03/03 - 451 - Itachi Shinden-hen - Light and Darkness: Life is Born, Life Dies
03/10 - 452 - Itachi Shinden-hen - Light and Darkness: The Genius
03/17 - 453 - Itachi Shinden-hen - Light and Darkness: Pain of Life
03/24 - 454 - Itachi Shinden-hen - Light and Darkness: Shisui’s Request
03/31 - NO EPISODE
04/07 - 455 - Itachi Shinden-hen - Light and Darkness: Moonlit Night


The month of March has begun and with it comes a brand new arc telling the story of Itachi Uchiha. We’ll see the life of this prodigy from the beginning when he was a child, to his time at the academy where he met best friend Shisui Uchiha, as a genin going on missions battling ninja cats, and all the way up to an encounter with the ANBU Black Ops.

These episodes will be based on two official books released in Japan – The True Legend of Itachi: Glory and The True Legend of Itachi: Dark Night. The books were not written by Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto, but as far as we know, and we could be wrong here, they are considered to be a part of the official story.
its still filler to me


#453 (March 17) - Pain of Life
Itachi who had graduated from the Academy and became a genin, he teamed up with his comrades Tenma Izumo and Shinko Inari and their team led by a jonin-ranked shinobi Yuki Minazuki. Their first mission was requested by Nekobaa (The granny cat and Tamaki's grandma) was to look for the stray cats. But they're not ordinary cats, they are ninja cats.

#453 (March 24) - Shisui's Request
Itachi was getting some practices as a request by his best friend, Shisui. The practices were three, the first one was to explore the whereabouts of the fugitive, and the second one was to encamp at night. Itachi learned many things from Shisui and their bond became stronger. And in the end of their practices, Shisui and Itachi came across the Root Anbu for their combat with the Hokage.

#454 (April 7) - Moonlit Night
Due to his great abilites, Itachi became an Anbu captain and took the orders directly from Danzo rather than Hiruzen to preserve his position. However, later he was forced to act as a double agent to monitor the coup of his clan.