Name: Sarutobi
Age: 68
Birthday: 08 February
Zodiac: Aquarius
Rank: Hokage (Sandaime)
From: Leaf
Teachers: 1st and 2nd Hokage
Students: Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru
Family: Konohamaru (grandson)

Background: 3rd Hokage of the Hidden Village of the Leaf. Teacher of the 5th Hokage.

The Deal with him: Sarutobi sensei is almost like a kind grandfather to the villagers of the Leaf. He was chosen to be the 3rd Hokage when he was just a child by the 1st and 2nd Hokages. He goes by the nickname of "Professor" for learning over a thousand jutsus. Some says he's the most powerful Hokage when he was in his prime.

After the 4th Hokage was chosen, Sandaime decided to retire. He was however forced out of retirement when Yondaime sacrificed himself while protecting the Village against the Kyuubi.

Even at the age of 68, Sarutobi still intended to be the Hokage for another 5 years or more. But his life was rudely interrupted by his former favourite student Orochimaru, who lost a screw after he wasn't chosen to be the 4th Hokage. Vengeful against the Leaf which exiled him, he came back to destroy the village and to kill his teacher. Sandaime was killed in the battle with Orochimaru and the 1st and 2nd Hokage (which Orochimaru brought back to life to aid his fight). Before he died, he took away the use of Orochimaru's hands.

Name: Tsunade
Age: 50
Rank: Hokage (Godaime)
From: Leaf
Teacher: Sarutobi - Sandaime Hokage
Teammates: Jiraiya, Orochimaru
Family: Shodamine (grandfather), Nawaki (younger brother), Dan (boyfriend) - all dead
Side-kick: Shizune
Summons: Slugs
Weakness: Loves gambling
Famous for: Those boobies

Background: Godaime Hokage, medical specialist, the female from the Legendary Sannin and also known as The Legendary Sucker

The Deal with her: Quoted by Shikamaru's father to be the strongest and most beautiful of women, Tsunade is the 5th Hokage of the Village of the Leaf. The Godaime title was originally offered to Jiraiya, who turned it down and brought Naruto to hunt down Tsunade to take up the job. Before they found Tsunade, Orochimaru proposed a trade with Tsunade - to bring her little brother and boyfriend; both who died during the Ninja wars, back to life, if she would heal his arms so he could continue to destroy the Leaf. Tsunade was thus torn between seeing her loved ones again and protecting her village. She seemed to have chosen the former but fortunately for Konoha, Naruto reminded her of her dreams and her brother and boyfriend's dreams. So Tsunade beat the sh*t out of Orochimaru and returned to the Village with Naruto and Jiraiya to be the 5th Hokage.

Besides being the Hokage, Tsunade also has another nickname - The Legendary Sucker, for always losing in gambling. She is also vain as she uses a special technique to conceal her age so she could look young. Whether her titanic assets are part of the technique is still a mystery...(we remember Jiraiya calling her a flat chested b*tch when they were genins...)

Name: Orochimaru
Age: 50
Birthday: 27 October
Zodiac: Scorpio
Rank: S class missing nin; one of the Legendary Sannin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Sarutobi - Sandaime Hokage
Teammates: Jiraiya, Tsunade
Student: Anko
Side-kick: Yakushi Kabuto
Summons: Snakes
Loves: Little boys
Goal in life: Learn all the jutsus in the world
Our sneaky suspicion: He's gay

Background: The crazy one from the Legendary Sannin. Sarutobi's favourite student, who cracked after he was rejected from the title of Yondaime Hokage. He went into weird experiments that involved killing alot of people to create new jutsus to make himself immortal. He was exiled from the Leaf and later founded his own village.

The Deal with him: Sarutobi had noticed the malice and ambition in his snakey eyes even when he was just a genin. But the Hokage believed he could change Orochimaru as he saw much potential in him. It was a failed investment. Not only did Orochimaru grow up to be a twisted crazed psychopath, he also ultimately killed his teacher, but at the cost of losing the use of his hands/jutsus.

Orochimaru is a sore loser. He hankered after the title of the 4th Hokage, but after losing it to Yondaime, he claimed only idiots would want to be Hokage and sought to destroy the village.

His accomplishments are the founding of the Hidden Village of Sound, with the main objective being to destroy the Leaf (why? because he's a sore loser); developing malicious jutsus with one of them being to move his soul into somebody else's body so he could stay immortal, and biting people's neck to give them cursed seals. His current investment is Sasuke, whose Sharingan that can copy others' moves he is actively lusting after.

Name: Jiraiya
Age: 50
Birthday: 11 November
Zodiac: Scorpio
Rank: One of the Legendary Sannin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Sarutobi - Sandaime Hokage
Teammates: Tsunade, Orochimaru
Students: Yondaime, Naruto
Summons: Frogs
Excuse for peeping: Data Gathering!

Background: Our favourite one from the Legendary Sannin, a big pervert and author of "Come Come Paradise" (finally made into a full length movie coming to theatres near you!). Calls himself Frog Hermit, but Naruto prefers to call him 'perverted hermit'

The Deal with him: How our favourite pervert managed to pry his lusty eyes away from the babes around him to pay enough attention to his ninjutsu training and become one of the Legendary Sannin is still a mystery. Jiraiya is often seen playing a fool, peeping at females and drooling at hot chicks. But this ero-sennin knows when to play and when to be serious. Jiraiya was the student of the 3rd Hokage; the teacher of the 4th Hokage; and the teammate of the 5th Hokage, after rejecting the latter title himself.

The 1st time we see Jiraiya was when Ebisu was training Naruto for the Chuunin exams and the closet pervert tried to stop Jiraiya from peeping at the baths. Jiraiya slammed Ebisu unconscious and Naruto chased the pervert all over town to get him to train him, which he succeeded. They continue to bond and at times, Jiraiya was like the father Naruto never had.

Name: Tenten
Age: 13
Birthday: 09 March
Zodiac: Pisces
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Maito Gai
Teammates: Rock Lee, Hyuuga Neji
Expert Technique: Throwing weapons

Background: Teammate of Lee and Neji

The Deal with her: Tenten specializes in weapon attacks and she never misses a hit. However, she was defeated by Temari in the Chuunin 3rd exams preliminaries when Temari nullified her weapon attacks using wind. Tenten seems to support Neji a great deal, helping Neji with his trainings, always stating how powerful Neji is and telling Lee he can never beat the genius Neji. We smell something cooking...

Name: Yamanaka Ino
Age: 13
Birthday: September 23
Zodiac: Libra
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf Village
Teacher: Sarutobi Asuma
Teammates: Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Chouji
Technique: Shitenshyin no jutsu (gets into another person's body by telepathy)

Background: Sakura's major rival.
 
How to deal with her: When she was little, Yamanaka Ino found lonely Haruno Sakura and became best friends until Sakura found out that Ino liked Sasuke too and so they became rivals in love.

She's always flirting with Sasuke and fighting with Sakura over him (how annoying), always calling fellow teammate Akimichi Chouji a fat ass and to lose weight because he's not going to get any girl. Vain Ino is also very focussed in keeping her figure. She works at her family a flowershop. One of the only distinctions between between Ino and Sakura is that Ino is a better fighter and that she appears to treasure Sakura's friendship more than Sakura does.

Name: Akimichi Chouji
Age: 13
Birthday: 01 May
Zodiac: Taurus
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Asuma
Teammates: Nara Shikamaru, Yamanako Ino
Main jutsu : Baika no jutsu (Meat Tank Technique)
Bane: Being called a fatass and stealing his last piece of chip.

Background: Chouji is from the Akimichi clan of Konoha and best friend of Shikamaru.

The Deal with him: Your first impression of him must have been "that fatass in Ino's group". Chouji is almost the definition of 'Gluttony'. He is a compulsive eater and he has got this really cool waistpouch that looks small but can contain bags of potato chips AND a cake.

Chouji's choice of the ninja headband looks suspiciously like an inverted underwear. He is mild-mannered and would avoid as many fights as possible, believing he'd lose anyway. Unless, of course, if you call label him a 'fatass'. Then he'd morph into a giant meatball and flatten you.

Chouji grew up with people making fun of him because he's fat and soft-spoken but don't look down on this butterfly. Besides turning himself into a meat tank, Chouji also has his clan's ultimate Houren pills to increase his chakra (though they come with great side effects). The 3 pills that reflect the traffic light colours lend him momentary great power when he take them. The final red pill though, not only increases his power to a hundred times and changes his voice but also doubles as an instant slimming pill.The drawback is that the user may very likely suffer from overdose and die.

During the Sasuke-hunt, Chouji demonstrated his pills' abilities when he fought Jiroubu of the Sound 4 (aka The Fight of the Fat Asses).

Name: Aburame Shino Age: in the series debut 12 (actually 15) Rank: Genin Birthday: January 23 Zodiac: Aquarius From: Leaf Village Teammates: Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru (Team 8) Teacher: Yuuhi Kurenai Techniques: Kikaich no Jutsu (Destruction Bug Host Technique), Mushi Bunshin no Jutsu (Bug Clone Technique), Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique) Background: He’s a very strange guy who’s techniques are with bugs. The Deal with him: Aburame Shino is a cool, collected, confident Genin from Naruto's graduating year who is quite mysterious and who always wears sunglasses. As a part of the Aburame clan tradition, Shino was infused with a special type of insects that feed on his chakra since birth and in return, they attack and do other tasks as he commands. Shino was the only male Genin left out of the (failed) mission to retrieve Uchiha Sasuke when the latter decided to become a Missing-nin, and felt some bitterness and guilt over the matter, considering the eventual outcome might have been different had he been sent to help them as well. Name: Kankurou Age: 15 Birthday: 15 May Zodiac: Taurus Rank: Jounin From: Sand Teacher: Baki Teammates: Gaara, Temari Family: Kazekage (Father), Temari and Gaara (younger siblings) Weapon: Those weird puppets Hobbies: Face painting. Background: Son of former Kazekage and brother of current kazekage. The Deal with him: Kankurou is probably best known for walking around in his pajamas and carrying heavy looking puppets on his back. Kankurou uses branded puppet weapons created by Sasori of the Red Sand, former Sand nin and current Akatsuki member. Though a formidable ninja in his own right, Kankurou's career is shadowed by his baby brother Gaara's achievements. When they were little genins, all everyone talked about was how scary Gaara was. Gaara's insane abilities as the Shukaku's carrier also made him the the leader of the team. When Gaara became Kazekage, all everyone gushed about was how much they love him, once again side-lining Kankurou until he got his ass kicked by Sasori of the Desert. Kankurou's avid hobby with experimental face painting of various symbols and shapes is also really useful in distinguishing his age and timeline of events during the flashbacks in the anime. Name: Temari Age: 15 Birthday: 23 August Zodiac: Leo Rank: Genin From: Sand Teacher: Baki Teammates: Gaara, Kankurou Family: Kazekage (Father), Gaara and Kankurou (younger and elder brother) Weapon: That big fan Background: Genin of Sand sent to take part in the Chuunin exams in the Leaf. The Deal with her: Probably the toughest Genin to take part in the Chuunin exams with Naruto and gang, Temari is the daughter of the Kage of the Sand and sister of Gaara. In the guise of taking the exams, she and her teammates/siblings were actually sent on an A-rank mission. Her main function to assist in the Sand's invasion of the Leaf and keep a watch over Gaara. Her weapon is that big fan she carries with her and her main jutsu is the Whirlwind technique, which, at a wave of the fan from her, blows up a windstorm embedded with chakra to sting her opponents. After the invasion fo the Leaf by the Sand and Sound failed, she escaped back to the Sand with her siblings. She returned as an ally of Konoha wearing a funky new purple costume and an even shorter miniskirt during the Sasuke chase and helped Shikamaru fight the sound nin. Name: Gaara of the Desert Age: 13 Birthday: 19 January Zodiac: Capricorn Rank: Genin From: Sand Teacher: Baki Teammates: Temari and Kankurou Family: Kazekage (Father), Temari and Kankurou (elder sister and brother) Most Used Technique: Desert Funeral Background: When Gaara was born, he took the life of his mother as a sacrifice. Gaara was an experiment attempt by the hidden village of Sand to 'build' stronger ninjas. The Deal with him: Before the Chuunin exams, Gaara has never been hurt as the sand always protected him. He has never slept in years either as the Sand demon would take over his body and eat away part of his mind everytime he lose consciousness. Thus, Gaara has become quite mentally unstable. He has never felt love as his villagers feared and loathed him. His father, the Kazakage, sent ninjas to assasinate him since he was 6 years old as his powers was getting out of hand. The 1st of the assasins was Gaara's uncle whom he thought was the only person who loved him. Ever since the incident, Gaara 'tattooed' the kanji 'love' on his forehead and swore to love only himself and sought to feel his existence by killing others. He was sent along with Temari and Kankurou on an A-rank mission. Seemingly to take part in the Chuunin exams in Konoha, Gaara transforming into the Shukaku was actually the Sand's trump card in their plan with the Sound to destroy Konoha. However, he was defeated by Naruto and escaped back to the Sand with Temari and Kankurou. Name: Yakushi Kabuto Age: 19 Birthday: 29 February (celebrates birthday once every 4 years) Zodiac: Pisces Rank: Genin From: Leaf Teacher: ?? Teammates: Akadou Yoroi, Tsurugu Misumi Other Affiliates: Orochimaru Most Used Technique: Running away from Kakashi Background: His origins were unknown. Years ago, during the ninja wars, the leader of the Konoha medical squad brought a boy back from the battlefield and adopted him. The Deal with him: Kabuto is a traitor and spy of the Hidden Village of Sound and Orochimaru's right hand man. He pretends to be a Genin of the Leaf who failed the Chunnin exams 6 times in a row on purpose to gather data for Orochimaru. He is as strong as a jounin and is even said that his strength is comparable to Kakashi's. Name: Hatake Kakashi Age: 26 Birthday: 15 September Zodiac: Virgo Rank: Special Jounin From: Leaf Teacher: Yondaime Students: Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura Also Known As: Copy Ninja Kakashi Only Original Skill : Chidori Hobby: Reading adult books like "Come come Paradise" and being late. What's under his mask : Another mask! Background: Team 7's teacher, and has a mysterious background regarding his Sharingan that everyone's dying to find out. The Deal with him: Kakashi's the 1st ninja in the series that we see wearing a mask. His past is shrouded in mystery. His left eye is an implanted Sharingan eye which he used to copy over thousands of techniques, and earned him the nickname of Copy Ninja Kakashi. Infact, his only original move is the Chidori (Chirping of a Thousand Birds) or later also known as Raikiri (Lightning Edge) for cutting through lightning. Team 7 is the 1st group of Genins that Kakashi passed as it seemed that they have comprehended the importance of teamwork. Yet now, it seems that the teamwork is falling apart because of Sasuke's wussi-ness. Though cool and very attractive, Kakashi is a somewhat biased teacher as we see that he places more energy in teaching Sasuke. He's not as serious when teaching Naruto and seems to give up on Sakura. He might be making the same mistake as Sandaime Hokage for 'investing' in the wrong ninja. Kakashi is seldom on time for an appointment because he always spends too much time staring at his dead best friend's grave (how he died is another mystery). Name: Maito Gai Age: 26 Birthday: 01 January Zodiac: Capricorn Rank: Jounin From: Leaf Students: Rock Lee, Tenten, Hyuuga Neji Eternal Rival: Hatake Kakashi Calls himself: Konoha's sprouting leaf of acceptance Background: Rock Lee's teacher. The Deal with him: Gai plays a relatively minor role, mainly comic relief and toothpaste endorsement. The 1st time we see him, he engaged in a dramatic embrace with Rock Lee in a picturesque golden sunset with the Sexy soundtrack in the background. The introduction promises much laughter everytime he comes on screen subsequently. Most remembered scenes of Gai are when he tries to compete with Kakashi only to get "modern" and "hip" nonchalent responses from his eternal rival and he goes "Oh My GOD!!". Gai and Lee's relationship is very strong as the teacher tries his best to train his prized student to be the excellent ninja that Lee envisions himself to be. Name: Mitarashi Anko Age: 24 Birthday: 24 October Zodiac: Scorpio Rank: Special Jounin From: Leaf Teacher: Orochimaru Teammates: - Forbidden Technique: Dual Snake Destroyer Background: Former subordinate of Orochimaru. The Deal with her: Not much is revealed about Anko yet. We first saw her during the Chuunin exams as the exuberant loud-mouthed examiner of the second exam. Her wide confident smiles were soon doused with the knowledge that her former teacher, Orochimaru had returned to the village. Orochimaru had used her years ago when she was his subordinate and had placed a cursed seal on her, which would have killed her had she been weaker. Anko is rash, impulsive, and very much haunted by her past affiliation with Orochimaru.  Name: Umino Iruka Age: 25 Birthday: 26 May Zodiac: Gemini Rank: Chuunin From: Leaf Occupation: Pre-Genin Teacher in the Ninja Academy Most Seen: Eating ramen with Naruto Background: Umino Iruka lost his parents during the invasion of the nine tailed demon fox The Deal with him: Umino Iruka is one of the first to acknowledge Uzumaki Naruto. Iruka relates to Naruto as he himself lost his parents in a young age and grew up trying to vie for attention. initially failing Naruto in the Genin exams, Iruka later passed Naruto after the boy saved him from Mizuki (and celebrated over a bowl of ramen). Umino Iruka has a mild kind hearted personality as docile as his name (which means dolphin), and is truly a new age sensitive ninja. He is also the first to be defeated by Naruto's devastating technique, the Sexy No Jutsu.