Naruto Uzumaki

Naruto Uzumaki is a male anime and manga character who features in Naruto.

Biography

Origin

Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto Uzumaki (Japanese: うずまき ナルト, Hepburn: Uzumaki Naruto) was a male human born as the son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki where he was a member of the Uzumaki clan that resided in the Ninja World. By the time of his birth on October 10th, his father served as the Fourth Hokage of Konohagakure whilst his mother was the Jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails. His mother had been placed at a hidden retreat so that she could give birth to her son with this being a dangerous time as the seals around the Nine-Tails was generally weakened at this point. With the aid of the midwives, Naruto was successfully delivered by the site was then attacked by the Masked Man who looked to acquire the power of the Tailed Beast. He came to take the newborn Naruto hostage to prevent Minato from interfering with the Fourth Hokage managing to save his son but his wife was taken by the Masked Man. Minato Namikaze was able to rescue Kushina and reunite her with their son but the Nine-Tails had already been released where it went a on rampage in the village. To stop it, Minato decided to split the Tailed-Beasts chakra into two parts one of which he sealed into Naruto thus making him the Nine-Tails new Jinchūriki. This was because it was believed that Naruto would be the only one able to control the power of the Nine-Tails which he would need as a great war was coming to the world. However, both he and Kushina were ultimately killed in the event thus leaving their son an orphan. The Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi took over as village leader and promised to care for the young Naruto though it was said that all knowledge of his parents was to be hidden from him to prevent him from becoming a target for people wanting the Nine-Tails power.

As a result, Naruto came to be orphaned and had no one who would provide for him leading to him receiving a monthly income from the village in order to afford daily necessities. Naruto grew up not knowing who his parents were with him receiving only his mother's surname with this being done so because Hiruzen wanted to protect Naruto from his father's enemies. Minato's dying wish that Naruto be regarded as a hero was honoured by the very few who could put aside their pain and losses caused by the disaster. However the majority of Konoha had no knowledge of the circumstances surrounding his birth and instead openly ostracised as well as resented Naruto for containing the beast that devastated the village and took many lives; some even viewing the boy as the Nine-Tails itself. The Third Hokage would forbid anyone from mentioning the Nine-Tails, hoping that the younger generation would not blindly hate Naruto as their parents had done so. Despite that, many of Naruto's peers emulated their parents' hatred of him, despite not knowing the reasons behind it. This social isolation caused Naruto to crave acknowledgement, which he would gain by pulling pranks.

For much of his early life, he was seen as an outsider by the village who ostracised by others in Konoha for being the host of the Nine-Tailed fox spirit. It was known that he longed for attention which led to him pulling pranks and getting into trouble in order to be noticed by others. However, much of time, he was either ignored by adults or ridiculed by other children that were his age. He often would get into fights though in one case he helped save Hinata Hyuga who was being bullied by a group of kids though this led to them beating him up instead.

At the academy, his actions greatly affected his performance to the point that he risked being expelled with the Third Hokage worrying for the young Uzumaki. He came to place Iruka Umino as his teacher in the academy in the hope that he would prevent Naruto from being expelled. However, Iruka was still haunted by the death of his parents at the hands of the Nine-Tailed Fox and came to see Naruto as an attention seeker. He was told by one of the other teachers that the approach to dealing with Naruto was simply to ignore his antics. Thus, Umino employed that tactic leading to Naruto feeling ignored and abandoned by everyone around him.

Naruto

Failing once again to graduate from the Academy, a disappointed Naruto is advised by one of his instructors, Mizuki, to steal the Scroll of Seals and learn a technique from it in order to graduate. As Naruto struggled to learn the Shadow Clone Technique, Iruka Umino tracked him down and realised that Naruto was tricked by Mizuki into stealing the scroll. Mizuki attacked them and told Naruto about the Nine-Tails sealed within him, claiming that Iruka hated him because of it. When Iruka risked his life to protect Naruto, however, he saw through Mizuki's lies and used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique to defeat him, prompting Iruka to happily grant Naruto his graduation from the Academy. Naruto would later befriend Konohamaru Sarutobi, grandson of the Third Hokage, and teach him several perverted or useful techniques. At the academy, the student body came to be divided into teams with Naruto finding himself paired with Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha where they were placed under the tutelage of Kakashi Hatake. To test their qualifications, Kakashi gave the team a bell test, stating that whichever of the three takes one of the two bells on his person will officially become genin. Instead of hiding like Sakura and Sasuke, Naruto tried to take the bells from Kakashi by force, only to be easily defeated, hung upside-down from a tree and tied to a wooden post in an attempt to steal lunch. After Sakura and Sasuke fail as well, Kakashi explains that the goal of the test was to use teamwork, to do together what none of them could do by themselves. He is persuaded to allow them to try again after lunch,but instructs Sasuke and Sakura not to feed Naruto. They feed him anyway, needing him in top-form if they're to work together. Kakashi sees this and, because they care more about the team than listening to his instructions, allows them all to pass. He came to train them to work together as members of Team 7 where one of their first missions as an escort mission to the Land of Waves. This saw them being ambushed by the Demon Brothers where later they came to battle Zabuza Momochi. At first, Naruto struggled on the mission but over the course of the battle his determination helped see him through the mission. Kakashi finds Zabuza's death suspicious and decides to train the team in case he returns. He has them perform the Tree Climbing Practice to improve their chakra control, which will help them against Zabuza. Naruto becomes frustrated after several failures and asks for advice from Sakura, who herself mastered it from the start. Now rapidly improving, Naruto competes with Sasuke to finish the training, each determined to outdo the other. One day, Naruto encounters Haku and they each discussed their dreams and desire to protect those precious to them. After Haku leaves, Naruto finishes the training with Sasuke but is left exhausted, so Team 7 leaves him behind the next morning as they resume their escort duties. Naruto awakens and arrives to assist Team 7 in fighting Zabuza and Haku, but, unaware of how Haku's Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals work, he joins Sasuke within the prison. Naruto cannot break free with his shadow clones and Sasuke cannot melt the ice with his fire. As Haku moves in to kill Naruto, Sasuke uses his body as a shield to protect Naruto and seemingly dies. Enraged by Sasuke's apparent death, Naruto unwittingly accesses the Nine-Tails' chakra for the first time, allowing him to destroy the ice mirrors and defeat Haku, breaking his mask. Realising his opponent was the boy he met before, Naruto calms himself. He is asked by Haku to kill him, since he feels of no further use to Zabuza. Before Naruto can do so, Haku immediately stops him and goes off to save Zabuza from being killed by Kakashi, sacrificing his own life. When Zabuza refuses to appreciate this, Naruto angrily scolds him, stating that Haku gave up his life to save someone precious to him. Touched by his words, Zabuza, using Naruto's kunai, killed Gatō and many of his henchmen before he himself dies. Sasuke soon awakens, and when their injuries heal, Team 7 leaves for home via Tazuna's newly-constructed Great Naruto Bridge.

He along with his Team 7 compatriots were chosen to participate in the Chūnin Exams. When they enter the exam hall, the team is met by Rock Lee, who challenges Sasuke to a fight; Naruto tries to attack Lee in jealousy, but is easily swept aside. The fight is interrupted by Might Guy, after which Naruto notes that the bandages around Lee's arms signify his arduous taijutsu training. The first part involved a written exam though in reality it was test the resolve of shinobi and their ability to steal information without being captured. Naruto himself was unaware of this and was wracked with indecision as he did not know the answers along with being scared of getting caught cheating which would have disqualified his compatriots. Hinata offered to let him cheat off her notes but Naruto in the end refused as he feared that she would get into trouble as a result. When the written exam finished, it was revealed that everyone passed despite the fact that Naruto did not answer a single question. This saw him and Team 7 being sent to the next part of the Chūnin Exam where Konohamaru along with his friends conducted an interview with Naruto about his experiences in being a shinobi. For the second phase, teams enter the Forest of Death with the objective of obtaining a set of two scrolls, one of which they are given at the start. Naruto becomes separated from his team and is attacked and swallowed by a giant snake. He manages to kill it and regroups with his frightened teammates against Orochimaru. Angered by Sasuke's sudden cowardice and resignation, Naruto engages Orochimaru using the Nine-Tails' chakra, defeats his giant snake, and taunts Sasuke before Orochimaru suppresses the Nine-Tails' chakra, rendering Naruto unconscious. The experience had shaken Naruto somewhat and he became conflicted as he thought himself as a failure. This was until he spoke to Hinata who said she always admired how he never backed down and always got up again from a fight. Naruto was inspired by her words and went to the next part of the exam with renewed enthusiasm. After he awakens, Team 7 continues its search for the second scroll, which they eventually gain by defeating Team Oboro, allowing them to pass the second stage. In the preliminary matches of the exam, Naruto was pitted against Kiba Inuzuka and his dog, Akamaru. Believing the match to be an easy victory, Kiba and Akamaru overwhelmed Naruto with many high-speed attacks, so Naruto tricks Kiba into knocking Akamaru out of the fight by using the Transformation Technique, shocking all spectators. Naruto then disorients Kiba by farting in his face and defeats him with the Naruto Uzumaki Combo which he invented from watching Sasuke's Lion Combo. When Neji and Hinata's match begins, Naruto is enraged by Neji's ruthless tirade against Hinata and cheers Hinata on to defeat Neji. Although Hinata is defeated, Naruto wipes up her blood and vows to defeat Neji in the finals. The Hokage then revealed that in a month's time that all the contenders were to face a chosen counterpart among those that had passed with Naruto's foe being Neji Hyuga. He then wanted Kakashi to train him but his sensei said that he was busy and did not have the time. Instead, he selected Ebisu to serve as Naruto's instructor though Uzumaki was not happy at his chosen trainer. During the month of training, Naruto first meets Jiraiya and trains under the Sannin to improve his chakra control. Recognising Naruto as the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki, Jiraiya removes the seal Orochimaru had placed on Naruto to ease his control and begins teaching him how to use the Nine-Tails' power by summoning toads. In an effort to unlock his chakra potential, Jiraiya tricked Naruto and threw him off the ledge with no means of escaping the fall unless he tapped into the hidden reservoirs within him from the Nine-Tails. He reasoned that in a life or death situation that Naruto would be able to use the chakra of the fox spirit. In that moment, Naruto first encountered the Nine-Tails within the recesses of his mind and learnt that he was host to the fox spirit. The beast remained trapped and facing with the demise of his host decided to lend his chakra to the boy. This allowed Naruto to summon his power which he used to perform his first summoning jutsu where he called for a giant toad to help stop his fall. The toad was Gamabunta with Jaraiya being surprised at the young Uzumaki being able to summon the giant toad boss. Bunta was infuriated at being summoned in such a situation and initially refused the boy Naruto had called him. Uzumaki then made a deal that if he remained on his back despite the giant's toads attempts at getting rid of him that he would serve Naruto faithfully. Thus, Gamabunta engaged in various acts to try and dislodge the young boy but Naruto remained on him the entire time. Ultimately, Naruto collapsed from exhaustion but Bunta helped take the Uzumaki to the hospital as he had become impressed with the young shinobi. He then spent the next three days in a hospital bed to recover where he awakened to find Shikamaru by his side. The two bonded as friends in this time where they decided to check on Rock Lee only to find Gaara attempting to murder their comrade. The two moved to help protect Lee where Gaara revealed more of his backstory and that he himself was a host to a demon spirit. This revelation shocked Naruto who felt a sense of kinship with Gaara over their shared experiences but saw the sand ninja had taken a different path to himself. Upon seeing the murderous intent in his eyes, Naruto was shaken and felt that he could not fight Gaara with further hostilities ending when Might Guy arrived at the scene. Everyone then dispersed in order to prepare for the next stage of the exam which was tomorrow. On the day of the finals, Naruto meets Hinata at the Third Training Ground and expresses his doubts about his upcoming match with Neji. Hinata reassures Naruto that he never gave up because he always had the strength to overcome his own failures, admiring him for it. Reinvigorated, Naruto thanks Hinata and tells her even though he first thought she was weird, he now likes her. Facing Neji in the first match of the finals, Naruto began by creating shadow clones to overwhelm Neji's with sheer numbers. Deeming Naruto a failure who could never defeat a genius like himself, Neji easily defeats Naruto's clones and seals his chakra with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms. Determined to prove Neji's ideals about fate wrong, Naruto tapped into the Nine-Tails' chakra and, revitalised, clashed with Neji. When the smoke cleared, Neji emerges and Naruto lies defeated. This, however, was only a shadow clone, and the real Naruto burst from the ground beneath Neji, defeating him with an uppercut. Before he is declared the winner, Naruto tells Neji that creating clones was once his shortcoming and that Neji needs to stop believing in inescapable fate. When Sasuke finally arrives for his match with Gaara, Naruto is envious of Sasuke's improvements, but is later put to sleep along with most of the audience, commencing the Konoha Crush.

Sakura wakes up Naruto so they can pursue Sasuke, who was pursuing Gaara himself. They arrive in time for Naruto to kick Gaara away before he can kill Sasuke. Partially transformed into Shukaku, Gaara knocks Sakura unconscious and binds her to a tree, forcing Naruto to battle him, with little success. Naruto relates to Gaara's painful life as a jinchūriki, but he is not willing to let anything to happen to Sakura and Sasuke. Determined to protect his friends, Naruto creates an army of shadow clones to relentlessly batter Gaara, forcing him to fully transform into Shukaku, to which Naruto responds by summoning Gamabunta. Gaara puts himself to sleep to give control of his body to Shukaku, forcing Naruto and Gamabunta to figure out a way to end the jutsu. They do so by transforming into a giant fox to restrain Shukaku, allowing Naruto to awaken Gaara with a solid punch to the face. Shukaku's influence disappears, but Gaara regains control and traps Naruto with his sand. Naruto escapes by tapping into the Nine-Tails' chakra, and headbutts Gaara when he is close enough, destroying Shukaku's form. Exhausted from the fight, the two leap at each other for one final exchange, and Naruto punches Gaara, claiming victory. Naruto and Gaara fall to the ground, unable to move. Slowly crawling towards Gaara, Naruto explained that he also suffered a painful and lonely life, but was later saved by having friends. To that end, he will do anything to protect them, even if it means killing Gaara. Understanding Naruto's true strength, Gaara retreated with Kankurō and Temari with a new outlook on life, while Naruto passes out from exhaustion and is returned to Konoha with Sasuke and a rescued Sakura. A few days later, Team 7 came to attend the funeral of the Third Hokage.

He then was approached by Jiraiya who wanted the boy to accompany him in finding the last of the Legendary Sannin as he wanted her to become the new Hokage. At first, Naruto refused as he wanted to focus on his training to attain power like Sasuke's chidori. Jiraiya stated that he would be teaching him such a power in their search with the young Uzumaki accompanying the man on his quest. At a town, Naruto was told to practice on focusing his chakra and remain at their lodging when he was approached by a mysterious man who he later learnt was Itachi Uchiha with this being Sasuke's older brother. The man was a member of a group called the Akatsuki where he and his team-mate intended to abduct Naruto in order to steal the demon-fox spirit within him. Uzumaki was only saved by the intervention of Sasuke and the arrival of Jiraiya where they managed to force the Akatsuki to flee. Afterwards, Jiraiya continued his search for Tsunade and began to teach Naruto the three steps to make a Rasengan. Taking a break from training, Naruto and Jiraiya eventually found Tsunade and her assistant Shizune at a restaurant. When Tsunade refuses the offer to become Hokage and insults all who held the title, an angry Naruto challenged her to a fight and attacked her with an incomplete Rasengan, only to be easily defeated. Impressed by his progress, however, Tsunade makes a bet with Naruto: if he can master the Rasengan in a week, he gets the First Hokage's Necklace; if not, she gets his wallet. Naruto agreed and spent the week trying to perfect the Rasengan, but has no success and collapses from exhaustion. Once he recovers, Naruto heads out with Jiraiya and Shizune to stop Tsunade from meeting with Orochimaru. They arrive to see Tsunade, who never intended to aid Orochimaru, in the midst of battle with Kabuto Yakushi. When Tsunade is incapacitated, Naruto fights Kabuto in her place and eventually defeats him with a perfected Rasengan, which he formed by using a shadow clone. Naruto collapses almost immediately afterwards, his heart muscles torn by Kabuto, but Tsunade successfully manages to heal him, gives him the necklace he wins, and accepts the position of Hokage. After Orochimaru and Kabuto are defeated, Naruto and the others return to Konoha, Tsunade confidently believing Naruto would someday become a great Hokage.

He later went to the hospital alongside Sakura as they checked on Sasuke where growing resentment as Naruto's growing strength caused him to lash out. The Uchiha then challenged Naruto to a fight on the hospital roof with Uzumaki agreeing as the two battled and unleashed all their might against one another. This culminated in them unleashing their most powerful techniques which was the Rasengan for Naruto and the Chidori for Sasuke. Sakura attempted to stop the fight by going in-between the pair who were unable to halt their attacks and could have killed her had Kakashi Hatake not intervened. He redirected their attacks towards water towers and chastised them for their actions with Sasuke departing the scene. Afterwards, Naruto had also left though Sakura had tracked him down to explain the history of Orochimaru's curse mark on Sasuke. She came to be worried for Sasuke but Naruto attempted to reassure her by saying that Uchiha would not falter and give into the temptations of power from Orochimaru. The next day, he was tracked down by Shikamaru who had been given an assignment by the Hokage which was to find Sasuke who had left Konohagakure for the sound ninja village. Naruto was then chosen among a team of genin to bring back Sasuke where they were under the leadership of newly promoted chunnin Shikamaru Nara. Before departing, he made a promise to Sakura that he would bring back Sasuke as the quickly assembled team departed for their mission. En route to Sasuke, the team encounters members of the Sound Four, each of which battles a member of the recovery team, while Naruto engages Kimimaro. Overwhelmed by Kimimaro's taijutsu skills, Naruto is saved at the last minute by Rock Lee, who volunteers to fight Kimimaro while Naruto heads after Sasuke. Naruto finally meets Sasuke at the Valley of the End. His pleas for Sasuke to come back to Konoha and warnings that Orochimaru will take his body fall on deaf ears. Naruto starts attacking him, ready to take him back to Konoha by force if necessary. Undeterred, Sasuke responds by tapping into his cursed seal and landing a series of heavy blows on Naruto. It becomes painfully clear to Naruto that Sasuke is fighting with an intent to kill, so Naruto utilises the Nine-Tails' chakra to overpower Sasuke. Naruto says that Sasuke is like a brother to him and that he will do anything to protect that bond. Sasuke vows to sever that bond, but acknowledges Naruto as an equal by putting on his forehead protector. They continue trading blows, with Naruto eventually manifesting a fox-shaped cloak and Sasuke entering his cursed seal's second level. Naruto clashes his Rasengan with Sasuke's Chidori, and within the dome of resulting energy they trade final blows: Sasuke punches Naruto and Naruto scratches Sasuke's forehead protector. When the energy dissipates, Naruto lies defeated, but Sasuke spares him and continues his way to Orochimaru, leaving his scratched forehead protector behind. Kakashi and Pakkun arrive late and failing to retrieve Sasuke, leave with Naruto. In the hospital, Naruto once again promises Sakura to bring Sasuke back one day. Soon after, Jiraiya arrived with an offer to train Naruto for preparation against Orochimaru and Akatsuki in three years and to give up on Sasuke, as he is no different from Orochimaru. Naruto accepts Jiraiya's training, but refuses to give up on Sasuke, satisfying Jiraiya.

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Alongside Jiraiya, he departed the village to begin his training in preparation for the coming attack by the Akatsuki. This saw him being away from Konohagakure for the next two years as he underwent intensive training under the Sannin. He eventually returned where Fourth Hokage wanted a demonstration of his new capabilities where alongside Sakura Haruno the two were set to fight their former sensei Kakashi Hatake. During an arranged match, they were tasked with acquiring a pair of bells on his person with the two succeeding in the mission. It was then that the two were assigned to a new team named Team Kakashi where their former mentor was now their senior peer on the ninja squad. Afterwards, the Hokage was sent to give him a low ranked escort mission though Uzumaki insisted on being given a more difficult assignment. It was then that Konohagakure received an urgent communique from the sand village whose Kazekage Gaara had been captured by the Akatsuki. Team Kakashi was then dispatched to aid them with Jiraiya giving some advice to his former pupil before the squad departed. On the day, they encountered Temari who joined them after learning what had happened to her village. The team rushed to the Village Hidden in the Sand where they found events to had been dire as the Akatsuki had killed multiple shinobi, poisoned the puppeteer Kankuro and abducted Gaara. Sakura used her medical ninjutsu to heal Kankuro with Naruto promising to rescue his younger brother Gaara. Kakashi then used ninja hounds to track the Akatsuki to their base but on the way they were confronted by Itachi Uchiha. The Uchiha would trap the young shinobi in a genjutsu until Sakura and Chiyo released him thus allowing Naruto to team up with Kakashi and defeat Itachi with a Big Ball Rasengan. The Itachi though was discovered to be an impostor, so they continued to the Akatsuki lair, meeting up with Team Guy, who takes down the barrier over the entrance so that Team 7 can get in. They came to find Gaara's body finds with his kidnappers with these being Deidara and Sasori of the Red Sand. Deidara would fly off with Gaara's body whilst Naruto and Kakashi went in pursuit of him thus leaving Sasori to face Chiyo and Sakura. An enrage Naruto would makes repeated failed attempts to rescue Gaara before he was calmed by Kakashi who used his new Mangekyō Sharingan to distract Deidara with Kamui. Naruto managed to retrieve Gaara's body, but seeing it drives him over the edge: he furiously attacks Deidara and beats him mercilessly into the ground. Discovering that it was a Clay Clone, Naruto slips into his two-tailed form in rage, but was restored to normal by Kakashi via the Chakra-Suppressing Seal. Deidara escapes, while Naruto and Kakashi regroup with Sakura, Chiyo, and Team Guy. Sakura attempts to revive Gaara, but the removal of Shukaku has caused him to die. Naruto breaks down in tears and angrily lashes out at Chiyo, saying she had no right to make Gaara not only a jinchūriki, but also lose his life because of it. As atonement and with Naruto's aid, Chiyo sacrifices her life to revive Gaara; as the jutsu nears completion, Chiyo voices her faith in Naruto's ability to save Gaara and to become Hokage. Naruto greets Gaara when he awakens, and a few days later, Teams 7 and Guy attend Chiyo's funeral in Suna. Before returning home, Naruto and Gaara shake hands as a sign of their close relationship.

During her fight with Sasori, Sakura learned of an opportunity to meet with a spy in Orochimaru's ranks in a few days' time, hoping it will lead them to Sasuke. Kakashi is left bedridden from his fight with Deidara, so Yamato leads Team 7 as his replacement. Replacing Sasuke on the team is Sai, whom Naruto actually encounters earlier and dislikes, declaring him an inferior version of Sasuke. Sai is happy for this distinction and proceeds to degrade Sasuke for defecting from Konoha, forcing Yamato to use his Wood Release to break up their fight. Naruto is constantly exasperated by Sai's lack of empathy and his ridicule of Sasuke, but resolves to work with Sai if it means saving Sasuke. Yamato disguises himself as Sasori and goes to the Tenchi Bridge to meet the spy while Naruto, Sakura, and Sai hide nearby. The spy, Kabuto Yakushi, begins telling Yamato about Orochimaru's organisation, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Orochimaru, who teams up with Kabuto to fight Yamato, having intended to kill Sasori. Confronting Orochimaru, Naruto demanded the Sanin release Sasuke and his rage caused him to be overwhelmed by the fox spirit. Naruto is enraged and strikes him, using his version 1 form to make his attacks more devastating. Naruto's rage intensifies as he submits to the Nine-Tails' influence: he destroys the Tenchi Bridge and eventually advances to his version 2 form while fighting Orochimaru. Naruto is soon forced back to the destroyed bridge, where, unable to tell friend from foe, he unknowingly attacks Sakura when she approaches him. Yamato restrains Naruto with his Wood Release and suppresses the Nine-Tails' influence, but its chakra leaves Naruto's body badly damaged. After Sakura heals him, Naruto wakes up unable to remember what happened, but is surprised by the devastated landscape. When they realise that Sai is missing, Yamato reports that he has joined with Orochimaru and Kabuto. On the way, Yamato secretly takes Naruto aside and tells him that he is the one who attacked Sakura. He encourages Naruto to use his own strength instead of the Nine-Tails in order to protect his loved ones. The team locates Sai, whom Yamato has placed a trace on, at Orochimaru's lair and capture him. Restrained, Sai asks why Naruto is determined to save him; Naruto replies that his bond with Sasuke is too precious to be broken and that he will do anything to protect it. Intrigued, Sai switches sides, helping them capture Kabuto and then searching the base for Sasuke on Naruto's behalf. While he's gone, Yamato goes through his belongings and finds evidence that Sai has been assigned to assassinate Sasuke. When they find Sai, he explains that he truly does want to help retrieve Sasuke, and in fact has already found him: Naruto and Sakura are speechless to see Sasuke again. Sasuke reacts with indifference to them, but Naruto remarks he can't become Hokage without saving his friend. To demonstrate that they mean nothing to him, Sasuke quickly neutralises them all. As Naruto struggles to avoid the temptation of using the Nine-Tails, Sasuke suddenly appears in Naruto's subconscious using his Sharingan and suppresses the Nine-Tails. He then prepares to kill them, but is persuaded not to by Orochimaru and leaves without further comment. Naruto is upset at having failed once more to bring Sasuke home, but is reminded by Sakura that they need to become stronger and Team 7 returns to Konoha.

A despondent Naruto was worried at how much stronger Sasuke had become in the two years that he had left to join Orochimaru. Thus, it was decided that Naruto must be trained to a similar degree in order to lessen the gap between the two with Kakashi Hatake taking over this role. Whilst recovering in the hospital, he devised a training regimen that normally took years to accomplish but he reduced to a far shorter length of time. This involved unlocking the ability of combining two different chakra natures in order to create more powerful attacks. To do this, the intensive training regimen involved Naruto creating dozens of Shadow Clones all undergoing the lesson so that their knowledge would all collectively pass to Naruto himself. It was believed that this technique would reduce the length of time that would take to complete this training.

During his training, he and the others were informed that Asuma Sarutobi had been killed in a battle with the Akatsuki. Naruto was told he could join the team in pursuit of the murderers if he completed his training with him redoubling his efforts in learning the new jutsu. A break was given in order to allow him to attend Asuma's funeral. Kakashi later left Yamato in charge of overseeing Naruto's training so he could help Team 10 avenge Asuma. Having finished his jutsu, Naruto and Team Yamato went to provide assistance, arriving in time to save Kakashi and Team 10 from Kakuzu. Naruto engages Kakuzu alone with his newly-created Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, though it dissipates on its first use and Naruto is rescued by Kakashi and Yamato. The technique succeeds the second time, destroying two of Kakuzu's hearts and putting the last one on the brink of failure. Kakashi finishes off Kakuzu and they return to Konoha. The Rasenshuriken injures Naruto's arm after use and he is forbidden to use the technique ever again. When they visit Ichiraku Ramen, Naruto has a hard time eating while his arm mends, so Sakura opts to help, before the responsibility falls to Sai, then to Kakashi. As they leave afterwards, they are met by Konohamaru, who demonstrates his Sexy: Girl on Girl Technique; Naruto approves but Sakura is disgusted and violently reprimands him. In the manga, Konohamaru responds with Sexy: Boy on Boy Technique; Sakura approves but Naruto is disgusted and violently reprimanded him.

News reaches Konoha that Sasuke has killed Orochimaru. Realising that this is a good opportunity to try once again to reunite with Sasuke, Kakashi combines Teams 7 and 8 into an Eight Man Squad with the mission to find either Sasuke or his assumed target, Itachi. When they split up to search, Naruto, because he's a target of Akatsuki, is given a protective escort in the form of Hinata, Yamato, and Bull. Their group encounters Kabuto, who offers them intel on Akatsuki and its members, his thanks to Naruto "inspiring" him to overcome Orochimaru after absorbing his remains but then Kabuto managed to escape. After regrouping and Kiba Inuzuka detects Sasuke's trail, Naruto creates shadow clones to search the area faster, one of which encounters Itachi. Itachi repels Naruto's attacks and insists he only wants to talk. He asks Naruto what Sasuke means to him and what he will do if Sasuke ever moves against Konoha. Naruto replies that he is Sasuke's brother – a better brother than Itachi is – and that if Sasuke ever attacks the village he will defend it without killing Sasuke. Itachi is happy with this answer and gives Naruto some assistance for this purpose: a special crow that he stores within Naruto's body. Itachi left, and Naruto continued his search, eventually finding Sasuke. As they near Sasuke's location they are intercepted by Tobi of Akatsuki, who prevents them from progressing and who is invulnerable to their attacks. As the group continually tries to attack Tobi, he dodges the attacks with ease. Naruto tries several times to attack him with his Rasengan, but without success. Tobi attempts to use a hidden jutsu to attack the teams, but fails at it. Eventually, Zetsu comes to tell him about Sasuke and Itachi's fight. Tobi leaves when he receives news that Sasuke has killed Itachi, and Teams 7 and 8 try to reach Sasuke before he does. Unable to find where Tobi has taken Sasuke, they are forced to return to Konoha.

In the aftermath, Naruto contemplated his meeting with Itachi. He was later called to a meeting with the Fifth Hokage where he came to be informed that his sensei Jiraiya had been killed in a battle against Pain. Grief-stricken, Naruto blamed Tsunade and spent the day mourning his teacher's death, depressed that Jiraiya cannot see him become Hokage. After being comforted by Iruka and Shikamaru, Naruto helped to decipher Jiraiya's dying message and eventually they succeed. Understanding that Jiraiya had bought him time for his own fight with Pain, Naruto went to train with the toads of Mount Myōboku to learn senjutsu. The toad sage Lord Fukasaku (フカサク, Fukasaku) then used a reverse summoning that took Naruto to Mount Myōboku. Once there, he had the boy go through a fast track training program to learn Senjutsu with this being aided by the use of the chakra rich toad oil native to the area. Naruto trained to harmonise with nature, a process he sped up by using a limited number of shadow clones. He rapidly progressed through the training stages and attained a perfect Sage Mode, which Jiraiya was unable to do.

He later learnt from the messenger frogs that contact was lost with Konohagakure. Naruto and Fukasaku then made preparations to return to the village. This included setting up shadow clones set to gather nature chakra energy that he could use to restore his reserves via a reverse summoning. Alongside the other giant toads, they were summoned at Konohagakure only to find the village devastated by Pain with various hidden leaf shinobi including Kakashi having been killed. The summoned slug Lady Katsuyu briefed Uzumaki on the power of Pain and that the Akatsuki leader operated through six powerful bodies that were in search for the jinchuriki host of the Nine-Tails. During their encounter, Naruto came to learn that Pain was a former student of Jiraiya. In the battle between the two, Naruto looked to eliminate the the different Pain bodies leaving only the Deva Path his sole opponent. Despite his successes, he was unable to defeat Pain who managed to capture Naruto where he pinned him to the ground with chakra receivers. It was then that Hinata Hyuga arrived at the scene where she attacked the villain in an effort to save Naruto. Unable to defeat her opponent, she looked to free Naruto from the chakra receivers but Pain used his jutsu to push her away before she could free Uzumaki fully. In the fight, she confessed that she fought such a hopeless battle because she loved Naruto whereupon Pain seemingly killed her with him stabbing her with a chakra receiver. Her apparent death caused Naruto to snap and he allowed himself to be consumed by the Nine-Tails spirit which took over his body and even manifested eight of its tails. In a rage, Naruto's body attacked Pain relentlessly and with great power to the point that he forced his opponent to go on the run. To stop the overwhelmed jinchuriki host, Pain came to use the Chibaku Tensei and create a large rock formation in an effort to imprison the Nine-Tails within it. During this time, Naruto fell prey to the Nine-Tails manipulations who offered him revenge in exchange for his seal to be broken. However, before he could tear off the seal in his mind, he was stopped by the spirit of the Fourth Hokage who revealed himself to be Naruto's father.

From their exchange, Naruto came to gain a measure of peace whilst his father's spirit repaired the seal before dissipating. This allowed Uzumaki to return to his human form where he decided to continue his battle against Pain. By this point, he regained Sage Mode and enacted a clever strategy that helped defeat the Deva Path. From their fight, he also came to track the chakra signature of the wielder of Pain through the chakra receivers that he could do in Sage Mode. He followed the trail to a tall tree where and told his hidden leaf comrades to not interfere as he intended to have a conversation with the real Pain. Within the tree, he found the real Pain to be Nagato who attempted to use a black chakra receiver to spear Naruto and take control of his body. However, Uzumaki managed to fight back the control and remove the rod where he said that he had come to meet Nagato in order to find a solution rather than continue with violence as this was an endlessly cycle in the shinobi war that was born of hatred. As such, he came peacefully to meet with Nagato and to learn his story before deciding his next course of action. From then, he came to learn about Nagato and Konan's past whereupon he said that he would not kill him. This was because he intended to fulfil their master Jiraiya's dream of a peaceful ninja world though at first Nagato could not believe such a goal was possible. However, Naruto vowed that he would rise to position of Hokage and end the cycle of violence with this being a promise he would keep. In fact, he uncovered that he was named after the hero of Jiraiya's first novel who in turn had been based on Nagato back in his youth. This revelation led to Nagato deciding to put his faith in Naruto Uzumaki and ended hostilities where he used a jutsu that restored all the dead in Konohagakure but at the cost of the caster's life. Thus, Nagato died and Konan took his along with Yahiko's boy away whilst stating that she was leaving the Akatsuki as they decided to put heir faith in Naruto. With the battle over, Naruto collapsed from exhaustion only to be taken back home by the resurrected Kakashi Hatake where Uzumaki was hailed as a hero by everyone in the hidden leaf.

In the aftermath, he helped in the rebuilding efforts of the village during a time when Lady Tsunade had fallen into a coma due to the strain of the recent battle. This allowed Danzō Shimura to position himself as her replacement and he was named the Hokage Candidate by the elders of the village. During this time, the village was visited by ninja from the hidden cloud who were looking for information about Sasuke Uchiha after he attacked and kidnapped their jinchuriki. They sought information from Naruto who felt responsible for Sasuke's actions but could not bring himself to betray his comrade. During this time, a summit was called among the five Kage to discuss the threat of the Akatsuki where they looked to brand Sasuke a rogue ninja to be eliminated for his recent actions. In desperation, Naruto convinced Kakashi and Yamato to help him appeal to the Raikage who was heading the effort to get revenge against Sasuke for his attack against his younger brother Killer B. Naruto came to beg the Kage to not go down the path of revenge but the Raikage refused to do so and he continued to the summit. This left Naruto feeling defeated as he and his comrades stayed at a local village where they were visited by Tobi. Attempts to capture the villain failed due to his transportation technique but he revealed that he had not come to fight but rather learn how Uzumaki had convinced Nagato to betray him. Naruto though refused to answer until Tobi revealed how he tricked Sasuke to help the Akatsuki with the Masked Madara revealing the truth about Itachi Uchiha. He then said that Sasuke was a willing participant in the scheme to get revenge against the hidden leaf for their treatment of his brother and the Uchiha clan after which he teleported away. This left Naruto even more confused on what to do to save Sasuke when his comrades from Konohagakure had arrived with Sakura wanting to speak to him. She claimed that she had since fallen in love with Naruto and asked him to stop trying to fulfil his promise to Sakura in saving Sasuke. However, Naruto became suspicious over her actions as he knew she was lying and trying to dissuade him from trying to save Sasuke.

After Sakura and the team departed, exhaustion hit Naruto where the stresses he experienced caused him to collapse. Upon regaining consciousness, he found Captain Yamato by his side as Kakashi Hatake had gone to find Sakura where he gave instructions for Naruto to be taken back to the hidden leaf. However, Naruto planned to disobey the order and used a shadow clone to trick Yamato whilst he made his way to Sakura's location as he learnt that she was looking to confront and kill Sasuke after he was declared a rogue shinobi. Rushing to the scene, he arrived just in time to save Sakura from being killed by Sasuke where he confronted his fallen comrade. At first, Sasuke looked to unleash his new powers against his former comrades but had exhausted his eyes leaving him vulnerable but the Masked Madara arrived to take him away. Before teleporting, he agreed Naruto's challenge that the two would battle one another with Uzumaki promising to die alongside him in order to save Sasuke. With the threat over, Naruto collapsed as it was revealed that the kunai Sasuke had used was taken from Sakura who had coated it in poison for use against Uchiha. He was then treated for the poison whilst all the hidden leaf shinobi headed back to the village. During this time, they learnt that Danzo Shimura had been killed by Sasuke with Konohagakure looking to appoint a new Hokage with them deciding on Kakashi Hatake. However, before the appointment, they came to find out that Lady Tsunade had woken from her coma with this being celebrated by everyone in the village. Afterwards, Konohagakure had joined the Allied Shinobi Forces to fight off the predation of the Akatsuki where it was decided that Naruto would join the hidden cloud's jinchuriki on a secret island. This was to keep the last two Tailed-Beasts away from the Masked Madara.

After making the journey, he came to encounter the Eight-Tails jinchuriki with this being Killer B. It was then that Naruto looked to learn from the hidden cloud ninja to learnt to control his Tailed-Beast. After completing his training, he managed to delve deep into his mind to confront the Nine-Tails. At first, he was nearly overwhelmed but came to receive unexpected aid from the chakra of his mother Kushina Uzumaki that had been sealed within him. From this brief encounter, he came to learn more about his parents and the night of his birth when they were killed. Through her aid, he was able to steal some of the Nine-Tails power allowing him to attain a more powerful transformation by being able to enter the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode. After saying good bye to his mother, Naruto returned to his body where his new ability allowed him to uncover the presence of the Akatsuki member Kisame Hoshikage who had been hiding in the blade Samehada. The rogue ninja attempted to flee to relay his intelligence to his comrades but ultimately was stopped and rather than reveal the identity of his master Kisame came to kill himself. Before doing so though, he had placed a trap on the intelligence he gathered whereby a summoned shark was able to deliver the information to the Masked Madara.

Later on, he continued his training with Killer B when his improved senses let him feel fighting elsewhere in the world. This led him to learn that the Allied Shinobi Forces were engaged in the Fourth Shinobi World War with Naruto deciding to intervene despite the Kage's wanting to sequester the two Jinchūriki away. However, Uzumaki refused and gained support from Killer B where they broke away to take part in the battle. On the way, they were confronted by the Hokage and Raikage who looked to stop the Jinchūriki. It was only through the pleas of Naruto were they convinced to allow the two hosts of the Tailed-Beasts to take part in the war. Naruto proved to be invaluable as his enhanced senses allowed him to uncover the shapeshifting White Zetsu that had infiltrated the Allied Shinobi Forces. Using shadow clones, he was able to fight in numerous fronts on the battlefield some of whom battled reanimated shinobi.

The Allies made individual attacks against the Ten-Tails, but none had any effect. At the same time, the Ten-Tails started raining wooden skewers all over the battlefield, killing many. When one was about to hit Naruto, Hinata shielded him with her body and Neji shielded her with his own. Dying, Neji collapsed on Naruto's shoulder, asking him to be more careful in the future since many lives, Hinata's particularly, now depend on his. With his last breath, he thanked Naruto for calling him a genius all those years ago. Naruto was deeply distraught by Neji's death, which Obito tried to use as an example of the needless death that resistance caused and that could be solved in the new world he wanted to create. Hinata brought Naruto back to his senses by reminding him of all the people who had given their lives to protect him and whose memories he would be insulting if he had given up now. As Naruto thanked her, he took her hand and coated her with some of Kurama's chakra. Naruto shared Kurama's chakra throughout the Allied Forces, increasing their strength and protecting them from harm. They all manoeuvred into a formation that Shikaku was able to communicate to them before he died and, taking the form of a bird in memory of Neji, successfully removed the Ten-Tails from Obito and Madara's control. Forced to fend for themselves, Obito sought out Naruto, criticising him for wasting his energy protecting others. Naruto replied that protecting them actually gave him strength, motivating everyone within earshot. They then sensed the Ten-Tails was about to attack, which Kakashi tried to stop with Kamui. Obito intercepted him and they teleported away, leaving the others to endure the Ten-Tails' Tenpenchii. Kurama's chakra protected everyone, but it faded in the aftermath; Naruto was left quite beaten up, requiring Sakura to heal him. When the Ten-Tails attacked with another Tailed Beast Ball, the Allies mustered what little defence they could. Before it could reach them, however, the Tailed Beast Ball was suddenly teleported away and Naruto's reincarnated father, Minato Namikaze, appeared at Naruto's side. The First, Second, and Third Hokage soon arrived where along with Minato they erected a barrier around the Ten-Tails to confine it. Sasuke arrived shortly too, at whose request the previous Hokage were reincarnated by Orochimaru and who now opposed Obito and Madara. Their fellow Rookie Nine had set aside their differences with Sasuke for the time being and joined forces in launching an attack against the Ten-Tails' cruft. On Sai's advice, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all summoned their signature animals in order to focus directly on the Ten-Tails itself. Naruto and Sasuke successfully damaged the Ten-Tails' arm with a combined Scorch Release: Halo Hurricane Jet Black Arrow Style Zero, but it merely removed the arm to prevent the flames of Sasuke's Amaterasu from spreading. Before they could attack again, Obito returned, landing on top of the Ten-Tails head and seemingly about to use the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to restore Madara to life. While everyone focused on stopping Obito, Naruto could not help but notice that the hand seals he was using were different from what Nagato used. Minato tried to cut Obito down, but discovered that it was too late as he sealed the Ten-Tails into his body, becoming its jinchūriki.

Obito used his new power to destroy the barrier, forcing the Hokage to put the energy they were using toward the barrier into the fight instead. Because they had immortal bodies, they launched the first attack so that the others could learn what they could about Obito's new abilities, but they were quickly defeated. Naruto and Sasuke engaged him as well, but were nearly killed, saved only by Naruto using his chakra arms to link to Minato so he could teleport them to safety. Just as before, Naruto and Sasuke combined their attacks, having Minato and the Second Hokage coordinate teleports so that the attack would connect. Obito's Truth-Seeking Balls dissipated much of the attack and the damage that he did incur was quickly regenerated. From the development and some of the previous exchanges, Minato concluded that Obito was able to neutralise ninjutsu. Gamakichi, wanting to make some final contribution to the fight before he was forced to return to Mount Myōboku, attacked with his Starch Syrup Gun. Minato took this opportunity to try and reason with Obito, reminding him of his former dream to become Hokage. Obito berated the title and those who had held it, as he had surpassed them. Naruto was insulted not only because that was a slight against his father, but also because he hadn't abandoned his dream of being Hokage like Obito had. The Second Hokage teleported him to Obito and he attacked with a Rasengan, which successfully damaged Obito; Naruto noticed that Gamakichi's attack wasn't neutralised and realised Obito was vulnerable to senjutsu. With a weakness discovered, Obito trapped the Alliance in a barrier and began charging multiple Tailed Beast Balls that he would use to wipe out everyone within its confines. Minato noted that he wouldn't be able to teleport them all away in time, so Naruto came up with a different approach: he linked his chakra with Minato and remotely restored the Alliance's chakra cloaks, networking everyone in with Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique, allowing him to teleport everyone out of the barrier. Minato did so and was afterwards very proud of his son, saying he wished they had more time to talk. Naruto replied that it was not necessary since he already met his mother and that she explained everything. Naruto and Minato each entered Tailed Beast Modes, with Naruto merging his with Sage Mode in order to imbue their shared Rasengan with senjutsu. The Second teleported them to Obito and they attacked, but he blocked it with his Truth-Seeking Balls.

To move ahead with his plans, Obito created a replica of the God Tree which was the first step needed to perform the Infinite Tsukuyomi. The tree started absorbing chakra from those nearby until they die, a fate that Naruto nearly succumbed to until he was saved by the Third Hokage. Obito pointed to the growing number of casualties as further evidence that Naruto should stop resisting, an argument that Naruto was increasingly having trouble ignoring. Sasuke, unmoved by Obito's words, used Susanoo to hack through the tree and then mocked Naruto for giving up. Naruto was reminded of his desire to not lose Sasuke or anyone else for that matter and, reinvigorated, joined Sasuke in the offensive. Although their senjutsu-enhanced Tailed Beast Mode and Susanoo could compete with Obito, they were individually unable to defeat him. Obito continued trying to convince Naruto to stop, but he ignored him. Sasuke then coated his Susanoo around Naruto's Tailed Beast Mode, granting the Kurama-avatar a sword and armour. Sensing that it was the final exchange, Obito created a sword and shield of his own out of Truth-Seeking Balls. Naruto created a Rasengan in each of the Kurama-avatar's tails, which his friends from Konoha guide in a coordinated assault to Obito's shield, destroying it. As soon as Naruto and Sasuke sliced through Obito with their sword, the tailed beasts then began to emerge from the Uchiha's body, giving Naruto and the combined Allied Shinobi Forces the opportunity to pull them out. The tug-of-war for the tailed beasts linked Naruto's consciousness with Obito's. Naruto reminded Obito of his earlier claim that he was nobody and set out to prove to him that he was Obito Uchiha, specifically the Obito Uchiha that Kakashi used to know. Naruto pointed out their similarities, how both were orphans and that, because of that, they wanted to be Hokage. Obito agreed that they were similar, but that was the reason why he has been trying so hard to convince Naruto that he was right, and insisted that the world he wanted to create was a better one because his vision of the future was clear, whereas the future of the current world was ambiguous. Naruto argued that was the point and that uncertainty, when faced with comrades, was worthwhile, and offered Obito his hand so that they might see what happened together. The Allies successfully removed the tailed beasts from Obito and he fell to the ground, defeated. Minato and Kakashi insisted that Obito be left to them while Naruto and the rest of the Alliance should focus on Madara. They did so, joining forces with the First Hokage against him, but right before he could seal him, Madara put one final fail-safe into effect: he had Black Zetsu force Obito to revive him. Madara quickly neutralised the First, fended off Naruto, Sasuke, and Sai, and then went after the freed tailed beasts. Naruto entered Tailed Beast Mode and assisted them with fighting him off. They were initially successful, but when Madara reacquired one of his Rinnegan, he easily defeated them with Limbo: Border Jail, sealing them all back into the Demonic Statue, including B's Gyūki and Naruto's Kurama.

The removal of Kurama from his body caused Naruto to pass out and placed his life in immediate danger. His Uzumaki heritage prevented him from dying instantly, but he required constant medical attention from Sakura in order to keep him alive. On the advice of Kurama right before it was extracted, Gaara took Naruto to Minato so that Minato's portion of Kurama's chakra could be sealed into him, saving him. Kakashi sent Naruto and Sakura to Kamui's dimension so that she could continue performing life support without interruption. Obito soon arrived to help her, having overcome both Black Zetsu and Madara in order to acquire Minato's half of Kurama and give it to Naruto, as his form of penance. While on the border of life and death, Naruto was met by the Sage of Six Paths, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki. He explained his past conflicts with his mother, Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, and the conflicts that emerged between his sons, Asura and Indra. His sons' conflict had continued through the centuries, with their chakra reincarnated every generation in new individuals to fight anew; Naruto was the current reincarnation of Asura, while Sasuke was the reincarnation of Indra. Naruto was not greatly surprised, having sensed something like that when he met Sasuke during the Five Kage Summit. Because of Madara's aims for the world, Hagoromo asked that he and Sasuke join forces to stop him, a task he was only encouraged by from the tailed beasts' positive words concerning Naruto. He gave Naruto the Six Paths Yang Power, half his chakra and Six Paths Sage Mode to help him in this goal. When Naruto woke up, he had Obito send him back to the real world. There, he stopped Madara from killing Might Guy and used Hagoromo's power to stabilise Guy's life force from using the Eight Gates Released Formation. Surprised by Naruto's sudden increase in power, Madara was hit by Naruto's Sage Art: Lava Release Rasenshuriken, which was fueled by Son Gokū's chakra and instantly cut down the giant tree Obito created earlier. When Sasuke arrived, Naruto entered Six Paths Sage Mode and they started overwhelming Madara. Realising his window was closing, Madara went after Kakashi and took his Mangekyō Sharingan, using it to follow Obito. Sakura appeared shortly afterward, sent by Obito so Madara wouldn't kill her. She could do nothing about Kakashi's eye, so Naruto used Hagoromo's power to restore the one he lost years ago. Madara soon returned, now having both his Rinnegan and Black Zetsu in control of Obito's body. Naruto and Sasuke immediately resumed their attack, but Madara had an easier time with them. He rose into the sky, raining Chibaku Tensei on them to keep them busy while he projected the Infinite Tsukuyomi on the world. While Naruto destroyed the remaining satellite-like constructs, Sasuke shielded him, Sakura, and Kakashi with Susanoo from the Infinite Tsukuyomi's gaze. He let them out once the illusion was finished casting and they emerged to find themselves alone, with the rest of the world being wrapped into Madara's God: Nativity of a World of Trees. As Madara confronted them and started explaining how he had saved the world, he was stabbed in the back by Black Zetsu. Black Zetsu then transferred to Madara's body from Obito's and forced him to absorb the world's chakra, converting him into a woman that Naruto and Sasuke recognised as Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

Kaguya would detect that Naruto and Sasuke were reincarnations of her grandsons Asura and Indra, and also that her son Hagoromo had given them the power to defeat her. Not wanting to further the damage the world that their fighting would cause, she shifted them all to one of her dimensions, placing them above a sea of lava. Sasuke summoned his hawk Garuda to save himself and Naruto, but ignored Naruto's pleas to save Sakura, Kakashi, and Obito too since only he and Naruto were vital to the fight. Kakashi was able to briefly stop their fall, but the heat burned the scroll he used to save them and it was only Naruto's sudden discovery that he was able to levitate that saved them from the lava. He left a shadow clone to hold onto them and engaged Kaguya, creating an opening for Sasuke to attack. Sasuke's attack failed and Naruto must save him from the lava. With their attacks ineffective and the environment such a hazard, Naruto and Sasuke discussed what to do. Kaguya appeared behind them and paralysed them, binding them with Black Zetsu while she started absorbing their chakra. Black Zetsu took the opportunity to expand on the history earlier given by Hagoromo, painting Kaguya as the victim of her sons, Hagoromo and Hamura. Black Zetsu had for centuries been manipulating others toward the outcome of reviving her, and only then had it finally succeeded. It encouraged them to bask in the embrace of their oblivion, but Naruto refused, breaking himself and Sasuke free. Needing to take drastic action, Naruto used his "ultimate" jutsu: Sexy: Reverse Harem Technique. Kaguya was so distracted that she was nearly sealed, but she recomposed herself in time to shift dimensions again, freezing Naruto and Sasuke in place. Because Naruto and Sasuke were only a threat to her when together, Kaguya sent Sasuke to a different dimension while she focused on Naruto. While Kaguya manipulated the ice dimension against him, his shadow clone explained to Kakashi, Sakura, and the now-awake Obito that his and Sasuke's powers were both necessary to defeat her. Obito offered to use his Kamui to try and explore Kaguya's dimensions to find Sasuke. To give Obito an opening, Naruto used Naruto Region Combo to overwhelm Kaguya, forcing her to retreat to another dimension to get her bearings. When she did so, Obito infiltrated the dimension Kaguya went to with Sakura and the shadow clone. The shadow clone faced her so that she wouldn't notice them while they look for Sasuke. Kaguya returned to the ice dimension and resumed her fight with the army of Naruto's clones. He kept her preoccupied until Obito returned with Sasuke.

Increasingly frustrated, Kaguya shifted them to another dimension with powerful gravity to immobilise Naruto and Sasuke while she attacked with her All-Killing Ash Bones. Kakashi and Obito used themselves to shield the attack, with Obito then using Kamui to protect Kakashi, leaving Obito unable to defend himself. Naruto tried to heal the damage to his body, but even Hagoromo's power couldn't save him. While Sasuke fought Kaguya, Obito thanked Naruto for reminding him of who he was and made him promise to become Hokage for both their sakes. Naruto agreed and Obito's body crumbled. Black Zetsu ridiculed Obito for living an insignificant life and dying an insignificant death. Enraged, Naruto severed Kaguya's arm, in the sleeve of which Black Zetsu had been hiding, and then pinned it to the ground with his Truth-Seeking Balls. Naruto and his shadow clones attacked Kaguya with Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken. On impact, the tailed beasts' chakra within her began reacting and Kaguya started losing control of her form. She was able to reconfigure herself and prepared an Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball to destroy them. Kakashi interfered, using Susanoo to make an opening for Naruto and Sasuke. She tried to escape, but Sakura punched her to keep her in place, allowing Naruto and Sasuke to trigger Six Paths — Chibaku Tensei. The tailed beasts were removed from her, Madara was spat out, and she was entombed in her own dimension. Not wanting Black Zetsu to scheme for her release again, Naruto made a point to trap it with her but not before telling it that a spoiled brat like it has no right to compare itself with the men and women who truly shaped shinobi history. Team 7 wondered how they would return to their world. Sensing their need, Hagoromo combined the efforts of the dead Kage to summon them, the tailed beasts, and Madara back. Hagoromo thanked them for saving the world, as did the tailed beasts for saving them. Naruto happily greeted to his original Kurama, asking if it missed him, to which the flustered fox denied. After Madara died from his ordeal, Naruto met with Minato who, as day broke, wished him a happy seventeenth birthday. As Hagoromo returned Minato's and the souls of the other dead Kage to the Pure Land, Minato voiced his pride in Naruto and promised to tell Kushina everything about him. The other Kage also gave words of parting which Naruto came to tearfully accept.

With all threats gone, Hagoromo explained that the Infinite Tsukuyomi could be released if Naruto and Sasuke combine their chakra. Sasuke agreed to this, but first he wanted to kill the Kage and destroy the tailed beasts, believing both were inhibitive to world peace. When he was unwilling to back down from his threat, the tailed beasts moved in to stop Sasuke, but he captured each in their own Chibaku Tensei. Hagoromo recognised that as a continuation of Indra's feud with Asura, but lacked the time and power to do anything about it. Sakura tried to reason with Sasuke, but he knocked her out and left. Naruto followed after him, promising to Hagoromo that he would bring him around and finally end the centuries-long feud. Naruto and Sasuke ended up at the Valley of the End, where they fought years ago. Sasuke stated his willingness to bear the world's burdens by himself and live independently of the past, neither of which Naruto believed were possible, or at least wise. He tells Sasuke it's impossible to do everything alone like he plans to, pointing to the missteps Itachi made and their own successful teamwork against Kaguya. Sasuke replies that he only wants to remake a better world, one where he can, like Itachi before, be solely responsible for the difficult decisions that must be made so that nobody else needs to; this is what he believes a true 'Hokage' to be. Naruto insists he will be Hokage, not Sasuke, because Sasuke is still going against what Itachi wanted for him and they start fighting. After a brief exchange of blows reminiscent of their fight years ago, Naruto and Sasuke started trading punches with their Tailed Beast Mode and Susanoo respectively. Sasuke chastised Naruto for not attacking with an intent to kill, but Naruto, like last time, was unwilling to do so, not wishing for either of them to go without the other. Naruto then clashed his Tailed Beast Ball with Sasuke's Susanoo-supported Chidori, producing a large explosion that does noticeable but not debilitating damage to their respective avatars. Each therefore powered up the avatars, Sasuke by channelling the captured tailed beasts into his Susanoo and Naruto by merging his avatar with the avatars of two shadow clones. The two met attacks once again, creating a giant explosion that stripped away their avatars and left them with too little chakra to use practically. They instead resorted to taijutsu, kicking and punching each other into the night.

As the two battled near exhaustion, Kurama mustered enough chakra for Naruto to make one last attack, but Sasuke absorbed it. Having expected this, Naruto delivered a solid punch, finally irritating Sasuke over the endless repetition of their fight. Kurama gave the last of its chakra to Naruto, who used it to make a Rasengan to counter Sasuke's Chidori. Both woke up later to find that much of the Valley of the End had been destroyed, that they had each lost an arm, and that neither could move. Sasuke reflected that Naruto had been a constant obstacle to his goals, but that he was also the only person who never given up on him. Naruto's usual response that they were friends didn't convince Sasuke since it obviously went beyond, so Naruto elaborated that he experienced pain if he didn't have Sasuke. Sasuke was awed, knowing full well that Naruto had experienced various misfortunes in his life, smiled through all of them, yet would suffer without Sasuke. When they woke up the next day, Sasuke admitted defeat for the first time in his life, as he came to accept that Naruto was just as vital to him as he was to Naruto. Kakashi and Sakura eventually tracked them down and Sakura healed them, though she couldn't do anything about their missing arms. Once they were able to walk, they returned to where the Allied Shinobi Forces were all trapped still, dispelled the Infinite Tsukuyomi according to Hagoromo's instructions, and Sasuke released the tailed beasts. With the war over, Naruto returns to the village, where he attends a mass funeral for the participants of the war. In the anime, while recovering from his injuries, Gaara and A approach Naruto and thank him for his effort during the war. Shikamaru later brings Naruto to the Academy to meet with Iruka and Kakashi, who is considering on promoting Naruto as a jōnin. However, because he never got to retake the Chūnin Exams, Naruto has to complete two years worth of studies, much to his dismay. However, Naruto was then cheered up by Iruka who offered to help him.

Next Generations

The couple later had two children with an older son that they named Boruto Uzumaki and a younger daughter named Himawari Uzumaki.

Though Boruto had won the exam, Naruto had become suspicious over his sons talents and as he approached him publicly he checked his right arm only to find a scientific ninja tool. This was a clear violation of the rules of the exam with this revelation leading to the public disgrace of his son who was disqualified from the tournament. Before anything else happened, the stadium was approached by two members of the mysterious Osutsuki Clan. They created a large explosion to target the civilians with the village's ninja moving to protect the innocent bystanders. Meanwhile, Naruto moved to take his son to safety and tried to battle the alien clan members that were led by Momoshiki Otsutsuki. Though powerful, Naruto had to hold back his power in fear of hurting the innocents around him and though he deflected Momishiki Osutsuki's powerful attack but was captured as a result. He was taken to the site of a regrown Divine Tree where Momishiki Osutsuki went through the lengthy process of trying to remove Naruto's Tail Beast from his body in order to help fully plant the fruit that would sprout as the tree.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Naruto Uzumaki was a male human with yellow blonde spiky hair and blue eyes with his trademark characteristic being the three whisker markings on his cheeks. It was said that he resembled his father thugh had inherited the shape of his mother's eyes and face. He was named after Naruto Musasabi who was the protagonist of Jiraiya's first book with the Sannin becoming his godfather. Whilst on Team 7, his tendency to show-off led to his sensei Kakashi Hatake referring to him as the The Show-Off, Number One Unpredictable, Noisy Ninja (目立ちたがり屋で意外性No.1のドタバタ忍者, Medachitagariya de Igaisei Nanbā Wan no Dotabata Ninja, English TV: Number One Hyperactive, Knucklehead Ninja). It was his actions that led to him gaining in popularity and being referred to as the Hero of the Hidden Leaf (木ノ葉隠れの英雄, Konohagakure no Eiyū, Literally meaning: Hero of the Hidden Tree Leaves). Afterwards, he attained his dream and came to be known as the Seventh Hokage (七代目火影, Nanadaime Hokage, Literally meaning: Seventh Fire Shadow).

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 attempts to peep into women's baths, although these moments are rare. 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.

Initially, he lacked much in terms of tactical thinking as he tended to show off more than engage in practical shinobi tactics. This led to him being reprimanded by his mentors and allies for putting himself at tactical disadvantages. An example was him attempting to use his Shadow Clone jutsu in front of his foes which meant that they became aware of his techniques thus making him vulnerable.

It was said that Naruto had a remarkable ability to learn new techniques in a short span of time. An example of this was during his training to combine combining chakra form and nature where initially he struggled to accomplish this but came upon a solution whereby he used his shadow clones to achieve this goal. The ingenuity he displayed in learning the technique came to surprise his sensei Kakashi who remarked that only Naruto was capable of such a skill.

Naruto had often claimed that he would never break a promise.

Due to being host to the Nine-Tailed Fox, he was initially ostracised by the Hidden Leaf Village. However, his galvanised him and made him determined to become the greatest ninja and Hokage as he believed then they would have to respect him. Naruto had said that he often acted tough because he felt as a failure with this often frustrating him as a result. But Hinata commented that his strength was that he always got up no matter how many times he was knocked down with this having inspired her. By the Chunin Exam, it was noted that he was not the boy that always failed in all his tests but rather a competent fighter.

It was a result of him being a outcast in the village that led to one of Naruto's prominent traits which was his desire for acknowledgement. This led to him performing pranks around the village with this being his attempt at getting people to notice him, even if it meant by scolding him. This was partly the reason for his desire to become Konoha's Hokage as the position was the epitome of acknowledgement and respect from everyone in the village.

Lady Tsunade had said that Naruto had the unique talent of being able to make friends with anyone.

He was shown as being the son of Minato Namikaze (波風ミナト, Namikaze Minato) and his wife Kushina Uzumaki (うずまきクシナ, Uzumaki Kushina). Naruto was initially unaware of the identity of his parents with this kept purposely from him in order to protect him from people that would target him. Thus, he did not know that the Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze was actually his father. At first, Naruto was angry with his father for sealing the Nine-Tails in him but he remnants of Minato explained that it was because he felt that only his son could tame the beast. Meanwhile, his mother he came to recognise shortly after encountering a ghost of her chakra that was placed inside Naruto when he was newly born.

Upon meeting Jiraiya, he came to have a low opinion of the man and tended to refer to him as Pervy Sage. Despite that, he came to learn much from the Sanin and grew in strength under his tutelage. In one instance, he said that he would fulfil his mentors dream of bringing about peace in the world with this being something that Jiraiya had failed to accomplish in his life. In the end, it was said that he genuinely cared for and loved Jiraiya with him being in grief over his mentors death. This caused him initially to lash out at the Fifth Hokage for allowing his sensei to go on a deadly mission by himself.

According to Naruto, Sasuke the first person to accept him and he considered him to be like a brother. This became part of the reason why he sought to return Sasuke back to the village and to redeem him. He was determined to save him even though many others told him to abandon Sasuke for being a rogue ninja.

Upon meeting Sakura Haruna, he was attracted to her and wanted her to love him in turn but she had always rebuffed his efforts as she was in love with Sasuke.

For a long time, Hinata Hyuga came to have feelings for Naruto though he was oblivious of these at first. This came from when he first saved her from bullies and she was amazed at his courageous nature. Eventually, he came to learn of Hinata Hyūga's feelings for him and reciprocated them with the two becoming married. The two eventually had children of their own with an older son named Boruto Uzumaki and a younger daughter named Himawari Uzumaki.

He was noted for being a reincarnation of Asura Ōtsutsuki. According to Tobi, he and Sasuke were the latest reincarnation of a cycle of rivalry that dated back across numerous generations.

At first, he was scared of the brutality of the sand ninja Gaara but after learning more about his life he came to feel a sense of empathy with him. This stemmed from their shared experience of being ostracised by others for holding a Tailed-Beast inside of him. However, unlike Gaara, Naruto came to have friends and people that showed him kindness thus stopping him from falling into the destructive path that Gaara ended up in. After their battle, Uzumaki told Gaara that the two were the same and that he would be his friend. As a result, the two shared a bond of friendship from this encounter with Naruto looking out for the sand shinobi. When Gaara was taken by the Akatsuki, Naruto was insistent on heading the rescue mission regardless of the difficulties.

Powers and abilities

Chakra involved the use of his mental and physical energies that he was able to gather to bolster his physical skills and provide him a number of abilities. Uzumaki was later revealed to possess a wind chakra nature. It was said that his chakra rotation spun to the right with this capable of being determined by the way his hair grew to the right side. Thus, by flowing his chakra on that path, he could maintain a steady flow of chakra for his jutsu. Though regarded as a poor student, Naruto was shown to be quickly capable of learning new techniques at an impressive rate. In a short amount of time, he came to learn the contents of the Scroll of Sealing and learning the Shadow Clone technique and later under Ebisu's tutelage he came to learn chakra control at a fast rate. As an Uzumaki, Naruto possessed massive reserves of strong chakra with it said to be at least four times greater than Kakashi. It was noted that this was only the case because the greater reservoir of his chakra was used to maintain the seal around the Nine-Tails inside of him. It was said that his chakra was surprisingly resilient and that he had a talent for using it to achieve feats that were beyond other ninja. According to Karin, his chakra was described as being bright and warm. A result of the Nine-Tailed Fox being in his body that he healed from injuries at a faster rate than normal. This saw cuts from blades healing in a matter of seconds and he did not even need healing ointments applied to him after certain fights as he recovered from his injuries quickly.

Whilst in Team 7, he came to learn to better control his chakra with him initially asking Sakura as she had an innate understanding of this skill. Through practice, he came to focus his chakra in his feet allowing him to climb up vertical surfaces such as trees and walk over water. Initially, a seal placed on him by Orochimaru was responsible for the de-stabilisation of his chakra control but once this was removed he came to more easily manage its flow. This allowed him to manage other techniques such as standing on water without falling into it whereas the seal made him use up far more chakra for even the most simplest of tasks. Unknown to him initially, he had two supplies of chakra with his own appearing as a blue energy whilst the other belonged to the fox spirit which was red in colour. Uzumaki's skill increased even further during the two years he trained under the Sanin Jiraiya who taught him how to break a genjutsu namely by either stopping the flow of chakra from his brain thus disrupting the illusion or by relying on an ally's chakra to bring the hold on him.

During further training under Kakashi Hatake, Naruto came to learn to combine a change in chakra form with a change in chakra nature. Afterwards, he requested further training from Jiraiya as he wanted to use other long range techniques that were easier to use in a fight. This saw Jiraiya teaching him how to use combination attacks by utilising his summoning technique and working alongside summoned toads. Afterwards, he received further training under the toad sage Lord Fukasaku who took Naruto to Mount Myōboku to receive training in Senjutsu. Sage mode was said to rely on drawing on nature energy from the surroundings to bolster ones capabilities thus increasing all their abilities including their strength and resilience. The process was incredibly difficult to attain with a great danger in the technique as lack of control meant that the bearer could be overwhelmed by the nature energy and turn into a frog as a result. Without proper discipline, the danger was one being turned into a frog permanently but Naruto went through a fast track training in learning the technique where it was said that he had control over it that was greater than his sensei Jiraiya. A benefit of nature chakra was that it drew energy from the surroundings and as such it did not tax the bearer's own chakra reserves. However, initially, he was only able to enter into sage mode for a short period of time which was 5 minutes and that he had to be perfectly still whilst gathering the nature energy.

He was skilled in a variety of techniques that included:

• Sexy Technique (おいろけの術­, Oiroke no Jutsu) : initially the only technique Naruto knew where he was able to transform into a beautiful woman and was used by him to play a prank on men.
• Shadow Clone Technique (影分身の術­, Kage Bunshin no Jutsu) : Naruto's signature move that he learnt from briefly studying the Scroll of Seals allowing him to create real shadow clones on a large scale. Due to his high chakra levels, he was able to create hundreds of clones at his height with each one retaining large chakra reserves. Such was his skill that he was able to not only create a small army of them but that they could operate for a long period of time and could also create other jutsu such as transformation jutsu to make them appear as different people. His talent had only improved during his two years of training under Jiraiya where he learnt to use the clones more tactically and skilfully. An aspect of his shadow clones was that once they were dispelled then anything they knew was passed back to Naruto himself. Naruto was shown to use the clones to help generate his more powerful jutsu such as the rasengan. He later used it to help him attain Sage mode for long periods where the clones gathered nature chakra that he then absorbed allowing him to instantly reach the state. By the time he was Hokage, he began to use them for more menial tasks such as paperwork and being unable to return home he had the Shadow Clone spend time with his family.
  • Naruto Uzumaki Combo (うずまきナルト連弾­, Uzumaki Naruto Rendan) : a technique that was said to be a variation of Sasuke's Uchiha's Lion Oombo with it utilising four shadow clones to assist him in its implementation. The clones kicked or punched the target into the air whereupon Naruto performed a spinning heel drop that send them back towards the ground.
• Summoning Technique (寄せの術­, Kuchiyose no Jutsu) : a technique whereby he was able to transport large objects or creatures to his location with this having been taught to him by Jaraiya. He was given the contract scroll that where he signed his name using their own blood and further marked with the fingerprints of one of his hands. Initially, he lacked control in his summoning where in one case he managed to summon the toad chief Gamabunta. Later on, he came to improve his technique allowing him to summon toads of Mount Myoboku.
• Rasengan (螺旋丸­ Rasengan) : the second signature move of Naruto whereby he created a spinning ball of chakra in his palm that he could throw at his foes. It was created by Minato Namikaze which he based on the Tailed Beast Ball with Naruto receiving training on it from Jiraiya. During the two years he trained under Jiraiya, Naruto came to improve his use of the Rasengan and was told to make his own variation of the technique that he could call his own. Naruto had typically used his Shadow Clones to help gather the energy in his hand to form his Rasengan. He later came to learn to modify the technique thus creating variations of it with these including:
  • Spiralling Serial Spheres (螺旋連丸­, Futon: Rasenrengan) : he created a rasengan in both hands that he could throw at two different targets or at the same foe.
  • Wind Release: Rasengan (風遁・螺旋丸­, Fūton: Rasengan) : a variation that required mastery and control of chakra form as well as chakra nature that involved Naruto using his wind-based chakra nature.
  • Wind Release: Rasenshuriken (風遁・螺旋手裏剣­, Fūton: Rasenshuriken) : after further mastery of the Wind Release: Rasengan, Naruto was able to shape his chakra into a shuriken that took some effort to create but he could throw at a target. The Rasenshuriken cut through any target until it struck an object whereupon the central sphere detonated and produced a vortex of wind in the area. Within the vortex, countless microscopic wind blades were generated whose number were so many that not even a Sharingan could count them all. These wind blades pierced every cell of the body where they disconnected them from the body's chakra circulatory system and preventing them from generating physical energy for the creation of chakra. The damage caused a target to lose the ability to create and manipulate chakra with this not capable of being healed by even medical ninjutsu. This effect was likened to a poison whereby if the damage was great enough then a person could no longer be able to use jutsu ever again. At first, the damage experienced was equally felt on Naruto with his arm's chakra network being similarly harmed upon use of the jutsu. He only was able to perform this technique upon learning sage mode.

From a young, he was implanted with the Yang half of the Nine-Tailed Beast Kurama with this being done by his father thus making Naruto one of the jinchūriki. A seal was placed on him thus keeping the Tailed-Beast trapped within him though in moments of intense rage this weakened thus allowing an aspect of Kurama to emerge and possess Naruto's body. Only a fraction was enough to make Naruto develop more feral features but further states could see further aspects take over Naruto's body. When overusing his abilities, the spirit initially would attempt to take over his body which could even occur to his shadow clones.

At first, the fox spirit within him could manifest his power into the demon fox cloak (妖狐の衣, yōko no koromo). This formed a shroud of translucent chakra reminiscent of red liquid with bubbles formed within it. This provided him a level of physical protection but harmed if over an extended period of use. It was tied to his emotions with Naruto becoming more feral and falling into a berserker animal state the more he went angry. Later on, he underwent training under Killer B to learn to better harness the Nine-Tails power and with the aid of his fellow jinchuriki along with the chakra of his mother he was able to steal some of the Tailed-Beasts power. This allowed him to enter into a more powerful state called Nine-Tails Chakra Mode (九尾チャクラモード­, Kyūbi Chakura Mōdo) where he formed a coat of yellow chakra whose energy was reminiscent of flickering flame. Not only was his normal attributes enhanced but he could sense negative emotion even from a person who was perfectly hidden from him. He could also form limbs made of chakra that could help him such as to grab onto something or to help him in performing techniques such as the Rasengan.

After synchronising his heart with Kurama, Naruto came to be able to work with the Nine-Tails. This understanding allowed him to changed into a new form that was called Kurama Mode (九喇嘛モード, Kurama Mōdo).

Notes

• Naruto Uzumaki was created by Masashi Kishimoto where he featured in the setting of Naruto.
• In an interview on the Los Angeles Times, Kishimoto spoke on the characters appeal, "It's rather awkward to talk about what makes Naruto appealing to audiences, but I think his being a knucklehead gives him an appeal. Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them. Naruto often makes blunders, and he has weaknesses. Naruto feels inferior to his peers, but he hates to be a loser. Although he doesn't think about it too much, he knows he hates to lose, and we all know what that feels like. I think readers see themselves in Naruto, and that's what appeals to them: They can empathize with him and his weaknesses."

In other media

Television

• In Naruto, Naruo Uzumaki appeared in the setting of the anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actress Junko Takeuchi and English actress Maile Flanagan in the dub.

Films

• In The Last: Naruto the Movie, Naruto Uzumaki appeared in the canon animated film where he was voiced by Japanese actress Junko Takeuchi and English actress Maile Flanagan in the dub.

Video games

• In Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Naruto Uzumaki appeared as a playable character in the setting of the 2010 video game.
• In Jump Force, Naruto Uzumaki appeared as a playable character in the 2019 fighting video game where he was voiced by actor Junko Takeuchi.

Appearances

• Naruto:
• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations:

External Links

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