Kisame

Biodata

Background and History

Kisame fights alongside Itachi against Natsu Yuu, whose Rinnegan absorbs his Water Release attacks. When Itachi is incapacitated, Kisame prepares to merge with Samehada and hold Natsu Yuu off so Itachi can escape. Itachi stops him and surrenders instead 64 65.

During a later mission in Konoha, Kisame helps Itachi fight Danzō and Root. Danzō kills Kisame with an ambush, but Itachi uses Izanagi to reverse his death. Kisame remains immobilized by Danzō’s curse until Itachi moves him out of reach 165 166 167 168.

Kisame is subsequently exposed as having been assigned to monitor Itachi for the Moon Eye Plan. After Natsu Yuu challenges the plan’s promise of peace, Kisame agrees to help Itachi work against Akatsuki from within. During the Shinobi Alliance battle, he reveals his allegiance by taking the captive Naruto from Nagato and delivering him to Orochimaru 177 178 287.

In a later confrontation involving Obito and Nagato, Kisame survives Pain’s destruction of his water prison and Konan’s explosive-tag trap, though the latter costs him his left arm. Nagato then sends him back to Black Zetsu as a double agent. Kisame deceives Zetsu with an account mixing true details of Obito’s defeat with a false story of his own escape, then helps trap Black and White Zetsu for Itachi to seal 519 520 522 526 529 550 551.

Appearance

Kisame has a shark-like appearance, carries Samehada, and can take on a merman-like form by merging with the sword 65 66 167.

• Loses his left arm in Konan’s explosive-tag attack; Samehada helps stabilize his other injuries 522.
• Continues carrying Samehada after the loss of his arm 526.

Personality

Kisame is protective of Itachi and values their friendship despite learning that Itachi, too, had been operating as a spy. He is troubled when his own surveillance of Itachi is exposed, but later accepts another undercover assignment from Nagato 65 177 526.

He objects to slaughtering civilian prisoners, yet remains willing to fight opposing shinobi. In combat, he adapts quickly: he uses ineffective-looking attacks to cover a retreat, avoids fighting Pain head-on, and calls for help when Might Guy’s taijutsu decisively counters him 64 248 519 609.

Abilities and Skills

Water Release

• Water Shark Bomb and shark volleys — Fires a shark-shaped water projectile or disperses multiple sharks into a dense rain of smaller water bombs. Chakra absorption can neutralize these attacks 64.
• Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave — Produces enough water to submerge a battlefield and form a vast water prison. He uses it to weaken Danzō’s Wind Release and later to delay Pain, Obito, and Konan 167 519.
• Water clones and Water Prison Technique — Uses clones as decoys and traps Black and White Zetsu inside a water sphere 519 550.
• Great Shark Bullet — Counters Might Guy’s Daytime Tiger with it, but loses the exchange in Konoha, where no large body of water is available to strengthen his Water Release 609.

Samehada and Close Combat

• Samehada serves as both his greatsword and a means of merging into a faster, more mobile merman form underwater 65 167.
• He defeats Root fighters with the sword and repeatedly wounds Danzō, though Danzō’s Izanagi rewrites the damage 165 166.
• Samehada absorbs chakra to help repair Kisame’s wounds after Konan’s explosive-tag attack; it cannot immediately restore his severed arm 522.

Earth Release and Resistance

• Subterranean Voyage lets him move underground for concealment or rapid repositioning 177 287.
• He resists Madara’s genjutsu through willpower for a time, but Madara ultimately forces him to disclose his mission 177.

Equipment and Items

• Samehada — Kisame’s greatsword, used for melee combat, fusion, and chakra-assisted recovery 65 167 522.

Relationships

• Itachi Uchiha — Partner and close friend. Each acts to save the other; Itachi later asks Kisame to look after Sasuke if they meet 65 168 526.
• Nagato / Pain — Akatsuki leader. Kisame fights Pain while aiding Obito, then accepts Nagato’s mission to infiltrate Black Zetsu’s side 519 526.
• Obito Uchiha — Trusts Kisame and calls on him for help against Pain; Kisame later uses that trust in his cover story to Black Zetsu 519 529.
• Black Zetsu — Target of Kisame’s undercover work and Water Prison ambush 526 529 550.
• Danzō Shimura — Opponent who ambushes and kills Kisame before Itachi reverses the death 168.