Mirai's journey escorting Kakashi and Guy takes a more serious turn when their route is cut off by a massive landslide. Stopped at a village, Mirai meets Tatsumi, a young girl who lost her mother. She reveals to Mirai that she is in this particular village because there is a hot spring nearby that can bring the dead back to life. Although hesitant at first, Mirai decides to join Tatsumi and visit this hot spring for a chance to be reunited with her father Asuma Sarutobi, whom she only knows from the memories of others. What she finds is anything but the miracle hot spring she was hoping for-instead, she discovers the very cult that killed her father! For teen audiences. About The Series : Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto. It tells the story of Naruto Uzumaki, a young ninja who seeks recognition from his peers and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the leader of his village. The story is told in two parts: the first is set in Naruto's pre-teen years, and the second in his teens. About The Author : Masashi Kishimoto was born in 1974 in rural Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Like many kids, he was first inspired to become a manga artist in elementary school when he read Dragon Ball. After spending time in art college, he won the Hop Step Award for new manga artists with his story Karakuri. After considering various genres for his next project, Kishimoto decided on a story steeped in traditional Japanese culture. His first version of Naruto, drawn in 1997, was a one-shot story about fox spirits; his final version, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999, quickly became the most popular ninja manga in the world.