Naruto Manga

Categories           : action, adventure, anime, comedy, drama,fantasy,      
                             shounen
Author                 : Masashi Kishimoto
Artist                   : Masashi Kishimoto
Original Publisher : Shueisha
US Publisher        : Viz Media
Start Date            : 1999
Chapters              : 607 to 608 -609  - ongoing - weekly

Summary

Twelve years before the events at the focus of the series, the nine-tailed demon fox attacked Konohagakure. It was a powerful demon indeed; a single swing of one of its nine tails would raise tsunamis and flatten mountains. It raised chaos and slaughtered many people, until the leader of the Leaf Village - the Fourth Hokage - defeated it by sacrificing his own life to seal the demon inside a newly-born child, whose origins are as yet unknown. That child's name was Naruto Uzumaki.