{"id":"jinchuriki","name":"Jinchūriki","japanese":"人柱力","category":"basics","subtitle":"A person, not just a vessel.","summary":"A person who hosts a tailed beast through a sealing. Coexistence, control and cooperation are not the same in every case.","facts":[["Condición","Hosting a tailed beast"],["No implica","Immediate control or belonging to the Uzumaki"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"A sealed tailed beast","t":"A jinchūriki is a person who carries a tailed beast sealed in their body. Naruto is the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails, the nine-tailed fox that attacked Konoha the day he was born, though he does not know it until Mizuki reveals it to him. The seal does not turn the person into the beast: they are two different beings sharing one body, though the village often treats them as the same. Naruto is not the only one. Gaara of the Sand carries Shukaku, the one-tailed beast, sealed inside him, and his childhood was marked by loneliness and others' fear. When they face each other, Naruto recognizes in him a life much like his own.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-130","pos":130},{"h":"Extraction is fatal","t":"Chiyo explains that if a tailed beast is extracted from a jinchūriki, the host dies. That is why the Akatsuki hunt the jinchūriki of every village, who come from very different clans and places and carry different beasts. Chiyo herself confesses that she was the one who sealed Shukaku into Gaara and doubts she did the right thing. The relationship between host and beast depends a great deal on the seal, the village and how each society treats whoever carries that beast, almost always with fear and isolation.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-262","pos":262},{"h":"Mito, Kushina and Naruto","t":"Kushina reveals she was the Nine-Tails' jinchūriki before Naruto, and that before her it was Mito Uzumaki, Hashirama's wife. That chain is a handing over of responsibility between hosts, not a confirmed line of mothers and daughters. Kushina survives the fox's extraction for a time thanks to exceptional vitality: it is an exception, not a general Uzumaki immunity. Minato seals the fox's yin half into himself and the yang half into Naruto, and both parents die protecting their son.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-504","pos":504},{"h":"Cooperating with the beast","t":"Killer B, the Eight-Tails' jinchūriki, shows that a host can get along with their tailed beast. He explains that a jinchūriki needs “suns” to guide them, people who accept them, and that Naruto's are his parents. Over time, Naruto learns the fox's name, Kurama, and in the tailed beasts' minds he discovers the names of all of them and of their hosts. With Kurama's cooperation he reaches Tailed Beast Mode. The relationship stops being one of prison and jailer and becomes an alliance between two beings.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-572","pos":572},{"h":"The Ten-Tails","t":"In the war, Obito seals the Ten-Tails into his body and becomes its jinchūriki, until the Alliance rips the tailed beasts out of him. Later, Madara extracts Kurama from Naruto, which should kill him. Naruto survives because Minato transfers to him the fox's yin half he kept in his own body, and with it he gets Kurama back. Madara also ends up becoming the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki. This stage shows both the limits of the general rule and the price of containing the power of every beast.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-673","pos":673},{"h":"Naruto without Kurama","t":"In Boruto, Naruto turns to Baryon Mode to face Isshiki. That form consumes Kurama's life in exchange for enormous power, and the fox dies after the battle. Naruto thus stops being a jinchūriki: he loses the extra chakra reserve and the companion he had lived with since birth. The other tailed beasts remain sealed in their hosts, but Naruto is in a new situation, weaker than before and forced to fight without the fox that was with him all his life.","lvl":2,"ch":"boruto-55","pos":755},{"h":"Himawari and Kurama","t":"In Two Blue Vortex, Kurama is reborn inside Himawari, who becomes a new jinchūriki. She starts using the fox's chakra in combat and even prepares a Tailed Beast Bomb. Her case is not the same as inheriting Baryon Mode or receiving her father's powers: it is a new bond, with a reborn Kurama and a host still learning to live with it. Being a jinchūriki keeps changing depending on the era and the person.","lvl":3}],"characters":["mito","kushina","naruto"],"related":["kurama","fuinjutsu","uzumaki","kirigakure","kumogakure","iwagakure","uzushiogakure","guerras-ninja"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 500–504 and 570–571: the Nine-Tails' hosts and cooperation.","sources":[{"title":"Kushina: Uzushiogakure, Mito y la familia de Naruto","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1833"},{"title":"Naruto: formación y vínculos, primera parte","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1610"}],"figures":["
HOSTBEAST · ITS OWN WILL
The fox and its host · Original diagramA conceptual take on the bond with the Nine-Tailed Fox, not an exact transformation of Naruto or a hereditary Uzumaki ability.
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