Episode
Naruto: Mission: Help an Old Friend in the Land of Tea
Overview
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke find out their newest mission will be without Kakashi who has responsibilities elsewhere. Tsunade sends them to the Tea Country to protect someone, but the details are vague at best. Along the way they meet Idate Morino who causes the group a lot of trouble, especially when they discover who they have to protect!
Details
- Series
- Naruto
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 102
- Air date
- 2004-09-22
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Mission: Help an Old Friend in the Land of Tea is Episode 102 in Season 2 of Naruto. It aired on 2004-09-22. The runtime is 24 min.
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