About

Naruto was born as the son of the Fourth Hokage;Minato Namikaze and the Nine-Tails' second jinchūriki;Kushina Uzumaki.Naruto's parents had named him after the main character of Jiraiya's first book,making the Sannin his godfather.Prior to Naruto's birth,his parents knew that the seal that kept the Nine-Tails within Kushina would be in danger of breaking during childbirth.To prevent that threat.Kushina was taken a short distance outside of the village to give birth in secret,with Biwako Sarutobi and Taji as her midwives,a few ANBU as security, and with Minato keeping the seal in place. Immediately after Kushina gave birth,Madara Uchiha appeared and took Naruto hostage,demanding Minato to step away from Kushina or he would kill the newborn child.Madara then used a clever diversion that forced Minato to transport the baby to a safer location, allowing him to escape with Kushina.By the time Minato could intervene, Madara had already succeeded in releasing the Nine-Tails.Fortunately,Kushina(who survived the extraction thanks to her strong vitality) was saved by Minato and brought to Naruto,leaving the weakened mother to care for the sleeping Naruto while Minato went to combat Madara.To save the village,Minato sacrificed his life to seal the Nine-Tails within Naruto,believing that his son would someday have need of the demon's power to defeat Madara's threat once and for all.Suddenly orphaned,Naruto was left to grow up knowing nothing of his parents,receiving only his mother's last name since the Third Hokage felt that it was best that nobody knew that he was related to the Fourth Hokage.Before Minato died,he asked that the villagers of Konoha view Naruto as a hero who had helped defeat the Nine-Tails.However, only a few of the villagers honored his request,while most instead resented him for containing the monster that had destroyed their home.In light of this,the Third Hokage decreed that nobody should ever speak of the truth about Naruto,hoping that their children would not resent him as they did.The children,however,followed their parents' lead,despite not knowing why.Apart from the Third Hokage,Iruka Umino was the only one who acted as a surrogate family to the young Naruto.


Appearance

As stated by Jiraiya,Naruto bears a striking resemblance to his father, possessing Minato's blue irides and spiky blond hair.From his mother,Naruto inherited the shape of both his eyes and face.However,Naruto's greatest physical characteristic is his whisker marks,passed on from the demon imprisoned within his mother at the time of his birth.A trait regularly mentioned, that easily angered him,was his short stature for his age.During Part I, he was one of the shortest in his graduating class,second only to Hinata Hyūga.After the timeskip,he had a significant growth spurt that was noticeable to all, dwarfing the kunoichi in his age group.In Part I,Naruto's outfit consisted of a orange jacket with blue on the upper shoulders area as well as up and down the front,a white swirl with a tassel on the left side,a red swirl on the back,a big white collar,orange pants,blue sandals,and a blue forehead protector that was given to him by Iruka after he graduated from the Ninja Academy.In Part II,Naruto's outfit undergoes modification after being worn to shreds during his training with Jiraiya.The outfit retains the orange color as well as the white(without the tassel)and red swirls, but the jacket is much more form fitting with the blue parts changed to black and the color extending from the upper shoulders area to the sleeves. The forehead protector has also changed with Naruto moving the metal portion to a new longer black bandana and he wears black sandals instead of blue. During his battle with Pain,Naruto briefly sported a red coat that combined his master and father's before him with a black flaming design at the bottom as well as a large summoning scroll on his back.

Personality Edit

Due to the prejudice and loneliness he suffered in his childhood,Naruto developed a craving for acknowledgment.In order to achieve this,Naruto would pull pranks all around the village and even going far as strive for the title of Hokage.Even after graduating from the academy,Naruto was still determined to be recognized,but as he made more and more connections with others,his reasons for wanting to become Hokage underwent a change,having less to do with the desire for recognition,and more to do with wanting the strength to protect his home and the people close to him.As noted by Madara Uchiha,Naruto is a fervent believer in the Will of Fire,likening him to his old rival in this respect.Naruto's unstoppable determination and drive strongly impacts the lives around him,even his enemies had been affected by his empathy.Both Kakashi and Temari had referred to Naruto's amazing charisma as a "unique power" that allows him to change the worldly views of others.
Naruto is most prominently characterized by his hyperactivity,being exuberant, impatient,impulsive,and inattentive.According to Kakashi,Naruto learns through his body.He is relatively naive and simple,being slow to understand a principle or situation,and often requiring an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp what is being explained to him.Overall,Naruto responds best to competition and possesses a great degree of confidence in himself,loudly proclaiming that he will master whatever technique he is learning in a fraction of the usual time,though he will not hesitate to ask for help if he needs it.

Naruto has a number of other distinct traits as well.He inherited his catch-phrase "Dattebayo!"(だってばよ！)from his mother,Kushina Uzumaki,who would say "(da)ttebane"(「(だ)ってばね」)when excited or frustrated.He also has a childish quirk of keeping his money in a chubby,green-frog wallet he affectionately calls "Gama-chan."He is also very brash and rarely pays heed to formality or social standings.He almost exclusively eats ramen,and is a frequent customer at the Ichiraku Ramen Bar.He is also something of a pervert, something he tends to be reprimanded for by Sakura as well as Iruka,and has only become more so after meeting Jiraiya.He smiles near-constantly which during his childhood,was to mask the sadness of his lonely life.Those who are closest to him are able to recognize when his smile isn't genuine.

However, when the situation calls for it or when someone dear to him is in trouble,Naruto can be very serious,and will instantly try to come to their aid. This is most commonly seen in the series through his interactions with his team-mates,Sasuke Uchiha and Sakura Haruno.With Sasuke,Naruto views him as a brother,and throughout Part II strives to bring him back to Konoha,despite his willing defection from the village.With Sakura,Naruto had a long-standing crush on her,and will do all in his power to make her happy,even if it is at the expense of his own happiness.Sai has indicated that this dedication has progressed to the point of love.Sai also notes that the strain of making Sakura happy and bringing Sasuke home are the source of Naruto's internal pain.

After the loss of his mentor Jiraiya,talking with his own father,and talking to Jiraiya's killer and former pupil,Nagato,Naruto came to understand the downside of revenge,and desired to save Sasuke from it even more.Naruto also tried to stop the Kumo-nin from exacting their revenge against Sasuke,for this would only create a cycle of hatred.It appeared that Naruto was becoming increasingly desperate in his quest to save Sasuke,as he was willing to take physical abuse from the Kumo-nin over selling Sasuke out as well as getting down on his knees before the Raikage and beg for Sasuke to be forgiven for his crimes.Furthermore,after learning from Madara the reason of Sasuke's hatred,Naruto decided and proclaimed to Sakura,who was trying to get him to leave his quest,that he truly understood Sasuke now and wanted to save him not just because of the promise he made to Sakura,but for also to himself. However,after learning from Sai that the rest of his comrades were aiming to kill Sasuke,and that nobody in the village would ever accept him again,Naruto apparently suffered from hyperventilation due to the extreme conflict that he has been presented with.

Upon finally reuniting with Sasuke,Naruto sympathized with the criminal for his actions,and refused to back down or kill him,instead finding a third solution. Naruto came to the conclusion that the two of them were indeed destined to fight,as Madara predicted,and that when that happens,both Naruto and Sasuke would die.Naruto is fully prepared to shoulder Sasuke's burden as a friend, and is,in a way,the sole person to not have given up hope on him. However,like the rest of Konoha,Naruto has finally given up in bringing Sasuke back as a citizen of the village,believing that words would no longer have any effect to allowing them to understand each other,and has resigned himself to fighting(and potentially killing)Sasuke to protect Konoha.

Dark Naruto

After Killer Bee refused to train Naruto,Motoi guided Naruto and Yamato to the Falls of Truth,the place where Bee trained to control the Eight-Tailed Giant Ox. He instructed Naruto to sit on a platform and close his eyes.Soon after,Dark Naruto(闇ナルト, Yami Naruto)appeared,berating Naruto for how quickly the people from Konoha changed their ideals of Naruto and had started sucking up to him,which sickened Dark Naruto.Dark Naruto said that he was the manifestation of hatred that existed within Naruto's heart,the Nine-Tails liked him better,and exclaimed that he was the real Naruto and that Naruto was an impostor.They started to fight,but after a while,Naruto soon realized that they both had the same techniques, skills, and tactics.As a result,their fight was a draw and Naruto mentioned that if they continued like this,it would take a long time to settle it,so he awoke and told Yamato and Motoi what happened. Motoi told him that he must defeat Dark Naruto in order to learn how to control the Nine-Tails.

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 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 treated him as an outcast and how much he suffered because of them,telling him shouldn't trust them.However,Naruto stated that he trusts the villagers because they are 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 ask what was the reason for his existence then.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 and he gave into Naruto's words,disappearing into Naruto.

Later,when Naruto entered his subconscious,the Nine-Tails 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.

Senjutsu

After Jiraiya's death at the hands of Pain,Naruto began training with Fukasaku in Mount Myōboku to learn senjutsu and how to enter Sage Mode.In order to achieve this,Naruto had to learn to sense and control the natural energy around him.Once mastered,Naruto was able to perfect the Rasenshuriken,so that he could throw it,and learn Frog Kata,a taijutsu style that uses the natural energy around the user to enhance the range and the potency of their attacks. In Sage Mode,Naruto's overall physical abilities are dramatically enhanced to the point where he could throw entities much larger than himself with little to no effort,including the Animal Path's Giant Rhino and the Nine-Tails.His speed increases to a point where he was able to intercept a charging Asura Path, which had been using its chakra boots to attack Tsunade,create a Rasengan and slam it down before it could even react,showing him covering considerable distance in a short amount of time.Also while in Sage Mode,Naruto gains a sensory ability to detect other people's chakra from long distances.

However,Naruto had two flaws in his senjutsu training:To mold natural energy, the user must remain absolutely still,something one can not do while in combat;and because of the Nine-Tails,Shima and Fukasaku were unable to fuse with Naruto to mold it for him.To counter this,Naruto had to leave two shadow clones in a safe place to mold the natural energy for him.Once he depleted his current amount of senjutsu chakra,he would dispel one of the clones and use the natural energy it had gathered to re-enter Sage Mode. However,this method limits the maximum number of shadow clones that Naruto can create to five.Any more would interfere with the focus of the clones' gathering natural energy.However,this limit in shadow clones ceases should Naruto decide to go all out during a fight and forgo having any clones store natural energy for himNaruto is currently trying to extend the time he can remain in Sage Mode.During his battle with the Nine-Tails within his subconscious,Naruto and his large group of shadow clones entered Sage Mode.It appeared that his "physical self" was able to enter Sage Mode in his mediated state,then transferred the senjutsu chakra to his "mental self" and all of his shadow clones.



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