Recaps

Naruto gained powerful abilities through the system, built friendships at the Academy, and became part of Team 7. The arc left him testing his team with an unexpected handstand race while Kakashi watched.

• Naruto moved to a mountain shelter, where Hiruzen Sarutobi found him, taught him about Chakra, and showed him the Chakra Refining Technique.
• Naruto chose the SSSSSS-Rank Talent, learned several ninjutsu, befriended Kurama, and gained access to the Training Ground.
• Naruto disguised himself as Hiruzen Sarutobi, then met Hinata and defended her from boys who mocked her Byakugan.
• Naruto entered the Academy, befriended Choji and Shikamaru, pranked his teachers, and bought the Uchiha Bloodline, awakening a Two Tomoe Sharingan.
• Naruto gained Mangekyō abilities, learned that Itachi Uchiha had exterminated the Uchiha clan, and joined Choji and Shikamaru in standing up to bullies.
• Naruto graduated, joined Team 7 with Sakura Haruno and Sasuke, and met their Jonin teacher, Hatake Kakashi.
• Naruto disguised himself as Kakashi and ordered Sakura and Sasuke to handstand-run 500 laps around Konoha, then revealed himself and joined the race.
• Might Guy, Lee, Tenten, and Neji joined the handstand race as Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Neji competed around Konoha.

Naruto helped Team 7 grow stronger while using his clones and influence to pursue plans across the ninja world. In the Land of Waves, he made Zabuza a candidate for Mizukage, turned Gato’s death into a public victory, and exposed Uchiha Obito as a villain, leaving the world reacting to the accusations.

• Kakashi passed Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura after they supported Naruto through his handstand-lap punishment and showed teamwork.
• Naruto trained Team 7 with Shen Gongbao, sent modified clones to gather intelligence, and tasked Six Tubes with hunting the masked man.
• Kakashi took Team 7 on a bandit mission, where Sasuke trained intensely and awakened his Two Tomoe Sharingan.
• Naruto persuaded Hiruzen to assign Team 7 a mission to protect Tazuna, then helped repel Zabuza and his attackers in the Land of Waves.
• Naruto secretly convinced Zabuza that he was Kirigakure’s hero and empowered Zabuza and Haku to pursue the Mizukage dream.
• Zabuza killed Gato, and Naruto took over Gato’s mansion and planned to use its 145 thugs to build businesses under the name Umbrella Corporation.
• Naruto arranged for Kakashi to meet Sister Hua while Sasuke and Sakura trained, and he ordered a media clone to blame Uchiha Obito for controlling the Fourth Mizukage.
• The Shinobi World Daily published accusations that Obito had controlled the Fourth Mizukage and masterminded the Uchiha Clan Downfall, prompting Sasuke to awaken his Three Tomoe Sharingan and making Obito infamous.

Naruto’s genjutsu and overwhelming power shaped the Chunin Exams as he fought Orochimaru, rescued Karin, and secretly devastated Kusagakure. The real Obito then appeared near the Land of Grass, drawing Kakuzu and bounty hunters while Naruto’s team approached the end of the exam.

• After Obito’s identity as Uchiha Madara was exposed, Nagato took charge of Akatsuki’s tailed beast plan, while the Five Kage issued a 250-million-ryo bounty and Kakuzu took notice.
• Naruto won a card-game bet against Kurama, helped arrange Kakashi’s awkward meeting with Sister Huahua, and met Temari and Gaara before the Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Naruto and Sasuke used genjutsu to get past the disguised Chunin at registration, and Naruto’s genjutsu disrupted Ibiki’s first-stage exam before the remaining candidates passed.
• During the Forest of Death exam, Sasuke fought Orochimaru until Naruto intervened, demonstrated his power, and later let Orochimaru escape to preserve the Konoha Collapse Plan.
• Naruto’s team found Sakura with a captured Grass team, and Naruto invited Karin to join them before deciding to destroy Kusagakure using an Obito disguise.
• Naruto burned Kusagakure and killed Elder Oxhead, then arranged for surviving Grass shinobi to rebuild under Uzumaki Goudan while the news blamed the real Obito.
• Obito hid for three months before traveling to the Land of Grass to investigate the reports, where bounty hunters surrounded him and Kakuzu arrived to claim the bounty.
• Naruto learned the real Obito had appeared, marked Sasuke and Sakura with his Curse Mark of Heaven, and told them to hurry as the competition neared its end.

Naruto dominated the Chunin Exam finals, then used Flying Thunder God and overwhelming techniques to fight the invading forces and Orochimaru’s resurrected Hokage. He ended the arc claiming Hashirama and Tobirama’s services after erasing the Forest of Death and Hashirama’s forest attack.

• Naruto defeated Neji with Gentle Fist, restored Neji’s hope, and stopped Gaara from crushing Hinata during their match.
• Naruto became Jiraiya’s disciple, mastered the Rasengan and created the Rasenshuriken, then summoned Gamabunta and won his allegiance.
• Naruto fought Gaara in the final round, subdued Shukaku, and defeated the Sunagakure attackers after the invasion began.
• Naruto used Flying Thunder God to strike down invading shinobi and gave Kakashi, Sasuke, Sakura, and Shino marked kunai.
• Orochimaru summoned Hashirama and Tobirama, and Naruto crossed the Four Violet Flames Formation before teleporting the Hokage brothers to the Forest of Death.
• Naruto fought the Hokage brothers with powerful Fire, Water, and Ice techniques while Kakashi, Might Guy, and other Konoha shinobi approached the forest.
• Naruto claimed Hashirama and Tobirama’s services as interest on Orochimaru’s debt, erased the battlefield with Black Hole: Rasenshuriken, and destroyed Hashirama’s forest with Dust Release.