Even as Naruto and Sasuke were progressing, Kakashi was still near their level. Yamato's character often felt inferior to his students, despite having access to the Hashirama's wood jutsu.
Yamato getting manhandled in his introduction made that painfully clear right away. The entire reason Yamato was chosen to replace Kakashi was that he could suppress the tailed beasts due to the Hashirama cells he had in his body. With the aid of First Hokage's necklace, he had enough power to contain Naruto no matter how many tails he unleashed. Despite all of this, Yamato felt entirely ineffective in comparison to Kakashi. Naruto seemed to routinely rely on the Nine-tails power and nearly unleashed all nine tails while Yamato was powerless to do anything.
A big part of being a teacher in Naruto is guiding the younger shinobi. Kakashi did it a ton in the first half of Naruto , especially with Sasuke. With Yamato, there were never any moments where he showed his team anything. The closest came when he oversaw Naruto's mastery of the Rasengan , but even then, he did very little to help push Naruto forward. He only helped explain the origins of the technique and provide wood targets for Naruto to train with.
Given how weak Yamato was established earlier on in his tenure as Team 7's leader, it shouldn't be a shock that his missions rarely ever end up in success. More than once, they tried to retrieve Sasuke and ended up empty-handed in all of them.
At the Tenchi Bridge, Sasuke nearly killed Yamato, and one of the other times, they wasted time trying to capture Obito. Even so, Yamato is skilled enough with Wood Style to make it an essential part of his fighting style. He's such a capable user of the technique that he even garners some fame as a shinobi. The official Naruto databooks give fans extra information on their favorite characters.
This includes numbered statistics that display how proficient a character is in different combat fields, and Yamato is well above average in every aspect.
His genjutsu, strength, stamina, and hand seals are all at a three-and-a-half out of five. His taijutsu and speed sit at an impressive four, while his ninjutsu and intelligence are a staggering four-and-a-half out of five. Hannah has always had a passion for writing, having done creative writing as a personal passion since , and is thrilled to be a content writer for CBR.
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While Yukimi began to show Kinoe around, word soon reached them that an unknown individual had entered the cave. When the intruder, Kakashi, was subdued by the Iburi clan, Kinoe convinced them to let him interrogate Kakashi. While seemingly alone, Kinoe revealed that his actual mission was the same as Kakashi's, ensuring that Orochimaru did not escape the country. Gotta , the clan's leader, overheard this while spying and quickly ordered for both Konoha-nin to be killed, though Yukimi refused to let Kinoe die, saving them both.
Leaving Kakashi behind, Yukimi possessed Kinoe's body and the two travelled to a carnival, where they took part in the festivities. Kakashi later caught up, planning to use Yukimi to capture Orochimaru, since she was of great importance to him. Quickly catching up to them, Kakashi explained that Yukimi's blood could temporarily bestow Orochimaru with the Iburi clan's smoke transformation, allowing him to slip across the border.
Overhearing that, Yukimi slipped away and returned to the cave. Recognising that Kinoe cared for Yukimi not unlike he had cared for Rin Nohara , Kakashi agreed to work together with Kinoe to save her. Upon returning to the cave, the two discovered that Orochimaru had killed the Iburi clan and captured Yukimi.
Yukimi's body then began to destabilise, but the spirits of the Iburi used their power along with Kinoe's Wood Release to re-stabilise her ability. Kakashi decided to leave and not report anything about the Iburi or Root's involvement. Yukimi, no longer needing to fear the wind, parted ways with Kinoe to see the world, while the latter was happy to know that he did have the power to save people. Kinoe found Kakashi while on a mission to investigate one of Orochimaru's abandoned labs.
While initially working alongside Kakashi, he quickly attacked the older shinobi. As Kakashi tried to reason with him that friends should not kill each other, Kinoe retorted that comment, knowing that Kakashi killed his friend Rin.
Enraged that Kinoe believed Kakashi killed her on purpose, Kakashi quickly overpowered him, telling Kinoe that she died because he couldn't protect her, making Kinoe remember the other test subjects he wanted to save. Refusing to kill Kinoe as he still viewed him a friend and ally, Kakashi instead chose to take him to the Third Hokage. As Kinoe was taken captive, Kakashi managed to slay the creature.
While saving Kinoe, the creature's corpse began emitting a poisonous vapour which quickly infected Kakashi. Kinoe got Kakashi out safely and, having accepting Kakashi's words, Kinoe gave Kakashi an antidote and chose to abandon his mission, leaving Kakashi a message of it.
Remembering the feelings of friendship from Yukimi, Kinoe ultimately decided that Root's philosophies were not for him. As Kinoe was prepped for the operation, Kakashi arrived and freed him. Later, Kinoe was re-assigned to Team Ro under Kakashi's command. During this time in the Anbu, he served under the guidance of Kakashi [12] and learned much from him, developing great respect for his captain.
Two years after joining Team Ro, a new Anbu was added to their team, Itachi Uchiha , who was the youngest Anbu of all time. Because of rumours about there being suspicious activity going on in the Land of This where Team 10 was heading, she had Yamato secretly tail the younger Konoha-nin in the event things became S-rank danger and also gather any information possible. Yamato took action and destroyed several of Sasori 's puppets. Despite his help, the nation ultimately fell to the Akatsuki's attack.
Afterwards, Yamato returned to Konohagakure to report to Tsunade, who became troubled by the news. Yamato is a very discreet, cautious and generally well-prepared person. He projects a calm, stoic demeanour even in very stressful situations. He takes his missions very seriously, even insisting on being referred to by whatever his current codename is. In the anime, having no family nor memories of them, Yamato's greatest desire has become to work hard for the village to make others happy and to be acknowledged by all for his efforts, particularly as leader of Team 7, as revealed by Infinite Tsukuyomi.
This skill to incorporate his hobby with his kekkei genkai was also seen after Pain's assault on Konoha where he was key in recreating the village. While he has been good-natured so far, Yamato claims to be a different sort of leader than Kakashi, one who is not above "ruling by the use of terror" when his team misbehaves.
Naruto , especially, is easily terrified by it, and stated that it felt like Yamato was controlling him with fear — something Yamato himself has noted that he has no qualms with.
Despite his serious and sometimes overworked demeanour, Yamato is known for being somewhat playful, such as his tendency play pranks on Naruto during their downtime on missions. He usually does this by using his ghoul-eyes' frightening appearance or a wood clone to scare Naruto during ghost stories, showing that he does have a sense of humour underneath all of that responsibility and seriousness.
He is also aware of his tendency to be overworked by his peers and gets frustrated by their lack of appreciation of how exhausting his Wood Release techniques are despite their obvious usefulness and versatility.
Yamato is known to respect ranking, as he told Naruto, who was the Seventh Hokage, to not call him "Captain Yamato" anymore. Yamato has short brown hair and black, almond-shaped eyes. While still a child and test subject of Orochimaru, he had long, unkempt hair going past his shoulders. He carried a sword strapped to his back, and wore a mask that resembles a cat's face covered in green, and red intricate markings, and the Anbu tattoo on his left shoulder.
The differences between his attire and that of the standard one is that his does not have the Uzushiogakure crest on the shoulders of the sleeves, and the neck of his navy-blue shirt is form fitting and goes up to his chin. He also still retains two hip pouches strapped to his lower back instead of just one.
In addition to that, he has a happuri -style forehead protector that frames his face, similar to that of Tobirama Senju. Years later during the reign of the Seventh Hokage, Yamato's appearance remained largely the same except with minor noticeable changes: he developed small wrinkles under his eyes and at the corners of his mouth, his hair was shorter, spiky and his happuri-style forehead protector is devoid of any emblem and slightly cracked.
In the anime, his talents were shown to be enough to join the Anbu while still a child. This kekkei genkai allows him to combine earth-natured chakra in one hand, and water in the other, [27] to create vegetation such as trees and even grass which can be grown from any surface.
As this ability is not inherently his, however, Yamato has realised that he cannot use the Wood Release techniques to their full potential, which by his own admission results in the scale of his techniques paling in comparison to that of the First Hokage. In the anime, he was shown able to effectively use this ability while still a young child. Yamato can use Wood Release for both offensive and defensive purposes: he can surround himself with extremely durable wooden domes , which he can also use to trap foes within, [30] and in the anime, create a wooden shield that can rebuild itself, and a wall of tangled branches.
Yamato can also use Wood Release for other purposes, such as to transform into someone, with the wood acting as an outer layer, allowing him to leave out the suit when needed. He is able to create a wood-based clone that can be generated from his body or from the ground. As they share the same cells, he is able to track its location, communicate with it over long distances, [33] and absorb any information it has gathered by laying his hand on it.
Yamato is skilled in the use of Water and Earth Release as well, as seen when he raised the ground and created a waterfall. Using the First Hokage's Necklace to amplify his powers, Yamato can suppress the power of a tailed beast.
This legendary ability was one of the reasons that Hashirama Senju was made Hokage in the first place, and it was greatly coveted by Orochimaru. He was able to suppress Naruto's four-tailed form in mere seconds.
He also added a seal to the Hokage's necklace that would activate and reveal a number on his palm corresponding to the tails that Naruto has gained, when he called upon too much of the Nine-Tails' chakra, attempting to restrain him and alerting Yamato to what was happening. With the destruction of the necklace, however, Yamato implied that he could no longer help suppress tailed beasts.
Yamato can also use his Wood Release to suppress the chakra of regular people, as seen when he suppressed Kisame's chakra in order to subdue him after his capture. Yamato is highly proficient in multiple areas of combat, including tracking, [44] trapping, stealth, and diversionary tactics. He has keen instincts in battle, allowing him to quickly react to threats. He can also merge with the environment to spy undetected or evade most attacks.
During his test of his new team's skills, he demonstrated considerable ability in taijutsu , as shown when he simultaneously fended off Naruto and Sai. Having been genetically altered to match Hashirama's DNA, Yamato was also granted the legendary shinobi's ability to heal nearly any wound , without the need for hand seals.
Main article: Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission. Yamato was assigned to lead Team 7 in meeting with one of Sasori 's spies within Orochimaru's ranks.
Naruto and Sakura found it difficult to work with their newest team member, Sai , and much of Yamato's time was spent trying to get them to cooperate. Upon arriving at the arranged meeting place, Yamato went ahead dressed as Sasori, to make meeting with the spy easier.
After the spy arrived, who turned out to be Kabuto Yakushi , Yamato was able to learn a great deal of information until Orochimaru showed up. Just as Yamato started to contemplate how he would fight Orochimaru whilst keeping up his act as Sasori, Kabuto cut off the head of the Sasori costume, having hoped to kill the real Sasori.
Also in the fight against Tobi. Afterwards, Anko and Sai are on a mission trying to locate Kabuto, and Yamato notices that the seal was broken and that Naruto released 6 tails, causing the group to return to Konoha.
Later Yamato says that he went beyond serious when Naruto released 8 tails, then mentions that there is no longer hope when Naruto almost released all 9 tails, if not Yondaime stopped him in time. After being captured by Kabuto in the battle of Turtle Island after Obito used his wise way, he was left in the power of Madara Uchiha. Kabuto Yakushi states that through him more clones of white Zetsu can be created and that he can also provide information about the nine tails, and even if Yamato refused to speak, Madara could control him with his sharingan.
It was put into the first Hokage's cell tree to give the Zetsus more power, leaving him seemingly dead. It remained under the use of Akatsuki during the two days of war, and was later used as a vessel for the Zetsu clone named Tobi during the final confrontation, who used the power of Yamato to slow down the advance of the Allied Shinobi Forces troops. When the Infinite Tsukuyomi was activated, Tobi detached himself from Yamato and set him free, only for him to be caught in the genjutsu as well.
Afterwards, he was freed from the technique along with the rest of the world by Naruto and Sasuke.
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