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**Kurama** (*九喇嘛, Kurama*), more commonly known as the **Nine-Tails** (*九尾, Kyūbi*), is one of the nine tailed beasts. While initially the target of Hantai Uzumaki, who sought to become Kurama's Jinchūriki and turn the tide of the Third Shinobi World War in the favor of Kirigakure, he is currently sealed into Kaito Hiroki.

## Background

Kurama first came into being in the waning days of the Sage of the Six Paths, who used his Creation of All Things ability to separate the Ten-Tails' chakra from its body and divide it into nine separate constructs that would come to be known as tailed beasts in order to ensure that it would never resurface after his death. Some time after being created, the Sage sat down with all the young tailed beasts and told them that they would always be together, even when separated, and that one day they would become one entity again with different names and forms than they did. Then, when the time came, they would know what true power is. Over the centuries, Kurama has gained a reputation as an age-old natural disaster, appearing suddenly out of nowhere to attack areas that have been breeding grounds for the darkest aspects of human nature.

At one point during the time of the formation of the shinobi villages, in an effort to keep Kurama at bay, he was sealed within a clan member of the Uzumaki Clan of Uzushiogakure. Despite not being members of Konohagakure, the Uzumaki Clan had strong ties with Konoha, and their strong life forces made them ideal Jinchūriki. Kurama would be sealed twice more, again into Uzumaki clansmen, before being sealed deep beneath Konoha, through an intricate containment seal, until a new Jinchūriki could be found.

Before Konoha could officially find a new Jinchūriki, the Third Shinobi World War began, and Hantai Uzumaki, one of the remaining Uzumaki Clansmen who had survived the purge of the clan, came to Konoha seeking Kurama. Her ally, Shippū Uzumaki, made an effort to restrain Kurama with chakra chains. In a large skirmish, Kurama narrowly avoided being sealed inside Hantai through the timely intervention of Kaito Hiroki, who intercepted the seal, and inadvertently made himself Kurama's new Jinchūriki.

## Personality

Kurama is sadistic, cunning, and sarcastic, but it does have a distinct sense of honor and pride, and possesses a loathing respect for Kaito. At first, Kurama wanted to kill Kaito, but it soon realized that it shares the same fate as Kaito as long as it is sealed within him; so it has no choice but to cooperate with Kaito or it will die along with him. It will go to great lengths to preserve its own life, as shown when it forces its chakra into Kaito whenever his life is in danger. Kurama would actually become angry and contemptuous at Kaito in the past if he ever rejected its chakra, although this was merely the rage of missing the opportunity to usurp control over Kaito's mind and body, which would have weakened the seal.

Kurama has a deep hatred for the Uchiha clan and their Sharingan, Most likely because of the many times Madara manipulated it in the past.

The personality of Kurama drastically changes after he is tamed by Kaito at the Falls of Truth. Kaito and the Nine-Tails appear to be able to speak to each other in a much more relaxed state than before. For example, when Kaito had a conversation with Kurama, the latter was in a cage created from trees, and a special barrier seal placed around the cage to keep it from taking over Kaito's body. As Kaito is one of the few people who has ever had total control over Kurama (via his Falls of Truth training), he and the Nine-Tails can talk without such restraints, and they have a mutual respect for each other.

## Appearance

Although Kurama is a kitsune with dark fur and red eyes, it possesses the upper-body structure of a human, complete with opposable thumbs on its clawed hands. Out of all the tailed beasts, Kurama's form most closely relates to the Ten-Tails'. During the last remaining days of the Sage of the Six Paths, Kurama was a young kitsune much smaller that its present-day self, albeit still many times larger than the Sage. As time passed, Kurama's size increased exponentially to be around the same size, if not taller, as the Hokage Monument. When Kaito separated Kurama from its chakra, its entire physique became visibly emaciated, but it later regained its healthy look after consuming a certain amount of Kaito's chakra while he was using its own.

## Abilities

### Activity Inside Kaito

*Main article: Kaito Hiroki's Jinchūriki Forms*