While training to be a ninja, jokester Naruto fails his final exam, but when a crisis occurs in the ninja village, he realizes that he has what it takes to become a ninja.

Ninja-in-training Naruto must abandon his jokester ways when he receives his first assignment to protect a famous bridge builder.

After many adventures, the time has come for Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke to face their most difficult challenge yet--the chunin examination that will determine whether they are ready to become journeymen, the next level of ninja.

As the Chunin Exams begin, Naruto is surprised to find that the first is a written test, and if he cannot control his wisecracking ways he and his friends will remain junior ninjas for another year.

In the second part of the chunin ninja exams, a fierce monster named Orochimaru disguises himself and infiltrates the Forest of Death along with the other junior ninjas.