Finally, Chunin Exam starts with the eight Ninja who qualified in the preliminaries. But Sasuke is nowhere to be found.

Gaara finally appears in the ninth match, and his opponent is taijutsu (physical technique) specialist Lee.

Naruto encounters a young girl named Yakumo drawing a strange picture. The ANBU Black Ops and the Medical Corps arrive and wh...

Naruto and the others tend to an injured Sazanami. As Sazanami tells it, he had once been a swordsmith in a peaceful town and...

Naruto discovers that Tsubaki is Mizuki's fiancee. She has an idea of his whereabouts and asks the squad to take her with the...

Tsunade assigns Shikamaru a mission which is to solve the kidnapping case of the Sand Village ninja candidate Matsuri carried...

Shikamaru is determined to stop Tayuya, but she uses her Summoning Jutsu to call forth three giants. Meanwhile, on the plains...

Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru all release their summoning jutsu. And a fierce battle begins.

Orochimaru and Kabuto suddenly appear before Tsunade and Shizune who are out sightseeing. Orochimaru, injured by the Third Ho...

Kakashi arrives in the nick of time to help Asuma and Kurenai, and Itachi too enters the fray. The ultimate battle between tw...