A (Mamoru)

""Gyuki and I are more than mere friends, companions or partners. Instead I view him as my father but even then he is more than that. He is my other half. Yes, Gyuki is my other half. We are inseparable. I'm glad that my father, the previous host of Gyuki, had physically molded Gyuki and me together, us together, which is how our chakra, spiritual and physical energies are one and alike. That's why... if you want Gyuki, you MUST come after me. No matter what you say - I'll not let you separate the two of us, I won't accept being separated from Gyuki! Even if I'll have to sacrifice my life!""

, born as, is currently the of  after receiving the beast from the previous host,  who happens to be Mamoru's father as well. As the host of a tailed beast, Mamoru is often targeted by those who which to steal the beast and use it as an instrument of war. As a result, he has taken refuge in the Land of Water where he hides from any invaders under a new identity, making it harder for his hunters to track his being in this controlled, large, land.

Here in the Land of Water, Mamoru has taken up the position as a member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, serving under the direct orders of Fuyuki himself. With this, Mamoru is granted a large number of responsibilities from Fuyuki and governs his own piece of the Land of Water. In his own domain, Mamoru does not make life difficult for the people who have accepted him as their governor under Fuyuki, but does require that they take care of animal-life; as he actually treasures the environment and the animal-life more than his fellow human brethren.

Due to his father's connection with the beast, Mamoru happens to hold an amazing connection with Gyūki and in fact considers him his best friend in this destroyed, decimated world. Because of the fact that humanity seeks to hunt tailed beast, including that of his companion, Mamoru holds a negative view on the world like most other host of Tailed Beast, though his is not because he is hunted but because he feels as if Tailed Beast are human as well, which is the sole reason he holds such a great connection with Gyūki in the first place. The seal which has been planted on Mamoru was not one which bonded Gyūki inside of him, but was instead a seal used by his father to naturally mold the energies upon contact, molding Mamoru's spiritual and physical energies with that of Gyūki's to create a new type of chakra and making the man a true Jinchūriki.

Because he was born as a child of a Jinchūriki and then becoming one with Gyūki directly after his birth, Mamoru's outward appearance, abilities and mentality have all been molded by Gyūki, to the point where he sees Gyuki as his best friend and his father-figure due to his lack of a father as a child. His abilities, specifically, to the point where he has developed a natural affinity towards Taijutsu and Ninjutsu, but more of all he has developed a natural affinity towards ink techniques. He usually fights others for entertainment and will rarely kill another human being unless that have done something to anger him to an enormous degree.

Appearance
Being a symbol of power, the carrier of the darkest blade—Samehada, the most in tune Jinchūriki the world has ever witnessed since his father, Mamoru is a man who's height reflects his power, being a man of 5"10 which is relatively tall among the citizens of his domain within the Land of Water. Despite this, Mamoru himself does not treasure his height and often scolds others who compliment him on his tall stature. It is assumed that this trait comes from Gyūki's hate on how Kurama think he's stronger because of the quantity of tail's one have. Nevertheless, many people look up to Mamoru (literally as well) as a man of great power and often sees his tallness as a symbol for his greatness. While Mamoru is a man of slim figure, the truth is that under this is a muscular, well defined body, though he himself states that he is not an absolute monster, which is built from his constant physical conditioning which is required to use the Samehada.

Mamoru possess long indigo hair which hides the right side of his face and is loosely tied into a pony-tail which reaches down into his waist. Normally, Mamoru will place this pony tail on the inside of his coat, hiding the length of it from his foes. The reasoning for this isn't because he's embarrassed about the sheer length of his hair, but so his opponents can't use his hair to their advantage. Gyūki has noted that their is a reason why Mamoru doesn't cut his hair, even though it has reached its maximum length, is because he believes the length of his hair represents the pain and torture that he went through to reach his current state. He possesses sharp, but relaxed, dark blue eyes which are actually more of a purplish color. His eye color is often believed that is that coloring because eyes reflect the coloring of one's chakra. This claim is fortified by the fact that Mamoru's chakra is the same color as his sharp, but relaxed eyes.

Mamoru is a man of fashion and a man of many layers. His normal attire consists of carefully constructed clothing, which comes only from the best tailors that the Land of Water, wore over one another in a color-specific sequence. The first layer is a white collared shirt with several black buttons. The top buttons of this shirt are normally left unbuttoned, as Mamoru comments that when they are buttoned they squeeze his neck and prohibits his ability to release large amounts of ink from his mouth. As a result, he normally folds the top ends of the shirt downwards and place one over another.

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