

During his battle with Pain, Naruto briefly sported a red coat that combined his master and father's before him with a black flaming design at the bottom as well as a large summoning scroll on his back. The forehead protector has also changed with Naruto moving the metal portion to a new longer black bandanna and he wears black sandals instead of blue. The outfit retains the orange colour as well as the white (without the tassel) and red swirls, but the jacket is much more form fitting with the blue parts changed to black and the colour extending from the upper shoulders area to the sleeves. Naruto's outfit undergoes modification after being worn to shreds during his training with Jiraiya. Those who are closest to him are able to recognise when his smile isn't genuine. He smiles near-constantly which during his childhood, was to mask the sadness of his lonely life. He is also something of a pervert, something he tends to be reprimanded for by Sakura as well as Iruka, and has only become more so after meeting Jiraiya. He almost exclusively eats ramen, and is a frequent customer at the Ramen Ichiraku. He is also very brash and rarely pays heed to formality or social standings. He also has a childish quirk of keeping his money in a chubby, green-frog wallet he affectionately calls "Gama-chan". He inherited his catch-phrase "Dattebayo!" (だってばよ!) from his mother, Kushina Uzumaki, who would say "(da)ttebane" ((だ)ってばね) when excited or frustrated. Naruto has a number of other distinct traits as well. Overall, Naruto responds best to competition and possesses a great degree of confidence in himself, loudly proclaiming that he will master whatever technique he is learning in a fraction of the usual time, though he will not hesitate to ask for help if he needs it. He is relatively naive and simple, being slow to understand a principle or situation, and often requiring an oversimplified analogy in order to grasp what is being explained to him. According to Kakashi, Naruto learns through his body.


Naruto is most prominently characterised by his hyperactivity, being exuberant, impatient, impulsive, and inattentive.
