Konoha 11

Konoha 11 is a group label covering the members of four Hidden Leaf squads: Team 7, Team 8, Team 10, and Team Guy. Sasuke Uchiha is left out, having abandoned the village before the group came together. Although these characters fight as a unit across both the manga and the anime, only the anime actually uses the name.

The eleven first act together during the Konoha Plans Recapture Mission, with Shikamaru Nara, then the sole chunin among them, directing the effort to stop Genno. He commands them again soon after in the Sunagakure Support Mission, helping the Sand Siblings overcome the Four Celestial Symbols Men. When word of Sasuke's crimes reaches the village, every member but Naruto resolves to put their former classmate down themselves, feeling responsible for him, until Naruto asks them to leave the matter in his hands.

During the Fourth Shinobi World War, most of the group backs Naruto in a combined Rasengan strike on Obito Uchiha, with Sai standing in for the fallen Neji Hyuga and Sakura Haruno supporting from a distance by mending wounds and restoring chakra. An earlier form of the group, the Rookie 9, names the freshly graduated members of Teams 7, 8, and 10 during the Chunin Exams; Team Guy's trio, a year ahead in the Academy, falls outside that count. The bonds forged here carry into adulthood, and their children eventually grow up knowing one another.