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** He also reveals during that same chapter that he has started learning [[spoiler: the HIRAISHIN]].
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* Kabuto attempts to kidnap Hinata with only the crippled [[spoiler: and dying]] Haruki and Chie to stand against him. [[TakingYouWithMe In one final strike]] Haruki brings down Kabuto. Badass.
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* Kabuto attempts to kidnap Hinata with only the crippled [[spoiler: and dying]] dying Haruki and Chie to stand against him. [[TakingYouWithMe In one final strike]] Haruki brings down Kabuto. Badass.
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* Jiraiya basically calls Danzō a coward right to his face and gets away with it. [[spoiler: It even comes back later when Jiraiya becomes Hokage by him reminding everyone that Danzō did not help to fight off the invasion]].
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* Jiraiya basically calls Danzō a coward right to his face and gets away with it. [[spoiler: It even comes back later when Jiraiya becomes Hokage by him reminding everyone that Danzō did not help to fight off the invasion]].invasion.
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* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why the Kyūbi had such an influence on Naruto]].
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* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why the Kyūbi had such an influence on Naruto]].Naruto.
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* Samui, as a genin during the chūnin exams, is the first to really strike a blow against Gaara, and hen she realizes it was not quite enough, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm she surrenders]].
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* Samui, as a genin during the chūnin exams, is the first to really strike a blow against Gaara, and hen when she realizes it was not quite enough, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm she surrenders]].
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* Despite running on fumes, Naruto manages on last contribution to the battle when he disruptes the Four Violet Flames barrier long enough for a sage-mode Jiraiya to get in.
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* Despite running on fumes, Naruto manages on one last contribution to the battle when he disruptes disrupts the Four Violet Flames barrier long enough for a sage-mode Jiraiya to get in.
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* Kankurō's willingness to face down Sasori when he tries to take Naruto and Garaa away, despite being even younger than he was in canon when a similar event occurred.
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* Kankurō's willingness to face down Sasori when he tries to take Naruto and Garaa Gaara away, despite being even younger than he was in canon when a similar event occurred.
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* Shikamaru besting Chojuro could definitely count seeing as the later eventually became Mizukage in canon.
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* Shikamaru besting Chojuro could definitely count seeing as the later latter eventually became Mizukage in canon.
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* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battles Gaara and lays him low even after he transforms. He then creates an entirely new seal to contain the Ichibi and help restore Gaara's sanity.
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* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battles Gaara and lays him low out even after he transforms. He then creates an entirely new seal to contain the Ichibi and help restore Gaara's sanity.
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* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is a jinchūriki, she verbally tears her mother a new one.
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* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is a jinchūriki, jinchūriki and that she blamed him for her brother dying during the Kyūbi attack, she verbally tears her mother a new one.one. When her mother refuses to see Naruto any differently, Ino, [[TranquilFury in a tone as cold as ice]], refers to her mother by name and leaves the clan compound.
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* Haku defeating Sasuke even when the later uses Chidori.
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* Haku defeating Sasuke even when the later latter uses Chidori.
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** He also reveals during that same chapter that he has started learning [[the HIRAISHIN]].
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** He also reveals during that same chapter that he has started learning [[the [[spoiler: the HIRAISHIN]].
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** [[He also reveals that he was behind the disappearance of several members of the Hyūga clan who sough to kill Hinata, including one of the elders]].
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** [[He [[spoiler: He also reveals that he was behind the disappearance of several members of the Hyūga clan who sough to kill Hinata, including one of the elders]].
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It's a Naruto fanfic so these are quite common.
* Right out the gate, Naruto helping to save Hinata. When they are six and she's been kidnapped by Kumo's equivalent of Shikaku Nara. And more telling, he had the opportunity to escape alone but he stayed to help her. And then Hiruzen showed up.
* Right out the gate, Naruto helping to save Hinata. When they are six and she's been kidnapped by Kumo's equivalent of Shikaku Nara. And more telling, he had the opportunity to escape alone but he stayed to help her. And then Hiruzen showed up.
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* Right out the gate, Naruto helping to save Hinata. When they are six and
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* How does Naruto reveal that he has the toad summoning contract to Team 7? By summoning Gamaken to demolish a bunch of boulders that they've been ordered to clear.
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* How does Naruto reveal that he has the toad summoning contract to Team 7? By summoning Gamaken to demolish a bunch of boulders that they've they have been ordered to clear.
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** He takes out one of the Demon Brothers with one seal
** He annihilates Gato's army with his own composed of shadow clones
** He takes down Haku with pure overwhelming power
** He annihilates Gato's army with his own composed of shadow clones
** He takes down Haku with pure overwhelming power
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** He takes out one of the Demon Brothers with one seal
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** He annihilates Gato's army with his own composed of shadowclones
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** He takes down Haku with pure overwhelmingpowerpower.
** He annihilates Gato's army with his own composed of shadow
** He takes down Haku with pure overwhelming
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* Both Hinata and Kiba prove to be excellent teammates for Naruto when they immediately declare that Naruto being a jinchuriki doesn't matter to them.
* Naruto seals Sasuke's Cursed Seal. That's how skilled he has become with fuinjutsu by the chunin exams.
* Naruto seals Sasuke's Cursed Seal. That's how skilled he has become with fuinjutsu by the chunin exams.
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* Both Hinata and Kiba prove to be excellent teammates for Naruto when they immediately declare that Naruto being a jinchuriki doesn't jinchūriki does not matter to them.
* Naruto seals Sasuke's Cursed Seal.That's That is how skilled he has become with fuinjutsu fūinjutsu by the chunin chūnin exams.
* Naruto seals Sasuke's Cursed Seal.
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* Kiba comes very close to beating SASUKE. If the later hadn't gotten lucky in choosing between him and a henge'd Akamaru to use genjtsu on, then the next attack would've finished him off.
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* Kiba comes very close to beating SASUKE. If the later hadn't had not gotten lucky in choosing between him and a henge'd Henged Akamaru to use genjtsu on, then the next attack would've would have finished him off.
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* Samui, as a genin during the chunin exams, is the first to really strike a blow against Garaa.And hen she realizes it wasn't quite enough, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm she surrenders]].
* As Naruto himself puts it, his battle with Neji isn't a fight, it's a punishment; the latter is pretty much just used as a pinball. And he was holding back.
** [[He also reveals that he was behind the disappearance of several members of the Hyuuga clan who sough to kill Hinata, including one of the elders]].
* Haku defeating Sasuke even when the later uses chidori.
* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battles Garaa and lays him low even after he transforms. He then creates an entirely new seal to contain the Ichibi and help restore Garaa sanity.
* As Naruto himself puts it, his battle with Neji isn't a fight, it's a punishment; the latter is pretty much just used as a pinball. And he was holding back.
** [[He also reveals that he was behind the disappearance of several members of the Hyuuga clan who sough to kill Hinata, including one of the elders]].
* Haku defeating Sasuke even when the later uses chidori.
* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battles Garaa and lays him low even after he transforms. He then creates an entirely new seal to contain the Ichibi and help restore Garaa sanity.
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* Samui, as a genin during the chunin chūnin exams, is the first to really strike a blow against Garaa.And Gaara, and hen she realizes it wasn't was not quite enough, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm she surrenders]].
* As Naruto himself puts it, his battle with Nejiisn't is not a fight, it's it is a punishment; the latter is pretty much just used as a pinball. And pinball, and he was holding back.
** [[He also reveals that he was behind the disappearance of several members of theHyuuga Hyūga clan who sough to kill Hinata, including one of the elders]].
* Haku defeating Sasuke even when the later useschidori.
Chidori.
* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battlesGaraa Gaara and lays him low even after he transforms. He then creates an entirely new seal to contain the Ichibi and help restore Garaa Gaara's sanity.
* As Naruto himself puts it, his battle with Neji
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* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battles
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* Kankuro's willingness to face down Sasori when he tries to take Naruto and Garaa away, despite being even younger than he was in canon when a similar event occurred.
* Yugito Ni proves just why Akatsuki prefers to operate in pairs when hunting jinchuriki. She and the Nibi utterly devastate Sasori.
* Mei Terumi almost single-handedly reverses Konoha's opinion of Mist by helping defend the village from Oto.
* Yugito Ni proves just why Akatsuki prefers to operate in pairs when hunting jinchuriki. She and the Nibi utterly devastate Sasori.
* Mei Terumi almost single-handedly reverses Konoha's opinion of Mist by helping defend the village from Oto.
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* Kankuro's Kankurō's willingness to face down Sasori when he tries to take Naruto and Garaa away, despite being even younger than he was in canon when a similar event occurred.
* YugitoNi Nii proves just why Akatsuki prefers to operate in pairs when hunting jinchuriki.jinchūriki. She and the Nibi utterly devastate Sasori.
* MeiTerumi Terumī almost single-handedly reverses Konoha's opinion of Mist by helping defend the village from Oto.
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* Jiraiya basically calls Danzo a coward right to his face and gets away with it. [[spoiler: It even comes back later when Jiraiya becomes Hokage by him reminding everyone that Danzo didn't help to fight off the invasion]].
* Naruto gets a promotion to chunin. When Danzo protests, Hiruzen tells him to shut up and says that if Naruto isn't promoted because of the exams, then he's getting a battlefield promotion because of his actions during the invasion.
* Itachi thinks that if Naruto becomes a fully trained jinhuriki, the result would terrify even him.
* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is a jinchuriki, she verbally tears her mother a new one.
* When Naruto gets interrogated by the Hyuuga Elders for him killing several main family members, Naruto shuts them up by asking if they approve of the attempts to kill Hinata
* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why the kyuubi had such an influence on Naruto]].
* It takes the combined efforts of Tayuya, Jirobo, Sakon, and Ukon (with the latter three all using the second stage of their Cursed Marks) to bring down Kakashi, and he still kills Ukon is the process.
* The Sasuke Retrieval Arc culminates in Sage!Mode Jiraiya facing off against Orochimaru, and thoroughly whooping his ass. First he takes out Manda in one attack and then manages to take the Sword of Kusanagi from Orochy. Orochimaru even concedes that Jiraia could very well be a match for Pein.
* Naruto gets a promotion to chunin. When Danzo protests, Hiruzen tells him to shut up and says that if Naruto isn't promoted because of the exams, then he's getting a battlefield promotion because of his actions during the invasion.
* Itachi thinks that if Naruto becomes a fully trained jinhuriki, the result would terrify even him.
* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is a jinchuriki, she verbally tears her mother a new one.
* When Naruto gets interrogated by the Hyuuga Elders for him killing several main family members, Naruto shuts them up by asking if they approve of the attempts to kill Hinata
* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why the kyuubi had such an influence on Naruto]].
* It takes the combined efforts of Tayuya, Jirobo, Sakon, and Ukon (with the latter three all using the second stage of their Cursed Marks) to bring down Kakashi, and he still kills Ukon is the process.
* The Sasuke Retrieval Arc culminates in Sage!Mode Jiraiya facing off against Orochimaru, and thoroughly whooping his ass. First he takes out Manda in one attack and then manages to take the Sword of Kusanagi from Orochy. Orochimaru even concedes that Jiraia could very well be a match for Pein.
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* Jiraiya basically calls Danzo Danzō a coward right to his face and gets away with it. [[spoiler: It even comes back later when Jiraiya becomes Hokage by him reminding everyone that Danzo didn't Danzō did not help to fight off the invasion]].
* Naruto gets a promotion tochunin. chūnin. When Danzo Danzō protests, Hiruzen tells him to shut up and says that if Naruto isn't promoted because of the exams, then he's he is getting a battlefield promotion because of his actions during the invasion.
* Itachi thinks that if Naruto becomes a fully trainedjinhuriki, jinchūriki, the result would terrify even him.
* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is ajinchuriki, jinchūriki, she verbally tears her mother a new one.
* When Naruto gets interrogated by theHyuuga Hyūga Elders for him killing several main family members, Naruto shuts them up by asking if they approve of the attempts to kill Hinata
Hinata.
* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why thekyuubi Kyūbi had such an influence on Naruto]].
* It takes the combined efforts of Tayuya,Jirobo, Jirōbō, Sakon, and Ukon (with the latter three all using the second stage of their Cursed Marks) to bring down Kakashi, and he still kills Ukon is the process.
* The Sasuke Retrieval Arc culminates in Sage!Mode Jiraiya facing off against Orochimaru, and thoroughly whooping his ass. First he takes out Manda in one attack and then manages to take the Sword of Kusanagi from Orochy. Orochimaru even concedes thatJiraia Jiraiya could very well be a match for Pein.
* Naruto gets a promotion to
* Itachi thinks that if Naruto becomes a fully trained
* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is a
* When Naruto gets interrogated by the
* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why the
* It takes the combined efforts of Tayuya,
* The Sasuke Retrieval Arc culminates in Sage!Mode Jiraiya facing off against Orochimaru, and thoroughly whooping his ass. First he takes out Manda in one attack and then manages to take the Sword of Kusanagi from Orochy. Orochimaru even concedes that
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It's a Naruto fanfic so these are quite common.
* Right out the gate, Naruto helping to save Hinata. When they are six and she's been kidnapped by Kumo's equivalent of Shikaku Nara. And more telling, he had the opportunity to escape alone but he stayed to help her. And then Hiruzen showed up.
* Naruto gets a bell from Kakashi during the bell test. That is all that needs to be said.
* How does Naruto reveal that he has the toad summoning contract to Team 7? By summoning Gamaken to demolish a bunch of boulders that they've been ordered to clear.
* Wave has a couple of good moments for Naruto:
** He takes out one of the Demon Brothers with one seal
** He annihilates Gato's army with his own composed of shadow clones
** He takes down Haku with pure overwhelming power
*** And to cap things off, he knocks-out Sasuke with one punch after he tries to fry Naruto and an unconscious Haku.
* Both Hinata and Kiba prove to be excellent teammates for Naruto when they immediately declare that Naruto being a jinchuriki doesn't matter to them.
* Naruto seals Sasuke's Cursed Seal. That's how skilled he has become with fuinjutsu by the chunin exams.
* Naruto beats Rock Lee during the preliminaries. Without doing any real harm.
* Shikamaru besting Chojuro could definitely count seeing as the later eventually became Mizukage in canon.
* Kiba comes very close to beating SASUKE. If the later hadn't gotten lucky in choosing between him and a henge'd Akamaru to use genjtsu on, then the next attack would've finished him off.
* Naruto forces Tsunade to fight him seriously.
** He also reveals during that same chapter that he has started learning [[the HIRAISHIN]].
* Samui, as a genin during the chunin exams, is the first to really strike a blow against Garaa.And hen she realizes it wasn't quite enough, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm she surrenders]].
* As Naruto himself puts it, his battle with Neji isn't a fight, it's a punishment; the latter is pretty much just used as a pinball. And he was holding back.
** [[He also reveals that he was behind the disappearance of several members of the Hyuuga clan who sough to kill Hinata, including one of the elders]].
* Haku defeating Sasuke even when the later uses chidori.
* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battles Garaa and lays him low even after he transforms. He then creates an entirely new seal to contain the Ichibi and help restore Garaa sanity.
* For a villainous contribution, Sasori takes control of dozens of Konoha shinobi to use as puppets.
* Kankuro's willingness to face down Sasori when he tries to take Naruto and Garaa away, despite being even younger than he was in canon when a similar event occurred.
* Yugito Ni proves just why Akatsuki prefers to operate in pairs when hunting jinchuriki. She and the Nibi utterly devastate Sasori.
* Mei Terumi almost single-handedly reverses Konoha's opinion of Mist by helping defend the village from Oto.
* Kabuto attempts to kidnap Hinata with only the crippled [[spoiler: and dying]] Haruki and Chie to stand against him. [[TakingYouWithMe In one final strike]] Haruki brings down Kabuto. Badass.
* Despite running on fumes, Naruto manages on last contribution to the battle when he disruptes the Four Violet Flames barrier long enough for a sage-mode Jiraiya to get in.
* Jiraiya basically calls Danzo a coward right to his face and gets away with it. [[spoiler: It even comes back later when Jiraiya becomes Hokage by him reminding everyone that Danzo didn't help to fight off the invasion]].
* Naruto gets a promotion to chunin. When Danzo protests, Hiruzen tells him to shut up and says that if Naruto isn't promoted because of the exams, then he's getting a battlefield promotion because of his actions during the invasion.
* Itachi thinks that if Naruto becomes a fully trained jinhuriki, the result would terrify even him.
* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is a jinchuriki, she verbally tears her mother a new one.
* When Naruto gets interrogated by the Hyuuga Elders for him killing several main family members, Naruto shuts them up by asking if they approve of the attempts to kill Hinata
* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why the kyuubi had such an influence on Naruto]].
* It takes the combined efforts of Tayuya, Jirobo, Sakon, and Ukon (with the latter three all using the second stage of their Cursed Marks) to bring down Kakashi, and he still kills Ukon is the process.
* The Sasuke Retrieval Arc culminates in Sage!Mode Jiraiya facing off against Orochimaru, and thoroughly whooping his ass. First he takes out Manda in one attack and then manages to take the Sword of Kusanagi from Orochy. Orochimaru even concedes that Jiraia could very well be a match for Pein.
* Right out the gate, Naruto helping to save Hinata. When they are six and she's been kidnapped by Kumo's equivalent of Shikaku Nara. And more telling, he had the opportunity to escape alone but he stayed to help her. And then Hiruzen showed up.
* Naruto gets a bell from Kakashi during the bell test. That is all that needs to be said.
* How does Naruto reveal that he has the toad summoning contract to Team 7? By summoning Gamaken to demolish a bunch of boulders that they've been ordered to clear.
* Wave has a couple of good moments for Naruto:
** He takes out one of the Demon Brothers with one seal
** He annihilates Gato's army with his own composed of shadow clones
** He takes down Haku with pure overwhelming power
*** And to cap things off, he knocks-out Sasuke with one punch after he tries to fry Naruto and an unconscious Haku.
* Both Hinata and Kiba prove to be excellent teammates for Naruto when they immediately declare that Naruto being a jinchuriki doesn't matter to them.
* Naruto seals Sasuke's Cursed Seal. That's how skilled he has become with fuinjutsu by the chunin exams.
* Naruto beats Rock Lee during the preliminaries. Without doing any real harm.
* Shikamaru besting Chojuro could definitely count seeing as the later eventually became Mizukage in canon.
* Kiba comes very close to beating SASUKE. If the later hadn't gotten lucky in choosing between him and a henge'd Akamaru to use genjtsu on, then the next attack would've finished him off.
* Naruto forces Tsunade to fight him seriously.
** He also reveals during that same chapter that he has started learning [[the HIRAISHIN]].
* Samui, as a genin during the chunin exams, is the first to really strike a blow against Garaa.And hen she realizes it wasn't quite enough, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm she surrenders]].
* As Naruto himself puts it, his battle with Neji isn't a fight, it's a punishment; the latter is pretty much just used as a pinball. And he was holding back.
** [[He also reveals that he was behind the disappearance of several members of the Hyuuga clan who sough to kill Hinata, including one of the elders]].
* Haku defeating Sasuke even when the later uses chidori.
* In probably the first time we see him going all-out, Naruto battles Garaa and lays him low even after he transforms. He then creates an entirely new seal to contain the Ichibi and help restore Garaa sanity.
* For a villainous contribution, Sasori takes control of dozens of Konoha shinobi to use as puppets.
* Kankuro's willingness to face down Sasori when he tries to take Naruto and Garaa away, despite being even younger than he was in canon when a similar event occurred.
* Yugito Ni proves just why Akatsuki prefers to operate in pairs when hunting jinchuriki. She and the Nibi utterly devastate Sasori.
* Mei Terumi almost single-handedly reverses Konoha's opinion of Mist by helping defend the village from Oto.
* Kabuto attempts to kidnap Hinata with only the crippled [[spoiler: and dying]] Haruki and Chie to stand against him. [[TakingYouWithMe In one final strike]] Haruki brings down Kabuto. Badass.
* Despite running on fumes, Naruto manages on last contribution to the battle when he disruptes the Four Violet Flames barrier long enough for a sage-mode Jiraiya to get in.
* Jiraiya basically calls Danzo a coward right to his face and gets away with it. [[spoiler: It even comes back later when Jiraiya becomes Hokage by him reminding everyone that Danzo didn't help to fight off the invasion]].
* Naruto gets a promotion to chunin. When Danzo protests, Hiruzen tells him to shut up and says that if Naruto isn't promoted because of the exams, then he's getting a battlefield promotion because of his actions during the invasion.
* Itachi thinks that if Naruto becomes a fully trained jinhuriki, the result would terrify even him.
* When Ino realizes that all of her mother's negative talk about Naruto was because he is a jinchuriki, she verbally tears her mother a new one.
* When Naruto gets interrogated by the Hyuuga Elders for him killing several main family members, Naruto shuts them up by asking if they approve of the attempts to kill Hinata
* Hiruzen uses the Death Reaper Seal to restore Naruto's seal. [[spoiler: In actuality, he completes it as it is revealed that the original seal was incomplete, explaining why the kyuubi had such an influence on Naruto]].
* It takes the combined efforts of Tayuya, Jirobo, Sakon, and Ukon (with the latter three all using the second stage of their Cursed Marks) to bring down Kakashi, and he still kills Ukon is the process.
* The Sasuke Retrieval Arc culminates in Sage!Mode Jiraiya facing off against Orochimaru, and thoroughly whooping his ass. First he takes out Manda in one attack and then manages to take the Sword of Kusanagi from Orochy. Orochimaru even concedes that Jiraia could very well be a match for Pein.
