Killer B

1. 1
   The Cloud's jinchūriki

   Sealed young, alone early

   B is made the jinchūriki of the Eight-Tails as a child, and lives the hard early years that came with the role — the suspicion, the distance, the weight no one else could share.

2. 2
   Brothers with A

   Named, and not alone

   B turns out to be the one child strong enough to fight at A's side. A names him B and calls him brother — and from then on, B has someone, which changes everything for him.

3. 3
   The perfect partnership

   He befriends his beast

   B does what no jinchūriki before him managed — he stops fighting the Eight-Tails and befriends it. Gyūki gives him its full cooperation, and the two become a single, willing team.

4. 4
   The rapping swordsmanDebut Arc · Five Kage Summit

   The magnificent B

   B grows into Kumogakure's most eccentric jōnin — rhyming through every conversation, fighting with seven blades in the wild Seven Swords Dance, beloved and impossible to predict.

5. 5
   Mentor to Naruto

   Teaching the next jinchūriki

   On the Island Turtle, B takes Naruto Uzumaki in hand and teaches him how to face a tailed beast. B's own friendship with Gyūki is the model Naruto follows with the Nine-Tails.

6. 6
   The war

   One of the alliance's strongest

   Through the Fourth Shinobi World War, B and Gyūki fight as one — a jinchūriki and his beast standing among the strongest the Allied Shinobi Forces can field.

Killer B fights as a partnership where every other jinchūriki fought a war with themselves. His full, willing bond with Gyūki lets him take the Eight-Tails' form at will, the two acting as one mind. On his own, B is already a monster of raw strength and a swordsman with no equal at his own strange craft — the Seven Swords Dance, seven blades moving in a pattern no opponent has ever quite read.

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• Who is Killer B?+

  Killer B is a shinobi of Kumogakure and the jinchūriki of the Eight-Tails, Gyūki. The adopted brother of the Fourth Raikage, he is famed as the first jinchūriki ever to fully befriend and cooperate with his tailed beast.
• What tailed beast is inside Killer B?+

  Killer B is the jinchūriki of Gyūki, the Eight-Tails — an ox-like beast with horns and tentacle tails, regarded as one of the strongest of the nine. B and Gyūki share a willing, equal partnership rather than a struggle.
• What is the Seven Swords Dance?+

  The Seven Swords Dance is Killer B's unique kenjutsu style. He wields seven swords at once, held in unusual grips across his body, in a wild and unpredictable pattern that is extremely difficult for an opponent to read.
• Did Killer B train Naruto?+

  Yes. On the Island Turtle, Killer B mentored Naruto Uzumaki in how to face and master a tailed beast. B's own perfect partnership with Gyūki was the model Naruto followed in winning over the Nine-Tails.
• Why does Killer B rap?+

  Rapping is Killer B's great passion outside of being a shinobi. He speaks in rhymes constantly, using it as self-expression, as a way to process his feelings, and as a steady source of his confidence and good humour.
• Has Killer B been a Narutodle answer?+

  Killer B 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 Killer B in Narutodle?+

  Killer B's Jinchūriki attribute is the standout signal — only a short list of characters carry it. His Kumogakure village narrows the board further, and his Nature column holds only Lightning.