Yoshitsune

Yoshitsune (義経, Yoshitsune) is a strange hybrid of a human and an alien, with the great powers of and 's chakra melded together into the  of  along with the chakra of the nine, which was bonded to his young, half-alien body by. He was later taken to Konohagakure by after taking him from the snake sannin, and was left in  for protection and was in the care of  until he could find the child a family and home. Naruto would leave the child with Kazesō, who would raise him. Despite his love for the village and what he owed to it, Yoshitsune would eventually flee the village due to learning the true darkness that lived in the village. Later in life, Yoshitsune has been labeled as an S-rank ninja, and would become a powerful as well. With having both the Rinnegan and the Six Paths Sage Mode, some have said that Yoshitsune is on the same level of power as the Sage of Six Paths, perhaps even surpassing him.

Throughout the shinobi world, many have joked that Yoshitsune has as many talents as the number of petals of the blossoms on a cherry tree, earning him the moniker of "Thousand Cherry Blossoms" (千本桜, Senbonzakura). After mastering the Six Paths and reading the history of the tablet hidden in the, Yoshitsune would seek to fulfill Hagoromo's dream in his own way, and would set out to try and help bring not just peace to the world, but give it justice. Yoshitsune would go on to explain to the five kage that he wanted to be a free roaming shinobi with no ties to one village in particular, and help better the shinobi villages. With the blessing of Naruto and the other kage, he would be allowed this, and does various missions to help the great shinobi villages. After this, with his great power, defending of peace, and his willingness to kill for it, Yoshitsune became known to many as the "Fierce Deity" (鬼神, Kishin).

Background
The humans were not alone in this universe. The mother of chakra,, and supposedly two men, and , proved this with their alien origin. However, Momoshiki and Kinshiki were not truly alone. Other aliena had been among them from their mighty, from high ranking people like Kinshiki's master, to another so lowly that he was never given a name by his master Momoshiki and lacked the Byakugan. This man served as a slave to Momoshiki, and even the mighty Kinshiki had the authority to give him orders. The man, who called himself Ushishiki (うしシキ) simply for convenience, hated his long life, being bounded to an unjust leader. After the, however, Ushishiki has the chance to escape. Sent to survey the Earth and discover the whereabouts of the known as, the Nine-Tails. Hunting for the location of the beast, Ushishiki would note the beauty of the Earth compared to his homeworld, and begin to longer strongly for freedom. Ushishiki seized his chance and fled his mission, going through many villages to find a sanctuary. Ushishiki eventually found a town somewhere in the spacious land of the Land of Fire. Finding a woman he fell in love with, Ushishiki removed the horns he had and married the woman. She would become pregnant by Ushishiki, and life seemed to be looking up for the escaped servant. Despite this, Momoshiki, angered by the betrayal, sought out Ushishiki and eventually located the runaway. Momoshiki would begin destroying much of the village, but Ushishiki use the powers he wielded to ensure the safe escape of his wife. Ushishiki stood against his former master bravely, but was quickly cut down by the superior being and was consumed for the power he had. Momoshiki would then return home, not yet ready to carry out his plans for capturing.

Ushishiki's wife, though her name is lost, wandered after the escape of the village. Her heart was broken, as she lost her husband, family, friends, and home all in one swift attack. Her only saving grace was the child she had in her stomach, but it would prove to be her undoing as well. The of the snake,, had been surveying the woman for many years, even prior to her marriage to an alien. This is due to her being the descendant of the famed clan, who partially scattered in fear of the  back when  was formed. With the alien, however, Orochimaru became more interested in the life she carried in her womb.

, the infamous scientist and member of the, lusted for such powers found in the tomes of years that have gone past. Orochimaru was one of the few shinobi outside of the to ever set his sights on the  tablet, the greatest tome of knowledge on the great God of Shinobi Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, and one of the even fewer to understand the message that it held. Such knowledge led to the reviving of, who would eventually truly return to life and become the of the recreated  and would place the world into the Infinite Tsukuyomi and ensnare them in the God: Nativity of a World of Trees, making them live out their dreams in safety as their chakra and mind were eaten away. Orochimaru himself was one of the victims of this powerful ability. Unlike most, however, Orochimaru's dream was for power and for knowledge. Combining his deepest dream of knowledge with the fact he had taken over a body, the tree, the extension of, viewed him as not a threat, but as a soldier without the commander's orders. The tree, combining knowledge of Kaguya herself and of Hagoromo, which it had gained from its time sealed in the man, flowed it to the snake sannin, feeding him the true nature of the Naka Shrine tablet in the process. With the Infinite Tsukuyomi being released, Orochimaru quickly went to work, dispersing into snakes and collecting samples of DNA and of, the reincarnations of the sons of Hagoromo,  and. From the Orochimaru learned Indra and Asura reincarnated into new beings, and had knowledge now of Hagoromo's power being born of both their chakra, rather than the clans themselves. Orochimaru, though had hints from the Ten-Tails roots, a portion of Kaguya herself, clearly knew that Sasuke and Naruto were the current hosts of the spirits of Indra and Asura, thus explaining why he went to obtain their blood, which was plentiful on their battlefield from fighting. Taking these samples to one of his many Otogakure hideouts, he began to prepare for the woman and her part-alien child. Along with Asura's chakra, Naruto's blood carried remnants of the chakra of the nine tailed beasts, which would impact to power the child would one day wield.

As the woman began to go into labor, Orochimaru posed as a doctor to her who wanted to help her. With help from, a baby boy was delivered. While to woman possessed a strong life force from her Senju lineage, she ultimately would die from complications while giving birth. Orochimaru, ignoring this, focused on the child and advancement of his previous experiments. Orochimaru had attempted in an earlier experiment to bind the blood of Naruto and Sasuke together in an advanced cloning process he developed sometime after his student had left him with many of his clones based of the power of adaptiveness of his DNA and evolution potentials, though he avoided use of his one remaining Shin clone in case Six Paths chakra could prove to be its one weakness and overpower the body, destroying it, and these would prove the be a failure. The blood would simply reject each other and breakdown. However, with the child of the alien and the Senju, Orochimari formulated a new plan. Using the enzymes of the Shin clone he possessed, Orochimaru crafted a fluid, similar to the creation of the he made from, that would help one adapt to grafts in a way similar to Shin himself. Following this, Orochimaru injected the blood of Naruto and Sasuke within the child, carrying the chakra of Indra, Asura, and the tailed beasts. The boy's body would begin producing a more powerful variant of Six Paths chakra, readible to Orochimaru who has felt the powers in Naruto and Sasuke through spying and sensing before.

Orochimaru would be delighted by the success of years of work finally paying off, doing this experiment as he could raise the child under his principles to condition the child to be his loyal subject as so Orochimaru could eventually take the child's body as his own. Orochimaru also did this way as to gain the much larger pool of powerful chakra network, a powerful chakra network and eyes crafted by the chakra of Indra and perfect and powerful body and life force crafted by the chakra of Asura that he hypothesized the child would have due to Hagoromo, as Orochimaru himself lacked a powerful body and had a lesser reserve of chakra. All went according to plan, the child developed into a healthy baby, and as Orochimaru held him like a twisted father, the child's rescue would soon unfold. An unknown assassin had appeared in the base, a former experiment of Orochimaru, with the man wanting revenge for his imprisonment and family's death in one of Orochimaru's many labs. The man used his cursed seal to attack the man, taking advantage of Orochimaru's weakness in his failing host body to overpower him. Quickly though, Sasuke himself appeared and eventually would use the Chidori Sharp Spear to stab the crazed man through the heart and sliced down, killing the man quickly. Sasuke had appeared to gain information he needed for his mostly unknown journey of fighting a threat worse than Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, but quickly heard the crying of the child, who was startled awake by the sound of the assassin and the chirping of the Chidori Sharp Spear. Sasuke picked up the child, he noted with his sensory abilities that the chakra of the created child was nearly identical to Hagoromo's when he had the Sage greet him in his body. Sasuke grew angry with Orochimaru, destorying a large portion of the man's lab and all the samples he had of his and Naruto's DNA, only leaving the man alive for the valuable knowledge he held. Leaving with the child, Sasuke commanded Orochimaru to never make such an error again. Orochimaru, seemingly promising, told the Uchiha he would refrain from doing such an act again, at least for Sasuke's lifespan. Sasuke was unsure of allowing the child to live, but thought of Naruto, his ever merciful best friend and felling the power of both himself and Naruto in the child, and spared the child by taking him to Konohagakure and left with Naruto under the instruction of making sure the child was cared for and did not suffer the loneliness that both he and Naruto suffered. Naruto promised this, and would leave the child in the care of a Kazesō, a well-known monk, knowing the man was lacking of hatred and who had also learned the ways of the shinobi from various shinobi, and had explained his story.

From that point on it was Kazesō who raised the young child who quickly began getting stronger during his development into an individual. Kazesō would name the child Yoshitsune, after his own father. Graduating from the academy, he was placed on a genin team with Kazesō as the jōnin instructor, with a boy named Ninigi Senju and an unknown female, some believe she was a Hyūga, as his teammates. This group was called the strongest of the genin teams. When the chūnin exams rolled around, the team entered and were promoted to the rank of chūnin. During the exam Oto-nin who knew of Orochimaru's hand in his birth began to taunt Yoshitsune, calling the boy a mere created vessel and his only purpose was to be a weapon. The group placed Yoshitsune under a genjutsu that showed what Yoshitsune's life may have been like with Orochimaru, a boy trained from morning to midnight to become Orochimaru's new body before trying to kill him. His longtime friend threw a kunai at Yoshitsune in a non-vital area, the pain from it waking Yoshitsune up from the genjutsu. Yoshitsune activated the Sharingan, which was born from his Six Paths chakra along with his alien body in its imperfect state. After this, the pain of knowing the truth, he was not a normal child, and he was a hybrid and was treated to become a living weapon. The stress of the revelation that he was even further from normal than he suspected and the purpose he was made for made the eye manifest in both of his eyes. They tried to place Yoshitsune in another genjutsu, but Yoshitsune was able to break it as it was set upon him. Yoshitsune and Ninigi then quickly defeated the three Oto-nin. Sometime later, Yoshitsune still sat in the revelation and began to hate himself until Kazesō and Ninigi came to him. Kazesō said despite the terms of his life, Yoshitsune was still human, and above all, he was Kazesō's beloved son and student. Ninigi called Yoshitsune his brother, and joked how as Yoshitsune was "partially" Asura, they were related by chakra. Yoshitsune embraced the two, and accepted his past is not of his control, but his future is. Sometime after this point, Kazesō helped Yoshitsune create the Lightning Release: Lightning Echo Technique, which serves as Yoshitsune's signature technique to this day, as Yoshitsune was unable to master the Rasengan at the time.

Years later on one of his last team missions with his sensei and father-figure Kazesō, the two were ambushed by originally from Kumo-nin. Kazesō knew that in their state they were both doomed and demanded Yoshitsune to flee while he held the group off. Kazesō proceeded to use his skill to fight them off as best he could, but ultimately died as a result. Yoshitsune would return after hearing the howls of his father-figure's pain and seeing the dead body of his teacher made his Sharingan evolve into his own Mangekyō Sharingan. He then used the techniques it granted to avenge his fallen master. Years would pass and Yoshitsune became a jōnin and even served as an Anbu member. While serving as an Anbu, Yoshitsune would lose his dear brother Ninigi, who was lost during a mission. Ninigi was declared dead strangely quick. Yoshitsune would locate files on many attacks and events done by Konoha. While many were justified, many were also dark and served nothing but to defend the government of Konoha. Yoshitsune would learn of dark events like the, , and the true reasons of why moved the Uchiha clan, not for protection, but for fear of them. Ninigi's own loss was planned by Konoha as the world feared his power that was becoming on par with 's. Rather than risk war from rising disputes and Ninigi's power, he was sacrificed by higher-ups in the village without the Hokage's approval. Yoshitsune had an emotional breakdown during Ninigi's funeral, and ultimately he awakened the Rinnegan as his powers finally balanced themselves out in his biology. Yoshitsune grew to distrust his village, and finally would read his own story for being brought to Konoha. He would discover how his life was questioned by Sasuke if it was worth keeping, and how Sasuke and Naruto brought him to the village for safe keeping. Yoshitsune would go before all five of the kage, and for the first time reveal his Rinnegan to the other villages. Yoshitsune explained his stance, his desire to set out and help better all the villages in a fashion similar to Sasuke Uchiha, but larger-scale. With Naruto's blessing, the other kage slowly approved of this.

With his eye, body, and chakra similar that of the, he eventually ventured out and was able to access the during one of his many missions to maintain peace in the shinobi world and peace between the village. Yoshitsune, despite his earlier disgust with the dark history of the village, grew to understand a view of why it had happened, and further wanted to maintain peace himself. Here he learned of the Sage's final words, albeit corrupted by the malicious. The Rinnegan chakra in Yoshitsune reacted to the presence of the tablet's fully read nature, and summoned forth the spirit Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the mythical Rabbit Goddess. She attempted to make Yoshitsune turn his will over to hers, but he sliced through the apparition and cut it in two, causing the spirit of the Sage of Six Paths,, to appear. Hagoromo explained he had performed a small genjutsu to test the will of Yoshitsune. Hagoromo then used his power to repair the corrupted tablet after all the changes created by Black Zetsu to it. Hagoromo would further add information regarding the Sage's mother Kaguya, the, the , the ' origins, and various other secrets now held in the tablet, as well as new additional information he learned through and  during their battle with Kaguya. The Sage of Six Paths also, using his power to transcend time, revealed to Yoshitsune the truth about his father and mother, revealing that Yoshitsune was part of the Ōtsutsuki clan and was truly half alien. Yoshitsune began to take this information to heart and would share this information with the world, and begin any surviving information about his alien bloodline. During these travels, Yoshitsune on his mission against those who seek to conceal the truth, mastered the power of his Rinnegan and the full power of his chakra. In this process Yoshitsune's chakra levels increased to an even greater level. After this training as well, Yoshitsune would begin to absorb outside of his will. Using his great chakra control, he formed in essence a chakra shield to protect himself from it as he lack control. After speaking with Hagoromo in his mental plane, Hagoromo would grant him basic control of senjutsu and merged the chakra of the nine tailed beasts perfectly into his system as to further make Yoshitsune his avatar on Earth. Yoshitsune would go on to train and master senjutsu, receiving assistance from, , and the in the process as these places revered the great Hagoromo, and gain the power of the Six Paths Sage Mode instead of the regular form of Sage Mode with his unique chakra. After this, Yoshitsune exited the village of Konoha to wander the world and fulfill his duty, helping people as best as he could just as Hagoromo asked of him and try to have them connect with one another like how Hagoromo wanted the users of chakra to do so long ago. Despite this, Yoshitsune still performs assassinations along the way as though he believes in the Sage, he believes in taking down corruption if it truly does help the people. His Rinnegan and Six Paths Sage Mode combined allowed him to manifest the Rinne Sharingan as he approached the moon as well, giving him his own existense separate from the Sage, following the Sage's dream with his own will and intentions.

Personality
Yoshitsune in his childhood was known to be a kind-hearted child and sympathetic with those around him. When one of his friends was hurt he would always visit them in the hospital or at their home to make sure they are okay and to cheer them up. This made him rather popular as it showed how he truly cared for others. He was also rather cocky when it came to fighting, even going as far as to challenge jōnin despite their superior training and discipline, often leaving Yoshitsune being beaten embarrassingly fast. Once he defected from the village his personality changed, as he became more serious and less juvenile. He became less cocky when fighting and kept his Rinnegan uncovered to deter his foes from fighting him, as many would fear the eye. Now in battles he shows respect to his foes, generally allowing them to speak if they desire to without interruption. Though he is generally kind, Yoshitsune is more than willing to kill if he has to. In battles if he gets taunted by the foe with insults towards what he cherishes, Yoshitsune lets his anger show through at times. Despite these changes though, Yoshitsune retains his caring nature, truly kind at heart, but also displays egotism and arrogance to cover this fact, and at times he is even called rude and at times immature. Despite this, when the weight of a situation is evident, he shows how serious he can be, dropping his ego aside for as long as he needs to. He extends his true caring nature and friendship to his friends and team, but still jokingly insults them. He even claims to go as far as allowing his total annihilation to defend his loved ones. Yoshitsune retains his ability to forgive most people, though can take time for this as well. He was known to be most relaxed around his longtime friend Ninigi Senju, and even made jokes around with him. Yoshitsune recognized Ninigi as his true best friend, and was greatly devastated when he discovered Ninigi's death. In battle, while retaining respect, is also known to compliment his foes, which some interpret as him mocking them. Despite his kindness, Yoshitsune is also known to have random bouts of egotism and can become arrogant, due to Yoshitsune still having a prideful nature. Through his travels and seeing how much darkness is in the world, Yoshitsune's willingness to kill has gone up, often performing assassinations that he believes will help bring peace and justice to the world as much as he possibly can as he still believes in the concept. Yoshitsune is also noted to strongly like things he deems cute.

Appearance
Yoshitsune, much like other 'archaic' members of the Uchiha and Senju clans, bears the appearance of their noble birth coursing through his veins strongly. His formerly detached and cold persona immediately translates to the stance he takes in daily life: upright, but with a slight slouch to represent his detached state of mind. One particular portion of his appearance is his figure. He is relatively tall, but holds a lean and trim figure, which, combined with the various experiences he has been through, is highly muscular. This is combined with his spiky black hair that faces towards his right, obscuring a portion of his angular, handsome, face and strikingly cold black eyes, morphing into the image that can only be called Yoshitsune. His eyes would later be transformed into their Rinnegan form. This means the eyes are purple in color, and it completely colors both the irides and the sclera. The eye has three rippled-rings. After the eyes activated, it would become seemingly permanent and could not be turned off for quite some time, but eventually Yoshitsune gained the ability to deactivate it at will when he fully matured the powers of the eye. Unlike other known full or half-blooded aliens, Yoshitsune does not exhibit horns or any other alien traits.

His hair would grow out longer, past his neck, and become upper back length, ending right above his shoulder blades. He would have two fringes framing his face. Yoshitsune's primary clothing style is simple. Yoshitsune would also grow a beard, one he keeps stylized in a fashion somewhat like 's. Yoshitsune also wears red and white short kimono that he keeps tied with a red sash possessing red magatama along the edges of the sleeve and on the bottom edge of the kimono. With this, e wears simple black pants and sandals.

However, Yoshitsune would later shave his beard down to a simple goatee, alongs with getting his hair back down to around chin length with a wild touch like he had once before. He later switches his kimono shirt to a short-sleeved variant of it, with the exception that no magatama were on it anywhere. He wears this alongside black pants that he is usually known to wear throughout all his major outfit variations.

Abilities
Due to the circumstances of his birth and different events, Yoshitsune has a large amount of powerful and potent chakra, said to be comparable to that of a easily. Made up of chakra with fairly large fragments of the tailed beasts' chakra, Yoshitsune's chakra proves to be overwhelming. Despite the tailed beast chakra, Yoshitsune is unable to access the specific abilities that the beasts had, such as 's Lava Release for example. Yoshitsune believes that reasoning is because he lacks the consciousness of tailed beasts, and therefore lacks their full power. He is a master of many techniques, many of which are feared nationally and has expert precision with all of them. Though he isn't highly muscular, he is quite strong. Kazesō even says that would have been greatly impressed by the physical strength of the Uchiha, and can easily lift a large boulder with a single hand. As he was created using 's chakra in him, he gained the powerful physical energy and life force of the Senju, while Indra's chakra gave him the Uchiha-like monstrous levels of potent and powerful chakra. His already great stamina was increased as he grew older and activated more of the power in his body. With his ability to access the "Six Paths Power" (六道の力, Rikudō no Chikara) would also give him the ability to power techniques up to the point of rivaling senjutsu-based abilities, and when combined with his own senjutsu abilities, it makes his power nearly unstoppable.

Sharingan
During the exams, Yoshitsune would encounter ninja from Otogakure, the Village Hidden in the Sound. These ninja knew of and his agenda to create the perfect vessel. One of the ninja was a sensor, and could tell Yoshitsune had chakra from and  in his body, and figured out Yoshitsune's identity as the created child, born to Orochimaru's vessel. The Otogakure ninja would attack Yoshitsune, and reveal these dark secrets. They would trap Yoshitsune inside of a genjutsu to show Yoshitsune the life he was made for. It showed Yoshitsune creation as best it could, and him being trained from morning to midnight under painful conditions, fashioned to bring out his power as greatly and quickly as possible. The genjutsu showed Orochimaru taking over Yoshitsune's body before looping back to his birth and training. Ninigi Senju would attack Yoshitsune in this state, throwing a kunai to stab him in a non-vital area to awaken him from the genjutsu. Yoshitsune's pain from the stab mixed with the mental effects from the revelations on his birth made the Sharingan activate under the full moon over the forest.

With its awakening, Yoshitsune gained to ability to be able to predict his opponents movements, track fast moving objects, and see chakra flow. The Sharigan's main ability, however, is the power to cast powerful genjutsu with which is is difficult to escape. He can use these powerful illusions to disable foes, interrogate foes, or place them under his control.

Mangekyō Sharingan
On a mission with Kazesō, the two were ambushed by ninja from Kumogakure, the Village Hidden in the Clouds. Kazesō knew the two of them were outnumbered and outmatched by the Kumo-nin and demanded Yoshitsune to flee as he held them off. Yoshitsune begrudgingly obeys and ran as fast as he could as Kazesō prevented the Kumogakure ninja from giving chase. Yoshitsune would hear the screams and howls of pains from his sensei and would begin to return. Finding Kazesō dead, Yoshitsune's rage made the Mangekyō Sharingan awaken in him with all the conditions of his body, and made use of its powers to annihilate the Kumo-nin. Yoshitsune's Mangekyō Sharingan does not seem to go blind as it is fueled by Six Paths chakra, that or it is kept funtioning by his Regeneration Ability.

Yoshitsune manifested the ability of Kamui with his eyes, connecting his eyes to the another. With his left eye he able to produce a long-range variation of this power, and is able to create a barrier space and will then concentrate on the target within it, which will let Kamui distort space and the target will be drawn into the other dimension. With his right eye he is able to become completely or partially intangible. This is caused by transferring parts of his body to the other dimension, making it appear as if he was phasing through attacks. This allows him to also hide within large objects and conceal his chakra completely and remove himself from view. He can also make whatever he is touching intangible as well. Yoshitsune can also make parts of himself intangible while others are tangible. Yoshitsune can also imbue this power into another one of his abilities to produce Kamui Shuriken, in which the thrown shuriken can will burst into a spatial distortion and draw whatever is within the area into his dimension. This allows him to open multiple portals at once. Further, by using yet another power, he can use the Kamui Shuriken to send targets into separate dimensions all together, as he connected his Kamui dimension with the dimensions of this technique.

Yoshitsune can further use powers from the infamous Mangekyō Sharingan. This is primarily seen by his usage of the mighty Susanoo with his heavenly eye. With the advanced eye, Yoshitsune says the strain on his body is not as significant as other users. Yoshitsune's Susanoo has only ever been seen in one form that is simply a larger, more powerful "Complete Body — Susanoo" (完成体　須佐能乎, Kanseitai — Susanoo) compared to the Complete Body – Susanoo of other users. It stands at a height comparable to the Ten-Tails second form. Like all Complete Body – Susanoo, it is a large samurai-like warrior that wears the usual tengu-like armor of the normal Susanoo and it possesses traditional long, tengu nose with a carved out mouth with two lines that run into the chin along with robes, pointed shoes, and armor on its shoulder and waist. It, as a four-armed warrior, has a back, extra set of arms which are plated more than the front set, and extend upwards to give them a wing-like appearance. His Susanoo looks highly similar to that of Madara's in its perfected form due to these traits. While it is more powerful than the average Complete Body — Susanoo, since Yoshitsune can't use it in various stages like other Susanoo users, it prevents Yoshitsune from being able to use it for the more specialized uses that the lower Susanoo forms give to the user. Despite this, however, Yoshitsune can form single parts of the Susanoo on a whim, such as forming the head of his Susanoo to act as a quick shield against attacks. Yoshitsune can also make the arms of his Susanoo form out of his fists in a manner similar to the tailed beast chakra arms, which gives the punch even greater strength with farther range. This can cause his close range combat to become more unpredictable as he can form the four arms on to him in a compact form to give him a greater number of limbs for striking and defending. The Susanoo can form various weapons for the massive entity, such as a sword in the shape of a gladius or a strangely-shaped bow that can act as a shield. The weapon he uses most commonly is a massive spear, which often forms in the shape of a trident, which is a three-pronged spear. His Susanoo sword is even able to destroy three mountains in a single swing. The sword itself normally forms as a katana, but Yoshitsune can manipulate it into becoming other types of swords like a jian or a gladius. Yoshitsune can form scaled-down versions of his Susanoo weapons for him to personally wield as well. Yoshitsune can make usage of the Yasaka Magatama, a powerful, shuriken-like projectile weapon that spins rapidly and cause massive damage on impact. Yoshitsiune claims using his Susanoo in this form would be enough to destroy a nation in mere hours. Yoshitsune is unable to have shadow clones use the Susanoo as the Complete Body is too much power for the clone body to handle, unless Yoshitsune is using his Six Paths Sage Mode, in which case he can form three shadow clones capable of using the chakra warrior. Yoshitsune's Limbo clones can make superior usage of this power, making their Susanoos invisible to all but those with the Rinnegan and the Rinne Sharingan and can only be damaged by Six Paths chakra. When using the Six Paths Sage Mode in unison with the Susanoo, a Rinne Sharingan mark forms on the back of the Susanoo with nine magatama beneath it in three rows of three, mirroring the marking that forms on Yoshitsune, and nine massive Truth-Seeking Balls will manifest behind its back as they would for Yoshitsune. The armor also slims down and the four arms become two, but it is far stronger with this merger. A humanoid being of energy is alYoshitsune refers to this form as the "Six Paths Sage Susanoo" (六道仙人須佐能乎, Rikudō Sennin Susanoo). Due to Yoshitsune being able to naturally fly when using the Six Paths Sage Mode, Yoshitsune's lack of wings on his Susanoo is made null as he can now make the warrior fly with him with the Six Path senjutsu. In this form, Yoshitsune can further enhance his Yasaka Magatama with lightning chakra to create the Sage Art: Lightning Release Magatama Great Howling, with which he creates a sting of magatama beads made out of senjutsu-enhanced lightning. When the lightning magatama make contact with a surface, it will burst into a massive column of lightning. It causes high amounts of damage. Yoshitsune will often have the weapons that the Susanoo forms normally merge with a Truth-Seeking Ball to become much more powerful. While his Susanoo sword is able to destroy three mountains in one swing, Yoshitsune's Six Paths Sage Susanoo sword can cut down a mountain range with a single swing. In this form, Yoshitsune is sometimes compared to the Ten-Tails in ferocity of power, though Yoshitsune dismisses this claim.

Rinnegan
Yoshitsune possesses the mighty Rinnegan, a powerful kekkei genkai and often revered as one of the most powerful of all to ever exist. It is said Yoshitsune unlocked the mythical eye from a combination of Hagoromo's Six Paths chakra in him and his partial alien-based Ōtsutsuki clan genetics. These things together without having a prior dōjutsu allowed the Rinnegan to manifest on its own. Unlike other known users of the eye, Yoshitsune's Rinnegan manifested in both of his normal eyes rather than in a third eye on his forehead. Despite being a pair, Yoshitsune says his Rinnegan would be no more powerful than a single, forehead Rinnegan at its maximum potential. The first time Yoshitsune activated the Rinnegan would first activate momentarily during his own chūnin exams. The death of Ninigi Senju is what caused this eye to awaken, the man who was his best friend and brother figure being gone caused the true power of the Six Paths to mutate his eyes one final time. Yoshitsune could turn the eye on and off at will. With time, chakra consumption from the eye being activated became minimal, and as such Yoshitsune can keep it activated for long periods of time without any ill effect, from days to weeks, and likely could keep it active without ever needing to deactivate it again.

The Rinnegan is the near peak of visual ability. This gives the Rinnegan's ability to grant the user the basic of chakra, all of which he has since mastered.

By accessing the powers of the mighty Rinnegan, Yoshitsune can use the Six Paths Technique, the most infamous set of skills the eyes possess. He has unlocked the Deva Path, which gives him power over gravity. This is the path Yoshitsune uses most often in combat. The techniques used by this path, however, often require a recharge before the path is usable again. As such he gained its technique known as Shinra Tensei, which allows him to create a repulsive force that can block projectiles and easily shatter many hard materials. He can also use a large-scale version that can damage the terrain greatly. Yoshitsune also makes use of shadow clones to perform a multiple blast variation, and while the waves themselves weaken, the number can leave a more controlled area of devastation. With this style, Yoshitsune can use to clones to surround a foe and have the multiple waves slam into the foe on all sides, crushing them easily. He also gains the Banshō Ten'in, which allows him to create an attractive force, allowing him to pull objects or people towards him at high speeds. He often uses this technique in combination with another path to absorb their chakra to render them too weak to fight. Yoshitsune can also use clones to perform a multiple pull effect, such as one pull on each side of a foe to tear the foe apart. Yoshitsune also can use the technique known as Chibaku Tensei, which creates a powerful singularity which will be fired into the sky and pulls objects towards it making them compress with each other causing a large sphere to form. After using a technique from the Deva Path, Yoshitsune requires a cooldown period until he can use it again. Yoshitsune is also able to use the Preta Path, which allows him to absorb chakra, making most ninjutsu unusable on him. Yoshitsune has also unlocked the ability of the Asura Path. This ability allows him to modify his body and make himself a living weapon by transforming part into weapons. The Asura Attack allows him to change a limb into a blaster that fires blasts of chakra that also have an explosive effect, and through time gained the ability to manipulate its path. Yoshitsune can further use the Flaming Arrow of Amazing Ability to fire part of his arm as a projectile. The hand of the arm gains a propulsive power from the burst of chakra that separates the limb from the body and flies in a straight line with high levels of force. The hand can easily shatter bedrock and is protected by a layer of chakra, allowing it to resist being damaged. The detached limb can easily reattach itself to Yoshitsune through the chakra of the arm, which acts like a magnet. Yoshitsune can also use the Naraka Path for interrogation and use of the, as when he catches hold of somebody he can make the King of Hell appear and hold them in place by seemingly paralyzing him. Yoshitsune uses the Naraka Path in such a way that while making contact with the foe, should they lie his body will respond immediately by sending a powerful shock into them as a form of torture rather than the conventional use of the King of Hell's, and should they tell the truth they will be let go after having a large portion of their chakra absorbed by the Preta Path. This seems to indicate that those who had the Rinnegan or the Rinnegan need not summon the King of Hell, as they become their own King of Hell. He can also form powerful chains of chakra with the Outer Path. Yoshitsune is able to use the Animal Path, which allows him to summon animals connected to his powerful eye, such as a strange, golden phoenix-dragon hybrid and an eight-legged horse. While used in combat sometimes, Yoshitsune uses these beasts for travel more often than not. Yoshitsune can further apply usage of his Asura Path through his Animal Path summons as they are connected to his Rinnegan, allowing Yoshitsune to rapidly enhance and shape them with the machine-like ability, as well as usage of the other paths. Yoshitsune also is able to use the Human Path, which allows him to read the mind of somebody but also tear their soul out in the process. Yoshitsune doesn't use the Human Path in combat often, but when he does he often employs it as to only remove part of the soul he is targeting it, and then quickly sever that one part, often through usage of a blade created through the Asura Path. After this is performed, the part of the body that lost its soul will begin to rot. Yoshitsune has access to the Outer Path, being able to use it to form black receivers that can transmit and receive chakra, and use them as weapons. He seems to use these rods in a fashion similar to the Shikotsumyaku. Yoshitsune can also use the rods to exert his will over those pierced by them. Yoshitsune can further control the rods remotely and move them telepathically like, in a manner that often gets confused with Magnet Release. Using this aspect of the ability, Yoshitsune also developed a manner of using the rods by having them crushed into a powder, using the particles like the sand of the and its. Yoshitsune can further use these rods to form perform the Six Red Yang Formation ability, forming a malleable red box that is able to withstand the explosions of multiple Tailed Beast Balls. Yoshitsune's chakra rods are harder than steel and can fight on par with Shikotsumyaku bones.

Yoshitsune can also use his Rinnegan to use the Limbo: Border Jail, with which he can project a clone or clones of himself in the "Limbo" (輪墓, Wheel Grave) realm. These clones are extremely powerful, and can tackle down large foes such as Susanoo and, and can move extremely fast. The shadows of this strange technique can only operate for five minutes before returning to Yoshitsune for a cool down time. The clone shadow can also be harmed by techniques made of 's chakra, making this technique difficult to counter for most and nearly invincible. Yoshitsune is able to use this technique to make four clones at a time. The clones can be used for spying purposes as well, as only the Rinnegan and the Rinnegan can see the clones. This way, Yoshitsune can set multiple clones to gather information without fear of being detected for the most part with the Rinnegan and the Rinnegan being extremely rare abilities. Yoshitsune, due to its great usage, favors this technique highly among the many abilities his Rinnegan has given him.

Yoshitsune can shift his location with his Rinnegan as well by using the technique known as Amenotejikara, allowing him to instantly move from one area to another. The range of this technique can also be increased if he trades places with an object, which Yoshitsune often employs with his Limbo clones. He further maximized usage of the ability by being able to teleport directly to any chakra receiver he has made wherever it may be, in a vein even closer to that of the Flying Thunder God Technique. Yoshitsune can further use it to shift the location of objects and other people, placing them in strategic locations. This technique does have a cooldown period, however, due to Yoshitsune possessing two Rinnegan it seems to make his cooldown time significantly shorter than 's, and Yoshitsune can use the technique five times before having to recharge it for a short duration of time. However, while in his Six Paths Sage Mode, he can use this technique seven times rapidly without having to recharge, and the recharge period seems to be shorter as well.

Rinne Sharingan
Another such technique is Amenominaka, an ability which allows Yoshitsune to teleport himself and others to other dimensions. This ability allows Yoshitsune to have multiple dimensions with different effects. The first dimension is that of a world of lava. The temperature is extremely high, and to move about one must either scale walls of be able to fly to avoid falling into the lava pit below. Ash clouds also form that fire at times as well. Yoshitsune can control the lava as if he possessed the Lava Release kekkei genkai. The second dimension is a frozen world full of ice. The temperature is extremely low, causing fear of frostbite to become a reality. Yoshitsune can control the ice as if he possessed the Ice Release kekkei genkai. Yoshitsune says he had this world as soon as he has the power of Amenominaka. The second dimension is one of eternal darkness, and was created by Yoshitsune through the lack of material to make one like the more complex ones that created. In this realm, light cannot be created in any form, making it truly a world darkness greater than that of the night. The only beings that can see perfectly in this dark and cruel realm are the ones who possess the Rinne Sharingan, and to a lesser extent, the Sharingan and Rinnegan. Yoshitsune can also allow vision to those without these dōjutsu as he can manipulate the laws of the realm. Yoshitsune can further summon elements of his dimensions into other ones, such as summoning forth ice from his ice dimension in the regular world and control it like he normally can in the lava dimension. Further, Yoshitsune has connected his Kamui to this power, allowing is so when Yoshitsune uses the Kamui Shuriken that it can transport his foes to one of these dimensions at random or one of his specific choosing.

Yoshitsune can also use the God: Nativity of a World of Trees ability, which allows him to manipulate the roots of the or form smaller god trees and can be used much like the Wood Release Secret Technique: Nativity of a World of Trees. The trees have a chakra absorption ability to protect themselves from damage, such as it being able to consume fire to prevent major burning, but high-speed wind and water techniques can cut through it before the trees can react quickly enough. It can be merged with his path powers, which he notably does with the Asura Path, with which he turns the masses of trees, organic extensions of himself, into weaponry such as chakra cannons which can be used to obliterate armies. It can also be merged with the Preta Path to greatly enhance its chakra absorption, being able to consume massive techniques with it this way. It can also be used to ensnare those captured by his Genjutsu: Sharingan and absorb their chakra, and then when it is all taken they will be released from the trees' grasp. Yoshitsune also uses this technique to have the roots of his trees reach the "Dragon Veins" (龍脈, Ryūmyaku), an ancient source of chakra, as to absorb chakra directly from them as to produce chakra fruit, a lower quality version of the fruit eaten by Kaguya, to give Yoshitsune more chakra should he need it by eating said fruit.

Ninjutsu
Truly, ninjutsu is where Yoshitsune shines in battle, which is ironic considering he is essentially the successor of the Sage of Six Paths,, who opposed ninjutsu. As previously stated, Yoshitsune has very high levels of extremely potent chakra due to his creation being a result of the merge of and 's chakra to create Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki's powerful chakra within his hybrid body along with portions of chakra from the  merged in, and had been compared to a tailed beast himself on numerous occasions, which allows him to use many high level techniques in succession. His powerful Six Paths, tailed beast-enhanced chakra also enhances the power and usage of his various techniques. Yoshitsune further has the stamina to keep up with this usage of ninjutsu. Yoshitsune possesses a power once held by, a highly potent healing ability that allows him to heals wounds rapidly, causing scratches and bruises to be erased from his flesh in mere seconds, and broken bones within minutes. Despite this, the ability is limited, not being able to reform limbs or organs if they are removed or horribly damaged, unless he is in Six Paths Sage Mode.

Nature Transformation
Yoshitsune's natural affinity prior to awakening the Rinnegan was Lightning Release. He great knowledge on Lightning Release and how to use it, and has been shown to use a strong techniques with it. He is able to use powerful techniques such as the Lightning Release: Lightning Echo Technique, Yoshitsune's signature technique and one he created himself, which lets Yoshitsune form a powerful orb lightning in his hand. This technique, like the Chidori, can be used to pierce and assassinate. However, this technique has superior shape transformation, allowing Yoshitsune to not need to move as fast as the Chidori would, preventing tunnel vision. On contact, the orb of lightning will stream outward away from Yoshitsune. These streams of lightning are very powerful and can even pierce stone. Like most lightning techniques, this ability is increased in power if the target is wet or water is present. Yoshitsune also possesses the Lightning Release: Thundering Voice Technique, which gathers chakra in his fingers before releasing it as a thin beam of lightning chakra. The beam can easily pierce through stone, and is an effective long-range move that more so is used to disable the foe rather than kill them. Yoshitsune also has the Lightning Release: Whisper of the Gathering Clouds Technique, with which he kneads lightning chakra within his body before releasing it. The lightning branches out and forms a massive wall of lightning. The wall moves incredibly fast, destroying most of which is crosses. The wall itself takes multiple wind-users tp stop. With the power of his Six Paths Sage Mode, Yoshitsune can also use a technique he created known as the Sage Art: Lightning Release Magatama Great Howling. With this technique, Yoshitsune has made it known he possesses a high caliber of lightning usage. With it, Yoshitsune forms a string of magatama beads infused with lightning chakra. Yoshitsune can then fire large, electric magatama from it that will explode into a massive column of lightning on impact that spreads out in streams. Anything caught up in these columns will be destroyed by the lightning. The columns causes wide-scale damage as well. Yoshitsune can also use this technique while using Tenpenchii for more destructive results, as natural lightning will merge with the pillars of senjutsu lightning.

While lightning is Yoshitsune's main element and original affinity, he also possess the ability to use the Fire Release, and wields it with great skill. He was able to burn down a medium size base with his Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, a technique that creates a large ball of fire that can break through harder substances as well. He supposedly learned this technique from, though Yoshitsune doesn't comment on this often. This technique can be used to shatter some defenses with relative ease, burn the surrounding area of Yoshitsune, and incinerate those unlucky enough to take a direct hit. He can fire multiple fireballs as well, and often uses shadow clones in a large group to make a large barrage of them to form a powerful wall of fire similar to the Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation. While this attack is not quite as powerful, it still is a powerful offense and can also be used to form a curved wall of fire to add variation. This seems to be his most used and favored fire technique, due to its simplicity yet strong nature.

Thanks to his Rinnegan, Yoshitsune can also use Earth Release, Water Release, Wind Release, Yin Release, Yang Release, and Yin–Yang Release. He does not usually use these transformations in combat as he is not as skilled in their use as opposed to his other natures. Yoshitsune is known to use simple to put wind-chakra into weapons, namely his chakra rods, to increase their cutting ability. Yoshitsune's use of wind also includes flowing it into his fire-based technique to increase their power. Yoshitsune helped develop the Water Release: Mare Nostrum Technique, with Ninigi Senju, and it is a very powerful water technique due to its piercing and cutting strength by acting as a and how it causes massive torrents of water to form upon contact with its target, bringing them down as the water flows rapidly. Yoshitsune often enhances this water technique with lightning chakra, giving it stronger cutting abilities and a painful, even deadly, shock. With Earth Release he can use the Earth Release: Sandwich Technique to cause to slabs of earth, of various sizes depending on how large he wants it, to slam into each other, catching anything in between with tremendous force. This can be used to capture foes as well should Yoshitsune not desire to kill them. Yoshitsune can use wind chakra to form the Wind Release: Vacuum Sphere to exhale a large amount of wind bullets that cover a large range to make it difficult to avoid, and can further set them on fire to make powerful bullets of fire-enhanced by the wind chakra in the attack. His Genjutsu: Rinnegan is yin chakra-based as well, and it allows him to create powerful genjutsu by making eye contact with his foe. The illusion can be anything he desires, and it is extremely difficult to escape.

Yoshitsune is capable of streaming all five elements at once, and with the usage of his shadow clones, Yoshitsune can use the streams in various formations to attack his opponents. Yoshitsune can also merge all of his chakra natures together with Six Paths senjutsu to form Truth-Seeking Balls, malleable orbs of chakra. These orbs can be shaped into various tools, act like Tailed Beast Balls, behave similarly to other chakra natures such as Dust Release, and negate ninjutsu. These orbs are only weak to senjutsu chakra, making this a powerful weapon to their core.

Bunshinjutsu
Even in the academy as a child, Yoshitsune showed skill with clone techniques. Quickly discarding the, Yoshitsune learned the technique that is mostly forbidden, the Shadow Clone Technique. This technique actually forms tangible clones by dividing the users that can experience things another clone or caster may not. When the clone bursts, the chakra disperses and returns to the caster which gives him all the knowledge the clone gained. Yoshitsune further uses this to create hundreds of shadow clones to form an army of himself and so he can hide among them if needed to get ready for a technique or some other tactic. Yoshitsune further uses the army of clones to attack the enemy from all sides with taijutsu and ninjutsu in a massive barrage. Yoshitsune can make usage of four shadow clones to release all five basic elements at once, which he uses in various formations. Yoshitsune can also enhance all of these clones with senjutsu chakra to make them more durable, being able to stand far stronger hits than the average shadow clone. Yoshitsune's shadow clones can also make usage of his Susanoo from his Six Paths Sage Mode. Up to three shadow clones can use the technique while Yoshitsune himself is using it. Yoshitsune is also capable of producing four invisible, nearly invincible clones with his Rinnegan, known as the Limbo: Border Jail that have incredible power and speed, and they can only be damaged by Six Paths chakra. They can also use any technique has to attack with as well.

Senjutsu
As the successor to the will of legendary, acting like his avatar in some ways, and bearer of 's legacy, Yoshitsune would eventually develop the ability to absorb and merge it with his chakra to form  just as they had before him. As his body was trying to recreate the Sage's powers since it was so deep rooted into him, he unwillingly began to absorb it. Due to his lack of training in the art, he did not know how to control the ability and feared it turning him into stone. To avoid this, he used his great chakra control to push the natural energy out of his system forcefully, though this would prove taxing on his energy. To get around this, Yoshitsune returned to and met with, a renowned sage. Yoshitsune got Naruto to agree to absorb the natural energy out of his body so Yoshitsune could relax his chakra and not fear turning into stone. As Naruto did this to help the vagabond, Yoshitsune took his next course of action. Yoshitsune decided to meditate and contact Hagoromo through their connected chakra, Hagoromo would explain he did not expect such a happening but would help Yoshitsune to gain a rudimentary usage of natural energy. Hagoromo, however, as to have his successor bear the same power as him in case a new, unforeseen threat should arise, used his Creation of All Things ability and merged the fractions of the nine chakra that Yoshitsune had perfectly into his vast chakra network so that Yositsune could himself produce it for a greater form of Sage Mode. Passing knowledge on to Yoshitsune through his, Yoshitsune would learn the basic control of the power, but would have to train on his own time to master it. Travelling from the domains of many of the senjutsu using animals, including the and the, and gain a deeper understanding of the power of his forefathers. Upon mastering it, Yoshitsune did not use the power of Sage Mode like he was expecting. Instead, Yoshitsune activated the ability to use the Six Paths Sage Mode, born from the fusion of his Six Paths chakra and natural energy into Six Paths senjutsu chakra, as well as the tailed beast chakra fused into his network by and Hagoromo. When in this form, the image of a Rinnegan with nine magatama in three rows of three beneath it forms on his back. As his usage of the form progressed, a silver robe of his own chakra would manifest over his normal clothes with the same symbol on his back on the back of the robe, and circle markings forming rings on his shoulders with square protrusions from the rings. The robe was closed in the middle, but opened up more towards the tail of it. Alongside the chakra cloak, a black body suit of chakra forms over his body much like how 's Six Paths Sage form is. Yoshitsune would have to take time to safely gather natural energy, often using shadow clones. At his current level, Yoshitsune can enter Six Paths Sage Mode instantaneously, and no longer needs clones to gather natural energy.

In this form, Yoshitsune's strength, stamina, endurance, speed, reflexes, and the power of his techniques are greatly heightened. The chakra robe that Yoshitsune forms can split on the tail of it into four arms from his Battle Avatar at will. With it, Yoshitsune further gained the ability to naturally fly and to form nine Truth-Seeking Balls, formed from all of the basic chakra natures of, , , , and , alongside the power of Yin–Yang Release. These Truth-Seeking Balls float behind his back in a circular formation. Yoshitsune further has his Truth-Seeking Balls connected to the power of his Rinnegan, so should one get out of range from where is he, he can summon it back him instantly. While he is far faster in this form than his basic form, Yoshitsune still tends to primarily rely on the Amenotejikara to move around the battle field as it is still faster. Yoshitsune is known to be able to use the technique more times in succession in the Six Paths Sage Mode than in his basic form as well, increasing it from five times to seven times without needing to recharge. Moreover, the recharge time between heavy usages of the technique is shortened as well. Yoshitsune could also form a Battle Avatar, which his takes on an appearance nearly identical to Susanoo. The marking that forms on Yoshitsune's back manifests on the avatar's as well, and nine massive Truth-Seeking Balls form behind its back in a circular formation. Some have said that in this form, Yoshitsune is the reborn, due to the massive power it possesses. Yoshitsune himself says in this form that his Six Paths Sage Mode and his Rinnegan become perfectly linked, increasing the power of each other in the process. The avatar also has a sword, though it often gets merged with a Truth-Seeking Ball. With his senjutsu, Yoshitsune can further use the Sage Art: Lightning Release Magatama Great Howling, with which he creates a sting of magatama beads made out of senjutsu-enhanced lightning. When the lightning magatama make contact with a surface, it will burst into a massive column of lightning. It causes high amounts of damage. Yoshitsune can use the Truth-Seeking Balls to form powerful weapons and can only be damaged by senjutsu-based abilities. Yoshitsune can cause the Truth-Seeking Balls to also act as a bomb, acting very similar to Tailed Beast Balls in the act, or in a way that mimics Dust Release too. Further, in Six Paths Sage Mode, Yoshitsune can manipulate the natural energy of the environment to produce massively powerful storms with the ability known as Tenpenchii. With Tenpenchii, Yoshitsune can create violent storms, heavy rain, hail, blizzards, lightning, tornadoes, massive earthquakes, and various other calamities that threaten the area it takes place in greatly. A strange, but powerful, explosion also takes place in the heart of the storm, forming a large mushroom cloud in the process. Yoshitsune rarely uses this ability, but will activate it should there be a large army or massive threat.

Bukijutsu
Like many shinobi, Yoshitsune has been trained in the usage of various weapons. From a young age, he was taught the handling of many weapons, such as the very basic shuriken and kunai handling. He excelled in the marksmanship, as was able to pierce the many targets dead-on or close to it. Yoshitsune also knows how to counter many tools and reverse them against their wielder. Using one of his abilities, Yoshitsune can create makeshift weapons on the spot, and as such does not carry any weapons on him on a regular basis. He often uses this to make a sword or a. Yoshitsune can further form any weapon out of his Six Paths chakra through the power of the Susanoo, such as swords, spears, shields, bows, crossbows, hammers, and maces, as well as do a more powerful variation of this with his Truth-Seeking Balls while in Six Paths Sage Mode.

Kenjutsu
Yoshitsune eventually obtained a sword which he uses with great skill, made from a chakra rod he produced when he first activated the Rinnegan. He imbues his fire and lightning chakra into the sword to increase its effectiveness. With it he was able to fight against powerful swordsman such as various high-ranking and defeat them. He has also defeated many members of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and claims to have bested each sword of the group, though this may be simple boasting. After manifesting the Rinnegan once more, Yoshitsune stopped carrying his sword with him. He used the ability it granted of manifesting chakra rods to form a blade more durable than most ninja tools, easily slicing through kunai and shuriken while leaving damage on regular swords. He also flows his wind-based chakra through the rods to increase their cutting power, and mostly throws them like javelins. Yoshitsune can form even more powerful swords with his Susanoo to selectively form the chakra colossus' sword in his hand, and also does this with his Truth-Seeking Balls, often merging he Susanoo sword and Truth-Seeking Ball into one blade. Yoshitsune seems to start most fights with his blades to gauge his foes' style before using his stronger abilities. His main style seems to be high-speed slashes mixed with motions meant to disarm his foe if they are armed, and attempt to disable them.

Intelligence
Yoshitsune is also quick to discern the nature of a person, if they are friendly or hostile, if they mean to help of do nothing. As Yoshitsune doesn't care for violence, he also possesses great reasoning skill to try and evade unneeded conflict. Yoshitsune is also perceptive, being able to analyze and break down a technique quickly. Yoshitsune can also deceive others well, as well as see through deception. Yoshitsune can quickly plan for a battle too, by analyzing his foe he quickly formulate a plan suited for them. Yoshitsune is also a skilled and adept learner. This is also seen through his breaking down of the power of advanced natures such as Ninigi Senju's Wood Release, and another man's Dust Release, the famous kekkei tōta, and learn all the elements granted to him by the Rinnegan, for a few examples. He further could use his Rinnegan to access powers from the Mangekyō Sharingan, a feat never before seen. Yoshitsune also knows information on many bloodlines, such as the blind spot of the Byakugan, which he uses to his advantage to better combat Byakugan wielders he comes across.

Yoshitsune's knowledge of history is also expansive. Yoshitsune has studied the history of the great nations like Konohagakure, Sunagakure, Kirigakure, Kumogakure, and Iwagakure, as well as lesser villages like Otogakure, Takigakure, and Amegakure. He also holds strong knowledge of the great. He applies this history when fighting foes of these different places to try and predict what their fighting style may be. Yoshitsune also possesses knowledge of the and the Shinobi World Wars. With the activation of his Rinnegan, Yoshitsune went on to read the tablet hidden in the and gained the knowledge it possessed of the, the theft made by , , better known as the "Sage of Six Paths", and of how he defeated the Ten-Tails, made the  from the beast's chakra, imprisoned the  in a rock formation made by his Chibaku Tensei that would become the moon, and gave the human race chakra. He also learned the story of the and  of the Sage and how the younger was chosen, causing the elder to be fueled by hatred, and how from the elder came the Uchiha clan and from the younger the Senju clan. Yoshitsune also knows the names of all the tailed beasts, and he is one of the few to refer to them by name out of respect, having learned them from Hagoromo himself in his mental plane. This tablet also had new additions from Hagoromo after he fixed the errors added in by, information he learned through and  during their battle with his mother Kaguya, as he was still residing in their bodies at that point. With all this, Yoshitsune decided to spread the truth that normally only bearers of the Rinnegan family of eyes could read to the world.

Trivia

 * Yoshitsune's name translates to "righteous " (義経). This is fitting as Yoshitsune bears the Rinnegan, an eye heavily based on many Buddhist concepts.
 * Yoshitsune's name and his moniker, "Thousand Cherry Blossoms", are both references to , one of the first stories from Japan his author learned about that was not an anime or manga.
 * Yoshitsune's author has stated that if Yoshitsune had a voice actor, would be his ideal voice actor.
 * Yoshitsune shares his birthday with his author.
 * Yoshitsune enjoys relaxing, music, swimming, reading, history, and training.
 * Yoshitsune's favorite foods are beef, shrimp, and potatoes, and dislikes vegetarian and vegan dishes. Yoshitsune also enjoys drinking tea with fresh honey and coffee, and tends to not drink alcohol.
 * Yoshitsune fears geckos and frogs, though Yoshitsune eventually overcame this fear of frogs when he received help from the at  with completing his senjutsu training for the Six Paths Sage Mode.
 * Yoshitsune is known to dislike the smell of blood.
 * Yoshitsune has done 219 missions: 105 D-rank, 51 C-rank, 46 B-rank, 10 A-rank, and 7 S-rank.
 * Yoshitsune's favorite word is, as he wants to make it better than the past.
 * Yoshitsune wishes to fight, , , , and.
 * Yoshitsune does not possess the Six Paths Yin and Yang Powers, as Hagoromo has said there is no need for their power in the world as of its current situation. As such, it is unknown if Yoshitsune will ever gain these seals.

Quotes

 * "Immortality is a pathetic dream that the weak cling to in hopes of gaining respect and fear. The, , and are all examples of this, death comes to even the most powerful of beings. Many supposed "immortals" have died time and time again. As shinobi we fight, and we die to finally rest. In that rest we watch our friends and family persevere and continue in life until they, like us, die and join us in rest. We continue watching their children, their children's children, and so on until a time finally comes were all this senseless violence stops on its own."
 * (To Ninigi) "What is blood? The Uchiha and Senju are hailed as the greatest clans, but why? Surely Ninigi, you come from a strong family, but why is the attention always on your clan or the Uchiha's? We are all human, we breathe the same air, eat the same food, fight for something, and live for something. And is this proof of us as human? We are also in conflict. Like all humans in the world, we are constantly pitting ourselves against one another. Perhaps it is our attempt to think that we are superior that has caused us to fight so heavily, instead of with others. Humans are a cunning creature, we all adapt to the same situations but in our own ways."
 * "What makes a monster and what makes a man?"
 * "Do not confuse me with ever again. I bear his will and his powerful abilities, but I wield my own mind. I walk his path, but I walk it armed. I believe in his ideals, but at the same time I believe in the death of one for the many. I am Yoshitsune, not Hagoromo. I am no 'Sage of Six Paths', but its ."