Chōji Akimichi

**Chōji Akimichi** is a member and the 16th head of Konohagakure's Akimichi Clan, and a member of Team Asuma. He is also a member of the current generation's Ino-Shika-Cho.

## Physical Appearance

Chōji has spiky brown, waist-length hair, swirl marks on his cheeks, and like the rest of his clan, he has a more robust physique. Since his childhood, he has always been quite husky, which is a necessity in his clan to perform their techniques since they convert calories to chakra. Chōji also wears stud earrings that he got from his sensei.

Chōji wears a red suit with plated armor on his torso, arms, and upper legs, which is seemingly the standard attire for shinobi of the Akimichi clan. He also sports large wrist-guards, ankle-high black sandals, and a red cloth forehead protector. On the front of his chest armor is the obligatory kanji for "**food**".

## Personality

Chōji is a very kind, polite, and caring person. These characteristics are said to be his greatest strength by both his father Chōza and his former teacher Asuma Sarutobi while his greatest weakness was his lack of self-confidence.

He is easily motivated by the prospect of food, and becomes highly agitated when somebody calls him "fat" (he refers to himself as "big-boned" or "chubby"). However, he does not hide his love for food and his near constant hunger is also an annoyance to his team-mates, as eating often comes before other necessities such as stealth and teamwork. Food can also make him over-react about silly things, such as who gets the last chip, or when Akamaru tried to take his chips, and he refuses to let anyone else eat the last chip in the bag, even in battle-situation. Chōji also tends to eat a lot when he's angry. Since Part II of the *Naruto* series, however, his eating habits are more controlled and it no longer interferes with his duties as a shinobi.

Chōji has a long-lasting friendship with Shikamaru Nara. The two have complete trust in each other, with Shikamaru being one of the few people to look past Chōji's lack of athleticism, and see that he had a kind heart; recognizing Chōji's true strength. Because of this, Chōji has unwavering faith and loyalty to Shikamaru and, if necessary, would give his life for him, which nearly happened during his battle with Jirobo. Chōji also cares deeply for his mentor, Asuma, and had a difficult time in fighting him during the Fourth Shinobi War, due to not wanting to hurt his own teacher, even when Asuma called Chōji "fat" in an attempt to anger him.

## Abilities

**Akimichi Clan Techniques**: As an Akimichi, Chōji knows various secret techniques that allow him to expand body parts to several times their normal size, the most common of which is the Expansion Jutsu. He uses this to perform his Human Boulder attack, where he turns himself into a giant ball and attacks opponents by running them over, shouting "*roll*" repeatedly as he does. He can also add spikes to this attack to make it more damaging. In Part I, this was done by wrapping a chain of kunai around his body. He can also use the Partial Expansion Jutsu to expand his arms and legs as well as other body parts. After the time skip, Chōji's Spiky Human Boulder does not involve kunai wrapped around him, but instead involves a technique that hardens his hair into extremely sharp spikes that cover his body, similar to Jiraiya's Needle Jizo technique, after which Chōji spins rapidly. Also, Chōji no longer needs to take any pills to perform the Partial Expansion Jutsu.

* **Butterfly Choji Mode**: Chōji's most powerful technique which is a heightened transformation uniquely only to him.
* **Three Colored Pills Enhancement**: By consuming the Akimichi clan's Three Colored Pills to greatly increase his strength, speed, and stamina for a short time. These pills convert the body's fat reserves into chakra, and are considered a last resort, since they take a tremendous toll on the body. The last pill is said to increase the clan member's power 100 times more than normal, but known to be always fatal, although Chōji survived the effects, thanks to the Nara clan's medical book and Tsunade's medical expertise. The one consuming it loses most of their bodily fat, which is converted in an enormous amount of chakra, such that it manifests in two massive butterfly-like wings on the user's back.

**Nature Transformation**: Chōji has shown some skill with Earth Style nature transformation. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, after being taught the hand-seals by Kitsuchi, Chōji and the rest of the Allied Shinobi created several earth walls, in an attempt to slow down the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Bomb.

**Taijutsu Practitioner**: At the start of the *Naruto* series, Chōji's taijutsu was passable, and could be used to great effect with his clan's size-enhancing techniques to greatly increase the striking power of his blows.

* **Immense Strength**: Chōji's most pronounced ability is his tremendous physical strength, being the physically strongest member of the Hidden Leaf 11 (aside from Sakura). Shikamaru hinted at Chōji's raw power, but it wasn't until he broke them out of Jirobo's dome that the rest of Sasuke Retrieval Team believed him. Even without enlarging himself, Chōji has demonstrated a considerable increase of strength, able to hold back with brute force the reincarnated Jirobo without the aid of his clan's pills.
* **Immense Durability**:
* **Enhanced Speed**:

**Great Chakra Power**: As a member of the Akimichi Clan, Chōji boasts a great amount of chakra power.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Hidden Leaf 11
	+ Shikamaru Nara (Best friend and childhood classmate)
	+ Ino Yamanaka (Close friend and teammate)
	+ Naruto Uzumaki (Childhood classmate and best friend)
	+ Sakura Haruno
	+ Sai
	+ Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru
	+ Shino Aburame
	+ Hinata Hyūga
	+ Rock Lee
	+ Neji Hyūga
	+ Tenten
* Sasuke Uchiha
* Asuma Sarutobi (Sensei, Deceased)
* Kakashi Hatake
* Karui (Love interest)
* Yasutora Sado

### Enemies

* Ryuha Armament Alliance
* Madara Uchiha
* Obito Uchiha
* The Ten-Tails
* The Akatsuki
	+ Nagato/Pain
	+ Kakuzu
	+ Hidan
* Orochimaru
* Hidden Sound Village