Naruto and Naruto Shippuden Character List

Naruto, the most latest anime of today's generation created by Masashi Kishimoto. A story that divided into 2 (two) parts: Part 1 is where Naruto began his adventure as a child; and the Part 2 when he became a teenager or the Naruto Shippuden. No wonder, it became the top most popular anime searched in internet not only in anime but also its manga is a big hit.
But first, knowing  each and anyone's' characters included in the series is the best way to fully understands the concept of the story. 
Naruto is very complicated to understand if you won't try to understand and try watch it from the very start. Every characters have their own unique personalities and characteristics.  So, let's take a peek.
It is a story of a young boy ninja named Uzumaki Naruto, who wishes to become a powerful and strong Hokage. Together with his friend Sakura and his teacher Kakashi, he meet a taciturn and highly skilled "genius" Sasuki who appeared to be part of Uchiha Clan.
Together with his other friends, they faced many adventures and challenges who measured their strenght and ability in fighting and how important the word "friendship" means.
Naruto and his group still continue their journey and we will continue to monitor, watch and joined their adventures as their journey come to an end and known the truth about what really happens in the past.
Here is the list of Naruto's Characters from the Part I Naruto up to the Part II Naruto Shippuden.

Naruto Characters List

(The major characters of the series as they appear in Part I)

Naruto Uzumaki, voiced by actress  Junko Takeuchi and Maile Flanagan in the English adaptation. The main charater in the series. He developed special relationship with Sasuke and Sakura who later became the main target of the Akatsuki, who wants to obtained the Nine Tails that later on appeared to bo sleeping inside of Naruto.

Sakura Haruno, voiced by actress Chie Nakamura in Japanese anime and  Kate Higgins in the English adaptation. A sole female member of Team 7. In love with Sasuke when they still a child. When she became 16, she  developed skills from her training giving her the brutal power and strength of about 10 men.

Sasuke Uchiha, voiced by Noriaki Sugiyama and Yuri Lowenthal in English. Naruto's friend and rival. He is one of the few remaining members of Uchiha Clan, along with his brother Itachi, who killed the rest of their family. He leaves the village and seek more power from Orochimaru. Naruto, together with his group attempts to recover him. Sasuke learn the truth about his famiy history during the Fourth Great Ninja War.

Kakashi Hatake, voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue and Mutsumi Tamura when he was young and  Dave Wittenberg in English. He is the teamleader of Team 7, the sensei of Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura. He is trained by Naruto's father in the past  during the Third Great Ninja War, where he obtained his Sharingan eye from his teammates, Obito Uchiha. He focus to trained Sasuke with his personal Chidori but can't stop Sasuke leaving the village to seek greater power from Orochimaru. He has a detached manner that results for always late to meetings.

Sai, voiced by Satoshi Hino and Ben Diskin in English. He joined Kakashi's Team in Part II, as Sasuke's replacement. Sai has been trained not to possess any desire or type of emotion since he was a child. But after spending time with Naruto he begin to create bond with people by giving their pet names. He also spend his time in painting and drawings. His special ability is infusing chakra with his inking brush to make his drawings come to life, which make this his powerful weapon when it comes to battle.

Yamato,  voiced by Rikiya Koyama and Eri Gōda voices him as a child and Troy Baker in English. He is introduced in Part II as a member of ANBU and a temporary replacement for Kakashi as a leader. Yamato is just a codename, Kakashi called him Tenzo during the time he served ANBU and Kinoe when he served Root. He was abducted y Orochimaru for experiment to replicate the First Hokage's abilities, but Orochimaru never knew that Yamato successfully obtained Hashirama's Mokuton techniques when he forced to flee Konohagakure. Yamato special ability is to form anything out of the wood, that allows him to uppress a tailed beast's influence over its host.

Team 8

Kiba Inuzuka, voiced by  Kōsuke Toriumi and Kyle Hebert in English. Member of Team 8 from Inuzuka Clan where strong characteristis and ability is his sense of smell. Always with his ninja dog (ninken) partners, Kiba is very protective with his teammates. His special ability is to drastically increase his sense of smell, modifies his ability by glowing claws and traveling on all four limbs to increase his speed.

Akamaru, is voiced by Junko Takeuchi who also the voice of Naruto and Kosuke. Akamaru is Kiba's ninja dog, companion and best friend. When he was a puppy, Kiba carries him on his head or inside his jacket. But now Akamaru grow, Kiba is now riding atop of his back. Akamaru acted a big help into his group with his heightened sense of smell, hearing, and the ability to detect others' chakra levels and also urinate their opponents to be easily tracked.

Shino Aburame, his voiced by Shinji Kawada. A ninja who formed a symbiosis with a special breed of insects known as "destruction bugs" (kikaichu). 

Hinata Hyuga, voiced by  Nana Mizuki and Stephanie Sheh in English. A member of Team 8 who is shy and lacks of self-confidence to stand up for herself. Because of that, her father leave her in care of Kurenai Yuhi, where she began to train to overcome her weakness and became strong. She's in love with Naruto since she was a child. She's trying to impress Naruto with her ability, eventhough she don't admit her feelings, most of her friends is already aware of it. At the end, Hinata finally confessed to Naruto while protecting him from Pain during some episodes in Part II.

Kurenai Yuhi, voiced by Rumi Ochiai and Megumi Han voices Kurenai when she is young and Saffron Henderson in English. She is the team leader of Team 8, skilled in genjutsu. She's the one who trained Hinata to overcome her weakness. Her childhood companion Asuma Sarutobi is said to be her lover, but she denied it until some episode in Part II releaved that she's pregnant with Asuma's child. After the death of Asuma, Kurenai gave birth to their child but the name is not known.

Team 10

Choji Akimichi, voiced by Kentaro Ito in Japanese and Robbie Rist in English. Together with Shikamaru, he is also a member of Team 10 who loves to eat and always has a food attached to him. In battle, he is able to increase the size of his body to improve the amount of damage his strikes deal upon impact. He uses Karorī Kontorōru which allowed his fat body to convert into chakra.

Shikamaru Nara, voiced by Showtaro Morikubo and  Tom Gibis in English. He is in Team 10. He has an easygoing nature, master in games such as shogi and go, where their team leader never been able to defeat him, but his laziness frequently prevents him from effectively utilizing his mind. He has ability to manipulate shadow, by controling other person's shadow, he can control their movement in any way he wanted.

Ino Yamanaka,  voiced by actress Ryōka Yuzuki and  Colleen O'Shaughnessey in English. She is the only member of her Team 10. She is a childhood friend of Sakura and also her rival when it comes to Sasuke. She specializes in mind-altering techniques, where she able to transfer her consciousness to her target's mind, gaining and taking control over their body where she can use to attack others.

Asuma Sarutobi, voiced by  Jūrōta Kosugi and Fujiko Takimoto when he was young. The team leader of Team 10 and the son of the Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi. Asuma fights with wields trench knives that can be infused his wind nature chakra to extend the blades' length and easily pierce through a rock. He loves cigarette, but when it comes to Kurenai Yuhi, he will temporarily drop that habit. Just like Kurenai, he also deny having a relationship with her until it revealed that Kurenai is carrying his child. Asuma was killed by Hidan from Akatsuki. But he was brought back with the Reanimation Jutsu during Fourth Great Ninja War to fight Kabuto and sealed until his soul allowed to return to afterlife.

Team Guy (Gai)

Neji Hyuga, voiced by Keiko Nemoto when he was a child then voiced by actor Koichi Tochika when he became teen. He is a cousin of Hinata. He promoted to the rank of Jonin in Part II. He acted as a leader and a prodigy of the Hyuga clan.

Tenten, voiced by actress Yukari Tamura and  Danielle Judovits in Egnlish. She the only member in Team Guy, where her skills can be compared as a male ninja. Her skills specializes in weapons, she uses hundreds of weapons where she hides and stores in her scrolls, from projectiles to close-combat weapons and even explosives.

Rock Lee, voiced by  Yoichi Masukawa and Brian Donovan in English. A member of Team Guy and favorite student of team leader Might Guy. He was unable to use ninjutsu and genjutsu techniques, but Might Guy trained him to become a respected ninja who uses only taijutsu. He also taught Lee several powerful and even forbidden ninja techniques. Because of this, he able to open the eight chakra gates if it is badly needed.

Might Guy (Maito Gai) voiced by Masashi Ebara and Masayuki Makiguchi when he was a child. He is the team leader of Team Guy. His favorite student is Rock Lee who appears to be emulates his mentor from mimicking Guy's distinctive appearance and same manners. He to be Kakashi's rival, eventhough Kakashi never display any interest in their rivalry. He specializes in Physical Attacks. During the Fourth Great Ninja War, he resolves to battle Madara by opening the Eight Gate which result risking his own life.

(The major characters of the series as they appear in Part II)

Hokage

Hashirama Senju, voiced by  Takayuki Sugō and Jamieson Pricein English Part I and Peter Lurie in Engligh Part II. He is the first Hokage, a former leader of Senju Clan and co-founder of the first ninja village Konohagakure. He also known as the "God of Shinobi". Despite being that scary, he is a cheerful and happy-go-lucky person. He is the one who captured the Tailed Beasts as offerings for the stability of the villages. He died through many wars during his time and brought back by Orochimaru using the Reanimation jutsu twice. First for the battle with his former student Hiruzen and second is to help Sasuke understand the Konoha's history.

Tobirama Senju, voiced by  Ken'yū Horiuchi and Peter Lurie in English Part I and Jamieson Price in English Part II. He is the second Hokage, the younger brother of Hashirama and former teacher of Hirusen Sarutobi. His special ability is Water Style techniques. he created the Flying Thunder God Jutsu, the Shadow Clone Jutsu, and the controversial Reanimation Jutsu. He appointed Hiruzen as his the next Hokage before he was killed in an ambush during the First Great Ninja War. But he was brought back by Orochimaru by the used of Reanimation Jutsu to fight Hiruzen.

Hiruzen Sarutobi, voiced by Hidekatsu Shibata, and in English  is Steve Kramer. He is the Third Hokage and the longgest Hokage who ruled the ninja village. He was also become the Fourth Hokage after Minato Namikaze died. Hiruzen is a peace-loving leader, preferred for nonviolent discussion and the source of wisdom to younger generation known by codename "The Professor", the teacher of Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade. He uses the Summoning Jutsu which summon Monkey King, Enma. He fights Obito and Madara during the Fourth Great Ninja War together with the resurrected Hokage.

Minato Namikaze voiced by  Toshiyuki Morikawa and Miyu Irino when he's young and Tony Oliver in English. The Fourth Hokage, the father of Naruto and husband of Kushina Uzumaki. He was the student og Jiraiya and teacher of Kakashi, Obito and Rin Nohara. He gain repect of the entire village as he perfected the Tobirama's Flying Thunder God Jutsu, a method of teleportation with pre-made seals, to earn the title of "Konoha's Yellow Flash". He also learned many other teleportation and sealing techniques includes the Reaper Death Seal. He was the one who sealed the Nine Tailed Beast into Naruto's body. His soul was released by Orochimaru during the Fourth Great Ninja War and defeat Madara. He revealed his own Nine Tailed Chakra mode during the fight and discovered that Obito was the masked man he faced that night of his death.

Tsunade voiced by Masako Katsuki, and in English is Debi Mae West. The former student of Hiruzen Sarutobi. She is actually an older woman in her fifties, but she uses transformation technique to maintain her youthful beauty like a buxom woman in her twenties. She is also the grand daughter of Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki. She hates her position and lost faith in her title after her boyfriend Dan Kato and brother Nawaki died pursuit of their dreams to become Hokage. But after meeting Naruto and his friends, she regains her faith. She accepts the title of being the Fifth Hokage to protect konohakagure. She a talented medical ninja with superhuman strength that allows her to reduce buildings to rubble and can heal injuries that most others would consider incurable.

Danzo Shimura voiced by Hiroshi Ito and in English by William Frederick Knight. His half body is covered with bandages to hide the damaged Sharingan eye transplanted from the body of Shisui Uchiha. He injected himself with cells from the First Hokage that allowed him to performed and use Senju Clan's unique skills. He convinces the Fire Country's feudal lord to make him the Sixth Hokage Candidate after the Konoha was destroyed by Pain and left Tsunade in coma. He order to have the ninja track down both Sasuke and Kabuto in order to restore Shisui's eye. He was dies shortly as Sasuke mortally wounds him during the Five Kage conference.

Other Hokage 

Iruka Umino voiced by  Toshihiko Seki and Quinton Flynn in English. He is a konohagakure ninja instructor at the Ninja Academy. His parents was killed by the Nine-Tailed Fox but bears no ill to Naruto. Instead, Naruto sees him as father-like-figure.

Konohamaru Sarutobi voiced by  Ikue Ōtani and Colleen O'Shaughnessey in English. He is the grandson of the Third Hokage. He tries his very hard to replace his grandfather so that the villagers will recognize him not as Hokage's grandson but as him own name. He looks Naruto as his mentor.

Jiraiya voiced by Hōchū Ōtsuka and David Lodge in English. He is Naruto's godfather and teacher. He known as the "Toad Sage" due to his toad-related jutsu and Sage Jutsu. Some of his chacteristics are openly lecherous and proudly describes himself as a "super pervert" while authoring a series of best-selling adult romance novels.  He wrote an epic novel entitled "Tale of the Gutsy Ninja" where the main protagonist is named Naruto. He died while fighting his former student's  Paths of Pain.

Shizune voiced by Keiko Nemoto and Megan Hollingshead in English. She is the assistant of Tsunade who's the one who taught her about medical techniques. She also learn to used is as a weapon including the poison-based needles and emitting toxic gas from her mouth. She is nearly killed during Pain's attack when her soul stripped away as the result of the Human Path's interrogation but revived through Nagato's Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Jutsu.

Rin Nohara voiced by  Haruhi Terada and Stephanie Sheh in English. She is a member of Team Minato. She is the medical ninja on her team and had a crush on Kakashi while unaware that has the affection of Obito. She was kidnapped by the Iwagakure while performing their mission to sabotage Kannabi Bridge during Third Great Ninja War. She was rescued by Obito which results to his death but managed to confessed his feelings for her. She was again captured by the kirigakure and turn her into jinchuriki as a part to destroy Konoha. When she was rescued by Kakashi, she beg him to end her life for the safety of their village. The event of Rin's death, having arrived to the scene at the time, caused Obito's descent into madness as he resolves to enact the Eye of the Moon Plan to wipe out the Shinboi Nations' system and create a new world where Rin is still alive.

Kushina Uzumaki voiced by  Emi Shinohara and Cindy Robinson in English. She's the mother of Naruto,wife of Minato and former host of Kurama. Her personality was very bash and hot-blooded when she was a child with a nickname of Tomato and Red Hot-Blooded Habañero. She wishes that Naruto won't inherate her traits but their personality is the same. She first met and fall in love with Minato when he rescued her from kidnapper. She and Minato sacrificed their lives to seal the Nine-Tailed Fox inside Naruto's body. Her Chakra reappeared during the battle of Naruto and Kurama, she help her son sealed the Fox.

Sand Siblings

Gaara voiced by  Akira Ishida and Liam O'Brien in English. He is the youngest among the Sand Siblings. His father made him into a weapon by becoming Jinchuriki of the tailed beast Shukaku the One-Tail, that causes that death of his mother during labor. 
Later he discovered that he is also a Jinchuriki when he fights with Naruto. During the Part II, he succeeds his deceased father as Sunagakure's Fifth Kazekage.

Kankuro voiced by Yasuyuki Kase and Michael Lindsay in English but replaced by Doug Erholtz in 2013. Second oldest among Sand Siblings whose uses special skilled of puppeteering ninjutsu, that used bladed attack puppet Crow and trapping puppet Black Ant. He possessess the large puppet Salamander with combination of defense and offense. Kankuro was entrusted with the Mother and Father puppets during the Fourth Great Ninja War after defeating  the new reborn Sasori and breaking Kabuto's hold over him. 

Temari voiced by Romi Paku and Tara Platt in English. She is the oldest among the Sand Siblings. When she fights, Temari uses a giant iron fan that can create powerful gusts of wind capable of leveling the surrounding landscape. She used the wind to remove the advantageuos parts of the battlefield to the enemy to reduce opponent's strategies. Besides Naruto, she is one that used the Summoning Jutsu where she summon scythe-wielding weasel called Kamatari that creates large hurricane capable of cutting down an entire forest.



Antagonists

Zabuza Momochi voiced by  Unshō Ishizuka and Steven Blum in English. he is a former member of kirigakure's Seven Swrodsmen of the Mist. He leaves the villgage together with his followers and became assasins. He took Haku as his apprentice. He specialize in Water-Based abilities.

Haku voiced by  Mayumi Asano and Mona Marshall when he was a child and Susan Dalian in English.  He is the right hand of Zabuza. His special ability and genetic inheritance is Hyoton, where he mix wind and water elements to create ice weapons. He was resurrected by Kabuto to fight in Shinobi World War.


Orochimaru voiced by  Kujira and Steven Blum in English. He is the a former student of the Third hokage and member of criminal organization Akatsuki. He dreamed to become immortal where led him to performed experiments on other konohagakure ninjas. He tries to fight other Akatsuki member Itachi Uchiha but he is defeated. He leaves Akatsuki and make his own village, the Otogakure. Where it became his laboratory to continue his experiments. Obtaining the immortality technique where he transfer his consciousness between different host bodies, his new target is Sasuke Uchiha. However, Madara's intentions force Orochimaru into allying himself with his former allies against him and Obito

Kabuto Yakushi voiced by  Nobutoshi Canna and Henry Dittman in English. He is Orochimaru's spy. His abilities specialize in high proficient if medical techniques and genetic manipulation by healing wounds by reactivating dead cells in order to grow new ones. After Sasuke defeated Orochimaru, Kabuto integrates some of Orochimaru's remains into his body to became powerful.

The Sound Four

Sound Four are Orichimaru's elite bodyguards. The Sound Four is known for their skilled in making defense walls, barriers, sealling techniques including Curse Marks to increase their strenghts. The group composed of:
Jirobo, who specialize in in close-quarters battle and absorbing chakra
Tayuya, the only women who uses flute to cast illusions and summoning demons
Kidomaru, specialized in ranged combat, also a siz-armed ninja that produces spider-webs to fight.
The twins, Sakon and Ukon, you can count them as one is they emerged their abilities, the strongest among the Sound Fou.
This group is said to be Sound Five, as they forced to accept Kimimaro, the one who's defeated the four in their battle.

Akatsuki 

A criminal organization founded by Yahiko, Nagato and Konan. It was composed of ten (10) members, but reduced to nine (9) as Orochimaru leaved. You can identified them easily with their notably a long, dark cloak bearing red clouds and a chin-high collar. Each of them possesses a stone-embedded ring. The member composed of:

Itachi Uchiha voiced by Hideo Ishikawa and Skip Stellrecht in Enlish episodes 29 and 30 and  Crispin Freeman in other episodes. Former Konohagakure ninja who killed the entire Uchiha family and Clan but spared his brother Sasuke. He was resurrected under Kabuto during the Fourth Great Ninja War but managed to released himself. He teamed up with Sasuke and defeat Kabuto but Itachi fades away because of it.

Kisame Hoshikagi voiced by  Tomoyuki Dan and Kirk Thornton in English. Former Kirigakure ninja with Samehada sword, said to be a living weapon covered in scales that can absorb untold amounts of an opponent's chakra. He can also shapes water into shark's form to defeat and damage his opponents. Later, it revealed that the real Kisame is hidden inside Samehada, a Zetsu clone who switched place with him. He was captured and defeated by Guy (Gai) but commits suicide as he summoned the sharks to eat him.

Deidara voiced by  Katsuhiko Kawamoto and Roger Craig Smith in English. Former Iwagakure ninja and a  terrorist bomber-for-hire until he was forced by Uchiha to join Akatsuki. His special abilities was that his hands have mouths,  infusing a clay or other fine-grained minerals with chakra, creating "sculptures" that are actually explosive bombs that explode with varying intensities that takes any forms he wants and control them. He died when he transformed into a living bomb in order to kill Sasuke but he failed. He reappeared again when he reanimated by Kabuto to fight against Shinobi Alliance by defeated by Kanakuro.

Sasori voiced by Akiko Yajima when he was a child and Kari Wahlgren in English; when he becomes adult, he was voiced by  Takahiro Sakurai and  Johnny Yong Bosch in English. His scorpion-puppet Hiruko was voiced by  Yutaka Aoyama and J. B. Blanc in English. Former Sunagakure Ninja. He can convert the human corpses into puppets that can be used as a weapons. Later, he turned his own body into a puppet that gives him an eternal life that can control hundred puppets at once. Sakura and Chiyo was the one who killed him as they destroy the only part of his humanity, his heart. He was again reanimated by Kabuto to fight Kankuro.

Zetsu voiced by  Nobuo Tobita and Travis Willingham in English Shippuden. He is Obito's right hand. His body was composed of two personalities, the White Zetsu (shiro Zetsu) was created by Madara from spiral-faced Zetsu and deformed clone brther from DNA of Hashirama blended with plants through the power of the Gedo Statue and the Black Zetsu (Kuro Zetsu), the black/dark side that completed the Zetsu and became an Akatsuki member. He can also split into two different bodies, the White and Black Zetsu. During the Fourth Great Ninja War, the White Zetsu was killed by Sasuke while the Dark was captured, but Madara command the Black Zetsu to merges into Obito's artificial body. 

Hidan voiced by Masaki Terasoma and Chris Edgerly in English. Former Yugakure ninja of Village HIde in Boiling Water. He is an immortal, foul-mouthed and sadomasochistic partner of Kakuzu. A member of Jashin religion that created his unique abilities such as consuming an opponent's blood and create a link with opponents by drawing Jashin's triangular-design on the ground, that any damage causes his body will be reflected to his opponents. He was being blown up by Shikamaru. 

Kakuzu voiced by Takaya Hashi and Fred Tatasciore in English. Former Takigakure Ninja of Village Hidden in the Waterfalls and partner of Hidan. His body was composed of large amounts of black threads that also capable to piercing flesh and allowing him to reattached any bodypart, his or another, back onto its owner. He can also steal his opponents beating hearts and use it for his own purposed by Jiongu. He store up to four (4) spare hearts that he can be use as a replacement. Naruto was the one who leaves his final heart into a failure and he was finished by Kakashi. But later reanimated by Kabuto to join the war. 

Nagato voiced by Junpei Morita and   Vic Mignogna in English Shippuden. Very known as Pain, former Amegalure Ninja, the "head-leader" of Akatsuki, that related to Naruto and a former student of Jiraiya. The Pain that uses the Deva Path abilities was actually Nagato's friend, Yahiko, who's one of The Six Paths of Pain that outfitted with a number of body piercings and controlled by Nagato. Nagato desired peace for tha world, but when his friend Yahiko died, (makes Nagato became the new leader of the organization) caused him to realized that peace can only be attained by teaching the world the pain that caused by war. The Deva Path was defeated by Naruto but Obito took the Rinnegan from Nagato and he was resurrected by Kabuto to fight Naruto and Killer Bee. Itachi was the one who sent back him to the afterlife. 

Konan voiced by  Atsuko Tanaka and Dorothy Elias-Fahn in English. She was a former student of Jiraiya and the only member of Akatsuki.  She was known as the "God's angel" of Amegakure. She learned her natural talent with origami as a weapon under her training with Jiraiya, that allowed her to divide her body into many using a sheets of papers and form a weapons and created a wings that mirror her title. But this abilities are restricted when the paper is wet. She fights Obito but she was killed after being for to reveal Nagato's secret hide out. 

Obito Uchiha voiced by  Wataru Takagi and Sōsuke Komori when he is young and  Neil Kaplan in English and Michael Yurchak as his Tobi persona. He was known as Tobi, the real leader of Akatsuki. He is a former teammate that gave Kakashi his Sharingan before his death. He was saved by Madara and took his as apprentice to continue his work. Before Madara died, he was informed about the Eye of the Moon Plan and continue his mentor's unfinished works by acting under his name. He uses Kamui with his right Sharingan. He was the one who declared the Fourth Great Ninja War and reanimated the corpses of the captured Jinchuriki into Six Paths of Pain using Nagato's Rinnegan that replaced his left eye to captured the Tailed Beast. Ten Tails was revived incomplete and he loses control to it end up taking Kakashi and fight him to the dimension tied to Kamui. He returned to reality when Kakashi mortally wounded him and became the Ten Tails Jinchuriki when he nearly sacrificed by Madara. He releases the power of Ten Tails in Shinju form and face Naruto and Sasuke. He admits his defeat when Naruto convinced him to stop deluding himself and he use the Samsara of Heavenly Life Jutsu to bring back those people who killed and meet Rin.

Team Taka (Hawk) 

Formed by Sasuke composed of former Orochimaru's subordinates. It was first named as "Hebi" where the first mission is to find and kill Itachi to revenge the slaughter if Uchiha Clan and his family. Later, he renamed it "Taka" and their mission is to destroy Konoha. They joined Akatsuki to help them obtain the Tailed Best Gyuki. The group members are:
Suigetsu Hozuki, the first recruited member which allows his body to change into liquid form. He also have the regenerative sword Kubikiribōchō, whose former owned by Zabuza Momochi.
Karin, former assistant of Orochimaru who's skilled in tracking specific individuals through chakra over long distances. She is one of the few members of Uzumaki Clan who survived.
Jugo, a prisoner, source of Orochimaru's cursed seals due to enzymes that render him mentally unstable, who follows Sasuke as he sees him as the living legacy of his late friend Kimimaro.
Taka splits when Jugo and Suigetsu are captured by the samurai of the Land of Iron and escaped to return to Orochimaru's hide out while Karin was also captured for questioning when Sasuke abandoned her during their with Danzo Shimura. But when she escape, she returned and reunited with Sasuke and her other teammates, along with Orochimaru and the other resurected Hokages. 

Madara Uchiha voiced by Naoya Uchida and Neil Kaplan in English. He is the founders of Konahagakure. He fought with Hashirama Senju and Senju Clan during the "Elder Days" and this point on. The overused of Mangekyo Sharingan blinded him but his younger Izuna gave him his eyes  that led to the awakening of Eternal Mangekyo Sharinganand to continue their war against Senju Clan. Madara captured  Kurama the Nine Tails, where he used for his final clash with Hashirama. They thought that Hashirama killed him but Madara survived and escaped into his secret hide out. He take sample of Hashirama blood and enable to awaken Rinnegan. Madara fights the Five Kage and defeats them and later joined  Obito's side as the Ten Tails is resurrected. He sealed the the newly recreated Ten Tailed Beast into himself and become its Jinchuriki.

(Source: wikipedia)

Naruto is still Ongoing, both the Manga and Series.  
Naruto Shippuden's latest Manga is Chapter 668 - The beginning of the Red Spring and
Naruto Shippuden's latest Anime Series is Episode 356 - Shinobi of the Leaf