Uzumaki Naruto
The
main character of the series, he is naturally impetuous,
hyperactive and tends to rush into combat without thinking.
However, he is capable of devising some quite clever plans
by creative usage of his jutsus, most notably Kage Bunshin
no Jutsu, when necessary. Inside Naruto is the sealed
nine-tails demon fox, and when Naruto is under great stress
or when his friends are severely threatened it the demon's
power begins to force its way out. While seemingly
uncontrollable, the demon inside Naruto- while not exactly
nice whenever Naruto subconsciously faces him- is
surprisingly cooperative and when truly necessary, such as
in a life-threatening situation, The Kyubi's chakra will
almost always lend itself to him. Naruto dreams of being
acknowledged by everyone in the Leaf Village. He is an
outcast (nothing like containing the demon that almost
destroyed the village to ruin your reputation), and would
have ended up with nothing but a desire to take revenge on
leaf village had his sensei, Iruka, not acknowledged his
ability and that he is different from the demon fox that
attacked the village all those years ago. Naruto has a very
ambiguous sort of rivalry/friendship/hatred relationship
with Sasuke and has a crush on Sakura, who even after
starting to respect him still largely cannot stand him.
Naruto also likes Ramen. A lot. In fact, Kakashi once
thought that Ramen and being Hokage were the only things he
thinks about. While looking like a frivolous idiot on the
surface, Naruto- unlike an unignorably large part of the
series' characters- has his heart at the right place. It
takes a Naruto to dare lecture Zabuza on not caring about
Haku's tragic sacrifice for him, or to stand up for Hinata
when Neji attempts to reduce her to a mental wreck, or to
proclaim that he is going to prove that in this world...
heroes do exist.
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Sasuke
A Genin level
Ninja, Sasuke is the natural genius offspring of the
powerful Uchiha Clan. One of the most outstanding clans in
Leaf Village, the Uchiha's advanced posess the power of the
Sharingan. Sasuke's talent is not only confined to the
Sharingan; before this ability even awakened he was
considered the #1 Academy Ninja and the #1 rookie Genin. It
is becuase of these abilities that Orochimaru is interested
in Sasuke and puts his curse seal on him; Sasuke turns out
to be strong enough to survive the 9/10 chance of immediate
death and regains consciousness. Just by releasing Chakra
the curse becomes active and forcibly pulls out more
Chakra, stealing his mind. At this point the the small mark
on the neck grows to wrap around Sasuke's whole body.
Sasuke's willpower is surprisingly strong enough to hold
back this curse and after Kakashi performs his Evil Sealing
Method on him, it becomes even easier for him to control it
and use his Chakra normally. Sasuke thinks of himself as an
avenger; his only goal is to achieve power and be able to
kill his brother, Itachi. He is even-minded and a bit
arrogant, but has an inner coward he must still overcome.
Haruno
Sakura
Sakura has a
crush on Sasuke. This appears to be her main characteristic
up until advanced stages of the series. She's often
self-conscious about the size of her forehead and got
teased by being called "forehead girl" at school (Ino,
Sakura's childhood friend and now rival for Sasuke's
affections, continues this honourable tradition). During
the Chuunin exam, Sakura realizes that in her infatuation
with Sasuke, she has neglected her duties as a team member
- this coincides with her chopping off most of her hair
(which she grew long because Sasuke apparently likes long
hair), which an attacking sound-nin used to hold her by,
thus symbolically freeing herself from her previous
restraining tunnel vision. She still has a way to go before
she fully deals with and reconciles her infatuation,
however. Sakura started out extremely disliking Naruto (who
has a crush on her much like her own crush on Sasuke), but
has slowly started respecting him over the course of their
being a team. In her early school years, Sakura was timid
and was occasionally made fun of and bullied. That was
until the popular Ino approached her and became her friend.
Sakura looked up to Ino's looks and ability a lot; while
she appreciated Ino's friendship, she couldn't help the
feelings of inferiority she induced in her, as if Ino was a
fully-bloomed flower and Sakura only a bud. Their
friendship continued until it became clear that both of
them liked Sasuke, and Sakura felt that she could never
equal Ino, let alone surpass her at anything, while she was
trapping herself as Ino's mere sidekick in her mind. She
handed Ino her ribbon back and proclaimed that they were
rivals from that point on. And bitter rivals they were,
until the second stage of the chuunin exam, where Ino
witnessed Sakura cut her own hair- even though it was known
that Sasuke liked girls with long hair- to set herself free
from her captor. It was the moment that both of them were
simultaneously stricken with the fact that there are more
important things than teenage romance. Later, when they
tied on their battle in the third stage preliminaries, Ino
told Sakura that she finally had blossomed, and- each
acknowledging the other as her equal- they became friends
again, although they snap into bitter rivalry mode again
whenever Sasuke is mentioned. After all, old habits die
hard. Sakura's main strengths are her intelligence and her
great chakra control. She was able to climb trees using her
chakra while it took days of constant training for Sasuke
and Naruto to manage it; in the first stage of the Chuunin
exam, she knew the answers to a (student assessment) test
designed specifically to be so difficult for genin to
accomplish that they would have to cheat. Inside Sakura
resides the "Inner Sakura", which ridiculously seems to be
much more mean-tempered than Naruto's Kyubi. While serving
mostly comedy purposes as Sakura's typical gentle responses
are juxtaposed with the inner Sakura's constant "Hell
yeah"s and "Damn it"s, Sakura having 'two minds' actually
came in useful when Ino hit her with the Shintenshin no
Jutsu (Body-Mind Switch Technique), Inner Sakura combatting
Ino's spirit where in the case of a regular person there
would be no resistance.
Rock
Lee
A Genin level
Ninja, he is a Taijutsu specialist and Gai's student.
Incapable of using NinJutsu or GenJutsu, he spent all his
time and concentration on Taijutsu. It is because of this
determination and hard working ethic that Lee has become an
outstanding Ninja. When in heated battle, Lee removes the
extremely heavy weights he wears on his legs. This vastly
increases his already amazing speed. After using his trump
card and specialty technique, the Extreme Lotus for the
first time against Gaara, Lee's body was so beaten up that
he could barely even move, yet even after his left leg and
left arm were both completely pulverised and he fell
unconscious, he still stood up to prove his ninja way.
However, because of all of the damage done to his body
during the battle, he was told by the Leaf Village medics
that he would be unable to live as a Ninja any more. He
would not give up and, even with his torn and unusable
body, continued to try practicing.