Liumu
Naruto: Starting with the One-Punch Man TemplateContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Strongest Template System
- 6.2Saitama Template
- 6.3Light Release — Kizaru Template
- 6.4Taotie’s Gluttony
- 6.5Heavenly Fox Eyes
- 6.6Ninjutsu and Combat Techniques
- 6.7Poseidon Template
- 6.8Summoned Beasts
- 6.9Foreknowledge and Assessment
- 7Equipment & Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Academy Awakening and the Land of Rain
- 9.2Uchiha Confrontations and Chūnin Exams
- 9.3Kirigakure and Han
- 9.4War and Growing Responsibility
- 9.5Orochimaru, Root, and ANBU
- 9.6Uchiha Crisis and Family Life
- 9.7Side-Story War and Departure Plans
- 10Notable Quotes
Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Background
- 4Appearance
- 5Personality
- 6Abilities & Skills
- 6.1Strongest Template System
- 6.2Saitama Template
- 6.3Light Release — Kizaru Template
- 6.4Taotie’s Gluttony
- 6.5Heavenly Fox Eyes
- 6.6Ninjutsu and Combat Techniques
- 6.7Poseidon Template
- 6.8Summoned Beasts
- 6.9Foreknowledge and Assessment
- 7Equipment & Items
- 8Relationships
- 9Story Role / Major Arcs
- 9.1Academy Awakening and the Land of Rain
- 9.2Uchiha Confrontations and Chūnin Exams
- 9.3Kirigakure and Han
- 9.4War and Growing Responsibility
- 9.5Orochimaru, Root, and ANBU
- 9.6Uchiha Crisis and Family Life
- 9.7Side-Story War and Departure Plans
- 10Notable Quotes
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Liumu (流木) |
| Gender | Male 2 |
| Age | 5 at introduction; 21 in the Poseidon Template attribute panel 2 149 |
| Origin | A transmigrated soul with memories of a previous life and knowledge of Naruto 1 3 133 |
| Affiliation | Konohagakure; later commands the reorganized Root and ANBU 12 125 |
| Occupation/Role | Shinobi; Jiraiya’s disciple; elite jōnin; ANBU and Root commander 12 125 |
| Family | Deceased parents; Han, his partner; Muhan, his daughter 3 130 143 146 |
| Status | Alive; plans to leave for Ice Island in the Land of Water with Han 177 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 1 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Strongest Template System awakened; Saitama Template acquired | 1 2 | The system activates after five years, unlocking the Time House and Fate Roulette. Saitama boosts attack, defense, stamina, and speed to displayed values of 999999999. |
| Taotie’s devouring power acquired | 10 | Gains the ability to devour energy, providing a route to greater chakra reserves beyond his template-enhanced physical strength. |
| Genin | 12 75 | Introduces himself as a Konoha Genin and Jiraiya’s student. His graduation age is later stated to have been five. |
| Fire chakra nature identified | 13 | Jiraiya’s chakra-nature test reveals Fire Release. |
| Tailed-beast chakra absorbed | 24 | Absorbs Killer B’s Tailed Beast Bomb; Taotie’s Three-Flavour Divine Fire refines its chakra for his use. |
| Kizaru Template activated | 40 41 | Draws Borsalino’s card through Fate Roulette. Gains light-based abilities and raises his talent score from 59 to 90, at the cost of lower attack and stamina than Saitama. |
| Chūnin | 42 | Promotion confirmed after the Kumogakure Chūnin Exams. An S-rank mission delays his promotion ceremony. |
| Heavenly Fox Eyes demonstrated | 56 | Defeats Danzo’s guards with illusions. The eyes’ power is identified as a Heavenly Fox racial ability rather than ordinary genjutsu. |
| Multiple Shadow Clone Technique learned | 58 59 | Uses his improved talent to learn the technique, then produces hundreds upon thousands of clones capable of using Kizaru’s abilities. |
| Rasengan mastered | 65 | Time House practice enables rapid formation and an oversized, throwable Rasengan far larger than a Big Ball Rasengan. |
| Ryūmyaku energy absorbed | 72 75 | Devours the underground energy source during the Rōran mission. His strength increases, but his control over it deteriorates. |
| Special Jōnin | 76 88 | Receives a system mission to attain the rank within three years; Fugaku later congratulates him on achieving it. |
| Jōnin | 116 119 | Identifies himself as a Konoha jōnin; Root members also address him by that rank. |
| Elite jōnin | 125 | Holds elite jōnin rank while secretly commanding both Root and ANBU. |
| Poseidon Template activated | 149 | Adds Tide, Storm, Divine Sight, and Divine Domain to his available skills, alongside water manipulation and a water-formed trident. |
| Divine Domain awakened; Huodou subdued | 150 | Discovers that he can control the ocean within his domain. Huodou acknowledges him as master and becomes his summon, named Erha. |
Background
In his previous life, Liumu followed Naruto from middle school through college and later lived a work-centered life with little free time. His transmigration interrupted that life and placed him in a world whose major characters and future conflicts he already recognized 133.
His parents in the ninja world died young, leaving him a house but no relatives to support him. He survived on village subsidies. By Konoha Year 42, he excelled in Academy theory assessments but ranked last in practical combat; the Strongest Template System’s awakening abruptly reversed that imbalance 1 3.
Appearance
Liumu’s hair changes with his template use: acquiring Saitama’s power makes him bald, while activating Kizaru’s template allows it to begin growing back 1 41.
- Baldness and wig: Wears a wig to conceal his hair loss and becomes furious when Kui exposes it during the Chūnin Exams 39.
- Growth during his travels: Kurenai notices that he has become taller and darker after a year away with Jiraiya 16.
- Forehead protector: Wears his Konoha forehead protector on his arm during the Chūnin Exams 26.
- Adult clothing: Appears in a plain white short-sleeved shirt when discussing his future with Minato; later gives Han his leather coat during their visit to the Land of Water 130 131.
Personality
Liumu strongly prefers personal freedom to shinobi obligations. He initially resists the system’s demand that he graduate, celebrates Jiraiya blocking his jōnin recommendation, and repeatedly asks Minato to release him from command of ANBU and Root. His reluctance concerns responsibility rather than a lack of confidence in his strength 5 75 130.
He is mischievous, provocative, and fond of embarrassing opponents. His recurring Thousand Years of Death attacks terrify Obito and leave Guy wary of accepting another match. He also disguises extraordinary feats as accidents, claiming that his hand slipped after a pebble destroys trees and blasts a crater 81 127 134.
His affection is often expressed through practical care: cooking for Han, comforting Tsunade, and carrying Muhan home from school. As a father, he rejects both household status-consciousness and accelerated advancement for its own sake, insisting that Muhan deserves friends, teachers, and an ordinary childhood 45 65 144 146.
He can nevertheless be ruthless in battle. His prolonged bombardment of enemies hidden in mist shocks Team 7, while his handling of Uchiha unrest combines a desire to prevent conflict with an overwhelming demonstration of force 92 135 136.
Abilities & Skills
Strongest Template System
The system supplies character templates, mission objectives, Fate Roulette rewards, and access to the Time House 1 40 76.
- Template switching: Can alternate between owned templates, choosing Saitama for overwhelming force and Kizaru for intangibility and infiltration 41 113.
- Fate Roulette: Produces rewards such as the Borsalino character card; mission rewards include additional draws and Time House uses 40 76.
- Time House training: Uses extended practice inside it to overcome the difficulty of learning Rasengan 65.
- Containment and transport: Brings Han inside, imprisons Orochimaru there, and later stocks it with travel supplies 46 110 130.
- Mission pressure: Advancement missions repeatedly push him toward ranks and duties he would rather avoid 5 76.
Saitama Template
Saitama’s template provides Liumu’s greatest direct physical power. Its listed techniques include Normal Punch, Consecutive Normal Punches, Serious Punch, Consecutive Serious Punches, and Side-to-Side Hopping 2.
- Blocks more than thirty of Guy’s attacks with one hand without moving from his position 2.
- Uses Side-to-Side Hopping so quickly that Killer B perceives dozens or hundreds of surrounding figures 24.
- Smashes through the ground with Consecutive Normal Punches to expose the Ryūmyaku 72.
- Breaks Orochimaru’s restraining snakes after switching templates 110.
- Removes roughly half of a several-hundred-meter mountain peak with a punch intended to intimidate Uchiha leaders 136.
- Limits: Does not provide flight, and its extraordinary physical statistics do not initially solve his weaknesses in sensory perception or genjutsu resistance 8 18 169.
Light Release — Kizaru Template
Liumu names Kizaru’s powers Light Release and presents them to other shinobi as a newly awakened kekkei genkai 41 43.
- Light-speck form: Disperses into light to travel, infiltrate, and evade attacks. Physical attacks pass through this form 46 113 124.
- Reconstitution: Reforms his body within two breaths after Danzo’s Wind Release cuts him in half 56.
- Laser and Light-Speed Kick: Listed offensive skills of the template 41.
- Yata Mirror: Establishes a reflected path of light for pursuing targets 41.
- Sword of the Gathering Clouds of Heaven: Creates a photon weapon, also called Ame no Murakumo 41 49.
- Heavenly Rock Cave: Produces a giant ape-shaped beam 41.
- Yasaka Tomoe: Fires numerous light projectiles across a wide area; sustains a ten-minute forest bombardment in the Land of Grass 41 92.
- Energy use: Kizaru’s template abilities do not consume chakra 92.
- Trade-off: Offers less attack power and stamina than Saitama, but raises his talent enough to make learning ninjutsu substantially easier 41 58.
Taotie’s Gluttony
Taotie grants Liumu a devouring ability that absorbs ninjutsu and usable energy 10 18.
- Absorbs and refines tailed-beast chakra through Taotie’s Three-Flavour Divine Fire 24.
- Drains Han’s chakra during the Chūnin Exam final 40.
- Absorbs Minato’s Rasengan, the Ryūmyaku’s energy, and the power of Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal of Heaven 65 72 110.
- Supplies enough chakra that the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique’s heavy requirements are not a major obstacle 58.
- Summoning complication: Taotie can devour weaker summoned beasts. The system explains that a compatible summon must be strong enough to match its divine-beast status 75.
- Clone restriction: His shadow clones cannot use Gluttony 59.
Heavenly Fox Eyes
The Heavenly Fox Eyes create convincing illusions through a racial ability of the Heavenly Fox Clan, despite commonly being described as genjutsu 56.
- Defeats Danzo’s guards with illusions, including a tickling illusion 56.
- Dispelled Fugaku’s genjutsu, removing an important vulnerability of Liumu’s earlier fighting style 113.
- Subjects Uchiha children to individualized visions of their deepest fears in an experiment intended to awaken their Sharingan 156.
- Clone restriction: Shadow clones cannot reproduce the Heavenly Fox’s abilities 59.
Ninjutsu and Combat Techniques
Liumu’s original ninjutsu aptitude is poor, but Kizaru’s talent boost and Time House practice broaden his repertoire 13 58 65.
- Academy techniques: Substitution, Clone, and Transformation Techniques 2 41.
- Fire Release: Learns Fireball Technique after discovering his natural affinity 13 41.
- Water Formation Wall: Extinguishes Itachi’s Great Fireball during his graduation assessment 128.
- Multiple Shadow Clone Technique: Produces large numbers of clones that retain Kizaru’s powers 59.
- Rasengan: Forms it rapidly, matches Minato’s attack, and creates an enormous throwable version 65.
- Thousand Years of Death: A recurring humiliation technique; its upgraded Barrage version uses clones to restrain Guy 5 81.
- Projectile power: Compensates for lacking the Uchiha’s elaborate throwing patterns with enough force to make an ordinary pebble devastating 127.
Poseidon Template
Poseidon supplies water-based powers and the skills Tide, Storm, Divine Sight, and Divine Domain 149.
- Condenses flowing water into a three-bladed trident and raises himself into the air on a river 149.
- Uses water techniques and Divine Sight to subdue Huodou 150.
- Controls the ocean within his awakened Divine Domain 150.
- Provides water-based immunity to physical attacks, which Liumu compares to Kizaru’s light-based defense 149.
Summoned Beasts
| Beast | Documented Role |
|---|---|
| Taotie | Grants Gluttony. When summoned during the side-story war, its presence suppresses the Ten-Tails and overwhelms nearby observers 10 169. |
| Heluo | Its bloodline protects it from being devoured by Taotie. Liumu uses its tails to keep Guy and Duy alive after their Eight Gates attacks 113 173. |
| Huodou / Erha | A flame-covered, lion-shaped beast subdued with Poseidon’s powers. Gives Liumu a fiery bead and accepts him as master 149 150. |
| Fuzhi | Carries Liumu through the air while he uses the flightless Saitama Template 169. |
Foreknowledge and Assessment
Liumu’s memories of Naruto let him recognize hidden threats and intervene in events before their expected outcomes 3 79 169.
- Presents his knowledge to Yahiko as an unfailingly accurate predictive ability 79.
- Explains the Six Paths of Pain to Nagato and warns him about the chakra burden of controlling multiple bodies 104.
- Uses knowledge of future dangers when deciding to care for Shisui and change the Uchiha Clan’s fate 89.
- Tests prospective shinobi on trust, teamwork, and anticipation rather than academic performance alone 60 61 62 128.
Equipment & Items
- Ninja dart: A graduation present secretly purchased for him by Rin when he cannot afford a ninja tool 19.
- Wig: Conceals the baldness caused by the Saitama Template 39.
- Framed class photograph: Kakashi’s birthday present, showing their former Academy class 63.
- Handwritten ninjutsu notes: Uses a handwritten copy to study the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique’s hand-seal sequence 58.
- Fiery bead: Given to him by Huodou upon acknowledging him as master 150.
Relationships
- Han — Former Chūnin Exam opponent who becomes his closest companion and family partner. He helps her leave Kirigakure, later takes her back to her homeland while planning a proposal, and raises Muhan with her 40 47 58 130 131 146.
- Muhan — His daughter. He values her safety and childhood above exceptional achievement and refuses to let her talent dictate an accelerated upbringing 143 144.
- Jiraiya — Teacher and protector. Jiraiya recognizes his unusual abilities but allows him privacy; he also blocks an early jōnin recommendation out of concern for Liumu’s maturity 12 14 75.
- Minato Namikaze — Senior fellow disciple, sparring partner, and later Hokage. Minato relies on his abilities, resists his attempts to leave command, and encourages him to commit to Han 15 65 130.
- Kakashi Hatake — Former classmate, Chūnin Exam teammate, and trusted administrator. Liumu delegates organizational work to him and coordinates Root’s gradual dissolution with him 22 125 134.
- Might Guy — Classmate and recurring sparring partner. Guy initially asks to become his student; Liumu instead offers advice as a peer 3 81.
- Might Duy — Guy’s father, who intervenes during Liumu’s early confrontation with Izumi. Liumu later helps preserve his life after the Eight Gates 18 173.
- Rin Nohara — Close former classmate who gives him a graduation present and later offers him a food pill after battle 19 92.
- Obito Uchiha — Classmate and rival, initially jealous of his closeness with Rin. Obito later treats Liumu as another benchmark for his own progress 5 80.
- Tsunade — Trusted senior who supports his decision to help Han. Liumu comforts her over Nawaki’s death and promises to support her when he grows up 45 47.
- Konan — Senior fellow disciple who treats him affectionately and often lets him sleep beside her during visits to the Land of Rain. She also challenges his attempts to present himself as older than he is 12 77 104.
- Yahiko and Nagato — Fellow disciples whose expected fates he works to change. He declines an invitation to join Akatsuki but continues helping them and advising Nagato 8 12 79 104.
- Uchiha Fugaku — An initially wary clan leader who becomes a political ally. He entrusts Shisui to Liumu and later works with him during the Uchiha crisis 21 89 136.
- Uchiha Shisui and Itachi — Younger shinobi he guides and protects. Their trust in him leads them to disclose the Masked Man’s interference and the clan’s growing unrest 89 128 135.
- Suiguang — Chūnin Exam teammate alongside Kakashi; the three begin as a newly assembled team and build confidence through the examination 22 23 29.
Story Role / Major Arcs
Academy Awakening and the Land of Rain
- His sudden rise from poor practical performance to overwhelming strength attracts Guy’s admiration and Kakashi’s attention 1 2 3.
- A system mission pushes him to graduate despite his opposition to village mission work 5.
- While traveling with Jiraiya, he rescues Akatsuki’s members, disrupts Danzo’s plans, and draws Root surveillance 12 13.
- His intervention kills Hanzō and changes the circumstances surrounding Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan’s future 79.
Uchiha Confrontations and Chūnin Exams
- Destroying Madara’s stone statue creates hostility with Uchiha clansmen. Several confrontations follow before Fugaku intervenes 19 20 21.
- Travels to Kumogakure with Kakashi and Suiguang, where his feats include overpowering a transformed Killer B 22 24.
- Defeats Asuka in individual combat, then incapacitates Han in the final before deliberately jumping out with her to force a draw 34 40.
- Receives his Chūnin promotion and leaves on an S-rank mission before the ceremony can take place 42.
Kirigakure and Han
- Joins Konoha’s mission as several villages converge on Kirigakure in pursuit of the Three-Tails 45.
- Brings Han into the Time House, then seeks permission to help her despite Minato and Orochimaru’s concerns about taking a Kirigakure shinobi to Konoha 46 47.
- Confronts Kirigakure’s defenders and reaches the Third Mizukage’s office 49.
- After their return, Han and Liumu build a household founded on mutual care rather than their former opposition 58.
War and Growing Responsibility
- Fails to prevent Sakumo’s death despite having intended to change it, prompting him to seek out Kakashi 53.
- Rejects Danzo’s recruitment attempt and defeats both his guards and Danzo himself 55 56.
- Joins Minato and Team 7 in wartime operations, uncovering a concealed explosive trap and devastating enemies hidden by mist 92.
- Becomes sufficiently feared that A orders his forces to retreat whenever either Minato or Liumu appears on the battlefield 139.
Orochimaru, Root, and ANBU
- Lets Fugaku confront Danzo while he handles Orochimaru, absorbing the Cursed Seal of Heaven and imprisoning Orochimaru in the Time House 110.
- Infiltrates Otogakure and frees imprisoned children with Anko, though the children unexpectedly return after he leaves 113 116.
- Following Danzo’s death, offers Root members the choice of returning home, joining ANBU, or leaving Konoha; some instead ask to follow him 119.
- Reorganizes Root into eight specialist teams and eventually commands both Root and ANBU 121 125.
- Later arranges with Kakashi to dissolve Root gradually and integrate its former members into ANBU 134.
Uchiha Crisis and Family Life
- Assesses Itachi for early graduation, testing both his attacks and his ability to anticipate an opponent’s response 128.
- Investigates growing Uchiha discontent after Itachi and Shisui confide in him. His response includes a mountain-destroying display meant to deter reckless action 135 136.
- Returns to Konoha during Han’s pregnancy and later balances village responsibilities with raising Muhan 133 143 146.
- Turns a planned family dinner into a village-wide barbecue at the Training Ground 146.
Side-Story War and Departure Plans
- Summons Taotie to suppress the Ten-Tails and confronts the Masked Man with knowledge of Madara’s resurrection plan 169.
- Contains Madara’s scattered Impure World Reincarnation remains and Black Zetsu in seawater, while using Heluo to keep Guy and Duy alive 173.
- Encounters the reincarnated Teacher Jinshi, whose resemblance to him raises questions about the parents he cannot remember 173.
- Eventually tells Han that he wants to leave for Ice Island. She agrees without demanding an explanation and acknowledges that his extraordinary powers and foreknowledge have long made others question his identity 177.
Notable Quotes
“I’ll definitely be taller than you when I grow up, so I’ll hold up your patch of sky.”
— To Tsunade 45
“As far as I’m concerned, you can be carefree, but you can’t be a scumbag.”
— On his responsibility toward Han 130
“People need nature and time to nurture their growth. I don’t want my daughter to go without a childhood.”
— Rejecting an accelerated path for Muhan 144