The New Target
Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi return to Konoha after completing their mission, but Naruto needs to find a new member for their team if they want to go meet with Sasori’s spy. As Naruto desperately seeks out a new team member, a mysterious boy with strange abilities attacks him. Teams Kakashi and Guy return home to Konoha. As Kakashi rests in the hospital, Sakura tells Tsunade about the information Sasori gave her as a reward for defeating him (about Orichimaru) . Sasori had a meeting scheduled with a spy from within Orochimaru’s ranks in 10 days. 4 days have passed since Sakura received this information, and now Naruto and Sakura need to recruit a new team member to go and investigate. As Naruto searches Konoha for a willing recruit, he meets some of his old friends. Here we see how much characters from episodes of Naruto had changed (for example: akamaru is 10 x bigger). Just as Choji agrees to help, Shikamaru, Choji and Naruto are attacked by a Konoha shinobi unknown to them.