Naruto Chakra

Chakra Information
Chakra is simply stated, the energy you use when doing a jutsu. Basically, to do ninjutsu or genjutsu, you must mix your Chakra(which is bodily energy collected from cells throughout the body) and spirtiual energy(which is gained through experiences). Then by doing the proper hand poses Seals, the jutsu can be activated. Once Chakra is activated, various techs and movements can be used. Without Chakra a Ninja wouldn't be able to do much.


The creator of the Naruto series, "Masashi Kishimoto", used the Chakra system as a power that the Ninjas in the series can use, He quotes


"I needed a hook to tie in those points in the story when characters would use powers that were beyond normal human capabilities. The term is Chakra, which is used as an explanation for readers to better understand the powers. It’s similar to “the Force” in Star Wars, or chi (aka. - Ki) in "Dragon Ball", or magic points in RPGs."

In other words, a character's Chakra capacity represents his or her mana, or mental power. This has almost nothing to do with one's physical strength, or in other terms, body stamina.



Normal Chakra
Normal Chakra is the type of Chakra we see during most of the show, it has a light blue colour to it. This Chakra is sort of a LVL.1 Chakra. It can be used for most skills, but you need a lot of it if you want to perform higher level ninjutsu.







Healing Chakra
Healing Chakra is the kind of Chakra medical specialist like Tsunade and Shizune use for healing-purposes. It's a light green Chakra that can heal physical damage on one's body. All we know is that it heals wounds at an accelerated rate, we do not know if every shinobi has, and can mold this type of Chakra. It seems that the user focuses this type of Chakra to their hands, and then touches the injured spot to begin the healing process. It's unkown if this Chakra is actully used for Skills.





Kyubi's Chakra
Kyubi's Chakra is a special type of Chakra that can only be used by Naruto, and offcourse the Kyubi itself. Naruto can use this Chakra because of the demon fox that was sealed inside his stomach. He calls upon it in times of great emotional excitement, and later on Jiraiya even tries to learn Naruto on how to control it. The Chakra has a redish Colour. And it's a far more powerfull type of Basic Chakra, it is used to perform high level Skills which requires a tremendous amount of Chakra. When Naruto let's a part of the Nine-Tail's power leak out, the seal that sealed the Kyubi appears on his stomach.




Cursed Seal Chakra
This Chakra can only be used when being marked by Orochimaru's Cursed Seal. (Being bitten by Orochimaru, and having survived the 10% survival-chance.) It's a dangerous type of Chakra. And if it's used too much, it will drain the hummanity from a person, and the user becomes a slave to Orochimaru. This Chakra is dark Purple one, and becomes active when the user is out of his regular Chakra. Visible black shapes will appear on the body and the user will be given a tremendous amount of Evil Chakra power.



Chakra Gates Chakra
By opening Chakra gates (releases the body's limits on muscle usage/Chakra flow) your body and muscles will be put on a lot of strain. Altough your attack will be a nearly suicidal attack, you will be able to perform continuous speed and high powered attacks, making this highly devastating to any opponent. This is the Chakra Lee uses to perform his lotus-attacks. Apparantly this is a deadly type of Chakra that is best used by people Advanced (strong) enough in Taijutsu, hopefully being able to bear the heavy strain placed on your whole body. Someone can open up to 8 Chakra gates, some of the user's Chakra will turn green and surround him. By opening more Chakra gates, your granted power will increase. But in most cases the result is immobility of the user, due to torn muscle fibers.



Tree Climbing
This training includes gathering Chakra into the feet and climbing up a tree. It teaches to control Chakra by bringing out the correct amount of Chakra in the proper area. The amount of Chakra needed to climb a tree is minimal, but it has to be perfect. Kakashi said that the bottom of the foot is the hardest area to gather Chakra. By learning to control Chakra, an individual can master any jutsu if they try.




Water Walking
A more advanced training than tree walking. Like tree walking, a user must gather Chakra into the feet and constantly feed the appropriate amount into the water. The release of Chakra must match the weight of the body and the amount necessary to float. It is more difficult to control Chakra since water is not solid and constantly moving. This training is used to teach an individual how to create a specific amount of Chakra into any part of the user's body.



Leaf Concentration
This training requires a person to concentrate all his/her Chakra onto a leaf which is placed on the forehead. It's an effective way of training concentration. By calming the mind and defining a target, one is able to draw upon their maximum power. Rumor has it that the Leaf sign on the Hidden Leaf forehead protector originates from this training.






Chakra Molding
Molding Chakra can increase the flow of Chakra throughout your body. It helps you do the other 3 trainings well and enables you to access more Chakra when doing jutsu. Molding Chakra can help you gain Chakra to certain part of the body more quickly.

Naruto Villages

Hidden leaf village
Located in the land of Fire, Hidden Leaf Village is the largest and most powerful of all Hidden Shinobi Villages. Due to its large population, its military presence is very powerful.13 years ago, the Hidden Leaf Village was attacked by the Nine Tails Fox Demon (Kyubi). Causing much destruction and killing many of the village's shinobi. It was eventually defeated and sealed into the newborn child Uzumaki Naruto by the village's most powerful shinobi and leader, the 4th Hokage. The 4th Hokage died soon after the battle ended, because of the Ninjutsu he used. Sacrificing his life and fulfilling his duty as the village's hokage.Since that time, power has returned to the 3rd Hokage who is later on killed by Orochimaru.

Village of the hidden mist

Not much is known about this village. Although it was commonly referred to by other villages as "Bloody Mist Village" for its rumored brutality.This is the village where Zabuza and Haku originated from before they abandoned the land. The training customs of the village were revealed from Zabuza's childhood.The final exam to becoming a ninja is much different from the exam for the students in Leaf Village. In order for a Ninja Academy student to graduate and become a Genin (lower level ninja) in the Hidden Mist Village, he or she had to fight, with one of the same friends they trained with, to the death. But all of this had to be changed 10 years ago when one of that year's students killed over 100 peers without hesitation. This child was Zabuza. Because of this the Village was forced to change the final exam for the graduating class. All of their Jutsu is based on water techniques.

Hidden waterfall village
The Hidden Waterfall Village, a very small village that we've only seen in Naruto's Jump Festa 2004 so far. Because this village has no Kage, they have something called the Hero Water to help them protect their village. It's some sort of holy water which is extracted from the great tree (located in the Hidden Waterfall Village) every one hundred years. It is suposed to tenfold the user's chakra, and aid the 'heroes' in protecting their village in times of battle. But this water is a double-edged sword, altough it increases one's chakra, it also eats away your liveforce at the same time. Only the young ones (most of the time younger means weaker, strength grows with experience) will be able to survive the effects of the water. For that reason, many of the village's shinobi have died not from battle, but from the water. And this holy water was sealed away. It's the village's leader's duty to protect the Hero Water at all cost. The village's leader is also called the Hero of the Hidden Falls, but the question remains: "Would you drink the Hero Water and throw away your life, just to save the village and be remembered as a hero?". Because this village is small and has very few (strong) shinobi, it's build behind a Waterfall - hence "-The Hidden Waterfall Village-". Only its inhabitants know the village's entrance.

Hidden sand village
Located in the Wind Country, the Hidden Sand Village is one of the top 5 greatest Shinobi countries.Kazekage is the leader of this village, and is also the one who trains Gaara of the Desert. The lord of the wind country is making an attempt to scale down the country's military presence and has cut back on the Sand Village's budget.Furthermore, he has commissioned tasks normally reserved for the county's own hidden village to the Hidden Leaf Village, raising speculation of an attempt to dissolve the Sand Village. To re-establish the Sand Village, Kazekage teams up with the Sound Village and plans to attack the Leaf Village, Konoha. (This attack is later foiled by the Shinobi of Konoha.) Kazekage is later on killed by Orochimaru.

Hidden sound village

The recently formed Hidden Sound Village, located in the Sound Country. Ruled and created by Orochimaru, a very powerful and talented Missing-Nin from the Hidden Leaf Village. Altough his true ambitions are unclear, Orochimaru's goal is to one day cause a civil war. He later on leads an attack with both the Hidden Sound and Hidden Sand Village on Konoha.

Hidden grass village

Little is known about this village.When information becomes available, it will be supplied.

Hidden rain village
Little is known about this village. When information becomes available, it will be supplied. The only thing we do know is that one Rain Team passed the first test in the Chuunin Exam and entered the forest of death. The team was completely wiped out by Gaara's desert graveyard.

Naruto Characters

Uzumaki Naruto
Naruto is the number one loudest ninja of the Leaf Village. He is loud, hyperactive, clumsy, kind of stupid and he dreams of becoming hokage. Although Naruto definitely isn’t the smartest or most talented ninja of the Leaf Village, he does have one hell of a lot of chakra at his disposal

Twelve years before Naruto graduated from the academy a powerful demon called Kyubi terrorized the Leaf Village. The Fourth Hokage barely managed to seal the Nine-Tails Demon Fox within a boy, Naruto, but unfortunately he didn’t survive the battle himself. The Fourth wanted Naruto to be seen as a hero, a boy who saved the village from Nine-Tails. But unfortunately that wasn’t meant to be. Many of the older villagers saw Naruto as the Nine-Tails himself, and hated and ignored him for it.

Because of this, Naruto desperately seeks for acknowledgement for his existence. He is a first-class prankster and he tells everyone he will someday become the hokage of his village.
The first person to really acknowledge Naruto’s existence is teacher Iruka. Ikura really looked after Naruto and taught him the values of life. If it wasn’t for him, Naruto probably wouldn’t be where he is now.

In combat Naruto isn’t exactly what you would call a genius. He is more the type who would charge in head on to his opponent, although from time to time Naruto does have his moments with some deceiving tactics he comes up with. But Naruto is not to be underestimated. He has a lot of chakra at his disposal, especially when he learns to tap in to Kyubi’s chakra. This huge amount of chakra makes him able to go berserk (like he did against Haku) and summon GamaBunta.



Tsunade
Tsunade is the third and last part of the three Legendary Leaf Sennins, with Jiraiya and Orochimaru. Tsunade was also the first medical ninja to be put on the field.

At a young age, Tsunade had a dramatic death that made her to push for a medical unit to be implemented in the Konoha military; the death of her younger brother Nawaki, the day after she gave him the necklace which belonged to the 2nd Hokage. After the meeting which she laid out her idea, which was initially rejected, another Jounin pushed his support for the idea. Tsunade and the Jounin named Dan became very close, until Dan was killed by enemy ninjas. Since then, Tsunade has had a paralyzing fear of blood.

Tsunade's fighting techniques are few, as she is a medical specialist. But she has an obscene amount of strength, even at a young age, and "one good hit" will kill anyone, as Kabuto puts it.
As a side note, her summon, Katsuyu, doesn't seem to talk much. She seems to be rather shy.


Rock Lee
Rock Lee (a.k.a. thick eyebrows, as Naruto calls him) is a genin level ninja. Just like his row model Gai-sensei, he is a TaiJutsu specialist. Lee is incapable of using NinJutsu or even GenJutsu. But due to Lee’s great determination and extreme hard work, he was able to counter this great weakness by specializing in TaiJutsu.

In Lee’s schooldays everyone thought he would never be able to become a ninja, simply because he can’t use NinJutsu and GenJutsu. But Lee has great determination, and said to himself that he could be a very strong ninja that only uses TaiJutsu. That’s when he met Gai-sensei. Gai is also a ninja that only uses TaiJutsu. Gai-sensei became Lee’s teacher and row model, and he taught Lee everything he knows now.

Lee also has a crush on Sakura. At first Sakura didn’t want anything to do with him because he looks weird. But after saving her life and the fight with Gaara, she is starting to see what’s so special about him: his unstoppable determination. Lee’s training consists of physical training only. He always wears extremely heavy weights around his ankles. Lee only takes them off in life and death situations. When he does this he speed and strength increase dramatically. But Lee’s true power lies in the fact that he can open several of his body’s chakra Gates. After opening several of his Gates he can temporarily posses even more chakra then the Hokage, which makes him inhumanly fast. The downside of this technique is that it does severe damage to his body, that’s why Lee can only do it for a very short time. If he can’t finish his opponent before his body receives to much damage, he’s done for.

Aburame Shino
Behind Sasuke and Naruto, Shino is the strongest of the Nine Leaf Rookies from Hidden Leaf, yet, oddly enough, remains quite stoic and impassive. He talks only unless he absolutely has to, and not because of lack of intelligence. Rather, he is quick to pinpoint advantage's and weakness's when he fights. Not quite on Nara Shikamaru's, but closer than the other rookies.

From birth, people of the Aburame clan make a pact with an insect known as Destruction Bugs. In exchange for a lifetime of chakra which the insect's use for food, the host in which the bugs live in can call upon their service whenever they need to. Shino is no different, and has thousands of the insects living inside him. Aburame Shino utilizes the insects by having them sneak attack his enemy, while he distracts them with simple taijutsu. He could also have a clone of himself performed when in danger, or use a female bug as a tracking device hunting down fleeing pursuers.

Shino's first documented fight against Zaku Abumi demonstrates Shino's cool demeanor and strength, as well as his ability to think ahead of his opponent. After the fight, many people, including Naruto and Hyuuga Neji were impressed, but still, much remains unknown about him

Akamaru
Akamaru is the faithful dog of Kiba, who usually sits on top of Kiba's head. Kiba uses him as a tool in combat and Akamaru has proven to be useful to do various things. For example: He can pick up the scent of enemies and determine wether they're hostile or not. He can also perform combo jutsu's together with Kiba.

Akimichi Choji
The big-boned Choji is a pupil of Asuma and a teammate of Shikamaru and Ino. Choji spends most of his time eating, thinking about eating, and resting. He has pretty funny jutsu like the meat tank, where he triples his size and transforms himself into a huge spinning ball. And then uses his chakra to roll the ball in all directions.

He isn't really motivated to fight or do anything for that matter. The only way to get him to fight or help is to reward him with food. But when people call him chubby,fatty(...etc.) / mocking his weight he gets pissed off, and won't hold back. Since he's part of the Akimichi Clan who specializes in body enlargement jutsu he can also use the clan's food pills to increase his power tremendously, but putting a heavy strain on the body. Choji is someone who is, but mustn't be under estimated.

Gaara Of The Desert

Born as an experiment from the Hidden Village of Sand, Gaara was combined with the spirit of a demonic sand priest known as Shukaku, not unlike Naruto and the Nine Tails. Gaara grew up without knowing love. For a long time he tought being spoiled equals love, but when he met Rock Lee that opinion changed.

Unfortunately, Gaara became unstable around the age of six years. Consequently, his father, Kazakage, ordered numerous assassination attempts upon him, all failing miserably. This betrayal caused Gaara to become hateful and deeply suspicious of everyone, including his siblings, who he regarded as "lumps of meat linked together by hatred and murderous intent."

The tattoo on Gaara's forehead means love, which combined with his name means, "I Love Death." Since he only feels alive when he kills, he believes that killing is his reason for being.

Haruno Sakura

Sakura is on the same team as Naruto and Sasuke, so another one of Kakashi's students. Altough she's one of the main characters in the series, she plays a more supportive part in the beginning. When we see her, basically things get focused on her love for Sasuke. But as the storylines continues she adventually gets strongers too. She's a very smart student, and graduated from the academy with top grades. She has a perfect control over her Chakra, but lacks the will to become an excellent ninja. She has no unique skills, nor do we see her do any training in the series. But Kakashi do said that she has some skill in genjutsu. So if we would have to expect Sakura learning new skills, it'll probably be in that area.

She has quite a history with Ino too. Sakura is somebody who got picked on because of here wide forehead when she was little. Ino was one of her first friends, and said if she didn't hide her forehead so much, she wouldn't get picked on whole the time. She also said 'Sakura, you will bloom into a beautiful flower one day.'. From that day on, they became best friends.

But the day Sakura told Ino she was in love with Sasuke too, she also said to Ino that from that day on they couldn't be friends anymore. Now they're rivals who compete over Sasuke's attention and love. Now when Sakura meets Ino, it's more like 'Ah, Ino-Pig...'. But as the series continues, Sakura undergoes some changes. Her obsession on Sasuke will lessen, and her respect towords the "not-so-cool" group like Naruto and Lee will grow. But not only will she gain some some respect towards other people. She also gets a little envious, and remembers that she should also try her best, too.

Jiraiya

Jiraiya was a student of the 3th hokage and the sensei of the future 4th hokage. Jiraiya is also one of the Three Legendary Sennin, together with Tsunade and Orochimaru. He is the "Rock" as the three are heavily based off the "Rock, Paper, Scissors" game, or also known as Janken

You first see him peeping in the women bathing place to "collect material". Naruto then gave him his nickname "pervert-sennin". Although he is kinda stupid and funny, he truly is a master ninja. He teaches Naruto to control his 2 chakras and to summon frogs.

As such, Jiraiya's fighting techniques are mostly defensive, His "Underworld Swamp" immobilizes a large amount of ninja's in a marsh, and his "Underworld Spines" defend him from any physical attack. He mostly relies on his summoning frogs to aid him, though he rarely summons Gama Bunta.

There might be a good reason why he specializes in defensive techniques, and that is because he a complete and utter pervert, who writes a series of books known as Icha Icha Paradise, a book Kakashi himself adores. As such, he has grown so adept at peeping he is rarely caught.