Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!

is episode 1 of the original Naruto anime.

Synopsis
The episode starts with The Third Hokage telling the story of how the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox appeared in the village to wreak havoc. Until The Fourth Hokage showed up on the back of a giant toad and sealed the spirit of the Nine-Tails into the body of a young child... Naruto Uzumaki.

Cut to 12 years later where Naruto, now grown up, is being chased around Konohagakure by adults after painting graffiti all over the Hokage Monument. After giving them the slip by holding up a blanket over himself that looks just like the fence behind him, he gets caught by his teacher Iruka Umino. After being brought back to class and being tied up so he cant escape again, Iruka informs the rest of the class that they will have to review the Transformation Technique. All of the students line up to be graded on their ability to transform themselves into Iruka. After a few students go up and successfully transform themselves into their teacher, it's Naruto's turn. But instead of transforming into Iruka, he transforms into a naked woman using the Sexy Technique, a technique created by Naruto himself.

After getting scolded for this childish game, he is subjected to scrubbing off all the paint from the Hokage Monument. After expressing the fact to Iruka that he doesn't like that there are no parents waiting for him at home, Iruka softens and tells Naruto that if he finishes scrubbing the paint off that he'll treat him to Ramen at Ichiraku Ramen shop. After this motivation he finishes quite quickly and they leave for the Ramen shop.

During the meal at the Ichiraku, Iruka asks Naruto why he decided to graffiti that monument. Naruto reveals that the reason was because he wants to be Hokage some day so that everybody would recognize him as a great Shinobi. After this, a little while later he asks to try on Iruka's headband. But Iruka refuses to let him and says that he'd have to pass the final test in order to get one.

The next day, Naruto is sitting in class, waiting to find out what he will have to do to get one of the leaf headbands. Iruka walks into the room and tells them all they have to do the Clone Technique. Hearing this sends Naruto into a panic as that is his worst technique. Sucking it up, he walks into the room and tries to make the clones, but all he makes is a black and white duplicate of himself that is unconscious on the floor. He fails but his other instructor Mizuki asks Iruka to pass him. Iruka says no and, angrily, Naruto storms out.

Later, Mizuki finds Naruto sulking and tells him that if he steals the Scroll of Seals and learns a technique from it, Iruka will let him pass. Naruto, happy about the news, immediately goes out and steals it. After being informed by The Third Hokage about this, several shinobi go out to look for Naruto, Iruka including. After finding him in the forest, Iruka realizes that Naruto was tricked by Mizuki and blocks the attack he sends towards Naruto. Mizuki, intending to take the scroll for himself, informs Naruto of the fact that he is the baby that they sealed the Nine-Tails into. Mizuki throws a giant shuriken at Naruto but Iruka jumps in front, letting it hit him in the back. Naruto runs away, distraught by the news.

A little while later, Iruka finds Naruto jumping through the trees and tells him to hand him the scroll, but Naruto instead rams head on into Iruka, sending him to the ground. Naruto lands and slides towards a tree as Iruka transforms back into Mizuki. After asking Naruto how he knew, Naruto transforms back into Iruka. Neither one knowing that a few feet away, was the real Naruto.

After Mizuki and Iruka exchange words about Naruto and how Iruka must hate him for killing his parents. Iruka says that he doesn't hate Naruto for what the Nine-Tails did. After this, a spark of courage ignites in Naruto and he jumps out from behind the tree and knees Mizuki in the face. Threatening to kill him if he hurts Iruka. He then does the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, summoning a thousand or so Naruto clones and they all beat Mizuki to a pulp. Naruto, making the clones disappear gets rewarded for his ability to make the Shadow Clones with a leaf headband and the fact that he has graduated.

Trivia

 * For the Japanese DVD release of this episode, a shinobi from the opening scene was redrawn without blood on his face. This edit is present in all subsequent dubbing of the episode.
 * Shikamaru, Ino and Sakura are behind Naruto in the anime but, in the manga different unnamed Academy students are behind him.

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