Kakuzu

Kakuzu is a villian from the Naruto series

Kakuzu is a member of the criminal organization known as Akatsuki. He is the the accountant for Akatsuki which makes him obsessed with money, he also posses five hearts. Kakuzu is a greedy bounty hunter. He does not like having a partner because he is prone to violent outbursts in battle that have claimed the lives of his partners, however his new partner is special.

Kakuzu Overview
Kakuzu is a member/Accountant of Akatsukiand partner of Hidan, Kakuzu is from Takigakure, the Village Hidden in a Waterfall. Kakuzu is a very powerful shinobi, he posses five hearts which allow him to posses five lives. Kakuzu is able to replace these hearts if they are destroyed by removing them from a defeated opponent. Kakuzu is also able to use his hearts as weapons, the heart can be released from his body and take control of the string and build a body to use to fight with. Each one of his hearts has a different chakra element. Kakuzu has some very strange techniques, the weirdest of them all is that his body is made up of a string that can expand across a long distance by his chakra. Another technique is that he is able to shield his body from any attack if he is able too.

Fire
A monkey like mask with red lips that can form a body out of Kakuzu's string, for this technique to work the monster must use one of kakuzu's hearts. It is able to burst out fire element attacks pretty much  an unlimited amount of times, the tip of this technique is when it fuses it's attack with his wind based monster.

Lighting
Using a bull like mask this monster is the same as the rest using Kakuzu's string to form a body to use. It can release lighting bolt's at an unlimited pace.

Wind
An eagle styled mask that has a four legged body with wings, it releases huge tornado style attacks at an unlimited pace. Fusing its technique with the fire makes it almost unstoppable.

Water
Kakuzu can use water style jutsu.

Other Techniques
Kakuzu can use his string to shoot out limbs off his body to attack enemies,  Kakuzus ultimate attack is to use the string with his body and form large objects that cab allow him to fly for example. Kakuzu is heavily injured from Naruto Uzumaki and his wind chakra based RasenShuriken, he is finally finished by Kakashiwith a Chidori.

Background Part 2
Kakuzu is 91 years old and a former Waterfall ninja. His village sent him on a mission to kill the Leaf village's first Hokage, Hashirama. Kakuzu failed and returned to his village gravely injured, but instead of honoring him they cruelly punished him for his failure and imprisoned him. Filled with rage, he escaped once he recovered and stole the scroll containing his village's forbidden jutsu where he learned Earth Grudge Fear, which he used to take the hearts of the village leaders before leaving the village. Kakuzu aided Hidan in capturing Yugito Nii, the young woman who contained the two-tailed cat demon. Hidan then accompanied Kakuzu to the Fire Temple that housed warrior monks. Kakuzu told Hidan that he suspected that a Jinchuuriki was there. After Kakuzu busted down the gates, they were stopped by the head monk, Chiriku, and the others. It turns out there was a very large bounty on Chiriku and that's why Kakuzu was there. After defeating all of the monks, they left with Chiriku to collect his bounty. The two would later encountered four Leaf ninjas: Asuma, Shikamaru, Kotetsu, and Izumo who were trying to capture the pair. Hidan wanted to fight them alone and insisted that Kakuzu didn't interfere. Hidan caught Asuma in his curse technique and slowly inflicted injuries to Asuma, but was stopped by Shikamaru before he could deal the final blow. Shikamaru forced Hidan out of the technique and Asuma cut off Hidan's head, which Kakuzu re-attached. Kotetsu and Izumo attacked Kakuzu, Izumo using "Starch Syrup Capture Field" to keep Kakuzu in one place while Kotetsu summoned a giant conch-looking mace, but both were caught in Kakuzu's grip thanks to his extending limbs.Suddenly Aoba came to help and used "Murder of Crows Confusion" to blind Kakuzu while his partner Raido tried to cut off his head hiding in the flock using a black cloak and black sword, however Kakuzu used his "Earth Spear" to protect himself and fought them. During this, Hidan once again used his curse technique to fatally wound Asuma, Aoba's and Raido's teammates Ino and Chouji were there to mourn Asuma with Shikamaru. Although Hidan wanted to finish the fight and Kakuzu wanted Asuma's bounty, the duo left when Pein ordered them to come seal the Sanbi. Kakuzu and Hidan would later be caught in a trap orchestrated by Shikamaru and the team of Kakashi, Choji, and Ino. Shikamaru had Asuma's property absorbing trench knives which Shikamaru used to absorb his shadow abilities. He threw various kunais at the duo but Kakuzu used his Earth Spear to defend against them, however he and Hidan were frozen in place when Shikamaru stabbed their shadows with the trench knives. Although unable to move, Kakuzu was able to remove the knife from his shadow with his tendrils, just in time to avoid Hidan's attack who was being manipulated by Shikamaru's technique. Shikamaru had Hidan continue to attack Kakuzu while Chouji attacked them both, prompting Kakuzu to once again use his Earth Spear technique. Kakashi attacked Kakuzu with his Raikiri, piercing his hand through Kakuzu's hardened chest, at the same time he collected some blood from Kakuzu in a vile. After Kakuzu went down, Kakashi aimed for Hidan but Kakuzu quickly kicked Kakashi aside, revealing that what Kakashi hit was a spare heart on his back, Kakuzu then released his hearts with black tendrils for bodies. Shikamaru's technique then wore off and Hidan attempted to hold Kakashi down while Kakuzu's wind heart used Pressure Damage on them, with Hidan's immortality preventing him from death. However, Kakashi would escape the blast and would continue to battle the combination of Hidan and Kakuzu's Wind and Fire hearts.Meanwhile Kakuzu attacked Ino and Chouji while Shikamaru ran from Kakuzu's lightning heart, Kakuzu stopped Chouji's punch and slammed him into a tree, then proceeded to grab him and Ino and try to choke them; Shikamaru however saved them by unsealing a scroll full of water that caused Kakuzu to be electrocuted by his own lightning heart, Shikamaru then threw kunais with exploding seals but Kakuzu blocked them with Water Encampment Wall. Kakuzu was about to hit them with False Darkness, but Kakashi used a Shadow Clone to trick Hidan and arrived to save the team from the electrical heart's attack by deflecting it with his Raikiri, then secretly gave the vile of Kakuzu's blood to Shikamaru who used his Shadow Imitation technique to take Hidan deep into the woods. Kakuzu and Kakashi engaged in close combat, Kakashi managed to get Kakuzu with a pile driver, but it turned out to be a Water Clone of Kakuzu and he came out of hiding and attacked. Kakuzu quickly gained the upperhand over Kakashi, meanwhile Hidan got out of Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation and regained control of his body, allowing him to draw some of Shikamaru's blood and activate his curse technique and impaled himself in the chest... at the same time, Kakuzu's heart was destroyed just as he was about to take Kakashi's heart to replace the one he destroyed earlier. Shikamaru revealed that Hidan didn't draw blood from him, but rather he doused Hidan's weapon with Kakuzu's blood instead. The masked hearts rushed to aid Kakuzu and, despite Chouji's attempt to stop them, the three re-integrated into Kakuzu, replacing the destroyed heart with the Lightning one and attacked with a combination of his Intense Pain and Pressure Damage jutsus, but Kakashi, Ino, and Chouji were saved by the arrival of Yamato, Naruto, Sai, and Sakura. Naruto and Yamato used a combination of wind and water to block Kakuzu's attack. Sai and Sakura were sent to aid Shikamaru while Yamato and Naruto remained to aid Kakashi and the others.Naruto used his Shadow Clones to swarm Kakuzu, but Kakuzu destroyed them but was almost struck from behind by Naruto's new technique, the Rasenshuriken, during the confusion. Kakuzu leaped away and Naruto failed to connect. Kakuzu went in for the kill, but Naruto was saved by the combined efforts of Kakashi and Yamato, forcing Kakuzu to evade Yamato's attack while Kakashi cut Naruto free from Kakuzu's tendrils.Naruto used the same trick again of swarming Kakuzu with Shadow Clones to distract him so that he could try the Rasenshuriken again. Kakuzu realized that Naruto is a close range brawler and that the Rasenshurken was a dangerous technique, choosing to ignore the Shadow Clones, going straight for the kill before the Rasenshuriken could hit him... but he didn't anticipate the one with the Rasenshuriken that he just "killed" was actually a Shadow Clone and the real Naruto struck him from behind with the Rasenshuriken, destroying the two spare hearts on his back. Kakuzu wasn't dead though, just paralyzed. After expressing his shock that he was defeated by kids, Kakashi replied that the young surpass the old and then dealt the final blow while Kakuzu laid immobilized, his body was then brought back to Konoha where Tsunade conducted an autopsy to discern the Rasenshuriken's affects. Kakuzu's eternal slumber would be interrupted though, as Kabuto after absorbing Orochimaru's powers was able to bring him and others back using Resurrection to the Impure World in a bid to win Madara's favor. Upon succeeding, from orders by Madara, Kabuto sent Kakuzu and the other resurrected to war with the ninja alliance. On the battlefield, he killed many and took their hearts and housing them in his masks. He then briefly encountered Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji after they aided Darui and others in capturing Kinkaku and Ginkaku. Kakuzu mentioned how the alliance had captured some of their warriors, but made them aware that Asuma is on his side, whom they engaged in battle. Kakuzu sent his masks off to fight on the battlefield while he engaged Darui, Kotetsu, Izumo, and others in battle. He was ultimately pinned down by a giant Chouji.

Abilities/Techniques
Kakuzu is made up of the younger body parts of others that he has defeated and is held together by the seemingly endless black tendrils within his body, created from the "Earth Grudge Fear" jutsu. These tendrils are able to pierce flesh and are strong enough to break bone. He is able to extend parts of his body by using these tendrils and can also extend the tendrils by themselves to snare his enemies, he has even used these tendrils to re-attach the severed body parts of Akatsuki members.In the Narutoverse people's chakra possess a single elemental affinity which allows the individual to learn that specific element easier than any other. Using different elemental jutsus is done by recomposing their chakra into the element they want, which is not easy to learn and not as powerful as their affinity. Attached to Kakuzu's back by his tendrils are four masks, each shielding one of four spare hearts that he has taken from enemy ninjas. He is not only able to use these spare hearts' elemental affinities, but he is able to use them to replace his heart if anything happens to it. They can also act independently of Kakuzu and he can give these masks pseudo-bodies made out of his tendrils.He has displayed a few elemental Jutsus. "False Darkness" takes the form of piercing lightning javelins that can range in numbers; "Searing Migraine" carpet bombs the terrain in fire; "Pressure Damage" a wind vortex of highly condensed air; "Earth Spear" where his body is transformed into nearly indestructible adamant. He could also combine his wind and fire elements to create a powerful inferno. He also used two water jutsus; "Water Encampment Wall" to create a shield made out of water, and "Water Clone" where he created a duplicate of himself out of water.



