Kinkaku

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   The Gold BrotherDebut Arc · Fourth Shinobi World War

   Elder of the infamous pair

   Kinkaku is the Gold to his brother's Silver, the elder of a duo whose name carried weight in the Hidden Cloud generations before the main story. Together the two were a force the village struggled to contain.

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   Two weeks in the fox

   Eating a tailed beast alive

   Swallowed whole by the Nine-Tails, the brothers spent two weeks inside its stomach and survived by eating its flesh. They emerged alive, carrying a share of the fox's chakra in their own bodies.

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   The Sage's Treasured Tools

   Relics few can hold

   Kinkaku and Ginkaku wield the five Treasured Tools tied to the Sage of Six Paths. The relics are so draining that an ordinary ninja who touches one is emptied of chakra in seconds — but the brothers have chakra to spare.

4. 4
   Rogues of the Cloud

   Turning on their village

   For all their power, the brothers were never loyal. They turned against the Hidden Cloud, becoming rogues whose ambition outran any allegiance to the village that raised them.

5. 5
   War, and the gourd

   The beast unleashed

   Reincarnated for the Fourth Shinobi World War, the pair fight again. When Ginkaku is sealed away in the Crimson Gourd, Kinkaku gives in to the fox chakra and swells into a primitive beast-cloak form.

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   Sealed away

   Trapped at last

   Even the beast-cloak is not enough. The Allied sealing team turns the brothers' own treasured tools against him and traps Kinkaku, ending the threat of the Gold and Silver Brothers for good.

Kinkaku's power comes from two sources most ninja never touch: the Nine-Tails' chakra in his body and the Sage of Six Paths' Treasured Tools in his hands. The first gives him a vast reserve and a beast-cloak; the second gives the brothers a sealing trap almost no one escapes. Backed by Fire and Water nature, he fights to overwhelm.

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• Who is Kinkaku?+

  Kinkaku is the elder of the Gold and Silver Brothers, rogue ninja of the Hidden Cloud. He and his brother Ginkaku gained the Nine-Tails' chakra by surviving inside the beast, and wielded the Sage of Six Paths' Treasured Tools.
• How did Kinkaku get the Nine-Tails' chakra?+

  As boys, Kinkaku and Ginkaku were swallowed by the Nine-Tails and survived two weeks in its stomach by eating its flesh. They came out alive, each carrying a portion of the fox's chakra in their own bodies.
• What are the Treasured Tools?+

  The Treasured Tools are five relics tied to the Sage of Six Paths, including the Banana Palm Fan, the Amber Purifying Pot, and the Crimson Gourd. They drain an ordinary ninja's chakra in seconds, but the brothers had the reserves to use them.
• Who are Kinkaku and Ginkaku?+

  They are the Gold and Silver Brothers, a pair of Hidden Cloud rogues. Kinkaku is the Gold Brother and the elder; Ginkaku is the Silver. Both were reincarnated by Kabuto to fight in the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• How was Kinkaku defeated?+

  After Ginkaku was sealed in the Crimson Gourd, Kinkaku unleashed a beast-cloak form from the fox chakra. The Allied sealing team turned the brothers' own treasured tools against him and trapped him.
• Has Kinkaku been a Narutodle answer?+

  Kinkaku 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 Kinkaku in Narutodle?+

  Kinkaku reads Kumo village and Rogue rank with no clan. His standout tell is the Edo Tensei + Jinchūriki attribute pair, and his Fire + Water natures separate him from his brother Ginkaku's Lightning + Water.