Masashi Kishimoto

Naruto faces off against Kimimaro, a mysterious foe with ties to the Sound Ninja Four, as he tries to get to Sasuke before Orochimaru can make him a part of his master plan.

Rage awakens Uzumaki Naruto after seeing Sasuke dead. There comes a time in every ninja's training when he must put asisde his morals and face the truth: ninja's are tools for killing.

Tsunade and his team are sent out to hunt down Sasuke, who has joined forces with a new set of teammates.

Naruto, Sasuka, and Sakura have passed the final test to become junior ninja. They find themselves, with their teacher, bodyguarding a cranky old man from the Land of the Waves. But Tazuna the bridgebuilder is in more danger than anyone realizes and the young ninjas soon find themselves facing elite ninja assassins.

Naruto's team has passed the written portion of their Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams, and now they must turn against one another in the Forest of Death in order to pass their final tests.

Ninja trainee Sasuke, suffering the effects of a curse placed on him by Drochimaru, enters the first match of the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams over the protests of his friend and classmate Sakura, and finds himself facing one of the formidable Sound Ninja spies.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke have signed up for the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams, which they must pass as a group; if the tests of skill, stealth, and battle prowess don't kill them, the other junior ninja just might.

Naruto is pushed to his limits while training under Jiraiya, and a mysterious shinobi appears who could change everything for the ninjas.

The shinobi learn that there have been casualties from Orochimaru's attack and, in the midst of their mourning, make an unlikely choice for the next great ninja, while a long-lost ninja returns with a dangerous entourage.

Naruto, a ninja-in-training, faces his greatest challenge when he is pitted against Neji in the third phase of the Chuni