Asura Ōtsutsuki

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   In Indra's shadowDebut Arc · Ten-Tails Revival

   Gifted with nothing

   Asura grows up beside a brother gifted with everything. Where talent comes to Indra without effort, Asura is born with almost none — the lesser son, by every early measure.

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   The value of others

   Learning to lean, and be leaned on

   Without a prodigy's gift, Asura learns the thing Indra never does — how to depend on the people around him, and how to be someone they can depend on in turn.

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   Hard work awakens his power

   Strength, made not given

   Through sheer effort and refusal to quit, Asura awakens a power of his own. It is slower and harder-won than Indra's — and, because of that, entirely his.

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   Chosen as successor

   His way of thinking, chosen

   Hagoromo names Asura his successor. It is not for his strength but for his belief — that love and bonds are the key to peace — and Hagoromo's wish that the world adopt it.

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   The reluctant fight with Indra

   Against a brother he loved

   When Indra turns from their father's path toward power alone, Asura — who loves his brother and dreads the fight — feels he has no choice but to stand against him.

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   The will carried forward

   A belief that reincarnates

   Asura's conviction outlives him, passing through his reincarnations across the centuries — to Hashirama Senju, and at last to Naruto Uzumaki, who carries his belief in bonds.

Asura's power was the kind that has to be built. He was born without his brother's gift, and what he reached instead — Sage Mode, the Six Paths power of the Ōtsutsuki line — he reached through relentless effort and the strength of the people beside him. His real weapon was never a technique. It was a conviction: that bonds make a person stronger than talent ever could.

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• Who is Asura Ōtsutsuki?+

  Asura Ōtsutsuki was the younger son of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, and the ancestor of the Senju and Uzumaki clans. He was chosen as his father's successor, and is one half of a feud told across centuries.
• Is Asura the ancestor of the Senju?+

  Yes. Asura is credited as the progenitor of the Senju clan, and of the Uzumaki clan as well. His descendants — and the shinobi who carried his will — inherited his belief that strength comes from bonds with others.
• Why did Hagoromo choose Asura as successor?+

  Asura was born with almost no talent, but reached his power through hard work and by learning to depend on others. Hagoromo saw in that path the belief that love is the key to peace — and wanted the world to adopt Asura's way of thinking.
• Why did Asura fight Indra?+

  Asura loved his brother and was reluctant to fight him. But when Indra turned away from their father's teachings — choosing power over bonds — Asura felt he had no choice but to stand against him, for the sake of the path their father had chosen.
• Who are Asura's reincarnations?+

  Asura's chakra and will passed down through reincarnation. Hashirama Senju, the founder of Konohagakure, was an earlier incarnation, and Naruto Uzumaki is the modern inheritor of Asura's chakra and his belief in bonds.
• Has Asura Ōtsutsuki been a Narutodle answer?+

  Asura is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date he was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Asura in Narutodle?+

  Asura's Ōtsutsuki clan is a rare signal, and his Village and Ninja Rank both read None. His Attributes column pairs Six Paths Sage with Sage Mode, and his jutsu types include the uncommon Senjutsu.