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Tailed Beasts

The Tailed Beasts (尾獣, Bijū) are nine giant concentrations of Chakra that serve to drive the plot of the Naruto series. They were all originally part of the Ten-Tails' chakra before Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki absorbed and splits some of the energy into nine constructs. Though referred to by the number of their tails, the Sage gave them proper names out of respect: Shukaku (守鶴) the wild one-tailed tanuki; Matatabi (又旅) the polite two-tailed cat; Isobu (磯撫) the shy three-tailed turtle; Son Gokū (孫悟空) the prideful four-tailed ape; Kokuō (穆王) the reserved five-tailed dolphin-horse; Saiken (犀犬) the boastful six-tailed slug; Chōmei (重明) the cheery seven-tailed rhinoceros beetle; Gyūki (牛鬼) the berserker eight-tailed octopus-ox; and Kurama (九喇嘛) the cynical nine-tailed fox. The beasts are told by Hagoromo of a certain person and that one day they would be joined back to their original form while understanding true power. In time, as their immense strength can be tempered by Jinchuriki, the Tailed Beasts end up being used as weapons by the ninja villages. With the exception of Gyuki, though they benefited from the knowledge of their hosts and better utilize their powers, the other Tailed Beasts despised the humans for their actions and being seen by them as nothing more than tools. Only Kurama evaded capture until the founding of Konohagakure, in which Madara Uchiha controlled it during his battle with Hashirama Senju and was sealed within Hashirama's wife Mito Uzumaki, eventually winding up to Naruto Uzumaki.

Despite hating this forced symbiosis with their jinchuriki, Tailed Beasts tend to be protective of their hosts to the point of taking over their hosts' bodies if needed to. Even some Jinchuriki are able to speak to their tailed beasts like equals, allowing a mutual and strong relationship where the Jinchuriki is allowed to use a tailed beast's power while still maintaining his sense of self.

Throughout part II of the series, under Madara's instructions, Obito uses the Akatsuki to capture the current Jinchuriki to have the Tailed Beasts sealed within the Gedo Statue, the Ten-Tails's body to enact the Eye of the Moon plan to subjugate the Ninja World. Eventually, only Kurama and Gyuki remain to be captured after the five Kage's refusal to hand their hosts, Naruto and Killer Bee respectively, to Obito, leading to the Fourth Great Ninja War. During the war, with the help of Kabuto, Obito reanimates the former hosts as his personal Six Paths of Pain and seals the Tailed Beasts back within them in an attempt to capture Naruto and Killer Bee, though Naruto's determination to save the Tailed Beasts surprises and amazes them as Kurama realizes that he must be the person that the Sage told them long ago.

Agreeing with Kurama, Matatabi, Isobu, Son Gokū, Kokuō, Saiken, and Chōmei each give Naruto a bit of their chakra before being sealed back in the Gedo Statue as Obito decides to revive Ten-Tails by adding Gyūki's tentacle, and parts of Kurama's chakra stored in Kinkaku and Ginkaku. Despite this turn of events, Naruto's determination allows him and his allies to free the captive Tailed Beasts from the Ten-Tails before all nine are captured by Madara and sealed back into the Gedo Statue as Black Zetsu eventually restores it into Kaguya. However, having Yin Kuruma and bits of Shukaku and Gyūki transferred into his body, Naruto learns that all nine tailed beasts are within him as they decide the time that the Sage foretold had come. While despite their attempt to erupt from Kaguya's body in a hare-like form, the tailed beasts are freed once Naruto and Sasuke manage to seal her. Despite a brief imprisonment within Chibaku Tensei-based satellites by Sasuke as part of his own agenda to change the world before being defeated by Naruto, whose body will serve as a meeting ground through the fragments of their chakra lingering in him, the tailed beasts go their separate ways while Gyuki returns to Killer Bee and Kurama to Naruto while absorbing his yin half to become whole again. In the Boruto series, the Tailed Beasts are targeted by Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki who seeks to cultivate a new Chakra-Fruit to extend his life.