Naruto Shippuden (VOSTA)

Naruto loses himself after seeing Hinata taken out right before his eyes. His anger triggers the Nine Tails’ chakra to go out of control.

Naruto meets Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, inside his inner world. Before his death, Minato planted a fail-safe where he would appear within Naruto’s psyche should his son sprout eight tails.

To break the cycle of hate, Naruto heads to where the real Pain is hiding.

The story goes back to right before the start of the final rounds of the Chunin Exam. As Naruto trains in preparation for his upcoming match, he hears Jiraiya speak of “the Fourth Hokage’s legacy.”

Naruto and the others take on the oncoming challenges in order to find the secret technique and break the previous record set by the Fourth Hokage. But Naruto’s impulsive action leads the group into various troubles.

Naruto comes face to face with Nagato and Konan. Naruto, wanting to confront the problem of their hate-filled ninja world, asks to hear Nagato’s side of the story before coming up with an answer.

To fulfill their dream, Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan walk through the war zone in search of Jiraiya, hoping to learn ninjutsu from him. After completing their training, the three form an organization with Yahiko as its leader.

Naruto remains silent after learning of Nagato’s painful past. Nagato claims true peace cannot exist in this cursed world, dismissing Jiraiya’s ideal as nothing more than wishful thinking.

Nagato, having decided to believe in Naruto’s word, performs his last forbidden jutsu: Gedo Art Rinne Rebirth.

The Leaf Village is left in ruins in the wake of Pain’s assault on the village. While cleaning through the remains of Ninja Academy, Iruka finds an old pillar and recognizes it as a memoir from Naruto’s early years at the academy.

Naruto spends his days competing with Sasuke, the academy’s star student, only to screw up and be the laughingstock of the class. Due to the childhood trauma of losing his parents to the Nine-Tailed Fox, Iruka finds it difficult to interact with Naruto as his student.

Naruto takes up his classmates’ dare to venture into the forest and retrieve an item from the dead enemy ninja, unaware that the forest is still dangerous.

An emergency council is held before the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire. The topic is to discuss plans to rebuild the Leaf Village, and Danzo strongly urges the council to select a new Hokage to replace Tsunade.

The Leaf ninja work to rebuild the Hidden Leaf Village. While helping with the restoration, Naruto and Sakura are reunited with two old friends—the carpenter Tazuna and his grandson Inari from the Land of Waves.

Team 7 stops in a town for some rest, where they encounter a man named Tsukado who is out to avenge the death of his relative.

Gaara, recalling a past mission carried out with the Leaf’s Team 7, points out that the Leaf Village has Naruto with them.

Naruto visits Sakura, who is caring for Tsunade. Sakura recalls an incident that took place three years before, in which she collapsed from symptoms that resembled a disease caused by a mysterious virus.

Tenten and Neji head for the Leaf Ninja Tool Research Lab to procure ninja tools necessary for rebuilding the Leaf Village.

Condor, the ostrich previously captured by Team 7, now lives in a forest with baby ostriches. Since his last escape, Condor has trained himself to become a ninja ostrich.

After accidentally finishing off Lee’s last special youth drink, Naruto asks Guy to make more, only to learn one of its key ingredients, the Jofuku Flower, is out of stock. Naruto is determined to get the Jofuku Flower for Lee’s sake.

Jiraiya takes Naruto to a village in the hopes of teaching him how to counter the Sharingan’s genjutsu attack.

Naruto and Jiraiya attempt to save a village from Kandachi, a former right-hand man to Hanzo of the Hidden Rain.

Granny Cat requests that Sasuke and Team 7 collect the last cat paw print necessary to complete the “Paw Encyclopedia.”

Naruto is assigned to a team led by jonin Hayama to patrol the north border of the Leaf Village. One of his teammates is Kosuke, an old man who has been a genin for over fifty years, earning him the title “Eternal Genin.”