Naruto Episode 164: Too Late for Help
Naruto rejects an absurd official solution, and two wandering toads expose the kite and tunnel mechanics hidden beneath the ghost story.
Naruto Episode 163: The Tactician’s Intent
Every clue points toward Komei, but Neji’s sight proves the first hollow armor and second occupied warrior cannot be one convenient explanation.
Naruto Episode 162: The Cursed Warrior
Chishima spends his savings to reach a grieving friend, and Naruto’s promise leads Neji’s team to white armor containing no living body.
Naruto Episode 161: The Appearance of Strange Visitors
Konoha spots two terrible impostors immediately, then uses Naruto’s sincere faith in Guy and Lee to turn counterintelligence into a day of free labor.
Naruto Episode 160: Hunt or Be Hunted?! Showdown at the O.K. Temple!
Tokichi’s name is cleared during a Golden Bell heist even though Gatsu takes the arrest and leaves Naruto’s team with a failed mission report.
Naruto Episode 159: The Bounty Hunter from the Wilderness
A skilled stranger turns Gosunkugi’s capture into a competition, then a matching bird mark makes the rescuer in Naruto’s care look like a wanted killer.
Naruto Episode 158: Follow My Lead! The Great Survival Challenge!
Naruto’s courage saves three Academy students from the mountain emergency his shortcut created, exposing the gap between protection and leadership.
Naruto Episode 157: Run! The Curry of Life!
Ranmaru finally asks Raiga to stop, forcing their bond to face the difference between care and control as Katabami’s mission ends.
Naruto Episode 156: Raiga’s Counterattack
Raiga turns Ranmaru’s sacrifice into revenge, while Tenten demands responsibility and Sansho’s curry gives the boy another choice.
Naruto Episode 155: The Dark Creeping Clouds
Karashi and Ranmaru receive second chances, then misuse them: one enables another trap while the other secretly restores Raiga to life.
Naruto Episode 154: The Enemy of the Byakugan
Ranmaru manufactures the exact chakra evidence Neji trusts, then separation reveals how much of Raiga’s battlefield power belongs to the child he carries.
Naruto Episode 153: A Lesson Learned! The Iron Fist of Love!
Raiga buries living people while performing grief, and Lee answers Karashi’s borrowed fear with the memory of strength expressed through care.
Naruto Episode 152: Funeral March for the Living
Naruto discounts an occupied town until it might lead toward Sasuke, while Lee understands that removing the gang and recovering its frightened recruit are one mission.
Naruto Episode 151: Blaze Away, Byakugan! This Is My Ninja Way!!
Hinata rescues herself, returns for her team, and unveils a defense built from her own precision before Naruto’s scent accident destroys the mission.
Naruto Episode 150: A Battle of Bugs! The Deceivers and the Deceived!
Shino protects the real beetle with a fake exchange, the Kamizuru answer with a false hostage, and Hinata nearly frees herself before the river takes her.
Naruto Episode 149: What’s the Difference? Don’t All Insects Look Alike?
Hinata’s vision finds the beetle Naruto cannot identify, but Team 8’s decision to hide the active threat helps the Kamizuru take her as ransom.
Naruto Episode 148: The Search for the Rare Bikochu Beetle
Team 8 gives Naruto an evidence-based route to Sasuke, but using it requires him to follow Shino’s specialist leadership instead of his urgency.
Naruto Episode 147: A Clash of Fate: You Can’t Bring Me Down!
Naruto reverses Episode 1 by saving Iruka, reading his signal, and finishing their shared trap while Tsunade ends the brothers’ mismatch.
Naruto Episode 146: Remaining Ambition: Orochimaru’s Shadow
Tsubaki turns loyalty into useful accountability while Mizuki steals medical knowledge, finishes Orochimaru’s formula, and drinks its promise.
Naruto Episode 145: A New Formation: Ino-Shika-Cho!
Team 10 controls the brothers through three interlocking roles while Mizuki turns an Academy instructor-testing hall into another disposable trap.
Naruto Episode 144: A New Squad! Two People and a Dog?!
Naruto multiplies ineffective force, Iruka multiplies faith in a false friendship, and Team 10 arrives with the different skills both fights need.
Naruto Episode 143: Tonton! I’m Counting on You!
Tonton turns survival into a warning, Pakkun reconnects the rescue team, and Mizuki turns Shizune’s face into the bait for an ambush.
Naruto Episode 142: The Three Villains from the Maximum Security Prison
Sakura starts real precision training while Naruto gets an empty joke scroll, then Mizuki turns two hungry brothers into the engine of a prison riot.
Naruto Episode 141: Sakura’s Determination!
Sakura’s determination becomes useful when she stops offering her life and chooses the slower work of building the medical skill her team lacks.
Naruto Episode 140: Two Heartbeats: Kabuto’s Trap
Naruto’s apparent victory links his heart to an enemy’s, and only Sasame’s Fuma knowledge can break the lethal bond Orochimaru weaponized.
Naruto Episode 139: Pure Terror! The House of Orochimaru
Orochimaru’s hideout studies appetite and converts predictable impulses into isolation—and the team helps by splitting itself three ways.
Naruto Episode 138: Pure Betrayal, and a Fleeting Plea!
Sasame drugs the people who helped her for a chance to reach Arashi, then refuses when the price escalates from capture to murder.
Naruto Episode 137: A Town of Outlaws! The Shadow of the Fuma Clan
War broke the Fuma clan’s stability, then Orochimaru sold exploitation as restoration to shinobi desperate for purpose and status.
Naruto Episode 136: Deep Cover?! A Super S-Rank Mission
Sakura’s solo search becomes a two-person desertion attempt until Jiraiya gives their loyalty legal authority, intelligence goals and limits.
Naruto Episode 135: The Promise That Could Not Be Kept
The retrieval failed, but Shikamaru, Sakura, Tsunade and Naruto each turn the disaster into a different promise to do better.