Kabuto Yakushi

**Kabuto Yakushi** is a cellular biologist and Chunnin level Ninja who was finding a cure for Naruto Uzumaki. Kabuto managed to engineer a temporary antidote for Naruto's condition, but was also forced to repeat this process with Zabuza Momochi, transforming him into a daemon. When he was affected by Naruto's blood on his head's open wound, his mind suffered a rapid mutation, greatly increasing his mental abilities. However, Akame arrived and subdued him, handing him into M.O.N.'s custody.

## Abilities

**Body Modifications:** From his extensive study of Orochimaru's various human test subjects, Kabuto alters his body to replicate certain others' trademark skills: he creates a version of Suigetsu Hōzuki's Hydrification Technique to escape capture by liquefying his body; he can reproduce Karin's natural Uzumaki-based rejuvenation to heal injuries he suffers; he can use Jūgo's kekkei genkai to passively absorb natural energy, allowing him to continuously use Sage Mode without assistance.While in Sage Mode, he can make further use of others' abilities through his "DNA" ability, granting him all the skill-sets of whoever he has genetic samples of. He does this with all of the Sound Five, giving him access to abilities such as Kimimaro's accelerated bone production and Kidōmaru's spiderweb-based bindings. By combining this "DNA" with Sakon and Ukon's body merging ability, he can manifest mindless clones of others from his navel, such as Orochimaru, whose own snake-like body Kabuto can use very similarly to his own.

**Ninjutsu:** Kabuto's natures include Earth, Water, and Wind, as well as Yin and Yang release. He can use Earth Release to travel underground and, with Jirōbō's DNA, upend the earth. He can also use Water Release without a nearby water source, able to create large water projectiles and water dragons. Kabuto can produce barriers to hide his location and make himself invisible.

**Medical Ninjutsu:** Kabuto was taught medical ninjutsu by Nonō Yakushi when he was young and immediately displayed a natural talent for it. He can heal most injuries without difficulty, even performing the ordinarily close-contact Mystical Palm Technique from a slight distance. He invents Yin Healing Wound Destruction as a way of keeping test subjects alive longer by preemptively healing damage they receive, but he can also use it on himself when he expects to be badly injured. He uses chakra scalpels quite extensively outside their intended surgical use, either to cut through defences or augment his physical strikes, severing muscles on contact in order to disable opponents.

Kabuto has an unprecedented knowledge of the human body, enough that, when his body's electrical signals are scrambled, he is able to quickly compensate and relearn how to control his limbs. For others, he can use his knowledge to create drugs to various effects, either as pain killers, hormones to enhance physical attributes, poisons to specifically neutralize a particular target's abilities or immunities, and truth serums to aid in interrogations. Kabuto has a unique affinity for corpses, able to reanimate them for use as allies in combat or decoys; in the case of the latter, he can quickly alter the corpse's appearance to look like someone else, which is so convincing that the alteration is only noticeable on close scrutiny. He in fact likes to keep a supply of variously-aged corpses with him at all times, which he stores in scrolls until he needs them.