A Failure's True Power

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A Failure's True Power
Premiere date: 10 December 2003
Episode Length: 24.5 minutes
Episode Code: 062
Episode Airdate: Flag of Japan 10 December 2003

Flag of United States 18 November 2006

Flag of Germany 21 March 2007
Manga Arc: Chūnin Exam

A Failure's True Power (Japanese: 落ちこぼれの底力! - Ochikobore no Sokojikara!) is episode 62 of the anime series Naruto. The episode's storyline is from the Chuunin Exam manga arc. It details the conclusion between the Naruto and Neji fight.

[edit] Plot

Neji is finished explaining the fate of the Hyūga branch house. Even though Neji is extremely talented, he is doomed to the fate that binds all branch family members. Neji accuses Naruto that Naruto will never understand what it is like to have a mark that cannot be erased.

Naruto responds that he understands what that is like perfectly, but so what? Only cowards go blaming everything on fate. Naruto then states that when Neji fought so hard against Hinata, a main family member, he was actually fighting fate, just like Naruto.

Naruto knows, even as he says this, that he is feeling no chakra at all. He suddenly remembers Jiraiya telling him that he has two different kinds of chakra, and Naruto realized that his only hope now is to use the Nine Tailed Fox's chakra. Naruto concentrates on the familiar feeling of no chakra, and reaches within himself, telling the fox to give him chakra.

Naruto feels that the fox has awakened, and tries to mold chakra, but Neji says that it is pointless. Naruto still tries, and Neji asks why Naruto tries so hard. Naruto responds that it was because Neji called him a failure. Suddenly, the fox's chakra is awakened, and begins to open the tenketsu points again. Chakra begins to leak out of Naruto once more, surprising Neji. Neji uses the Byakugan, and sees an ungodly amount of chakra. Neji also sees the red chakra in Naruto taking form. The chakra takes on the form of the demon fox's head, and Neji says" What is that". Naruto's injuries heal near instantaneously, and the chakra is flowing out in a flashy display of red. Neji says "swirling chakra amazing". Neji is unsure of what is happening, asking himself if what he was seeing could possibly be chakra. However, all the adult shinobi of Konoha know immediately that this is the Kyūbi's chakra, and they are astonished that Naruto has somehow learned how to control it.

The chakra begins to wrap around Naruto, who tells Neji that its time to begin. Naruto's speed has increased tremendously, and Neji could barely keep up with Naruto. Finally, Naruto charges head on, telling Neji that if Neji doesn't want to do anything, Naruto himself will change the Hyūga's fate when he becomes Hokage. Neji could tell that Naruto was charging with too great of a force, and begins the Kaiten. When they meet, a large explosion occurs, rocking the entire stadium.

When the dust clears, there are two large craters. Neji suddenly climbs out of one, and sees an unconscious Naruto in the other crater. Tenten remarks to herself that no Genin could defeat Neji, but Naruto was amazing, and actually made Neji get serious. Neji was about to give one last word about the unchanging nature of fate, when suddenly, Naruto comes out from the ground and gets a direct hit onto Neji's chin. Naruto had used a Shadow Clone to cover the tunnel he had dug to get underground, which he used to get a surprise attack on Neji (ironically the only direct hit he got throughout the fight). Depleted of all his chakra, Neji is unable to stand up and continue the fight. Neji comments he got careless against Naruto's favorite technique but Naruto reveals that he failed the graduation exam three times due to the exam being based on the technique he was bad at: The Bunshin no Jutsu, which is the simpler and less advanced version of the Kage Bunshin, the technique he just used to beat Neji. Naruto then tells Neji to stop complaining about fate as he's not a failure as Naruto is. Naruto is then declared the winner of the match.

[edit] Trivia

  • In the dub version of this episode, when Naruto talks about the Clone Jutsu (illusion clone) that the academy final exam was based on, he mistakenly refers to it as the Shadow Clone Jutsu (solid clone).
  • In the manga,right after Hinata is healed, Kabuto knocks out Kiba. In the anime, Kiba is knocked out in Episode 66.
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