Tsunade assigns Shikamaru a mission which is to solve the kidnapping case of the Sand Village ninja candidate Matsuri carried out by the Four Celestials. Leaf genin is called together once again.
While in battle, Naruto finds out that Menma is a member of the gang of bandits that attacked their village. Being called a traitor by the leader of the gang, Menma reveals his greatest secret.
Tsunade believes that Menma has some connection to the Hidden Sound Village, and Naruto and the others head to the Land of Rice Paddies to check into Menma's Memories.
Naruto comes upon an injured youth who has lost his memory. Tsunade is cautious about the boy's presence, but Naruto is impressed by the boys kindness and insists on allowing the boy to stay.
After a heated battle, Naruto has the enemy cornered, but a boy is taken. This boy turns out to be Akio, Todoroki's younger brother, who Todoroki thought was dead.
The relationship between Gantetsu and Todoroki is revealed and tensions rise between the two.
After evading the ambush by the Ninja Dropouts, Naruto, Gantetsu, and Todoroki find themselves in a forest maze that confuses a human's sense of direction.
Gantetsu, a member of the Ninja Dropouts requests a guarded escort out of Hidden Leaf Village.
Naruto and Kiba's mission is to guard a prized tea bowl and meet the client Shinemon.
Naruto finds that Yakumo has put Kurenai in a desperate situation, and the terrible secret of the Kurama villa reveals itself.
Naruto goes to the hospital, when Unkai the ninja, who attacked them at the villa, appears. They search the village and come up with a theory based on the movement of Shino's parasitic insects.
The assailants are membes of the Kurama Clan of Hidden Leaf Village. Naruto and company rush to the villa to protect Yakumo.
Naruto has a dream about Yakumo wishing to become a ninja and Kurenai threatens to seal her power.
Naruto encounters a young girl named Yakumo drawing a strange picture. The ANBU Black Ops and the Medical Corps arrive and whisk her away.
Naruto, Uzumaki, and Sakura take the microphones as hosts and then the program begins.
A ominous black smoke appears over the Land of Greens, and all of sudden Choji and company are attacked by an unidentified Ninja!
Naruto and Shino are given a mission to provide security during the Kagetsu family funderal, but they soon realize that the real mission is to help the eldest son carry out the man's unusual last will and testment!
A mysterious being attaches itself to Naruto, while he was training in the forest. Tsunade begins to wonder if it isn't the legendary being known as the \"Onbaa.\"
Akamaru is injured by a rival shinobi from another nation. The shinobi used a battle skill that spreads bacteria throughout the opponent's body, infecting the vicitim's mental faculties. This causes Akamaru to go into uncontrollable rampage!
Sumaru senses his mother's death and Naruto is unable to stop an angry Sumaru from running off. To save Sumaru, Hokuto and Mizura stake their lives to reveal the truth behind the star training.