The Tenth Question: All or Nothing!

Three quarters of an hour into the written test, Ibiki Morino declares the tenth question is coming and warns of a single unusual rule attached to it. Away in the Academy staff room, Kakashi, Asuma, and Kurenai weigh their students' odds, with the two men noting Ibiki's talent for interrogation and reading people. Back in the hall, Ibiki lays out the trap: skip the question and the whole team is out, but answer it wrong and the candidate is banned from the Chūnin Exams for life. A number of teams fold and walk away rather than gamble everything.

With no answers to the first nine and little hope for the tenth, Naruto wavers, then loudly swears he will not be scared off and will become Hokage even if he stays a genin forever. His outburst steadies the remaining candidates, and Ibiki passes everyone who stayed, explaining the earlier questions gauged information-gathering while the last one measured nerve. Anko Mitarashi bursts through the window to announce herself as the next examiner, and afterward Ibiki grins over Naruto's blank sheet, amused to have passed a boy who wrote nothing at all.

Episode 25 of the original series is part of the Chūnin Exams arc and covers chapters 43 and 44. It aired in Japan on March 27, 2003, and in English on February 25, 2006. The opening theme is R★O★C★K★S and the ending theme is Wind. The episode closes with the hopefuls assembling outside the Forest of Death.