Then he became stronger and joined Akatsuki. Sasuke formed a tracking party and defeated Itachi. The Akatsuki organization started kidnapping ninja hosts. Two and a half years later, Naruto recruited Sai and Yamato. Naruto defeated five enemies from the Land of Sound through the forest, but he failed to stop Sasuke from joining up with Orochimaru. Sasuke left the village and looked for revenge against Itachi. Jiraiya trained Naruto, while Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage. Orochimaru tricked the army of the Hidden Sand into opposing the Leaf. Orochimaru interrupted the Chunin Exam, killing the Third Hokage and Fourth Kazekage. They defeated Zabuza and Haku in the Land of Waves. The members of Team 7 were Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno and their teacher Kakashi Hatake. After graduating from being a genin, Naruto joined Team 7. When Naruto found out the truth, it made him want to become the next Hokage and earn everyone's respect. The villagers treated him badly because of the monster.

Nobody told Naruto that the fox was sealed inside him. Twelve years ago, a spiritual Nine-Tail fox attacked the Hidden Leaf Village, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki sacrificed themselves to seal the monster within a boy named Naruto. In the United States, it started in September 2005. The anime series premiered in Japan in October 2002.

The manga was first published in 1999 in a Japanese magazine called Shonen Jump. His friends including Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. As the series progresses, Naruto and his friends begin to solve the ancient history of the ninja world. The Hokage is the strongest ninja and the leader for the village, called Konoha (meaning 'leaf' in Japanese). It follows an orphaned ninja who dreams to become 'Hokage'. Naruto ( ナルト) is a Japanese manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring.

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