Rikimaru

Rikimaru is the dog partner of Ryoku Inuzuka and appears in Naruto: Shukumei Saigen. She is very protective of her partner and would protect her with her life as Ryoku would do for her. Like Ryoku, Rikimaru loves to fight and will always fight alongside Ryoku. ==

Background== Rikimaru being only two years of age doesn't much of her own story to tell, she was given to Ryoku when she was ten years of age in her second to final year in the ninja academy and the two have been best of friends since.

Appearance
Rikimaru is a black-furred canine of an unknown breed, she stands three feet tall at the shoulder and has white markings on her body.

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Personality== Rikimaru is very hot-tempered and fierce much like Ryoku and loves to fight as well, she doesn't tolerate nonsense from any other dog and when she sees something she wants he goes after it like a game of fetch.

Kenshin Koigokoro
Rikimaru decides whether if she likes somebody or not based off what Ryoku has to say about them. Since Ryoku obeys Kenshin-sensei Rikimaru decided not to bite him in fear of disrespect of Ryoku. ===

Junichi Shunmashii=== Ryoku's disrespect of Junichi Shunmashii often passes on to Rikimaru, since Ryoku seems to be commonly rude to Junichi her dog partner will often growl and bare her fangs at Junichi. ===

Hesei Hyuuga=== Hesei is the only person in the group that Rikimaru would bite due to the fact that Ryoku absolutely hates Hesei with a passion, this hatred of Hesei passed on to Rikimaru and whenever Hesei and Rikimaru quarrel Rikimaru would be there to bite Hesei.

Inuzuka Collaboration Jutsu
Being an Inuzuka nin-dog Rikimaru has the ability to collaborate with Ryoku in various Inuzuka techniques.