Please note: The majority of this summary is simply common Naruto knowledge save about the very last paragraph oO Just so you know, I'm summarizing Not writing about it. This summary is here really only for those who enjoy Naruto but havn't gotten far enough into the series to get to the Valley Of End scene yet.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the other characters off the show. If I did the English dub voice actor for Naruto would be fired to be replaced by the Japanese(who now knows english) voice actor. Also Sakura would be dead.
Copyrights: Uhm... Subaki. No stealing her. She's mine, my own, my preccioouusssss. oo Uh, Wow! Yes, that was weird. Ok then.
Many years ago, a great demon fox rose up against the village of Konoha. For days the village's shinobi fought in what seemed like a loosing battle. Finally the Yondaime, the fourth Hokage, sealed the powerful demon in the body of a newborn infant, giving up his own life in the process. It was his final wish, that this child would be the savour of his village.
For many years the child grew, without a family, shunned by all the villagers without the knowledge of why. Enrolling in the Ninja Academy, he failed his graduation exam repeatedly. After failing again he was deceived into stealing an important scroll of the Sandaime, the third Hokage. He was then informed that he was the carrier for the Demon Fox, Kyubbi. After showing he was in fact worthy of the Shinobi headband he graduated along with his fellow classmates earning himself a place in the three Gennin teams to move on.
He was placed on a team with the Uchiha prodigy, Uchiha Sasuke, a long time rival, who he wouldn't admit he had grown attached to, Haruno Sakura, Naruto's crush (though he later grew out of it) and who cared a lot about Sasuke (stalker), with their Jounnin instructor, Hatake Kakashi, a reader of perverted novels with the tendency of being extremely late. (Because he continuously gets lost on the road of life… Or so he claims.)
During their Chunnin exam, Sasuke was given a curse mark by Orochimaru, one of the legendary Sennins, and later sought him out for power. In the mission to retrieve Sasuke, many of the boy's fellow Shinobi fell behind in battle, sending him ahead. The boy and the Uchiha then faced off in a grueling battle in the Valley of the End as Sasuke refused to return.
When Kakashi went in search of his lost students and came upon the field of their battle, it seemed like all hope was lost. He later returned to Konoha, much to the village's disappointment, without the Uchiha boy. Only a selected few among the villagers were affected by the loss that he also came back without Uzumaki Naruto.