Naruto is a manga written and illustrated by manga artist Masashi Kishimoto.
plot
Naruto Uzumaki is a ninja of the Leaf Village twelve year old with dreams of becoming Hokage, the ninja village of the most important. Naruto has spent his childhood in the margins and, during a confrontation with Mizuki, a traitor, is to find out why: he is sealed inside the Fox, the strongest of the nine cercoteri. After defeating Mizuki, Naruto is promoted to Genin ninja academy and is integrated in the Team 7 consists, besides him, by Kakashi Hatake, Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno. After various adventures, Sasuke abandons the village to train with Orochimaru and gain power to kill his brother Itachi who had previously cut off his clan and to which has long craved revenge. With Sasuke's escape ends the first animated series. The main villain so far is the traitor ninja Orochimaru.
The story starts again after about three years. Naruto returns to Hidden Leaf Village after a long training with Jiraiya (one of the three supreme Ninja along with Orochimaru and Tsunade). The story involves other enemies, or the Organization Alba, dedicated to the capture and imprisonment of the nine cercoteri, each sealed in a ninja. After killing his brother Itachi, Sasuke finds that the extermination of his clan, Uchiha, was commissioned by the council of elders of the Leaf Village. Therefore, it joins Alba, in exchange for this, to destroy the village. The story continues, then, with Naruto trying to escape and battle the Organization and to redeem his best friend, regarded by him as a brother.