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Don't apologize… I had a lot of hard times growing up as a jinchūriki, but I never blamed you or dad. I couldn't understand what a parent's love was like because you guys were never there... so I could only guess... But now I know… I live because you and dad gave your lives for me and filled me up with love before the Nine-Tails was inside me! So here I am, happy and healthy! I'm glad I ended up being your son!
~ Naruto to his mother.
Quit it with your stupid reasoning! I meant to say that I'll stand any pain for my friends!! I'm not gonna give up on them!! It might just be me being selfish, but... not having my friends here… is the most painful thing for me!! Period!!!!
~ Naruto to Obito.
Shinobi history is made up of all sorts of Ninja's lives, and death's too. Many of them taught me what it means to be a shinobi. The pain of sadness and death, the tragedy of war. And not only that, they taught me the joy of being accepted and being loved. The way they lived and the way they died, they made me who I am today. They taught me and they trusted in me. You're a brat who can't even fly from the nest! IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GET OVER YOURSELF!!
~ Naruto telling Black Zetsu the truth of Shinobi History before sealing him.

Naruto Uzumaki is the titular main protagonist of the Naruto franchise and the titular overarching protagonist of the Boruto series.

He is the son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, the husband of Hinata Hyūga, the father of Boruto Uzumaki and Himawari Uzumaki, and the adoptive father of Kawaki.

He is a shinobi of Konohagakure, who lived his early childhood as an outcast when he was turned into the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails at birth. Nonetheless, he worked his way through many obstacles and achievements in hopes of achieving his dream of becoming Hokage. Having done so much for many, he was recognized across the world as a hero and was eventually able to become the Seventh Hokage of Konohagakure.

He is voiced by Junko Takeuchi in the Japanese version of the anime, who also voiced R. Mika in the Street Fighter series and Gumball Watterson in The Amazing World of Gumball, Maile Flanagan in the English version, and Kathryn Feller in the English version of Rock Lee and his Ninja Pals.

Personality[]

Believe It!
~ Naruto's catchphrase.
I won't run away anymore... I won't go back on my word... That is my ninja way!
~ Naruto's determination.

Naruto is a boisterous and exuberant boy. He would end sentences with "Dattebayo!" (だってばよ!) when excited or frustrated. He has a number of childish traits, such as being a very picky eater (he almost exclusively eats ramen), being afraid of ghosts, and carries a chubby green-frog wallet which he calls "Gama-chan". Naruto is heedless to formality or social standings and has a habit of giving people he meets nicknames or addressing them without appropriate honorifics, as shown when he opted to call the Second Hokage a name he thought of off the top of his head instead of simply "Lord Second" (二代目様, Nidaime-sama).

He seems to be perverted, creating different forms of his Sexy Technique. In the anime, he seems even more perverted, even trying to sneak a peek in the women's bath when the opportunity presented itself. However, Naruto is actually quite chaste and only uses erotism as a way of mischief, taking advantage of others' perversions to play pranks. Naruto himself doesn't understand the appeal of erotism and even finds Jiraiya's erotic books to be plain boring. Despite his antics, plus other quirks and the great amounts of criticism that follows them, Naruto is said to have a personality that brings people to him, inspiring friendship, loyalty, hope, and love from most of the people he meets through acts of genuine kindness and sincerity that could change a person's entire world view. For example, during the Fourth Shinobi World War, Naruto's kindness inspired loyalty from the tailed beasts, and when linked to the entire Shinobi Alliance through telepathy, he reignited the demoralized armies' fighting spirit, choosing to continue fighting despite the losses he could receive, as shinobi were meant to endure through hardships. On several occasions, the Second Hokage has stated in many ways Naruto is very similar to the First Hokage.

Years of isolation and scorn from the villagers made Naruto thirst greatly for acknowledgement and love. He would pull pranks around the village just to get a response from anyone and his desire to be Hokage was in hopes of becoming someone that mattered. Because no one in the village cared for him apart from Iruka, Naruto was completely unresponsive to the villagers yelling at him from his pranks, only showing response when Iruka showed up. Naruto's time at the Falls of Truth revealed that a part of him hated the villagers for treating him as a pariah, only to turn to him after he saved them during Pain's assault on Konoha. This hatred allowed the Nine-Tails to manipulate Naruto in his rage, causing him to go on a rampage several times until Naruto confronted the problem and learned to let it go.

As he grew in his career as a ninja, his goal to be Hokage went from a desire for acknowledgement to a desire to help and protect the people close to him, which Tobi attributed to the Will of Fire. Naruto developed his nindō of never going back on his word, putting himself through any lengths required to keeping his promise. This was especially shown in Naruto's promise to Sakura to bring Sasuke back after his defection from Konoha, despite Sakura herself having grown to see this as impossible due to Sasuke becoming a dangerous international criminal later on as well as the growing pain of losing his best friend to vengeance was causing him.

According to Kakashi, Naruto is a kinesthetic learner, as he is relatively naïve, simple, and slow to understand principles or situations, often requiring an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp what is being explained to him, much to his teachers' annoyance. Naruto is aware his own ineptitude and admits that he puts up a strong front so people around him won't know of his embarrassment and frustration about it, despite of all his accomplishments. Naruto responds best to competition, using it as an additional drive-in order to learn new techniques, though he doesn't hesitate to ask for help if he needs it.

Despite his naivety, Naruto can be quite observant, picking up on things others miss and retaining information casually gathered through conversation. In battle, Naruto has shown to be a quick thinker, making up strategies on the fly or inventive use of his techniques to catch his opponents off guard. While he can be calm and collected most of the times during a fight, Naruto can also get frustrated when he is unable to defeat his opponent and can forget some concepts or weaknesses that he himself noted beforehand.

The death of his master Jiraiya and Pain's assault on Konoha caused a large world shift for Naruto. Grieving for Jiraiya, Naruto swore vengeance on Pain and left the village to learn senjutsu. While training, Naruto read a copy of The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi, which taught him that he was named after a hero from the book. Although further enraged by Pain's actions during the invasion, Naruto soon spoke with his father, who explained to him the cycle of hatred of the shinobi world. After finally listening to Nagato's story and the results of the cycle of hatred, Naruto vowed he would break the cycle and bring real peace to the world. Despite this desire bringing him in direct opposition to Sasuke and the rest of Akatsuki, Naruto continued down this path, resolving to end both the Fourth Shinobi World War and the cycle of hatred.

While he initially didn't understand true romantic love and was totally oblivious about Hinata's feelings for him for years, after understanding Hinata's feelings and realizing he is in love with her, Naruto became not only protective of her, but also shy and flustered in her presence to the point where he accidentally told her how he felt. When Hinata "rejected" him so she could be with Toneri Ōtsutsuki, Naruto fell into a great depression and came close to giving up on everything, until Sakura helped him realize how deep and unwavering Hinata's feelings for him truly were, and that she only pretended to reject him to have a better chance of saving Hanabi and stopping Toneri. This made Naruto more determined than ever to save the Hyūga sisters, stop Toneri, and make his desire to be with Hinata for the rest of his life a reality. After several months of dating, Naruto and Hinata got married and started a family together with a son and daughter.

In adulthood, Naruto has become far more calm, level-headed, intelligent, wiser and mature in his approach, but still retains some of his childlike excitement. After becoming Hokage, Naruto has grown more serious and stricter with his duties, taken up huge responsibilities and becoming overwhelmed, leading him to create shadow clones to tend to his family, which has strained his relationship with his son, who would occasionally pull pranks such as defacing the Hokage Rock to seek his attention. However, Naruto still shows that he deeply cares about and loves his family and is willing to protect them in times of danger and tries to make time for them in actual person, proving himself to be a loving father and husband.

Appearance[]

As stated by Jiraiya, Naruto bears a striking resemblance to his father, having Minato's blue eyes, blond, spiky hair and face. From his mother, Naruto inherited the shape of her eyes. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Dan Katō initially mistook him for Nawaki due to their stark resemblance as well. Naruto's most prominent physical characteristics, however, are the three whisker markings on his cheeks. His most regularly mentioned trait before the second half of the series (which easily provoked him) was his short stature for his age. Over time, Naruto continued to grow as after the time skip, he was taller than his team-mate, Sakura. Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War and by the time he became Hokage, Naruto became one of the tallest of his generation.

In Part I, Naruto's outfit consisted of an orange tracksuit with blue on the upper shoulders area as well as around the waist, a white swirl with a tassel on the left side, a red Uzumaki swirl crest on the back, a large white collar, orange pants with a shuriken holster attached to his right knee (due to being right-handed), blue sandals, and a blue forehead protector that was given to him by Iruka after he graduated from the Academy. Naruto would usually wear a black T-shirt inside his tracksuit, but sometimes wore armor underneath his clothing. During his early childhood, Naruto would usually wear a T-shirt (white, navy green or black) that had either an Uzumaki or fire symbol on the front, also wearing a pair of shorts. He also donned green goggles with "Naruto" written on them that he wore on his forehead sometimes, though he eventually stopped wearing it and replaced it with his forehead protector.

In Part II, Naruto's outfit underwent modification after the original was worn to shreds during his training with Jiraiya. The outfit retained the orange color as well as the white (without the tassel) and red swirls, but the jacket was much more form fitting with the blue parts changed to black and the color extending from around the neck and shoulders, down the front and sleeves. The metal portion of his forehead protector had moved to a longer black bandanna, and he wore black sandals instead of blue. Naruto occasionally was seen wearing a navy green T-shirt with a fire symbol and white shorts on casual days or his off-duty days from missions.

During his battle with Pain, Naruto briefly sported a short-sleeved red coat with a black flame pattern along the hemline and carried a large summoning scroll on his back; the coat was destroyed following his transformation into his six-tailed Version 2 form. After meeting Hagoromo's spirit and receiving his chakra and therefore the Six Paths Sage Mode, Naruto also obtained a light sun-like mark on his right palm, which vanished after Kaguya's sealing. After his final clash with Sasuke following Kaguya's defeat, Naruto lost his right forearm. Sometime after the war ended, Tsunade constructed a fully maneuverable prosthetic forearm for Naruto made of Hashirama Senju's cells, wrapped completely in bandages from his fingertips to halfway through his bicep.

Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War at age 19, Naruto grew taller again with his hair cropped short and moved the metal portion of his forehead protector to a simple black elastic headband. He wears a black uniform-style jacket with an orange zipper that features several buttons on the waist and sleeves, allowing him to fold up the left sleeve and rear coattails, giving him easy access to the pouches on the back of his belt. He wears a red armband with an Uzumaki crest on his left arm. While off-duty, Naruto wears an orange hooded sweatshirt and black and orange shorts with sandals. He initially wore a teal and light blue striped scarf that was knitted by his mother, but later took it off when he found out Hinata was knitting a long red scarf for him. When he and Hinata married, Naruto was wearing a traditional black wedding kimono.

After becoming Hokage, Naruto stops wearing a forehead protector altogether. He now wears an orange sweatshirt with black stripes, along with black pants and sandals. Along with the traditional Hokage headpiece, he also dons a white cape decorated with red flame-like motifs on the edges, with the kanji for "Seventh Hokage" (七代目火影, Nanadaime Hokage) written vertically down the back, and held together by a red rope, similar to the one worn by his father.

Powers and Abilities[]

Chakra[]

Naruto has a large reserve of chakra due to him being an Uzumaki and the reincaration of Asura Ōtsutsuki. His reserves are more than four times greater than Kakashi's and is describe as "bright and warm." by Karin.

Body Modifications[]

After losing his right arm during his final battle with Sasuke, he was given an artificial prosthesis that was made out of the cells of Hashirama Senju created by Tsunade. It's unknown what powers that the arm grants Naruto. He is able to only use his chakra to use the prostheic arm. After Momoshiki's defeat, Naruto took inspiration from his chakra absorption technique and had Katasuke Tōno and the Scientific Ninja Weapons Team modified the arm further with mechanical features. Able to use a scientific prostheic arm that is able to asborb chakra base ninjutsu.

Shadow Clone Jutsu[]

Naruto fancies the Shadow Clone Jutsu the most of any other Jutsu. This technique allows him to create many copies of himself that disappear in a cloud of smoke upon being struck. The copies are able to strike enemies, and work together with fighting combos. Naruto would also use shadow clones while training when he was learning the Wind Release Technique.

Summoning Technique[]

In order to encourage improved control over Kurama's chakra, Jiraiya teaches Naruto to perform the Summoning Technique. By offering a certain amount of chakra, Naruto can summon the toads of Mount Myōboku as allies that fight beside him. He is initially restricted to tadpoles due to his poor chakra control, but as his control improves, he can summon small toads such as then-young Gamakichi or Gamatatsu. During Part I he must rely on Kurama's chakra to summon toads of Gamabunta's size, but by Part II, Kurama's help is merely optional.

Rasengan[]

Fūton Rasenshuriken

Naruto's use of high-ranking ninjutsu such as the Shadow Clone Technique and Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.

Once Naruto gets the hang summoning, Jiraiya teaches him the Rasengan. His reasons for teaching it to Naruto are various: the training involved in learning the Rasengan improves his chakra control; it is in many ways the counterpart to Sasuke's Chidori; it was invented by Naruto's father. Because of the very intricate chakra control the Rasengan requires, Naruto struggles to master it, and is not helped by the time limit he imposes on himself during his training. Although the Rasengan is intended as a one-handed technique, Naruto learns to use it with more than one hand, specifically a shadow clone's: he provides the chakra that will make the Rasengan while the clone forms it into shape.

Nature Transformation[]

As a possible alternative to Kurama's chakra, Kakashi teaches Naruto how to take advantage of his natural elemental affinity: wind. The wind nature compliments Naruto, as the wind nature is a great match for short-range fighters. Because the Rasengan was originally intended to be combined with a user's nature transformation, Naruto sets out to combine his wind affinity with the Rasengan. He struggles with it, finding it as near impossible as his father did before him, but once again finds a solution with shadow clones: while he provides the chakra and a clone provides the shape, as is done with normal Rasengan, a second clone infuses it with their nature. This results in the creation of the Rasenshuriken. On contact with a target, the Rasenshuriken explodes into a torrent of wind that cuts them at a cellular level. At first, Naruto uses it like a blunt object that he forces into opponents, causing him to receive the same level of damage as they do. After learning Sage Mode, he becomes able to throw it, preventing harm to himself and at the same time increasing its speed and cutting power. In Nine-Tails Chakra Mode he can further augment its size, making a miniature version, a gigantic version, or even Twin Rasenshuriken, all without the help of shadow clones.

Senjutsu[]

After Jiraiya is killed by Pain, Naruto is taught senjutsu by Fukasaku, a former teacher of Jiraiya, to prepare him for the day when Pain comes after him. During his training he proves to have a greater aptitude for senjutsu than Jiraiya, helped in no small part by his necessarily high chakra levels. He progresses through the learning steps rapidly, becoming able to sense and then gather the natural energy around him and perfectly balance it with his own chakra. However, doing this requires absolute calm, which can't be achieved or maintained in the middle of combat. For this reason, Fukasaku and his wife would theoretically fuse with him, gathering the natural energy for him to use. During all attempts at fusion, Kurama rejected Fukasaku, a threat to its power, leaving Naruto with no way to enter Sage Mode. Naruto found a way to use shadow clones as a workaround. While he fights, the clones gather natural energy for him and then, when he is in need, he has them disperse, transferring their natural energy to him. Although this lets him enter a perfect Sage Mode that Jiraiya was never able to, this method limits the maximum number of shadow clones that he can create to five for as long as the clones are gathering natural energy, as anything more would interfere with their focus. To make sure he has enough shadow clones for use in battle, Naruto has only two shadow clones gather senjutsu chakra, allowing him to enter Sage Mode a total of three times. Fox toad mode Once in Sage Mode, Naruto's speed, strength, durability, and proficiency with the Rasengan and its variants increases. He can utilize the Frog Kata - a form of taijutsu that uses the natural energy around the user to enhance the range and the potency of their attacks - and sensory abilities effective even at long ranges. His sensing abilities also let him predict the movements of his enemies for easy retaliation. Following his befriending of Kurama, he can even combine Sage Mode with Tailed Beast Mode, which has the added bonus of letting him gather natural energy faster.

Kitsune Demon[]

Four tailed transformation

Kurama who lives inside Naruto is dedicated to keeping Naruto alive, as Naruto's demise would mean his as well. Naruto receives great healing powers from the demon, with cuts and scratches disappearing very quickly. When Naruto becomes very angry, the fox demon partially takes over his mind, and releases the power of the Red Chakra.

Nine-Tails Chakra Mode[]

Naruto powers Lee up

Naruto sharing some of Kurama's chakra.

Nine-Tails Chakra Mode is a heightened transformation unique to those with Kurama's chakra sealed into them. Naruto Uzumaki, as Kurama's jinchūriki, is able to enter the form using the beast's Yang chakra. Minato Namikaze, having sealed the fox's Yin chakra into his body immediately before his death, has been able to access the form once reincarnated.

While this mode is active, Naruto gains a chakra shroud with six magatama around his neck and two distinctive pieces of hair-like horns resembling the Sage of the Six Paths' silhouette along with a swirl design that resembles the Uzumaki clan's symbol. Naruto's chakra shroud is also covered by various other black lines and spiral patterns, which expand further along his body in certain situations. At times, Naruto's shroud gains the additional seals that appear on his hands while in Tailed Beast Mode. The color of his eyes changes from blue to orange when he is in this form and while the demon fox shroud is red and releases chakra as acidic bubbles, this form's shroud is yellow and releases chakra as flickering flames. While in this form Naruto's chakra signature and smell are different as noted by Neji and Kiba. When used by Minato, this mode holds resemblance to something in between both of Naruto's two shrouds; while predominately looking like Naruto's Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Minato's shroud has additional seals on his hands and feet as well an additional magatama design that appears on his collar, causing it to resemble Naruto's shroud in Tailed Beast Mode. When Minato first entered this mode, the bangs at the sides of his face went upwards as well. As with all jinchūriki transformations, the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode gives the user increased strength, speed, and defenses. The Nine-Tails Chakra Mode's increases are noticeably superior: Naruto becomes strong enough to push a fully formed Tailed Beast Ball through a multiple layered barrier with just one arm, neutralize White Zetsu with a single kick despite their durability, and, in collaboration with B in his full Eight-Tails form, he could also knock down Tobi's Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with an uppercut. Naruto's speed is so great in this form that Killer B even had trouble determining if he had used the Body Flicker Technique when attacking Kisame, he could even surpass the speed of a fully charged A, as well as blitz the extremely fast Third Raikage before the shinobi had any chance to react. Naruto's durability is also very high in this form, so high in fact, that he was able to endure extreme heat with only minor burns. He could even withstand the Tenpenchii technique in this form and while the shroud was completely destroyed after this, he only suffered minor physical wounds. Naruto is able to use chakra arms while in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode. Like other jinchūriki he can use the arms to improve his dexterity and maneuverability, granting him increased means of interacting with his environment and his opponents. More unique to Naruto, he uses the arms as substitutes for shadow clones in his creation of various Rasengan-variants. Instead of needing a shadow clone to help him with shape transformation, he can do both with just one hand, either his own or the hands of his chakra arms. He still needs more than one hand for the nature transformation of the Rasenshuriken, but this also is accomplished without shadow clones. Once the Rasengan-variants are formed, Naruto can then use the chakra arms to deliver them across long distances or, in the case of Rasenshuriken, guide them to their target. Initially, Naruto tried to create a technique related to the Tailed Beast Ball: the Tailed Beast Rasengan. However, he later develops a more effective version of this technique: the Super Mini-Tailed Beast Ball, which is basically a miniature Tailed Beast Ball that he's able to control with the help of a shadow clone. Like his predecessor, Mito Uzumaki, Naruto gains Kurama's ability to sense negative emotions, something that not even the best sensor-type ninja can do. In addition, he is capable of sensing Kurama's chakra signature, even while he was inside a chakra isolation chamber within the Falls of Truth; as well as the ability to sense other chakra signatures from great distances. Due to having Kurama's Yang chakra in this form, Wood Release techniques will react to the chakra's life-giving properties and mature into full-grown trees within a matter of seconds, either by contact or close range.

Tailed Beast Mode[]

All jinchūriki can enter Tailed Beast Mode, which grants them all the strength and abilities of their corresponding tailed beast. However, where other jinchūriki become full-scale replicas of their tailed beast, Naruto and Minato enter a form very visually similar to the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.

Quotes[]

Believe it: I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I like instant ramen in a cup, and I really like the ramen Iruka sensei got me, at the Ichiraku Noodle Shop! But I hate the three minutes you have to wait after you pour the water in the ramen cup. My hobby's eating different kinds of ramen and comparing them. And my future dream is: To be the greatest Hokage!! Then the whole village will stop disrespecting me and start treating me like I'm somebody. Somebody important!
~ Naruto's Team 7 introduction
Don't underestimate me! I don't quit and I don't run! You can act tough all you want! You're not gonna scare me off! No way! I don't care if I do get stuck as a genin for the rest of my life! I'll still be Hokage someday!
~ To Ibiki Morino
If being smarter means what you say it does, I'll remain a fool my entire life!
~ Naruto to Jiraiya, when told to forget about Sasuke
Wait, stop! Bushy Brows isn't that kind of person! He's our friend! So if he says that he's innocent, then I believe that he's innocent. Don't judge him, when you don't have any proof that he's guilty. Trust in your comrade! Have a big heart, and an open mind!
~ Naruto defending Rock Lee
It's almost unbearable, isn't it... the feeling of being all alone. I know that feeling; I've been there in that dark and lonely place, but now there are others, other people who mean a lot to me. I care more about them than I do myself, and I won't let anyone hurt them. That's why I'll never give up. I will stop you, even if I have to kill you! They saved me from myself. They rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.
~ To Gaara
Until, I become Hokage, I don't care what happens, I'm not gonna die!
~ To Kabuto
But why... Why did you save me?
~ Naruto to Sasuke after he saved Naruto from Haku
If I become stronger, does that mean I'll become as cold-hearted as you are!? He threw his life away, and for what? For you and your dream?! You never let him have a dream of his own, but he didn't care, and you just toss him aside like he was nothing... a broken tool. Man, that's so wrong... so wrong!
~ To Zabuza
It's because I finally have a bond with someone!
~ To Sasuke about why he's going to save him
This takes me back! This place hasn't changed a bit! I'm home, everyone! Naruto Uzumaki has returned to the Hidden Leaf Village!
~ Naruto, after two years of training
I CAN'T TAKE THIS! I know why they're after Gaara and me. Sakura, you know why, too, don't you? There's no need to hide it... The Nine Tails is sealed inside of me. Gaara and I are the same... We both have monsters locked inside us. That's what those guys are after. I... HATE IT! They just see us as monsters! As means to an end! He was just like I was. And he fought all on his own a lot longer than I did. He's been targeted by the Akatsuki! We're the same, again! And despite that... Why does everything bad always have to happen to him?! It's always him! That's why... That's why I can't waste a second! This time, I want to save him as fast as I can!
~ Naruto's heroic breakdown
Don't you dare talk about Sasuke like you own him! Especially in front of me!
~ Naruto to Orochimaru
Why?! Why, why?! Why would you ever put the Nine Tails inside your own son?! How could you put me through all of that? The Akatsuki are after me, I fought with them, and then... I was, so lonely. But I... kept it inside.
~ Naruto to his father Minato Namikaze after finally meeting him
Just give up... on trying to make me give up!
~ To Pain
Then I will break that curse. If there's such a thing as peace, then I will find it. I won't give up!
~ Reciting Jiraiya's first book to Nagato
But it's not just about that promise now. Maybe I understand better why Sasuke is becoming obsessed with revenge. And he's causing so much damage. Sasuke really loved his family and his clan. And I think it's because he loves them so much. But I just can't forgive what happened. It doesn't matter even if there isn't a promise between us anymore. Because, rescuing Sasuke is just something that I have to do.
~ Naruto convincing Sakura to let him save Sasuke from revenge
Don't apologize... I had a lot of hard times growing up as a jinchūriki, but I never blamed you or Dad. I couldn't understand what a parent's love was like because you guys were never there... so I could only guess... But now I know... I live because you and Dad gave your lives for me and filled me up with love before the Nine-Tails was inside me! So here I am, happy and healthy! I'm glad I ended up being your son!
~ To his mother, Kushina Uzumaki
Maybe. The villagers are important, but there's someone else that I have to trust more first. What I need to do right now is believe in myself. I need to trust the me that all the villagers believe in.
~ Naruto overcoming his evil self, before thanking him for helping him learn a lesson.
This time, I was able to use the enemy's malice to our advantage. But the malice of war is spreading like wildfire. I have to put an end to this quickly!
~ Naruto at the end of Shippuden episode 305
There is no telling what kind of pain will come after me, but... if I stop believing because of that, if the hero should change, it'll turn into another story from the one my master left behind. Then it won't be Naruto! I can't write novels like my master did. That's why the sequel has to come from the life I live no matter how great the pain, I'll continue walking because that's who Naruto is!
~ Naruto
I could stop this. I know that I can, you have to let me! I'll take it all on myself: all the hatred, and all the pain. because that's my role
~ Naruto
I never go back on my word! That's my nindō: my ninja way!
~ To Neji Hyuga
How can I become Hokage if I can't even save one friend?
~ Naruto (though this quote has been spoken differently on multiple occasions)
You know, Sasuke, there's a chance our roles could've been reversed.
~ To Sasuke
Hey. You know what, Nine Tails? I believe, I'm gonna come after all of that hate that's inside of you too someday!
~ To Kurama
You're not the monster fox anymore. You're one of my teammates from Konoha... Kurama.
~ To Kurama
Hold on everyone, I'm coming!
~ Naruto said this more than once during the Fourth Great Ninja War
Even if you think that this world is worthless, do you seriously think that you can get away with starting a war like this, and then just come along and try to play that you're Nobody?! You piss me off!! I'm gonna tear that mask right off your face!!
~ To Tobi
Quit it with your stupid reasoning! I meant to say that I'll stand any pain for my friends!! I'm not gonna give up on them!! It might just be me being selfish, but... not having my friends here... is the most painful thing for me!! Period!!!!
~ To Obito
And just who the hell are you to decide... That having a Tailed Beast, makes me feel despair like that!
~ To Tobi and his Six Paths
If you attack Konoha, I will have to fight you... So save up your hatred and take it all on me, I'm the only one who can take it! It's the only thing I can do! I will shoulder your hatred and die with you! Because I'm your friend!
~ To Sasuke
When I'm with you, I think if that's what having a brother is like.
~ To Sasuke
Sasuke, I always knew you were alone. In the beginning I was glad because I thought you were like me - I wanted to talk to you! But you... didn't speak. You always had everyone watching you. You could do everything and we were too different. So I decided that you would become my rival. I didn't want to lose because I was called a loser all the time. Even when we became Team 7, I still thought this way. I always tried to lie but... but the truth is... I always wanted to be like you. I aspired to be like you. Because of that... I was glad that you wanted to fight me.
~ Naruto in the manga
Man, I always have fun with them. It's way better than being alone. I wonder what he's doing right now... He's the only one who's really changed, if he hadn't, he'd be here too.
~ Naruto's thoughts while in the bathhouse
Heh heh! This is the last time you'll have to worry about me, Iruka sensei! Check this out! From now on, I'm gonna work my butt off to become Hokage! And I'm gonna surpass all the Hokage before me!
~ Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations cutscene; after graduating Ninja Academy
So, if that guy up there is the real Madara, that means the guy who we thought was Madara, isn't actually him?!
~ The Allied Shinobi learn that the Masked Man isn't Madara
We’ve taken a lot of responsibilities upon our shoulders. But you see, I actually do want to fight against you. And I want to win fair and square.
~ To Sasuke during their final fight
Please, don't worry about it. You've already protected me twice, it's time I returned the favor.
~ Naruto reads Hinata's mind, later telling her words of encouragement
Hinata... this big idiot finally understands... the real meaning of the scarf you gave to me when you went with Toneri. I know now, from the scarf you painstakingly knitted and took so long to finish, that your love can't be unravelled so easily... Wait for me... This whole time, you always loved me for the way I am... Now, as a man, there's something I must tell you... Hinata, I swear, I WILL save you!
~ About Hinata, from The Last: Naruto the Movie
Boruto... with what I do now, all the people in this village are like a family. So there will be times that you won't be able to have me as a father all to yourself. I know this must be hard for you... but you must learn to endure it. You're a shinobi too, aren't you?
~ To Boruto
Rasengan!
~ Common phrase by Naruto, when he uses Rasengan
Shadow Clone Jutsu!
~ Common phrase by Naruto, when he uses Shadow Clone Technique
NA-RU-TO! Naruto Uzumaki 2K... Barrage!!
~ Young Naruto performing his signature shadow clone technique

Trivia[]

  • His English voice actress, Maile Flanagan, also voices Piggley Winks.
  • Throughout the series, Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga were the two important people in Naruto's life.
  • His birthday is October 10, which was supposed to be the holiday Health and Sports Day (in Japan). However, this date was later moved to second Monday of October.
  • His title as "Konoha's Orange Hokage" is a nod to the nicknames of his parents: "Yellow Flash" was Minato's nickname, and "Red Hot-Blooded Habanero" was Kushina's nickname.
  • Naruto is a playable character in every Naruto game ever made.
  • Naruto has stayed in the top 10 of every Shōnen Jump popularity poll.
  • The door of Naruto's room in Part I and Part II has the pink spiral Narutomaki symbol.
  • In Part I, Naruto was the shortest of the Konoha 11, which consist of every ninja of Naruto's age except for Sasuke.
    • By the time of Boruto, he has become the second tallest, following Shino Aburame.
  • In the Ultimate Ninja Storm games, whenever Hinata and Naruto are used in a team match, they are labelled as either "Secret Lovers" or "Joined Hands".
  • Naruto had an A in positivity, a B in taijutsu, and an F in ninjutsu, genjutsu, cooperation, and classroom attitude.
  • Naruto has kissed Sasuke twice overall; once in episode 3 of the original series. In Naruto: Shippūden, the scene in Part I where Naruto accidentally kisses Sasuke is replayed in a flashback, and in filler episode 194, an unseen memory of Naruto's past is shown where Naruto and Sasuke are stuck together from the hand, and when they fly into the air together, their lips touch for the 2nd time.
  • Naruto is the fifth known Jinchuuriki to survive extraction of their Tailed Beast, the others being Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, Kushina Uzumaki, Killer B, and Obito Uchiha.
  • Although it's known that Uzumaki's have red hair, Naruto is the first known Uzumaki to be born with blond hair.
    • Naruto's son, Boruto is the second known Uzumaki to be born with blond hair.
    • Naruto's daughter, Himawari is the first known Uzumaki to be born with dark blue hair.
  • Although Naruto lost Kurama after using Baryon Mode (the usage of such jutsu was supposedly led to permanent death of Tailed Beast involved), fans expect that Naruto will get Kurama back as Tail Beasts can reincarnate — a phenomenon which previously seen in his fellow Tailed Beast Isobu the Three Tails, who perished when his unwilling Jinchūriki Rin committed suicide only to reappear years later by the time Deidara and Tobi found him and there was no indication Isobu either escaped or extracted from Rin's body during such incident.
  • Many fans call Naruto's speeches to the villains, which more than often allow them to have some thoughts regarding their dark paths, as "Talk no Jutsu".
  • According to Shikamaru, during when Boruto was defacing the Hokage Rock, if Naruto used Sage Mode he could find Boruto in a flash.
  • Fans theorize that because Naruto has received half of Hagoromo's Chakra and Hinata received Hamura's Chakra, this mixture might cause Boruto to have the Jōgan.
  • Naruto and Hinata are only ones among their friends to have two children, while the others have only one child.

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