Naruto Uzumaki

### Other Names

The Show-Off, Number One Unpredictable, Noisy Ninja (目立ちたがり屋で意外性No.1のドタバタ忍者, Medachitagariya de Igaisei Nanbā Wan no Dotabata Ninja, English TV: Number One Hyperactive, Knucklehead Ninja)[8]Child of the Prophecy (予言の子, Yogen no Ko)Saviour of this World (この世の救世主, Kono Yo no Kyūseishu)[9]Hero of the Hidden Leaf (木ノ葉隠れの英雄, Konohagakure no Eiyū, Literally meaning: Hero of the Hidden Tree Leaves)Boy of Miracles (奇跡を起こす少年, Kiseki o Okosu Shōnen)Konoha's Orange Hokage (木ノ葉のオレンジ火影, Konoha no Orenji Hokage, Literally meaning: Tree Leaves' Orange Fire Shadow)Seventh Hokage (七代目火影, Nanadaime Hokage, Literally meaning: Seventh Fire Shadow)[13]Fox (狐, Kitsune)

## Personal

### Relatives

Minato Namikaze (Father)Kushina Uzumaki (Mother) Hinata Uzumaki (Girlfriend)Jiraiya (Godfather)

## Purpose

### Previous team

Team Kakashi Sasuke Recovery Team Konoha 11 (Anime only) Bikōchū Search Team (Anime only) Kaima Capture Team

Jump Force

## Appearances

### Anime

Tag Force Chronicle

**Naruto Uzumaki** is a shinobi of Konohagakure's Uzumaki clan. He is the main character from the Naruto series.He became the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails on the day of his birth — a fate that caused him to be shunned by most of Konoha throughout his childhood. After joining Team Kakashi, Naruto worked hard to gain the village's acknowledgement all the while chasing his dream to become Hokage. In the following years, through many hardships and ordeals, he became a capable ninja regarded as a hero both by the villagers, and soon after, the rest of the world, becoming known as the **Hero of the Hidden Leaf**. He is also the Jump Force Teammate of Licht, Ichigo, Natsu, Goku, Dark, Subaru, and Ayato. He is good former friend of the other teammate Yugi, Jaden, Yusei, Yuma, Yuya, Yusaku, and Clarice in the anime Tag Force Chronicle.

## Appearance

According to Jiraiya, Naruto strongly resembles his father: he has yellow-blond, spiky hair and blue eyes, while inheriting the shape of his mother's eyes and face. His trademark characteristics are the three whisker markings on his cheeks. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Dan Katō initially mistook Naruto for Nawaki due to their stark resemblance. Naruto was rather short for his age during Part I, though he grew to be taller than Sakura in Part II. Naruto originally wore green goggles on his forehead, though he discards them upon becoming a genin. In Part I, Naruto wore an orange and blue jacket with a white collar, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, and a red Uzumaki crest on the back. He also wore orange pants with a shuriken holster on his right knee, blue sandals, and a blue forehead protector, given to him by Iruka after graduating from the Academy. In Part II, Naruto wears a more form fitting outfit after wearing out his original one while training with Jiraiya, with a T-shirt or mesh armour underneath. While retaining the swirls and orange pants, the blue pieces of his outfit changes to black: his forehead protector (which is now longer), sandals, and orange jacket, the black colour showing more prominence than the blue did originally. During his battle with Pain, Naruto briefly wore a short-sleeved red coat with a black flame pattern around the hem and carried a large scroll on his back.

## Personality

Naruto is characterised as boisterous, exuberant and unorthodox, quite similar to Hashirama Senju. He inherited his mother's verbal tic, as he ends his sentences with "Dattebayo!" (だってばよ!) when emotional. Though he responds best to competition and is not afraid to ask for assistance, Naruto is relatively naive, simple, and slow to understand principles or situations. He often requires an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp explanations, and can even forget some concepts that he himself noted earlier if he is too emotional. Naruto is aware of his faults, and admits he acts strong to mask his embarrassment and frustration about them. Despite his naivety, Naruto can be quite observant, picking up on things others miss and retaining information casually gathered through conversation.

Growing up as an orphan who suffered years of hatred and social isolation by Konoha's villagers has influenced Naruto's character in a number of ways: he is heedless to formality and social standings, addressing certain people with nicknames instead of honourifics, although by the time of his adulthood, Naruto has slightly outgrown this trait, as he stopped referring to Lee as "Bushy Brows" and calls him by his name, while also referring to Killer B by his name instead of "Octopops"; he has picky eating habits of ramen, his favourite food; he has a perverted side that manifests as uses of the Sexy Technique or attempts to peep into women's baths. Despite his quirks and the criticism they earn him, Naruto is said to have a personality that draws people to him, inspiring friendship and loyalty through acts of genuine kindness that could change a person's world view. He is thus able to build meaningful relationships that he lacked in early life; the Sage of Six Paths believes Naruto's kindness is a special gift that allows him to save Kurama from its hatred. Naruto deeply cherishes these bonds and will go to great lengths to protect them, best seen with Sasuke after his defection from Konoha. Naruto's time at the Falls of Truth revealed that a part of him hated the villagers for ostracising him, only to admire him after he saved them during Pain's Assault. This hidden resentment allowed Kurama to manipulate Naruto's rage until he confronted it and learned to let it go, becoming greater than what he suffered.

## Trivia

* Spiral patterns are a recurring theme in *Naruto*, especially in relation to the character of Naruto Uzumaki himself. The name "Naruto" is short for "narutomaki" (なると巻き), a kind of kamaboko with a pink spiral design in the middle that is used as a topping for ramen, which is Naruto's favourite food. His family name "Uzumaki" can mean "whirlpool" or "maelstrom." His full name is also a reference to the Naruto whirlpools (鳴門の渦潮, *Naruto no uzushio*), named after the city in the Tokushima Prefecture in Japan. In addition, Naruto's mother, Kushina Uzumaki, is a relative to the Uzumaki clan from Uzushiogakure in the Land of Whirlpools, who used the spiral pattern as both their clan and village symbol.
* According to the databook(s):
	+ Naruto's hobbies are pulling pranks and watering plants.
	+ Naruto wishes to fight Sasuke Uchiha, the Third Hokage, and members of Akatsuki.
	+ Naruto's favourite foods are Ichiraku ramen and red bean soup. His least favourite are fresh vegetables, which others (barring Hinata) have attempted to make him eat with little success in other material.
	+ Naruto has completed 16 official missions in total: 7 D-rank, 1 C-rank, 2 B-rank, 6 A-rank, 0 S-rank.
	+ Naruto's favourite phrase is "a large serving of miso ramen with roasted pork fillet" (味噌チャーシュー大盛り, *miso chāshū ōmori*).
* According to character trivia from *Boruto: Naruto Next Generations*:
	+ His attributes are: 120 in perception, 160 in dexterity, 170 in negotiations, 110 in strength, 90 in intelligence, and unknown in chakra.
	+ He was also given a skill rating in these particular areas:
		- Evasion: ★★★★★
		- Unarmed Hand-to-hand Fighting: ★★★★☆
		- Manners: ★★☆☆☆
* October 10, Naruto's birthday, was Health and Sports Day in Japan when his character was conceived. The holiday, however, was later moved to the second Monday of October in 1999.
* Naruto consistently ranked in the top two (taking first place twice) in the first five official *Shōnen Jump* character popularity polls. However, in the sixth character poll, he was ranked fourth. According to the third databook character poll, which adds up all the votes from the first six polls, Naruto took second place. In the most recent poll, Naruto regained his status and reached first.
	+ Naruto is one of four characters to have always stayed in the top ten of every character popularity poll.
* Naruto is the fourth known jinchūriki known to have survived the extraction of a tailed beast, along with Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, Kushina Uzumaki, and Obito Uchiha.
* Naruto's mother was nicknamed the "Red Hot-Blooded Habanero" while his father was famed as the "Yellow Flash." Naruto's appropriate self-styled title of "**Konoha's Orange Hokage**" refers to the fact that the colour orange is a mixture of red and yellow.
* When Naruto first became a genin, while using his Sexy Technique, his settei reveals that he is 160cm tall.
* Kishimoto's various concept art of Naruto for *The Last: Naruto the Movie* showed that his height had gone through various changes: first 170cm, then 173cm, and finally 180cm.
* Despite Naruto being a user of the Truth-Seeking Balls and gaining Hagoromo's power, both of which contain Yin-Yang Release, Yin Release is not listed as one of his natures in the fourth databook.
* Eiichiro Oda, author of *One Piece*, stated that his character Sanji's name was originally going to be Naruto, but changed it because the *Naruto* series was about to become serialised and wanted to avoid confusion.
	+ Naruto makes an undetailed background appearance on the cover page of the 766th chapter of *One Piece*, where the person behind Nami (who is wearing a changpao with the Konoha symbol) is implied to be Naruto. Also, both main characters are seen eating each others' respective favourite foods, as Naruto is eating meat, and Monkey D. Luffy is eating ramen. Additionally, this chapter was released on the same week as the release of the final two *Naruto* manga chapters.
	+ In the 700th chapter of the *Naruto* manga, the symbol of the Straw Hat Pirates appears on the forehead protector of Naruto's statue as part of Boruto's graffiti.
* While Naruto was initially the shortest of the Konoha 11, he ultimately becomes second tallest, after Shino.
* In the original manga pilot, Naruto was actually a demon fox and lived his life as a human boy and the Nine-Tailed Fox that attacked the village was his father.
* Although he was never raised by Minato, Naruto seemingly inherited his father's fighting style of almost never relying on hand seals, with the exception of his signature technique.
* In the anime, Naruto is a lightweight drinker.