Episode Summaries

Baki knocks aggressively on the door of Kankurō and Temari’s room, lecturing them about not watching over their brother Gaara. They go to Gaara's room and are surprised to find him missing. Naruto wakes up and learns that he has been asleep for three days, and the Chūnin Exams finals are the next day. Shikamaru gives Naruto a fruit basket originally intended for Chōji, who has been hospitalised for indigestion, having eaten too much. Sakura goes to Lee's room and replaces the flower. As Chōji complains of his hunger, Ino walks in with a fruit basket for him.

Gaara enters Lee's room and attempts to kill him while he is unconscious, but Naruto and Shikamaru immediately stop him. Incapacitated by Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique, Gaara divulges a little bit about his past, revealing he has a sand demon named Shukaku sealed within him from birth, and was created solely as a weapon for his village. Though he became too unpredictable, and his father sent assassins after him regularly, to put an end to the threat. He failed at the very purpose he was given life, and can now only hurt others. Naruto sympathises, as he also has a demon within him. He attempts to kill the two of them, but Guy steps in and demands Gaara to leave at once. Gaara has no choice but to do so, but before doing it, he promises that he'll kill them all.