Who is Naruto?

Naruto Uzumaki is an orphan anime character who was created by Masashi Kishimoto. Naruto is the jinchuriki to the Nine Tails Fox, also known as Kyuubi or Kurama. Kurama was sealed into him by his father, Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, the leader of Konoha's ninja force, for the cost of his own life, with his wife, Kushina Uzumaki, the previous jinchuriki of the Nine Tails Fox. This possession led to Naruto being ridiculed frequently by the rest of Konoha, anyone associated with him was considered taboo. Because of this, Naruto often plays pranks and makes jokes to attract attention. Naruto dreams of becoming Hokage to get everyone in the villagers' recognition and respect. In an attempt to become a ninja, Naruto is horrified to learn of his Jinchuriki nature, but find acceptance from his teacher, Iruka Umino, whom he views as a father. Naruto became a ninja after learning the powerful Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu, also known as Kage Bushin no Jutsu, an ability to create physical copies of the user from the Forbidden scroll. He joined Team Seven under the leadership of Kakashi Hatake, with his teammates, Sasuke Uchiha, whom he has a rivalry since the ninja academy, and Sakura Haruno, the girl he had been in love since the academy. While being in the Chunin Exams, Naruto meets his godfather, the legendary ninja, Jiraiya, and learns how to summon toads to aids him in battle, and how to control part of the Nine Tails' chakra energy. The Chunin Exams are interrupted by the invasion of Konohagakure by the rouge-nin, Orochimaru and the ninja of Sunagakure. Naruto defeats the sand village's One Tail Jinchuriki, Gaara, and convinces him that there is a better way to live than killing people.

No sooner than later, Naruto discovers a criminal organization called the Akatsuki seeks to extract the Nine Tails from his body. After Jiraiya drives them during their first meeting, they learned one of the Akatsuki, Itachi Uchiha is Sasuke's brother and the person responsible for the Uchiha Massacre, leaving Sasuke the only survivor. While the Invasion of Konohagakure, the Third Hokage had been killed by Orochimaru, so Jiraiya and Naruto set off to find the last member of Jiraiya's old Team Seven, Tsunade, a world's best Med-Nin to have her become the 5th Hokage in The Third Hokage's place. During searching for Tsunade, Jiraiya teaches Naruto the Fourth Hokage's legacy, the Rasengan, which is a mighty sphere of chakra that can grant a great damage.

When Sasuke leaves the village to join Orochimaru's forces to obtain the power to kill Itachi, Naruto becomes part of a rescue team to retrieve him. As Naruto and Sasuke meets, they ultimately have an one-on-one battle of their lives, but neither can bring themselves to finish off the other. They part ways, but Naruto refuse to give up on Sasuke, so resulting leaving Konoha with Jiraiya to train more to prepare for his next encounter with Sasuke and the Akatsuki.