Guren

Biodata

Background / History

Service to Orochimaru

Orochimaru placed Guren in charge of a hidden base near the border, where his experimental subjects were confined. She feared that this assignment meant he had abandoned her. Having long wished to become his vessel, she resented his interest in other potential candidates, including Gen’yumaru, Sasuke, and Uzumaki Hane 105.

During Gozu’s confinement, Guren once gave him water when he was close to dying from deprivation. He remembered the act and became deeply loyal to her 114 115.

Mission to Capture Uzumaki Hane

Kabuto delivered orders for Guren to capture Hane alive in the Land of Demons so Orochimaru could study his unusual ability. Allowed to choose subordinates from the base’s prisoners, she forced them into a lethal fight and recruited the survivors. Her goal was to complete the mission and regain consideration as Orochimaru’s vessel 105 106.

Guren’s group located Hane’s volcanic training site. Following Suzuki’s suggestion, she sent Gozu to seize the shrine maiden Shion as leverage, while she confronted Hane with her remaining fighters. Hane killed those fighters, destroyed her crystal clones, and broke out of her kilometer-wide barrier 108 109 111.

Guren briefly sealed Hane in crystal, but he protected himself with chakra and melted his way out using magma. Repeated large-scale techniques exhausted her reserves, allowing him to knock her unconscious and take her to Shion’s palace 112.

Shion restrained Guren with a sealing technique. Despite her capture, Guren refused to disclose information about Orochimaru. Gozu offered to serve Hane in exchange for her release, and Hane honored the agreement. Guren withdrew to a nearby town to investigate Hane’s weaknesses rather than abandon her mission 114 115 116.

Conflict with Deidara

While gathering information, Guren discovered that Deidara and Sasori were also searching for Hane. She approached them through crystal clones to propose cooperation, but Deidara destroyed the clones and pursued her. Unable to shake him, she led him toward Shion’s palace, hoping he and Hane would weaken each other 117 118.

Guren then attempted to capture Shion while Hane was occupied. Gozu blocked her path without fighting back, and she stabbed him through the chest. Before retreating, however, she crystallized the blood around his wound to stop the bleeding 120.

Her attempt to exploit Hane and Deidara’s battle instead left her injured and unconscious in an explosion. She awoke in a tree hollow under Hane’s watch. When he allowed her to leave, she acknowledged that she owed him a debt 125.

Guren subsequently worked with Shion and Gozu against Deidara, using a crystal barrier and successive clones to delay him until Hane could arrive. Deidara destroyed the barrier with C4. During the ensuing pursuit, Guren protected Gozu in crystal and tried to evacuate both him and the unconscious Shion despite her own injuries and depleted chakra. Hane arrived in time to stop another explosion 128 129 136.

She eventually returned to Orochimaru and reported her failure to capture Hane, including the news that Hane had killed Sasori 146.

Renewed Clashes with Konoha

Guren later led another group of experimental subjects from a base. When several subjects rebelled, Hane and Gozu appeared. She again refused to reveal Orochimaru’s location, even while recognizing that she could not defeat Hane. After overwhelming her followers, Hane left without forcing an answer 227 229.

When Kakashi’s team followed her group, Guren enclosed the forest in a crystal barrier and attacked through six clones. Kakashi identified the clones and began dismantling her ambush. Hane interrupted her preparations outside the barrier, which then shattered, freeing the trapped Konoha ninja 230 231 232 233.

Guren fought Hane again but escaped using a clone. Tobi ambushed her afterward and knocked her unconscious. On awakening, she attacked him, only to discover that her crystal techniques passed through his body 234 235 236 237.

Three-Tails Operation

Kabuto brought Yukimaru to Guren and explained that Orochimaru’s next plan required them to work together. Yukimaru’s question about red and white camellias stirred a sense of familiarity in her, and she naturally took his hand as they followed Kabuto toward the sea 237.

Using Yukimaru’s power alongside her crystals, Guren helped restrain the Three-Tails. The beast broke free, shattered her attacks, and repeatedly knocked her into the water. When Yukimaru was endangered, she desperately tried to reach him; Hane and Kakashi intervened before the beast could strike him 238 239.

Guren and Kabuto recovered Yukimaru from Konoha’s protection, using her clones and barrier to occupy the defenders. A subsequent confrontation pitted her against Yamato, whose Wood and Earth Release countered her crystal techniques 242 243 247 248.

Despite her own injuries, Guren cared for Yukimaru when he developed a fever. She objected to resuming the operation before he recovered, but Kabuto invoked Orochimaru’s orders to silence her objections 250.

During the next attempt, Guren protested the quantity of pills given to Yukimaru. He nevertheless swallowed the entire bottle and collapsed into the sea. She abandoned her position to rescue him, then shielded them both with crystal as the Three-Tails pursued them. They washed ashore, where Yukimaru remained beside her until she regained consciousness 251 252.

Departure with Yukimaru

Guren and Yukimaru later observed Tobi leaving with White Zetsu. Yukimaru sensed the Three-Tails’ chakra on Tobi and asked whether they would try to recover it. Guren declined, choosing instead to keep their agreement to leave together 263.

Personality

Guren initially defines herself through her devotion to Orochimaru. She takes pride in serving him, reacts angrily to insults against him, and refuses to betray his whereabouts even when captured or plainly outmatched. Her desire to become his vessel also makes her jealous of people who attract his interest 105 115 229.

She is cruel toward the experimental subjects under her command, openly enjoying their lethal selection battle and dismissing their deaths as less important than failing Orochimaru. Her confidence borders on vanity: before creating clones, she admires her reflection in her crystal mirror 105 109 115 231.

Defeat makes her more cautious without immediately weakening her resolve. After losing to Hane, she seeks information about his abilities, uses clones to approach dangerous opponents, and eventually acknowledges that his strength has become unfathomable 116 117 242.

Her concern for particular people contrasts with her treatment of disposable subordinates. She stops Gozu’s bleeding after stabbing him, later attempts to carry Shion and Gozu to safety, and becomes increasingly protective of Yukimaru. By the end of the Three-Tails operation, leaving safely with Yukimaru matters more to her than pursuing the captured beast 120 136 250 251 263.

Abilities & Skills

Crystal Release

Guren produces and manipulates crystals for weapons, barriers, traps, and large constructs 105 108 109.

• Crystallization: Immobilizes targets in crystal and can turn Yamato’s water torrent into a crystal dragon 112 248.
• Bleeding control: Crystallizes blood around Gozu’s wound to prevent further blood loss 120.
• Chakra limitation: Cannot crystallize chakra. Kabuto and Hane exploit this by coating their bodies or hands in chakra 105 108 112.
• Endurance limitation: Repeated large-scale techniques can exhaust her chakra, leaving her unable to continue fighting 112 136.

Crystal Weapons

Guren creates both handheld blades and ranged projectiles.

• Crystal Shuriken / Jade Crystal Shuriken: Produces sustained barrages of snowflake-shaped projectiles, which her clones can also use 108 110 232.
• Giant Hexagonal Shuriken: Creates a large spinning projectile used to attack or slow approaching enemies 111 117.
• Jade Crystal Blade: Forms blue, crescent-shaped blades on one or both arms. They cut through thick branches, Kakashi’s earthen wall, and Yamato’s wooden attacks 109 232 248.
• Guren Senbon: Fires a needle-like projectile; she uses one to graze Kabuto’s cheek 237.
• Limits: Hane can shatter her weapons with enlarged magma fists, while the Three-Tails’ shell withstands her giant shuriken without injury 111 238.

Barriers, Pillars & Sealing

Guren uses prepared formations and growing crystals to control the battlefield.

• Jade Crystal Maze Technique: Grows planted crystal seeds into flowers and pillars, establishing a circular barrier approximately one kilometer across 109 231.
• Jade Crystal Labyrinth Technique: Generates advancing pillars to attack targets or disrupt their footing. She uses it beneath Hane’s lava dragon to knock the construct off balance 111 235.
• Falling pillars: Drops enormous crystal pillars from above to crush opponents 108 233.
• Jade Crystal Hexagonal Pillars: Encases Hane in crystal and is also used during attempts to restrain the Three-Tails 112 251.
• Limits: Hane breaks her barrier with Great Eruption, Deidara destroys it with C4, and the Three-Tails escapes her crystal restraint 111 129 239.

Jade Crystal Mirror & Clones

Guren creates a person-sized crystal mirror from which her Jade Crystal Clones emerge 109.

• Produces six clones for coordinated attacks and ambushes 109 231.
• Sends clones into danger while observing from a distance through a crystal ball 117 128.
• Uses clones to stall Deidara, occupy Konoha’s defenders, and conceal her own escape 128 236 242.
• Destroyed clones dissolve into crystal fragments rather than leaving bodies 110 232.
• Kakashi can identify their nature through observation with his Sharingan 231.

Crystal Dragon Jutsu

Guren forms a large red crystal dragon for direct combat and elevated positioning.

• Battles Hane’s lava dragon and carries her upward to confront Deidara in the air 111 129.
• Creates a dragon reaching approximately ten meters tall during her later encounter with Hane 229.
• Can form a dragon from an opponent’s water attack 248.
• Limits: Hane’s lava begins melting the dragon, and Yamato restrains one with wooden slats 111 248.

Defensive Crystal Techniques

Guren’s strongest defenses encase her in protective crystal.

• Piercing Crystal Falling Dragon: Surrounds her with a multifaceted crystal that survives Hane’s enormous lava fists and Deidara’s explosions 112 118 235.
• The same construct can rise into the air and fire a concentrated beam capable of piercing Hane’s magma body or Deidara’s clay bird 112 118.
• Crimson Fruit: Encases her in crystal strong enough to break Yamato’s attacking earthen spears 248.
• Limits: A surviving crystal shell does not prevent displacement by powerful impacts, and maintaining these defenses consumes her remaining chakra 112 118.

Relationships

• Orochimaru — Her revered master. She seeks his approval and hopes to become his vessel, repeatedly placing his orders above her safety 105 106 115.
• Kabuto Yakushi — A hostile colleague and mission coordinator. Their exchanges frequently involve insults, threats, or crystal attacks; their conflict deepens over his treatment of Yukimaru 105 237 241 250 251.
• Gozu — A subordinate whose loyalty began when she gave him life-saving water. He accepts service under Hane to secure her freedom, but continues to care about her welfare 114 115 120 227.
• Uzumaki Hane — Her capture target and repeated opponent. He spares her, later shelters her after an explosion, and earns her acknowledgment of a debt and his superior strength 112 116 125 242.
• Shion — Initially a hostage target and captor; later an ally against Deidara. Guren eventually supports her physically and tries to evacuate her from danger 114 120 128 136.
• Yukimaru — Her partner in the Three-Tails operation, whom she nurses, defends, and ultimately chooses to leave with rather than continue pursuing the beast 237 250 251 252 263.
• Rinji — A selected subordinate whom she suspects of secretly serving Kabuto. She attacks him when he challenges whether her concern is for Orochimaru’s plan or Yukimaru 251.
• Tobi — An enemy who ambushes her and proves immune to her direct attacks through phasing. She later declines to pursue him after Yukimaru detects the Three-Tails’ chakra on him 236 237 263.