Naruto Uzumaki
Naruto Uzumaki (うずまきナルト, Uzumaki Naruto) is the title character and main protagonist of the series: Naruto. He is a genin-level shinobi from Konohagakure, and a member of Team Kakashi. A maternal descendant of the Uzumaki clan, Naruto is the jinchūriki of the Yang half of Kurama — the Nine-Tails. Despite once being ostracised by the majority of the village, he is now regarded as a hero, worthy of inheriting the position his own father once held.Source: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Naruto_Uzumaki
Background
Naruto later enrolled at the Academy. In the anime, one day, he was confronted by Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Chōji Akimichi. They accused him of making someone named Yota, who was a stranger to the village, disappear. Seeing them look at him with such distrust like the rest of the village, Naruto grew furious and ran away, so angry that people would like even an outsider over him. He then heard a young boy crying who strangely appeared to control the weather, making it rain with his tears. Naruto then realised this boy must be Yota. Immediately taking a liking to Naruto, the young boy asked him to teach him how to whistle like he saw Naruto do earlier. As Naruto began teaching him, the two soon became close friends. Later, Naruto and Yota began playing along with other the Konoha children that knew about Yota. One day, while playing a game of hiding, Yota insisted to hide with Naruto. When Naruto told him to hide somewhere else, Yota mistakenly thought Naruto didn't like him anymore and ran away crying. His crying caused another rainshower, which alerted the ANBU. As they took Yota captive, Naruto and the others tried to stop the ANBU, but to no success.[13]
Determined to save his first ever friend, Naruto and the others staged a plan with Naruto acting as a diversion. Despite finding Yota, the ANBU easily foiled their plan. Naruto quickly joined his friends, refusing to let Yota be kept prisoner. Seeing how much Naruto cared for him and then got struck down by the ANBU, Yota summoned bolts of lightning to knock the ANBU out. Greatly weakened by the act, Naruto carried Yota out of the village with the others, determined to bring him to freedom. Upon reaching a river, unable to walk over it yet, they chose to swim. Their attempts proved futile and nearly drowned, only to be saved by Yota. Having overtaxed himself, Yota felt his life fading. Happy to have had friends, Yota didn't want them to suffer with this sad memory and erased all knowledge of him from their minds.[14]
In the anime, when Naruto pulled a prank on a group of boys for not being invited to their "test of courage", he refused to return to the Academy after being glared at by Iruka with the same resentful stare everyone else gives him. Later, Naruto was tricked by the boys' leader, Hibachi, to get himself killed by enemy ninja in the hills. Learning of this, Iruka ended up saving Naruto from a trio of Takigakure kunochi before Kakashi Hatake dispatched their pursuers. Soon after, Naruto began attending class again at the time that Iruka, who now acted as a surrogate brother to keep the boy in line, gave a lecture on the Will of Fire that inspired Naruto to become the next Hokage someday to achieve the acknowledgement he is striving for.[18] Apart from Hiruzen and Iruka, Naruto also found a surrogate family with the owner of Ramen Ichiraku: Teuchi and his daughter Ayame to some extent.
Personality
According to Kakashi, Naruto learns through his body, as he is relatively naive, simple, and being slow to understand a principle or situation, which often requires an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp what is being explained to him.[22] Overall, Naruto responds best to competition and has a great deal of self-confidence, loudly proclaiming that he will master whatever technique he is learning within a fraction of the usual time,[23] though he doesn't hesitate to ask for help if he needs it.[24] While as naive as he appears to be throughout most of the series, Naruto has proven to have a keen eye to certain things most people don't see, showing that he can be smarter than what most people, especially Sakura, are willing to give him credit for when he wants to be, something even Chōji comments on once in a while. This was shown when Naruto was the first to notice the differences in Sai's book,[25] later helped to decipher Jiraiya's dying message left from Fukasaku on his back and managed to help solve the message through Kakashi's Icha Icha book.[26] He is also quite observant in regards to other people's feelings (though he was oblivious of Hinata's love for him until she confessed her feelings to him) and is able to perceive the truth from people's intentions, such as when Sakura claimed she loved him and not Sasuke any more, Naruto immediately knew she was lying about how she felt, having witnessed her most extreme and inimitable signs of love for Sasuke.[27] Naruto also saw through Iruka's lie about a new wild creature on the Island Turtle they were on by remembering Motoi stating that B had tamed all the animals on the island.[28]
Sasuke's defection shocked Naruto to his core, but he never wavered in his resolve to bring him back to Konoha. When his teacher Jiraiya was killed in battle by the Akatsuki leader Pain, he vowed vengeance against the man and left Konoha for a time to train in senjutsu.[34] Upon returning home after Pain destroyed the village and succumbing to rage, he met and spoke with his father, who explained to him the cycle of hatred and entrusted him with the duty of saving the ninja world from its hate.[35] After listening to Nagato's story of how hatred can shape a person and the world into darkness, Naruto vowed he would end the cycle of hatred and bring peace to the ninja world.[36] This decision, however, would come in direct opposition in his quest to bring Sasuke home, something that at first saddened him deeply.[37] Nevertheless, after meeting again in the Land of Iron, Naruto resolved that if he had to, he would fight and potentially kill his friend to end the cycle of hatred and save Sasuke from despair, even if it costs his own life.[38]
When he discovered that the Fourth Shinobi World War had started, Naruto made it his mission to end the war all by himself, so no one else would suffer.[39] He continued to do so until his battle with the reincarnated Nagato and Itachi Uchiha. After the fight, even though Itachi acknowledged Naruto had become stronger, he explained to Naruto that if he continued to believe that he could do everything alone, he would become arrogant like Madara. Itachi also said that if Naruto were to become Hokage, he should never forget his friends or do everything on his own.[40] Afterwards, Naruto acknowledged his shortcomings in his attempts to do things himself, and allowed others to help him instead of shouldering burdens himself.
After exposing Tobi's identity as Obito Uchiha and expressing disapproval of his nihilistic outlook on life, Naruto declares to Obito that he would not let him kill any of his comrades.[41] As a result, Obito resolved to put both him and the Allied Shinobi Forces into the same despair he experienced, namely by killing one of Naruto's friends, Neji Hyūga. This, along with Obito's diatribe towards Naruto and his beliefs, drove the young shinobi into a period of mental and emotional turmoil. Although nearly succumbing to Obito's temptation, Naruto was brought out of his depression by Hinata, who explained to him the meaning of Neji's last words that his life was not just his own, restoring his self-confidence as he thanked her for staying by his side.[42] Soon after, Naruto tells Kakashi and his comrades that he clearly understands that shinobi are meant to endure, believing that if remembering his friends was a curse, he would gladly shoulder that burden and keep the real Neji in his heart forever.[43] This shows how far Naruto has come as a shinobi and that he is above Obito's psychological warfare, telling him that unlike Obito, he wants to maintain the bonds he made with his friends.
Dark Naruto
He appeared once again after Naruto returned to the Falls of Truth. Instead of fighting, Naruto projected an image from his mind of his autograph signature that he was unable to give to the Konoha shinobi. This angered Dark Naruto, pointing out to Naruto that those people were part of the same villagers who made him suffer as an outcast, telling him that he shouldn't trust them. However, Naruto stated that he trusted the villagers because they were important to him, but what was also important was that he needed to have faith in himself, so he would have the strength to live up to the villagers' trust in him. Naruto's statement started to weaken Dark Naruto, forcing him to question what was the reason for his existence. Naruto stated that Dark Naruto was really him and thanked Dark Naruto for pushing him to be the person he was now. He hugged Dark Naruto when the latter tried to attack him, telling Dark Naruto that it was all going to be alright. Letting go of his own anger at their past, Dark Naruto's eyes lightened as he gave into Naruto's words, and disappeared.[46]
Later, when Naruto entered his subconscious, Kurama expressed surprise as it could no longer sense any hatred within Naruto, and questioned Naruto about where the "real him" was, to which Naruto replied that the real him was right in front of it.[47] During his battle with Kurama to obtain its power, the fox infected its chakra with its own hatred when Naruto started to gain the upper hand. This partially brought about Dark Naruto again briefly, before Naruto's mother appeared and helped banish him.[48][49]
Relationships
Main article: Naruto Uzumaki's Relationships Due to his friendly nature and his unique charisma, Naruto has built many relationships over the course of the series that have defined him and others, even tailed beasts and other jinchūriki. Many of these relationships started off antagonistic, but through his tenacity and empathy, they developed into deep and lasting friendships.Appearance
In Part I, Naruto's outfit consisted of an orange tracksuit with blue on the upper shoulders area as well as around the waist, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, a red swirl on the back, a large white collar, orange pants, blue sandals, and a blue forehead protector that was given to him by Iruka after he graduated from the Academy. Naruto sometimes wore armour underneath his clothing.[55]
When he enters his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, his body is covered in a yellow shroud of chakra, upon which his seal is clearly visible. He also gains a necklace of magatama around his neck. Finally his hair spikes up, with the two endmost locks resembling horns. After he and Kurama melded their chakra, his appearance changed once again. The shroud splits down the middle and opens up into a cloak that has a tattered appearance. The previously smaller 'horns' grow out larger, and his whisker marks become thicker. Underneath the 'coat', the magatama are still visible and he gains a new set around the 'collar' of the coat. Underneath this his seal changes once again opening out into circles instead of swirls. He also gains seals on his hands and feet. The cloak also has nine, tail-like appendages formed from the cloak and flowing from it with lines running down the middle of each.
Abilities
In Part I, Naruto was regularly noted to have a great deal of potential by among some of the strongest ninja like Kakashi Hatake, Kabuto Yakushi, and even the Sannin, proving himself as a late bloomer. Iruka remarked that Naruto could surpass all of the other previous Hokage, when he saw him use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to defeat Mizuki.[58] During the Chūnin Exams, much of the Konoha villagers were surprised and impressed by Naruto's victory over Neji Hyūga, who was reputed as a natural genius within his clan and said by Rock Lee to be the strongest genin to participate that year, even Gaara gained a desire to fight him after witnessing his victory. When Orochimaru saw him defeat Kabuto, he immediately took back his previous assessment of Naruto lacking potential and tried to kill Naruto for fear of what he would become.[59] Even Sasuke once began to grow irritated at how fast Naruto was catching up to him since the Chūnin Exams by not only being able to defeat Gaara whereas he couldn't, but also how he would have most likely lost to him if Kakashi didn't intervene with their match.
Much of Naruto's potential manifests itself during Part II, regularly proving himself a match for the S-rank members of Akatsuki. His victory over Nagato's Six Paths of Pain has earned him great accolade in the ninja world: Konoha villagers now even believe he is Hokage material after they hear about it, thereby earning him status on par with other renown ninja within Konoha.[60] Zetsu, after seeing the battle, even suggests that Naruto has become stronger than Sasuke, who also showed similar improvement against Akatsuki members.[61] Shikaku Nara also considered Naruto in a class of his own after learning senjutsu.[62] Naruto also gained the acknowledgement of other immensely powerful individuals such as Kurama, Madara Uchiha, even Tobirama Senju and Hashirama Senju.[63][64][65][66][67] Even his father Minato Namikaze commented Naruto had surpassed him in more ways he could have hoped. With further training and control of Kurama's power, he could hold his own against Kage of both the previous, and current generation on the battlefield.[68][69][70] In the anime, he was able to instantly defeat all of the Sound Four members despite their cursed seals being enhanced by their hatred.[71] After gaining Kurama's cooperation and further access to its full power, he could overwhelm three tailed beasts with ease while fighting alongside B in his full Eight-Tails form who handled the other two, and then equal the combined power of five tailed beasts with a single Tailed Beast Ball.[72] By the time he mastered how to transfer chakra, Kurama remarked he had surpassed his father, the Fourth Hokage.[73] Eventually, even the Ten-Tails began to see him as a threat when it started to see how Naruto resembles the Sage of the Six Paths from sensing the chakra of the other eight tailed beasts to the point where it powered itself up even more.[74] Upon witnessing his mastery of Sage Mode as well as his cooperation with his Flying Thunder God Technique, Tobirama compared Naruto directly to Hashirama Senju the God of Shinobi.[75] Tobirama later noted that Naruto could potentially become an even greater Hokage than his brother. Even Sasuke once again began to grow irritated at how far Naruto has come after witnessing his mastery of his jinchūriki and sage powers.[76]
Life Force and Chakra Control
Being a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, Naruto inherited an incredibly strong life-force. This gives him a potentially long lifespan, stemming from his stamina and vitality. Despite his young age, Naruto has been repeatedly noted to have a massive reserve of exceptionally strong chakra, to which Kakashi, estimated it to be at least four times greater than his own following Naruto's training with Jiraiya.[77] It also gives Naruto a degree of accelerated healing (which was originally accredited to Kurama's power), recovering from minor injuries within seconds and major injuries within a day.[78][79] This allows Naruto to use many highly advanced and chakra-taxing techniques for considerable periods of time before finally collapsing, compensating for his lack of chakra control. The most prominent example of this is shown during the Fourth Shinobi World War, where he used his various modes and techniques through his clones against many powerful opponents for a full night and day, up to the second night of the war. As Naruto grew older, his reserves increased greatly, reaching the point where he could undergo senjutsu training and enter Sage Mode. Additionally, his chakra was described by Karin to be warm and bright, exactly opposite to Sasuke's.[80] His chakra also became powerful as Sasuke, Orochimaru, Jūgo, and Suigetsu could sense it from Konoha, even though they weren't sensors.[81] Hashirama Senju compared the sheer volume of Naruto's chakra to his own upon the Version 1 cloaks reactivation, then sensed Kurama's chakra afterwards which made the cloaks even stronger.[82]
Jinchūriki Transformations
Main articles: Jinchūriki Forms and Nine-Tails Chakra Mode
Due to the Eight Trigrams Seal that his father placed on him, it initially allowed a small amount of Kurama's chakra to always mix with Naruto's own. Kurama's chakra first came to Naruto during life-threatening situations, given to him by the fox itself to ensure its survival, but after training with Jiraiya, Naruto learned how to contact Kurama and demand some of its chakra. Alternatively, Naruto could give into his anger or frustration, allowing Kurama to force its influence upon him. Depending on how much he gained, Kurama's influence within its chakra could make Naruto lose control of his senses, devolving into an animal that attacks anything within reach, as well as damaging his own body, slowly shortening his lifespan. Although a number of methods had been devised to break its influence over Naruto (Jiraiya's seal tag,[92] and Yamato's Hokage-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands, which was facilitated by Hashirama Senju's necklace Naruto wore before its destruction),[93][94] Naruto simply limited his use of Kurama's chakra, and tried not to allow his anger get the better of him. Eventually, however, he attempted to exercise more control over it, in which he was able to achieve during the Fourth Shinobi World War.
Taijutsu
Ninjutsu
Shadow Clone Technique
Initially, Naruto would create a multitude of clones to overwhelm his opponents. Other times, however, he would employ the use of the Transformation Technique to change the appearance of these clones to catch his target off guard. After the time-skip, Kakashi has noted that Naruto's timing with the technique has improved drastically to the point where even though he was being held down by Kakashi, Naruto still managed to quickly create a shadow clone behind Kakashi with a kunai in hand.[124] During Part II, Naruto learns that whatever his shadow clones learn, he, the original, would also learn. By using this, he is able to learn techniques that would usually take months or years in days, which speeds up his training greatly. Naruto takes advantage of this often, using shadow clones to determine his opponents' abilities, to determine how many clones he will really need to defeat them instead of simply wasting chakra on thousands of clones.[125] In the anime, Naruto is shown to use the larger-scale version on multiple occasions to form human chains, for both offensive and supplementary reasons.
Despite the risks of Naruto's chakra being drained faster by Kurama whenever he uses the Shadow Clone Technique while in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Naruto did use the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to scatter throughout the battlefield, although he didn't create as many as he normally does.[119][126] His relationship with Kurama has improved since then, allowing Naruto to create clones in Tailed Beast Mode without having his chakra drained. Naruto also uses his shadow clones in a more innovative way, by having his clones use his various modes such as Sage Mode and Nine-Tails Chakra Mode while he himself is using Tailed Beast Mode.[99][127] Tsunade, on one occasion, has noted that each of his clones, while in the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, had the power to protect an entire village.[128]
Summoning Technique
The type of toads that Naruto can summon at any time is proportional to his chakra and skill, as when he first started out he could only summon tadpoles. At first, Naruto had a hard time getting any specific toad, as he summoned either Gamakichi or Gamatatsu. When he used Kurama's chakra, or when he was truly motivated, Naruto was able to summon the toad boss, Gamabunta. Naruto is also capable of summoning Gamahiro to use Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique.
Rasengan
Due to the unique nature of the Rasengan in Naruto movies, Naruto creates a new type of Rasengan, often facilitated by a character in the movie, or a unique property present in the movie.
Nature Transformation
Naruto had learned nature transformation to upgrade his Rasengan, which he achieved with the Wind Release: Rasengan and then took it even further by creating the Rasenshuriken, combining peak levels of both shape and nature manipulation originally deemed impossible without natural talent or instinct. The Rasenshuriken was capable of slicing into the victim and cutting them at a cellular level faster than a Sharingan can see it. However, it caused similar damage to his own arm, as it was still a hand-held technique, despite its name. After his senjutsu training, he completed the Rasenshuriken. He could increase its power and attack radius, to the point where he could completely shred the Human Path to pieces leaving only a portion of its body behind.[135] When thrown, the Rasenshuriken becomes Naruto's quickest attack with its speed being so great that it could cross an entire mountain range in a single second, and explode with enough force to fill up nearly half that area. In the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Naruto can also create different sizes of the Rasenshuriken, such as a miniature one, using two small chakra arms on his forefinger and a gigantic version equalling the size of Gamakichi. While he's in Tailed Beast Mode, Naruto can also create and throw two Rasenshuriken with both of his hands without the aid of his shadow clones.[136]
Collaboration Techniques
During the Fourth Shinobi World War and the battle against the Ten-Tails, Naruto displayed a high-level of skill in this combat area, by using the Scorch Release: Halo Gale Jet Black Arrow Style Zero, a collaboration technique with Sasuke, which according to Tobirama Senju, requires a perfect balance between the ratio of the combined techniques that is hard to achieve.[137]
Senjutsu
While in Sage Mode, Naruto gains a sensory ability to detect and identify other people's chakra even from very long distances away. This enabled him to be able to gain a sense of what was going on during the Fourth Shinobi World War, on battlefields a considerable distance away.[141] His sensing abilities have also enabled him to predict the movements of his enemies for easy retaliation.[104] With his sensing abilities, he could pinpoint the chakra receivers that were on Tobi's tailed beast Six Paths of Pain.[142] He also attempted to use this mode to gauge the power of the Ten-Tails, only to find out that it was immeasurable.[143]
Intelligence
As stated many times throughout the series, Naruto is a tactile learner, which means that he learns better through executing a task rather than theorising about it. This learning style was exploited by his teachers such as Kakashi who took advantage of Naruto's extensive use of shadow clones to speed up his nature transformation training and Fukasaku who abandoned teaching Naruto the theory behind Sage Mode at Gamakichi's behest.[22]He also displayed the ability to teach to some extent, and was able to pass down his shadow clone technique, the Sexy Technique, and the Rasengan to Konohamaru Sarutobi in this manner.
Deception and Strategy
His deceptive skills were first best displayed in Team 7's first battle against Zabuza; he came up with the strategy to disguise himself as a fūma shuriken in order to free Kakashi from Zabuza's Water Prison Technique. During the preliminaries of the Chūnin Exams, Naruto was even able to get around Kiba's sensitive nose by fooling him visually. In the anime Hoshigakure Arc, he deduced the weakness of the Mysterious Peacock Method, that while the user is manipulating such large quantities of chakra, they pay less attention to their surroundings, which allowed Naruto to easily sneak up on Natsuhi and land a blow (something that according to Akahoshi had never been done before). These skills were shown to have increased exponentially by the time of his battle with Pain, allowing him to prevail through an elaborate and highly unpredictable array of back-up plans, such as transforming his clones to mimic the environment. He also used the Shadow Shuriken Technique and the Transformation Technique to turn himself into a Rasenshuriken to temporarily neutralise the Preta Path while his real Rasenshuriken went to attack the Deva Path, while a clone attacked the Naraka Path from above with a Sage Technique: Spiralling Serial Spheres. When Naruto caught his second wind against Kurama to bypass its hatred completely, he systematically used the Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres, Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and his mother's chakra chains to push Kurama's chakra out of its body from a safe distance to absorb it into his own body. During his fight with the reincarnated Third Raikage, knowing the speed of the Raikage is great, he tricks the Raikage into dodging the first Rasenshuriken, his true intentions being to use Kurama's chakra arm to redirect it and throw it at him from behind. Even after the second attempt fails, Naruto still has the where-with-all to attack the Kage with a third at point blank range before he can even get decent footing to dodge. After speaking with Gyūki about its battle with the Third Raikage, he deduced that the latter injured himself with his own technique and used this to his advantage by slamming a Rasengan to the side of his arm forcing the Raikage to impale himself with his own technique.
When he learned the location of the chakra receivers on Tobi's Six Paths of Pain, he immediately formed a plan to eliminate them. Testing it out on Rōshi, he nearly destroyed the chakra receiver if not for Han's interference. He then forms a two-fold plan to release Son Gokū from Tobi's control by attacking from the outside in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, pulling the receiver, while having a shadow clone in Sage Mode inside Son Gokū trying to push it out. When he learned that Kakashi and Tobi's Kamui's were connected, he formed a plan to send one of his clones into the other dimension which enabled him to destroy Tobi's mask In the anime, Naruto was able to deduce that the "Yota" his friends were fighting were White Zetsu Army in disguise based solely on the fact that he had to be fighting the original. Later, Minato praised Naruto for being clever enough to use chakra arms to "connect" him and Sasuke to Minato, thus allowing Minato to utilise the Flying Thunder God Technique,[149] later employing the same principles with the shinobi he had shared his chakra with. His intellect also received praise from the Second Hokage, revoking his previous statement of implying Naruto was dumb, as Naruto hypothesised that senjutsu can harm Obito, which proved to be correct.
Other Skills
After the time-skip, Naruto has improved his knowledge of other ninja skills while under Jiraiya's tutelage, displaying some limited skill in shurikenjutsu against Akatsuki members such as Itachi Uchiha and Sasori. Naruto has also shown to keep a spring-loaded kunai knife up his sleeve, which is a strategy that allows him to quickly draw his kunai for battle. He has also learned how to dispel genjutsu and despite his limited skill with it, he was still able to resist being put to sleep by a genjutsu master like Itachi. Though his skills with fūinjutsu have not been explored greatly, he knew how to use the seal's key after receiving Gerotora, and later resealed Kurama after he separated it from its chakra. Jiraiya had left Naruto with the key to help him complete an as of yet unknown technique which he, Naruto, and Minato have been working on, but never finished. Naruto stated that he was ready to complete it.Stats
| Databook | Ninjutsu | Taijutsu | Genjutsu | Intelligence | Strength | Speed | Stamina | Hand seals | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | 2 | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 14.5 |
| Second | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 18.5 |
| Third | 4 | 3.5 | 2 | 3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 5 | 1.5 | 26 |
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