ABURAME SHINO

Name: Aburame Shino
Age: in the series debut 12 (actually 15)
Rank: Genin
Birthday: January 23
Zodiac: Aquarius
From: Leaf Village
Teammates: Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba and Akamaru (Team 8)
Teacher: Yuuhi Kurenai
Techniques: Kikaich no Jutsu (Destruction Bug Host Technique), Mushi Bunshin no Jutsu (Bug Clone Technique), Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique)

Background: He’s a very strange guy who’s techniques are with bugs.

The Deal with him: Aburame Shino is a cool, collected, confident Genin from Naruto's graduating year who is quite mysterious and who always wears sunglasses. As a part of the Aburame clan tradition, Shino was infused with a special type of insects that feed on his chakra since birth and in return, they attack and do other tasks as he commands.

Shino was the only male Genin left out of the (failed) mission to retrieve Uchiha Sasuke when the latter decided to become a Missing-nin, and felt some bitterness and guilt over the matter, considering the eventual outcome might have been different had he been sent to help them as well.