You're probably best off *ing to Team 7 early game. Once you have more ninja, you can run Empress with Karin, Kurenai and Hinata or a wind team of Gaara, Kankuro and Temari/Baki. If you're fortunate enough to get ninja like Chikoshudo, Konan or other damage based females you c*ways run a mock empress team and take out Karin or Kurenai for them.

There aren't many decent ninja for the Wind main early on sadly.