Amado Sanzu

**Amado Sanzu** (三途アマド, *Sanzu Amado*) is a former Inner from the organisation Kara and was the head of its research and development division. He has since defected to Konohagakure, where he used a mix of bluffs and gifts to gain official citizenship for the Seventh Hokage's protection.

## Background

Amado's daughter Akebi died of an unknown disease twelve years prior to Isshiki Ōtsutsuki's assault on Konoha. Despite this, Amado wasn't discouraged, believing he could resurrect Akebi by cloning her and transferring her memories into her into a new body by preserving her brain, rather than try to develop a cure for her disease. However, Amado's hopes were crushed as her daughter's clones, later named Delta, despite having the same appearance and memories as Akebi, were completely different individuals. Amado tried to recreate Akebi's personality multiple times, but failed to do so and finally broke down, realising his daughter was gone for good. It was then when Jigen approached Amado, promising to bring his daughter back to life if Amado aided him with his plans, Amado accepting it immediately.

During his time in Kara, he became an Inner and served as the head of its research and development division, used Scientific Ninja Tools to augment the various members. He also analysed the remains of Shibai Ōtsutsuki, transplanting his DNA to imprint his abilities onto other Kara members. Eventually, he learned a lot about the Ōtsutsuki Clan, discovering Isshiki's true motive which would destroy all life on the planet, making Akebi's resurrection moot. He switched his focus to destroying Isshiki, but didn't give up on resurrecting Akebi, having realised that Kāma resurrection was able to accomplish the restoration of personality he failed at. He even created cyborgs that exceeded Jigen's power, Ada and Daemon, but the latter quickly ordered them to be eliminated. Amado imbued Ada with the Senrigan and made her become irresistibly attractive to anyone who saw her except blood relatives or the Ōtsutsuki Clan. He also imbued Daemon with the ability to instantly turn an opponent's attack against him. Ada's entrancing ability prevented Boro from getting rid of her and her brother as ordered, and Ada came to hate Amado for taking the ability to be genuinely loved from her. At some point after this, Amado came up with an alternate scheme against Isshiki when he acquired genetic information of Jiraiya, and used it to create a clone, Koji Kashin, who became his secret ally in their goal of killing Isshiki through his vessel Jigen. During his time within the organisation, Amado has gained complete knowledge of Kara and the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Because of this, Jigen had forbidden him to ever leave headquarters; to do so would amount to treason that could well result in Amado's execution.

Amado would assist Jigen on transferring a Kāma into various children as their vessel. As the project continued to show no progress as one child after another died, Amado suggested they change methods for their goal, Jigen reminded him that they have neither the time nor a viable alternative. After they lost thirteen more children, Kawaki and Code were the only survivors, and though Code failed to become a vessel and instead attained the White Kāma, while Kawaki successfully became a proper vessel. Amado modified Kawaki extensively with Shinobi-Ware, but did not put in an emergency shutdown command, as Jigen forbade the latter on his precious vessel. In the anime, Amado began secretly microdosing Kawaki with a drug he developed to weaken the Byakugan, which resulted in his Kāma development being slowed down.

Despite the latter child's failure, Code's White Kāma granted him might well-beyond that of Jigen. While normally Amado would be required to destroy Code, his unique unwavering and fanatical devotion to Isshiki spared him from demise, instead having Amado place various limiters on Code.

In the anime, Amado witnessed Kawaki being confronted by Garō, where Kawaki unconsciously activated his Kāma and blasted Garō. When his research on the human heart hit a dead end, he augmented Ōga's brain so she could aid him, but her attempt to study Jigen's heart was considered treason, and she fled after Jigen gave her brain damage.

## Personality

Amado is a very stoic and detached individual. He is very blunt with his views, willing to speak his mind despite what others think of him. He is a regular smoker (in the anime, he is seen enjoying a regular coffee). While speaking very respectfully, like Jigen, he appears to care little for the lives of others in pursuit of their goals. At the same time, he apparently prefers to not to sacrifice lives unnecessarily and is more realistic, as when a project shows no improvement after a certain period of time, he believes that it should be abandoned for an alternative one. Much of this stems from a broken heart at losing his daughter and failing to help her. With his failed attempt to recreate his daughter Akebi in Delta, he sees her violent and destructive tendencies as annoying, berating her for needlessly kicking open the lid of her spare body's containment unit. He did, however, look at her solemnly and longingly when Jigen mentioned that every member of Kara's wish would be granted, apparently still seeing Delta as his daughter in some level.

Very composed by nature, he almost never loses his calm. Even when technically taken prisoner by Konohagakure, Amado remained undeterred, having established a variety of factors to maintain leverage in succeeding in his goals, showing a very methodical and intuitive nature. He is also very business-minded, as even while he apologised for his actions, holding Shikadai hostage with an explosive collar, unwilling to waste time or remove the collar before completing negotiations. He is shown to be very manipulative, able to use simple baiting and mind games to accomplish his goals. In order to secure his position, Amado will create problems to which only he can offer a solution. He views himself as one who plays the odds, taking advantage of the situation to the best of his ability. He openly admits he is not a man of indomitable will, unable to endure torture well, and is capable of showing fear despite his otherwise calm demeanour. When placed at Code's mercy, he quickly begged for his life, stating he sees no value in pride when dealing with survival. .

Originally, like other members of Kara, Amado's loyalty to the organisation was purely due to self-interest, expecting Isshiki to revive his daughter Akebi as part of their deal. However, upon realising that Isshiki's plan would result in the destruction of the entire planet, and having possible doubts that he would even keep his promise, Amado reneged on his part, and conspired with Koji, intending to eliminate Jigen. Seeing no reason to have his daughter back if there is no planet to live on, Amado became determined to do away with the entire Ōtsutsuki clan. Viewing their actions throughout history as vile and parasitic, he even risked his life to defect to Konoha and offered all of his intel on Kara, Jigen, the Ōtsutsuki, and their Ten-Tails.

Even after allying, Amado remained a schemer, reapplying a Kāma to Kawaki without anyone's knowledge or approval, as well as an emergency shutdown command. Due to his goal in getting his daughter back, he intends to have Kawaki apply a Kāma with Akebi's data in hopes of finally bring her back, and considers it a personal matter, willing do anything to get his daughter back. He took advantage of Kawaki's desire for power to manipulate him into wanting a Kāma back, playing on his desire to protect Naruto, having already secretly reapplied it so Kawaki's desire could reactivate it.

According to Isshiki, Amado looked up to Jiraiya as a man who bore mighty fate, and his desire to cling onto that fate was the reason he cloned the late Sannin to create Koji . Per Isshiki's declaration that all beings have their fates determined by their genes, Amado may also share this belief, hence his choice to create another Jiraiya.

Amado is also known to have a twisted sense of humour. One instance was when he joked about how killing Kawaki was one option to prevent Isshiki from reviving, even though he already made sure that would not be necessary. He also smirked when Shikamaru demanded the bomb around Shikadai's neck be disarmed before revealing that it was a fake. In the anime, despite his dubious methods of joining Konoha, he openly feels indebted to the village for taking him in, quickly rejecting a lucrative bribe to defect to another village. He also acknowledges Konoha as it views science as a tool to promote growth, not a source of power.