Kurama

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   Named by the SageDebut Arc · Prologue

   A name, and a self

   Kurama is created when Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki divides the Ten-Tails' chakra into nine beasts. He does not make weapons — he gives each a name, Kurama among them, and a self to go with it.

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   Centuries as a monster

   Hunted and feared

   For centuries Kurama roams free as the strongest of the nine — and is treated, the whole time, as a mindless monster. No one asks what it is. They only try to catch it.

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   A weapon of war

   Chained and pointed

   Madara Uchiha controls Kurama with the Sharingan and turns it against Hashirama Senju. From then on the Nine-Tails is a thing to be sealed and aimed — a village's power, not a creature.

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   Hatred behind a cage

   Passed from host to host

   Kurama is sealed through three Uzumaki — Mito, then Kushina, then the newborn Naruto. Behind every seal it rages, its hatred of humans only hardening with each new cage.

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   Naruto breaks through

   Met, not used

   Naruto first overcomes Kurama's hatred by force, mastering its chakra. But the real change comes when he treats the Nine-Tails as a being with a name — something no human had ever done.

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   Partner, not prisoner

   The bond that saved a world

   When Kurama sees that Naruto knows its name, and means its freedom, the hatred finally breaks. The two become true partners — and fight, side by side, to save the world together.

Kurama is the strongest of the nine tailed beasts, and its power is measured in scale. Its chakra reserve is vast enough to flatten landscapes and overwhelm armies, and condensed into a single blast it becomes a Tailed Beast Ball. But Kurama's deepest power was always its will — the hatred or the trust behind the chakra, which decided whether that chakra burned its host or carried him.

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• Who is Kurama?+

  Kurama is the Nine-Tails, the strongest of the nine tailed beasts. Created by Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, it spent centuries feared as a monster before forming a true partnership with its final jinchūriki, Naruto Uzumaki.
• Who created Kurama?+

  Kurama was created by Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths. In his final days he used the Creation of All Things to split the Ten-Tails' chakra into nine separate beasts, giving each — including Kurama — a name.
• Who were Kurama's jinchūriki?+

  Kurama had three jinchūriki, all of the Uzumaki clan. Mito Uzumaki was the first, followed by Kushina Uzumaki, and finally Naruto Uzumaki — the only one to win the Nine-Tails' friendship rather than just its power.
• Why does Kurama hate humans?+

  For centuries Kurama was treated as a mindless monster and hunted as a tool of war. Controlled, sealed, and passed from host to host without ever being asked, it came to hate humans entirely — a hatred Naruto eventually broke through.
• How did Naruto and Kurama become friends?+

  Naruto first overcame Kurama's hatred by force, mastering its chakra. The true bond came later, when Naruto learned the names of all the tailed beasts and promised to free them — proof, to Kurama, that he saw it as a being, not a weapon.
• Has Kurama been a Narutodle answer?+

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

  Kurama's Tailed Beast attribute is the giveaway — a column hit only the nine beasts share. Its Village and Ninja Rank both read None, and it has no clan and no Kekkei Genkai.