To the story and lore: Naruto

Naruto is a manga by Masashi Kishimoto and originally ran from September 21, 1999 to November 10, 2014 and was published in Shonen Jump as well as in tankobon(books).

This tells the story of Naruto,a 12 year old boy who has a nine tail demon fox inside him. He grew up orphan in a village of ninjas named Konoha, meaning village hidden in the Leaf, where he was ridiculed and feared but he failed to know why. On his third attempt to graduate the Academy, he manages to do so by rescuing his sensei(teacher) from a scroll theif.

After that he, along with all other graduates,are set into groups of 3 members with a higher ranking officer(known as Jounin) as a Leader. In his case he got into a group with Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha and the leader was Kakashi Hatake. They complete a series of missions, including an important one on the Land of Water, and Kakashi proposes them to the comitee for the "Chunnin Exams" in which they hada chance to advancea rank and become a Chuunin.

During this exam, a rouge ninja named Orochimaru attacks and, with the help of one of the pariticpating villages, attempts to take over Konmohagakure but only manages to kill the leader,refered to as Hokage, Hirozen Sarutobi. After this they are tasked with finding Jirayja, a legendary ninja to make him the next leader but he regfuses and thus are told to seek another legendary ninja named Tsunade, who accepts. During this time two ninjas attack the recouping city in an attempt to kidanp Naruto but are driven away. One of the attackers was Sasuke's older brother, Itachi, who had betrrayed the village and murdered all the clan members. Sasuke attempted to kill him but fails and thus sees himself as weak and seeks power.

Orochimaru contacts Sasuke with offers of power and Sasuke leaves the village to train under him. This, in turn, causes the village to look for him and covince him ot return. When he refuses Naruto decides not to give up and goes to train under the legendary Jirayja, meanwhile Sakura is trained by Tsunade.

Thus begins the second part of the series which starts following a 2 and half year time skip. This part of the series is known as "Shippuden" which was it's name in anime. It is initiated by the return of Naruto to Konoha.(There he learns that Akatsuki, the organization which attempted to kidnap Naruto two years befiore, is gathring the hosts of the Demon Beats known as the Tailed Beasts, They rescue Gaara the Kazekage, leader of the village hidden in the Sand, and discover that seven of the other hosts of Tail Beasts, which are known as Jinchuuruki. have been captured and their beast extracted. The only one who survived is Gaara thanks to the sacrifice of an elder of his village.

Meanwhile Sasuke betrays Orochimaru and faces Itachi and manages to kill him. It is then that a masked man appears and introduces himself as Tobi.He tells Sasuke that Itachi killed his clan to avoid a revolt and that he did not betray the Leaf. Sasuke is angered by these news and decides he will join akatsuki in destroying the leaf.

One by one the member of Akatsuki are defeated and the leader Nagato appears during an investigation Jyraja was making and kills him. Following the leader of Akatsuki, atacks Konoha destroying it and killing most citizens. Naruto proceeds to defeat and cause the redemption of Nagato who dies reviving the people he murdered.

After the death of Nagato, Tobi,using the name of Konoha founding figure Madara Uchiha, anounces that the capturing of the Tailed Beasts was to create and ilusion powerfulll enought to envelop the world and generate world peace. To prevent that the control of the world fall to this masked man, the five ninja villages unite to confront this enemy. This produces the fourth ninja wars which are fought by the five nija villages on one side,taking the name of the Allied Shinobi Forces, and the revived zombie like ninjas on the other., the latter being controlled by Tobi.

The two remaining Jinchuruki are kept in an isolated island. Naruto and Bee,the othr Jinchuuruki remaining, escape. They manage to finally befriend their Tailed Beasts and decide to go to the battlefield.

During the war it is revealed that Tobi is actually a former tema mate of Kakashi named Obito Uchiha and that Madara Uchiha saved him and they had planned this war together. Also during this time Sasuke reals the real story behind his clan'¡s downfall and jrejoins Naruto and the Allied Forces to fight Obito.

After several battle Madara's body is possesed by an ancient being named Kaguya Ootsusuki and Tobi redeems himself by sacrificing to stop the being killing Madara in the process.Sasuke takes advantage of this to take posession of the tailed beasts and tries to end the village system but, in a final battle wthi Naruto, he repents and is pardoned by Kakashi who became Hokage. After many years he retires and Naruto, became Hokage.