Guren

Name Guren

Debut Anime Naruto Shippūden Episode #89 Game Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Online Appears in Anime, Game

Personal Sex Gender Female Height Part II: 168 cm Kekkei Genkai Nature Icon Crystal Crystal Release Affiliation Otogakure Symbol Otogakure Team Team Guren Partner Yūkimaru Nature Type Jutsu Guren is a kunoichi from Otogakure and the leader of a group of Orochimaru's subordinates.

Background As a child, Guren came from a small village where she was shunned by others because she had unique powers. Later, Orochimaru appeared and destroyed the entire village single-handedly. He was intrigued by Guren's powers and offered for her to come with him. Guren chose to follow him because she envied his power.

At some point, Orochimaru sent her to destroy another town in order to test her potential. However, after doing this she passed out, due to the over-usage of her powers. When she woke up, she found herself to have been healed by a woman, who she would later discover to be Yūkimaru's mother. Guren returned to Orochimaru but, in order to keep his approval, she was forced to kill the woman. Wanting Orochimaru to accept her, she sadly killed the one who had cared for her.

Guren quickly became one of Orochimaru's most powerful and loyal subordinates. Eventually, she was offered the chance to become one of Orochimaru's future vessels. When Sasuke Uchiha defected from Konohagakure and Kimimaro was no longer a suitable vessel for Orochimaru, Guren became the next best choice in Orochimaru's eyes. Unfortunately, by the time she arrived, Orochimaru couldn't wait any longer and instead chose Gen'yūmaru. She was also told that Sasuke would be the next vessel after Gen'yūmaru. Feeling no longer of use to Orochimaru, Guren went into isolation.

Personality Guren has shown to be very mysterious, apparently preferring to keep to herself despite having a strong loyalty to Orochimaru. During her introduction, she quickly showed herself to be a remorseless and sadistic person. When told by Kabuto that several prisoners would be fighting to the death, she became ecstatic to hear there would be a slaughter. Guren is also shown to be vain by the fact that when she used her Crystal Release: Jade Crystal Mirror, she looked at herself and said, "Lovely, as always." She has also shown to be very prideful. When Naruto Uzumaki offered to carry her, she was embarrassed because she felt it was shameful.

Crystal flower A white camellia Guren crystallised for Yūkimaru. She was devoted to Orochimaru to an almost obsessive degree, falling into despair when she learned she would not become his next vessel and isolating herself because of the shame. It has also been shown she has an antagonistic relationship with Kabuto, as the two argued often, trading scathing remarks.[1] This is because she feels that Kabuto is not loyal enough to Orochimaru, and is not worthy of Orochimaru's time or praise. Later, she meets Yūkimaru, and at first, she finds him peculiar and somewhat irritating. However, when Yūkimaru becomes ill, she cares for him, watching over him for an entire night, until she falls asleep from exhaustion. When she wakes up, she realises that she is alone - and goes searching for Yūkimaru, who she finds nearby outside under a camellia tree. She then develops a sort of friendship with him as she crystallises a flower and tells him that the flower will never wither as long as she is alive.

Since coming in contact with Yūkimaru, Guren seems to be having conflicting emotions. While part of her still wants to be accepted by Orochimaru as his next vessel, another part of her seems unable to let go of the bond she has made with Yūkimaru, to the point of protecting him even from Kabuto. The emotions seemed to have become more confusing for her in her first one-on-one confrontation with Naruto, who stated bluntly how horrible and selfish a person Orochimaru really is.

After realising the truth behind her past and how it connects her to Yūkimaru, Guren feels even more compelled to protect him, out of guilt and repentance for her past sins, as well as love - wishing to become an almost surrogate mother to the boy, to replace the mother she killed. She even goes so far as to turn her protection to Naruto, as they faced off against the small Three-Tails clones within the beast's stomach, telling him she would protect him to the death if he would watch after Yūkimaru. This is a great change from her previous interactions with Naruto, whereas she was stand-offish and combative, she becomes quite friendly with Naruto. Subsequently, Guren has also begun to have doubts over remaining loyal to Orochimaru, due to her grief over the horrible things she was made to do in his name, and the damage and pain she has caused Yūkimaru and herself.

Guren wears red lipstick, has fair skin, dark eyes and light blue hair which she keeps in a spiky ponytail with long strands of hair framing her face. Her outfit consists of a green dress with a long left sleeve and a short right one, a red turtle-neck which has a white, fluffy collar and brown gloves. Under the dress, she wears a one piece red suit. For shoes, she wears calf-length brown sandal boots.

As a child, she wore a teal short kimono with a grey turtle neck and short sleeves with a jade-green rope belt around her waist, and red shorts, light purple wrist bands and navy blue sandals. Also, the strands of hair that framed her face were shorter.

Abilities Pressure Points of Harm and Death Guren converts part of her life force into chakra. Guren is a very powerful kunoichi, having once been chosen to be one of Orochimaru's new bodies and would have had Orochimaru not ran out of time and instead used Gen'yūmaru as his new vessel. With her unique skillset, Guren could fight the Three-Tails for a significant amount of time and even temporarily restrain it.

Physical Prowess Guren's taijutsu skills are rather high as she was able to fight on even grounds with an expert like Kakashi, dodge multiple Rasengan attacks from Naruto, and fight Lee and Tenten simultaneously. In times of desperation, Guren can convert a small portion of her life energy to access extra chakra reserves, allowing her to restore her full strength continue fighting with it for an extended period of time. She can also use one-handed seals.

Ninjutsu Nature Transformation Guren holds Hinata captive Guren using her Crystal Release: Jade Crystal Blade on Hinata. Guren possesses a unique ninja art: the Crystal Release. With it, she can crystallise targets, even the moisture in the air, therefore giving her an infinite source of weapons. The density of this power also appears to be very high as even the Wood Release was unable to penetrate it. While its specifics are unknown, it is believed into involve an Earth Release usage and made clear by Guren that it could not be copied with the Sharingan. There were rumours of this ability, implying that there have been others with this ability, but its rarity gave little knowledge of it. The Crystal Release is very powerful as Orochimaru at one point desired it for himself.

Crystal Encampment Wall Guren forms a regenerating crystal pillar. With this power, Guren can freely manipulate crystal structures in various ways. She can create crushing walls or snowflake-patterned shuriken. Guren may even ride and fly upon her crystallised constructs. She can also create flower-like crystals in different areas and, with a crystal ball, view what is happening in said area.[4] However, the deadliest aspect of her Crystal Release is that it crystallises the opponents and physical matter at a molecular level, causing them to shatter into crystalline dust as a result.

Intelligence Guren has good senses and is a keen observer, being able to determine Kakashi Hatake and Yamato's location, as well as deduce the Three-Tails' weakness by watching it protect its eye from Naruto's attack. She is also talented at noticing weaknesses in her opponent and using diversions, shown in how she kept Kakashi, Kiba, and Shino busy fighting her clones while she took Hinata hostage.