Naruto Uzumaki

Naruto Uzumaki is the main protagonist of the Naruto series and is the host of the Nine Tail Fox: Kurama and is a member of the Ordeis Family.

## 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.

Naruto loses his right arm after the Fourth Shinobi World War, though it is later replaced by a fully maneouverable prosthetic arm made of Hashirama Senju's cells, wrapped completely in bandages. In *The Last: Naruto the Movie*, Naruto grew again to be one of the tallest of his graduating class, cut his hair short, and wore a black elastic forehead protector. Over his pants and sandals, he wears a black uniform jacket with an orange zipper and buttons on the waist and sleeves, which can be folded up at times. He has a red armband with an Uzumaki crest on his left arm. After becoming Hokage, Naruto dons a garment similar to his father's: a white cape that has a red flame pattern around the hem, is held together by a red rope, and has the kanji for "Seventh Hokage" written vertically down the back. Underneath this, he wears an orange sweatshirt with black stripes (reverse in the manga version of *Boruto: Naruto Next Generations*), black pants and sandals. He occasionally wears the traditional Hokage headpiece, but has stopped wearing a forehead protector.

## Personality

Naruto is noted as boisterous, exuberant, and unorthodox, quite similar to Hashirama Senju.

He inherited his mother's verbal tic, as he ends his sentences with "You Know" when emotional.

Though he responds best to competition and is not afraid to ask for assistance, Naruto is relatively naïve and slow to understand principles or situations.

He often requires an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp explanations and can even prove forgetful.

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 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.

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 and thus built 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. Upon confronting it, he learned to be at peace with it, willingly becoming greater than what he suffered.

Another of Naruto's prominent traits is his desire for acknowledgement; his pranks around the village were for people to notice him, even if it meant by scolding him.

Therefore, he dreamed of one day becoming Konoha's Hokage, the epitome of acknowledgement and respect from everyone in the village. Knowing his dream is a long, arduous and seemingly impossible path, Naruto developed his own nindō of never going back on his word.

This life-long philosophy serves as the cornerstone of Naruto's great self-confidence; he believes he can accomplish any goal with enough hard work and perseverance, no matter what.

This trait guides him in many aspects of life, such as his promise to bring Sasuke back to Konoha.

Over time, his goal to be Hokage grew from a desire for the acknowledgement of others to a desire to help and protect the people close to him, which Tobi attributed to the Will of Fire.

His nindō has since been reinforced by his understanding that shinobi were meant to endure through hardships.

His belief in hard work and perseverance made him detest shortcuts to achieving, as he disqualified his son from the Chūnin Exams for using the banned Kote, and expressed disgust at Momoshiki and Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki for their reliance on harvesting from Chakra Fruits to lazily gain power.

After the death of his master Jiraiya, talking to his father Minato and listening to Nagato's tragic story, Naruto grew to understand the destructive cycle of hatred and he vowed to break it in order to bring true peace to the world.

To that end, his participation in the Fourth Shinobi World War is not only to protect his friends but also to bear and erase the world's hatred all by himself.

After encountering a reincarnated Itachi Uchiha, however, Naruto realizes that he cannot handle everything alone and that he must allow his friends to support and fight alongside him.

As he does so in war's climax, his fighting spirit inspires the Allied Shinobi Forces to join him and keep fighting to end the war as well, ultimately becoming an example for many people to admire, follow, and believe in.

Naruto first met Hinata Hyūga when they were children, where his open kindness and courageous spirit earned him her admiration, which grew into love.

On his part, Naruto remained mostly oblivious to Hinata's feelings for him and even considered her "weird" because of her shyness around him.

However, that change during the Chūnin Exams in Part I when they began to interact more and support each other, causing Naruto to like her as a friend.

In Part II, as Hinata becomes willing to risk her life to protect Naruto, he, in turn, sees her as an actively strong person despite his speechlessness at her love confession.

Naruto did grow to love Hinata subconsciously.

Still, he was unaware of it because he kept "fighting" for Sakura, which was just another way for him to compete with Sasuke.

During *The Last: Naruto the Movie*, Naruto finally recognizes the love that Hinata has always had for him, causing him to become more bashful and protective of her, just as she was for him.

Realizing that she alone has ever had faith in him and that she has always been there for him, he reciprocates her feelings and desires to be with her for the rest of his life.

This new-found desire made him willing to make healthier lifestyle choices such as eating vegetables and reeling in his impulsiveness, something others have had little success with doing.

## Charkra & Abilities

Originally, Naruto was a rather inept ninja, failing to graduate from the Academy three times.

Through sheer determination and training however, his skills rapidly improved to defeat strong genin like Neji Hyūga, Gaara, and Kabuto Yakushi, earning acknowledgement from all the Sannin for his potential.

Under various tutelage, Naruto was able to defeat various members of Akatsuki, ultimately earning praise from Konohagakure as a Hokage-material hero.

Naruto's personally defeated various reincarnated Kage and jinchūriki during the Fourth Shinobi World War.

He also could compete against if not defeat world-threatening opponents, such as Madara Uchiha, Kaguya and Toneri Ōtsutsuki.

Many believe Naruto was the central key to winning the war.

By adulthood, his prowess made him the Seventh Hokage, regarded as the strongest shinobi in history and having command of overwhelming jutsu.

With the combined might of Sasuke Uchiha, noted as the only shinobi to rival him, they are said able to destroy a continent.

Together, they overpowered transformed Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki, and pushed Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's vessel to its limit, with the latter admitting that his vessel was too weak to defeat Naruto without his assistance.

In fact, Amado believes that Naruto and Sasuke are the only ones capable of defeating Isshiki in his imperfect reincarnation, something that he himself also believe in.

Once fighting at his absolute peak, Naruto was able to overcome Isshiki in a way that made him afraid for his life.

As an Uzumaki and a reincarnation of Asura Ōtsutsuki, Naruto has massive reserves of strong chakra, at least four times greater than Kakashi's, and described by Karin as "bright and warm."

His initial poor control of it was offset by his sheer reserves, which were large enough to endure three and a half days of constant battle against several powerful opponents.

Only by the end of his battle against Sasuke did he show exhaustion, and even then could still fight to a standstill and eventual victory.

Naruto's control improved greatly over time; able to transfer his chakra to others, and perform one-handed hand seals.

Naruto's powerful life-force grants him an extreme longevity, healing power, stamina, and vitality; this allowed him to survive the extraction of a tailed beast, though he required aid from Sakura to stay alive.

Naruto also learned how to counter genjutsu from Jiraiya, but is limited.

In adulthood, Naruto's chakra is powerful enough to intimidate Kawaki into submission and destroy high-level barriers simply by releasing a burst of it.

He could repel Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique, a feat that no one else could do.

His chakra, when he combined it with his son's Vanishing Rasengan, turned it into a gigantic Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan able to kill the empowered Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki who tried to use a copy of the technique to defeat his.

His chakra reserves were also so vast that he was able to overload Delta's chakra-absorbing eye with a continuous Rasengan-assault.

While naturally a short-range fighter, Naruto originally was inept at taijutsu, requiring unpredictable attacks to surprise combat experts like Kiba Inuzuka and Neji.

He often utilised shadow clones in large if not massive numbers to simply overwhelm his foes.

Although these tactics resumed later, Naruto becomes much more adept at taijutsu due to Jiraiya's training.

After Fukasaku's tutelage, he could fend off a pair of expert kenjutsu users.

Two years after the war, Naruto's taijutsu prowess could best dozens of opponents without shadow clones or enhancements.

As Hokage, his taijutsu could pressure Momoshiki after he had absorbed Kinshiki.

Naruto could even hold off Delta despite her extreme body modifications, ultimately controlling the pace of the battle to tire her out and gradually overwhelm her to win despite being in the defensive.

His speed had also increased to the point where he could effortlessly catch up with Kawaki after he tried to escape.

Originally as the jinchūriki of Kurama's Yang half, Naruto had access to massive reserves of exceptionally powerful chakra, which was at least a hundredfold greater than Kakashi's.

These chakra levels were increased even further when the Yin half of Kurama was reunited with the Yang half inside of Naruto.

Due to his inheriting his mother's unique chakra capacities and being Kurama's jinchūriki for essentially his entire life, Naruto's chakra has properly mixed with the fox's, allowing him to perform several chakra-taxing techniques unhindered.

Originally, he could only access Kurama's chakra in times of great anger.

It enhanced Naruto's abilities, but the fox's negative influence made Naruto more aggressive.

While essentially remaining himself when accessing a Version 1 state, manifesting four tails would trigger Version 2 state, which made him lose control and would gradually turn into even more feral forms, requiring outside assistance to suppress Kurama's power and regain control, prompting him to avoid relying on the fox's power whenever possible.

By end of the Fourth Great Shinobi War, he could access his Version 1 form without any loss in his mentality.

Realising he could not avoid using Kurama's power, Naruto sought to control it with help from Killer B, a jinchūriki who had fully mastered the power of Gyūki, and unexpectedly, Kushina.

Upon succeeding and taking most of Kurama's chakra, Naruto attained Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, which greatly increased his physical parameters.

Naruto can also detect negative emotions in this mode.

As he didn't have Kurama's cooperation, Naruto needed to exercise extreme caution while using the form, as the chakra exchange could cost him his life.

Eventually, when Kurama acknowledged Naruto's life-long strength of character and Naruto learned the fox's true name, their new-found friendship granted Naruto access to its full power, which further increased his physical parameters and with no drawbacks.

This cooperation of Kurama also provides Naruto with an immediate resistance from genjutsu. Two years later, he could isolate the form with one hand to enhance his strength or to block attacks.

Failing to transform into a replica of Kurama at first, Naruto instead achieved a Tailed Beast Mode in the unique form of a life-sized transparent avatar of chakra.

In it, he could create Tailed Beast Balls and revitalise the life-forces of any he touches physically or with the avatar, heal nearly any wounds, or grant them temporarily chakra-cloaks.

After he became the jinchūriki of Kurama's complete self, Naruto is able to manifest the demon fox outside himself for a period akin to summoning, allowing both to fight as separate entities.

During the endgame of the Fourth Great War, Naruto received chakra from the other tailed beasts, which greatly increased his chakra reserves even further and allowed him to access their unique abilities himself, or infuse them into his own techniques.

With the infusion of all nine of the tailed beasts' respective chakra inside of him, Naruto has become a medium to connect all the tailed beasts to communicate with each other and made him a human pillar for the power of Ten-Tails.

In the most dire of situations, Naruto is able to access a deep level of Kurama's power, Baryon Mode.

In this state, his facial features become even more akin to Kurama with nine blazing chakra tails.

In a process similar to nuclear fusion, Naruto's and Kurama's chakra are consumed as raw materials to produce a new type of energy.

When in use, it dramatically boosts Naruto's reflexes, raw might, and chakra to such extreme levels, able to surpass Isshiki's capabilities.

Because all chakra is connected, the same power that is produced from bits of their lives also work to reduce the lifespan of opponents on contact.

Due to its extreme energy consumption, Naruto must remain focused and not waste energy on extraneous thoughts and actions, to maximise the amount of time he can maintain Baryon Mode.

The drawback of this form is the high chance of death for Kurama from the extreme strain of this form.

Upon Kurama's death from this form, while Naruto was spared the same fate, he lost access to all of Kurama's chakra and abilities.

## Family

* Minato Namikaze (Father)

* Kushina Uzumaki/ Luna Ordeis (Mother)

* Adam Ordeis (Brother)
* Boruto Uzumaki (Future Son)
* Himawari Uzumaki (Future Daughter)