Sumaru

Sumaru ( スマル ) is a genin from Hoshigakure .

## Background [ ]

Like the other ninja of Hoshigakure, Sumaru takes part in star training , a special art that tremendously increased their chakra capacities, but greatly risks severe harms to one's health. As a child, Sumaru was very close to his parents, Natsuhi and Hotarubi . He especially enjoyed star-gazing with his mother and listening to her sing. Later, after a failed attempt to steal the star, Sumaru was told that his parents were killed in battle guarding the fallen star, when in reality, they stole it in an effort to save the villagers from the damaging effects of star training. As a last favour, they asked the Third Hoshikage to lie to Sumaru to protect their family name.

Sumaru remembers his mother, especially, through a lullaby she sang to him as a child about a red star called Natsuhiboshi, which is actually the planet Mars. The lullaby serves as his motivation.

## Appearance [ ]

Sumaru has reddish-brown eyes and long smooth black hair that he wears in a braided ponytail, his bangs partly curl around his head and parts of his blue Hoshigakure forehead protector .

As a child Sumaru's hair was short and straight and not as smooth. He wore a light-coloured shirt.

## Abilities [ ]

### Ninjutsu [ ]

Sumaru is noted to be the most talented genin of his village, showing prodigious ability in his training as he was able to use Hoshigakure's more advanced hiden techniques at a rather young age. Sumaru's fighting style revolved around the Mysterious Peacock Method , a unique skill that lets one magnify and shape their chakra into a myriad of malleable forms. Like his mother, Sumura appeared to have a rare compatibility for the training, never showing any side-effects from using it and likewise had a much finer control of his chakra for it. With this skill, he could perform feats like creating wings for flight or offensive attacks. While cooperating with other genin he was shown to be able to sense the star's presence.

Following the banning of any further usage of the Mysterious Peacock Method, Sumaru had his body cleansed of the star's energy, relinquishing his ability to use the technique anymore.

### Other Skills [ ]

Sumaru showed some skill with a crossbow, using it in conjunction with a rope to cross the "Devil's Ravine", while showing great sense of balance when running over aforementioned length of rope.

## Part I [ ]

### Star Guard Mission [ ]

He first encounters Naruto at the edge of the Land of Bears where he stops the Konoha genin from walking into a canyon filled with toxic gas, the "Devil's Ravine". Naruto misinterprets Sumaru's actions as an attack, and has a brief, uneventful battle, during which, the Konoha genin witnessed first-hand the Mysterious Peacock Method in battle. When the star is stolen by a mysterious bandit, Akahoshi charges Sumaru and his friends to get it back. Sumaru is taken away by Akahoshi posing as the real mysterious bandit as the other ninja collapse from the side effects of the Star Training.

Akahoshi puts him in "suspended animation," and as Sumaru lays unconscious, he dreams about when the Third Hoshikage tells Sumaru about his parents dying to protect the star, and tells him to be strong and to make his parents proud. Sumaru is rescued by Tenten and Rock Lee . Shortly after, Sumaru is guiding Neji , Tenten, and Lee, with the other Hoshigakure genin, to find the mysterious bandit that stole the star. They all find the bandit, who is actually Sumaru's mother, Natsuhi . Akahoshi uses his jutsu to try to kill him. Akahoshi briefly attacks Natsuhi and wounds her, then Naruto, Neji, Tenten, Lee, and Hokuto , flee to Natsuhi's hideout where Sumaru and Natsuhi rest and recover.

Sumaru awakens, seeing his mother for the first time in ten years. Natsuhi awakens, confessing the reasons why she abandoned Sumaru. He tells Natsuhi to leave him alone, and says that he has these dreams where he cannot catch up with two figures, Sumaru's parents. Sumaru is upset by his mother's abandonment, and says that his mother would never do that. However, he is then in tears and forgives his mother. Sometime later, Sumaru awakens to find his mother's bed barren, and realises what she is about to do: to steal the star to prevent further use. The team of Naruto, Neji, Tenten, Lee, Hokuto, and Sumaru rush to stop Natsuhi, but they are too late; Sumaru's pendant breaks, indicating Natsuhi's death. Sumaru vows to avenge his mother's death, and flies to where Natsuhi's body lays. Akahoshi orders the training hall to be set with flames.

As this is going on, Sumaru realises why his mother abandoned him, and forgives her before the training hall is destroyed. It was revealed that Sumaru survived the blast by his mother's spirit. Sumaru, along with the other Hoshigakure genin, are healed by the Konohagakure medical ninja. Sumaru final vow is that he will become Hoshikage before Naruto, and will make his village the most powerful village that will exceed the Five Great Nations , even without the star's power.

## Trivia [ ]

- Written as 昴, Sumaru is the Japanese word for the Pleiades star cluster.