Naruto was my first manga to read and my second anime "maybe third" to stick to it and watch it with all my heart "along with DBZ and OP" at first it was really enjoyable and had the potential to become one of the best shounen Manga/Anime ever.. but guess what? it self destruct .. you know why? because basically the anime producers are just greedy bastards who wanna milk the anime as hard as they can making the anime consist of 60% fillers and only 40% manga worth material..
But we are here to review the manga not the anime.. so here are my thoughts and first let me say something about it

Art: 7
Not the best art there but it's quite good saying it's a mainstream manga but far lower than "Bleach"

Characters: 7
The characters are what made me stick to this anime.. they had such a diversity and quite few unique ones .. but guess what?? Kishimoto ruined them too and just focused on Naruto and Sasuke "the main cause of the self destruction"

Story: 4 maybe 3
as we start reading this manga it's about a boy who is out cast of his Community/Village due to circumstances that are far from his mistakes and we see him as he struggle throw his days and trying to make friends and making his village accept him.. then we have the typical Rival/Antisocial friend along with other characters some are typical in every shounen anime while others are quite unique.. but what eventually goes wrong?? the cause of the self destruct of this Manga is basically that Kishi decided to only develop Naruto and Sasuke and just forgetting the others.. and just pull new villains out of his anus hole out of no where and saying guess what?? the previous villain was not actually a villain here is the REAL villain.. and in the end who was the real villain actually?? NONE yup that's right every villain was just misunderstood and could be reasoned with eventually .. but you gotta have someone to blame in the end right?? yea will here comes the worst part.. the final villain was so poorly done it felt like a 5 year old kid righting some rubbish to his parents by saying in the end "Yaaaaay I can make a villain in the last 50 chapters that no one ever heard about and no clues was ever said about it.. yup that would make the Manga epic right?"
See what I'm trying to say here is Kishi just extended the manga soooooo faaaar from his capabilities and couldn't handle it in the end.. leading to absolute failure in the ending.

Overall: 4
so should someone read it ?? probably not.. why did I read it till the end?? because I couldn't just leave it and waste all of those years to nothing.