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Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (大筒木カグヤ, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya) is the former matriarch of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, the former partner of Isshiki Ōtsutsuki and mother of Hagoromo and Hamura Ōtsutsuki. Long before the founding of the hidden villages, during an era of endless war, Kaguya consumed the fruit of the God Tree and became the first wielder of chakra on Earth, before later merging with the tree to become the Ten-Tails. She is the common ancestor of the Hyuga, Uzumaki, Senju, and Uchiha clans.
Appearance[]
Kaguya had pale skin and long white hair parted in the middle, along with two horns typical of all Ohtsutsuki Clan members. She had two short round eyebrows, resembling Hikimayu, and wore red lipstick. As a member of the Ohtsutsuki Clan, she also had a pair of Byakugan, making her irises appear completely white. And as the jinchuriki of the Ten Tails, she had a red Rinne-Sharingan in the center of her forehead. She wore an all white kimono with a dark collar, dark sleeve cuffs, and a thick dark trim at the bottom of her dress, preceded by two lines of thin dark trim; six tomoe ran down the front of her dress.
Personality[]
As noted by her son Hagoromo, Kaguya was once truly a good and caring person. This was expanded on in the anime where despite displaying an apathetic personality, she longed for peace and eventually fell in love with Tenji, who shared a similar dream, even though she never openly displayed her feelings for him. She also cared deeply for her hand-maiden Aino, even though she never openly displayed emotions to her either until just before Aino's death. However, she was also treacherous and ruthless towards those she did not care about, as she betrayed fellow clansman Isshiki and nearly killed him; Amado speculated it could either be personal enmity or her desire to have the chakra fruit for herself.
After obtaining the ability to manipulate powerful chakra from the God Tree's fruit, Kaguya had grown despotic and developed both a god-complex and messiah-complex, believing that chakra rightfully belonged to her alone and that only she could protect and unite the world. Black Zetsu noted that Kaguya tried to love humans for the sake of peace, but her distrust in them proved far too great as she came to believe all they did was fight and destroy the world. Despite her initial desire for peace like her sons, grandsons, and in the anime, her lover, Kaguya ultimately caved into corruption from her power and lost faith in humanity's ability to do what is right. As a result of her losing faith in humanity, Kaguya opted to use her great and terrible power to submit everyone to her will. As Hagoromo noted, humanity around that time began to fear her as a demon. She uses the archaic pronoun "warawa" (ワラワ) when referring to herself — a sign of ancient nobility.
Kaguya also displays a degree of affection, as she appears to care very deeply about the Earth, viewing it as a nursery that she does not want humanity itself to damage any further.[1] In the anime, although she had affection for her lover, Tenji, it was not strong enough to stop her from trapping him in the Infinite Tsukuyomi when he betrayed her for his own pursuit of peace. Although she openly stated that she hated her own sons for using their inherited chakra against her and created the Ten-Tails to take it back by force, she openly wept when looking at Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, who reminded her of them, hinting that part of her still loved her sons.[2]
In the anime, Hagoromo and Hamura understood that their mother committed immoral acts for the sake of protecting them from the clan that she previously defected from, and they still felt affection for her because she was simply a mother doing what she could for her children. Even Kaguya herself told her sons prior to their battle that she had given them nothing but unconditional nurturing and protection, and willingly shared her chakra with them before their betrayal prompted her to try to claim it back. However, whatever love she harboured for her children was small, as shown in the anime where she was willing to take Hamura hostage and force him to fight Hagoromo in order to reclaim her chakra. Although, Kaguya did claim Hagoromo's love would prevent him from killing Hamura, suggesting she wanted to claim her chakra back without killing her children.[3] It was later revealed she was on a mission to provide chakra to her clan, but after falling in love with a human and bearing his children, she created a White Zetsu Army to fight them off and protect not only her children, but the inhabitants of the Earth. This suggests that had it not been for her clan, she would have been a benevolent ruler.
While her belief that chakra should belong to her alone made her somewhat obsessive in retrieving it from everyone else, she is willing to listen to Black Zetsu's suggestion on killing Naruto to prevent him and Sasuke from sealing her away, though she expressed reluctance that she must destroy a large reservoir of chakra to preserve her freedom.[4]
Despite her sombreness, Kaguya can nonetheless be stunned by unexpected events, as one of Naruto's perverted ninjutsu caught her off-guard, thereby allowing him to land a hit on her.[5]
Naruto stated that unlike all his previous foes, he couldn't empathise with Kaguya at all, as he felt she completely lacked a heart. Hagoromo wasn't sure why Kaguya ended up the way she did, but believed her eating the chakra fruit may have had something to do with it.
Abilities[]
As a member of the Otsutsuki Clan, Kaguya had a Byakugan, which allowed her to see far distances and distinguish between chakra signatures. As the jinchuriki of the Ten Tails, she had a Rinne-Sharingan.
History[]
Kaguya came to Earth with Isshiki Otsutsuki a millennium ago in order to cultivate a Divine Tree and harvest its Chakra Fruit. As the lower-ranking member between the two, Kaguya was selected as the sacrifice for the Ten Tails seedling which would then turn into the Divine Tree. She instead betrayed Isshiki and the clan, leaving him severely injured, and cutting off communication between the clan and its faction on Earth for the next millennia.
She later fell in love with an Earthling and conceived children with him, naming her two twin Hagaromo and Hamura. Over the next couple years, she would come to be received as a goddess on Earth. Eventually, she would begin to raise a white zetsu army, in order to defend against retaliation from the Otsutsuki Clan for her betrayal and unwillingness to sacrifice Earth. At some point, become the jinchuriki of the Ten Tails and be sealed away in the Demonic Statue by her two sons. She was sealed away until the events of the Fourth Shinobi World War, a millennia later.
Kaguya Ohtsutsuki was resurrected through Madara Uchiha during the Fourth Shinobi World War, after Madara has cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi, in order to fulfill the eye of the moon plan. Confronted with Team 7, Kakashi Hatake, and Obito Uchiha, she attempted to kill them off so she could carry on with her plans. After a series of fights across multiple dimensions, Sasuke Uchiha and Naruto Uzumaki managed to seal permanently Kaguya away into the Demonic Statue.
Trivia[]
- Her name and title are references to Princess Kaguya, the main character from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (竹取物語, Taketori Monogatari), which is said to be one of the oldest Japanese legends in written record. According to the legend, Princess Kaguya wears a hagoromo (羽衣, "feather mantle") when she returns home to her kingdom. The name Ōtsutsuki (大筒木) roughly means "big bamboo tree" and is derived from an obscure passage in the second volume of the Kojiki about the genealogies of Emperor Suinin, eleventh emperor of Japan, which states that he had a consort named Kaguyahime no Mikoto (迦具夜比売命), the daughter of a king named Ōtsutsukitarine no Miko (大筒木垂根王); tradition holds that these individuals served as the basis for Princess Kaguya and the old bamboo cutter in the aforementioned tale.
- Her horn-like appendages symbolise rabbit ears, representing her connection to the moon by evoking the moon rabbit; pop culture depictions of Princess Kaguya and the moon-folk often incorporate features like rabbit ears for this reason. This also fits with her being known as the "Rabbit Goddess" (卯の女神, Usagi no Megami). This is even more cemented, with her taking a rabbit-like form after being hit by Naruto's Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken.
- Aspects of Kaguya also bear resemblance to Izanami-no-Mikoto, the Shintō goddess of the dead. How Kaguya desires peace with taking over humankind and suspending them into bliss is similar to the concept of death leading into the afterlife, while her White Zetsu Army are reminiscent of the Yomotsu-shikome, Izanami's minions of Yomi.