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.
Naruto Episode 134: The End of Tears
Naruto loses the mission and Sasuke leaves, but a scratched protector and a closed lethal hand prove the bond survived the final clash.
Naruto Episode 133: A Plea from a Friend
Naruto calls Sasuke family, but sharper eyes and stronger borrowed power only make their failed conversation more violent.
Naruto Episode 132: For a Friend!
Naruto fights to preserve his closest bond while Sasuke accepts that same friendship as the price of Mangekyo and strikes to kill.
Naruto Episode 131: The Secrets of the Mangekyo Sharingan!
Itachi did more than destroy Sasuke’s family: he prescribed hatred, power and the closest friend’s death as the survivor’s future.
Naruto Episode 130: Father and Son: The Broken Crest
A failed fireball becomes Sasuke’s test for the paternal attention he craves, teaching him that power is the price of being seen.
Naruto Episode 129: Brothers: Distance Among the Uchiha
Before hatred owned Sasuke’s future, love, comparison and Fugaku’s attention made Itachi the standard he could never reach.
Naruto Episode 128: A Cry on Deaf Ears
Naruto reaches Sasuke and learns the departure is deliberate, then Sasuke turns stolen tools, wire and fire against the bond holding on.
Naruto Episode 127: Vengeful Strike! The Bracken Dance!
Kimimaro survives sand, burial and every sane limit, then dies inches from Gaara because the body Orochimaru spent finally stops.
Naruto Episode 126: Showdown: Gaara vs. Kimimaro!
Gaara turns the ground into protection and control while Kimimaro spends his own skeleton for the adult who taught him usefulness was love.
Naruto Episode 125: The Sand Shinobi: Allies of the Leaf
Tsunade’s formal request turns three former enemies into the exact reinforcements Lee, Shikamaru, Kiba and Akamaru need.
Naruto Episode 124: The Beast Within!
Lee’s accidental Drunken Fist chaos finally makes Kimimaro unreadable—until one bone strike sobers him and restores the danger.
Naruto Episode 123: The Leaf’s Handsome Devil!
Sasuke emerges and rejects home, while Lee leaves recovery behind to intercept Kimimaro and give Naruto the road forward.
Naruto Episode 122: Fakeout: Shikamaru’s Comeback!
Low on chakra and tools, Shikamaru lets Tayuya solve the flashy first trap so her confidence will carry her into the real one.
Naruto Episode 121: To Each His Own Battle
Kiba carries Akamaru toward the river, Naruto’s clone pressure breaks on Kimimaro, and Shikamaru begins translating Tayuya’s music into a plan.
Naruto Episode 120: Roar and Howl! The Ultimate Tag-Team!
Three battles test three kinds of connection as Kiba and Akamaru trust each other, Tayuya commands the Doki, and Ukon turns shared flesh into a weapon.
Naruto Episode 119: Miscalculation: A New Enemy Appears!
Kiba chooses Akamaru at the cliff, Kimimaro takes Sasuke’s capsule, and one shrinking squad fractures into three battlefields nobody planned.
Naruto Episode 118: The Vessel Arrives Too Late
Orochimaru steals an emergency body because Sasuke is late, while Shikamaru protects coordination long enough for the reduced squad to launch its ambush.
Naruto Episode 117: Losing Is Not an Option!
Neji accepts the guided strike outside his heart, sends chakra backward through its control line, and turns a fixed weakness into his path to victory.
Naruto Episode 116: 360 Degrees of Vision: The Byakugan’s Blind Spot!
Kidomaru survives close range, turns distance into a laboratory, and proves that nearly complete vision still contains one lethal almost.