Sakura and Ino are evenly matched, and Ino tries a desperate move, her Mind Body Switch Technique. She succeeds and takes control over Sakura’s body. As she prepares to force Sakura to forfeit, Naruto cheers Sakura on and inadvertently awakens Inner Sakura, who forces Ino out of her body. Both drained of their chakra, the [...]

Kankuro easily wins his battle against Misumi by tricking him into attacking Karasu, Kankuro’s puppet. In retaliation, Karasu snaps Misumi’s neck, though he survives due to his ability to contort himself. The fourth match is between Sakura and Ino Yamanaka. After the two exchange insults, they have flash backs from when they were kids. They [...]

Kakashi threatens to kill Orochimaru, a threat that Orochimaru takes lightly. Despite this, Orochimaru leaves, with Kakashi terrified at his foolishness. Meanwhile, Shino and Zaku Abumi continue their match, with Shino ultimately winning his match through the use of his destruction bugs, leaving Kankuro and Misumi Tsurugi to fight next.

Sasuke fights Yoroi, but is handicapped by his inability to use chakra due to the danger of activating the cursed seal. Yoroi’s ability to absorb chakra gives him an advantage, but Sasuke uses a new taijutsu technique, the Lion Combo, and manages to suppress his cursed seal in the process. Kakashi takes him to an [...]

Hayate reveals that an unusually large number of Genin got through the second stage of the exam. A series of one-on-one preliminary matches will be held to reduce the number of people. Kabuto drops out immediately upon the notice, blaming his withdrawal on an injury sustained from an earlier part of the test. The preliminary [...]

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Team 7 opens its scrolls inside the tower, summoning Iruka to inform them that they made it in time. He observes their growth, then allows them to enter the main room, where they meet with the other passing teams: Team 10, Team 8, Team Guy, Gaara’s team, Kabuto’s team, and the Sound Genin. The Third [...]

The team realizes they are in another genjutsu. In order to draw out the assailants, Naruto disguises several of his shadow clones as his teammates and fights the enemy clones all night. When the Rain Genin believe that Team 7 exhausted from combat, Kabuto, Sakura, and Sasuke corner them. After a brief struggle, Naruto knocks [...]

Kabuto Yakushi, separated from his team, accompanies Team 7 to the tower in the center of the forest. Along the way, the group encounters a disorienting genjutsu set by the teammates of the Rain Genin Sasuke had earlier defeated. By the time they realize that they are not getting any closer to the center of [...]

As Team 7, Team 10, and Team Guy recover, Team 8 witnesses Gaara mercilessly kill a team of Rain Genin. Although Gaara prepares to turn his attention to Team 8, his siblings persuade him to leave them alone. Gaara’s team beats the previous record for getting to the tower by a gigantic margin, and none [...]

Team 10 battles the Sound Genin, each using their unique techniques to battle. However, the Sound Genin regain the advantage, as Sasuke awakens, engulfed in Orochimaru’s cursed seal. Sasuke, empowered by the seal, easily defeats Zaku, but Sakura stops him before he can kill either of the Sound Genin. The Sound Genin leave a scroll [...]