When ninja with rare bloodline abilities start vanishing from the hidden villages of Cloud, Stone, Mist, and Sand, suspicion falls on Konohagakure as the only village untouched by the disappearances, and the Fire Daimyo orders Tsunade to produce the real culprit or watch the village be destroyed. A curse the rogue ninja Hiruko planted on Kakashi Hatake years earlier then forces him out of Konoha, and Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno set off after him. This light novel retells Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire.