439 : Jiraiya Ninja Scrolls: The Tale Of Naruto... Today

In this reimagined version of the story, Jiraiya tries to help Naruto control the Nine-Tails' power by weakening his seal, leading to a confrontation where Naruto enters his dangerous four-tailed form .

Meanwhile, the other genin (the Hidden Leaf Twelve) are struggling against an army of puppets controlled by Sasori .

While in the four-tailed state, Naruto experiences a vision of training with his father, Minato Namikaze, to learn the Rasengan . This memory helps him regain focus and suppress the Nine-Tails' chakra on his own .

The Jiraiya Ninja Scrolls arc (episodes 432–450) explores a "what-if" scenario where key tragedies never happened—such as Minato and Kushina being alive—though it still hits major plot beats from the original series, like the search for Sasuke and the threat of the Akatsuki .

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The episode ends with a significant twist for this fictional story: Neji Hyuga confronts a mysterious masked man and addresses him as his father, Hizashi Hyuga . Arc Context

Naruto arrives just in time with hundreds of shadow clones, each wielding a Rasengan, to obliterate the puppet army and force Sasori to retreat .