10. The Asuma Avenge Mission: Starting us of is a mission much later in the series. After Asuma is killed by Hidan and Kaukuzu from the Akatsuki, Shikamaru, Choji and Ino set out to find them and avenge their sensei. While that's going on, Naruto is busy training with Yamato and Kakashi to learn the Rasen-Shuriken jutsu. The reason this is here is because of how heart-warming it is, which is something a lot of these are. They're heart-warming and heart-crushing at the same time. And in this case, it's heart-breaking to see Asuma die and watching the effect it's leaving on everyone, but it's also nice to see Shikamaru, Choji and Ino going through all this to avenge him. It was especially sad to see Kurenai's reaction to it too. And then the ending with them fighting them and then Naruto appearing at the last second to use his new jutsu is awesome and really awesome.
9. The Gaara Rescue Mission: And now we go to the first mission at the start of part 2 of the manga. After Deidara and Sasori kidnap Gaara and drain him of the One Tail, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi and Team 9 go after them in an attempt to save him along with another Sand shinobi, Chiyo. And this is a more personal thing for Naruto because he wants to rescue Gaara, not just because they're friends, but also because of the fact that they're both Jinchuuriki and so he understands perfectly his pain so he wants to help them because of that connection they both have. And the ending to it could almost make you cry with it looking like Gaara's really dead but then Chiyo dies to bring him back.
8. The Great Naruto Bridge Mission: Now we go to the very beginning. This was Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura's first real mission in the first part of the story. After Naruto demands for a hard mission to go on, the Third Hokage allows them to bring an old man back to the Hidden Mist village. However, along the way, they get ambushed by a man named Zabuza who's one of the seven ninja swordsmen of the Mist. With him after them in an attempt to kill the man so he can't finish the bridge he's constructing, they have to do everything they can to protect him. This mission has so many things in it that are all integral to the show itself. It has a heart-warming and heart-breaking story, it's the first time we see Naruto using Kurama's power, it's the first time we see Naruto and Sasuke's actual friendship showing any signs and it's the first time we got some pretty brutal and intense fight scenes. But ever with that, the story's also pretty slow so we can learn about these people and you even feel really sorry for Zabuza and Haku in this.
7. The Revenge Story: Going back to the part 2 story, this is what Sasuke's ark was building up to. It's Sasuke vs. Itachi and there's a lot building up to this. For one, there was all the stuff in part 1 with Sasuke for it then in the actually story we see Sasuke absorb Orochimaru, forming team Hebi, him fighting against Deidara, Naruto and his friends setting out to hopefully find him and, of course the actual show down between the two brothers. And the actually fight between them is one of my favourite in the show and I loved how right after the fight and after Itachi died, you learn everything about him from Obito explaining all the truth about Itachi to Sasuke. That was great, but, again, the best part of it for is the actual fight between the two of them.
6. The Tsunade Retrieval Mission: One of the more interesting and slower stories from the original, in my opinion, is this one where Naruto and Jiraiya are sent to a town to find Tsunade and bring her back to the village to become the next Hokage. And, yeah, it is all that. And I love it for that. We get to see Itachi and Kisame for the first time, as well as the Akatsuki in general, Naruto is training to learn the Rasengan, we focus a lot on Tsunade emotional struggle and how so many things are rushing through her head and how she's almost considering taking Orochimaru's offer. And the whole relationship with Tsunade and Jiraiya is also interesting because you can tell that there's a lot of history behind them and how they both know that something up, even if Tsunade's not being too thoughtful about any of this. But, in my opinion, the best part is the ending of it with Naruto, Tsunade, Jiraiya and Shinzune against Orochimaru. And, of course Naruto using the Rasengan, which is just an awesome moment on it's own. It's especially cool at the end when Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru use their summons and it's like a huge awesome giant monster fight.
5. The Chūnin Exam: Even with an anime like this, there bound to be some kinda test like this. And for me, this has to be the most fun exam I've ever seen. When Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura get back from fighting Zabuza and Haku, they're entered in the Chūnin Exam. And in that, we get to see a ton of things play out. Like, we get to see a lot of new characters from the academy, there's the second part where they're in the forest, they fight Orochimaru and the three Sound ninja, we see them in the third part in the battles and we see Sasuke getting the Curse Mark. And from all that, we get some of the series' best moments like the three of them in the forest, which is a lot of fun, plus, we get to see a ton battles take place and there's not one that's boring. All of them are creative and super enjoyable. Especially the actual Chūnin Exam fights like Naruto vs. Kiba. But the whole forest part is the best part for me for being so much fun.
4. The Destruction Of The Leaf: This one picks up right where the last one left off. After Naruto trains with Jiraiya for the first time, we start the next matches in the Chūnin Exam with Naruto vs. Neji, Shikamaru vs. Temari and Sasuke vs. Gaara. But then it's interrupted by Orochimaru's attack on the Leaf Village with him and the other Sound ninja teaming up with the Sand ninja. And all of them attack the village with Naruto, Sakura and Shikamaru going after Sasuke, Gaara, Temari and Kankuro. And from this, we see the first big war like thing in the show. And we get a lot of really great moments like the whole fight against Naruto and Gaara, the Third Hokage vs. Orochimaru, the whole war like fight with the Leaf ninja vs. the Sound and Sand ninja and the actual Chūnin Exam fights where we get a lot more character development like to Neji, which is great. I love seeing scenes like that where we learn more about the characters because that makes them so much more interesting. But, we also learn about Gaara and the connection him and Naruto have with both of them having a Tailed Beast inside them, and it's kinda sad to watch because, then, you understand both of their ideologies and thoughts on what's happened to them in their pasts.
3. The Leaf's Pain: Now we come to, maybe, the biggest one that happened in the series to that point. This is right after Jiraiya dies from fighting Pain, and so Naruto is sent to learn Sage jutsu in a hope to fight and defeat Pain himself. But, before he arrives, the rest of the village have to try to fight him themselves. And when he does finally get there, it some of the best fighting in the whole series and ton of stuff happens. You get to see him in Sage Mode for the first time, he does tons of jutsus, we see just how strong Pain is, it looks like Hinata's dead which activates Kurama's chakra inside him and he goes nuts on him, we see that the Fourth Hokage is his dad, we see Naruto at some of his best when he's able to reach Nagato and change his perspective on things and then there's the actual revival of the Leaf when everything is put back to normal and almost everyone comes back to life. And I love the scene with Naruto and Nagato because it does so much for both of their characters. We get to see Naruto progress more as a character and see more of hi human side when he's talking to him and we see more of his perspective on the world with war and hatred. And I love that about him, The fact that, while he is just a teenagers and despite his tough past, he's still willing to save everyone that cares about him and it's a nice scene right after that when we see the village cheering him on. And it's especially really nice seeing that and remembering his childhood. Thinking that and seeing that happen, I think, makes it that much more satisfying and a really nice scene.
2. The Sasuke Retrieval Mission: Like I said in my review of the original Naruto show, this is what part one of the series was building up to. After Sasuke abandons the village to gain power from Orochimaru because of the persuading by the Sound Ninja Four, and especially after seeing how far Naruto's come. And so as he's being escorted there by them in a coffin to let his new powers set in, Naruto, Shikamaru, Kiba, Choji and Neji go after him with each of them fighting a member of the four themselves. While on that, Lee, Gaara, Kankuro and Temari show up to help them and seeing them pop up to save them is such an awesome scene. And I love how we get a lot more characters like how we sorta get flashbacks for the characters during the fights. But, on top of that, all the fight scenes are clever, well thought out and there's also quite a lot of scheming in some of them like Shikamaru using his usual intelligence to think his way out of the situation and Kidomaru when he's fighting Neji. And I love the quest of all this and the journey. It's all so much fun and so entertaining from start to finish. And as we get to the end of it, Naruto vs. Sasuke is my favourite fight scene in part 1. It's all super fun, intense and even quite brutal. All the fight scenes in this mission are brutal, especially Neji's fight. I love this storyline and I love the concept of the this quest as I said.
And my number 1 favourite storyline in Naruto is... The Fourth Great Ninja War: And finally at number 1 is the final story in the entire Naruto story. Like I said in my review, this is what the entire series was building up to. It everyone vs. Madara and Obito and from that, a ton of stuff happens and there's things happening every second. We finally know that Tobi is actually Obito, Neji dies, Sasuke helps out and Team 7 is back together, dead people are brought back to life and so many of them get a lot to do, Madara uses the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Black Zetsu is revealed to be the one that actually did cause everything in the series to happen to revive Kaguya, who's actually the main villain of the series and we get an awesome fight scene with Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi vs. her and Black Zetsu.
It looks like Naruto and Sasuke die but then the Sage of the Six Paths saves them, the old Hokage are brought back and help them, it looks like Sasuke is still a villain when he traps the Tailed Beasts, we see Naruto and Kurama at max power together, we get one last fight scene between Naruto and Sasuke, Sasuke turns good again and we see his redemption, he and Naruto free everyone from Madara's Genjutsu, Sasuke leaves the village to really get redemption and then we skip ahead years later and we see them all grown up with children of their own like Naruto and Hinata have Boruto and Himawari, Sasuke and Sakura have Sarada and so on and so forth. That's a lot to do in the ending of anime series, but I think it worked fantastically. I know a lot of people don't really like the ending because they don't like how the main villain constantly changes as I said before, but I still like it and everyone, no matter who they are, all have things to do here. That's something Masashi Kishimoto does so well. He can have it where there's a plot going on, but he can make it so that everyone involved has a fair amount of things to do. No one ever feels side lined. But he can also have it where it never loses track that Naruto is still the focus. But, also, the fights are all amazing, there's never one where you're not glued to the screen. And, like I said, the final fight with Naruto vs. Sasuke might be my favourite fight in the whole series. It starts off with them both using massive amounts of chakra and jutsus on each other and then it's just hand to hand combat and it is so brutal when it gets to that point.
And I'm always super entertained with this storyline. Even though it hasn't finished being dubbed yet, I still watch it with English subtitles on YouTube and I'm going to get the manga of it too when it comes to the 3 in 1 manga that I'm collecting with the entirety of the Naruto mangas. And so everyone, those are my picks for my top 10 favourite storylines in Naruto. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think or, if you like Naruto too, please tell me your favourite.
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