Recap Episode: The Hidden Village of Konoha has trained many good ninjas. Enter Naruto, number one troublemaker. His favorite technique is Sexy no Jutsu. He is also the Nine-Tails Demon Fox who brought the Hidden Village of Konoha to the brink of destruction. That Nine-Tails Demon Fox is sealed inside him. As a result, all the villagers are afraid of him. One day, Naruto graduated ninja school and joined a three ninja team with Sasuke and Sakura which is guided by Kakashi.
One day, the three ninjas left the village to accompany bridge builder, Tazuna, to the Country of Wave. Unfortunately, a man named Gatou sent an assassin after Tazuna, giving the team some trouble. But through their teamwork, they got through the assassination attempt and managed to defeat Zabuza. A Hunter-nin finished off Zabuza and took his corpse, but the boy was really one of Zabuza’s allies and nursed him back to health. Sensing that Zabuza was still alive, Kakashi trained his young ninja’s hard so that when they meet again, they will be ready.
Present: Naruto enters the game making an elaborate show but rescuing Sasuke in the process. Haku recognizes him as the boy he talked to earlier that morning, and as Zabuza attacks with several ninja stars, Haku throws several needles to counter the attack. Kakashi reprimands Naruto for not being more deceptive and surprising the enemy. By appearing in front of the enemy, he only sets himself up as a wide open target. Haku asks Zabuka to finish the fight his way. Zabuka agrees but tells him he’s going too easily on the enemy. Kakashi is ready to step in, but if he leaves, Tazuna will die. So the battle begins…
Naruto is pissed that Haku deceived them as a Hunter-nin. Haku refers to Kakashi when he repeats that duty of a ninja is to deceive and find an unguarded spot. He tells Naruto not to take it personally. Sasuke uses this opportunity to throw his shuriken at Haku, but he dodges it easily. Haku then decides to finish Sasuke first and re-enters the mirror. Sasuke still can’t figure out the mirror technique and soon is caught in the crossfire again. Both Sasuke and Kakashi think that if Sasuke can attack from the inside while Naruto attacks from the outside, they might break the technique, but much to their dismay, Naruto enters the mirrors. Sasuke then has no choice but to use his fire technique: Blazing Fireballs, but it doesn’t melt the mirrors.
Haku attacks both the boys, which just frustrates Naruto, so he decides to use his shadow replication jutsu to go after all the mirrors. Haku destroys all the clones and explains that it is a traveling technique that utilizes mirror reflections that only reflect him. Kakashi explains that it’s just a Bloodline Limit technique, similar to his Sharingan. There are some techniques that are only passed through genetics, so even he can’t copy that technique. Naruto flips out and screams that he still has a dream. Haku flashes back to himself as a kid on the bridge when Zabuza befriended him. He then tells the boys that he doesn’t want to kill them, but if they are going to fight him, he has no choice. This bridge is a battleground for several people’s dreams. Haku will protect Zabuza to help him achieve his dreams.