In the village Hidden in the Leaves, ninja reign supreme, and school is literally a battlefield. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura are teenage classmates and ninja in training, working together - sort of - under the instruction of their teacher, Kakashi. Sasuke is training to win revenge... Sakura is training to win Sasuke... And Naruto, the class clown, insists that he'll become the greatest ninja in the land...

Naruto Shippuden: Box Set 4 contains another 13 episodes (episodes 40-52) of this animated series which was first released in 2007.

Disc one contains the episodes The Nine-Tails Unleashed; The Top-Secret Mission Begins; Orochimaru vs. Jinchuriki; Sakura's Tears; The Secret of the Battle!; The Consequences of Betrayal; and The Unfinished Page.

Disc two contains the episodes Infiltration: The Den of the Snake!; Bonds; Something Important...; The Picture Book's Story; Reunion; and The Power of Uchiha.

In this collection Naruto's nine-tailed fox's chakra leaks from his body and as he gets more and more enraged his three-tailed form slowly increases into a four-tailed fox monster. Yamato tells Naruto that he is strong enough and shouldn't rely on the powers of the nine-tailed fox's chakra.

Yamato gives Sakura and Naruto seeds which he asks them to swallow. These contain Yamato's chakra and will allow him to locate them if they get separated. He also reveals this is how he was able to track Sai - after he secretly gave him seeds in the past.

While hunting down Sasuke, Sai's real mission becomes evident. However a lot of things have happened along the way and Sai is now questioning his original mission.

Extras include Production Art and trailers for other Naruto releases.

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Nick Smithson