Physical Information
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Birthday: 05/01
Bloodtype: B
Height: 172.3 cm
Weight: 87.5 kg

Missions Completed
D-Rank: 17
C-Rank: 13
B-Rank: 6
A-Rank: 3
S-Rank: 0

First Manga Appearance: Chapter 34
First Anime Appearance: Episode 1
Name Meaning: Akimichi=Autumn Road; Chou=Butterfly ji=can mean child or love
Note: Chouji, takes the part of the Butterfly in the Hanafuda “Ino(Boar), Shika(Deer), Chou(Butterfly)” card combo hand.
Character Study: Chouji’s best friend is undoubtedly Shikamaru, who accepted him for what he is early on in life. The issue of his weight is the cause of many of the jokes surrounding his character. Chouji has proved to have a big heart, by trying to sacrifice himself for the good of his comrades and the mission.

 Chouji’s first major appearance in the series was when Ino quite literally dragged him out to defend Sakura against the Sound Trio. Chouji was reluctant at first, owing to his own team’s weakness. However, a member of the Sound Trio ignited his rage when he called Chouji fat, a word that Chouji loathes and has forced people to strike from their vocabulary in his presence and come up with several euphemisms. Motivated, Chouji cried “HOORAY FOR CHUBBY”, his preferred euphemism and expanded his body into a spherical shape, pulling his arms, legs and head inside his clothing and puffing out pure chakra like steam from a stovepipe from those openings. Rolling forwards, he became a devastating force that even managed to overpower Zaku’s pressure vents. Although the team didn’t successfully defeat the Sound Trio, they managed to delay them until backup arrived. Chouji would be drawn last in the preliminaries VS another member of the Sound Trio, having watched the previous fights with a nervous look. Despite his pre-fight pep talk and the promise of a Barbecue from Asuma, Chouji was no match for Dosu’s Melody Speaker implant, which channeled ear-splitting sounds directly through Chouji.

     The fight did little damage to him permanently, with him resuming his usual activities and snacking heavily during his time spectating the finals of the Chuunin Exam. However, he succumbed to Kabuto’s massive sleep spell and with no Genjutsu training, slept through the joint Sand/Sound invasion

Shortly after the invasion, Chouji would help retrieve the defecting Sasuke Uchiha. As the powerhouse of the team, Chouji was able to break through a tough chakra-reinforced rock prison set up by the Four Sounds’ Jiroubou, an equally round but far stronger fighter that was able to overpower the entire team. Chouji decided to take Jiroubou on head to head to allow the rest of the team to go on. Jiroubou was extremely skilled in earth-based Ninjutsu as well as hand to hand combat, using a brutal style of elbows, shoulder tackles and head butts. However, Chouji had come prepared with a case of 3 special pills, each one increasing his abilities as they were consumed. Chouji began to turn the tables when he wound a thread around himself, lining it with kunai and launched himself, becoming a spiky moving sphere that even pierced a stone wall Jiroubou set up. The kunai lodged into him, drawing blood, forcing him to activate his cursed seal.

Chouji then moved onto another set of moves in his arsenal, enlarging his limbs to immense sizes and swatting Jiroubou. As a c’oup de grace, Chouji expanded himself to a literal mountain-sized version of himself and crushed Jiroubou beneath his stomach. Infuriated, Jiroubou fully activated his seal to the second level, showing terrifying strength as he lifted up the gigantic Chouji with an unbelievable palm thrust, knocking him to normal size. Now fully empowered, Jiroubou’s strength was increased tenfold. Chouji knew that the last pill was reserved for suicidal situations, giving him immense power but by draining all his energy for it.

Jiroubou began to drain chakra directly from Chouji, complaining about what little he could absorb due to the amount expended in the previous moves. Still not satisfied, he then took the last of Chouji’s potato chips and began to insult him, pinning him down with a single foot. Calling his friends trash and him even bigger trash, he prepared to deliver the killing blow to the helpless “Fatass”. Chouji’s mind wandered back to the days when he was rejected by others, but Shikamaru was quite willing to do little more than hang out, watch the clouds and eat with him. Apologizing, Chouji took the last pill, knowing he wouldn’t be able to join the others.

As Jiroubou hit the ground, Chouji stood up. Huge streams of chakra emerging from him in the intricate shape of butterfly wings. Chouji himself had now changed in size as the pill instantly converted all the fat in his body into chakra, leaving him slimmer. Now even stronger than Jiroubou, he proceeded to punish him for what he did, transferring all the newly-made chakra into his hand. Giving a first strike for stealing the last potato chip, Jiroubou was knocked onto his back. Pinning him down in a reversal of the previous situation, Chouji then told him that calling him fat was a big mistake… but calling his friends trash was unforgivable. Delivering a final punch to the body, Jiroubou lay flat, eyes and mouth wide open as the cursed seal receded. Jiroubou had made a fatal

 caused exhaustion in Chouji, forcing him to collapse. As he lost his balance and his feet gave out, he slumped against a tree and saw one final sign - an arrow indicating the direction his friends went and their faith that he would win the fight. It was the last thing he saw before collapsing silently. Luckily, Chouji was saved from death by a combination of Tsunade’s genius medical knowledge and the Nara clan’s refinement of the pills, for he would surely have died without help. The mission did little to change his appetite, however, with his old “big boned” figure returning soon after as he began to bulk up again, both to everyone’s relief and dismay. This would mark Chouji’s last appearance in part 1 of the manga.

In part 2 of the manga, Chouji was seen with an all-new look, ditching the unusual forehead protector and growing a wild red mane of hair as well as now bearing samurai-like plates of armor. He was also now capable of increasing the size of his fists upon will. However, he arrived much later on as backup to stop two of Akatsuki’s invaders, but too late to stop them killing his teacher, Asuma. Swearing revenge, he chases after Hidan and Kakuzu, showcasing how hard he had been working by now refining his techniques and replacing the kunai with his own rock-hard spiked hair.

Physical Information
Age: 29
Sex: Male
Birthday: 01/01
Bloodtype: B
Height: 184 cm (Pt 1)
Weight: 76 kg (Pt 1)

Ninja Information
Registration ID: 010252
Hidden Village: Leaf
Rank: Jounin
Team: Hyuuga Neji, Rock Lee, TenTen

Advancement Data
Academy Grad Age: 7
Chuunin Exam Age: 11
Jounin Age: ?
Jutsu: Asakujaku, Dainamikku • Akushon, Dainamikku • Entorii, Konoha Dai Senkou, Konoha Gouriki Senpuu, Konoha Senpuu, Omote Renge, Turtle Kuchiyose, Ura Renge
Weapons: Nunchaku

First Manga Appearance: Chapter 38
First Anime Appearance: Episode 22
Name Meaning: Might Guy

Might Guy is the Jounin sensei of Hyuuga Neji, TenTen and Rock Lee. He is also an old friend and rival of Hatake Kakashi. Guy is one of the most distinguished characters in Naruto, known for his bowl-cut hairdo, prominent eyebrows and his strikingly over-the-top personality which leaves others around him speechless. He refers to himself and Kakashi as “eternal rivals”, despite Kakashi’s aloofness to the matter. Often, he will begin a grand speech to Kakashi, who will simply be looking at or listening to something else, causing Guy to become infuriated by Kakashi’s “hip” ignorance.

     Guy appeared first of all during the Chuunin exams after Lee attempted to use a forbidden technique on Sasuke during a simple sparring match. Lee’s bandages were pinned down to a wall with a toy pinwheel, apparently thrown by Nin-Kame (Ninja Turtle), a talking turtle that wore a Leaf forehead protector around his neck. After chewing Lee out, Guy suddenly appeared in a puff of smoke on Nin-Kame’s back, striking a bizarre pose and proceeding to deliver a heavy punch to Lee’s face as punishment for his use of a forbidden move. Seconds later, the two embraced in a hug and Guy lectured Lee on the mysteries of being young and ordered a punishment of 500 laps. Team 7, utterly astonished and horrified by the display, stood dumbstruck as Guy explained his rivalry with Kakashi to them.

Guy had been introduced to Lee several years earlier. As Guy and Kakashi watched over a class of young ninja at the Academy, they discussed a young “hot-blooded loser” with big eyebrows like Guy’s own. Guy encouraged the young man to hold on to his passion and ambition. Soon enough Lee was placed under the leadership of Guy. Lee was unable to perform Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, and felt he didn’t stand a chance against geniuses like his teammate Neji. Guy explained Lee was a genius of hardwork, because he performed extensive Taijutsu training of his body to become stronger. Watching the young man develop Guy chose to pass on his Taijutsu secrets to Lee, much to the young man’s happiness. Guy felt Lee was the only one capable of handling such techniques and helped Lee become deadly in the use of his body alone. Over the following year the team would go on several missions and Guy would enter his team into the Chuunin Exam.

During the exam, official duties placed him in the central tower of the Forest Of Death. Here he stood as a support for his students and enforcer if needed, as was such the case when having to grab Neji around the neck when Neji almost made a post-match killing strike on Hinata. Prior to that, he warned the Sand siblings about Lee after their confidence in beating Tenten. When it was Lee’s turn to fight Gaara, Guy’s goofiness came through again when stating the obvious, telling Lee that Gaara’s gourd was suspicious. As Lee’s physical strikes were useless against Gaara’s sand, Guy explained that Lee was incapable of using Ninjutsu or Genjutsu, originally also as useless at Taijutsu. Realizing Lee’s limit, he instructed Lee to remove the training weights he had on his legs, which dropped to the ground with incredible force. With Lee’s speed now reaching levels where his movements were a blur, he finally broke through Gaara’s shield

As Guy gave running commentary on the move, Lee performed it, only for Gaara to just barely slip out of taking the full impact. Enraged, Gaara crushed Lee’s arm and leg, but Guy broke his grip, since Lee was no longer able to battle. Even though Gaara was declared the winner, Lee stood back up on the most primal of instincts, forcing Guy to finally call him off in tears. However, he was visibly shaken as a medical team arrived; stating Lee might never be a shinobi again after such injuries. Kakashi offered an apology, and Lee was taken away. As Lee recovered in the hospital, Guy would arrive to once again stop Gaara from injuring Lee further. Lee and Guy later came to watch the finals as spectators, with Lee limping on crutches and yet still amazingly in high spirits. Guy observed that Sasuke was as fast as Lee without the weights, but wondered why Sasuke was also using Taijutsu alone, since the strategy failed against Gaara before. As the fight progressed, it became apparent to Guy that Sasuke had increased it to compliment a Ninjutsu skill, the Chidori.

     However, as it struck Gaara, Guy and Kakashi noticed that a Genjutsu was occuring and quickly drove it off themselves as it forced everyone else asleep. An ambush followed and the two found themselves fighting to protect their own lives as well as the sleeping spectators as a combination of Sand and Sound ninja invaded the village. As a Sound ninja was about to sneak attack Naruto, Guy showed his superhuman speed and strength, pinning the enemy against a wall with his fist, then smashing him through it with a second strike. Amusingly, even under such circumstances, Guy was keeping track of how many ninja they defeated. While the Sound ninja were eventually defeated, Guy would next be seen at the funeral of the Third Hokage, mourning.

Guy next appeared after delivering a strong kick to Hoshigaki Kisame as he and Uchiha Itachi came for Naruto. With Kakashi incapacitated from Itachi’s Genjutsu, Guy explained there was a way of fighting even a Sharingan user. One must avoid eye contact and focus on the movements of the user’s feet, something developed fighting Kakashi. While Kisame was eager to fight, Itachi called a retreat, leaving Guy to attend to Kakashi. Guy would later pursue the Akatsuki duo and mistakeningly deliver a powerful kick to Jiraiya, who had just driven Itachi and Kisame off. Guy apologized to the man and carried an injured Sasuke back to Konoha for treatment.

In the 2.5 years that passed (events depicted in the anime only), Guy was the subject of much comedy, firstly being impersonated by a pair of amateur ninjas disguised as him and Lee, attempting to also disguise himself with a handlebar moustache and afro wig to enter a dojo Lee had built for martial arts challenges, while also receiving a challenge of his own from someone seeking revenge for a man he defeated a long time ago.

     Guy would next appear backing up Team Seven as they answered a call for help from Hidden Sand. As he and the rest of his team approached the meeting point, Guy came across Kisame once more, still feeling vengeful for the kick. Guy had no idea who he was, comically raising Kisame’s hopes and then dashing them with completely blatant observations about him instead of his name.

The entire team had a tough time with him, reaching the point where Guy was left alone to face him and even after attacking Kisame with a nunchaku and disarming him, found himself at a major disadvantage. With no other choice, Guy opened the 6th Celestial Gate and pummeled Kisame with a series of flaming punches, with the visual display resembling a peacock’s tail and earning the move name of Morning Peacock. However, when they examined the corpse, it was merely another man that had been transformed into Kisame. Guy simply concluded that he did not indeed know the man, hilariously.

The team then set about breaking into one of Akatsuki’s caves, having made it to the rendezvous point. Several tags had been set up at points around the cave, requiring removal to open the seal. As each was removed, a copy of the remover formed to combat them. However, the copies were inferior and Guy eventually won, as did the rest of the team. When the mission was over, Guy slid off his backpack, put it on his front instead and offered an exhausted Kakashi a piggyback ride home. Lee then did the same with Neji, who blatantly refused. After this incident, Guy has not been seen in the storyline.

Physical Information
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Birthday: 03/09
Bloodtype: B
Height: 155.6 cm (Pt 1)
Weight: 43.1 kg (Pt 1)

Ninja Information
Registration ID: 012573
Hidden Village: Leaf
Rank: Chuunin
Team: Maito Gai, Hyuuga Neji, Rock Lee

Advancement Data
Academy Grad Age: 12
Chuunin Exam Age: ?
Jutsu: Tobidougu, Sougu • Tensasai, Soushouryuu

Missions Completed
D-Rank: 24
C-Rank: 13
B-Rank: 0
A-Rank: 0
S-Rank: 0

First Manga Appearance: Chapter 36
First Anime Appearance: Episode 21
Name Meaning: Moving about or spot, In hiragana or katakana it indicates a diacritical value changing the phonetic value of the marked character
Note: Like her teammates, TenTen bears certain Chinese stylings including her name and her style of hair and dress.

TenTen is the young weapon master in the series, preferring to attack her opponent from afar with various weapons. She is one of the less expanded upon supporting cast members. TenTen graduated from the Academy at the age of 12 and looked up to Legendary Sannin Tsunade, hoping to one day be as great a kunoichi as her. After graduation TenTen was placed on a team with Rock Lee and Hyuuga Neji under Maito Gai. TenTen would form a close relationship with her teammates, often training extensively with Neji. She would greatly admire Neji and come to strongly believe in his abilities. Over the following year her team would take on several missions. A year after graduating Gai entered his team into the Chuunin Exam. By this point the three Genin worked well together and were eager to prove their skills against the rest of the competition.

     TenTen and her team would breeze past the opening test of the Exam and then enter the second test. During this time Lee split off from the group and came to the aid of Sakura and her teammates. TenTen and Neji would find him injured from a battle with the Sound Genin. The injured Lee was passed off to TenTen for treatment. Showing her squads more physical approach she violently shook the young man to reawaken him. The squad then took their leave and obtained their needed scroll, passing on to the next portion of the exam.

In the third test preliminaries, TenTen was placed against Sand kunoichi Temari. This opponent proved the worst match for TenTen. TenTen carefully measured out her opponent and began launching weapon after weapon at her target. Temari quickly and easily blew the incoming projectiles away though. TenTen’s great accuracy was for nothing, as Temari used her cycling winds technique to launch TenTen into the air and slice her. The injured TenTen then fell through the air and landed back first on Temari’s folder fan. Unconscious, TenTen was eliminated from the Chuunin Exam.

 As the years passed she and her team eventually passed the Chuunin Exam. When a request came in from Suna to help rescue their Kazekage from Akatsuki, Gai and his team were sent to help. The team raced to Hidden Sand and was stopped in a delay maneuver. In the River Country they faced off against Hoshigaki Kisame. Kisame managed to avoid most of their attacks, get the drop on the team and imprison TenTen, Neji and Lee in water prisons. Neji broke them free and Gai managed to eventually defeat their opponent.

Ninja Information
Registration ID: 012561
Hidden Village: Leaf
Rank: Chuunin
Team: Maito Gai, Hyuuga Neji, TenTen

Missions Completed
D-Rank: 22
C-Rank: 12
B-Rank: 0
A-Rank: 0
S-Rank: 0

Rock Lee is a determined ninja who seeks to overcome those called “genius” through sheer hard work. Characterized by his green jumpsuit and his admiration for his teacher and mentor Maito Gai, Rock Lee is a character known for his determination and fiery personality. Lee was picked on at the Ninja Academy because of his lack of talent with Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. This forced him to devote his time into honing his Taijutsu skills. His ability to use Taijutsu allowed him to graduate from the Ninja Academy at the age of 12. After graduation Lee was placed on a team with TenTen and Hyuuga Neji under Maito Gai.

Lee began to idolize Gai and changed his hairstyle and clothing to resemble his sensei. He would memorize every lesson, writing them in his notebook. Gai would help him realize his goal as a ninja, to show the world that he could be a great ninja without the ability to use of Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. His Taijutsu would also be helped by Gai teaching him how to open his celestial gates, the valves which regulate the flow of chakra. By opening these gates Lee gained more power, however with each gate opened Lee’s life is put at risk. Lee has been able to open five of these gates. Lee was the only one on his team to be able to use the Omote Renge (Initial Lotus) through opening the first gate. Opening the third gate gave him the ability to use Ura Renge, which gave rise to Lee’s “Konoha’s lotus blooms twice” motto. Kakashi regarded Lee’s ability to open five gates with amazement, as Lee was achieving more with his body than mere hard work alone should grant him.

Lee then took notice of Sasuke’s teammate Haruno Sakura. His instant infatuation was unfortunately one-sided, as Sakura was appalled by Lee’s “bushy-brows”. Lee said his feelings were serious, that he would protect her until he died. She dismissed him though as lame, much to Lee’s sadness. After Lee saw Sasuke’s display of his speed he was eager to test himself against the “genius” Uchiha. He followed Sasuke’s team and challenged him to a fight. He also reiterated his love for Sakura, much to her anger. A jealous Naruto charged wanting to prove himself but Lee easily swept him aside.
Lee then moved against Sasuke. Lee was able to handle Sasuke with his superior speed. Sasuke’s Sharingan was shown a major flaw. Lee explained that even if Sasuke could see his movements, if his body could not keep up with the superior speed, then there really wasn’t much advantage in seeing the movements. Lee moved to use one of his secret techniques, but he was stopped by Gai’s turtle summon and Gai himself. Gai slugged Lee but recognized the youth’s fiery passion with a tearful embrace. Lee would return to the exam and his team would breeze past the opening test and then proceed to the next test.

     Kicking him into the air he prepared to bring him crashing back to the earth. Unfortunately Zaku Abumi quickly moved to nullify the move by injecting an air cushion into the ground. Dosu then used his sound attacks to damage Lee’s hearing and equilibrium, making him vulnerable. Thankfully Neji and TenTen had gone in search for him. Various Genin groups converged on the battle to help Sakura’s team including Neji and TenTen. Before Neji had to step in to dissuade them, the newly curse sealed Sasuke rose and sent then running. The injured Lee was passed off to TenTen for treatment. Showing her squads more physical approach she violently shook the young man to reawaken him. Lee could not believe he failed where Sasuke succeeded. When Naruto went to greet “bushy-brows” Sakura slugged him for insulting Lee and gave him her deep thanks. Lee’s squad then took their leave and obtained their needed scroll, passing on the next portion of the exam.

Lee then disappeared in the blink of an eye, launching kicks and strikes from every direction. His speed proved too much for the sand and he landed a direct hit on Gaara. As time wore on Lee’s technique began to grow less and less effective, forcing Lee to use his special techniques. He attempted his Omote Renge on Gaara, however Gaara’s weight was more than Lee expected, forcing him to launch multiple kicks against Gaara to give him the needed height. When he finally reached the apex he winced and wrapped Gaara up, and then brought him spinning back to implant in the floor.

     Lee was thereafter taken to the hospital for recuperation. While sleeping in his hospital bed, Gaara came to finish him off. Creeping into his room he was stopped by Shikamaru and Naruto. When Gaara began to lose it Gai arrived and told them to cut it out, that they could get their chance to fight in the third test. During his time in the hospital Lee would continue his training, though his body would falter him. Even when he was told to rest, Lee would sneak out to do his strenuous exercises. When the third Chuunin test was held Gai and Lee went to watch the matches. Lee reacted in surprise when he found out Naruto had beat Neji, but he sincerely felt happy that Naruto had beat the “genius”. Lee would also be surprised when Sasuke revealed he had copied many of Lee’s moves, attaining close to his own weighted speed. Lee would then be among those knocked out by Kabuto’s Genjutsu when Sand and Sound launched their invasion.

     His drive to help his friends though caused him to act rashly once again. Gathering up his weapons and the “medicine” he thought was left by Tsunade; he snuck out of the hospital and raced north towards his comrades. Using his speed and quickness he managed to catch up to Naruto who was in battle with Hidden Sound member Kimimaro. Lee told Naruto to go on ahead after Sasuke while he alone would face Kimimaro and his strange bone techniques. Coming at Kimimaro from all sides he was unable to get a solid hit on his opponent. Lee then asked for a moment of pause, and ingested the “medicine” left by Tsunade. Unfortunately Lee had grabbed Tsunade’s sake bottle rather than his medicine. Back in Konoha the mistake was discovered by Tsunade and Gai. Gai revealed that in the past Lee had drank some of his alcohol, causing him to get into a quick drunken stupor. Gai told Tsunade that Lee is natural Suiken (Drunken Fist) user.

As the years passed Lee and his team eventually passed the Chuunin Exam. Lee himself would don a flak jacket, drawing his appearance even closer to that of his idol Gai. When a request came in from Hidden Sand to help rescue their Kazekage Gaara from Akatsuki, Gai and his team were sent to help. The team raced to Hidden Sand but was stopped by Hoshigaki Kisame. Kisame avoided most of their attacks and got the drop on the team and imprisoned Lee, Neji and TenTen in water prisons. Neji broke them free and Gai managed to eventually defeat their opponent.

 The team then proceeded on to Akatsuki’s base. When they removed the seal guarding the cave, they were faced with doppelgangers that emerged from the earth itself. The copies used their same exact weapons and abilities. The team managed to eventually defeat the guardians and assist Naruto and Kakashi, who were chasing Akatsuki member Deidara. Lee’s team stopped Deidara escape. Neji soon saw that Deidara planned to blow himself up. Hatake Kakashi had enough time though to send Deidara to another location using his Mangekyou Sharingan. With Deidara stopped, elder Sand kunoichi Chiyo was able to revive Gaara. They returned to Sand, then wished their comrades goodbye. Gai moved to carry the weakened Kakashi on his back on the return trip. Their appearance inspired Lee, who saw it as training. Offering Neji the opportunity to be carried on Lee’s back, Neji refused, much to Lee’s disappointment. The Leaf ninja then finally set out for Konoha.