Team 10

Team 10 is a group of Konohagakure ninja led by Asuma Sarutobi. The fathers of the three team members Choji Akimichi, Shikamaru Nara, and Ino Yamanaka were also on a team together, and both generations refer to their team using the moniker "Ino-Shika-Cho". During Part II, Asuma is slain in an encounter with members of Akatsuki, and Kakashi Hatake briefly assumes leadership of the team to hunt down those responsible for Asuma's death.

Choji Akimichi

Choji Akimichi is a member of Team 10 who is typified by his deep love for food to the extent that he always has a snack with him during the series. Though his habit of always eating gives him a relatively large appearance, Choji insists he is not fat, instead using explanations like being "big-boned". If someone refers to him as fat, Choji instantly becomes hostile and increases his resolve to battle. Shikamaru Nara has never found an issue with Choji's weight, instead choosing to look upon Choji's inner strength. Because of this, Choji regards him as his best friend, stating he would willingly give his life to defend Shikamaru. In battle, Choji can increase the size of his body to improve the amount of damage his strikes deal upon impact

Shikamaru Nara

Shikamaru Nara is one of the members of Team 10. Due to his easygoing nature despite being a genius, and contrasted him against Sasuke Uchiha's intelligent but abrasive personality. Shikamaru's intelligence is such that Asuma Sarutobi, Team 10's leader, has never been able to defeat Shikamaru at games such as shogi or go, and he can devise complex strategies even in the heat of battle. However, his laziness frequently prevents him from effectively utilizing his intelligence. Shikamaru is a longtime friend of Choji Akimichi, his fellow Team 10 member, as he chooses to look upon Choji as a person rather than only considering his large girth. In battle, Shikamaru can manipulate his shadow, and by extending it into another person's shadow he can force the target to mimic his movements.

Ino Yamanaka

Ino Yamanaka is the only female member of Team 10. She has known Sakura Haruno since they were children, befriending and helping her to develop her own identity. When they discovered that they both liked Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura ended their friendship so they could properly compete for his affection. The two eventually make amends and rekindle their friendship, but still maintain a competitive attitude towards each other. In the anime, when Sakura begins to excel in healing techniques, Ino becomes her surrogate apprentice, hoping to be more useful to her friends and teammates as an able medical ninja.  In terms of combat abilities, Ino specializes in mind-altering techniques. To use these techniques, Ino transfers her consciousness to her target's mind, gaining control over their body which she can then use to attack others. 

Asuma Sarutobi

Asuma Sarutobi is the leader of Team 10 and son of Hiruzen Sarutobi. He had a falling out with his father when he was younger, and briefly left Konohagakure in protest. The two had not completely reconciled by the time of the Hiruzen's death. Asuma is usually seen smoking a cigarette, but will temporarily drop the habit when something is bothering him, such as when his father died. Among all his students, Asuma shares a particularly close relationship with Shikamaru Nara, and the two often play shogi or go together. Asuma frequently appears alongside Kurenai Yuhi, leading many characters to assume the two are a couple. Both deny this and promptly try to change the subject whenever it is brought up. During Part II of the series, however, Kurenai is revealed to be pregnant with Asuma's child, making their relationship clear. In battle, Asuma wields unique brass knuckles equipped with blades that can be infused with chakra. When infused with his wind-based chakra, Asuma can extend the blades' length and easily pierce through rock. After Asuma is killed by Hidan, a member of the criminal organization Akatsuki, these knuckles fall into Shikamaru's possession, and he uses them to defeat Hidan and avenge Asuma.

Team 8

Team 8 is a group of Konohagakure ninja led by Kurenai Yuhi. The members of Team 8 primarily concentrate on tracking, with each of the members' unique abilities being utilized in this role. During Part II, Team 8, except Kurenai, due to her pregnancy, joins Naruto Uzumaki andTeam 7 in their search for Sasuke. 

Kiba Inuzuka

Kiba Inuzuka is a member of Team 8 characterized by a number of dog-like traits such as being very protective of his teammates and super sensitive and extremely keen senses such as smell . Most apparent of his connection to dogs is the constant presence of his ninja dog , Akamaru. Kiba is fiercely loyal to Akamaru, unwilling to abandon him and putting himself in harm's way for Akamaru's sake. In exchange for Kiba's devotion, Akamaru fights with him in battle; he uses his heightened senses to Kiba's advantage, and helps to double-team opponents with volleys of physical attacks. Since Akamaru is naturally better equipped for combat, Kiba usually modifies his own abilities at the start of a battle, growing claws and traveling on all four limbs to increase his speed. He can also drastically increase his sense of smell, and by the second half of the series he can use it to track things dogs cannot.


Akamaru

Akamaru is Kiba Inuzuka's ninja dog , best friend, and constant companion. At the start of the series, Kiba carries Akamaru around on his head or inside his jacket. By Part II of the Naruto storyline, Akamaru grows large enough for Kiba to ride atop his back, but since Kiba spends so much time with Akamaru, he fails to notice this drastic difference.With his heightened sense of smell, hearing, and the ability to detect others' chakra levels, Akamaru acts as a valuable tool for Kiba in hostile situations. To help Kiba keep track of opponents, Akamaru can urinate on them, giving them a strong odor that can easily be tracked. In battle, however, he relies on Kiba to provide the chakra for the combination attacks they execute, which requires Akamaru to transform into a clone of Kiba. In the original Japanese anime, Akamaru is voiced by Junko Takeuchi, who is also the seiyū for Naruto Uzumaki, and Kōsuke Toriumi, who voices Kiba, when Akamaru transforms into a clone of Kiba.

Shino Aburame

Shino Aburame is one of the members of Team 8 and is fascinated with insects; he spends his free time capturing and studying insects and often uses them as analogies during conversation. A deep connection with insects runs in Shino's family, as each person born in to the Aburame clan is infused with a special breed of insects known as "destruction bugs" during birth. In exchange for using Shino as a hive and feeding on his chakra, the bugs do as he commands. During a battle, Shino directs his bugs towards an opponent, boxing them in without their knowledge and absorbing their chakra once they have been surrounded. Shino's merciless tendencies, in regards to opponents as well as his attachment to insects, have caused other characters to label him as "creepy". Nevertheless, Shino cares deeply for his teammates, being acutely aware of their inner workings and always regretting when he is unable to help them. 

Hinata Hyuga

Hinata Hyuga is a member of Team 8 who suffers from a lack of self-confidence throughout the series. She is always reluctant to speak her mind or to do something that might antagonize another character, causing her difficulties whenever she is on a mission. This results in her effective expulsion from the Hyuga clan even though she is the eldest daughter of the clan's leader and thus its heiress. Hinata's inability to stand up for herself caused her father to disown her at a young age, leaving her in the care of her teacher,Kurenai Yuhi. Soon after her introduction, Hinata begins training to become stronger, both to overcome her own weaknesses and to prove her worth to her father. Her efforts begin to prove successful towards the end of Part I, as her father takes a greater interest in her training.

Though Hinata's training has in large part been to prove herself, she also trains to try and win the attention of the series protagonist Naruto Uzumaki. Inspired by Naruto's confidence and determination, Hinata becomes infatuated with Naruto to the extent that she immediately blushes or faints upon seeing him. However, as the series progresses, she goes out of her way to help him. While Hinata is hesitant to openly admit her feelings for him, most characters are aware of her feelings. In the anime, Hinata's attempts to impress Naruto result in her creation of a new ability capable of instantly blocking or attacking anything in her extended field of vision. During Part II, Hinata finally admits her feelings to Naruto while protecting him from Pain; as yet, there has been no follow up to her confession.

Kurenai Yuhi

Kurenai Yuhi is the leader of Team 8. Of all her students, Kurenai is closest with Hinata, acting as a surrogate parent in the absence of Hinata's father and helping Hinata overcome her weaknesses. Whenever Kurenai appears in the series, she is usually accompanied by Asuma Sarutobi. Because of this, many other characters assume them to be a couple, though they both deny this. During Part II of the series, Kurenai is revealed to be pregnant with Asuma's child, making their relationship clear. In battle she specializes in casting illusions, and is shown to be particularly skilled with illusions involving plants.

Antagonists

Orochimaru

Orochimaru is one of the primary a villain, Kishimoto worked towards making him appear "pasty and sickly" as part of his theme of distinguishing villains from the protagonists. In the series, Orochimaru is a former ninja of Konohagakure and a student of the Third Hokage. During his time in the village, he distinguished himself as one of the village's most powerful ninja along with his teammates, Jiraiya and Tsunade. His desire to obtain immortality led him to conduct experiments on other Konohagakure ninja, and he eventually fled the village and joined the criminal organization Akatsuki. After attacking fellow Akatsuki member Itachi Uchiha, who defeats him, he leaves Akatsuki and establishes his own ninja village, Otogakure, in the hopes of destroying his former home. His immortality technique involves transferring his consciousness between different host bodies, and his desire for a new host, particularly Sasuke Uchiha, is one of his driving motivations throughout the series. Because of his different host bodies and the disguises he assumes.

Akatsuki

Akatsuki is an organization of criminal ninja that serves as the series' primary antagonists. Led by Madara Uchiha, though he acts through the group's figurehead leader Pain, the Akatsuki's goal is world domination by using the power of the nine tailed beasts. The members of Akatsuki are ninja who have abandoned their villages, and are considered by their former homes to be S-class criminals, the most powerful and wanted ninja in the Naruto universe. At any given time, Akatsuki is composed of ten members, who operate in two-man teams. They share similar clothing, most notably a long, dark cloak bearing red clouds and a chin-high collar. Aside from an attempt by two Akatsuki members, Itachi Uchiha and Kisame Hoshigaki, to capture the nine-tailed demon fox within Naruto Uzumaki, Akatsuki is not prominently featured in Part I. In Part II, they take a more active role, capturing Gaara and extracting the one-tailed beast, Shukaku, from his body, as well as working towards capturing the remaining tailed beasts. 

Team Guy

Team Guy is a group of Konohagakure ninja lead by Might Guy. The members of Team Guy mainly focus on physical attacks and weapons. They are a year older than the other members of Konohagakure's teams, as Guy wanted to wait a year before they could take the test to advance in ninja rank and become Chunin. In Part II, Team Guy joins Team 7 in attempting to save Gaara from the criminal organization, Akatsuki.

Neji Hyuga

Neji Hyuga is a member of Team Guy and a child prodigy of the Hyuga clan. In spite of his natural talent, Neji's relationship in one of the clan's lower houses leaves him disqualified to learn the clan's most secret techniques. At the start of the series, Neji openly hates the main house because of this, readily attacking its members vocally or actually when given the chance. At this point in the series, Neji believes in a fatalistic attitude: that one's destiny is unavoidable and that a weak person will always be weak. After being beaten in battle by Naruto Uzumaki, a character that has proven his "destiny" wrong by getting stronger, Neji has a adjust of heart. He abandons the idea of a predestined fate, and resolves to get strong enough to never lose a battle. He also tries to remedy the separated relations between himself and the members of the main house, resulting in his training with the leader of the main house at the end of Part I.
Neji displays his title as a genius of the Hyuga throughout the series; when first introduced he is highly talented with the Gentle Fist style of combat, with which he can directly attack an opponent's inner systems. Though never in fact trained in the form, Neji has been able to duplicate it and its most powerful attacks through simple observation. As the series progresses, Neji refines these abilities into more powerful counterparts, either to boost their potency or to fix a natural flaw. One such example is his Byakugan, an eye technique that by evade gives the owner a near-360-degree field of vision within a fifty meter radius. Neji constantly trains to conquer a small blindspot and to increase the Byakugan's range of sight.

Rock Lee

Rock Lee is a member of Team Guy and the favorite student of team leader Might Guy. In the ninja school, Rock Lee was not capable to use ninjutsu or genjutsu techniques, but his determination impressed Guy. Guy spends much of his free time training with Lee to help him achieve his dream of becoming an appreciated ninja by using only taijutsu. Lee has adopted some of Guy's habits because of this, such as his wardrobe and his determination. Guy has taught him a number of powerful, even prohibited, techniques. Because some of these techniques, such as the ability to open the eight chakra gates, can pose a severe risk to Lee's body, he is only allowed to use them to protect something or someone dear to him.

Tenten

Tenten is the only female member of Team Guy, and longs to show that a female ninja can be just as expert as a male ninja.. In battle, Tenten specializes in weaponry, ranging from projectiles to close-combat weapons and even explosives by the second part of the series. During a fight she uses the hundreds of weapons kept stored in scrolls she carries with her to bomb opponents with pinpoint accuracy. Tenten uses this proficiency to help Neji Hyuga train his defensive techniques, and she holds him in high look upon since he can always block her attacks.

Might Guy

Might Guy is the leader of Team Guy, and dedicates most of his time to only one of his students, Rock Lee. Because of Guy's devotion to him, Lee has modeled himself in his master's image, mimicking Guy's typical green jumpsuit and shiny bowl haircut. Lee has also adopted many of Guy's mannerisms, including his "My Rules" philosophy, which involves setting tough self-imposed penalties for failure in the belief that the punishment will make him stronger.
In battle, Guy specializes in physical attacks, which he continuously tries to teach to Lee. While Lee is forced to focus on physical attacks due to his lack of ability to use other types of techniques, Guy intentionally chooses not to use techniques other than physical attacks. When not teaching Lee a new ability, Guy is usually found in rivalry with his self-proclaimed rival, Kakashi Hatake. Throughout the series, Kakashi has never displayed a particular interest in their rivalry, which only further motivates Guy to defeat Kakashi and his "coolness".

Naruto Main Characters

NARUTO MAIN CHARACTERS

Naruto Uzumaki

Naruto has ambitions of becoming Hokage, the head of Konohagakure. Because he is the host of the nine-tailed demon fox, a wicked creature that attacked Konoha, he is disliked by the other villagers. He compensates for this with his joyful and energetic character, and over the course of the sequence, manages to be friend many foreign and Konoha ninja. He develops an especially close bond with Sasuke Uchiha and deep caring care for Sakura Haruno, two of his fellow ninja in Team 7 , and treats them as his siblings.

.

Sasuke Uchiha

Sasuke Uchiha is one of the members of Team 7. He was created to be a competitor to Naruto, as well as a, "cool genius". He is one of the few remaining members of the Uchiha clan along with his brother, Itachi Uchiha, who killed the rest of their family. Due to this, Sasuke's sole longing is to kill his brother, and he develops a cold and inhibited behavior. His relations with his fellow teammates, especially Naruto Uzumaki, make him focus less on vengeance at the start of the series. During an encounter with his brother in Part I, Sasuke is easily beaten, which leads him to leave the village to seek more power from the criminal Orochimaru.His teammates' attempts to recover him from Orochimaru forms a major component of the Part II plot.

Sakura Haruno

Sakura Haruno is the sole female member of Team 7. She was comforted by Ino Yamanaka. As the two continued to grow, however, they became more and more distant due to their shared care for Sasuke Uchiha. During most of Part I, Sakura is in love with Sasuke, and hates Naruto Uzumaki but begins to like him more during the Chuunin Exams and when he saved her life from the Sand Villages Garra.But after Sasuke leaves the village, she makes Naruto make a permanent promise to bring him back, allowing the affection to grow. After his 1st effort is delayed by the Sound Ninja 4, she resolves to become stronger by preparation with Tsunade. In Part II when Sakura and Naruto are 16, she displays highly developed skills from her teaching giving her the brutal power and strengths of about 10 men, and a more open affection towards Naruto.

Kakashi Hatake

Kakashi Hatake is the leader of Team 7 and the sensei of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. Kakashi treats his leadership position with a separate manner, and is every time late to meetings as a result. In a gaiden on Kakashi's past, this is exposed to be the result of an unpleasant incident in which he witnessed the death of one of his teammates, Obito Uchiha, who gave Kakashi his Sharingan eye and imparted many of his habits, together with his tardiness. With Obito's Sharingan, Kakashi has combined a reputation as a skilled and powerful ninja, earning the moniker "Copy Ninja Kakashi". Although he mentors all three members of Team 7 early in the series, he concentrates on training Sasuke as the series continues, teaching him his Chidori technique; however, he is unable to prevent Sasuke from leaving the village to seek Orochimaru for greater power.