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Once, in a small Japanese village, a
nine tailed fox demon terrorized the people of the village. Then The
4th Hokage sealed the fox away in an orphan baby named Naruto.
Naruto is
now 12 years old and training to be a shinobi (ninja).
Naruto
is an inept ninja-in-training. He has failed the final ninja academy
test three times. He passes, though, when an evil ninja teacher tricked Naruto
into stealing a forbidden shinobi scroll. Naruto
uses a technique from the scroll, multiple doppelgangars (the art of
creating flesh & blood copies of himself), to defeat the evil
teacher. He is then passed.
Naruto
then moved on to the next leg of training. Naruto
meets a girl named Sakura
and a very serious ninja-to-be named Sasuke.
Then the three meet an elite ninja named Kakashi
who is to be their sensei.
The squad began their training with Kakashi-sensei,
and took part in various low-level missions. Then, soon after the
completion of one mission in the Land of Waves that was more than any of
them expected, Kakashi-sensei
nominated them to take the Chunin exam. Even though some protested, Kakashi
felt his students were ready.
The Chunin exam consists of multiple tests. The first
was a written exam, for which the proctor was Ibiki (who is in charge of
interrogation and black ops). The second test took place in the Forest
of Death, and the proctor for that one was Anko. The object for that
test was for the squads to each obtain a heaven scroll and earth scroll
within five days, and then successfully bring them to the building in
the center of the Forest of Death. And that area is rightfully named, as
it is quite a deadly place. Normally, after this test the remaining
students would move on to the third test, but because so many had
passed, some preliminary eliminations were held to reduce the numbers.
These were done as one-on-one battles. The rounds went as follows:
- Sasuke
vs. Yoroi (winner: Sasuke)
- Zaku
vs. Shino
(winner: Shino)
- Kankuro
vs. Misumi (winner: Kankuro)
- Sakura
vs. Ino
(winner: none)
- Tenten
vs. Temari
(winner: Temari)
- Shikamaru
vs. Kin
(winner: Shikamaru)
- Naruto
vs. Kiba
(winner: Naruto)
- Neji
vs. Hinata
(winner: Neji)
- Rock Lee
vs. Gaara
(winner: Gaara)
- Choji
Akamichi vs. Dosu
Kinuta (winner: Dosu
Kinuta)
The third part of the chunin exam started a month
later. The reason for this delay was so the remaining candidates could
recover and work on some new tricks. The Third
Hokage tells them that they will be judged by the Hokages of the
five shinobi nations. The judges would select either all, some, or none.
The only person that doesn't hear this is Sasuke
because he's in the hospital, and Kabuto
failed to kill him in the hospital.
Shonen's Jump ran a poll in Japan, for subscribers of
the magazine, on the popularity of the Naruto characters. Here is the
page with the results:
thanks to Absolute Anime Naruto
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