the jinchūriki caused difficulties for Naruto and B. Tobi,
taking advantage of the situation, nearly captured Naruto, but was blocked by the
arrival of Kakashi and Guy. Their arrival balanced out the two sides, so Tobi had
the Four-Tails and the Six-Tails enter Tailed Beast Modes as well. The Four-Tails
captured Naruto in its mouth, allowing it to communicate with him. The Four-Tails,
introducing itself with the name Son Gokū, was angered to be controlled by Tobi, but
it doubted Naruto would be any better since humans had always sought to control it
and its fellow tailed beasts. Naruto insisted he was different and Son Gokū, touched
by his desire to help it, told him how to release it from Tobi's control. Naruto
managed to break out of its mouth, locate the black receiver, and remove it.

Naruto and Kurama unite.

Son Gokū thanked Naruto for his help, but explained that it couldn't actually be
saved, as it was still bound to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Before it was
pulled back into the Demonic Statue, Son Gokū gave some of its chakra to Naruto and
wished him luck. Tobi, having lost the use of one tailed beast, forced the others to
enter Tailed Beast Modes so that the battle could be brought to an end. The Nine-
Tails remarked that Naruto couldn't possibly win without its help. Naruto stated that
he was not up for taking its chakra by force at the moment and that he would figure
something out. However, Naruto's earlier determination to help Son Gokū moved the
Nine-Tails, reminding it of the many selfless things Naruto had done during his life
and the perseverance he always displayed. The Nine-Tails no longer wanted to oppose
Naruto and instead offered to join him as a partner, asking only that Naruto call it
by name: Kurama.
Naruto meets the tailed beasts.

Naruto entered his own Tailed Beast Mode and went to save Kakashi and Guy, deflecting
the other five beasts' Tailed Beast Balls. The Kurama avatar fought the beasts in
close combat, forcing them to combine their Tailed Beast Balls into one against it.
Kurama countered theirs with a single one of its own Tailed Beast Balls and Naruto
then used the avatar's tails to grab and remove the beasts' black receivers. From the
contact, Naruto was able to interface with the other beasts, who introduced
themselves and, like Son Gokū, gave him portions of their chakra. Tobi recalled the
beasts back into the Demonic Statue and, though irritated, remained confident in his
eventual victory as he faced off with Naruto, B, Kakashi, and Guy. By the time night
fell, however, Tobi was still unable to defeat them. A light eventually descended on
the reincarnated jinchūriki that B had kept restrained, returning them to the
afterlife and signalling that Itachi had finally defeated Kabuto.

Naruto destroys Tobi's mask.

With his options running out, Tobi deposited the Benihisago and the Kohaku no
Jōhei (which contained portions of Kurama's chakra) into the Demonic Statue which,
combined with a fragment of the Eight-Tails, Gyūki's, chakra he acquired previously,
was enough to start the revival of the Ten-Tails. Naruto, B, Kakashi, and Guy started
focusing on destroying it, but were constantly stopped by Tobi and his peculiar
teleportation and intangibility abilities. From the fighting, however, Kakashi
noticed that Tobi's abilities were seemingly linked to his own Kamui. To take
advantage of this, Kakashi had one of Naruto's shadow clones attack Tobi and, just as
the clone was about to be destroyed by one of Tobi's attacks, Kakashi used Kamui on
it without Tobi noticing. Naruto then attacked with a Tailed Beast Ball, which Tobi
escaped by retreating to Kamui's dimension. He found the clone waiting for him there
and it destroyed his mask with a Rasengan.
When they saw his face, Guy and Kakashi recognised Tobi as their childhood
friend, Obito Uchiha, whom they'd long thought dead. Obito declined to explain his
actions to them and instead attacked, which attracted Madara, who escaped the release
of the Impure World Reincarnation, to their location. Seeing Madara, Naruto asked
what happened to the Kage, to which the elder Uchiha replied that they were in bad
condition when he left them. From that and the conversation he overheard between
Madara and Obito, particularly their manipulation of Nagato, Naruto attacked in a
rage. Madara reflected him and then tried to capture him and B so that the Ten-Tails
could be revived in its complete form. Naruto split his attention, he and B fighting
Madara's wood dragon with their Tailed Beast Modes and one of his shadow clones
trying to help Kakashi get over the revelation that Obito was alive.

Naruto with the Allied Shinobi Forces.

Obito tried to convince Naruto of the futility of resistance. Naruto insisted that
protecting his comrades was always worthwhile, no matter how hopeless things may
seem. His words brought Kakashi out of his slump, enabling him to start fighting
Obito on his own, and energised Guy, who created an opening for Naruto and B to
attack the Demonic Statue with a combined Tailed Beast Ball. The attack came too
late, however, and the Ten-Tails was revived. Naruto, B, Kakashi, and Guy regrouped
and coordinated an attack, but the Ten-Tails was too powerful and Madara and Obito,
once they linked themselves to it, were able to deploy its powers effectively. Just
before they could kill Naruto and the others, the combined remaining Allied Shinobi
Forces arrived to help. Shikaku Nara, communicating to all of them from the
Alliance's headquarters, staged an offensive to restrain the Ten-Tails. Although it
failed, it was effective enough that Madara and Obito had the Ten-Tails destroy the
distant headquarters, killing Shikaku and everyone else stationed there.

The Allies made individual attacks against the Ten-Tails, but none had any effect. At
the same time, the Ten-Tails started raining wooden skewers all over the battlefield,
killing many. When one was about to hit Naruto, Hinata shielded him with her body
and Neji shielded her with his own. Dying, Neji collapsed on Naruto's shoulder,
asking him to be more careful in the future since many lives, Hinata's particularly,
now depend on his. With his last breath, he thanked Naruto for calling him a genius
all those years ago. Naruto was deeply distraught by Neji's death, which Obito tried
to use as an example of the needless death that resistance caused and that could be
solved in the new world he wanted to create. Hinata brought Naruto back to his senses
by reminding him of all the people who had given their lives to protect him and whose
memories he would be insulting if he had given up now. As Naruto thanked her, he took
her hand and coated her with some of Kurama's chakra.

Naruto gives chakra to the Allied Shinobi Forces.

Naruto shared Kurama's chakra throughout the Allied Forces, increasing their strength
and protecting them from harm. They all manoeuvred into a formation that Shikaku was
able to communicate to them before he died and, taking the form of a bird in memory
of Neji, successfully removed the Ten-Tails from Obito and Madara's control. Forced
to fend for themselves, Obito sought out Naruto, criticising him for wasting his
energy protecting others. Naruto replied that protecting them actually gave him
strength, motivating everyone within earshot. They then sensed the Ten-Tails was
about to attack, which Kakashi tried to stop with Kamui. Obito intercepted him and
they teleported away, leaving the others to endure the Ten-Tails' Tenpenchii.
Kurama's chakra protected everyone, but it faded in the aftermath; Naruto was left
quite beaten up, requiring Sakura to heal him. When the Ten-Tails attacked with
another Tailed Beast Ball, the Allies mustered what little defence they could. Before
it could reach them, however, the Tailed Beast Ball was suddenly teleported away and
Naruto's reincarnated father, Minato Namikaze, appeared at Naruto's side.

Team 7 together again.

The First, Second, and Third Hokage arrived soon afterward and, along with Minato,
erected a barrier around the Ten-Tails to confine it. Sasuke arrived shortly too, at
whose request the previous Hokage were reincarnated by Orochimaru and who now opposed
Obito and Madara. Their fellow Rookie Nine had set aside their differences with
Sasuke for the time being and joined forces in launching an attack against the Ten-
Tails' cruft. On Sai's advice, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all summoned their
signature animals (Naruto calling on Gamakichi) in order to focus directly on the
Ten-Tails itself. Naruto and Sasuke successfully damaged the Ten-Tails' arm with a
combined Scorch Release: Halo Hurricane Jet Black Arrow Style Zero, but it merely
removed the arm to prevent the flames of Sasuke's Amaterasu from spreading.
Before they could attack again, Obito returned, landing on top of the Ten-Tails head
and seemingly about to use the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to restore Madara
to life. While everyone focused on stopping Obito, Naruto couldn't help but notice
that the hand seals he was using were different from what Nagato used. Minato tried
to cut Obito down, but discovered that it was too late as he sealed the Ten-Tails
into his body, becoming its jinchūriki.
Birth of the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki
Main article: Birth of the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki
Naruto and Sasuke attack Obito.
Obito used his new power to destroy the barrier, forcing the Hokage to put the energy
they were using toward the barrier into the fight instead. Because they had immortal
bodies, they launched the first attack so that the others could learn what they could
about Obito's new abilities, but they were quickly defeated. Naruto and Sasuke
engaged him as well, but were nearly killed, saved only by Naruto using his chakra
arms to link to Minato so he could teleport them to safety. Just as before, Naruto
and Sasuke combined their attacks, having Minato and the Second Hokage coordinate
teleports so that the attack would connect. Obito's Truth-Seeking Balls dissipated
much of the attack and the damage that he did incur was quickly regenerated.

Naruto attacks Obito after discovering his weakness.

From the development and some of the previous exchanges, Minato concluded that Obito
was able to neutralise ninjutsu. Gamakichi, wanting to make some final contribution
to the fight before he was forced to return to Mount Myōboku, attacked with
his Starch Syrup Gun. Minato took this opportunity to try and reason with Obito,
reminding him of his former dream to become Hokage. Obito berated the title and those
who had held it, as he had surpassed them. Naruto was insulted not only because that
was a slight against his father, but also because he hadn't abandoned his dream of
being Hokage like Obito had. The Second Hokage teleported him to Obito and he
attacked with a Rasengan, which successfully damaged Obito; Naruto noticed that
Gamakichi's attack wasn't neutralised and realised Obito was vulnerable to senjutsu.

Kurama and its jinchūriki join forces.

With a weakness discovered, Obito trapped the Alliance in a barrier and began
charging multiple Tailed Beast Balls that he would use to wipe out everyone within
its confines. Minato noted that he wouldn't be able to teleport them all away in
time, so Naruto came up with a different approach: he linked his chakra with Minato
and remotely restored the Alliance's chakra cloaks, networking everyone in with
Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique, allowing him to teleport everyone out of the
barrier. Minato did so and was afterwards very proud of his son, saying he wished
they had more time to talk. Naruto replied that it was not necessary since he already
met his mother and that she explained everything. Naruto and Minato each entered
Tailed Beast Modes, with Naruto merging his with Sage Mode in order to imbue their
shared Rasengan with senjutsu. The Second teleported them to Obito and they attacked,
but he blocked it with his Truth-Seeking Balls.

A senjutsu-enhanced Naruto and Sasuke attack Obito.

To move ahead with his plans, Obito created a replica of the God Tree, the first step
in performing the Infinite Tsukuyomi. The tree started absorbing chakra from those
nearby until they die, a fate that Naruto nearly succumbed to until he was saved by
the Third Hokage. Obito pointed to the growing number of casualties as further
evidence that Naruto should stop resisting, an arguement that Naruto was increasingly
having trouble ignoring. Sasuke, unmoved by Obito's words, used Susanoo to hack
through the tree and then mocked Naruto for giving up. Naruto was reminded of his
desire to not lose Sasuke or anyone else for that matter and, reinvigorated, joined
Sasuke in the offensive. Although their senjutsu-enhanced Tailed Beast Mode and
Susanoo could compete with Obito, they were individually unable to defeat him. Obito
continued trying to convince Naruto to stop, but he ignored him.

Naruto and Sasuke slash through Obito.

Sasuke then coated his Susanoo around Naruto's Tailed Beast Mode, granting the
Kurama-avatar a sword and armour. Sensing that it was the final exchange, Obito
created a sword and shield of his own out of Truth-Seeking Balls. Naruto created a
Rasengan in each of the Kurama-avatar's tails, which his friends from Konoha guide in
a coordinated assault to Obito's shield, destroying it. As soon as Naruto and Sasuke
sliced through Obito with their sword, the tailed beasts then began to emerge from
the Uchiha's body, giving Naruto and the combined Allied Shinobi Forces the
opportunity to pull them out. The tug-of-war for the tailed beasts linked Naruto's
consciousness with Obito's. Naruto reminded Obito of his earlier claim that he was
nobody and set out to prove to him that he was Obito Uchiha, specifically the Obito
Uchiha that Kakashi used to know. Naruto pointed out their similarities, how both
were orphans and that, because of that, they wanted to be Hokage. Obito agreed that
they were similar, but that was the reason why he has been trying so hard to convince
Naruto that he was right, and insisted that the world he wanted to create was a
better one because his vision of the future was clear, whereas the future of the
current world was ambiguous. Naruto argued that was the point and that uncertainty,
when faced with comrades, was worthwhile, and offered Obito his hand so that they
might see what happened together.
Kurama is extracted from Naruto by Madara.
The Allies successfully removed the tailed beasts from Obito and he fell to the
ground, defeated. Minato and Kakashi insisted that Obito be left to them while Naruto
and the rest of the Alliance should focus on Madara. They did so, joining forces with
the First Hokage against him, but right before he could seal him, Madara put one
final fail-safe into effect: he had Black Zetsu force Obito to revive him. Madara
quickly neutralised the First, fended off Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai, and then went
after the freed tailed beasts. Naruto entered Tailed Beast Mode and assisted them
with fighting him off. They were initially successful, but when Madara reacquired one
of his Rinnegan, he easily defeated them with Limbo: Border Jail, sealing them all
back into the Demonic Statue, including B's Gyūki and Naruto's Kurama.

Obito transfers his tailed beasts' chakra into Naruto.

The removal of Kurama from his body caused Naruto to pass out and placed his life in
immediate danger. His Uzumaki heritage prevented him from dying instantly, but he
required constant medical attention from Sakura in order to keep him alive. On the
advice of Kurama right before it was extracted, Gaara took Naruto to Minato so that
Minato's portion of Kurama's chakra could be sealed into him, saving him. Kakashi
sent Naruto and Sakura to Kamui's dimension so that she could continue performing
life support without interruption. Obito soon arrived to help her, having overcome
both Black Zetsu and Madara in order to acquire Minato's half of Kurama and give it
to Naruto, as his form of penance.

Naruto and Sasuke accept Hagoromo's power.

While on the border of life and death, Naruto was met by the Sage of Six
Paths, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki. He explained his past conflicts with his mother, Kaguya
Ōtsutsuki, and the conflicts that emerged between his sons, Asura and Indra. His
sons' conflict had continued through the centuries, with their chakra reincarnated
every generation in new individuals to fight anew; Naruto was the current
reincarnation of Asura, while Sasuke was the reincarnation of Indra. Naruto was not
greatly surprised, having sensed something like that when he met Sasuke during
the Five Kage Summit. Because of Madara's aims for the world, Hagoromo asked that he
and Sasuke join forces to stop him, a task he was only encouraged by from the tailed
beasts' positive words concerning Naruto. He gave Naruto the Six Paths Yang
Power, half his chakra and Six Paths Sage Mode to help him in this goal.

Naruto and Sasuke strike Madara.

When Naruto woke up, he had Obito send him back to the real world. There, he stopped
Madara from killing Might Guy and used Hagoromo's power to stabilise Guy's life force
from using the Eight Gates Released Formation. Surprised by Naruto's sudden increase
in power, Madara was hit by Naruto's Sage Art: Lava Release Rasenshuriken, which was
fueled by Son Gokū's chakra and instantly cut down the giant tree Obito created
earlier. When Sasuke arrived, Naruto entered Six Paths Sage Mode and they started
overwhelming Madara. Realising his window was closing, Madara went after Kakashi and
took his Mangekyō Sharingan, using it to follow Obito. Sakura appeared shortly
afterward, sent by Obito so Madara wouldn't kill her. She could do nothing about
Kakashi's eye, so Naruto used Hagoromo's power to restore the one he lost years ago.
Madara soon returned, now having both his Rinnegan and Black Zetsu in control of
Obito's body. Naruto and Sasuke immediately resumed their attack, but Madara had an
easier time with them. He rose into the sky, raining Chibaku Tensei on them to keep
them busy while he projected the Infinite Tsukuyomi on the world. While Naruto
destroyed the remaining satellite-like constructs, Sasuke shielded him, Sakura, and
Kakashi with Susanoo from the Infinite Tsukuyomi's gaze. He let them out once the
illusion was finished casting and they emerged to find themselves alone, with the
rest of the world being wrapped into Madara's God: Nativity of a World of Trees. As
Madara confronted them and started explaining how he had saved the world, he was
stabbed in the back by Black Zetsu. Black Zetsu then transferred to Madara's body
from Obito's and forced him to absorb the world's chakra, converting him into a woman
that Naruto and Sasuke recognised as Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki Strikes
Main article: Kaguya Ōtsutsuki StrikesKaguya detected that Naruto and Sasuke as the
reincarnations of Asura and Indra, and also that her son Hagoromo had given them the
power to defeat her. Not wanting to further the damage the world that their fighting
would cause, she shifted them all to one of her dimensions, placing them above a sea
of lava. Sasuke summoned his hawk Garuda to save himself and Naruto, but ignored
Naruto's pleas to save Sakura, Kakashi, and Obito too since only he and Naruto were
vital to the fight. Kakashi was able to briefly stop their fall, but the heat burned
the scroll he used to save them and it was only Naruto's sudden discovery that he was
able to levitate that saved them from the lava. He left a shadow clone to hold onto
them and engaged Kaguya, creating an opening for Sasuke to attack.

Kaguya thwarts Naruto and Sasuke's sealing attempt.

Sasuke's attack failed and Naruto must save him from the lava. With their attacks
ineffective and the environment such a hazard, Naruto and Sasuke discussed what to
do. Kaguya appeared behind them and paralysed them, binding them with Black Zetsu
while she started absorbing their chakra. Black Zetsu took the opportunity to expand
on the history earlier given by Hagoromo, painting Kaguya as the victim of her sons,
Hagoromo and Hamura. Black Zetsu had for centuries been manipulating others toward
the outcome of reviving her, and only then had it finally succeeded. It encouraged
them to bask in the embrace of their oblivion, but Naruto refused, breaking himself
and Sasuke free. Needing to take drastic action, Naruto used his "ultimate"
jutsu: Sexy: Reverse Harem Technique. Kaguya was so distracted that she was nearly
sealed, but she recomposed herself in time to shift dimensions again, freezing Naruto
and Sasuke in place.

Naruto overwhelms Kaguya with shadow clones.

Because Naruto and Sasuke were only a threat to her when together, Kaguya sent Sasuke
to a different dimension while she focused on Naruto. While Kaguya manipulated the
ice dimension against him, his shadow clone explained to Kakashi, Sakura, and the
now-awake Obito that his and Sasuke's powers were both necessary to defeat her. Obito
offered to use his Kamui to try and explore Kaguya's dimensions to find Sasuke. To
give Obito an opening, Naruto used Naruto Region Combo to overwhelm Kaguya, forcing
her to retreat to another dimension to get her bearings. When she did so, Obito
infiltrated the dimension Kaguya went to with Sakura and the shadow clone. The shadow
clone faced her so that she wouldn't notice them while they look for Sasuke. Kaguya
returned to the ice dimension and resumed her fight with the army of Naruto's clones.
He kept her preoccupied until Obito returned with Sasuke.

Naruto separates Black Zetsu from Kaguya.

Increasingly frustrated, Kaguya shifted them to another dimension with powerful
gravity to immobilise Naruto and Sasuke while she attacked with her All-Killing Ash
Bones. Kakashi and Obito used themselves to shield the attack, with Obito then using
Kamui to protect Kakashi, leaving Obito unable to defend himself. Naruto tried to
heal the damage to his body, but even Hagoromo's power couldn't save him. While
Sasuke fought Kaguya, Obito thanked Naruto for reminding him of who he was and made
him promise to become Hokage for both their sakes. Naruto agreed and Obito's body
crumbled. Black Zetsu ridiculed Obito for living an insignificant life and dying an
insignificant death. Enraged, Naruto severed Kaguya's arm, in the sleeve of which
Black Zetsu had been hiding, and then pinned it to the ground with his Truth-Seeking
Balls.

Team 7 defeats Kaguya.

Naruto and his shadow clones attacked Kaguya with Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast
Rasenshuriken. On impact, the tailed beasts' chakra within her began reacting and
Kaguya started losing control of her form. She was able to reconfigure herself and
prepared an Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball to destroy them. Kakashi interfered, using
Susanoo (a last gift from Obito) to make an opening for Naruto and Sasuke. She tried
to escape, but Sakura punched her to keep her in place, allowing Naruto and Sasuke to
trigger Six Paths — Chibaku Tensei. The tailed beasts were removed from her, Madara
was spat out, and she was entombed in her own dimension. Not wanting Black Zetsu to
scheme for her release again, Naruto made a point to trap it with her.

Minato wishes happy birthday to Naruto.

Team 7 wondered how they would return to their world. Sensing their need, Hagoromo
combined the efforts of the dead Kage to summon them, the tailed beasts, and Madara
back. Hagoromo thanked them for saving the world, as did the tailed beasts for saving
them. Naruto happily greeted to his original Kurama, asking if it missed him, to
which the flustered fox denied. After Madara died from his ordeal, Naruto met with
Minato who, as day broke, wished him a happy seventeenth birthday. As Hagoromo
returned Minato's and the souls of the other dead Kage to the Pure Land, Minato
voiced his pride in Naruto and promised to tell Kushina everything about him. The
other Kage also gave words of parting, which Naruto tearfully accepted.
With all threats gone, Hagoromo explained that the Infinite Tsukuyomi could be
released if Naruto and Sasuke combine their chakra. Sasuke agreed to this, but first
he wanted to kill the Kage and destroy the tailed beasts, believing both were
inhibitive to world peace. When he was unwilling to back down from his threat, the
tailed beasts moved in to stop Sasuke, but he captured each in their own Chibaku
Tensei. Hagoromo recognised that as a continuation of Indra's feud with Asura, but
lacked the time and power to do anything about it. Sakura tried to reason with
Sasuke, but he knocked her out and left. Naruto followed after him, promising to
Hagoromo that he would bring him around and finally end the centuries-long feud.

Naruto and Sasuke begin their rematch at the Valley of the End.
Naruto and Sasuke ended up at the Valley of the End, where they fought years ago.
Sasuke stated his willingness to bear the world's burdens by himself and live
independently of the past, neither of which Naruto believed were possible, or at
least wise. He tells Sasuke it's impossible to do everything alone like he plans to,
pointing to the missteps Itachi made and their own successful teamwork against
Kaguya. Sasuke replies that he only wants to remake a better world, one where he can,
like Itachi before, be solely responsible for the difficult decisions that must be
made so that nobody else needs to; this is what he believes a true "Hokage" to be.
Naruto insists he will be Hokage, not Sasuke, because Sasuke is still going against
what Itachi wanted for him and they start fighting.

Naruto and Sasuke's attacks collide.

After a brief exchange of blows reminiscent of their fight years ago, Naruto and
Sasuke started trading punches with their Tailed Beast Mode and Susanoo respectively.
Sasuke chastised Naruto for not attacking with an intent to kill, but Naruto, like
last time, was unwilling to do so, not wishing for either of them to go without the
other. Naruto then clashed his Tailed Beast Ball with Sasuke's Susanoo-supported
Chidori, producing a large explosion that does noticeable but not debilitating damage
to their respective avatars. Each therefore powered up the avatars, Sasuke by
channelling the captured tailed beasts into his Susanoo and Naruto by merging his
avatar with the avatars of two shadow clones. The two met attacks once again,
creating a giant explosion that stripped away their avatars and left them with too
little chakra to use practically. They instead resorted to taijutsu, kicking and
punching each other into the night.

Naruto and Sasuke's final clash.

As the two near exhaustion, Kurama mustered enough chakra for Naruto to make one last
attack, but Sasuke absorbed it. Having expected this, Naruto delivered a solid punch,
finally irritating Sasuke over the endless repetition of their fight. Kurama gave the
last of its chakra to Naruto, who used it to make a Rasengan to counter Sasuke's
Chidori. Both woke up later to find that much of the Valley of the End had been
destroyed, that they had each lost an arm, and that neither could move. Sasuke
reflected that Naruto had been a constant obstacle to his goals, but that he was also
the only person who never given up on him. Naruto's usual response that they were
friends didn't convince Sasuke since it obviously went beyond, so Naruto elaborated
that he experienced pain if he didn't have Sasuke. Sasuke was awed, knowing full well
that Naruto had experienced various misfortunes in his life, smiled through all of
them, yet would suffer without Sasuke.

Naruto and Sasuke reconnect.

When they woke up the next day, Sasuke admitted defeat for the first time in his
life, as he came to accept that Naruto was just as vital to him as he was to Naruto.
Kakashi and Sakura eventually tracked them down and Sakura healed them, though she
couldn't do anything about their missing arms. Once they were able to walk, they
returned to where the Allied Shinobi Forces were all trapped still, dispelled the
Infinite Tsukuyomi according to Hagoromo's instructions, and Sasuke released the
tailed beasts. With the war over, Naruto returns to the village, where he attends a
mass funeral for the participants of the war. In the anime, while recovering from his
injuries, Gaara and A approach Naruto and thank him for his effort during the war.
Shikamaru later brings Naruto to the Academy to meet with Iruka and Kakashi, who is
considering on promoting Naruto as a jōnin. However, because he never got to retake
the Chūnin Exams, Naruto has to complete two years worth of studies, much to his
dismay. However, Naruto is cheered up as Iruka offers to help him.[138]
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Naruto and Sasuke part ways.
Months after the war, Sasuke was pardoned for his crimes on the good word of Naruto
and Kakashi (who had been selected to become the Sixth Hokage). Just before Sasuke
left Konoha to wander the world, he was met by Naruto, who returned to him
his forehead protector.
Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky
Main article: Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy SkyNearly a year after the end of
the Fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto and Sai were sent to the Land of Waves to
capture Garyō, leader of the Ryūha Armament Alliance. Once they located the
Alliance's hideout, Naruto launched an assault with multiple shadow clones; although
he was still missing an arm, he had learned how to perform one-handed hand seals. He
easily dealt with most of the Alliance's members, but was briefly stalled by the Ice
Release of Garyō's bodyguard. Naruto distracted the bodyguard with a shadow clone for
long enough to apprehend Garyō. Garyō tried to convince Naruto that the Alliance was
doing good work by releasing the world from money's corruptive influence. Although
sympathetic, Naruto couldn't abide their terrorist actions and escaped with Garyō on
Sai's bird.
At some point within the next two months, Naruto received a prosthetic arm to replace
the one he lost during the war. While eating at Ramen Ichiraku one day, he saw
Kakashi walking by and asked him when he would officially take on the
responsibilities of Hokage. He tried to convince Kakashi by listing the many
shortcomings of Tsunade, unaware that she was standing behind him; she angrily
knocked Naruto unconscious. Kakashi finally accepted the Hokage position shortly
after the mission involving the Ryūha Armament Alliance and the Blood Prison. When
Naruto learned about the mission, specifically that he was expressly forbidden from
being informed about it at the time, Naruto started spreading rumours about Kakashi's
relationship with the Blood Prison's new warden, Kahyō. Kakashi angrily attacked him
and then bought him some ramen to apologise.
Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent Darkness
Main article: Shikamaru Hiden: A Cloud Drifting in Silent DarknessNaruto ran
into Shikamaru early one morning and they discussed their heavy workloads for
the Shinobi Union. Since Naruto's assignments were given to him by Shikamaru, he took
the opportunity to complain. Shikamaru explained that Naruto, a prime candidate for
an eventual Hokage position, needed to get used to it. Naruto later discussed what
Shikamaru had said with Sakura, having sensed that there was something Shikamaru was
keeping from him. Sakura reminded Naruto of all the work Shikamaru did to prepare
Naruto for becoming Hokage and that it likely had something to do with that. Naruto
was aware of all that Shikamaru did on his behalf, but wondered if he was worth
Shikamaru's trouble.
A few days later, Naruto was approached by Temari, who was worried about Shikamaru's
recent behavior and now asked where he was. Naruto didn't know, and was troubled to
find that neither did Chōji or Ino. He finally asked Kakashi, who admitted under
pressure that Shikamaru was on a secret assignment to the Land of Silence. Naruto
joined Temari's team of Suna ninja to go to the Land of Silence to provide assistance
to Shikamaru. They interrogated the locals upon arrival and learned that Shikamaru
had been captured by the Enlightened Ones. They attacked the prison where Shikamaru
was being held and successfully freed him, enabling him to complete his mission by
taking the country's leader, Gengo, into custody. Afterwards, Naruto demanded that
Shikamaru never keep anything from him again, otherwise their future Hokage—advisor
relationship would be very problematic. Shikamaru agreed and apologised. While
Shikamaru returned to Konoha, Naruto and several other Konoha and Suna shinobi remain
in the Land of Silence to help the country recover from Gengo's control.
The Last: Naruto the Movie
Main article: The Last: Naruto the Movie

Naruto vs. Toneri's puppets.

During the Rinne Festival, Naruto, being the hero of the village, was bombarded with
gifts from various young Konoha residents. To distract Naruto from all the
attention, Konohamaru invited him over to his grandfather's storage, where Naruto
found a scarf that his mother had knitted for him before she passed. He happily began
wearing the scarf around the village, treating it as a precious memento. Naruto
attempted to discuss his new-found attention to Hinata over ramen, but it made her
uncomfortable and ran away with embarrassment, much to his confusion and leading him
to chase after her. While looking for her, Naruto stumbled across a horde
of puppets trying to abduct Hinata. After he rescued her, they were notified that
Hinata's sister Hanabi was kidnapped by Toneri Ōtsutsuki, and were assigned on
a team to rescue her.
Kakashi informed the team of the imminent crashing of the moon onto the Earth, and
asked that they do what they can to stop it in case Toneri was connected in any way.
They followed Hanabi's trail and were led into a cave. While traveling through it,
they were caught in genjutsu formed from their own memories. From seeing events of
his own past and some of Hinata's, Naruto was reminded of her feelings for him and
realised that he felt the same way. Sakura released them from the genjutsu and they
continued with the mission. After the team encountered the Gatekeeper, Naruto noticed
that Hinata was missing and left to find her, only to discover that she was in a
conversation with a disguised Toneri who he quickly defeated. Hinata wouldn't share
what she discussed with the puppet, so Naruto vowed not to let her out of his sight
again. They continued through the cave and eventually arrived in the moon's interior,
which the team then split up to investigate the surrounding settlement.

Naruto confesses to Hinata.

After the team regrouped, Naruto watched Hinata as she repaired her ruined scarf. She
expressed her concerns that she wasn't doing enough to save her sister, so Naruto
reassured her and also told her how he felt. Toneri appeared before she could
respond, prompting Hinata to give Naruto the scarf and departed with Toneri. Naruto
chased after them, believing Hinata was being taken against her will. When Hinata did
not deny Toneri's statement about them getting married, Naruto became too shocked to
react. Toneri attacked him, destroying the scarf and leaving him badly injured. After
three days of around-the-clock medical attention from Sakura, he woke up. Naruto was
distraught, believing there was no reason to go on if Hinata had chosen Toneri.
Sakura reassured him that Hinata couldn't really have feelings for Toneri as she
loved Naruto too much, and had a reason for doing what she did. As his strength
returned, Naruto vowed he would save Hinata and for her to wait for him.

Naruto fighting Toneri.

The team soon infiltrated Toneri's castle and after locating Hinata, Naruto went
after her while the others rescued Hanabi. He arrived in time to interrupt Toneri's
and Hinata's wedding ceremony. Toneri, who was controlling Hinata, had her attack
Naruto, only for him to break his control and escape with her. Hinata lead him to
the Tenseigan that was controlling the moon's decent, which they individually tried
to destroy to no success, but together they succeeded. After regrouping with the
others, Hinata gave Naruto a piece of the scarf she knitted for him, which he
graciously accepted. The team then attempted to flee the castle, but a furious Toneri
appeared and separated the group, which gave him the opportunity to recapture Hinata.
During their intense fight, Naruto managed to overcome Toneri's new power and
overwhelm him by concentrating all his chakra into his fist and defeated him with a
single punch, freeing Hinata in the process.
Naruto and Hinata kiss.
Toneri tried one final attack, but was unable to control its power, leading to Naruto
to intervene and save him from drifting out into space. Afterwards, Hinata informed
Toneri of Hamura's actual decree and he, regretful about what he did, allowed the
team to return home. As they were returning to Earth, Naruto reaffirmed his feelings
for Hinata and stated that he wanted to be with her for the rest of his life, much to
her happiness, and the two later shared their first kiss.
Sakura Hiden: Thoughts of Love, Riding Upon a Spring Breeze
Main article: Sakura Hiden: Thoughts of Love, Riding Upon a Spring BreezeWhile Naruto and
Hinata were out on a date in Konoha, they ran into Sakura. Sensing that Sakura was
overworking herself, they invited her to join them, but she declined.
One day, while Naruto was teaching a class of Academy students how to spar, he
noticed Sakura, who was wandering around Konoha, looking distressed. Sensing that she
needed a distraction, Naruto insisted that she help him, which took her mind off
recent events. As thanks, Sakura informed Naruto of something she avoided telling
him: there were rumours that Sasuke was trying to destroy Konoha. She didn't believe
the rumours were true, but nobody had been able to get in touch with Sasuke to
confirm. Naruto pointed out that Sasuke must not be worried by these rumours,
otherwise he would respond to the messages he'd been sent. Sakura thought that was a
good point and was put at ease.
When Naruto and Hinata later learned that Sakura had been kidnapped by Kido Tsumiki,
they joined with Kakashi in going to rescue her. On finding her, however, they
discovered that she had already defeated Kido. They congratulated her on her victory.
Konoha Hiden: The Perfect Day for a Wedding
Main article: Konoha Hiden: The Perfect Day for a WeddingNaruto and Hinata decided to get
married and invited their friends and family. Because his parents were dead, Naruto
asked Iruka to attend as his father, which Iruka happily agreed to. On the day of the
wedding, though, Naruto kept his real father in his thoughts, looking upon Minato's
face on the Hokage Rock with admiration as he and Hinata were about to walk down the
aisle.
Sasuke Shinden: Book of Sunrise
Main article: Sasuke Shinden: Book of SunriseNaruto appears in the novel.
New Era
Shortly after their marriage, Naruto and Hinata had a son named Boruto, and two years
later a daughter named Himawari. Several years later, Kakashi decided to step down
and selected Naruto to be the Seventh Hokage. On the day of his inauguration, Boruto
accidentally destroyed Himawari's toy, leading to Naruto stepping in to defend his
son from Himawari's Gentle Fist-strike, but ended up taking the blow instead,
rendering him unconscious. He ended up missing his own inauguration, forcing
Konohamaru to impersonate him during the ceremony.[139] As Hokage, he hosted a Kage
Summit in Konoha, in which Sasuke and Sakura attended alongside the four Kage and
their bodyguards. During the meeting, Sasuke reported that a threat greater than
Kaguya may still exist somewhere, which Naruto and the other Kage decided to keep the
information between themselves to avoid causing a panic.[140]
Academy Arc
In the anime, Naruto partakes in the entrance ceremony at the Academy, which leads to
him being mortified after Boruto arrives and damages the Hokage Rock. After the
incident, Naruto learns from the Kaminarimon Company president that Boruto is having
a positive impact on his son, leading to Naruto smiling. Later, as a mysterious
presence continues to cause people in the village to randomly attack the citizens,
Naruto decides to begin an investigation, which uncovers that victims are having
their chakra severely drained to the point of hospitalisation.
As the mysterious attack began to happen throughout the village, Naruto's efforts to
uncover the truth began to exhaust him and being insisted by Shikamaru to go home and
rest. Upon arriving, he learned that Boruto was acting very strange recently. Once
confronting his son about his new attitude, Boruto insisted that he had finally
manifested his Byakugan, leading them to talk to Hiashi. Upon arriving at his
household, Hiashi like Naruto had doubts that Boruto awakened the Byakugan. Deciding
to test Boruto, Hanabi faces Boruto, which concluded that Boruto hadn't manifested
the dōjutsu. Afterwards, Naruto talked with Hiashi about his grandchildren.
After assigning Sai to investigate the attacks in the village, he returned home late,
and confided in Hinata about his ineptitude in interacting with his children,
believing it to stem from his growing up without parents.[45] Some time later, Naruto
saved civilians at the Konoha Purification Plant. As Boruto decided to check on his
hospitalised friends, realising that his son was conducting his own investigation on
the attacks, Naruto dragged Boruto to the surgery room, showing his son what was
becoming of the victims of prolonged rampages. While hoping to sway Boruto into
staying out of this matter, it only strengthened Boruto's resolve. Shino then
appeared, encouraging Naruto to have faith in his son as the teacher himself was
recently saved by Boruto's efforts. While still weary, Naruto decided to trust
Shino's judgement.
While having dinner with his family and Mitsuki, Naruto abruptly departs to handle a
matter involving strange chakra spreading across Konoha.[141] Soon after, Sai
discovered that the culprit behind these attacks was Sumire Kakei. Naruto learned
from Kakashi that Sumire's intention was to unleash the Gozu Tennō on the village.
Later, when Sai found Sumire, she unleashed the Nue. Naruto soon joined the unit to
fend off the creature, but Kakashi warned Naruto to not get close, having realised
that the endgame of this creature was to amass enough chakra to produce a powerful
enough explosion to destroy the village. While the barrier team worked to keep the
creature at bay, it suddenly teleported away. As Naruto attempted to find the
creature with Sage Mode, Kakashi deduced that the creature worked differently from
normal summonings, existing naturally in its own separate dimension.
Upon Sumire turning herself in, Sai and Shikamaru notifies him that it's due to
Boruto appealing to Sumire's genuine love of her friends in the Academy, making
Naruto relieved that decided to admit her in the first place. Later, he informs
Boruto that while he must look to the welfare of the entire village and does not have
absolute say, he promises to help Sumire. Ultimately, it was decided to pardon Sumire
and let her return to the Academy. Later, Naruto sent a clone to meet up with Sasuke,
giving him the research on the Gozu Tennō. Sasuke quickly deduced that this was an
attempt on Danzō to recreate Kaguya's technique. Before Sasuke departs, he asks
Naruto to apologise to Sakura for his continued absence, leading to Naruto feeling
responsible for.[142]
When Himawari became sick due to a fever, Naruto hurried home worried about her in
which Boruto pointed out that his Hokage cloak is inside out. When Naruto and Boruto
began fighting over what Himawari should eat, Hinata became angry and kicked them
both out of the house due to them being noisy. Naruto then invited Boruto to eat with
him at Ramen Ichiraku to try to bond with him in which he accepted. As they ate,
Naruto told his son about all the precious memories he had in the shop, such as being
acknowledged by Iruka, hanging out with Team 7, and going on his first date with
Hinata.[143]
Sarada Uchiha Arc
Main article: Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet SpringOn the day of the Five
Kage Summit in Konoha, Moegi and Udon notify Naruto that Boruto had vandalised
the Hokage Rock. Before Boruto could do any more damage, Naruto catches and stops
him. Afterwards, he gives his son a lecture about how the whole village is his
family. The ordeal leads to Naruto arriving late to the kage meeting, which he
apologies for.
As Boruto's graduation exam from the Academy was approaching, Naruto used a shadow
clone to help him train. Meanwhile, the real Naruto received a report from Sasuke
about a boy with the Sharingan. After he consulted with Kakashi about it, Naruto
decided to accompany Sasuke to a meeting with Orochimaru, leaving behind a shadow
clone to manage Konoha in his absence. He made a point to leave the village before
Boruto could come to see him off, though he asked Shikamaru to apologise to Boruto on
his behalf.

Naruto protecting Sarada and Chōchō from Shin's attack.

While on his way to the rendezvous point, Naruto sensed that he was being followed
by Sarada Uchiha and Chōchō Akimichi. He initially tried to ignore them, but
eventually decided it would be better to confront them than to let them continue
coming after him. When he arrived to speak with them, however, he found them being
attacked by the same boy from Sasuke's report. Although he was pleased that they were
able to hold their own against their attacker, Naruto decided to get personally
involved when he saw the boy had a Mangekyō Sharingan. The boy could do nothing
against Naruto's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, so he fled with a creature's space–time
ninjutsu. Because the boy was apparently after Sarada, Naruto allowed them to come
with him so that he could keep them safe.
While having lunch, Naruto told Sarada about what her father was like growing up and
then informed both Sarada and and Chōchō in what ways they take after their parents.
Sarada was not only interested to hear about Sasuke, but also found she got along
quite well with Naruto. As they got close to where they were supposed to meet up with
Sasuke, Sarada snuck away from Naruto and Chōchō so that she could see him first.
Naruto followed and, on arrival, was reprimanded by Sasuke for bringing children with
him. Sarada explained that she came without permission as she wanted to know
if Sakura was her real mother. Sasuke ignored the question, which only upset her and
caused her to storm out. Naruto tried to comfort her, but his assurances that Sasuke
meant well did not improve her mood. Before he could continue, he sensed the boy's
return and defended Sarada as the boy and his father, Shin Uchiha, attack.
Sasuke assisted in fighting off Shin and his son, but Shin was able
to manipulate Sasuke's sword and used it to stab Naruto. Naruto continued attacking
Shin despite his injury, though tried to use being impaled by the sword to win
sympathy; Kurama ridiculed Naruto for allowing himself to be stabbed at all, but
assured him that it wouldn't kill him. Sakura suddenly arrived to lend assistance and
landed a fatal blow on Shin, forcing Shin to escape and took Sakura with him. Unable
to detect where Shin had taken Sakura, they continued to Orochimaru's lair.
Orochimaru informed them that Shin was an old experiment of his that he since lost
control of. Naruto noticed Sarada sneaking off with Suigetsuduring Orochimaru's
explanation and followed them, listening in as Suigetsu ran a DNA test that suggested
Sarada's real mother was actually Karin.

Not knowing what the truth was, Naruto was upset first with Sasuke for the secret he
has seemingly been keeping, but also with Suigetsu for getting involved. He
approached Sarada to discuss it with her, but she lashed out at him, believing he had
been a knowing participant in the lie that Sakura was her mother. When she tried to
insist that having no blood relation to Sakura meant they weren't family, Naruto took
a firm stance: he wasn't related to most of Konoha's villagers, yet he still
considered them his family because they were important to him. In the same way,
Sakura and Sarada were family because they were important to each other. Sarada
realised how much she loved Sakura and decided she wanted to help rescue her. They
reunited with the others and head out for Shin's hideout.

Naruto facing a Shin clone.

Using Sasuke's Rinnegan, they were able to reach where Shin took Sakura, only to find
Sakura faring fine on her own fighting him. With the numbers against him growing,
Shin called in his sons (actually his clones) to assist, but they turned against him
and killed him because he always mistreated them. The clones then turned their
attentions to Naruto and the others, which Naruto engaged with his own shadow clones.
Because they were only children, he frightened them into surrendering by manifesting
Kurama. After learning that Sakura indeed was her biological mother, Sarada
reconciled with her parents, much to Naruto's happiness. Then, they all returned to
Konoha, with Shin's clones being delivered to the Konoha Orphanage.
School Trip Arc
In the anime, to improve relationships with other villages and symbolically show the
warring era was over, Naruto set up an official class trip for the Academy to go to
Kirigakure. Working out the details with Chōjūrō, he also got a tour guide for the
class.
Graduation Arc
As ninja classes began preparing for the graduation exams, the various students were
interviewed about their future goals alongside a parent. Naruto however was unable to
join his son as he was busy discussing matters with Orochimaru about his research on
Danzō's old experiments. As Orochimaru delivered promising results to aid Sasuke in
his own investigations, while Shikamaru voiced his still limited trust in Orochimaru,
Naruto was more relaxed about Orochimaru roaming the village.

On Boruto's first day as a genin, Naruto managed to get some time to have breakfast
with his family and see Boruto off to be assigned his team. After Boruto left,
Shikamaru went to Naruto's house to collect him and inform him of his various duties
for the day. Later on, Naruto was in a field testing a number of shinobi's skills
in Barrier Ninjutsu to better protect the village with Mirai Sarutobi as his escort
for the day. When Boruto and his teammates came to him, he was thinking that they
want to change teams, but was pleasantly surprised when instead they want their team
denomination to be changed to Team 7.

As the recently promoted genin began to prepare for their first missions, Naruto
prepared to present them, as it was customary. While Boruto began bragging about how
easy it will, Naruto sternly warned him not be so cocky. He presented Team 7 with a
D-rank mission to aid the Green Banks Village who were being attacked by bandits for
their crops. Naruto stressed that the team show team-work to complete the mission.

Byakuya Gang Arc

When a group of self-proclaimed noble thieves began making various heists throughout
Konohagakure, their act of distributing their stolen wealth to the poor began gaining
much support from many of the villagers. Even more, swarms of protesters began
emerging in the village against various legitimate companies, fuelled by the Byakuya
Gang's claims of the said companies being corrupt, one of which included the
Kaminarimon Company. In hopes of better understanding this new enemy, Naruto decided
to talk to the other villages for any information on the Byakuya Gang.

Versus Momoshiki Arc

Main article: Boruto: Naruto the MovieSeveral months later, Naruto remained busy with his
Hokage duties and continued having a strained relationship with his son, Boruto.
Konoha has grown into a large city under Naruto's leadership, although Naruto is
overwhelmed with the responsibilities of being Hokage, leading him to create shadow
clones to tend to his family and the villagers. When Boruto and his team report to
Naruto after a mission, Naruto asked his son to address him as "the Seventh" instead
of "Dad," and reminded him the importance of teamwork, which annoyed his son, as he
believed that he could handle anything on his own. Boruto warned his father to be
home for Himawari's birthday party or else he will never forgive him. Katasuke
Tōno then entered his office, requesting permission from Naruto to allow participants
of the upcoming Chūnin Exams to use his new invention, the Kote. However Naruto
refused on the grounds that it did not show one's true abilities a shinobi. Naruto
was unable to make it to his daughter's birthday party and sent a shadow clone
instead. However, the clone ended up disappearing and dropping the cake when Naruto
became fatigued, which enraged Boruto and caused him to throw Naruto's old, tattered
jacket out the window. Naruto felt guilty for letting his family down and Shikamaru
told him to go home and rest. The jacket was found by Sasuke, who returned to Konoha
to ask for help in deciphering a scroll he found in Kaguya's abandoned castle. They
met in Naruto's office where Sasuke mentioned his meeting with Boruto and this leads
to them making a bet on whether the nature of a shinobi has changed in regards to
Boruto, to which Sasuke says it hasn't and Naruto says it has.
Naruto wasn't surprised when Boruto won the first test but after being advised by
Shikamaru to reach out to Boruto, Naruto congratulated him via email, much to
Boruto's annoyance. While the scroll was being deciphered, Naruto sent a clone to
meet up with Sasuke and asked him if it was true that he was training Boruto. Naruto
said that perhaps Sasuke was right concerning the nature of shinobi remaining the
same, to which Sasuke agrees. Naruto was nervous on the outcome of the second test
but after learning Boruto passed, Naruto was overjoyed. Later, he met with Boruto in
his bedroom and personally congratulated him and told him not to lose against
Shikadai. Naruto offered a fist bump, but Boruto only smiled as he didn't want his
father to discover the Kote he was wearing. For the third test, Naruto chose to sit
with Hinata and Himawari rather than with the other Kage as they watched Boruto fight
in the third round and finally against Shikadai Nara. Near the end, Naruto suspected
something was wrong after it appeared Boruto won. He asked Hinata to use her Byakugan
and she noticed Boruto wearing a Kote. Naruto then realised that Boruto used a Kote
to produce several shadow clones in order to win the battle. Disappointed, Naruto
confronted him in the arena, ordered that Shikadai be declared as the winner and took
Boruto's forehead protector from him. He told Boruto they would talk about this at
home, but Boruto lashed out at him that Naruto doesn't know how give him a lecture
when he's never home.

Naruto captured by Momoshiki.

Suddenly, Momoshiki and Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki appear and began attacking the arena.
Naruto is knocked out of the arena by Momoshiki but he rushes back to defend his son
when he is in danger and is shortly joined by Sasuke and Sarada. Sasuke informed
Naruto that the two enemies are the new threat written about in the scroll. Naruto
realises he is their target and demands to know what they want. After Momoshiki
reveals he wanted Kaguya's chakra, and eventually Kurama's from the Seventh Hokage,
Naruto and Sasuke combine Kurama and Susanoo to shield themselves and their children
from the enemies' attacks. Naruto also dispatches shadow clones to protect civilians
that hadn't managed to flee from the arena. Determined to protect his son and
friends, Naruto ultimately decides to allow himself to be captured in Momoshiki's
jutsu and asks Sasuke to take care of Boruto for him. Just before Naruto disappears,
he looks over his shoulder and offers his son one last smile. Naruto was teleported
to another dimension and bound by Momoshiki and Kinshiki to a God Tree. Naruto
resisted as Momoshiki attempted to extract Kurama from inside Naruto. During the
ordeal, Sasuke, Boruto, and the other Kage arrived to rescue him.

Naruto and Sasuke fighting Momoshiki's techniques.

Naruto, surprised to see Boruto wearing his old jacket, told his son that it was like
looking at one of his shadow clones. When he tried to apologise to Boruto for not
being there for him, Boruto replied that it was alright and he just wants to hear
more about Naruto's past. After the other Kage failed to defeat Kinshiki, and the
latter was absorbed by Momoshiki, Naruto and Sasuke joined forces to fight him and
initially gained the upper hand until Naruto was briefly imprisoned by boulders and
Sasuke was severely burned by Momoshiki's Lava Release. Naruto became enraged upon
seeing Sasuke injured but was relieved to find he was all right and still able to
fight after being healed by Kurama's chakra. By once again combining Kurama and
Susanoo, they managed to defeat Momoshiki and cut his lava creature in half, but
Katasuke rushed in and began firing ninjutsu attacks from his Kote at Momoshiki,
which he absorbed and used to attack Naruto and the others. Naruto is restrained by
black rods while Momoshiki prepares to eliminate the rest of the Kage. When Boruto
used his Vanishing Rasengan against Momoshiki to free his father and the other Kage,
Naruto was greatly surprised to find that his son was able to use the Rasengan. As
they prepare their final assault, Naruto helps Boruto to create a Parent and Child
Rasengan, which Boruto himself unleashes upon Momoshiki and ultimately kills him.

The Kage celebrating victory with Boruto and Sasuke.

After the battle ends, Naruto sits with Sasuke and Naruto agrees Sasuke won their
bet. Naruto proudly looked on at his son and stated that he would always be there to
watch Boruto grow as his father. After returning home, Naruto posed for a photograph
with Boruto, Sasuke, and the four other Kage. One morning, as Boruto left to meet
with his team and Naruto left to go to work, both wished each other to do their best
and bumped fists with each other. While Boruto was giving a live interview on Konoha
TV, Naruto watches it from his desk.

Mujina Bandits Arc

After the attack, Naruto discusses Katasuke being under mind control with Sai and
Ibiki, and has them continue their investigation while Shikamaru handles Katasuki.
Afterwards, Mirai Sarutobi informs Naruto that Team Konohamaru successfully captured
the Mujina Bandits, much to his joy. As Shojoji is discussed, Naruto tells everyone
that they have to hurry up and handle the missing-nin. Shikamaru then informs Naruto
of his upcoming meeting with the Fire Daimyō Ikkyū Madoka, which Naruto had forgot
was later during the day.
Ao Arc

Naruto defeating Boruto.

Sometime later, Naruto joins his son in a sparring match at the Training Hall, to
test out Katasuke's new invention that was fitted on his arm. During the match,
Naruto defends himself from Boruto, and uses the invention to absorb
his son's techniques, before defeating him with a single kick. Afterwards at the
Hokage's office, Naruto informs Boruto of the technology he used against him, which
angered Boruto. Before Naruto could explain himself, Sasuke arrives and interrupts
their conversation, calming Boruto down by pointing out the need of them with the
coming danger of enemies like the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Naruto also admitted to knowing about Boruto's mark on his right palm, which was
another reason Naruto approved the development of this advanced weaponry. While
Boruto still insisted they should rely solely on ninjutsu like in the Chūnin Exams,
Naruto noted that the Chūnin Exams were to test one's growth as ninja, where as they
are now in a battle for survival. Katasuke then arrived to retrieve his prototype, to
which Naruto assigned Team Konohamaru a C-rank mission to escort the lead scientist
back to the lab in Ryūben City. While Boruto stormed off in a huff, Naruto asked his
genin team-mates to watch over him should anything happen with his mark.

Later, after Sasuke finished interrogating Shojoji and Konohamaru failed to report
from his mission, Naruto contacted Boruto's team at the Scientific Ninja Weapons
Team's lab, who were nearest to Konohamaru's last reported location. He instructed
them to search the area but be careful and not recklessly engage any foes. While
Shikamaru reminded him that Team Konohamaru were all very capable for their age,
Naruto insisted that he was more concerned about the possibility of them running into
the organisation Kara as Konohamaru's mission was to investigate a mysterious
airship.
Flashforward
In the wake of Konoha's destruction four years after the Ōtsutsuki attack on the
village, Kawaki tells Boruto that he will send him to where he sent the Seventh
Hokage.
In Other Media
Movies
Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
Main article: Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of SnowTeam 7 are dispatched to
the Land of Snow to protect the lead actress Koyuki Kazahana, during the shooting of
the new Princess Gale movie.
Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
Main article: Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of GelelNaruto, Sakura and Shikamaru
are sent to track and bring a ferret back to its owner. However, when the group are
attacked by mysterious soldiers, they embark on to something big.
Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom
Main article: Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon KingdomNaruto, Sakura, Rock
Lee and Kakashi are assigned to protect the future prince of the Land of the
Moon, Hikaru Tsuki.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie
Main article: Naruto Shippūden the MovieNaruto is assigned to protect the
priest Shion who starts having visions of his death.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie: Bonds
Main article: Naruto Shippūden the Movie: BondsA group of ninja from the Land of the
Sky launched a surprise attack on Konoha and to stop this new threat, Naruto and
Sasuke join forces.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie: Will of Fire
Main article: Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of FireTeam Kakashi works together to
stop Kakashi from sacrificing himself to stop a world war.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Lost Tower
Main article: Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Lost TowerNaruto is sent on a mission to
stop Mukade. However, during the mission Naruto is sent 20 years into the past.
Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison
Main article: Naruto the Movie: Blood PrisonNaruto gets framed for the attempted
assassination of the Raikage. In his subsequent attempts to break out of the prison,
he gradually discovers the prison's dark secrets.
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie
Main article: Road to Ninja: Naruto the MovieNaruto and Sakura end up in an alternate
reality in a test version of Project Eye of the Moon Planwhere the Naruto never lost
his parents and many characters have different personalities.
Video Games
Main article: List of video gamesAs the main character of the series, Naruto is a
playable character in every Naruto video game. As the series has progressed, Naruto
has become playable in various forms, often with different move-sets for each. New
video game-exclusive forms are also available at times, such as a version of Naruto
wearing Might Guy's jump suit, a version wearing Son Gokū's Turtle School Uniform,
Naruto from Shippū! Konoha Gakuen Den!, and "Mecha-Naruto." The video games also put
some extra emphasis on his taijutsu; most of the time Naruto in the past fights akin
to a brawler; while in his incarnation from The Last: Naruto the Movie, he instead
fights more like a hand-to-hand boxer.
Live Spectacle Naruto
Main article: Live Spectacle NarutoKoudai Matsuoka plays as Naruto in this stage play
adaption.
Creation and Conception
When creating Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto incorporated into the character a number of
traits he felt made an ideal hero: a straightforward way of thinking, a mischievous
side, and many of the attributes possessed by Son Gokū from the Dragon
Ball franchise. He also made sure to keep Naruto "simple and stupid," since he does
not like smart characters. Naruto himself is not modeled after anyone in particular,
being conceived as childlike, with something of a dark side as a result of his harsh
past. Despite this, he is always positive, making him unique in Kishimoto's eyes.
The first version of Naruto that Masashi Kishimoto drew.
Naruto's wardrobe is based on clothing Kishimoto wore when he was younger; according
to Kishimoto, using a pre-existing design would not have made Naruto unique, whereas
something original would have made him stand out too much. The orange colouring of
his costume is used to make Naruto "pop," with blues often being used to complement
the orange. Because Naruto is associated with spirals, swirl patterns are
incorporated into his costume. Initial illustrations of Naruto had him wearing boots,
but Kishimoto substituted these for sandals, because he likes drawing toes. The
goggles that Naruto used to wear were also replaced with a forehead protector,
because the goggles themselves were too time-consuming to draw. Kishimoto said that
he felt glad that his character had blond hair and blue eyes. The editor of Shōnen
Jump in the United States added that Kishimoto implied that the traits may have led
the character to appeal to a Western audience. Kishimoto said that he most identifies
with Naruto out of all of the Naruto characters (in an interview with the U.S. Shōnen
Jump, Kishimoto stated that his childhood was like that of Naruto's years while he
was enrolled in the Academy).

Naruto's appearances throughout the series.

In the Japanese versions of Naruto, Naruto often ends his sentences with the addendum
"-ttebayo" (which gives a similar effect to ending a sentence with "you know?").
Kishimoto wanted to give Naruto a childlike catchphrase, and "dattebayo" came to
mind. It complemented Naruto's character, and served as a verbal tic that showed him
to be something of a brat. Throughout the beginning of the English anime, the dub
replaced "dattebayo" and "-ttebayo" with the phrase "believe it!" to mirror the
effect, as well as to match the character's lip movements.
Trivia
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 Spiral patterns are a recurring theme in Naruto, especially in relation to the

character of Naruto Uzumaki himself. The name "Naruto" is short for "narutomaki"
(なると巻き), a kind of kamaboko with a pink spiral design in the middle that is
used as a topping for ramen, which is Naruto's favourite food. His family name
"Uzumaki" can mean "whirlpool" or "maelstrom." His full name is also a reference
to the Naruto whirlpools (鳴門の渦潮, Naruto no uzushio), named after the city
in the Tokushima Prefecture in Japan. In addition, Naruto's mother, Kushina
Uzumaki, is a relative to the Uzumaki clan from Uzushiogakure in the Land of
Whirlpools, who used the spiral pattern as both their clan and village symbol.
 According to the databook(s):
 Naruto's hobbies are pulling pranks and watering plants.
 Naruto wishes to fight Sasuke Uchiha, the Third Hokage,[1] and members
of Akatsuki.[2][4]
 Naruto's favourite foods are Ichiraku ramen and red bean soup. His least
favourite are fresh vegetables.
 Naruto has completed 16 official missions in total: 7 D-rank, 1 C-rank, 2
B-rank, 6 A-rank, 0 S-rank.
 Naruto's favourite phrase is "a large serving of miso ramen with roasted
pork fillet" (味噌チャーシュー大盛り, miso chāshū ōmori).
 According to character trivia from Boruto:
 His attributes are: 120 in perception, 160 in dexterity, 170 in
negotiations, 110 in strength, 90 in intelligence, and unknown in chakra.
 He has five stars in evasion, four stars in unarmed hand-to-hand fighting
(Sudekakutō), and two stars in manners.
 October 10, Naruto's birthday, was Health and Sports Day in Japan when his
character was conceived. The holiday, however, was later moved to the second
Monday of October in 1999.
 Naruto consistently ranked in the top two (taking first place twice) in the
first five official Shōnen Jump character popularity polls. However, in the
sixth character poll, he was ranked fourth. According to the third databook
character poll, which adds up all the votes from the first six polls, Naruto
took second place. In the most recent poll, Naruto regained his status and
reached first.
 Naruto is one of four characters to have always stayed in the top ten of
every character popularity poll.
  Naruto is the fourth known jinchūriki known to have survived the extraction of a
tailed beast, along with Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, Kushina Uzumaki, and Obito
Uchiha.[71]
 Naruto's mother was nicknamed the "Red Hot-Blooded Habanero" while his father
was famed as the "Yellow Flash." Naruto's appropriate self-styled title of
"Konoha's Orange Hokage" refers to the fact that the colour orange is a mixture
of red and yellow.
 When Naruto first became a genin, while using his Sexy Technique, his settei
reveals that he is 160cm tall.
 Kishimoto's various concept art of Naruto for The Last: Naruto the Movie showed
that his height had gone through various changes: first 170cm, then 173cm, and
finally 180cm.
 Despite Naruto being a user of the Truth-Seeking Balls and gaining Hagoromo's
power, both of which contain Yin-Yang Release, Yin Release is not listed as one
of his natures in the fourth databook.[5]
 Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece, stated that his character Sanji's name was
originally going to be Naruto, but changed it because Naruto series was about to
become serialised and wanted to avoid confusion.
 Naruto makes an undetailed background appearance on the cover page of
the 766th chapter of One Piece, where the person behind Nami (who is
wearing a changpao with the Konoha symbol) is implied to be Naruto. Also,
both main characters are seen eating each others' respective favourite
foods, as Naruto is eating meat, and Monkey D. Luffy is eating ramen.
Additionally, this chapter was released on the same week as the release of
the finaltwo Naruto manga chapters.
 In the 700th chapter of the Naruto manga, the symbol of the Straw Hat
Pirates appears on the forehead protector of Naruto's statue as part
of Boruto's graffiti.
 While Naruto was initially the shortest of the Konoha 11, he ultimately becomes
taller than all of them except for Shino.
 In the original manga pilot, Naruto was actually a demon fox and lived his life
as a human boy and the Nine-Tailed Fox that attacked the village was his father.
 Although he was never raised by Minato, Naruto seemingly inherited his father's
fighting style of almost never relying on hand seals, with the exception of
his signature technique and a few othertechniques.
Quotes
See also: Dattebayo and Believe It
 (To Kakashi) "And my future dream is to be the greatest Hokage! Then the whole
village will stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm somebody.
Somebody important!"[144]
 (To Ibiki) "Don't underestimate me! I don't quit and I don't run! You can act
tough all you want! You're not gonna scare me off! No way! I don't care if I do
get stuck as a genin for the rest of my life! I'll still be Hokage someday!"[145]
 (To Neji) "I'm not gonna run away, I never go back on my word! That's my nindō:
my ninja way!"[146]
 (To Gaara) "It's almost unbearable, isn't it… the pain of being all alone. I
know that feeling; I've been there, in that dark and lonely place, but now there
are others, other people who mean a lot to me. I care more about them than I do
myself, and I won't let anyone hurt them. That's why I'll never give up. I will
stop you, even if I have to kill you! They saved me from myself. They rescued me
from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me as who I am. They're my
friends."[147]
 (To Pain) "Just give up… on trying to make me give up!"[148]
 (To Nagato, reciting a line from Jiraiya's first book) "Then I will break that
curse. If there's such thing as peace, I will find it. I won't give up!"[40]
 (To Sasuke) "If you attack Konoha, I will have to fight you… So save up your
hatred and take it all on me, I'm the only one who can take it! It's the only
thing I can do! I will shoulder your hatred and die with you! Because I'm your
friend!"[149]
 (To his mother) "Don't apologise… I had a lot of hard times growing up as
a jinchūriki, but I never blamed you or Dad. I couldn't understand what a
parent's love was like because you guys were never there… so I could only guess
… But now I know… I live because you and Dad gave your lives for me and filled
me up with love before the Nine-Tails was inside me! So here I am, happy and
healthy! I'm glad I ended up being your son!"[150]
 (To Kurama) "You're not the monster fox anymore. You're one of my teammates from
Konoha… Kurama."[151]
 (To Obito) "Quit it with your stupid reasoning! I meant to say that I'll stand
any pain for my friends!! I'm not gonna give up on them!! It might just be me
being selfish, but… not having my friends here… is the most painful thing for
me!! Period!!!!"[152]
 (About Hinata) "Hinata… This big idiot finally understands… The real meaning
of the scarf you gave to me when you went with Toneri… I know now, from the
scarf you painstakingly knitted and took so long to finish, that your love can't
be unravelled so easily… Wait for me… This whole time, you always loved me for
the way I am… Now, as a man, there's something I must tell you… Hinata, I
swear I will save you!"[21]
 (To Hinata) "Hinata… Do you remember that lesson in class? The one with, "If
the end of the world came, who would you spend your last day with?" I couldn't
write anyone's name down. I didn't know my parents, and I didn't have any
friends… But now, I know exactly whom I'd choose. I want to be with you. Now
and forever, until I die… I want to be with you, Hinata!"[21]
  (To his son) "Boruto… with what I do now, all the people in this village are
like a family. So there will be times that you won't be able to have me as a
father all to yourself. I know this must be hard for you… but you must learn to
endure it. You're a shinobi too, aren't you?"[153]
References
1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 First Databook, pages 30-36
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Second Databook, pages 28-35
3. ↑ Shō no Sho, page 6
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Third Databook, pages 24-32
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Fourth Databook, pages 28-35
6. ↑ Retsu no Sho, pages 10-11
7. ↑ Zai no Sho, page 27
8. ↑ Naruto chapter 24, pages 10, 18
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Naruto chapter 437, page 7
10. ↑ Naruto chapter 450, page 2
11. ↑ Naruto chapter 491, page 5
12. ↑ Naruto chapter 498, page 17
13. ↑ Naruto chapter 700
14. ↑ Naruto chapter 382, pages 9-11
15. ↑ Naruto chapter 500
16. ↑ Naruto chapter 501
17. ↑ Naruto chapter 503, pages 17-18
18. ↑ Naruto chapter 440, page 5
19. ↑ Naruto chapter 2, pages 13-14
20. ↑ The Last: Naruto the Movie novelisation
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 21.5 The Last: Naruto the Movie
22. ↑ Naruto chapter 485, page 14
23. ↑ Naruto chapter 487, page 2
24. ↑ Naruto chapter 648, page 5
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Naruto chapter 409, page 11
26. ↑ Naruto chapter 645, pages 2-3
27. ↑ Naruto chapter 98, pages 8-14
28. ↑ Naruto chapter 440, page 13
29. ↑ Naruto chapter 535, pages 2-5
30. ↑ Naruto chapter 37, page 7
31. ↑ Naruto chapter 641, page 3
32. ↑ Naruto chapter 286, page 16
33. ↑ Naruto chapter 262, pages 12-13
34. ↑ Naruto chapter 693, pages 12-13
35. ↑ Naruto chapter 695
36. ↑ Naruto chapter 4, page 6
37. ↑ Naruto chapter 462, page 14
38. ↑ Naruto chapter 617, page 19
39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 Boruto: Naruto the Movie
40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 Naruto chapter 448, page 2
41. ↑ Naruto chapter 647, pages 14-19
42. ↑ Naruto chapter 649, pages 14-17
43. ↑ Naruto chapter 98, pages 13-14
44. ↑ Naruto chapter 700+4, page 10
45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 Boruto episode 10
46. ↑ Naruto chapter 700+8
47. ↑ Naruto chapter 144, page 4
48. ↑ Naruto chapter 498, page 8
49. ↑ Naruto chapter 558, page 13
50. ↑ Naruto chapter 9, pages 10-11
51. ↑ Naruto chapter 245, page 12
52. ↑ Naruto chapter 248, page 12
53. ↑ Naruto chapter 168
54. ↑ Naruto chapter 455, page 9
55. ↑ Naruto chapter 555, pages 11-15
56. ↑ Naruto chapter 572
57. ↑ Naruto chapter 675, page 3
58. ↑ Naruto chapter 698
59. ↑ Naruto chapter 699, page 15
60. ↑ Boruto episode 12
61. ↑ Boruto episode 20
62. ↑ Boruto episode 2
63. ↑ Naruto chapter 671
64. ↑ 64.0 64.1 Naruto chapter 315, page 11
65. ↑ Naruto chapter 488, page 8
66. ↑ Naruto chapter 90, pages 4-8
67. ↑ Naruto chapter 698
68. ↑ Naruto chapter 617, page 5
69. ↑ Kakashi Hiden
70. ↑ Naruto chapter 11, page 2
71. ↑ 71.0 71.1 Naruto chapter 661, pages 1, 12
72. ↑ Naruto chapter 259, pages 8-11
73. ↑ Boruto episode 38
74. ↑ Naruto chapter 77, pages 3-4
75. ↑ Naruto chapter 104, pages 16-17
76. ↑ Naruto chapter 75, pages 11-13
77. ↑ Naruto chapter 288, page 7
78. ↑ Naruto chapter 433, page 5
79. ↑ Naruto chapter 452
80. ↑ Naruto chapter 697
81. ↑ 81.0 81.1 Boruto chapter 16, page 37
82. ↑ Naruto chapter 617, page 5
83. ↑ Naruto chapter 697, page 6
84. ↑ Naruto chapter 610, page 8
85. ↑ Naruto chapter 649, pages 7-8
86. ↑ Naruto chapter 651, pages 7-9
87. ↑ Naruto chapter 671, page 12
88. ↑ Shikamaru Hiden
89. ↑ Naruto chapter 692, page 4
90. ↑ Naruto chapter 259, page 1-2
91. ↑ Naruto chapter 134, pages 3-4
92. ↑ Naruto chapter 499, pages 12-15
93. ↑ Naruto chapter 535, pages 7-8
94. ↑ Fourth Databook
95. ↑ Naruto Shippūden episode 91
96. ↑ Naruto chapter 366, page 4
97. ↑ Naruto chapter 339, pages 9-10
98. ↑ Naruto chapter 460, page 6
99. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 476
100. ↑ Naruto chapter 642, page 12
101. ↑ Naruto chapter 697, page 11
102. ↑ Naruto chapter 698, page 4
103. ↑ Naruto episode 194
104. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 63
105. ↑ Fourth Databook, page 310
106. ↑ Fourth Databook, page 226
107. ↑ Boruto chapter 16, page 29
108. ↑ Naruto chapter 418, page 6
109. ↑ Naruto chapter 430, pages 17-18
110. ↑ Naruto chapter 431, page 6
111. ↑ Naruto chapter 431, page 12-17
112. ↑ Naruto chapter 535, page 3
113. ↑ Naruto chapter 695, page 4
114. ↑ Naruto chapter 673, page 2
115. ↑ Naruto chapter 687, page 16
116. ↑ Naruto chapter 695, page 5-6
117. ↑ Naruto chapter 695
118. ↑ Naruto chapter 696, pages 14-15
119. ↑ Naruto chapter 697, page 1
120. ↑ Naruto chapter 314, page 12
121. ↑ Naruto chapter 642, page 12
 122. ↑ Fourth Databook, pages 309-310
123. ↑ Sakura Hiden
124. ↑ The Last: Naruto the Movie
125. ↑ Naruto chapter 433, page 14
126. ↑ Naruto chapter 565, pages 12-14
127. ↑ Naruto chapter 598, pages 12-15
128. ↑ Naruto chapter 682, pages 6-8
129. ↑ Naruto chapter 555, page 9-15
130. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 409
131. ↑ Naruto chapter 403, pages 2-10
132. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episodes 303-305
133. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episodes 309-310
134. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 313
135. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 314
136. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 315
137. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 320
138. ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 479
139. ↑ The Day Naruto Became Hokage
140. ↑ Naruto chapter 700+5, pages 9-11
141. ↑ Boruto episode 12
142. ↑ Boruto episode 15
143. ↑ Boruto episode 18
144. ↑ Naruto chapter 4, page 6
145. ↑ Naruto chapter 43, pages 16-17
146. ↑ Naruto chapter 103, page 3
147. ↑ Naruto chapter 138, pages 14-16
148. ↑ Naruto chapter 442, pages 16-17
149. ↑ Naruto chapter 486, pages 13-14
150. ↑ Naruto chapter 504, pages 15-17
151. ↑ Naruto chapter 570, pages 16-17
152. ↑ Naruto chapter 628, pages 9-10
153. ↑ Naruto chapter 700, page 16
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