naruto in shippuden
■Spirals and swirl patterns are a recurring theme in Naruto, especially in relation to the character of naruto Uzumaki himself. The word/name "Naruto" can mean "maelstrom," and is also the name for a sliced stick of kamaboko with a rosa, -de-rosa whirlpool design in the middle that is used as a topping for ramen, which is Naruto's favourite food. The surname "Uzumaki" is a pun on "spiral" (渦巻), because it refers to a three-dimensional spiral, like a whirlpool or vortex. "Uzumaki" can also mean "whirlpool," in reference to the naruto whirlpools (鳴門の渦潮), named after the city of Naruto. In addition, Naruto's mother, Kushina Uzumaki, is from Uzushiogakure in the Land of Whirlpools, who used the spiral pattern as their village symbol.
■October 10th, Naruto's birthday, was Health and Sports dia in Japão when his character was conceived. The holiday, however, was later moved to the segundo Monday of October in 1999.
■Masashi Kishimoto stated in an interview with the U.S. Shonen Jump that his childhood was like that of Naruto's years while he was enrolled in the Academy.
■Naruto consistently ranked in the topo, início two (taking first place twice) in the first five official Shonen Jump character popularity polls. However, in the sixth character poll, he was ranked fourth. According to the Databook 3 character poll, which adds up all the votes from the first six polls, naruto took segundo 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 topo, início Ten of every Character Popularity Poll.
■Despite being the main character, naruto has taken several long absences, sometimes up ten or mais chapters. Naruto: Shippūden's omakes sometimes reference this, joking that naruto is not the main character of his own show.
■In naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja heroes 3 and naruto Shippūden: Dragon Blade Chronicles video games, naruto performs fogo Release techniques even though fogo isn't his nature type.
■In addition, he can perform Water Release, Earth Release, and Lightning Release techniques in naruto Shippūden: Dragon Blade Chronicles, it's likely that the scrolls that are attached to his clothing allow him to do so.
■Naruto's hobbies are pulling pranks and watering plants.
■Naruto wishes to fight Sasuke Uchiha and the Third Hokage and members of Akatsuki.
■Naruto's favourite foods are Ichiraku ramen and red feijão 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 missô ramen with roasted pork fillet" (味噌チャーシュー大盛り, missô chāshū ōmori).
naruto was born as the son of the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, and the Nine-Tails' segundo jinchūriki, Kushina Uzumaki. Naruto's parents named him after the main character of Jiraiya's first book, thus making the Sannin his godfather.
Prior to Naruto's birth, his parents and the Third Hokage knew that the foca, selo that kept the Nine-Tails within Kushina would be in danger of breaking during childbirth. To prevent that threat Kushina was taken a short distance outside of the village to give birth in a secure, secret location, with Biwako Sarutobi and Taji as her midwives, a few ANBU as security, and with Minato keeping the foca, selo in place. However, immediately after Kushina gave birth, Madara Uchiha appeared and took naruto hostage, demanding that Minato step away from Kushina or he would kill the newborn child. Madara then used a clever diversion that forced Minato to transport the baby to a safer location, allowing him to escape with Kushina. por the time Minato could intervene, Madara had already succeeded in releasing the Nine-Tails.
Fortunately, Kushina (who survived the extraction thanks to her strong vitality) was saved por Minato and brought to Naruto, leaving the weakened mother to care for the sleeping naruto while Minato went to combat Madara. To save the village, Minato sacrificed his life to foca, selo the Nine-Tails within Naruto, believing that his son would someday have need of the beast's power to defeat Madara's threat once and for all.Suddenly orphaned, naruto was left to grow up knowing nothing of his parents, receiving only his mother's last name because the Third Hokage thought that it was best that nobody knew that he was related to the Fourth Hokage.
Before Minato died, he asked that the villagers of Konoha view naruto as a hero who had helped defeat the Nine-Tails. However, only a few of the villagers honoured his request, while most instead resented him for containing the monster that had destroyed their home. In light of this, the Third Hokage decreed that nobody should ever speak of the truth about Naruto, hoping that por doing this, their children would not resent him as they did. The children, however, followed their parents' lead, despite not knowing why. Apart from the Third Hokage, Iruka Umino was the only one who acted as a surrogate family to the young naruto along with the owner of ramen Ichiraku: Teuchi and his daughter Ayame to some extent.
When naruto first met Sasuke Uchiha in the Ninja Academy, they were matched to spar against each other. naruto was excited at the opportunity to defeat Sasuke and become so popular like him, however he was easily beaten. por looking at Sasuke's eyes, naruto realised that they were filled with hatred. When Iruka told them to make the reconciliation seal, they both refused.Then, naruto became determined to beat Sasuke, making him his rival. When naruto found out that Sasuke was also an orphan, he was secretly happy for not being the only one alone and wanted to talk to him, but couldn't because of his jealousy. Still, naruto wished that, someday, Sasuke would acknowledge him as an equal.
As stated por Jiraiya, naruto bears a striking resemblance to his father, possessing Minato's blue eyes and spiky, blond hair. From his mother, naruto inherited the shape of both his eyes and face. However, Naruto's greatest physical characteristic are the whisker marks on his face, which he got due to the Nine-Tails' influence on him while in the womb. A trait regularly mentioned, that easily angered him, was his short stature for his age. After the time skip however, he had a significant growth spurt that was noticeable to all.
In Part I, Naruto's outfit consisted of an laranja tracksuit with blue on the upper shoulders area as well as up and down the front, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, a red swirl on the back, a big white collar, laranja pants, blue sandals, and a blue forehead protector that was given to him por Iruka after he graduated from the Ninja Academy. In Part II, Naruto's outfit undergoes modification after being worn to shreds during his training with Jiraiya.The outfit retains the laranja colour as well as the white (without the tassel) and red swirls, but the jaqueta is much mais form fitting with the blue parts changed to black and the colour extending from the upper shoulders area to the sleeves. The forehead protector has also changed with naruto moving the metal portion to a new longer black bandanna and he wears black sandals instead of blue. During his battle with Pain, naruto briefly sported a red casaco that combined his master and father's before him with a black flaming design at the bottom as well as a large summoning scroll on his back.
Due to the prejudice and loneliness he suffered in his childhood, naruto developed a craving for acknowledgement. In order to achieve this, naruto would pull pranks all around the village and even going far as strive for the título of Hokage. Even after graduating from the academy, naruto was still determined to be recognised, but as he made mais and mais connections with others, his reasons for wanting to become Hokage underwent a change, having less to do with the desire for recognition, and mais to do with wanting the strength to protect his início and the people close to him. As noted por Madara Uchiha, naruto is a fervent believer in the Will of Fire, likening him to his old rival, Hashirama Senju, in this respect.Naruto's unstoppable determination and drive strongly impacts the lives around him, even his enemies had been affected por his empathy. Both kakashi and Temari had referred to Naruto's amazing charisma as a "unique power" that allows him to change the worldly views of others.
naruto is most prominently characterised por his hyperactivity, being exuberant, impatient, impulsive, and inattentive. According to Kakashi, naruto learns through his body. He is relatively naive and simple, being slow to understand a principle or situation, and often requiring an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp what is being explained to him. Overall, naruto responds best to competition and possesses a great degree of confidence in himself, loudly proclaiming that he will master whatever technique he is learning in a fraction of the usual time, though he will not hesitate to ask for help if he needs it.
naruto has a number of other distinct traits as well. He inherited his catch-phrase "Dattebayo!" (だってばよ！) from his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, who would say "(da)ttebane" ((だ)ってばね) when excited or frustrated. He also has a childish quirk of keeping his money in a chubby, green-frog wallet he affectionately calls "Gama-chan." He is also very brash and rarely pays heed to formality or social standings. He almost exclusively eats ramen, and is a frequent customer at the ramen Ichiraku. He is also something of a pervert, something he tends to be reprimanded for por Sakura as well as Iruka, and has only become mais so after meeting Jiraiya. He smiles near-constantly which during his childhood, was to mask the sadness of his lonely life. Those who are closest to him are able to recognise when his smile isn't genuine.
However, when the situation calls for it or when someone dear to him is in trouble, naruto can be very serious, and will instantly try to come to their aid. This is most commonly seen in the series through his interactions with his team-mates, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. With Sasuke, naruto views him as a brother, and throughout Part II strives to bring him back to Konoha, despite his willing defection from the village. With Sakura, naruto has a long-standing crush on her, and naruto would do all in his power to make her happy, even if it is at the expense of his own happiness. Sai has indicated that this dedication has progressed to the point of love, though Sakura doesn't reciprocate these feelings for him. Sai also notes that the strain of making Sakura happy and bringing Sasuke início are the fonte of Naruto's internal pain.
After the loss of his mentor Jiraiya, talking with his own father, and talking to Jiraiya's killer and former pupil, Nagato, naruto came to understand the downside of revenge, and desired to save Sasuke from it even more. naruto also tried to stop the Kumo-nin from exacting their revenge against Sasuke, since this would only create a cycle of hatred. It appeared that naruto was becoming increasingly desperate in his quest to save Sasuke, as he was willing to take physical abuse from the Kumo-nin over selling Sasuke out as well as getting down on his knees before the Raikage and beg for Sasuke to be forgiven for his crimes. Furthermore, after learning from Madara the reason of Sasuke's hatred, naruto decided and proclaimed to Sakura, who was trying to get him to leave his quest, that he truly understood Sasuke now. He wanted to save Sasuke, not just because of the promise he made to Sakura, but also for himself. However, after learning from Sai that the rest of his comrades were aiming to kill Sasuke, and that nobody in the village would ever accept him again, naruto apparently suffered from hyperventilation due to the extreme conflict that he has been presented with.
Upon finally reuniting with Sasuke, naruto sympathised with the criminal for his actions, and refused to back down or kill him, instead finding a third solution. naruto came to the conclusion that the two of them were indeed destined to fight, as Madara predicted, and that when that happens, since both he and Sasuke were top-ranked ninja, they would most likely die. naruto is fully prepared to shoulder Sasuke's hatred as a friend, and is, in a way, the sole person to not have given up hope on him. However, like the rest of Konoha, naruto has finally given up in bringing Sasuke back as a citizen of the village, believing that words would no longer have any effect to allowing them to understand each other, and has resigned himself to fighting (and potentially killing) Sasuke to protect Konoha. To prevent himself from dying when he fights Sasuke, naruto started training to master the Nine-Tails, saying he was through running from being a jinchūriki and prepared to complete "that technique".
naruto also has shown to deeply amor both his parents. When he met his father, and despite being angry at Minato for sealing the Nine-Tails inside of him, naruto quickly got over his anger and was overjoyed and proud to be the Fourth Hokage's son. He also tearfully embraced his mother Kushina when he met her. After learning how his parents met and what happened during the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha, naruto told his mother that he could finally understand how a parent's amor felt like and that he didn't blame her or Minato, instead he felt glad to be their son. When the Fourth Raikage criticised on how Minato was supposedly the "Child of the Prophecy" and claiming that he failed when he died against the Nine-Tails, Naruto, remembering what his mother had told him about Minato's amor and faith in his son, angrily reproached the Raikage for insulting his father because he didn't know him, and that the Fourth Hokage hadn't failed at all.Naruto also explained to the Fourth Raikage that despite his parents dying shortly after he was born, they both made him strong.
After Killer B refused to train Naruto, Motoi guided naruto and Yamato to the Falls of Truth, the place where B trained to control the Eight-Tails. He instructed naruto to sit on a platform and close his eyes. Soon after, Dark naruto (闇ナルト, Yami Naruto), the manifestation of hatred that existed within Naruto's heart, appeared, berating naruto for how quickly the people from Konoha changed their ideals about him.[11] Dark naruto exclaimed that the Nine-Tails liked him better and he was the real naruto while naruto was an imposter.They started to fight, but after a while, naruto realised that they both had the same techniques, skills, and tactics. As a result, their fight was a draw and naruto mentioned that if they continued like this, it would take a very long time to settle it.
He appeared once again after naruto returned to the Falls of Truth. Instead of fighting, naruto projected an image from his mind of his autograph signature that he was unable to give to the Konoha shinobi. This angered Dark Naruto, pointing out to naruto that those people were part of the same villagers who made him suffer as an outcast, telling him that he shouldn't trust them. However, naruto stated that he trusted the villagers because they were important to him, but what was also important was that he needed to have faith in himself, so he would have the strength to live up to the villagers' trust in him. Naruto's statement started to weaken Dark Naruto, then forcing him to ask what was the reason for his existence. naruto stated that Dark naruto was really him and thanked Dark naruto for pushing him to be the person he was now. He hugged Dark naruto when the latter tried to attack him, telling Dark naruto that it was all going to be alright. Letting go of his own anger at their past, Dark Naruto's eyes lightened as he gave into Naruto's words, and disappeared.
Later, when naruto entered his subconscious, the Nine-Tails expressed surprise as it could no longer sense any hatred within Naruto, and questioned naruto about where the "real him" was, to which naruto replied that the real him was right in front of it.
At the start of the series, one of the only techniques naruto could do without fail was the Transformation Technique, and his own original variant of the technique called the Sexy Technique; a creative but almost completely useless diversionary technique, used simply to shock his instructors.Throughout Part I he learns a number of short-range techniques, which are expanded upon during his two-and-a-half years of training with Jiraiya. naruto also improves his knowledge of other ninja skills while under Jiraiya's tutelage, using mais taijutsu and ninja tools than he did in Part I. He also learned how to dispel genjutsu and despite his limited skill with it he was able to resist being put to sleep por Itachi Uchiha. During Part II he starts to master longer-range techniques, such as the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, Mini-Rasenshuriken, and chakra arms.
In Part I, naruto is regularly noted to have a great deal of potential, primarily because of the Nine-Tails sealed within him. When Orochimaru sees him defeat Kabuto, he tries to kill naruto for fear of what he will become. This potential manifests itself during Part II when he regularly proves himself a match for the S-rank members of Akatsuki. His victory over the Six Paths of Pain has earned him great accolade in the ninja world: Konoha villagers now even believe he is Hokage-material after they hear about it, and Zetsu, after seeing the battle, suggests naruto has become stronger than Sasuke.
Being a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, naruto inherited incredible stamina and vitality, which is further augmented por the Nine-Tails. Naruto's normal chakra level is considered extremely high. According to Kakashi, Naruto's regular chakra level is at least four times of his own.He apparently has some knowledge on fūinjutsu, as he knew how to use the seal's key after receiving Gerotora, and resealed the Nine-Tails after he separated it from its chakra.Jiraiya had left naruto with the key to help him complete an as of yet unknown technique which he, Naruto, and Minato have been working on, but never finished. naruto stated that he was ready to complete it.
While searching for the Uchiha brothers, Itachi also granted naruto a portion of his power, in case Sasuke ever chose to revolt against Konoha.As it turns out, Itachi gave naruto a corvo with the eye of Shisui Uchiha. This eye possessed Shisui's most powerful genjutsu, Kotoamatsukami, which allowed the user to manipulate someone without the target's knowledge. The genjutsu was set to activate when naruto encountered Itachi's Mangekyō, and was programmed to make the target protect Konoha.
As the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, naruto is gifted with its enormous supply of chakra and stamina, to which kakashi estimated it to be a hundred times greater than his own when its influence is not suppressed.It also gives naruto accelerated healing (recovering from minor injuries within a few segundos to major injuries within a day) and depending on the amount of the Nine-Tails' chakra he's using, naruto is also given an increase in strength, speed, and his healing factor to such levels that he recovered from a Chidori strike in mere seconds. At times, he is also granted a nearly impenetrable, fox-shaped chakra shroud.
The foca, selo had allowed a small amount of the Nine-Tails' chakra to always mix with Naruto's own. In Part I, Jiraiya once commented on the fact that Naruto's body was much too small a vessel to properly contain the Nine-Tails' chakra, and his body would instinctively reject the bulk of it due to the damage it could cause. Ebisu also implied that Naruto's poor chakra control stemmed from this, as a portion of his chakra was used in attempt to suppress the Nine-Tails' own overwhelming chakra.
The Nine-Tails' chakra first came to naruto during life-threatening situations, given to him por the Nine-Tails itself to ensure its survival, but after training with Jiraiya, naruto learned how to contact the Nine-Tails and demand some of its chakra. Alternatively, naruto could give into his anger or frustration, allowing the Nine-Tails to force its influence upon him. Depending on how much he gained, the Nine-Tails' influence within its chakra could make naruto lose control of his senses, devolving into an animal that attacks anything within reach, as well as damaging his own body, slowly shortening his lifespan. Although a number of methods had been devised to break its influence over naruto (Jiraiya's foca, selo tag,and Yamato's Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique - Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands, which was facilitated por Hashirama Senju's colar naruto wore before its destruction),Naruto simply limited his use of the Nine-Tails' chakra, and tried not to allow his anger get the best of him, but he eventually attempted to exercise mais control over it.
The Nine-Tails Chakra Mode is a form that naruto gained after he separated and sealed the Nine-Tails from its chakra. He can access its chakra directly whenever he needs it without interacting with the beast at all. In doing so, he gains a chakra shroud that resembles the Sage of the Six Paths' silhouette.This form's chakra shroud also gives naruto a great deal of protection, but he noted that it would have been dangerous if A had gotten a clean hit on him.Like his predecessor, Mito Uzumaki, naruto also gains the Nine-Tails' ability to sense negative emotions as well as chakra signatures from very long distances, even while he was inside a chakra isolation chamber within the Falls of Truth; something that not even the best sensor-type ninja can do.
naruto had always been at least passable in taijutsu, ever since the Academy where he received a B in that class. Throughout Part I, his taijutsu slowly improved, where it was first showcased in his battle with Kiba Inuzuka in the Chūnin Exams preliminaries where he was able to hold his own and avoid multiple slash attacks from Kiba and Akamaru's Four Legs Technique without the aid of his shadow clones. A testament to his skill with taijutsu was shown when naruto was fighting against Neji Hyūga's Gentle Fist techniques in the Chūnin Exam finals, where he got into striking distance using only hand-to-hand combat. After the time skip, Naruto's taijutsu improved greatly under the tutelage of Jiraiya where he could hold his own in hand-to-hand against several shinobi skilled in taijutsu. Throughout the series, Naruto's taijutsu continually improved, eventually learning the Frog Kata style from Fukasaku. He was also able to react quickly enough to block Karui's sword with his elbow while she was slashing, then catch her blade when she tried a spinning slash, and even break it. In Sage Mode, he was able to beat the Deva Path twice in taijutsu, the first time sending it flying back with a roundhouse kick to leave it vulnerable for a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, and the segundo time disarming it of its Chakra Disruption Blade and sending it crashing into a boulder with a single kick. While in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, he was also able to block several of A's immensely strong punches despite being intercepted several times.
On topo, início of his taijutsu skills, naruto has shown a high level of physical strength. During the Chūnin Exams, he stopped a charge from one of Orochimaru's giant snakes albeit while using the Nine-Tails' chakra. During his senjutsu training in Part II, he was able to budge one of the huge statues without using the special oil. After the training, he could shatter stone with his raw strength, as seen when he escaped from the petrified Preta Path after it absorbed too much of his senjutsu chakra. His strength is increased to such a point in Sage Mode where he can toss not only the Animal Path's Giant Rhino after stopping its charge, but the Nine-Tails itself. In Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, naruto becomes strong enough to push a fully formed Tailed Beast Ball through a multiple layered barrier.[25]
naruto has also displayed impressive speed over the time skip as well. When confronting Sasuke after the Five Kage Summit, he saved Sakura from her own poisoned kunai which Sasuke wielded to stab her and received only a shallow cut in exchange. naruto was then able to restrain kakashi while charging up a Rasengan, meeting Sasuke's Chidori charge and equaling it. While in Sage Mode, Naruto's speed increases greatly to the point where he could intercept the Asura Path, which was using its chakra boots before Nagato could complete his sentence or attack Tsunade. Naruto's speed is at its greatest however, while in his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, where Killer B even had trouble determining if he used the Body Flicker Technique when attacking Kisame Hoshigaki, who was hidden in Samehada. His speed in this form surpasses even that of A's while clad in his Lightning Release Armour as seen when he was able to dodge A's attack while he was clad in a full-powered lightning armour and using what he referred to as his fastest attack, something that only the Fourth Hokage had done in the past, with his Flying Thunder God Technique.
Although naruto had trouble with the Clone Technique at the start of the series, he quickly learned how to use jōnin-level techniques, like the Shadow Clone Technique and its large-scale version. The technique would become his first signature technique, one of the two foundations of his ninjutsu, and later, the base of his training skills. The Shadow Clone Technique takes advantage of the massive chakra reserve naruto possesses due to him being the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails. naruto is able to create upwards to two thousand clones, and able to have a decent amount of chakra in each of them. Because of this, naruto can use his shadow clones for virtually anything, from straight combat to speed training.
In the beginning, naruto would create a multitude of clones to overwhelm his opponents. Other times, however, he would employ the use of the Transformation Technique to change the appearance of these clones to catch his target off guard. por Part II, naruto learned that whatever his shadow clones learn, he, the main mind, would also learn. por using this, he is able to learn techniques that would usually take months or years in days, which sped up his training greatly. naruto takes advantage of this often, using shadow clones to determine his opponents' abilities, to determine how many clones he will really need to defeat them instead of simply wasting chakra on thousands of clones.
Despite the risks of Naruto's chakra being drained faster por the Nine-Tails whenever he uses the Shadow Clone Technique while in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, naruto did use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to scatter throughout the battlefield, although he didn't create as many as he normally does.
naruto was first taught how to use the Summoning Technique por Jiraiya. After allowing naruto to sign the summoning contract with the toads of Mount Myōboku, Jiraiya took naruto through the execution of the technique in order to provide naruto with allies in future battles. Additionally, Jiraiya's other motivation to teaching naruto how to summon was to help naruto to realise and take advantage of the Nine-Tails' chakra.
The type of toads that naruto can summon at any time is proportional to his chakra and skill, as when he first started out he could only summon tadpoles. At first, naruto had a hard time getting any specific toad, as he summoned either Gamakichi or Gamatatsu. But when he used the Nine-Tails' chakra, or when he was truly motivated, naruto was able to summon the toad boss, Gamabunta. naruto is also capable of summoning Gamahiro to use Summoning: comida carrinho Destroyer Technique.
Created por the Fourth Hokage and taught to him por Jiraiya, the Rasengan is Naruto's segundo and strongest signature technique. While the Rasengan is a one-handed technique, naruto required the use of two to form it due to his poor chakra control, thus using a clone to form the "shell" of the sphere. Despite this, naruto has used the Rasengan effectively in almost every one of his fights after mastering it. The Rasengan holds an advantage over its counterpart, the Chidori, in only requiring chakra control to form, while the Chidori uses so much chakra that it can only be used a few times a day. naruto has mastered the Rasengan to a degree that he can do it almost instantaneously.
The Rasengan, like the Shadow Clone Technique, would be the base of several original techniques created por Naruto, such as the Big Ball Rasengan, a larger and mais powerful version of the Rasengan. He has also created the Wind Release: Rasengan and Wind Release: Rasenshuriken after his wind training, and after his senjutsu training, the Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan, Sage Technique: Spiralling Serial Spheres and Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan. He has also demonstrated the combined use of his shadow clones and the Rasengan, resulting in the Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres, in which naruto and his shadow clones can each use a Rasengan many times their own size against a single target. Because of the risk of using the Shadow Clone Technique while in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, naruto instead uses the shroud's chakra arms to help him create new Rasengan variants, such as the Spiralling Strife Spheres, the Spiralling Absorption Sphere, and the Mini-Rasenshuriken. He has yet to complete the technique related to the Tailed Beast Ball: the Tailed Beast Rasengan.
Due to the unique nature of the Rasengan in naruto movies, naruto creates a new type of Rasengan, often facilitated por a character in the movie, or a unique property present in the movie.
After failing to bring Sasuke back to Konoha for the segundo time, naruto went through elemental training where he discovered that he had an affinity to wind. por incorporating his wind affinity with the Rasengan, which was originally intended to be combined with a nature element, he would greatly increase the technique's power and range. The wind nature compliments a fighter like Naruto, as the wind nature is a great match for short-range fighters. por focusing his wind chakra, naruto can go as far as cutting objects with just his chakra. During his training to use his Wind Release, Asuma Sarutobi taught him how to channel it through his weapons.
naruto had learned nature transformation to upgrade his Rasengan, which he achieved with the Wind Release: Rasengan and the Rasenshuriken, combining both shape and nature manipulation originally deemed impossible without natural talent or instinct. The Rasenshuriken was capable of slicing into the victim and cutting them at a cellular level faster than a Sharingan can see it. However, it caused similar damage to his own arm, as it is still a hand-held technique, despite its name. After his senjutsu training, he completed the Rasenshuriken. He could increase its power and attack radius, to the point where when one exploded it took up half the area of a mountain-range, or reduce Human Path to just the topo, início of its head. The speed of the Rasenshuriken is so great it could cruz an entire mountain-range in a single second. In Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, naruto can create a miniature Rasenshuriken, using two small chakra arms on his forefinger.
Collaboration Jutsu entail techniques that are comprised of at least two or mais techniques that, when initiated with the right timing, one will feed into each other to become a technique of greater power than the sum of its parts. naruto was introduced to the subject por Jiraiya in the anime, in order for him to synchronise with a toad, and develop a collaboration technique. naruto eventually managed to synchronise with Gamakichi and Gamatatsu developing the Wind Release: Toad Gun, and the stronger Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet. The stronger version had enough power to temporarily knock out the Three-Tails. naruto has also done collaboration techniques with both Gamabunta and Yamato.
After Jiraiya's death at the hands of Pain, naruto began training with Fukasaku in Mount Myōboku to learn senjutsu and how to enter Sage Mode. In order to achieve this, naruto had to learn to sense and control the natural energy around him. Once mastered, naruto was able to perfect the Rasenshuriken, so that he could throw it, and learn Frog Kata, a taijutsu style that uses the natural energy around the user to enhance the range and the potency of their attacks. In Sage Mode, Naruto's no geral, global physical abilities are dramatically enhanced to the point where he could throw entities much larger than himself with little to no effort, including the Animal Path's Giant Rhino and the Nine-Tails. His durability increased to the point where he could fall on a cama of spikes and not even be damaged, as well as surviving the Giant Rhino's charge despite it tearing up the land behind him with its impact. His speed increases to a point where he was able to intercept a charging Asura Path, which had been using its chakra boots to attack Tsunade, create a Rasengan and slam it down before it could even react, showing him covering considerable distance in a short amount of time. Also while in Sage Mode, naruto gains a sensory ability to detect and identify other people's chakra from very long distances.
However, naruto had two flaws in his senjutsu training: To mould natural energy, the user must remain absolutely still, something one cannot do while in combat; and because of the Nine-Tails, Shima and Fukasaku were unable to fuse with naruto to mould it for him. To counter this, naruto had to leave two shadow clones in a seguro place to mould the natural energy for him. Once he depleted his current amount of senjutsu chakra, he would dispel one of the clones and use the natural energy it had gathered to re-enter Sage Mode. However, this method limits the maximum number of shadow clones that naruto can create to five. Any mais would interfere with the focus of the clones' gathering natural energy. However, this in shadow clones ceases should naruto decide to go all out during a fight and forget having any clones store natural energy for him.Also, naruto had been training to extend the time he could remain in Sage Mode. His skill with Sage Mode has increased greatly where he only needs a couple moments to enter it.During his battle with the Nine-Tails within his subconscious, naruto and his large group of shadow clones entered Sage Mode (though it appeared that his "physical self" was able to enter Sage Mode in his meditative state, then his "mental self" reflected the act as well as all of his shadow clones). This is possibly a reverse on how naruto got past his original five minuto por having a clone transfer the already balanced senjutsu chakra to him.
Although Naruto's intelligence is greatly downplayed for most of the series, his skills in deception and strategy are actually extremely high, which according to Kakashi, was thanks to his cunning and imagination as a former prankster, allowing him to fool perceptive and dangerous jōnin-level shinobi like Zabuza Momochi in Part I and even defeat S-rank ninja such as Kakuzu and Pain in Part II. He also possesses the ability to formulate complex plans in the midst of battle. Naruto's strategies typically involve shadow clones; either directing his opponent's attentions towards one of his clones to disguise his own movements, transforming them into various shapes (such as shuriken) to allow for surprise attacks, or making himself seem predictable por creating a pattern, just to surprise them por breaking it (examples being when naruto fooled Neji and Kakuzu into thinking the shadow clone furthest away from danger was the real him, or variations using the Shadow Shuriken Technique).
His deceptive skills were first best displayed in Team 7's first battle against Zabuza; he came up with the strategy to disguise himself as the Fūma Shuriken in order to free kakashi from Zabuza's Water Prison Technique. His skills in deception were shown to have grown exponentially during his battle with Pain, allowing him to prevail through an elaborate and highly unpredictable array of back-up plans, such as transforming his clones to mimic the environment. He also used the Shadow Shuriken Technique and the Transformation Technique to turn himself into a Rasenshuriken to temporarily neutralise the Preta Path while his real Rasenshuriken went to attack the Deva Path, while a clone attacked the Naraka Path from above with a Sage Technique: Spiralling Serial Spheres. When naruto caught his segundo wind against the Nine-Tails to bypass its hatred completely, he systematically used the Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres, Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and his mother's chakra chains to push the Nine-Tails' chakra out of its body from a seguro distance to absorb it into his own body.
naruto can also be quite innovative, using his clones to master advanced techniques. Examples of this include a two-man Rasengan, three-man Rasenshuriken, using clones to perform senjutsu and using chakra arms to perform the Tailed Beast Rasengan.
Naruto, labelled as his classes 'Dead-Last', once again failing to graduate from the Ninja Academy. Disappointed that his plans of becoming Hokage have hit another hurdle, naruto was approached por one of his instructors, Mizuki. Mizuki told naruto that, if he could steal the Scroll of Seals from the Hokage Residence and learn one of the techniques written in it, then he would be allowed to graduate. naruto did so, and began struggling to learn the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, unaware that the village was now looking for him.
Iruka tracked him down, and discovered Mizuki's involvement in the theft, realising that naruto had been duped por Mizuki, in an effort to steal 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, naruto realised that Mizuki's earlier words were a lie, and created hundreds of shadow clones to beat Mizuki to a pulp. For mastering such a difficult technique, Iruka allowed naruto to graduate.
In the days to come, naruto befriended Konohamaru and became his on-off teacher, showing him how to perform a variety of both perverted and useful techniques throughout the rest of the series. He was also assigned to Team 7, where he was partnered with Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno, under the leadership of kakashi Hatake.
As the team's first order of business, kakashi gave them a test to see if they were ready to become Genin. He had the three of them try to take the two bells he kept on his person, the goal of the test being to place teamwork above the fact that they couldn't all have a bell. Although they initially failed miserably, all trying independently to take a bell, they eventually decided to work together, allowing them to pass.
After completing a number of simple, uneventful missions, Team 7, at Naruto's insistence, was assigned the somewhat mais difficult C-rank task of escorting Tazuna to the Land of Waves. When they were attacked por the Demon Brothers along the way, who tried to kill Tazuna, they realised that there was mais to this mission than a simple escort. Tazuna revealed that his country was under the control of Gatō, who had left the people poor and unable to afford the mais accurate A-rank mission payment. por building a bridge that would connect the Land of Waves to the mainland, Tazuna hoped to free the country from Gatō, prompting Gatō to try and kill him. Team 7 decided to help Tazuna, and act as his bodyguards until the bridge was completed.
They were soon attacked por Zabuza Momochi, another of Gatō's assassins, who engaged kakashi in battle. When Zabuza captured Kakashi, he encouraged his team to escape with Tazuna. Having been of little use during the battle with the Demon Brothers, naruto resolved to help Kakashi. With Sasuke's assistance, they were able to free Kakashi, who in turn almost defeated Zabuza. However, Haku, disguised as a hunter-nin, intervened, and appeared to kill Zabuza first, in actuality only putting him in a death-like state in order to get him to safety. kakashi suspected that Zabuza was still alive, and gave Team 7 a árvore Climbing Practice to improve their chakra control. naruto and Sasuke developed a competition over the exercise, each determined to complete the training first, and subsequently motivating each other to do better.
While naruto was resting from training one day, he encountered Haku, unaware that it was the same boy he had encountered earlier. The two had a conversation about those who were precious to them, and the lengths they would go to protect them. After Haku left, naruto finished the training, but was left so tired that the rest of Team 7 allowed him to rest the seguinte dia as they went to escort Tazuna. When he woke up, he went to assist them, only to find that they were in the midst of battle with Zabuza and Haku.
naruto went to help Sasuke in his battle with Haku, but they were both trapped por Haku's Demonic Ice Mirrors. When Haku tried to use a volley of needles to kill Naruto, Sasuke stepped in to protect him, appearing to die instead. Enraged por the apparent death of Sasuke, naruto tapped into the Nine-Tails' chakra, allowing him to destroy the ice mirrors, and subsequently defeat Haku. Before he could kill Haku, however, the mask he was wearing broke away, revealing the face of the boy naruto had met earlier. naruto stopped himself, but Haku asked that he should finish the job, since he could no longer be of use to Zabuza. Although naruto tried to comply, Haku stopped him at the last minute, and went to help Zabuza. When naruto realised what had happened - that Haku had given his life to save an ungrateful Zabuza - an outraged naruto reprimanded Zabuza for not appreciating Haku's actions. Touched por his words, Zabuza killed Gatō to repent in an effort to do Haku justice, but died of his wounds. The bridge (now named the Great naruto Bridge) was completed, and the Land of Waves was saved. With a recovered Sasuke, Team 7 returned to the Konoha. On their way home, naruto remarked to kakashi that, even though Haku and Zabuza were their enemies, he still liked them.
After returning início and completing a few other simple missions, Team 7 was entered into the Chūnin Exams. In the first phase, a written test, the participating Genin were tasked with completing the test por cheating, all the while being sure not to get caught. Though the rest of the examinees realised this, naruto did not, and struggled to answer the questions, which were far beyond his comprehension. Hinata Hyūga, who was sitting seguinte to him, offered to allow him to copy off her paper, but he refused, in fear that she would get caught. naruto was forced to rely on getting the tenth pergunta correct to pass. When faced with the prospect of correctly answering the pergunta to proceed, failing and never being allowed to take the test again, or giving up to try it again during the seguinte exams, naruto insisted on answering the question, stating that, even if he got it wrong, he would still become Hokage. The willingness to face the unknown being the answer to the tenth question, naruto and the rest of Team 7 were allowed to proceed to the segundo phase.
For the segundo phase, Team 7 was sent into the Forest of Death with one scroll, tasked to obtain a segundo scroll from another team and arrive at the forest's centre before the phase ended. Soon after entering the forest, they were attacked por Orochimaru, who immobilised Sasuke and Sakura with his murderous intent. Before Sasuke could forfeit their scroll in exchange for their lives, naruto intervened, fighting Orochimaru por tapping into the Nine-Tails' chakra. Orochimaru rendered naruto unconscious por restricting access to the Nine-Tails' chakra, but Naruto's courage inspired Sasuke to fight in his place. After Orochimaru was driven off and naruto awakened, Team 7 encountered Team Oboro. After wasting a dia trapped in the rival team's genjutsu, Team 7 was able to defeat them, take their scroll, and pass the round.
Because too many Genin teams had passed the segundo phase, a round of preliminary matches, where Genin faced each other in combat, were held to thin the field. After watching the first few rounds, naruto was matched against Kiba Inuzuka, and his dog, Akamaru. Remembering naruto to be talentless from their days in the academy, Kiba believed it would be an easy match. He and Akamaru double-teamed Naruto, who initially had difficulty with the match. After combining the Transformation Technique with his shadow clones to turn Kiba and Akamaru against each other, naruto was able to remove Akamaru from the competition. When Kiba was about to defeat him, naruto farted, immobilising Kiba and his heightened sense of smell, and making him an easy target for the Uzumaki naruto Combo. naruto won the match.
While watching the remaining matches, naruto witnessed Neji Hyūga's ruthless treatment of his cousin, Hinata. Angered por Neji's actions and claims that Hinata was a failure who couldn't escape her fate, naruto vowed to defeat Neji during the first round of the finals a mês later. In the meantime, naruto started training with Ebisu to improve his chakra control. When Ebisu was knocked out por Jiraiya, naruto forced Jiraiya to train him in his place. Jiraiya, noticing that naruto was the container of the Nine-Tails, and the restrictive foca, selo Orochimaru had placed on him earlier, Jiraiya removed the foca, selo to ease his chakra control. He then taught him how to take advantage of the Nine-Tails' chakra por showing him how to use the Summoning Technique to summon toads. Although having little success at first, naruto was eventually able to summon the likes of Gamabunta in time for the final round.
When his match against Neji began, naruto appeared to be at a disadvantage. Although he was able to overwhelm Neji with shadow clones, none of the clones could manage to land a hit. Convinced that naruto was a failure that could not defeat a genius like himself, Neji used his Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms to cut off Naruto's chakra supply. Determined to prove Neji wrong, naruto tapped into the Nine-Tails' reserves and, revitalised, clashed with Neji. When the smoke cleared, Neji emerged, naruto appearing to have been defeated. This, however, was only a shadow clone, and the real naruto burst from the ground beneath Neji, to deliver an uppercut and defeat him. Neji was taken away, contemplating the fact that fate was not predetermined, since a failure could beat a genius, while naruto watched the remaining matches. When Sasuke fought Gaara, he was envious of Sasuke's improvements, but the fight was interrupted por the beginning of the invasion of Konoha.
naruto was put to sleep when the invasion began, but was awakened por Sakura so that they could go after Sasuke, who was pursuing Gaara in order to continue their fight. They caught up in time to stop Gaara from killing Sasuke. Intrigued por Naruto's abilities, Gaara forced him into battle por threatening to kill Sakura. With the power of the One-Tailed Shukaku sealed within him, Gaara tried to prove his existence por killing naruto por playing with him. Although naruto could relate to Gaara's life as a jinchūriki, he was not willing to allow anything to happen to Sakura and Sasuke. With the Nine-Tails' chakra, he summoned Gamabunta, and fought Gaara, who por now had progressed to his full Shukaku form.
naruto was able to awaken Gaara from his technique and reseal Shukaku, and they exchanged final blows, with naruto emerging the final blow. Both of them, being very exhausted, fell to the ground and naruto crawled his way towards Gaara, who was shocked to see why naruto was so strong. naruto explained that he had also suffered a relentless lonely life, but was later saved por having friends. Gaara understood, and retreated with Kankurō and Temari, while naruto was returned back to Konohagakure with Sakura and Sasuke.
Days passed, and naruto and the rest of the shinobi came to a ceremony to respect the death of the Third Hokage and his sacrifice for the village.
After the failed invasion resulted in the death of the Third Hokage, Jiraiya was tasked with finding a Fifth Hokage. He convinced naruto to come with him por promising to teach him a new technique that would be stronger than Sasuke's Chidori. Along the way, they were met por Kisame Hoshigaki and Itachi Uchiha, two members of Akatsuki, who sought to capture naruto for the Nine-Tails sealed within him. Jiraiya was able to draw them off, but naruto was introduced to the organisation that would become mais of a problem for him in Part II. To prepare him for their future encounters, Jiraiya taught him how to use the Rasengan, a technique created por Minato. While naruto was able to complete the first two steps of the learning process with little difficulty, he struggled to complete the third and thus master the technique.
naruto and Jiraiya eventually found Tsunade, the ideal candidate for the position of Fifth Hokage. When she turned down the offer, and insulted all those who had previously held the title, an angry naruto challenged her to a fight and attacked her with an incomplete Rasengan. Although his effort failed to hit her, she was surprised por his progress and made a bet with him: if he could master the technique in a week, she would give him her necklace, but if he couldn't, she would take his money and his frog wallet, Gama-chan. naruto agreed, and started practising, but in a week's time, he still had yet to finish the training. Disappointed, Tsunade met with Orochimaru, the murderer of the Third Hokage, and Naruto, Jiraiya, and Shizune, Tsunade's assistant, tried to stop her from helping him.
Tsunade turned out to have no intention of helping Orochimaru, and fought him and his assistant, Kabuto Yakushi. When Kabuto left her unable to fight, naruto came to her aid. Although he was getting beaten por Kabuto and Tsunade told him to run, naruto refused and por using shadow clones to help him form it, naruto was able to hit Kabuto with a perfected Rasengan, defeating Kabuto and winning the bet. Amazed por his determination to keep to his word and to survive against a superior opponent, Tsunade gave him her necklace, drove off Orochimaru and Kabuto, and accepted the position of Fifth Hokage. They returned to Konoha, Tsunade confidently believing naruto would someday become a great Hokage.
In the anime, after Sasuke was healed por Tsunade, Team 7 was assigned a mission to escort someone in the Land of chá without Kakashi. Early in the mission, they encountered their client, Idate Morino. Though Idate did not insist in having aid during the race, naruto and the rest still agreed, as that was what they were told to do. Near the end of the race, a shinobi known as Aoi Rokushō interfered, and attacked them suddenly. After Sasuke began to lose, naruto came to his aid with the Rasengan, destroying Aoi's sword and defeating him (albeit Sasuke's Chidori made a crack in Aoi's sword). naruto wanted to help Sakura and Sasuke up. She called naruto an idiot and let Idate finish the race, Idate gave naruto a faca holder, naruto cut the rope. Then, carrying Idate, naruto ran up the mural exclaiming that he was almost out of chakra. While Sakura helped Sasuke up, naruto guided Idate at the final peek of the finish line. naruto let Idate finish the race on his own, which Idate successfully did. After that, Ibiki Morino, the brother of Idate, sent in the ship for Team 7's departure. naruto and the rest said their goodbyes to Idate and returned to Konoha.
After returning with Tsunade (in the anime, after returning from the mission in the Land of Tea), Sasuke began to fall into the corruption set in place for him por Orochimaru. He began lashing out at Sakura and Naruto, not as team-mates but as enemies, eventually defecting from Konoha in order to seek out Orochimaru for power. Under the escort of Orochimaru's Sound Four, Sasuke left to cadastrar-se Orochimaru, and naruto joined a retrieval team that would bring him back; he also made a promise to Sakura that he will bring Sasuke back at all cost. While the other members of the team dealt with the Sound Four, naruto finally engaged in a fight with the Sound Four's fifth member, Kimimaro. However, he was not able to beat him even with Nine Tails-enhanced shadow clones. When naruto was about to be killed, he was saved por Rock Lee, who told him to continue the pursuit of Sasuke while he fought Kimimaro.
naruto finally caught up with Sasuke in a place called Valley of the End, very near the border of the Land of fogo and the Land of Sound, and fought Sasuke. With Sasuke determined to kill naruto in his quest for power, naruto decided he would have to take the battle seriously if he was to bring Sasuke back. When Sasuke's drive to kill proved greater than Naruto's resolve of friendship in a 'fair' fight, naruto tapped into the Nine-Tails' chakra to level the playing field, allowing him to batter around Sasuke. Sasuke, pushed to his limits, managed to develop the mature Sharingan, greatly overpowering Naruto. When Naruto, even with the Nine-Tails' chakra, was defeated, he tapped into the chakra even more, and a red aura of the Nine-Tails' chakra, in the shape of a fox, surrounded him. Sasuke then drew on the power of the segundo stage of his cursed foca, selo to properly compete with Naruto.
The two had one final clash, naruto with his Rasengan (enhanced por the Nine-Tails' chakra) and Sasuke with his Chidori (empowered por the cursed seal). Upon contact, a giant, black energy dome formed and surrounded them. In the dome, Sasuke struck naruto in the stomach, while naruto scratched Sasuke's headband, proving the latter's earlier taunt of the subject wrong. Sasuke won the fight, but after staring at the unconscious Naruto, he couldn't bring himself to kill his best friend, so he simply continued on his way to Orochimaru.
kakashi and Pakkun didn't come in time to get Sasuke, and left with Naruto. In the hospital, naruto vowed to Sakura that he would someday bring Sasuke home. Soon after, Jiraiya arrived suddenly, telling naruto to train with him for three years prior. He also told him to give up on Sasuke, as he is no different from Orochimaru. naruto accepts training with Jiraiya, but rejects to giving up Sasuke. In the manga, right after this, naruto departs, but in the anime, he stays for awhile, doing numerous filler arc missions.
After the original naruto animê had concluded the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, to make sure the animê did not over take Part II of the manga, the makers instead animated several filler arcs to take place before naruto left for his three ano training with Jiraiya. naruto is sent on various missions with the other members of the Konoha 11, but while there is little character development for himself, the filler arcs tend to develop the supporting characters, as well as Gaara. The final filler arc was right before Naruto's departure with Jiraiya, though in the manga, this was right after the Sasuke Retrieval Arc.
When naruto returned to Konoha, the remaining members of Team 7 were reorganised into Team Kakashi. As their first order of business, kakashi gave them another sino test, this time the only goal being to take a bell, and that he would use his Sharingan against them. Although their abilities had improved, naruto and Sakura were still unable to beat Kakashi, and it was only por threatening to spoil the end of the latest Icha Icha novel that they distracted kakashi long enough to take the bells. naruto reconnected with his old friends, who had all advanced to chūnin-rank or higher, and then heard that Gaara, the new Kazekage, had been kidnapped por Akatsuki. naruto and Team kakashi set out for Sunagakure to save him.
Upon arrival in Sunagakure, Chiyo was added to Team kakashi as an adviser, and they followed Akatsuki's trail. Along the way, they encountered a body-double of Itachi Uchiha, which engaged them in battle. kakashi and naruto teamed up in order to defeat the lookalike, before continuing onto the akatsuki lair. There, they found Gaara's body in the possession of Deidara and Sasori. When Deidara flew off with Gaara, naruto and kakashi pursued him, leaving Sasori to Chiyo and Sakura. While initially unable to catch Deidara, kakashi was able to use his Mangekyō Sharingan to distract Deidara, giving naruto an opportunity to attack him and retrieve Gaara. Deidara escaped, and naruto and kakashi reunited with Sakura and Chiyo.
Although Sakura tried to heal Gaara, he had already died, a casualty of Akatsuki's tailed beast extraction-process. Angered that Gaara had died because he was a jinchūriki, something he had never asked for and had suffered because of his whole life, naruto lashed out at Chiyo, the one who had sealed the One-Tailed Shukaku into Gaara in the first place. To make up for what she had done, Chiyo, with the help of Naruto, restored Gaara back to life, at the cost of her own. Gaara awakened surrounded por his rescue party and the ninja from Sunagakure. After Chiyo's funeral, naruto and Gaara finally shake hands (Gaara insisting), as a sign to their close relationship. Afterward, Team kakashi and Team Guy returned to Konoha.
During Sakura's battle with Sasori, she learned of a spy in Orochimaru's inner circle, an opportunity for them to find Sasuke after his years of absence. kakashi was left hospitalised from overuse of the Mangekyō Sharingan, so Yamato was assigned to lead Team kakashi in his place. Sai was also added to the team as Sasuke's replacement, but neither naruto nor Sakura were able to accept him as such.
En route to the meeting place with the spy, Yamato tried to get the team to work together, although Sai's personality and disdain for his predecessor caused only conflict amongst the team. When they arrived at the meeting spot, they found that the spy was Kabuto. Yamato, disguised as Sasori, spoke with him, but they were interrupted por the arrival of Orochimaru. Kabuto, in turn, turned against Yamato, who was forced to call naruto and the others for back-up. Surprised to see Naruto, Orochimaru wondered aloud if naruto had become as strong as "his Sasuke". Enraged that Orochimaru had spoken as if Sasuke belonged to him, naruto entered his three-tailed form, and attacked him.
While a fair match, Orochimaru was able to evade Naruto's attacks. Further provoked por his inability to land a debilitating blow, naruto advanced to his four-tailed form, losing his sense of self in his anger. Now a danger to Orochimaru, naruto was forced back so that he could switch targets, his first being Sakura. Yamato restrained him before he could do any real harm, and forced the Nine-Tails' influence to recede. When he woke up, they found that Sai had joined up with Orochimaru. They followed him in the hopes that he would lead them to Sasuke, and to see what he was up to. During a break, Yamato took naruto aside, and told him of how he had attacked Sakura, encouraging him not to rely on the Nine-Tails if he really wanted to protect those close to him.
When they arrived at Orochimaru's hideout, they infiltrated the lair, and captured Sai. Exposed, Sai revealed that his superiors had sent him to help organise another invasion of Konoha. He was restrained for his treachery, while the others went looking for Sasuke. Sai, having earlier met Sasuke, asked why naruto was so determined to bring him back. naruto explained that the two had a bond that couldn't be broken, and that he would risk his life to protect this bond. Intrigued, Sai switched sides, helping them to capture Kabuto and then scouring the base in order to reunite Sasuke with Naruto. He succeeded, but was attacked por Sasuke, the magnitude of which drew the rest of Team Yamato to their location.
Together again, naruto and Sakura tried to convince Sasuke to come home. Still determined to gain power, he refused, prompting the team to use force. Their efforts were unsuccessful, and Naruto, who was exhausted from his fight with Orochimaru in his four-tailed form, wasn't able to compete with Sasuke's growth. Within his subconscious, the Nine-Tails began to offer naruto its chakra, but he firmly rejected its assistance. The Nine-Tails became contemptuous at Naruto, mocking him that if it wasn't for its power, he would be nothing. It then tried to tempt naruto to break the foca, selo so it can "grant" him all of its power, but he still refused. However, before their quarrel could escalate any further, Sasuke, with his Sharingan activated, suddenly appeared within Naruto's subconscious, which surprised both naruto and the Nine-Tails. As the Nine-Tails criticised Sasuke for being similar to Madara Uchiha, Sasuke coldly reacted por using his Sharingan to suppress the Nine-Tails back into its cage, to which it never thought that he was quite capable of that feat. The Nine-Tails concluded that this was probably its last meeting with Sasuke, so it warned him not to kill Naruto, for he would only end up regretting it. Back in the real world, Sasuke tried to finish off his former, defeated team-mates, but he was stopped por Orochimaru and they retreated, leaving Team Yamato to return home.
In the anime, Team Yamato was sent on a mission to the fogo Temple. There they met Sora, a young monk who openly disliked Naruto. Despite this, Sora was added to their team to help investigate the grave-robbing of a number of former Twelve Guardian Ninja. Soon after the investigation began, naruto noticed that the other monks treated Sora much as the villagers of Konoha used to treat him: as an outcast sentenced to loneliness. naruto asked him about this, but Sora only replied that he didn't blame them.
Upon finding the grave robbers, naruto was forced into battle with Fūka, a woman that kept trying to kiss Naruto. Through the use of shadow clones, he was able to escape her advances, only to find out that she was a master of all five types of elemental technique. Soon afterwards, she managed to kiss him, an act that sucked all the chakra from his body. Once his normal chakra was gone, however, she began sucking out the Nine-Tails' chakra, a force she couldn't handle, and was promptly overwhelmed by. She retreated with her team, and Team Yamato returned to Konoha, with Sora as a temporary substitute for Sai.
naruto continued to try and befriend Sora, only for his and the efforts of others in Konoha being turned away. When later following Sora, naruto found him to be trying to kill Asuma and Tsunade. After stopping him, naruto asked why Sora was being so hostile. He discovered that Asuma had killed Sora's father. Asuma soon arrived to try and explain, but Sora ran off. naruto once again followed him, but was stopped por Fūka. Forced into battle with her again, naruto attacked, only to find that she was apparently regenerating from her injuries. Upon noticing that she had stopped using certain elements, naruto realised that Fūka somehow had multiple bodies, and that each had its own affinity which she could switch between. Coming to the conclusion that her soul resided in her hair, naruto destroyed all of Fūka's bodies before destroying her hair too, allowing him to follow Sora uninhibited.
When he arrived back in Konoha, naruto discovered that not only was Sora's father still alive, but that he was behind the various grave-robbings. The mais pressing matter, however, was that he had, years earlier, sealed some of the excess chakra, left behind during the Nine-Tails' attack, into Sora, and sought to use its power to destroy Konoha. As Sora lost control of the Nine-Tails' chakra within him, naruto also struggled to control the Nine-Tails' attempt to create a four-tailed form. He was able to maintain his senses, however, and forced the Nine-Tails' influence to recede, and was able to get through to Sora to help him return to normal as well. The Nine-Tails' chakra was expelled from Sora's body and, finally free, he said goodbye to naruto before setting out to explore the world.
Kakashi, hoping to make naruto better prepared for his seguinte encounter with Sasuke, trained him to create a new wind-based technique. In the anime, this training began before, and continued throughout, the Twelve Guardian Ninja Arc, with naruto seeking assistance from Asuma and Sora, two other wind chakra users. kakashi had naruto train with shadow clones to master wind manipulation in only a fraction of the time. When he did this, kakashi left him with the task of combining what he had learned with the Rasengan. He explained that infusing one's chakra nature with the Rasengan was what Minato had intended to do when he created
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