Kawaki

Description

Appearance

- Kawaki's full appearance. - Kawaki's Academy appearance. - Kawaki's appearance after manifesting one of Isshiki's horns through Kāma. - Kawaki's appearance in Boruto: Two Blue Vortex. 1/4 Kawaki is a young man with grey eyes and bushy black hair, the sides of which are shaven and blond in colour. As noted by Ino, despite his gruff demeanour, he is very handsome. Additionally, he has a tattoo of the Roman numeral Ⅸ under his left eye, a pair of piercings on his right eyebrow, and stud earrings. Kawaki wears a green shirt with a blue sleeveless vest jacket with grey stripe patterns on the collar and dark pants with a studded belt. He had an Isshiki's Kāma on the palm of his left hand in the shape of a diamond, which spread across the left half of his face, chest, and arm, glowing red upon activation. With Isshiki's resurrection through Jigen, the original Kāma was erased, later on reapplied by Amado, with the same appearance as before. During the battle between Naruto and Delta, Kawaki lost his right forearm. It was replaced by an advanced prosthetic that was powered by Naruto's chakra. After Isshiki's defeat, Amado was able to restore Kawaki's full anatomy with a replacement arm cultivated from Kawaki's own cells. In the anime, after officially becoming a genin, he was given a Konoha forehead protector with a black strap that he wore loosely around his neck. Three years after meeting Boruto, Kawaki grew his hair out into a long, unruly mohawk mullet with fringe bangs and his undercut dyed blond, and appeared disheveled, with unkempt clothing and loose, asymmetrical layering. He wore a white knee-length open-front coat with a buckle collar, mustard-coulored lining, the left sleeve rolled up, and the tattered right sleeve torn off above the elbow. This is worn over a loose-fitting deep blue shirt with a high collar that folds over, and loose-fitting baggy black drop crotch pants, with only the left pantleg tucked into his standard open-toed shinobi boots. He also wears a brown studded belt with its loose end left untucked and hanging freely, and a small rectangular studded ninja pouch over his right rear hip. He changes his attire for his mission to the Land of Wind, wearing a long, sleeveless open-front black coat with a high standing collar, teal lining, and a ragged hem. This is worn over a loose-fitting lavender-grey sleeveless shirt and black track pants with a drop-crotch silhouette and cyan double-stripe detailing down the outer seams, loosely covering his split-toe shinobi sandals with teal soles. The tail of his coat and the cuffs of his pants are both tattered and long enough to drag on the ground. He also wears two pale aqua-grey belts — one threaded through the waistband loops of his pants with a silver Leaf symbol buckle, the other slung lower on the hips and attached to the studded ninja pouch resting over his right hip. Four years after meeting Boruto, Kawaki wears a violet infinity scarf and belt, white overalls with his chest exposed, and a black vest trench coat.

Backstory

As a child, he lived alone with his drunken, abusive father, Kokatsu. In the anime, he was forced to chop wood for a living in order to buy alcohol for Kokatsu. One day, a goldfish merchant invited him to a goldfish show that he was holding the next day after Kawaki had shown interest in the goldfish. Later, his father noticed the invitation in his pocket and punished Kawaki for interacting with strangers by forbidding him dinner. The next day, Kawaki was beaten by two boys until the goldfish merchant saved him and offered him a job by helping him sell goldfish in other villages. Kawaki hurried home after noticing the crack in the glass of his father's alcohol. Giving nothing but broken glass, Kawaki was locked in a room by Kokatsu. Shortly after, Jigen arrived to propose buying him with a large sum of money. Not wanting to leave his home, Kawaki promised his father that he could do more work to earn money but was knocked unconscious when Kokatsu smashed an empty bottle on his head. Upon taking custody of the boy, Jigen told Kawaki that the suffering he endured was over and there was nothing to fear, as he was his new father. As Kawaki and Jigen took the only tunnel out of the village, the seemingly friendly merchant from before revealed himself as a child trafficker, hoping to take Kawaki for himself. After Kawaki had waited outside the tunnel for the two to settle who would take the boy, Jigen came out, claiming the man had "gladly withdrawn". When he was first brought to Kara, Jigen took Kawaki to Amado's laboratory, telling him that he would give Kawaki a gift when they truly become parent and child. As part of a ritual, Kawaki was one of fifteen Ōtsutsuki vessel candidates that were placed in artificial wombs connected by tubes to jars of fluid, through which Jigen attempted to transfer his Kāma to them. The first thirteen children all died, however, Jigen succeeded with Kawaki, one of his last attempts. Kawaki later awoke with a Kāma branded on his left hand. Despite Jigen's promise of safety, Kawaki would later describe his life from then on to be a living hell. Sometime after the Ōtsutsuki ritual, Kawaki was attacked by Code, who was so jealous that he alone proved viable as Isshiki's vessel that he came to openly hate Kawaki, making it clear that if he wasn't a vessel, he'd kill Kawaki with his own hands. In the anime, a terrified Kawaki tried to escape the Kara hideout but ran into Garō, another survivor from Jigen's vessel experiments. Garō marvelled at the fact that unlike him, Kawaki didn't seem to suffer any major injuries. Garō tried to get him to come with him stating he could teach him along of things, however Kawaki wanted to leave and asked where the exit was. Enraged, Garō started strangling the boy, who in self-defence activated his Kāma, and blasted Garō in the face, severely burning his head and destroying his chin, for which he claims to have apologised. He would constantly be put through gruelling training, all so he'd master the Kāma and become a perfect vessel for Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, as Jigen wanted. During it, he would constantly berate Kawaki as only having value as a vessel for the Kāma and would strike the boy whenever he questioned him. Kawaki eventually also underwent extensive body modification.