Matatabi

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   Born of the Ten-TailsDebut Arc · Twelve Guardian Ninja

   Named by the Sage

   Matatabi comes into being when Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki splits the Ten-Tails into nine beasts. Like its siblings, it is given a name and a self of its own.

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   The blue-flame cat

   A creature of living fire

   Matatabi takes the shape of a great cat, its body wreathed entirely in cobalt-blue and black flame — and it carries itself with a courtesy the other tailed beasts rarely show.

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   Sealed into Yugito

   A jinchūriki raised with it

   Kumogakure seals Matatabi into Yugito Nii when she is only two years old. She is raised and trained to carry it — and the bond between beast and host settles, more steadily than most.

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   Taken by the Akatsuki

   Torn from its host

   The Akatsuki come for the Two-Tails. Hidan and Kakuzu defeat Yugito; though she transforms into Matatabi itself, she is overpowered, and the beast is torn from her.

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   Held in the statue

   Sealed in the Outer Path

   Matatabi is sealed into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path — the Akatsuki's vessel, where the captured tailed beasts were gathered one by one.

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   Freed at last

   Out of the cycle of capture

   At the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War, Matatabi is freed — released, at last, from the long cycle of being sealed, used, and taken.

Matatabi fights as a creature of fire — its whole body is flame, and Fire Release is its element. Like all nine tailed beasts it holds an enormous reserve of chakra, which it can lend to others, and it can condense that chakra into a Tailed Beast Ball. What sets it apart is less a technique than a temperament: a courteous, formal mind, where its siblings run to rage.

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• Who is Matatabi?+

  Matatabi is the Two-Tails, one of the nine tailed beasts. A great cat wrapped entirely in blue flame, it was last sealed within Yugito Nii of Kumogakure.
• What does Matatabi look like?+

  Matatabi takes the form of a nekomata — a two-tailed monster cat — and its entire body is wreathed in living cobalt-blue and black flame. It has heterochromatic eyes, one yellow and one green.
• Who was Matatabi's jinchūriki?+

  Matatabi's jinchūriki was Yugito Nii of Kumogakure. She was sealed with the Two-Tails at the age of two, and trained for years to master its power.
• Is Matatabi polite?+

  Yes — unusually so. Compared with the other tailed beasts, Matatabi is respectful and courteous, speaking formally and even using honorifics, a manner that sets it apart from its fiercer siblings.
• What happened to Matatabi?+

  Matatabi was captured by the Akatsuki after Hidan and Kakuzu defeated its jinchūriki Yugito. It was sealed into the Demonic Statue, and freed only at the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Has Matatabi been a Narutodle answer?+

  Matatabi 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 Matatabi in Narutodle?+

  Matatabi's Tailed Beast attribute is the giveaway — a column hit only the nine beasts share. Its Village and Ninja Rank both read None, and its Nature column holds only Fire.