Kurama/Earth-10

## Jutsu

* Fox Mode
* Tailed Beast Ball

**Kurama** (九喇嘛, *Kurama*), more commonly known as the **Nine-Tails** (九尾, *Kyūbi*) in her fox form, is one of the nine tailed beasts and a variant of the original Kurama. She spends most of her time disguised in a human form as both the shrine maiden of the Naka Shrine and the **Great Fox Sage** (大狐仙人, *Ōgitsune Sennin*) of Sōseijizan. Most residents of the Land of Storms are unaware of her true identity as their guardian deity.

## Background

Kurama was created a millennia ago by Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki when he split Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's Ten-Tails into the nine tailed beasts of his reality. She quickly became Tenshiki's favorite among the nine and he elected to keep her with him in the Land of Storms. In her identity as the Nine-Tails, legends told of how she and Ryun Uchiha, Tenshiki's original identity, fought along side one another in numerous battles to defend the land from its enemies. After Ryun's "death," she retreated to Sōseijizan where no one has seen her since. In reality, knowing her friend and creator was truly the Shogun and lived on, she took a human form and became the shrine maiden, as well as the Great Fox Sage, of Sōseijizan.

## Appearance

* Kurama.
* Kurama disguised as a human.
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Kurama is a massive pink kitsune with black fur around her eyes and up to her ears, purple eyes, and nine sweeping long tales. Her upper body structure is similar to that of a humans and her great paws feature opposable thumbs. In her youth, Kurama was much smaller, softer, and lighter pink. She also wore earrings on her large fox ears, a trait she carried over to her human form. Fully grown, Kurama towered over Sōseijizan. Her eyes alone are larger than any average human.

In her human form, Kurama is a tall, pale woman with purple eyes and long pink hair, parts of which are shaped like fox ears. She wears the large bejeweled earrings from her childhood on both ears and a white and red shrine maiden's outfit.

## Abilities

### Senjutsu

As a sage, Kurama can use Sage Mode by gathering natural energy and combining it with her tailed beast chakra. As a tailed beast herself, she can gather natural energy at a much faster rate than a normal human.

### Tailed Beast Forms

While Kurama can revert back to her Nine-Tails form with ease, she prefers not to do so. Instead, when she needs to use her tailed beast powers, she can project an avatar of her fox form made of her chakra. This form is as large and powerful as her tailed beast form, taking the appearance of a translucent pink chakra shroud in the shape of a nine-tailed fox. She refers to this Tailed Beast Mode as "Fox Mode" (狐モード, *Kitsune Mōdo*). This form allows her far greater versatility than her tailed beast form. For instance, she can partially manifest body parts from her fox avatar, such as the head to preform Tailed Beast Balls, or the tails for offensive purposes, without going into a full transformation (which she states greatly drains her chakra).

## Trivia

* Kurama's human form is a reference to Yae Miko and Yae Sakura, a character from *Genshin Impact* and *Honkai Impact 3rd* respectively. Miko herself is a kitsune in human form, while Sakura borrows elements of a kitsune design. Miko also manipulates Electro, an element that controls lightning and electricity in *Genshin*, explaining why this Kurama variant uses Lightning Release instead of the wind nature it has in the *Naruto* manga.