Homecoming
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2007
A figure passes through the gates. It's an older Naruto, who has returned from a long training journey with Jiraiya. Naruto Uzumaki is back!
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2007
A figure passes through the gates. It's an older Naruto, who has returned from a long training journey with Jiraiya. Naruto Uzumaki is back!
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2007
Naruto and Sakura team up and challenge Kakashi to a survival challenge to show off their progress.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2007
Naruto's and Sakura's combined skills force Kakashi to use his Sharingan right off the bat. Naruto masterfully unleashes his jutsu one after another.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2007
Gaara is quick to detect Deidara's presence, and an aerial battle ensues with Deidara on his giant bird and Gaara atop sand.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Mar 15, 2007
Naruto and Sakura defeat Kakashi in the survival challenge. Tsunade assigns them to a three-man squad led by Kakashi, who tells them they are now his equals.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Mar 29, 2007
In order to protect his village from Deidara's explosive clay, Gaara uses his chakra to create a giant sand shield.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Mar 29, 2007
Gaara, his strength completely exhausted, is whisked away by Deidara. Kankuro ignores Baki's efforts to stop him and immediately sets out in pursuit with a platoon to rescue Gaara.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Apr 12, 2007
On her way to the Sand Village, Temari encounters Kakashi and his team. Kakashi admonishes Naruto when he tries to rush ahead…
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Apr 12, 2007
An urgent message from the Sand Village detailing the Akatsuki's kidnapping of the Kazekage reaches the Hidden Leaf Village. Tsunade wastes no time in ordering Team Kakashi to the Sand Village.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Apr 19, 2007
The Sand ninja fight against time to treat Kankuro. Even the Sand's poison expert, Granny Chiyo, is baffled. The only hope lies with the reinforcements sent by Tsunade.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Apr 26, 2007
Sakura treats a critically ill Kankuro. After extensive training she's now a full-fledged Medic Ninja, and Sakura amazes everyone with her sure, steady hands
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: May 3, 2007
Pakkun finds the hideout of the Akatsuki. Team Kakashi and Temari prepare to set out to get Gaara back, but Temari is ordered to stay behind and help guard the village.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: May 10, 2007
Team Kakashi encounter Itachi Uchiha, who had dealt them a bitter defeat in the past. Kakashi warns everyone not to look into Itachi's Sharingan Eyes.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: May 17, 2007
Guy prepares to use a forbidden secret jutsu. Meanwhile, Naruto falls under Itachi's genjutsu, and all the anti-genjutsu training he underwent with Jiraiya races through Naruto's mind
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: May 24, 2007
Granny Chiyo and Sakura rescue Naruto from Itachi's genjutsu. Without a moment's delay, Kakashi begins a counterattack.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: May 31, 2007
Chiyo and Kakashi realize that the attack was just a diversion, and that the Akatsuki have already begun the process of extracting the Tailed Beast from Gaara. Granny Chiyo explains to Naruto and Sakura the connection between the Tailed Beast and the Jinchûriki...
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jun 7, 2007
Teams Kakashi and Guy take a short rest. Granny Chiyo watches Naruto dozing off and is reminded of Sasori as a child. The pursuit resumes, and when Chiyo wonders why Naruto puts such effort into rescuing Gaara…
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Jun 21, 2007
Teams Kakashi and Guy reach the Akatsuki hideout. They hurry to infiltrate but are thwarted by a five-seal barrier. The only way to break the barrier is to remove all five seals at once.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Jul 5, 2007
Breaking the five-seal barrier set off a trap, which now has Team Guy battling amazingly accurate copies of themselves. Back at the Akatsuki hideout, Deidara and Sasori struggle to take the Nine-Tail Jinchûriki
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Jul 19, 2007
At last, the showdown between the old woman and her grandson begins. Sakura is confused by Sasori's strange appearance, and Granny Chiyo explains that this is Hiruko…
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2007
Granny Chiyo and Sakura manage to expose Sasori, who amazingly looks no older than he did twenty years earlier. Chiyo is even more shocked at the second puppet that Sasori produces.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2007
Sakura is caught by Sasori's tactic and surrounded by a poison cloud. But she uses a Paper Bomb to blow herself free from the poisonous fumes.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2007
Chiyo and Sakura take cover, and Sasori wastes no time unleashing a ruthless attack. Chiyo fights back to protect Sakura, but in an instant the Father and Mother puppets are sealed by the Iron Sand.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2007
Sakura counters the Iron Sand attack of the Third Kazekage puppet with superhuman strength. She learned from Tsunade that the most important skill of a Medic Ninja is the ability to evade an attack.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2007
Sakura destroys the Third Kazekage puppet thanks to a secret antidote she had taken. Sakuro explains to a surprised Granny Chiyo that this antidote converts the poison into harmless protein and is effective for about three minutes.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2007
Sakura and Granny Chiyo are engaged in a fierce battle with Sasori, who is able turn himself into a human puppet. They somehow bring Sasori down within the time limit, but he ends up reviving.
Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Aug 30, 2007
Although stung with poison herself, Granny Chiyo uses the last of the antidote on Sakura. Mocking the tender scene between Granny Chiyo and Sakura, Sasori attempts to end Granny Chiyo's life.
Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Sep 13, 2007
Team Guy senses the result of the Sakura and Granny Chiyo's desperate struggle while still in battle with his deadly copy. Although Guy's team members are showing fatigue, their copies remain strong!
Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Sep 27, 2007
Sakura hurries to get to Naruto with Granny Chiyo, who is suffering from the poison. The members of Team Guy rush to assist Team Kakashi.
Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: Sep 27, 2007
Naruto loses all reason to anger and is gradually taken over by the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit. Having been forewarned by Jiraiya, Kakashi narrowly manages to suppress the Nine-Tailed Fox
Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: Oct 18, 2007
Relying on Naruto's power, Granny Chiyo performs the Transmigration Jutsu on Gaara. Sakura is saddened when she realizes the cost of this jutsu.
Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2007
Gaara and his rescuers make a triumphant return to the Hidden Sand Village. After paying their respects at Granny Chiyo's grave, Naruto and the Leaf ninja reluctantly take their leave.