Recaps

Naruto used the God-tier Mission System to grow stronger, build friendships, and uncover threats around Konoha. The arc ended with him entering the Ninja Academy and winning over villagers by declaring his resolve to become Hokage and protect them.

• Lin Xiao woke in Naruto’s body, gained the God-tier Mission System after catching a fish, and began using its rewards to survive and train.
• Iruka protected Naruto from villagers, while Hiruzen arranged Naruto’s Academy enrollment and Kakashi took responsibility for guarding him.
• Naruto befriended Kiba, Akamaru, Choji, Shikamaru, Ino, and Sakura, and the system granted him new abilities and bloodlines.
• Naruto trained secretly, befriended Kurama by revealing the future, and promised to prevent the Fourth Great Ninja War.
• Naruto defeated Rock Lee in a spar and killed infiltrators from Sunagakure after recovering their intelligence scrolls.
• Naruto learned new techniques, mastered the Rasengan, and awakened the Byakugan alongside his Sharingan.
• Kakashi escorted Naruto to the Academy opening ceremony, where parents protested his enrollment.
• Naruto declared he would become Hokage and protect every villager, then explained the Will of Fire and won the gathered villagers’ belief.

Naruto builds friendships at the Academy, learns the truth about his family, and frees Kurama while training to become powerful. He gains Hiashi’s support for his future bid to become Hokage and promises to marry Hinata.

• Choza hosted a barbecue for Naruto and his friends, while Hiashi kept Hinata from joining them until Naruto earned his approval.
• Naruto bonded with his classmates at the Academy and led them in training, while the adults discussed how Konoha had mistreated him and concealed his identity.
• Fugaku told Sasuke and Itachi about the Uchiha Clan’s history and revealed that Naruto was Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina’s son, prompting Sasuke to befriend him and Itachi to vow to protect him.
• Naruto befriended Kurama, confronted Minato’s chakra about his mistreatment, and persuaded Minato and Kushina to release the seal before promising to reunite his family.
• Naruto mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, strengthened his own abilities, and trained with Kurama’s Chakra while his classmates also advanced.
• Hiashi welcomed Naruto to the Hyuga Clan Grounds, later discussed Naruto’s potential as Hokage, and learned that Naruto knew his parentage and had made peace with Kurama.
• Naruto told Hiashi he wanted to remove certain village leaders, and Hiashi pledged the Hyuga Clan’s support for Naruto’s future while Naruto promised to marry Hinata.
• Hiashi explained the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird system and recounted how Hizashi died in his place after Kumogakure demanded Hiashi’s body.

Naruto revealed the truth about Hizashi’s sacrifice to Neji, gained Hiashi’s support, and persuaded Kakashi to give up his Sharingan. After training and leaving Konoha to meet Orochimaru, Naruto fought to prove his strength and won Orochimaru’s tentative cooperation, but still had to face Hashirama Senju.

• Naruto told Neji that Hizashi had chosen to die protecting his family and Konoha, and Neji pledged loyalty to Naruto’s plan to abolish the Hyuga Clan’s family system and Caged Bird seal.
• Naruto secured Hiashi’s support for the Hyuga reforms and arranged for Neji to train with Hinata and learn the Main Family techniques.
• Naruto revealed his parents’ teachings and his plans to Kakashi, then persuaded Kakashi to surrender Obito’s Sharingan and used Yang Release and Kurama’s Chakra to restore Kakashi’s eye.
• Hiruzen reduced Naruto’s surveillance, while Naruto trained until his Chakra reached Kage-level and learned that Orochimaru had founded Otogakure in the Land of Fields.
• Naruto left Konoha, defeated bandits while disguised as Second Pillar, and infiltrated Otogakure, where Orochimaru recognized him.
• Naruto demonstrated his ninjutsu and Flying Thunder God Technique to Orochimaru, then revealed what he knew about Minato and Kushina and offered Orochimaru resources and a path back to Konoha.
• Naruto used Kurama’s Chakra and a Partial Complete Tailed Beast Transformation to overpower Orochimaru’s defenses and destroy his Eight-Tails Serpent form.
• Orochimaru summoned Hashirama Senju with Impure World Reincarnation to test Naruto, who entered Partial Tailed Beast Transformation and prepared to fight.

Naruto defeated Orochimaru, recruited him and Kabuto, and trained in Ryūchi Cave before returning to Konoha. He revealed his identity to the Uchiha family, won Fugaku’s support for his bid to become Hokage, and began training Sasuke as Itachi tested his Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Naruto defeated Hashirama Senju with Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, then persuaded Orochimaru to trust him and took him to meet Kabuto Yakushi.
• Naruto convinced Orochimaru and Kabuto that he knew the future, recruited them to his plans, and led them through Ryūchi Cave’s trials, where all three learned Sage Mode and Ryūchi Cave techniques.
• Naruto signed a summoning contract, fought Garaga, and won him over by offering an equal partnership, then sent Orochimaru back to the Akatsuki Organization as an informant.
• Naruto returned to Konoha, told Kakashi about the Akatsuki’s plans, and trained while secretly observing his classmates and ordering custom weights from Tenten.
• Naruto’s Sharingan evolved to three tomoe as Tenten developed a Space-Time Ninjutsu for storing tools, and Naruto later used a Flying Thunder God Kunai to visit Sasuke at the Uchiha compound.
• Naruto revealed that Minato Namikaze and Uzumaki Kushina were his parents, told Fugaku he intended to become Hokage, and gained the Uchiha Clan’s support after treating Itachi’s Sharingan-related injuries.
• Naruto defeated Itachi in a sparring match, prompting Itachi to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and summon Susanoo, and Fugaku pledged the clan’s support for Naruto.
• Naruto gave Sasuke a Flying Thunder God Kunai and began training him, then entered Partial Tailed Beast Transformation so Itachi could test Amaterasu.