Naruto has a series of characters in its long run with hundreds of chapters and episodes and over the course of the series, these characters have had their own motives. The motives of the characters ranged from those characters wanting to live a happy life to finding knowledge and power.
Since the Naruto series saw many great wars involving the Shinobi which included four great ninja wars and a few civil wars, not many characters saw their life turning old and grey. It is really hard for characters to make it to that point due to the risk involved in growing up in an era that is filled with war and hatred.
Nevertheless, here are a few old characters that managed to live long and achieved the title of being old and grey and made it to be the oldest characters of the series. This list involves explanations of how this character came to be so old without any complications and what was involved in their early life.
With that being said, here are a few Naruto Characters that managed to live long and made it to the list of being old and smart enough to outlive many of the characters in Naruto verse.
9 Oldest Naruto Characters Ranked!
9) Hiruzen Sarutobi
Hirzuen was no doubt one of the smartest and strongest Shinobi to exist and was the second person to earn the title of “God of Shinobi” after Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage. In addition to this, Sarutobi was also a Hokage and he was a Hokage for the longest noted period yet.
Hiruzen managed to learn a number of techniques that helped him stand out from the rest which involved learning of forbidden jutsus as well. He also managed to be a Hokage twice due to the complications involved during his time.
Hiruzen also trained the three strongest shinobis from Konoha village who would go on to be referred to as three Legendary Senin. At the time of his death, Hiruzen Sarutobi was around 70 years old and even died in a battle rather than on his bed.
8) Kakuza
Here is a surprise that you may have forgotten about. Kakuza from the Akatsuki managed to even outlive Hirzuen Sarutobi, growing up to be as old as 91 years at the time of his recorded death after his battle with Naruto. He was the oldest member in Akatsuki and his shenanigans go up to being as close to trying to assassinate the first Hokage, Hashirma Senju.
When his attempt failed, he went back to his village and became a rouge ninja after killing the elders from his village. Soon, Kakuza would grow a habit of being obsessed with money and thus he would go on to do things that would bring him a lot of money.
The reason he was able to live as old as he is and even stay healthy is due to a technique that he had developed which was to steal other people’s hearts that allowed him to stay strong and healthy.
7) Onoki
Living up to be as old as 100 years old and still alive, we have none other than the Onoki who served as the Tsuchikage for the Hidden Stone Village. Onoki was trained by a former Tsuchikage and had developed even one of the amazing abilities that allowed him to turn anything into dust.
Onoki’s greatest achievement would be in his participation in the alliance and standing against Obito Uchha’s schemes. During his fight against Madara, Onoki is the only one who is able to give a hard time to Madara and even do serious damage going as far as to stop a meteor all alone.
Being older than a century now, Onoki was seen in the anime canon episodes in Boruto anime giving advice to the titular protagonist.
6) Madara Uchiha
The list of oldest and smartest characters would be incomplete without Madara Uchiha who was one of the strongest and the smartest characters in the series. Madara was a genius from childhood where he had led the Uchiha clan during the first-ever Shinobi war between the clans and other sorts of things.
This war had led to Madara losing too many things close to him, including his family members and thus he had decided to put an end to all of this by making a peace treaty with Hashirama Senju where both of them had developed a good friendship, and also find a village that would soon go on to know about Hidden Village.
However, he was soon met up with hatred and other reasons that led him to another war with the Senju clan that led to a final battle between Hashirama and him leading to his loss but not death.
Madara then spent the rest of his life waiting for the next candidate to fulfill his desire of creating the Mugen Tsukiyomi and took his life when the time was right and he was well over a hundred years old.
5) Tailed Beasts
The tailed beasts are the characters that lived up to at least being as old as a few centuries if not a millennium. These entities are the form of Chakra that emerged from the Ten Beast tails and each of them has their own unique chakra.
When Hagoromo who had the power of all the tailed beasts saw that his time was coming to an end, he split the chakras of all ten-tail beasts creating the nine different tail beasts that would go on to live a normal and good life until they were captured, and were used for wars and other stuff.
4) Gamamaru
Now that we are past centuries, let’s see some oldest characters in the series that lived up to thousands of years old and even more. Gamamaru aka the Great Toad Sage is from Mt. Myoboku precisely known for prophecies that always came true.
His famous prophecy was none other bearing witness to how Kaguya would enslave the entire human on the planet in Mugen Tsukiyomi and thus he told her sons, Hagoromo and Hamura about it. His involvement also includes teaching the two brothers Sejutsu so that they stand against their mother.
3) Hagoromo Otsutsuki
Living up to be more than a thousand years old, we again have an entity that is not human. Hagoromo was the son of Kaguya Otsutsuki and much like his mother he was an alien being and was the sole reason how Ninjutsu came to be.
The creator of the Ninja era was also the first one to rebel against Kaguya Otsutsuki after learning about his mother’s true motives from the aforementioned candidate from this list. He was as powerful as fighting for months against Kaguya.
When he came to be, Hagoromo decided to split his Chakra into nine different ones that also include his soul and he may be said to still live inside them.
2) Zetsu
Zetsu is the will of Kaguya Otsusuki that came into existence after the Hagormo and Hamura had sealed their mother away for good. Thus, Zetsu would go on to live as old since the start of the Shinobi era for the sole reason of bringing back Kaguya Otasutsuki which he referred to as his mother as well.
He would go on to manipulate all the wars that would take after this starting by manipulating Indra Otstutki against his brother Asura he would lead this war for centuries that would eventually become the Senju and Uchiha dispute.
Zetsu eventually finally met his end during the fourth great ninja war but his recorded living years are as old as the existence of shinobis.
1) Kaguya Otsutsuki
Carrying the will of Otasutsuki to consume the Chakra fruit of the planet, Kaguya Otsutsuki descendent to earth thousands of years ago and managed to get her wishes fulfilled on a very small scale but her sons were there to stop her in the end after all of this had come.
However, Kaguya was so powerful that she could not be killed and her sons had to seal her away. It was never noted that she had died and thus, we could easily determine that she is no doubt the oldest character ever to exist in this series.
As you can see from our list, Naruto had a range of characters that got to live as old as the era of the shinobis. The sequel to Boruto sees characters that are even older than Kaguya including Isshiki Otsutsuki who managed to live longer than Kaguya but since he was never mentioned in the Naruto series, we did not bring him up.
