The Anime Naruto is an Anime that has 2 parts to it, there’s Naruto and there is Naruto: Shippuden . The difference between these is that Naruto is based as a child while he is at ninja school and he is out casted from the rest of the village. Naruto: Shippuden happens 3 years after the events of Naruto happens so all the characters are teenagers and have grown in strength and wisdom. Naruto Naruto: Shippuden
The Hidden Leaf and other lands The story of Naruto is mainly based on the ‘Hidden Leaf village’ which is where both Naruto and Saskue the two main characters are from. The ‘Hidden Leaf Village’ have close contact with the sand village as Naruto and Garra have a good friendship going. In Naruto: Shippuden all the other surrounding villages come into the scene as there is a possibility of a ‘Great Ninja War’
The Characters Naruto is the main character who has been out casted by the village at a young age because of the Nine-Tails fox that he has sealed inside him. Due to him not getting attention from anybody and him not knowing his parents he was very troublesome as a child. Slowly through hard work he starts to become recognized by the village and his friends. Eventually he becomes the village hero as he is the one who stops the village from being destroyed by and group called the Akatsuki Uzumaki Naruto
Uchiha Saskue Saskue is another main character in the story , Saskue is Naruto’s rival throughout the story. Both of their aims is to catch up to each other in skill and strength. Although Saskue is a Genius in ninjutsu and has the power of the Sharingan naruto has been able to catch up to him in strength through hard work alone. Saskue grew up in the shadow of his Brother I tachi who was a genius in N injitsu . Saskue s belongs to the ‘Uchiha clan.’ The ‘Uchiha clan’ live for vengeance so knowing that his older brother I tachi killed the rest of the clan including their parents he has lived on to claim revenge against his brother and that is his reason for strength. In Naruto: Shippuden S askue finally gets his revenge but finds out the ugly truth about his Brother and now he’s out to take revenge on the ‘Hidden Leaf’ living up to the name of the ‘Uchiha clan.’
Sakrua Haruno Sakura Haruno is another one of the mian characters in Naruto. She was apart of team 7 which included Naruto and Saskue. Her early years gave her an early rivalry with Ino Yamanaka because of their deep infatuation for Uchiha Saskue simply because of his good looks, cool attitude and prodigious talents. As the Anime continues she ends up developing further feelings for Saskue which leads to her falling in love with him after Saskue runs away from the ‘Hidden Leaf Village’ in search for power. Although at the start Sakura didn’t like Naruto she developed a friendship with him as he was the only one who could possibly bring back Saskue.
Hatake Kakashi Hatake Kakashi is the leader of team 7. He is know worldwide for his ability with the sharingan which gave him the title of ‘the copy ninja Kakashi .’ Kakashi is the son of Hatake Sakuno who was know as ‘White fang of konoha .’ Kakashi was know from a young age as an extremely gifted prodigy , and is regarded as of the best in his generation. As a kid Kakashi was teamed with Uchiha Obito and Rin and that team was lead by Minato Namikaze who later became the ‘Fourth Hokage ’ (Naruto’s father.) Kakashi was gifted the Sharingan at a young age during a mission with Uchiha Obito , after trying to save the other member in the team Obito was crushed after just waking his sharingan and before he died told Kakashi to take the sharingan for his use.
Nara Shikamaru Nara Shikamaru was among the dead lasts of the class with Naruto Uzamaki , Kiba Inuzuka and Choji Akimichi spending all day pursuing what they deemed more important past times in which his case included sleeping and watching the clouds, even putting pen-to-paper was deemed an effort and would only do it if he had to. Although he was in the class of the ‘dead lasts’ he is a brilliant strategist who lets laziness get the better of him but in a disguised IQ test developed but his team leader Asuma , they found out that at 13 he had an IQ of over 200. His intelligence earned him praise for people like Kakashi and Tobi who considers him a regrettable opponent.
Neji Hyūga Neji Hyuga is one of the main suporting characters in Naruto. He came into Naruto quite early leaving his mark as a boy who is marute for his age, who has great self conrtol . In battle is is generally able to remain calm in most situations and take care of the situation at hand. Neji was a firm believer of fate until his match with naruto soon changed his outlook on life, simply because he believe it was his fate to win the match against naruto, but despite Narutno being seriously injured and should have been unable to move Naruto fought on to win and change Neji as a person. Neji has and eye ability called the Byakugan which is the weakest of the eye abilities but only the Hyuga clan hold. On top of this Neji is a genius in hand to hand combat.
Uchiha Itachi Ever since his first appearance Itachi has been somewhat mysterious and acted as though he was hiding his true self. Being a member of the akatsuki he had incredible self control of his emotions constantly showing an emotionless personality. Being confident in his own ability he only showed surprise when an opponent proved more powerful than he thought and even then he didn’t lose composure, surprisingly he didn’t poses any arrogance. In addition to being a powerful person he was equally impressive when it came to his intelligence and was pretty wise. He was even more impressive when it came to his sharpness and observation to any situation he came across and he was rarely surprised or caught off guard.