Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!

This is the first episode in Naruto. It introduces Naruto Uzumaki, the shows protagonist.

Plot
The episode begins by having a flashback to 12 years previously. In it the Nine Tail Demon Fox is attacking Konohagakure, and then the Fourth hokage sacrifices himself to seal the fox in a newborn baby named Naruto Uzumaki.

The show then shifts to Naruto, now twelve, running away from some ninja after defacing the hokage monument. He is the only one who fails the academy tests, having failing the clone technique test, being left back while all the other students become ninja. One examiner at the Academy, Mizuki Toji, tells Naruto that whoever can learn a technique from a forbidden scroll will pass automatically. Naruto steals the scroll, and when his teacher,Iruka Umino, finds out both he and Mizuki go to find him, while Naruto learns Shadow clone technique from the scroll.

However when they find him, Mizuki attacks Iruka wanting the scroll for himself so he will be more powerful. He then tells Naruto the truth, that he is the container for the demon fox, and he further claims that Iruka hates him because his parents were killed by the fox. Naruto then runs away from both of them and they chase him to get the the scroll. After a long chase Mizuki has Iruka cornered, and he calls Naruto a "beast", but then Iruka says that the beast and Naruto are different people. Naruto who had been listening, realizes that Mizuki is the enemy, and uses Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to defeat him.

Iruka then thanks Naruto and gives him a forehead protecter, telling him he has graduated the academy.