Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Age: 13
Birthday: 10 October
Zodiac: Libra
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Umino Iruka, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya
Teammates: Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura
Ultimate jutsu : Sexy no jutsu
Ambition: To surpass all previous Hokages and have the village acknowledge him.

Name: Kankurou
Age: 15
Birthday: 15 May
Zodiac: Taurus
Rank: Jounin
From: Sand
Teacher: Baki
Teammates: Gaara, Temari
Family: Kazekage (Father), Temari and Gaara (younger siblings)
Weapon: Those weird puppets
Hobbies: Face painting.

Background: Son of former Kazekage and brother of current kazekage.

The Deal with him: Kankurou is probably best known for walking around in his pajamas and carrying heavy looking puppets on his back. Kankurou uses branded puppet weapons created by Sasori of the Red Sand, former Sand nin and current Akatsuki member.

Though a formidable ninja in his own right, Kankurou's career is shadowed by his baby brother Gaara's achievements. When they were little genins, all everyone talked about was how scary Gaara was. Gaara's insane abilities as the Shukaku's carrier also made him the the leader of the team. When Gaara became Kazekage, all everyone gushed about was how much they love him, once again side-lining Kankurou until he got his ass kicked by Sasori of the Desert.

Kankurou's avid hobby with experimental face painting of various symbols and shapes is also really useful in distinguishing his age and timeline of events during the flashbacks in the anime.

Name: Temari
Age: 15
Birthday: 23 August
Zodiac: Leo
Rank: Genin
From: Sand
Teacher: Baki
Teammates: Gaara, Kankurou
Family: Kazekage (Father), Gaara and Kankurou (younger and elder brother)
Weapon: That big fan

Background: Genin of Sand sent to take part in the Chuunin exams in the Leaf.

The Deal with her: Probably the toughest Genin to take part in the Chuunin exams with Naruto and gang, Temari is the daughter of the Kage of the Sand and sister of Gaara. In the guise of taking the exams, she and her teammates/siblings were actually sent on an A-rank mission. Her main function to assist in the Sand's invasion of the Leaf and keep a watch over Gaara. Her weapon is that big fan she carries with her and her main jutsu is the Whirlwind technique, which, at a wave of the fan from her, blows up a windstorm embedded with chakra to sting her opponents.

After the invasion fo the Leaf by the Sand and Sound failed, she escaped back to the Sand with her siblings. She returned as an ally of Konoha wearing a funky new purple costume and an even shorter miniskirt during the Sasuke chase and helped Shikamaru fight the sound nin.

Name: Gaara of the Desert
Age: 13
Birthday: 19 January
Zodiac: Capricorn
Rank: Genin
From: Sand
Teacher: Baki
Teammates: Temari and Kankurou
Family: Kazekage (Father), Temari and Kankurou (elder sister and brother)
Most Used Technique: Desert Funeral

Background: When Gaara was born, he took the life of his mother as a sacrifice. Gaara was an experiment attempt by the hidden village of Sand to 'build' stronger ninjas.

The Deal with him: Before the Chuunin exams, Gaara has never been hurt as the sand always protected him. He has never slept in years either as the Sand demon would take over his body and eat away part of his mind everytime he lose consciousness. Thus, Gaara has become quite mentally unstable. He has never felt love as his villagers feared and loathed him. His father, the Kazakage, sent ninjas to assasinate him since he was 6 years old as his powers was getting out of hand. The 1st of the assasins was Gaara's uncle whom he thought was the only person who loved him.

Ever since the incident, Gaara 'tattooed' the kanji 'love' on his forehead and swore to love only himself and sought to feel his existence by killing others. He was sent along with Temari and Kankurou on an A-rank mission. Seemingly to take part in the Chuunin exams in Konoha, Gaara transforming into the Shukaku was actually the Sand's trump card in their plan with the Sound to destroy Konoha. However, he was defeated by Naruto and escaped back to the Sand with Temari and Kankurou.

Name: Umino Iruka
Age: 25
Birthday: 26 May
Zodiac: Gemini
Rank: Chuunin
From: Leaf
Occupation: Pre-Genin Teacher in the Ninja Academy
Most Seen: Eating ramen with Naruto

Background: Umino Iruka lost his parents during the invasion of the nine tailed demon fox

The Deal with him: Umino Iruka is one of the first to acknowledge Uzumaki Naruto. Iruka relates to Naruto as he himself lost his parents in a young age and grew up trying to vie for attention. initially failing Naruto in the Genin exams, Iruka later passed Naruto after the boy saved him from Mizuki (and celebrated over a bowl of ramen).

Umino Iruka has a mild kind hearted personality as docile as his name (which means dolphin), and is truly a new age sensitive ninja. He is also the first to be defeated by Naruto's devastating technique, the Sexy No Jutsu.

Name: Maito Gai
Age: 26
Birthday: 01 January
Zodiac: Capricorn
Rank: Jounin
From: Leaf
Students: Rock Lee, Tenten, Hyuuga Neji
Eternal Rival: Hatake Kakashi
Calls himself: Konoha's sprouting leaf of acceptance

Background: Rock Lee's teacher.

The Deal with him: Gai plays a relatively minor role, mainly comic relief and toothpaste endorsement. The 1st time we see him, he engaged in a dramatic embrace with Rock Lee in a picturesque golden sunset with the Sexy soundtrack in the background. The introduction promises much laughter everytime he comes on screen subsequently.

Most remembered scenes of Gai are when he tries to compete with Kakashi only to get "modern" and "hip" nonchalent responses from his eternal rival and he goes "Oh My GOD!!".

Gai and Lee's relationship is very strong as the teacher tries his best to train his prized student to be the excellent ninja that Lee envisions himself to be.

Name: Hyuuga Neji
Age: 14
Birthday: 03 July
Zodiac: Gemini
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Maito Gai
Teammates: Rock Lee, Tenten
Family: Hyuuga Hizashi (Father), Hyuuga Hiashi (Uncle), Hyuuga Hinata (cousin), Hyuuga Hanabi (cousin)
Most used technique: Byakugan and Jyuuken

Background: Hyuuga branch family member and the previous year's number 1 rookie from the ninja academy.

The Deal with him: Being a Hyuuga branch family member, Neji's primary function was to protect the Hyuuga head family. However, Neji hates the head family as he believes his father died to protect them and blames destiny that he is fated to be a 'caged bird'. Neji is the genius from his clan. Though just a branch family member, he inherited the bloodline limit strongly and discovered jutsus which ran secret in the head family like the Kaiten.

Name: Rock Lee
Age: 14
Birthday: 27 November
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Maito Gai
Teammates: Hyuuga Neji, Tenten
Only uses : Taijutsu
Power jutsus : Primary and Secondary lotus

Background: Dropout from school who can only use taijutsu but trains to be strong. Believes that a dropout can defeat a genius through hard work.

The Deal with him: Too unique for Sakura's tastes but touched Sakura ultimately to care for him, Rock Lee is one who never gives up. In that way, he's like Naruto. Though a dropout who couldn't use ninjutsu, Lee's ambition was to be an excellent ninja. His perserverence (and fuzzy eyebrows) grabbed the attention of Maito Gai, his teacher, who trains him hard to be the most powerful taijutsu specialist at the Chuunin exams.

Unfortunately for Lee, he was matched up against Gaara during the final Chuunin exams preliminaries. Gaara used sand as an absolute defense to soften Lee's attacks and crushed Lee's arms and legs with his Desert Coffin technique. Having already opened life gates, Lee was heavily injured and would have been killed had Gai not stopped Gaara. Lee was injured so badly that even Tsunade the medical specialist had reservations about doing an operation on him and advised him to live a life other than a Shinobi's. Lee now must face the choice between choosing another life or taking the risk between fulfilling his dreams and dying.

Name: Sarutobi
Age: 68
Birthday: 08 February
Zodiac: Aquarius
Rank: Hokage (Sandaime)
From: Leaf
Teachers: 1st and 2nd Hokage
Students: Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru
Family: Konohamaru (grandson)

Background: 3rd Hokage of the Hidden Village of the Leaf. Teacher of the 5th Hokage.

The Deal with him: Sarutobi sensei is almost like a kind grandfather to the villagers of the Leaf. He was chosen to be the 3rd Hokage when he was just a child by the 1st and 2nd Hokages. He goes by the nickname of "Professor" for learning over a thousand jutsus. Some says he's the most powerful Hokage when he was in his prime.

After the 4th Hokage was chosen, Sandaime decided to retire. He was however forced out of retirement when Yondaime sacrificed himself while protecting the Village against the Kyuubi.

Even at the age of 68, Sarutobi still intended to be the Hokage for another 5 years or more. But his life was rudely interrupted by his former favourite student Orochimaru, who lost a screw after he wasn't chosen to be the 4th Hokage. Vengeful against the Leaf which exiled him, he came back to destroy the village and to kill his teacher. Sandaime was killed in the battle with Orochimaru and the 1st and 2nd Hokage (which Orochimaru brought back to life to aid his fight). Before he died, he took away the use of Orochimaru's hands.

Name: Uchiha Itachi
Age: 17
Birthday: 09 June
Zodiac: Gemini
Rank: S-class Missing Nin
From: Leaf
Family: Uchiha Sasuke (little brother)
Side-kick: Kisame
Association: Akatsuki
Famous quote: Foolish brother, if you wish to kill me, hate me, detest me, and survive in an unsightly way. Run, run and cling to life.

Achievements: Graduated from the Ninja academy at age 7 with top grades, mastered the Sharingan at age 8, became a Chuunin at age 10, Anbu leader at age 12, wiped out his entire clan and promoted to S-class missing nin at age 13.

The Deal with him: Top member of secret society Akatsuki, who even Orochimaru admits is stronger than himself, Itachi is shrouded with mystery. He killed his whole family with the reason that it was to measure his strength. He left his little brother alive after screwing up his mind. Although it seemed that Itachi spared his brother so he could become stronger and thus a worthy opponent someday, we believe that somewhere deep in his very disturbed heart, he loves Sasuke in his own very weird fashion.

From someone who killed his whole family, Itachi is surprisingly unconfrontational and unbloodthirsty unlike how one would expect him to be. There were many incidents when he could have easily killed an adversary but instead left them heavily wounded and avoided as many fights as he could. Itachi has issues and it would be delightful when we finally find out why.

Name: Tsunade
Age: 50
Rank: Hokage (Godaime)
From: Leaf
Teacher: Sarutobi - Sandaime Hokage
Teammates: Jiraiya, Orochimaru
Family: Shodamine (grandfather), Nawaki (younger brother), Dan (boyfriend) - all dead
Side-kick: Shizune
Summons: Slugs
Weakness: Loves gambling
Famous for: Those boobies

Background: Godaime Hokage, medical specialist, the female from the Legendary Sannin and also known as The Legendary Sucker

The Deal with her: Quoted by Shikamaru's father to be the strongest and most beautiful of women, Tsunade is the 5th Hokage of the Village of the Leaf. The Godaime title was originally offered to Jiraiya, who turned it down and brought Naruto to hunt down Tsunade to take up the job. Before they found Tsunade, Orochimaru proposed a trade with Tsunade - to bring her little brother and boyfriend; both who died during the Ninja wars, back to life, if she would heal his arms so he could continue to destroy the Leaf. Tsunade was thus torn between seeing her loved ones again and protecting her village. She seemed to have chosen the former but fortunately for Konoha, Naruto reminded her of her dreams and her brother and boyfriend's dreams. So Tsunade beat the sh*t out of Orochimaru and returned to the Village with Naruto and Jiraiya to be the 5th Hokage.

Besides being the Hokage, Tsunade also has another nickname - The Legendary Sucker, for always losing in gambling. She is also vain as she uses a special technique to conceal her age so she could look young. Whether her titanic assets are part of the technique is still a mystery...(we remember Jiraiya calling her a flat chested b*tch when they were genins...)

Name: Uchiha Sasuke
Age: 13
Birthday: 23 July
Zodiac: Cancer
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Kakashi
Teammates: Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura
Family: Uchiha Itachi (elder brother)
Favourite technique: Grand Fireball Technique

Background: Sole survivor of the Uchiha clan when his elder brother went on a killing rampage.

The Deal with him: Sasuke was a regular adorable ninja student with big dreams of being an excellent ninja like his elder brother. But after Itachi killed their family and screwed up his mind to "live in an unsightly way", Sasuke became cool, and calls himself an 'avenger', whose purpose in life was to kill his brother. For some obscure reason, that made all the girls at the academy fall in love with him.

Sasuke first started to use his Sharingan when he fought against Haku with Naruto at Wave Country. His pretty eyes and body attracted the liking of Orochimaru, who wishes to take over his body after he became truly strong. To show his admiration, Orochimaru left a cursed seal after delightfully sinking his fangs into Sasuke's neck, which Kakashi sealed, but threatens to unleash everytime Sasuke gets excited in a fight.

After engaging in a precarious fight with Naruto, Sasuke felt inferior as he seemed not to be improving as much as Naruto. Orochimaru took the chance to send the Sound 4 ninjas to convince Sasuke to leave the Leaf village to seek more power from Orochimaru. Thus, Sasuke abandoned Konoha (Sakura's endless whining might have helped him decide to leave in a hurry) and is on his way to the Sound village.

Name: Hatake Kakashi
Age: 26
Birthday: 15 September
Zodiac: Virgo
Rank: Special Jounin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Yondaime
Students: Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura
Also Known As: Copy Ninja Kakashi
Only Original Skill : Chidori
Hobby: Reading adult books like "Come come Paradise" and being late.
What's under his mask : Another mask!

Background: Team 7's teacher, and has a mysterious background regarding his Sharingan that everyone's dying to find out.

The Deal with him: Kakashi's the 1st ninja in the series that we see wearing a mask. His past is shrouded in mystery. His left eye is an implanted Sharingan eye which he used to copy over thousands of techniques, and earned him the nickname of Copy Ninja Kakashi. Infact, his only original move is the Chidori (Chirping of a Thousand Birds) or later also known as Raikiri (Lightning Edge) for cutting through lightning.

Team 7 is the 1st group of Genins that Kakashi passed as it seemed that they have comprehended the importance of teamwork. Yet now, it seems that the teamwork is falling apart because of Sasuke's wussi-ness.

Though cool and very attractive, Kakashi is a somewhat biased teacher as we see that he places more energy in teaching Sasuke. He's not as serious when teaching Naruto and seems to give up on Sakura. He might be making the same mistake as Sandaime Hokage for 'investing' in the wrong ninja.

Kakashi is seldom on time for an appointment because he always spends too much time staring at his dead best friend's grave (how he died is another mystery).

Name: Haruno Sakura
Age: 13
Birthday: 28 March
Zodiac: Aries
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Hatake Kakashi
Teammates: Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke
Best friend and rival : Yamanaka Ino
Most heard phrase: "Sasuke-kun" (irritating smile)

Background: Female from Team 7. Has a big forehead.

The Deal with her: Quoting Shikamaru, Sakura is "a female ninja with no special talent". Her job is to hang around battle scenes getting in the way, yelling "Sasuke-kun!" and pissing viewers off. The pink haired nin is also schizophrenic with Inner Sakura being the only interesting thing about her (hell yea!)

Sakura loves Sasuke (who hates her) and hates Naruto (who loves her). She had the longest crush on Sasuke since she was little and fell out with best friend Ino because she liked Sasuke too (sheesh they both need to get a life).

When Sakura was little, she was quiet and shy and often teased about her big forehead. Ino became her friend and taught her to be more confident. As they grew older, Sakura felt she was living in Ino's shadow and grew competitive with her, especially after knowing Ino liked Sasuke too. The first time we see Sakura actually fight was in the Chuunin exams when the Sound ninjas tried to kill Sasuke. In the final exams preliminaries, Sakura tied with Ino.

Name: Uzumaki Naruto
Age: 13
Birthday: 10 October
Zodiac: Libra
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Umino Iruka, Hatake Kakashi, Jiraiya
Teammates: Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura
Ultimate jutsu : Sexy no jutsu
Ambition: To surpass all previous Hokages and have the village acknowledge him.

Background: 13 years ago, a great nine-tailed demon fox aka Kyuubi attacked the Village of the Leaf. In order to save the village, the 4th hokage sealed the demon fox in a newborn baby's body and sacrificed himself to suffer endlessly in Death's stomach. The baby was Naruto.

The Deal with him: Even though Naruto was only the vessel to trap the Kyuubi, the village saw him as the demon itself and everybody hated and ostracised him. Thus Naruto grew up lonely, friendless and determined to make his mark one day as the greatest hokage so everybody would acknowledge him.

The first few who acknowledged Naruto were the 3rd hokage, Iruka and Konohamaru (who was totally awed by Naruto's ingenious sexy no jutsu). Who Naruto really wished would acknowledge him then was Sakura, his crush. But Sakura was totally infatuated with Sasuke because he was oh-so-cool and that was one of the reasons Naruto became fierce rivals with Sasuke.

Besides being a ninja, one of his jobs is also to reach out to people like him who had a troubled childhood (eg. Haku, Inari and Gaara).

Naruto harassed the perverted Jiraiya into training him for the final Chuunin exams and the 2 grew rather fond of each other (father-and-son way not the perverted way!!).

Naruto also technically saved Konoha by saving Tsunade from Kabuto, and touched Tsunade enough to be convinced that she should be the 5th hokage.

Besides mastering a high level jounin technique (the kage bunshin), the summoning technique and rasengan, Naruto also has a secret technique which never failed to 'defeat' his enemy before. That's the sexy no jutsu and the higher level harem no jutsu.

Name: Jiraiya
Age: 50
Birthday: 11 November
Zodiac: Scorpio
Rank: One of the Legendary Sannin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Sarutobi - Sandaime Hokage
Teammates: Tsunade, Orochimaru
Students: Yondaime, Naruto
Summons: Frogs
Excuse for peeping: Data Gathering!

Background: Our favourite one from the Legendary Sannin, a big pervert and author of "Come Come Paradise" (finally made into a full length movie coming to theatres near you!). Calls himself Frog Hermit, but Naruto prefers to call him 'perverted hermit'

The Deal with him: How our favourite pervert managed to pry his lusty eyes away from the babes around him to pay enough attention to his ninjutsu training and become one of the Legendary Sannin is still a mystery. Jiraiya is often seen playing a fool, peeping at females and drooling at hot chicks. But this ero-sennin knows when to play and when to be serious. Jiraiya was the student of the 3rd Hokage; the teacher of the 4th Hokage; and the teammate of the 5th Hokage, after rejecting the latter title himself.

The 1st time we see Jiraiya was when Ebisu was training Naruto for the Chuunin exams and the closet pervert tried to stop Jiraiya from peeping at the baths. Jiraiya slammed Ebisu unconscious and Naruto chased the pervert all over town to get him to train him, which he succeeded. They continue to bond and at times, Jiraiya was like the father Naruto never had.

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