Konaha Rookies

The Konaha rookies are the 9 rookie genin straight out of the academy. These Rookies consist of Naruto, Sakura, Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, Hinata, Shino, Kiba and Sasuke Uchiha until he defects. The term Rookie 9 was mostly used during the Chunin Exam Arc of the series. The term became relitivily unused after the chunin exam when Shikamaru became a chunin and then was not used at all after Sasuke Uchiha's defection to join Orochimaru. It was noted during the chuni exams that all the rookie's passed the first test which was too see if they could gather information without being caught. Then all rookie's again passed the second test in the forest of Death. The rookie 9 was another way to refer to them.