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| Manga: chapter 1, "Uzumaki Naruto!!"<ref name="ch1">''Naruto'', chapter 1: "Uzumaki Naruto!!" (Shueisha, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', 1999).</ref><br>Anime: episode 1, "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!"<ref name="ep1site">"Enter: Naruto Uzumaki." ''NARUTO OFFICIAL SITE'' (official). [https://naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_225 naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_225]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref>
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| Junko Takeuchi (Japanese)<ref name="jpcast">''Naruto'', episode 1 on-screen cast credits (Studio Pierrot / TV Tokyo, 2002).</ref><br>Maile Flanagan (English)<ref name="encast">''Naruto'', episode 1: "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!" English-language broadcast credits (VIZ Media, 2005).</ref>
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| [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]]
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| Seventh Hokage of the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] (series epilogue)<ref name="ch700">''Naruto'', chapter 700: "Uzumaki Naruto!!" (Shueisha, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', 2014).</ref><ref name="vizboruto">"Boruto: Naruto Next Generations." VIZ Media (official). [https://www.viz.com/boruto viz.com/boruto]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref>
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| [[Naruto/Minato Namikaze|Minato Namikaze]] (father) · [[Naruto/Kushina Uzumaki|Kushina Uzumaki]] (mother)<ref name="v53">''Naruto'', vol. 53 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/manga-books/manga/naruto-volume-53/product/2614 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><br>[[Naruto/Hinata Hyuga|Hinata Hyūga]] (wife)<ref name="thelast">"The Last: Naruto the Movie." VIZ Media (official). [https://www.viz.com/blog/posts/the-last-naruto-the-movie viz.com/blog/posts/the-last-naruto-the-movie]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><br>Boruto Uzumaki (son)<ref name="vizboruto" /> · Himawari Uzumaki (daughter)<ref name="ch700" />
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'''Naruto Uzumaki''' (うずまきナルト, ''Uzumaki Naruto'') is the protagonist of ''[[Naruto]]'' and the character the series is named for. Orphaned on the night of his birth, when the [[Naruto/Nine-Tails|Nine-Tails]] attacked the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] and was sealed inside him, he grows up shunned by a village that sees only the fox.<ref name="ch1" /> The series follows him across fifteen years of publication, from the worst student in his Academy class to the center of every battle that decides the ninja world's future. His story runs on one engine the whole way: a loud, stubborn refusal to stay unseen.

''This article covers the whole of the series in story order. Each section moves further into the story than the last, so you can stop reading at the point you have reached.''

== Background ==

Twelve years before the story opens, the Nine-Tailed Fox attacked the Village Hidden in the Leaves. The Fourth Hokage stopped it at the cost of his own life by sealing the beast into a newborn boy, and the village's leaders then forbade anyone to speak of it.<ref name="ch1" /> The law was meant to protect Naruto; what it produced was a childhood in which every adult looked at him coldly and no one would tell him why. He grew up alone, pulled pranks to force the village to look at him, and announced to anyone listening that he would one day be Hokage.<ref name="ch1" />

== Part I: graduation ==

The series opens with Naruto failing his graduation exam at the Ninja Academy, defeated as always by the basic [[Naruto/Clone Technique|Clone Technique]].<ref name="ch1" /> The instructor [[Naruto/Mizuki|Mizuki]] tricks the miserable boy into stealing the [[Naruto/Scroll of Sealing|Scroll of Sealing]] that night. In the forest Naruto learns two things at once: the truth about the fox, and the [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]], the forbidden skill that becomes his trademark. When Mizuki turns his weapons on [[Naruto/Iruka Umino|Iruka Umino]], the first adult who ever claimed Naruto as a person rather than a monster, Naruto floors him with hundreds of solid clones.<ref name="ch1" /> Iruka graduates him on the spot, tying his own forehead protector onto his student.

== Part I: Team 7 and the Chunin Exams ==

As a genin, the lowest rank of ninja, Naruto joins Team 7 under [[Naruto/Kakashi Hatake|Kakashi Hatake]], alongside [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]], the prodigy he names his rival, and [[Naruto/Sakura Haruno|Sakura Haruno]], the girl he cannot impress.<ref name="p1">''Naruto'', vols. 4–27 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> A guard mission in the Land of Waves turns into the team's first brush with killers and gives Naruto his working creed: protect the people who matter, whatever the cost. The Chunin Exams that follow fill the heart of Part I. Naruto defeats the genius Neji Hyūga, who insists that failures stay failures. He then faces Gaara of the Sand, a fellow jinchūriki — a person with a tailed beast sealed inside them — who grew up without a single Iruka to catch him.<ref name="p1" /> Between rounds the legendary ninja [[Naruto/Jiraiya|Jiraiya]] takes him on as a student and teaches him the Rasengan, the Fourth Hokage's signature attack.

== Part I: losing Sasuke ==

Part I closes on a wound. Sasuke, starved for the power to kill one particular man, walks out of the village to join the criminal Orochimaru, and Naruto joins the mission sent to bring him home. Their fight at the Valley of the End is the first of their great battles, and Naruto loses it.<ref name="p1" /> He leaves the village soon after to train under Jiraiya, carrying a promise to Sakura that he intends to keep however long it takes.<ref name="p1" />

== Part II: the Akatsuki and Pain ==

Part II opens nearly three years later with a taller, louder Naruto walking back through the village gate.<ref name="v28">''Naruto'', vol. 28: "Homecoming" (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> The Akatsuki, an organization of rogue ninja, is hunting the nine tailed beasts and the jinchūriki who carry them, which puts Naruto near the top of its list. The hunt takes Jiraiya from him: his teacher dies fighting the Akatsuki's leader, Pain.<ref name="v46">''Naruto'', vol. 46 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/manga/naruto-volume-46/product/2187 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> While Naruto is away mastering his dead teacher's arts among the toads, Pain levels the village in a single attack, and Naruto returns alone to beat him.<ref name="v46" /> The victory turns the village that whispered about him into a village that cheers him. In the middle of the fight, at the edge of losing himself to the fox, he also meets the spirit of the Fourth Hokage and learns that the man was his father.<ref name="v48">''Naruto'', vol. 48 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref>

== Part II: the war ==

The Fourth Great Ninja War unites the five villages against the men behind the Akatsuki, and Naruto fights at the center of it. He meets the spirit of his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, and finally hears the story of his own birth: the night the fox was freed, and the night both his parents died stopping it.<ref name="v53" /> He also wins over the fox itself, turning the monster in his seal from a prisoner into a partner. The war's true architects fall one by one until Naruto and Sasuke, fighting together, seal away Kaguya, the progenitor of all chakra.<ref name="v72">''Naruto'', vol. 72 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/manga/naruto-volume-72/product/3500 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> The two then settle their own account in a final battle at the Valley of the End that costs each of them an arm. Sasuke concedes, and the rivalry that carried the whole series ends as something close to brotherhood.<ref name="v72" />

== The epilogue and the sequel era ==

The final chapter jumps years ahead: Naruto is the Seventh Hokage, and his face is carved into the mountain he defaced as a boy.<ref name="ch700" /> ''The Last: Naruto the Movie'' fills in the road between, following the romance between Naruto and [[Naruto/Hinata Hyuga|Hinata Hyūga]], the shy classmate who believed in him before the village did.<ref name="thelast" /> They marry and raise two children, Boruto and Himawari.<ref name="vizboruto" /><ref name="ch700" /> The sequel series ''Boruto: Naruto Next Generations'' inverts his story, giving him a talented, comfortable son who acts out to win the attention of a father the whole world now sees.<ref name="vizboruto" /> The overworked Hokage still leans on his oldest trick, and the official continuation volume opens with him using shadow clones to babysit his own son.<ref name="scarlet">''Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring'' (Shueisha / VIZ Media, 2015). [https://www.viz.com/manga-books/manga/naruto-the-seventh-hokage-and-the-scarlet-spring/product/3787/paperback viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref>

== Personality ==

Naruto is loud, impulsive, starved for recognition, and incapable of quitting, and every one of those traits is on the page within minutes of his debut.<ref name="ch1" /> The pranks of his childhood are strategy rather than malice, because being scolded is the only attention the village ever offered him. What sets him apart in a world full of talented ninja is not talent but persistence: he trains alone until things work, and he refuses to write anyone off, enemies included. Much of the series' plot is a list of broken people — Gaara, Neji, Pain, Sasuke — whom Naruto declines to give up on. The acknowledgment he demands in his first chapter arrives one person at a time: a teacher, a follower, a village, and at last the world. The adult under the Hokage's hat is recognizably the same boy.

== Abilities ==

Naruto graduates at the bottom of his class, and the gap between his reputation and his ceiling is the running joke of Part I. Because of the fox he carries enormous reserves of chakra, the energy behind every technique, which is why a delicate skill like the basic clone fails him while the chakra-hungry [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]] comes almost naturally.<ref name="ch1" /> Shadow clones anchor his fighting style for the entire series, serving as decoys, training partners, and the delivery system for the Rasengan and its later variants. Jiraiya's teaching, the toads' Sage Mode, which draws power from the natural world, and finally the fox's willing cooperation each add a layer without changing the foundation.<ref name="p1" /><ref name="v46" /> Most of his signature attacks are, in the end, teamwork between Naruto and himself.

== The fox in the seal ==

The defining fact of Naruto's life is the beast inside it. For most of Part I the fox is simply a menace: a source of terrifying borrowed power that surfaces when his rage peaks, and the reason the village fears him.<ref name="ch1" /> Part II turns the menace into a relationship. The fox's power nearly consumes him more than once, the two fight an open struggle inside Naruto's own mind, and the war finally forges a real partnership between them.<ref name="v53" /> By the last battles the fox is not his burden but his ally, and the reason for his loneliness has become one of his closest friends.

== Relationships ==

[[Naruto/Iruka Umino|Iruka Umino]] is the first person who accepted him and remains the closest thing he has to family.<ref name="ch1" /> Sasuke is rival, best friend, enemy and finally something like a brother, and their bond is the axis the manga turns on.<ref name="v72" /> Jiraiya shapes him more than any other teacher and costs him more than any other loss.<ref name="v46" /> Sakura and Kakashi round out the team that becomes his first real home, and [[Naruto/Konohamaru Sarutobi|Konohamaru Sarutobi]] appoints himself Naruto's first follower in chapter 2. Hinata Hyūga, who admired him when no one else did, becomes his wife, and their children carry the story into the next generation.<ref name="thelast" /><ref name="vizboruto" />

== See also ==

* [[Naruto/Iruka Umino|Iruka Umino]]
* [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]]
* [[Naruto/Konohamaru Sarutobi|Konohamaru Sarutobi]]
* [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]]
* [[Naruto/Clone Technique|Clone Technique]]
* [[Naruto/Sexy Technique|Sexy Technique]]
* [[Naruto/Nine-Tails|Nine-Tails]]
* [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]]
* [[Naruto]]

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(Shueisha, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', 1999).</ref><br>Anime: episode 1, "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!"<ref name="ep1site">"Enter: Naruto Uzumaki." ''NARUTO OFFICIAL SITE'' (official). [https://naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_225 naruto-official.com/en/anime/naruto1/list/01_225]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Voice actors | Junko Takeuchi (Japanese)<ref name="jpcast">''Naruto'', episode 1 on-screen cast credits (Studio Pierrot / TV Tokyo, 2002).</ref><br>Maile Flanagan (English)<ref name="encast">''Naruto'', episode 1: "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!" English-language broadcast credits (VIZ Media, 2005).</ref> |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Affiliation | [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] |- | colspan="2" | {{Collapse|text="'''[ Details — full series ▾ ]'''"|color="#EC7124"|style="width:100%;"}} |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center; width: 36%;" | Status | Seventh Hokage of the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] (series epilogue)<ref name="ch700">''Naruto'', chapter 700: "Uzumaki Naruto!!" (Shueisha, ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'', 2014).</ref><ref name="vizboruto">"Boruto: Naruto Next Generations." VIZ Media (official). [https://www.viz.com/boruto viz.com/boruto]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> |- style="border-bottom: 1px solid #f6ddc4;" ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Family | [[Naruto/Minato Namikaze|Minato Namikaze]] (father) · [[Naruto/Kushina Uzumaki|Kushina Uzumaki]] (mother)<ref name="v53">''Naruto'', vol. 53 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/manga-books/manga/naruto-volume-53/product/2614 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><br>[[Naruto/Hinata Hyuga|Hinata Hyūga]] (wife)<ref name="thelast">"The Last: Naruto the Movie." VIZ Media (official). [https://www.viz.com/blog/posts/the-last-naruto-the-movie viz.com/blog/posts/the-last-naruto-the-movie]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref><br>Boruto Uzumaki (son)<ref name="vizboruto" /> · Himawari Uzumaki (daughter)<ref name="ch700" /> |- ! scope="row" style="background: #000; color: #EC7124; text-align: center;" | Signature technique | [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]] {{Endcollapse}} |} '''Naruto Uzumaki''' (うずまきナルト, ''Uzumaki Naruto'') is the protagonist of ''[[Naruto]]'' and the character the series is named for. Orphaned on the night of his birth, when the [[Naruto/Nine-Tails|Nine-Tails]] attacked the [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] and was sealed inside him, he grows up shunned by a village that sees only the fox.<ref name="ch1" /> The series follows him across fifteen years of publication, from the worst student in his Academy class to the center of every battle that decides the ninja world's future. His story runs on one engine the whole way: a loud, stubborn refusal to stay unseen. ''This article covers the whole of the series in story order. Each section moves further into the story than the last, so you can stop reading at the point you have reached.'' == Background == Twelve years before the story opens, the Nine-Tailed Fox attacked the Village Hidden in the Leaves. The Fourth Hokage stopped it at the cost of his own life by sealing the beast into a newborn boy, and the village's leaders then forbade anyone to speak of it.<ref name="ch1" /> The law was meant to protect Naruto; what it produced was a childhood in which every adult looked at him coldly and no one would tell him why. He grew up alone, pulled pranks to force the village to look at him, and announced to anyone listening that he would one day be Hokage.<ref name="ch1" /> == Part I: graduation == The series opens with Naruto failing his graduation exam at the Ninja Academy, defeated as always by the basic [[Naruto/Clone Technique|Clone Technique]].<ref name="ch1" /> The instructor [[Naruto/Mizuki|Mizuki]] tricks the miserable boy into stealing the [[Naruto/Scroll of Sealing|Scroll of Sealing]] that night. In the forest Naruto learns two things at once: the truth about the fox, and the [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]], the forbidden skill that becomes his trademark. When Mizuki turns his weapons on [[Naruto/Iruka Umino|Iruka Umino]], the first adult who ever claimed Naruto as a person rather than a monster, Naruto floors him with hundreds of solid clones.<ref name="ch1" /> Iruka graduates him on the spot, tying his own forehead protector onto his student. == Part I: Team 7 and the Chunin Exams == As a genin, the lowest rank of ninja, Naruto joins Team 7 under [[Naruto/Kakashi Hatake|Kakashi Hatake]], alongside [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]], the prodigy he names his rival, and [[Naruto/Sakura Haruno|Sakura Haruno]], the girl he cannot impress.<ref name="p1">''Naruto'', vols. 4–27 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> A guard mission in the Land of Waves turns into the team's first brush with killers and gives Naruto his working creed: protect the people who matter, whatever the cost. The Chunin Exams that follow fill the heart of Part I. Naruto defeats the genius Neji Hyūga, who insists that failures stay failures. He then faces Gaara of the Sand, a fellow jinchūriki — a person with a tailed beast sealed inside them — who grew up without a single Iruka to catch him.<ref name="p1" /> Between rounds the legendary ninja [[Naruto/Jiraiya|Jiraiya]] takes him on as a student and teaches him the Rasengan, the Fourth Hokage's signature attack. == Part I: losing Sasuke == Part I closes on a wound. Sasuke, starved for the power to kill one particular man, walks out of the village to join the criminal Orochimaru, and Naruto joins the mission sent to bring him home. Their fight at the Valley of the End is the first of their great battles, and Naruto loses it.<ref name="p1" /> He leaves the village soon after to train under Jiraiya, carrying a promise to Sakura that he intends to keep however long it takes.<ref name="p1" /> == Part II: the Akatsuki and Pain == Part II opens nearly three years later with a taller, louder Naruto walking back through the village gate.<ref name="v28">''Naruto'', vol. 28: "Homecoming" (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> The Akatsuki, an organization of rogue ninja, is hunting the nine tailed beasts and the jinchūriki who carry them, which puts Naruto near the top of its list. The hunt takes Jiraiya from him: his teacher dies fighting the Akatsuki's leader, Pain.<ref name="v46">''Naruto'', vol. 46 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/manga/naruto-volume-46/product/2187 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> While Naruto is away mastering his dead teacher's arts among the toads, Pain levels the village in a single attack, and Naruto returns alone to beat him.<ref name="v46" /> The victory turns the village that whispered about him into a village that cheers him. In the middle of the fight, at the edge of losing himself to the fox, he also meets the spirit of the Fourth Hokage and learns that the man was his father.<ref name="v48">''Naruto'', vol. 48 (Shueisha / VIZ Media).</ref> == Part II: the war == The Fourth Great Ninja War unites the five villages against the men behind the Akatsuki, and Naruto fights at the center of it. He meets the spirit of his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, and finally hears the story of his own birth: the night the fox was freed, and the night both his parents died stopping it.<ref name="v53" /> He also wins over the fox itself, turning the monster in his seal from a prisoner into a partner. The war's true architects fall one by one until Naruto and Sasuke, fighting together, seal away Kaguya, the progenitor of all chakra.<ref name="v72">''Naruto'', vol. 72 (Shueisha / VIZ Media). [https://www.viz.com/read/manga/naruto-volume-72/product/3500 viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> The two then settle their own account in a final battle at the Valley of the End that costs each of them an arm. Sasuke concedes, and the rivalry that carried the whole series ends as something close to brotherhood.<ref name="v72" /> == The epilogue and the sequel era == The final chapter jumps years ahead: Naruto is the Seventh Hokage, and his face is carved into the mountain he defaced as a boy.<ref name="ch700" /> ''The Last: Naruto the Movie'' fills in the road between, following the romance between Naruto and [[Naruto/Hinata Hyuga|Hinata Hyūga]], the shy classmate who believed in him before the village did.<ref name="thelast" /> They marry and raise two children, Boruto and Himawari.<ref name="vizboruto" /><ref name="ch700" /> The sequel series ''Boruto: Naruto Next Generations'' inverts his story, giving him a talented, comfortable son who acts out to win the attention of a father the whole world now sees.<ref name="vizboruto" /> The overworked Hokage still leans on his oldest trick, and the official continuation volume opens with him using shadow clones to babysit his own son.<ref name="scarlet">''Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring'' (Shueisha / VIZ Media, 2015). [https://www.viz.com/manga-books/manga/naruto-the-seventh-hokage-and-the-scarlet-spring/product/3787/paperback viz.com]. Retrieved July 2026.</ref> == Personality == Naruto is loud, impulsive, starved for recognition, and incapable of quitting, and every one of those traits is on the page within minutes of his debut.<ref name="ch1" /> The pranks of his childhood are strategy rather than malice, because being scolded is the only attention the village ever offered him. What sets him apart in a world full of talented ninja is not talent but persistence: he trains alone until things work, and he refuses to write anyone off, enemies included. Much of the series' plot is a list of broken people — Gaara, Neji, Pain, Sasuke — whom Naruto declines to give up on. The acknowledgment he demands in his first chapter arrives one person at a time: a teacher, a follower, a village, and at last the world. The adult under the Hokage's hat is recognizably the same boy. == Abilities == Naruto graduates at the bottom of his class, and the gap between his reputation and his ceiling is the running joke of Part I. Because of the fox he carries enormous reserves of chakra, the energy behind every technique, which is why a delicate skill like the basic clone fails him while the chakra-hungry [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]] comes almost naturally.<ref name="ch1" /> Shadow clones anchor his fighting style for the entire series, serving as decoys, training partners, and the delivery system for the Rasengan and its later variants. Jiraiya's teaching, the toads' Sage Mode, which draws power from the natural world, and finally the fox's willing cooperation each add a layer without changing the foundation.<ref name="p1" /><ref name="v46" /> Most of his signature attacks are, in the end, teamwork between Naruto and himself. == The fox in the seal == The defining fact of Naruto's life is the beast inside it. For most of Part I the fox is simply a menace: a source of terrifying borrowed power that surfaces when his rage peaks, and the reason the village fears him.<ref name="ch1" /> Part II turns the menace into a relationship. The fox's power nearly consumes him more than once, the two fight an open struggle inside Naruto's own mind, and the war finally forges a real partnership between them.<ref name="v53" /> By the last battles the fox is not his burden but his ally, and the reason for his loneliness has become one of his closest friends. == Relationships == [[Naruto/Iruka Umino|Iruka Umino]] is the first person who accepted him and remains the closest thing he has to family.<ref name="ch1" /> Sasuke is rival, best friend, enemy and finally something like a brother, and their bond is the axis the manga turns on.<ref name="v72" /> Jiraiya shapes him more than any other teacher and costs him more than any other loss.<ref name="v46" /> Sakura and Kakashi round out the team that becomes his first real home, and [[Naruto/Konohamaru Sarutobi|Konohamaru Sarutobi]] appoints himself Naruto's first follower in chapter 2. Hinata Hyūga, who admired him when no one else did, becomes his wife, and their children carry the story into the next generation.<ref name="thelast" /><ref name="vizboruto" /> == See also == * [[Naruto/Iruka Umino|Iruka Umino]] * [[Naruto/Sasuke Uchiha|Sasuke Uchiha]] * [[Naruto/Konohamaru Sarutobi|Konohamaru Sarutobi]] * [[Naruto/Shadow Clone Technique|Shadow Clone Technique]] * [[Naruto/Clone Technique|Clone Technique]] * [[Naruto/Sexy Technique|Sexy Technique]] * [[Naruto/Nine-Tails|Nine-Tails]] * [[Naruto/Village Hidden in the Leaves|Village Hidden in the Leaves]] * [[Naruto]]