The jinchūriki (人柱力; Literally meaning "Power of Human Sacrifice") are humans that have tailed beasts sealed within them. They exhibit extraordinary powers due to the immense chakra reserves they possess.
The jinchūriki are typically lonely people, viewed by those around them as the tailed beasts that had been sealed within them, leading to prejudice and being hated and feared. According to Akatsuki, the first two jinchūriki they captured loathed humanity, and their villages were in fact glad to be rid of them.[1] However, some jinchūriki refuse to waver, even though they have been shunned, and they eventually earned respect. Such examples include Naruto Uzumaki, Killer B, Yugito Nii, and
History
GaaraThe first jinchūriki was the Sage of the Six Paths, who sealed the Ten-Tailswithin himself to save the world. However, knowing that his death would release the Ten-Tails back into the world, the Sage used his Creation of All Thingsability to divide its chakra into the nine tailed beasts, before using Chibaku Tensei to seal its body away which later would become the moon.[2][3]
By the time of the formation of the shinobi villages, Hashirama Senju, the FirstHokage, used his Wood Release kekkei genkai to capture and give several tailed beasts to the other shinobi villages as peace treaties, in order to stabilise the balance of power between them.[4] The Second Kazekage of Sunagakurewas the first to research the jinchūriki, with the other villages following soon after, with hopes to use the beasts as weapons in human hosts, or in 's case, keep the beasts from doing harm to their village. In order to prevent the jinchūriki from turning traitor, it is tradition for the host to be selected from the family of the village's own Kage. In this way, the jinchūriki not only has strong ties of loyalty to village and their leader, but they also serve to show off the Kage's might.[5] For example, Gaara is the son of the Fourth Kazekage, and Killer B is the adoptive brother and partner of the Fourth Raikage.
