Phenomena

Jutsu

Jutsu are techniques used by ninja, utilized by molding chakra in conjunction with various hand signs.

Sage of the Six Paths

Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki (大筒木 ハゴロモ Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo), known as the Sage of Six Paths (六道仙人 Rikudō Sennin), is a legendary ninja whose actions in the past influenced the series' storyline. One of the twin sons of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, Hagoromo was naturally born with chakra already in his body. Possessing the Rinnegan, Hagoromo mastered all forms of nature chakra and used them to end the bloodshed of his time while creating the fundamentals of ninjutsu. He was specialised in all form of jutsu even if it was created by others. He was capable of creating anything from nothingness with his yin yang chakra, Hagoromo also possessed five treasured tools which requires high amount of chakra to use: a thick rope capable of drawing out people's word soul called Kōkinjō (幌金縄, lit. "Golden Canopy Rope"), a sword capable of cursing people's word soul called (the user thinks a word which will be shown on the sword when enemy says that word his soul will be removed) Shichiseiken (七星剣, lit. "Seven Star Sword"), a gourd capable of sealing people after having their word soul cursed and reciting their most-used word called (after the soul is removed it will be sealed inside this gourd) Benihisago (紅葫蘆, lit. "Crimson Gourd"), a pot capable of sealing people when they respond after being called named Kohaku no Jōhei (琥珀の浄瓶, lit. "Amber Purifying Pot"), and a feathered fan capable of dealing powerful elemental attacks called Bashōsen (芭蕉扇, lit. "Banana Palm Fan").

Having sealed Kaguya in her Ten Tails incarnation within himself with the help of his brother Hamura, Hagoromo becomes the first Jinchuriki. He mixed some of the ten tails chakra with his chakra and gained the most powerful chakra. Soon after, Hagoromo gains two sons: the eldest Indra who inherited his "eyes" - his chakra and spiritual energy - while the younger Asura only inherited his "body" - his life force and physical energy. Knowing he could not fulfill his ideals of peace, Hagoromo selected Asura to continue his legacy as the youth's ability to work well with others were an ideal method of peace. Near the end of his life, to ensure his mother would not break free with his death Hagoromo separated the Ten-Tails' chakra into the nine Tailed Beasts. From there, Hagoromo sealed the powerless Ten-Tails into the Gedo Statue, within the celestial body that becomes the moon where Hamura and most of his bloodline would live from then on to keep vigil so Kaguya could not escape. Hamura decide to residing there to protect and ensure that his mother could not escape.

But what Hagoromo did not know was that Kaguya used her last moment to creation a personification of her will, Black Zetsu, to preyed on Indra's feelings towards not being named his father's heir, causing the family feud between Hagoromo's sons that continued to the time of the Sage's descendants: the Uchiha and the Senju/Uzumaki. Though he faded into myth, Hagoromo's exploits were researched by Madara Uchiha who Black Zetsu manipulated into summoning the Gedo Statue back to the world. Furthermore, meeting Naruto and Sasuke during their respective near death experiences by Madara's hand, Hagoromo reveals that his sons are able to reincarnate, with Naruto and Sasuke respectively being the most recent reincarnations of Asura and Indra. Though he was neutral throughout his sons' timeless conflict while observing his numerous descendants, Hagoromo only acts when his worst fears are realized in Madara becoming like Kaguya. To that end, Hagoromo decides to entrust both his sons with stopping Madara and achieve peace by dividing his powers between their current incarnations: giving Naruto his ability to use multiple chakra natures and heal any injury while turning one of Sasuke's eyes into a Rinnegan. As Naruto and Sasuke battled a fully restored Kaguya, Hagoromo used the lower body of Madara to regain physical form to free the tailed beasts from Kaguya's body while enlisting the reanimated Hokages' help alongside the other deceased Kage he summoned to bring Team 7, the tailed beasts, and Madara back to their reality. Hagoromo eventually fades back to the afterlife during Naruto and Sasuke's final battle, the former promising to put an end to the conflict that the sage's sons started. Hagoromo is voiced by Mitsutaka Tachikawa.

Shinju

The Shinju (神樹, lit. Divine Tree) was a tree that legends referred to as the creator of the world, which bears chakra-rich fruit once a millennia that humanity is warned not to eat as that person would become a part of the entity. However, a princess named Kaguya Ōtsutsuki defied the taboo in her desire for peace. This ultimately led to her eventual madness as she enacts the first Infinite Tsukiyomi to assimilate all life into the Shinju, turning the assimilated humans into creatures called White Zetsu. But when Kaguya learns that some of her chakra was transferred into her children, she became enraged and fused into the Shinju to transform it into the Ten-Tails (十尾 Jūbi) to reclaim her chakra. As a living weapon of mass destruction that acts on Kaguya's rage and base instincts, the Ten-Tails is able to terraform areas with its attacks, generate multiple natural disasters at once, and spawn what is later revealed to assimilated life forms from its body. Being the progenitor of chakra within every ninja, the Ten-Tails is also able to use attacks and projectiles based on Yin-Yang Style (陰陽遁 Omyōton) which can negate all chakra-based ninjutsu except Sage chakra. Due to the dangers the rampaging Ten-Tails poses to the world, Hagoromo and Hamura sealed their mother with the former becoming the first Jinchuriki. But as his death would undo the seal on the monster, Hagoromo separated the Ten-Tails's chakra from its body and scattered it into the four winds as the Tailed Beasts before sealing the body away in what would become the moon.

However, Kaguya created Black Zetsu prior to her imprisonment to manipulate Hagoromo's son Indra and his descendants in a scheme to free her and restore her power. Black Zetsu eventually finds Madara Uchiha, leading him to an altered document of the legend and having him summon the Ten-Tails's husk, the Gedo Statue (外道魔像Gedō Mazō, Demonic Statue of the Outer Path), to Earth. From there, using one of the White Zetsu as a host, Black Zetsu oversaw Madara's apprentice Obito Uchiha and the Akatsuki gather all the Tailed Beasts save Kurama and Gyūki. Despite a few set backs, from the Ten Tails slowly assuming its full form to Obito briefly becoming its Jinchuriki, Black Zetsu succeeds in having Madara complete the Eye of the Moon plan as the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi to repeat Kaguya's act of having the Shinju consume all life. With that accomplished, Black Zetsu proceeds to complete Kaguya's resurrection by taking over Madara's body. But the plan that Kaguya and Black Zetsu conducted eventually failed when Naruto and Sasuke, with the aid of their Team 7 teammates and Obito, reseal Kaguya and revert her back into the Gedo Statue with the tailed beast chakra purged from her. Before the seal is complete, Naruto throws the severed part of Kaguya's body that Black Zetsu is latched into it to make sure the Gedo Statue could not be found again.

Tailed Beasts

The Tailed Beasts (尾獣 Bijū) are nine giant concentrations of Chakra that serve to drive the plot of the Naruto series. They were all originally part of the Ten-Tails' chakra before Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki absorbed and splits some of the energy into nine constructs. Though referred to by the number of their tails, the Sage gave them proper names out of respect: Shukaku (守鶴) the wild one-tailed tanuki; Matatabi (又旅) the polite two-tailed cat; Isobu (磯撫) the shy three-tailed turtle; Son Gokū (孫悟空) the prideful four-tailed ape; Kokuō (穆王) the reserved five-tailed dolphin-horse; Saiken (犀犬) the boastful six-tailed slug; Chōmei (重明)the cheery seven-tailed rhinoceros beetle; Gyūki (牛鬼) the berserker eight-tailed octopus-ox; and Kurama (九喇嘛) the cynical nine-tailed fox. The beasts are told by Hagoromo of a certain person and that one day they would be joined back to their original form while understanding true power. In time, as their immense strength can be tempered by Jinchuriki, the Tailed Beasts end up being used as weapons by the ninja villages. With the exception of Gyuki, though they benefited from the knowledge of their hosts and better utilize their powers, the other Tailed Beasts despised the humans for their actions and being seen by them as nothing more than tools. Only Kurama evaded capture until the founding of Konohagakure, in which Madara Uchiha controlled it during his battle with Hashirama Senju and was sealed within Hashirama's wife Mito Uzumaki, eventually winding up to Naruto Uzumaki.

Despite hating this forced symbiosis with their jinchuriki, Tailed Beasts tend to be protective of their hosts to the point of taking over their hosts' bodies if needed to. Even some Jinchuriki are able to speak to their tailed beasts like equals, allowing a mutual and strong relationship where the Jinchuriki is allowed to use a tailed beast's power while still maintaining his sense of self.

Throughout part II of the series, under Madara's instructions, Obito uses the Akatsuki to capture the current Jinchuriki to have the Tailed Beasts sealed within the Gedo Statue, the Ten-Tails's body to enact the Eye of the Moon plan to subjugate the Ninja World. Eventually, only Kurama and Gyuki remain to be captured after the five Kage's refusal to hand their hosts, Naruto and Killer Bee respectively, to Obito, leading to the Fourth Great Ninja War.

 During the war, with the help of Kabuto, Obito reanimates the former hosts as his personal Six Paths of Pain and seals the Tailed Beasts back within them in an attempt to capture Naruto and Killer Bee, though Naruto's determination to save the Tailed Beasts surprises and amazes them as Kurama realizes that he must be the person that the Sage told them long ago.

Agreeing with Kurama, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Gokū, Kokuō, Saiken, and Chōmei each give Naruto a bit of their chakra before being sealed back in the Gedo Statue as Obito decides to revive Ten-Tails by adding Gyūki's tentacle, and parts of Kurama's chakra stored in Kinkaku and Ginkaku. Despite this turn of events, Naruto's determination allows him and his allies to free the captive Tailed Beasts from the Ten-Tails before all nine are captured by Madara and sealed back into the Gedo Statue as Black Zetsu eventually restores it into Kaguya. However, having Yin Kuruma and bits of Shukaku and Gyūki transferred into his body, Naruto learns that all nine tailed beasts are within him as they decide the time that the Sage foretold had come. While despite their attempt to erupt from Kaguya's body in a hare-like form, the tailed beasts are freed once Naruto and Sasuke manage to seal her. Despite a brief imprisonment within Chibaku Tensei-based satellites by Sasuke as part of his own agenda to change the world before being defeated by Naruto, whose body will serve as a meeting ground through the fragments of their chakra lingering in him, the tailed beasts go their separate ways while Gyuki returns to Killer Bee and Kurama to Naruto while absorbing his yin half to become whole again.

Jinchuriki

The hosts for the Tailed Beasts. (L-R: Rōshi, Yagura, Yugito, Gaara, Naruto, Killer Bee, Fū, Utakata, and Han

The Jinchuriki (人柱力 lit. "Power of Human Sacrifice"), or simply hosts, are humans who have had a Tailed Beast sealed into their bodies.^[ch. 2]When the ninja villages were established, seeing the potential of a Tailed Beast's power focused by a human element, Jinchuriki were utilized to have an advantage over their rivals. However, due to the destruction they can cause if the Tailed Beasts take control and destroy everything around them, those who become Jinchiriki are seen are tools rather people with some becoming outcasts.

Each of the hosts appear to have a physical characteristic that resembles their beast; Naruto has fox-like whisker-marks on his face, while Gaara has tanuki-like rings around his eyes. Other than them and Killer Bee, the most recent Jinchūriki of the other Tailed Beasts include Yugito Nii (二位ユギト), the Fourth Mizukage Yagura Karatachi (枸橘やぐら Karatachi Yagura), Rōshi (老紫), Han (ハン), the rogue ninja Utakata (ウタカタ), and Fū (フウ). Fū and Han are both captured and killed by Akatsuki during Part I, while the other four meet the same fate throughout Part II of the story. Their corpses are later altered by Obito to become his personal Six Paths of Pain and with their former Tailed Beasts sealed back inside of them.

Normally, if a beast is removed from its host's body, the host would immediately die. However, those descended from Hagoromo like the Uzumaki Clan would be left severely weakened or on the verge of death. However, the same cannot be said for a Tailed Beast as its "death", like Isobu after Rin's death, is only temporary. While Naruto originally finds himself in conflict with Kurama attempting to take his body over, the youth manages to forcefully consume its chakra to enter "Nine Tails Chakra Mode" before establishing an equal partnership. With Minato is Reanimated, he is revealed to have become a jinchuriki himself due to absorbing Kurama's Yin chakra through the Reaper Death Seal he used on the Nine Tails. But Madara succeeds in obtaining all the tailed beasts and becoming the Ten Tails Jinchuriki prior to a restored Kaguya taking his body as her own.

After receiving half of Hagoromo's power, believed by the tailed beasts to be the one whom Hagoromo had foretold to appear when they become a single being once more, Naruto becomes a Jinchuriki to all nine due to obtaining Yin Kurama from his father and fragments of the other tailed beasts. Still having the fragments in his body after they are freed from Kaguya, Naruto's body would serve as meeting place for the tailed beasts.

List of Jinchuriki

Shukaku

Bunpuku

Unknown Jinchuriki

Gaara

Obito Uchiha

Naruto Uzumaki

Matatabi

Yugito Nii

Naruto Uzumaki

Isobu

Rin Nohara

Yagura

Naruto Uzumaki

Son Goku

Roshi

Naruto Uzumaki

Kokuo

Han

Naruto Uzumaki

Saiken

Utakata

Naruto Uzumaki

Chomei

Fu

Naruto Uzumaki

Gyuki

Blue B's Father

Blue B's Uncle

Blue B

Killer B

Obito Uchiha

Naruto Uzumaki

Kurama

Mito Uzumaki

Kushina Uzumaki

Naruto Uzumaki

Menma Namikaze (dream only)

Yin Half

Minato Namikaze

Black Zetsu

Obito Uchiha

Naruto Uzumaki

Kushina Uzumaki (dream only)

Yang Half

Naruto Uzumaki

Great Ninja Wars

The Great Ninja Wars (忍界大戦 Ninkai Taisen, literally "Ninja World Wars") are a series of wars among the Shinobi Nations that usually spans decades before each village agrees on a peace treaty that allows years of peace before another begins. There have been four Ninja World Wars, three of which occurred before the start of the series. The First Great Ninja War (第一次忍界大戦Daiichiji Ninkai Taisen) occurred shortly after the founding of each ninja villages pioneered by the founding of Konohagakure by the Senju Clan and Uchiha Clan. The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju had divided the Tailed Beasts to each village, but this did not prevent the war from happening. There were many casualties in this war, including Hashirama himself and not long after, his successor, Tobirama Senju, who passed the title of Hokage to Hiruzen Sarutobi. The villages agreed on a peace treaty only after each of them had been severely damaged and it only lasted twenty years before the Second Great Ninja War (第二次忍界大戦Dainiji Ninkai Taisen) happened. The war is considerably larger as it also involved smaller ninja villages like Amegakure. Many important events occurred, including the christening of Hiruzen's students as the Sannin by Hanzō of the Salamander and Sakumo Hatake gaining fame as "Konoha's White Fang" after he killed both of Sasori's parents. The period of peace between this war and the Third Great Ninja War (第三次忍界大戦Daisanji Ninkai Taisen) is very short, resulting in the lack of manpower in the latter war. The Third Ninja World War mainly involved Konohagakure and Iwagakure, with Konoha being the winner after they managed to sabotage Iwa's supply line despite the presumed death of Obito Uchiha. Konoha also had conflict with Kumogakure, whose leader, the Third Raikage recently died while battling 10,000 ninja army. The two did not fully reconcile until several years after the war ended. Since then, the Ninja World enjoyed a long period of peace and many villages, most notably Kirigakure, began forming friendship with each other.

The Fourth Great Ninja War (第四次忍界大戦Daiyonji Ninkai Taisen) occurs during Part II of the story. Instead of battling each other, all Five Great Shinobi Nations unite to stop Obito Uchiha, under the guise of Madara Uchiha, with assistance by Kabuto Yakushi's Reanimation jutsu. Though Naruto and Killer Bee were kept out of the war to keep their Tailed Beasts Kurama and Gyūki from falling into enemy hands, the two Jinchuriki gave their side the advantage over the White Zetsu Army. However, despite reinforcements from Sasuke and the reanimated Hokage, the war takes a turn for the worst when the real Madara Uchiha enters the fight as he eventually becomes the Ten Tails' Jinchuriki and carries out Project Tsuki no Me. Luckily, Naruto and Sasuke manage to seal Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the real perpetrator behind the war, and, after finally settling things between them, free the entrapped humans by breaking the Infinite Tsukiyomi. By the epilogue, no more wars occurred since peace among the Five Great Shinobi Nations was established.