Kakuzu

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Kakuzu
Alias(es)	Black-Masked Miser; Black-Faced Buckle Ghost; “White Wolf” and “Ormo” during covert operations; Money Is Life online 92 139 140 199 274
Gender	Male 47
Affiliation	Formerly Takigakure’s Assassination Squad; later Konoha and the Love Kidney Company; participates in Dave’s Akatsuki operations 47 62 91 415
Occupation/Role	Finance manager, head of the Game Technology Department, merchant, lender, debt collector, bounty hunter, and Olympics organizer/referee 91 199 223 243 322 391 568
Family	Nan Xue, his domestic partner; Kimima, his son; Konan, his daughter; Hidan, his adopted son 262 315 393 413
Status	Alive; remains active in financial collections in the later supplied chapters 587 593
First Appearance	Chapter 47, “A Shuriken from Eight Hundred Li Away” 47

Power Progression

The documented milestones concern techniques, equipment, and demonstrated power rather than named cultivation realms.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Water Release fighter	47	Uses Water Release: Great Barrage against Madara. This initial showing ends in a decisive defeat.
Earth Grudge Fear and five hearts	55	First confirmed to possess five hearts. Might Wei destroys four, leaving him with only one remaining life. The acquisition of the technique is not shown.
Multi-element masked constructs	92	Deploys five masked thread figures against Reto, including water, fire, lightning, and a combined wind-and-fire attack.
Thread-carried modern arsenal	265	Reveals numerous independently held grenades, rocket launchers, rifles, and artillery shells emerging from his back.
Modified Ten Elite Puppets	275	With Orochiroku’s help, converts acquired puppets into an armed squad and a diamond-armored mech incorporating his five masks and their ninjutsu.
Puppet–heart combat fusion	316	Combines the Ten Elite Puppets and Five Mask Men into a machinery-and-thread construct with a meter-wide cannon; defeats Hanzō.
Internal communications station	459	Reveals a miniature signal station implanted beneath his organs, powered by a lightning-associated heart.
Power threatening Madara	469	Releases a black pillar with an annihilating presence after an extortion attempt. Madara explicitly says that Kakuzu’s strength now makes him feel threatened.

Background / History

Takigakure assassin and defection

Takigakure sends Kakuzu to assassinate Hashirama while the Hokage travels to the Five Kage Summit. The mission’s intelligence fails to mention Madara and Tobirama accompanying him. Realizing the mismatch, Kakuzu attempts to retreat, but Madara intercepts and defeats him 47.

Hashirama releases Kakuzu over Tobirama’s objections. He understands that Takigakure’s Assassination Squad rewards successful operatives but subjects failures to stigma and severe punishment, despite their willingness to risk their lives. Dave subsequently offers Kakuzu somewhere to turn in Konoha if he loses faith in his village; Kakuzu initially insists that he would never betray Takigakure 47.

Kakuzu nevertheless defects and reaches Dave’s Phone Shop within days. His arrival is much earlier than Dave expected, but the exact events of his departure are not shown. After threatening Aunt Cai, he is beaten by Might Wei and loses four of his five hearts. Dave then recruits him through a mixture of bargaining and threats, securing a 40/60 profit-sharing agreement without the supplied account specifying which party receives each share 55.

Settlement in Konoha

Dave prepares an explanation for Kakuzu’s presence: he failed his assassination mission, defected, and came to Konoha to earn a living under its famously accepting Hokage. Hashirama welcomes him. Tobirama, Madara, and Izuna tolerate the arrangement because they believe any one of them could stop Kakuzu if he caused trouble 62.

Kakuzu begins working at the internet café, then becomes the Love Kidney Company’s finance manager and its principal business negotiator. Dave entrusts him with protecting the company’s technology and commercial interests, including negotiations with Sasuke Sarutobi and the Fire Daimyo 62 91 94.

Family life

Kakuzu finds an unattended crying baby at a dango shop and brings him to the internet café. The child quiets when offered silver, leading the others to mistake his attraction to money for a preference for Kakuzu. Later identified as Kaguya Kimima, he remains in Kakuzu’s care and eventually becomes his son and business apprentice 73 76 262.

Nan Xue comes to Konoha with Kakuzu and stays at his home. He investigates her past after discovering her name on a hit list, learning that she was forced into an abusive marriage to Genjo Miyano, who was subsequently killed on Hanzō’s orders. His concern becomes especially apparent when she waits outside in the cold for his return and later goes into dangerous premature labor 306 316 317 318.

His daughter Konan can overcome his reluctance to spend by appealing to his affection. When she requests funding for Explosive Tags, he gives her 3,000 ryo despite finding the request more intimidating than fighting Madara 393.

Kakuzu later rescues the infant Hidan from an Evil God cult. He refuses a minister’s order to kill the child and, after finding Konoha’s orphanage full, brings him home. Nan Xue proposes adoption, and Konan enthusiastically welcomes her new little brother 412 413.

Appearance

• Green eyes, repeatedly described as gleaming eerily during threats and negotiations 47 94 199.
• Face mask and Takigakure forehead protector at his introduction 47.
• Patched black clothing; he repairs garments rather than discard them, including clothes purchased years earlier for ten ryo 93 94.
• Black threads extending from his hands and back, used for combat, manipulation, and carrying weapons 92 265.
• Stocking disguises during covert operations with Dave 265 415.

Personality

Kakuzu treats profit as a governing principle rather than a secondary concern. He protects dividends, rejects free game purchases even for Dave, and objects fiercely when another shareholder receives part of his profit-sharing allocation. His stinginess extends to clothing, medical bills, childcare, and household supplies 55 93 192 390 413.

His greed is tempered by commercial judgment. While coaching Kimima, he encourages extravagant prices and invented expenses but warns against overcharging so severely that a repeat customer is lost. Dave likewise trusts him to recognize where to draw the line in negotiations 91 262.

Kakuzu is intimidating and often ruthless, using violence, debt, legal technicalities, and his reputation interchangeably. He can also be stubborn beyond practical limits: he loses eighteen fights to Madara in three days while protesting a reduction in his profit share 199 390 577.

His family exposes a softer side. He worries about Nan Xue’s health, becomes excessively protective of Konan around Nagato and Yahiko, and protects Hidan despite the child’s origins. Even his concern for Konan and Hidan’s space travels takes a characteristically financial form: he fears they may be cheated in business 317 318 358 413 505.

Abilities & Skills

Earth Grudge Fear

• Maintains a thread-filled body and five hearts, giving him multiple lives rather than ordinary single-heart vulnerability 55 316 391.
• Separates masked thread constructs from his body and recalls them afterward 92 93.
• Extends a hand on trailing threads, pierces enemies, and binds targets 92 265.
• Seeks replacement hearts through bounty hunting. After one heart dies from insufficient blood supply, he targets a rogue Iwagakure jōnin to replenish his Earth Release heart while earning a bounty 322.
• His hearts are not invulnerable: Might Wei destroys four, and a later hospital examination finds four of five no longer pumping blood 55 391.

Elemental Ninjutsu

Technique	Application
Water Release: Great Barrage	Fires several water bullets approximately two meters wide 47.
Water Release: Water Curtain	A blue-masked construct fires a massive water cannon to break Reto’s sand hands 92.
Fire Release: Searing Migraine	A masked construct launches a fire attack 92.
Lightning Release: False Darkness	A masked construct launches a lightning attack 92.
Compound Ninja Art: Raging Wind and Fire Waves	Wind and fire constructs merge to produce an enormous sea of flames 92.

Thread Manipulation and Armed Constructs

• Uses physical threads to control puppets, explicitly stating that he does not know the chakra-thread method normally used for them 275.
• Carries and operates many weapons simultaneously through threads extending from his back 265 274.
• Integrates masked hearts with machinery so his mech can combine firearms, armor, and elemental ninjutsu 275 316.
• Levels the Evil God cult’s base with a barrage from weapons formed through his body’s threads 412.
• Reattaches Hidan’s dismembered body himself, avoiding hospital treatment costs 416.

Poison Resistance

• His internal threads keep Hanzō’s poison from affecting him effectively, despite his still possessing flesh and organs 316.
• This resistance removes Hanzō’s principal advantage and helps force his retreat; the account does not establish immunity to every poison 316.

Accounting and Negotiation

• Controls the Love Kidney Company’s commercial negotiations and technology licensing 91.
• Designs premium game weapons, studies skin-sale data, and links monetization directly to his dividends 191 192 208.
• Uses precise calculations and obscure laws to impose enormous bills; Mabui verifies the arithmetic of his traffic-obstruction fine 577.
• Teaches financial economics, including how capital constrains and directs society’s development 390 436.
• Qualifies to represent Konoha in the Olympics’ niche Finance Competition, with no rival among the applicants matching him 223.

Communications and Tracking

• Houses a miniature signal station beneath his internal organs, with its wiring connected to a lightning-associated heart 459.
• Uses phone-based tracking while pursuing Hanzō. When the signal disappears, he suggests continuing the pursuit with a summoning beast; that beast is not identified in the supplied passage 497.

Combat Limits

• Is decisively defeated by Madara during his assassination attempt and by Might Wei upon arriving in Konoha 47 55.
• Recognizes that Reto outmatches him and sends Dave a distress message rather than relying on his elemental arsenal alone 92.
• Later demonstrates much greater power, but continues losing repeated confrontations with Madara 390 469.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ten Elite Puppets / Ten Mats of Jin Song — Acquired from Chiyo’s son in exchange for game skins, then modified with Orochiroku 274 275.
• Combined puppet mech — Diamond armor, guns, shoulder cannons, forearm sniper rifles, and five elemental masks surrounding Kakuzu at its center 275.
• Heavy thread-carried arsenal — Grenades, rifles, rocket launchers, and artillery shells 265.
• Internal signal station — Body-mounted communications equipment powered through one of his hearts 459.
• Smartphone — Used for business, games, tracking, and emergency messages; Reto destroys one during their battle 92 276 497.
• Business card — Advertises services ranging from finance and mining to telecommunications, construction, aerospace, legal services, and machinery manufacturing 384.
• Hidden cash — Keeps money inside his shoe and in a sock stash at home 316 435.
• Nuclear-bomb-containing attack — Nearly deployed during a confrontation with Madara; Orochimaru stops him by emphasizing the bomb’s expense 396.

Business Ventures

Love Kidney Company

• Finance and licensing: Handles access to the company’s products and technology. Sasuke Sarutobi pays heavily but obtains only manufacturing technology for basic phone casings 91.
• Game development and monetization: Oversees the Game Technology Department, premium weapons, skins, and sales analysis. Its skins are singled out for strong quarterly revenue 191 208 391.
• Advertising: Directs Madara’s endorsement recording for Greedy Red Moon 185.
• Lending: Offers the Kakuzu Loans App and turns unpaid lodging, medical, and other bills into loan contracts 228 271.
• Event management: Organizes Olympic trials, referees matches, awards medals, commissions venues, and arranges opening-ceremony performers 223 236 243 568 569.

Notable Transactions

Transaction	Terms and outcome
Babysitting commission	Offers Dave and Tsukimi 100,000 Konoha Beans for a day caring for Kimima so he can return to ranked Fight the Landlord 76.
Kirigakure debt collection	Takes 300 million ryo from the village treasury after a spy dies owing 1.5 million ryo, holding the Mizukage responsible for repayment and interest 199.
Olympic registration bribe	Rejects 30 million, then accepts 100 million ryo to add Black Zetsu’s brigade. Danzo later leaves only 48 available places; Kakuzu avoids refund requests 231.
Computer mice sold to Iwagakure	Kimima negotiates under Kakuzu’s guidance; Ōnoki accepts three million ryo per mouse rather than speak to Dave 262.
Mining-rights settlement	Cancels five billion of Ōnoki’s debt in exchange for permission to mine Land of Earth deposits 270 271.
Konoha tax concession	Secures a reduction in the company’s annual Konoha tax rate from 10% to 5%, then launches a Shinobi World promotion excluding Konoha 274.
Regional weather deal	Charges Amegakure 500 million to remove its rainclouds and arranges to charge Sunagakure two billion to receive them. Plans to hire Hashirama to move the clouds for 1,500 ryo 384.
Compensation demanded from Ōnoki	Presents a bill totaling 1,760,010,000 ryo, including claimed lost business opportunities. Ōnoki collapses and is hospitalized 387.
Evil God cult mission	Demands 300 million taels despite the Land of Hot Water’s original agreement with Konoha being 80 million taels 413.
Olympic construction and performance	Offers ten ryo per square meter for a roughly 30,000-square-meter venue; accepts 50,000 ryo from Asura for the opportunity to perform 568.
Traffic-obstruction fine	Calculates 232,016,340 taels against the Cloud and Stone delegations for blocking a major route 577.

Debt Collection

Kakuzu delegates routine overdue accounts but personally pursues major borrowers. His collectors use humiliating tactics, including writing “PAY UP” on walls with feces. A resulting spy’s death escalates into his armed collection visit to Kirigakure 199.

His collection network can entrap even exceptionally powerful figures. Hashirama and Asura work for him while their wages barely cover loan interest. Mu describes years of calls, messages, late-night visits, and collectors emerging through his toilet; Kakuzu is delighted when Mu finally demands a calculation of the full principal and interest so he can repay everything 228 586 587.

Relationships

• Dave — Employer, long-term business partner, and frequent mission companion. Their initial coercive bargain develops into familiar banter and mutual assistance; Dave later calls him his “prized general” 55 92 315 469.
• Hashirama Senju — Former assassination target who grants him mercy and welcomes him into Konoha. Later becomes a debtor and inexpensive source of large-scale Wood Release labor 47 62 228 384.
• Madara Uchiha — Recurring combat opponent and corporate colleague. Kakuzu fiercely resents the half-percent profit-share transferred to Madara 47 390 391.
• Tobirama Senju — Initially suspicious of him. An old Flying Thunder God formula placed on Kakuzu enables Tobirama to bring Dave to his rescue against Reto 47 92.
• Might Wei — Defeats him after he threatens Aunt Cai, establishing the danger of challenging Dave’s associates 55.
• Kimima — Son and commercial apprentice. Kakuzu teaches him aggressive bargaining, price-setting, and preserving repeat customers 262.
• Nan Xue — Domestic partner. His blunt manner conceals genuine concern for her safety, health, and abusive past 315 316 317 318.
• Konan — Daughter. He is protective of her friendships and vulnerable to her appeals for money 358 393.
• Hidan — Adopted son rescued from cult experiments. Kakuzu protects him, repairs his body, and teaches him financial values 412 413 416 436.
• Orochiroku — Research collaborator who helps modify the Ten Elite Puppets. Kakuzu abandons thoughts of retaliation over a hospital bill because he considers Orochiroku a “money tree” 275 393.
• Black Zetsu — Accomplice in Kirigakure debt collection and a customer in the Olympic-registration bribery scheme 199 231.
• Hanzō — Defeated opponent, later weather-service client, and eventual target of persistent pursuit. Kakuzu vows that even departure into space has not allowed Hanzō to escape him 316 384 497 498.
• Ōnoki — Frequent negotiating opponent and borrower, repeatedly overwhelmed by Kakuzu’s prices, compensation demands, and collection visits 262 271 387 577.
• Orochimaru — Stops his near-catastrophic confrontation with Madara and later considers nominating him for Hokage because he could make Konoha wealthy. No appointment is documented 396 577.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Merchant Under Attack

• While handling exports in the Land of Wind, Kakuzu kills hired shinobi following a dispute with merchants. Reto ambushes him, identifying his profitable service to Konoha as a reason not to let him return 92.
• Dave arrives to help, then creates a Nine-Tails-powered Doom-shroom. Kakuzu contacts Tobirama for extraction, and the pair escape before the enormous detonation 93.
• Even after witnessing the explosion, Kakuzu estimates its equivalent cost at at least six hundred billion Explosive Tags 93.

Covert Operations and Technological Warfare

• Joins Dave’s infiltration of Iwagakure under the codename “Ormo,” although a guard’s money distracts him from the operation 140.
• Turns the puppet technique acquired through game skins into a modern arsenal rather than preserving its traditional form 274 275.
• Confronts Hanzō in the Land of Rain and wins through combined mechanical firepower and resistance to poison 315 316.

Corporate Rivalries and Hospitalizations

• Refuses to accept losing part of his dividends to Madara, despite repeated defeats and hospitalization 390.
• Correctly identifies the flaw in Hashirama’s paid-phone-booth proposal: customers without phones cannot use phones to scan payment codes. Hashirama’s refusal to answer the objection enrages Kakuzu until he faints; four of his five hearts are found to have stopped 391.
• A later confrontation with Madara nearly becomes a battle capable of devastating Konoha. Orochimaru intervenes, and Kakuzu is left responsible for reconstruction 396.

Hidan’s Rescue and Adoption

• Accepts the lucrative S-rank mission against an Evil God cult, verifies a cultist’s unusual survival, destroys the base, and rescues the infant labeled “Successful Test Subject, Hidan” 412.
• Rejects the finance minister’s demand to kill Hidan and adopts him after the orphanage cannot accept another child 413.
• Restores Hidan after an explosive outing leaves him in pieces, then later attends a school meeting over the boy’s repeated self-dismemberment and attempt to behead another child 415 416 435 436.

Space Travel and Later Public Events

• Continues pursuing Hanzō as the revived younger Akatsuki leaves aboard Dave’s spaceship 497 498.
• Worries that Konan and Hidan may be financially outmaneuvered while traveling; Dave reassures him that the group can be tracked and reached if necessary 505.
• Returns to large-scale Olympic preparations and financial pressure on visiting leaders, while his longstanding collection campaign against Mu culminates in the prospect of full repayment 568 577 586 587.

Notable Quotes

“Caliber is justice, and range is truth.” 316

“That was your offer to Konoha. My fee is 300 million Tael. Feel free to ask about me, Kakuzu, at the Black Market.” 413

“At home, I generally teach him how to make five ryo last a year, along with economic and financial values, and how capital constrains and guides the development of today's society.” 436

Trivia

• Has no need to sleep, allowing him to watch the internet café at night 62.
• Pursues higher Fight the Landlord ranks for their payout multipliers and angrily objects to being matched against Nara Clan players 76.
• Quits race commentary to compete for a million-ryo prize, hiring Kagami as his replacement for a modest in-game top-up 122.
• Has one million forum followers, the largest following among the listed prominent accounts; the narration distinguishes his fear-based notoriety from ordinary popularity 202.
• Enthusiastically regards Dust Release as “Money Release” because its destructive aftermath creates opportunities to demand compensation 578 586.