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Sasuke's life is changed forever with the revelation of secrets about his family's past.

Deidara's Ultimate Art faces off against the all-powerful new Sasuke; and inside the Land of Rain lies a secret of theAkatsuki that questions the leadership of Pain.

Jiraiya must look to the past for answers on how to end Akatsuki's reign of pain, and Sasuke moves closer to the final battle with the Uchiha brothers.

Naruto, having come face-to-face with his nemesis, uncovers information about the true Pain, and the first act of a new ninja who has taken power in Konoha changes Naruto's life forever.

Naruto struggles to decode Jiraiya's final words, and tries to figure out how to approach his battle against those who killed his beloved mentor.

As the bridge lengthens, Kakashi prepares Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to protect Tazuna's family from Zabuza's next attack, unaware that their foe will be bringing his apprentice, Haku, this time.

Ninja trainee Sasuke, suffering the effects of a curse placed on him by Drochimaru, enters the first match of the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams over the protests of his friend and classmate Sakura, and finds himself facing one of the formidable Sound Ninja spies.

Naruto struggles to control the demon inside himself when one of his friends dies in battle and he aches for revenge. Then, Naruto and his friends pass the written portion of the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams, but the final portion, which will pit them against each other, will be the hardest part of the test.

The preliminaries to the third portion of the Journeyman Ninja Selection Exams continue, and with tensions at an all-time high after one of the last combatants was rushed to the emergency room, the much-anticipated bout between mysterious Sand ninja Gaara and Konoha ninja Rock Lee begins. While Naruto studies with Jiraiya to harness the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox chakra locked within him in preparation for the Chunin Selection Exams, other ninja villages are secretly forming alliances against Konahagakure.

"As the battle between Naruto and Sasuke grows even more heated, Sasuke delves deep into the past to recall how his brother Itachi became such a feared ninja. Unwilling to do what Itachi instructs he must do in order to obtain the power of the Mangekyo, Sasuke flees the site of battle"--Back cover.