A figure passes through the gates. It's an older Naruto, who has returned from a long training journey with Jiraiya. ...

Naruto and Sakura team up and challenge Kakashi to a survival challenge to show off their progress.

Naruto’s and Sakura’s combined skills force Kakashi to use his Sharingan right off the bat. Naruto masterfully unleas...

Gaara is quick to detect Deidara’s presence, and an aerial battle ensues with Deidara on his giant bird and Gaara ato...

Naruto and Sakura defeat Kakashi in the survival challenge. Tsunade assigns them to a three-man squad led by Kakashi,...

In order to protect his village from Deidara’s explosive clay, Gaara uses his chakra to create a giant sand shield.

Gaara, his strength completely exhausted, is whisked away by Deidara. Kankuro ignores Baki’s efforts to stop him and ...

An urgent message from the Sand Village detailing the Akatsuki’s kidnapping of the Kazekage reaches the Hidden Leaf V...

On her way to the Sand Village, Temari encounters Kakashi and his team. Kakashi admonishes Naruto when he tries to ru...

The Sand ninja fight against time to treat Kankuro. Even the Sand’s poison expert, Granny Chiyo, is baffled. The only...

Sakura treats a critically ill Kankuro. After extensive training she’s now a full-fledged Medic Ninja, and Sakura ama...

Pakkun finds the hideout of the Akatsuki. Team Kakashi and Temari prepare to set out to get Gaara back, but Temari is...

Guy prepares to use a forbidden secret jutsu. Meanwhile, Naruto falls under Itachi’s genjutsu, and all the anti-genju...

Guy prepares to use a forbidden secret jutsu. Meanwhile, Naruto falls under Itachi’s genjutsu, and all the anti-genju...

Granny Chiyo and Sakura rescue Naruto from Itachi’s genjutsu. Without a moment’s delay, Kakashi begins a counterattack.

Chiyo and Kakashi realize that the attack was just a diversion, and that the Akatsuki have already begun the process ...

Teams Kakashi and Guy take a short rest. Granny Chiyo watches Naruto dozing off and is reminded of Sasori as a child....

Teams Kakashi and Guy reach the Akatsuki hideout. They hurry to infiltrate but are thwarted by a five-seal barrier. T...

Breaking the five-seal barrier set off a trap, which now has Team Guy battling amazingly accurate copies of themselve...

At last, the showdown between the old woman and her grandson begins. Sakura is confused by Sasori’s strange appearanc...

Granny Chiyo and Sakura manage to expose Sasori, who amazingly looks no older than he did twenty years earlier.

Sakura is caught by Sasori’s tactic and surrounded by a poison cloud.

Chiyo and Sakura take cover, and Sasori wastes no time unleashing a ruthless attack.

Sakura counters the Iron Sand attack of the Third Kazekage puppet with superhuman strength.

Sakura destroys the Third Kazekage puppet thanks to a secret antidote she had taken.

Sakura and Granny Chiyo are engaged in a fierce battle with Sasori, who is able turn himself into a human puppet. The...

Although stung with poison herself, Granny Chiyo uses the last of the antidote on Sakura. Mocking the tender scene be...

Team Guy senses the result of the Sakura and Granny Chiyo’s desperate struggle while still in battle with his deadly ...

Sakura hurries to get to Naruto with Granny Chiyo, who is suffering from the poison. The members of Team Guy rush to ...

Naruto loses all reason to anger and is gradually taken over by the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit. Having been forewarned by...

Relying on Naruto's power, Granny Chiyo performs the Transmigration Jutsu on Gaara.

Gaara and his rescuers make a triumphant return to the Hidden Sand Village.