Umino Iruka

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.

Maito Gai

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.

Hyuga Neiji

Name: Hyuuga Neji
Age: 14
Birthday: 03 July
Zodiac: Gemini
Rank: Genin
From: Leaf
Teacher: Maito Gai
Teammates: Rock Lee, Tenten
Family: Hyuuga Hizashi (Father), Hyuuga Hiashi (Uncle), Hyuuga Hinata (cousin), Hyuuga Hanabi (cousin)
Most used technique: Byakugan and Jyuuken

Background: Hyuuga branch family member and the previous year's number 1 rookie from the ninja academy.

The Deal with him: Being a Hyuuga branch family member, Neji's primary function was to protect the Hyuuga head family. However, Neji hates the head family as he believes his father died to protect them and blames destiny that he is fated to be a 'caged bird'. Neji is the genius from his clan. Though just a branch family member, he inherited the bloodline limit strongly and discovered jutsus which ran secret in the head family like the Kaiten.