Naruto

**Naruto** is a 2008 anime film based on the anime ninja of the same name. It is the second installment in the Anime Cinematic Universe and the second installment of Phase One.

## Synopsis

Ninja Genin Naruto Uzumaki desperately seeks a cure for the demon Nine-Tailed Fox that was sealed inside him. Cut off from his true love Hinata Hyuga and forced to hide from his nemesis, Jonin Kakashi Hatake, Naruto soon comes face-to-face with a new threat: a supremely powerful enemy known as Zabuza Momochi.

## Plot

Naruto Uzumaki recalls the events in which he was transformed into a monster and hospitalized Hinata Hyuga. Kakashi Hatake, forced Naruto to go on the run for years, as he is now a fugitive of the Hidden Leaf Village. Naruto finds a home in the Hidden Rain Village, where he works at a soft drink bottling factory and has learned breathing techniques and jutsu to ward off his transformations. He is trying to find a cure with the help of "Mr. Blue", whom he met online. Naruto has not had an "incident" for 5 months.

When Naruto has a cut, his blood drips into a bottle at the factory and is ingested by an ill-fated consumer in Amestria. Kakashi uses this incident to pick up on Naruto's trail and sends Hidden Mist Ninja Zabuza Momochi with an attack team to capture Naruto. Naruto then makes an escape to the bottling factory he works in. During the run, he bumps into a gang of thugs, one who was his former enemy at the bottling factory. During the confrontation, Naruto transforms into the Nine-Tailed Fox's one-tailed form at the bottling factory and takes out the thugs and everyone on the team.

Before the Nine-Tailed Fox escapes, Zabuza, the last ninja alive takes a good look at Naruto, before Naruto throws a forklift truck at him, which he barely survives. Naruto escapes and goes to the Hidden Sand Village, and then Amestria, where he finds the now recovered Hinata Hyuga at Elric University, dating ninja Kiba Inuzuka. Naruto's friend Stanley Lieber (a Ramen shop owner) gives him a job as a delivery boy. He uses this job to continue his research by sneaking past a security guard at the university. Hinata sees Naruto at the Ramen shop, and they later reunite.

Kakashi is informed by Zabuza that Naruto escaped because of the Nine-Tailed Fox. Kakashi continues to explain that Naruto was the monster, created by a failed experiment meant to replicate the "Shepard" program. Zabuza volunteers to be given a small dose of an altered "Shepard Serum"(another failed experiment using the blood of Velvet Crowe instead of the Lady of the Lake) that increases his strength and agility. Zabuza leads a second attack on Naruto at Elric University, where he and his team encounter the Nine-Tailed Fox and are defeated. Naruto saves Hinata from an explosion and he takes her to the Hidden Cloud Village.

Naruto and Hinata go to Cee University in Hidden Cloud Village to meet Mr. Blue, who is revealed to be Kabuto Yakushi. Kabuto invented a potential antidote, and Naruto accepts it, despite the risks. Naruto is restrained and a transformation is induced, but was successfully reversed through Kabuto's antidote. Kabuto revealed that he synthesized Naruto's blood into a large supply, in hopes of using it in the next stage of human evolution. While Naruto tries to convince him otherwise, he is suddenly tranquilized by one of Kakashi's Anbu Black Ops.

Hinata and Naruto are taken into custody, while Zabuza confronts Kabuto and asks him to give him a sample of Naruto's blood to add to his power. Kabuto warns that the "Shepard Serum" and Jiinchuriki Chakra together could create an "abomination", but Zabuza doesn't change his mind. The procedure transforms Zabuza into a Malevolence-fueled daemon who knocks Kabuto into a sample of Naruto's blood, and goes on a rampage through the Hidden Cloud Village looking for something that could challenge his new strength as well as to lure Naruto out.

Despite his fears that he has cured himself of the Nine-Tailed Fox permanently, Naruto is given permission to fight Zabuza and jumps from Kakashi's helicopter in an attempt to re-trigger his transformations. Naruto emerges from a crater in the street below as the one-tailed form of Nine-Tails, and proceeds to face Zabuza. Naruto manages to defeat Zabuza after a lengthy, destructive and harsh fight while also protecting Hinata and Kakashi, who had been put in harm's way, but is again forced to run from the Anbu Black Ops.

31 days later, Naruto is in Xing trying to learn how to control his transformations, instead of curing them. Later, Kakashi is in a bar, where Edward Elric then confronts Kakashi and talks about a "team" being made.