Kawaki
Kawaki is a male anime and manga character who features in Naruto.
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Biography
Kawaki (Japanese: カワキ)
As a child, he lived alone with his drunken, abusive father, Kokatsu. In the anime, he was forced to chop wood for a living in order to buy alcohol for Kokatsu. One day, a goldfish merchant invited him to a goldfish show that he was holding the next day after Kawaki had shown interest in the goldfish. Later, his father noticed the invitation in his pocket and punished Kawaki for interacting with strangers by forbidding him dinner. The next day, Kawaki was beaten by two boys until the goldfish merchant saved him and offered him a job by helping him sell goldfish in other villages. Kawaki hurried home after noticing the crack in the glass of his father's alcohol. Giving nothing but broken glass, Kawaki was locked in a room by Kokatsu. Shortly after, Jigen arrived to propose buying him with a large sum of money. Not wanting to leave his home, Kawaki promised his father that he could do more work to earn money but was knocked unconscious when Kokatsu smashed an empty bottle on his head. Upon taking custody of the boy, Jigen told Kawaki that the suffering he endured was over and there was nothing to fear, as he was his new father. As Kawaki and Jigen took the only tunnel out of the village, the seemingly friendly merchant from before revealed himself as a child trafficker, hoping to take Kawaki for himself. After Kawaki had waited outside the tunnel for the two to settle who would take the boy, Jigen came out, claiming the man had 'gladly withdrawn'. When he was first brought to Kara, Jigen took Kawaki to Amado's laboratory, telling him that he would give Kawaki a gift when they truly become parent and child. As part of a ritual, Kawaki was one of fifteen Ōtsutsuki vessel candidates that were placed in artificial wombs connected by tubes to jars of fluid, through which Jigen attempted to transfer his Kāma to them. The first thirteen children all died, however, Jigen succeeded with Kawaki, one of his last attempts. Kawaki later awoke with a Kāma branded on his left hand. Despite Jigen's promise of safety, Kawaki would later describe his life from then on to be a living hell.
Upon reaching Phase 3 as the 'Vessel' for Kara's plans, Jigen had wanted to test Kawaki's powers on the surface. Overhearing Jigen and Amado discussing this, Victor had offered to them to transport him using his high tech stealth blimp. When the blimp that was transporting Kawaki crashed in the Land of Fire near the border, he left the scene, resulting in some of Kara's autonomous puppets pursuing him. After travelling a fair distance away from the crash, he defeated all the pursing puppets before falling unconscious.
Upon his body being discovered by Team 7, the shinobi discovered he had an identical mark to Boruto Uzumaki's. When both their seals began to hurt, Kawaki was dreaming of his first time meeting Jigen, leading to him abruptly waking up and destroying the area within his vicinity. Questioning who the team were, Konohamaru identified himself, and asked for information regarding the crash. Refusing to provide information and wanting to be left alone, Boruto revealed to Kawaki he also had Kāma, resulting in Kawaki believing they were pursuers from Kara. As they tried to correct him, Garō made his presence known, announcing his intentions of recovering Kawaki. Launching another attack, Kawaki dodged and began fighting while modifying his body, despite his weakened state. Upon Garō managing to subdue Kawaki, his Kāma activated and strengthened him, leading to Kawaki destroying Garō'a prosthetic arm. Walking towards Garō and absorbing his blast, Kawaki impales him with his modified arm, before killing the Outer with a shock wave. To his surprise, Boruto instinctively activated his mark to absorb the shock wave and protect his team. This made Kawaki more convinced than ever that they were with Kara.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Kawaki was a lean, highly athletic teenage human male who possessed a stern, intensely guarded facial expression. He had a distinctive undercut hairstyle featuring a thick mop of spiky black hair on top, contrasted by shaved blonde sides that framed his face. As noted by Ino, despite his gruff demeanour, he was very handsome. Additionally, he has a tattoo of the Roman numeral Ⅸ under his left eye, a pair of piercings on his right eyebrow, and stud earrings. Kawaki wears a green shirt with a blue sleeveless vest jacket with grey stripe patterns on the collar and dark pants with a studded belt. He had an Isshiki's Kāma on the palm of his left hand in the shape of a diamond, which spread across the left half of his face, chest, and arm, glowing red upon activation. He wore a dark, sleeveless long jacket over a simple, dark green short-sleeved shirt, paired with loose-fitting dark trousers that gathered at his ankles. His footwear consisted of standard, dark shinobi half-sandals, and a dark, diamond-shaped geometric seal called Karma was embedded into the center palm of his left hand.
Due to the massive suffering he has endured while forced to be a vessel of the Kara, which he described as being a living hell, he would gladly die than be stuck in said hell for the rest of his life. He has even shown signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, as simply seeing dripping roots of plants serves as a reminder of his struggles and has left him panting in horror. He appears to loathe himself for what he has become over the years he spent with Kara, stating that he would learn the Shadow Clone Technique just so he could beat himself up to vent out.
Kawaki was known to hold grudges, especially towards Kara, becoming highly alert and aggressive when facing off against members of the group. He particularly resents Jigen for what he deemed as a violation of his promises of safety, as shown by how he quickly erupted into a rage while unconscious upon being reminded of Jigen's adoption of him and later on when he showed clear resentment while describing Jigen's experiment. However, while appearing to be confident in his ability to defeat the Outers, he knows better than to believe than he could possibly come out on top against any of the Inners, knowing of their completely monstrous might, and has shown fear of them, sweating in the presence of Delta and expressing brief but great shock that Naruto could be more powerful than even Jigen, who he knew full well was the strongest member of Kara. Even though he deeply loathed Jigen and believed that with Naruto protecting him he was safe, Kawaki remained terrified of him as Jigen's arrival through the Kāma he forced on Kawaki caused him genuine horror and fear not just for himself but for Naruto and after seeing Naruto struggling against the far weaker Delta and then being overtaken with ease by his adopted father, when Jigen attacked Konoha to retrieve him and was about to engage Naruto, Kawaki instantly surrendered, believing a fight between the two of them could end in Naruto's defeat and death.
This fear, however, at least after his change due to his time in Konoha, is not at the level where he would just allow himself to be defeated without putting up a fight, as he attempted to attack Jigen even though he knew how futile it would be for him to fight his adopted father, who he had always lost to in their spars, and despite being effortlessly restrained, he still did not bother to defend Naruto and insult Jigen, and later on despite describing Boro as being even worse in some ways than Jigen, he challenged him to save Naruto along with the rest of Team 7. His hatred for Jigen was so powerful that he openly relished in seeing Isshiki's impending death, even stepping on his crumbling remains while insulting him. Being used by Isshiki made him detest the rest of the Ōtsutsuki clan as well, as he expressed his hatred for Momoshiki's similar mindset. Kawaki's hatred for Kara also led him to be unsympathetic for his fellow Vessel experiment, Code, as he suggested for Boruto to turn Code into his vessel to prevent Momoshiki from destroying his individuality.
Powers and abilities
Originally, Kawaki had been an ordinary human being with no special traits. This was until as a child he was taken by Jigen for human experiments conducted by Kara.
Kawaki possessed an incredibly lethal and unconventional array of physical traits derived from extensive bodily modifications and microscopic Shinobi-Ware technology. His internal biology was fundamentally altered by advanced cybernetics, granting him the unique ability to dynamically shapeshift his own limbs during close-quarters combat. He could instantly expand his arms into giant, reinforced blades or hardened blunt constructs capable of tearing through dense earth and crushing opponents. Furthermore, his physical cells possessed a volatile regenerative factor, allowing his body to autonomously morph and expand to shield himself from fatal damage. This advanced cellular physiology could forcefully discharge concentrated, high-velocity energy blasts from his hands, flattening surrounding terrain and vaporizing multiple incoming targets in a single concussive explosion.
Kawaki was a remarkably powerful fighter, having been brutally trained in armed and unarmed combat by Jigen to master his various enhancements. With the power he wields, Kawaki easily destroyed dozens of formidable robotic puppets, and Inners of Kara have openly praised his might.
Kawaki possessed the Kāma of Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, which he was originally branded with to be his new vessel. Having proved compatible with the mark, Kawaki's body has gradually been genetically rewritten into Isshiki's likeness. With it, he can absorb ninjutsu, and open portals to other dimensions. As the mark continued to advance, Kawaki began subconsciously accessing a transformed state, manifesting a small horn on the left side of his head. Kawaki's contact with Boruto, who bears Momoshiki's Kāma, created a resonance that accelerated the takeover rate of both vessels. By the improper resurrection of Isshiki, Kawaki's being has mostly been written into Isshiki's likeness. The forced resurrection of Isshiki also erased Kawaki's Kāma.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Daikokuten (大黒天, Daikokuten) :
- Fire Release: Soaring Flame Bullet Technique (火遁・炎翔弾の術, Katon: Enshōdan no Jutsu) :
- Kāma: Discharge ([楔」放出, Kāma: Hōshutsu) :
Notes
- Kawaki was created by Ukyo Kodachi and designed by Mikio Ikemoto where he featured in the setting of the Naruto universe.
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Appearances
- Boruto: Naruto Next Generations:
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