Dendro

## Nature Type

 Earth Release
 Water Release

## Jutsu

* Flowering Cannon
* Photosynthesis Technique
* Regeneration Ability
* Wood Release: Cutting Technique
* Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees
* Wood Release: Tree Child Technique

**Dendro** (デンドロ, *Dendoro*) is one of the strange beasts and a juvenile Ten-Tails revered as the "god of Wood Release" (木遁の神, *Mokuton no kami*) by the Senju clan. The people of the Land of Dense Forests know it as a woods spirit that bestows the Wood Release kekkei genkai upon clans it deems worthy.

## Background

Dendro was one of two Ten-Tails seedlings brought to Earth by Kaguya and Isshiki Ōtsutsuki. One Ten-Tails was sealed within Ryun Uchiha. The other was left in the ruins left behind by the pair in the Land of Dense Forests. It was later discovered by Ryun, who had since become Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki, who applied a sealing formula to its body, preventing it from maturing into a full Ten-Tails. Over time, it gained a reputation as a powerful woodland spirit with the ability to manipulate wood. Thanks to its ability to freely give its chakra and power, it could bestow its wood manipulation powers upon those it deemed worthy. One such man was Hashirama Senju: a powerful shinobi who would train Hiruzen Sarutobi, the founder of Konohagakure.

## Appearance

* Dendro.
* Dendro displaying the bud of the God Tree on its shoulder.
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Dendro is a roughly humanoid wooden creature with bared teeth and tree branches growing out of its eye sockets. It is extremely muscular and has sharp nails on its hands and feet. It keeps the right side of its body under tight wrappings, preferring to fight with only its left side. However, when unveiled, its right half is revealed to play host to a budding God Tree.

Its body is also covered with a black sealing formula, applied by Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki, that prevents the God Tree seedling on its shoulder from ever fully producing a Ten-Tails. In its exile, Dendro has grown accustomed to wearing black pants over its lower extremities.

Tenshiki has commented that Dendro resembles a smaller Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from his original reality.

## Abilities

### Chakra and Physical Prowess

As a juvenile Ten-Tails, Dendro has gargantuan volumes of chakra. However, as it is not fully grown and cannot grow further due to the sealing formula onits body, it is not as strong as an ordinary Ten-Tails. Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki has gauged its chakra volume at around half that of an ordinary Ten-Tails. He elaborates by saying the creature is essentially as powerful as the One-Tail through Five-Tails combined. It is also similar to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Paths in that it can easily take in the chakra of the tailed beasts and store them within itself.

Another similarity it shares with the Statue is its sizeable life energy. Because of this energy, it has a stellar regeneration ability that allows it to heal itself from greivous energy without weaving signs. While this power is not tied to its Wood Release, those that recieve Wood Release from Dendro also obtain its regenerative powers, as do those who incorperate the cells of people Dendro has bestowed with its power.

### Ninjutsu

#### Nature Transformations

Dendro is the progenitor of the Wood Release kekkei genkai. Thanks to its ability, as a Ten-Tails seedling, to freely transfer its power, it can bestow worthy humans with the innate power to use Wood Release. However, kekkei genkai bestowed this way are not transmitable through bloodlines. For example, none of Hashirama Senju's descendants manifested Wood Release. Despite this, the ability remains deeply entwined with its host's genetics meaning that their cells still contain the power of Wood Release.

The creature can also combine earth and water chakra natures to create wood on its own. This wood can either be produced from the ground or made out of its own barklike body. It can also manipulate pre-existing wood, such as the roots below ground. These simple uses all fall under the blanket abilities of the "Wood Release Technique" (木遁の術, *Mokuton no Jutsu*).

In its world, Dendro was the inventor of the Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees. Legend has it that it used this technique to terraform the land that would become the Land of Dense Forests into its present state. The jutsu allows Dendro to transform entire terrains into dense forests that are connected to it through its immense chakra. According to Hikaru Kurosaki, the leader of Mushin, an organization which considers Dendro one of its targets, Dendro's Nativity of a World of Trees makes Hashirama Senju's use of the technique look like a child playing with blocks by comparison. Unsurprisingly, this makes it the most powerful Wood Release user in the world.

### Dōjutsu

#### Rinne Sharingan

As a juvenile Ten-Tails, Dendro has a Rinne Sharingan concealed within the God Tree flower on its shoulder. Thanks to the sealing formula Tenshiki Ōtsutsuki applied to the creature's body, the eye lacks the power to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi. Due to its location, it has no use as a dōjutsu and mostly remains inactive. However, in a pinch, Dendro can open up the flower and gather chakra in front of the eye to use Flowering Cannon: a highly explosive technique and its replacement for the Tailed Beast Ball.

## Trivia

* Dendro's name is a reference to the Dendro element in the Chinese gacha *Genshin Impact*. The Dendro element manipulates planet life, such as trees or mushrooms.
* Dendro being a juvenile Ten-Tails is a reference to the humanoid clones the Ten-Tails produced during the Fourth Shinobi World War in the original *Naruto* timeline.