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Kakuzu
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Kakuzu from Naruto. Member of The Akatsuki. A dangerous rogue ninja who once fought The First Hokage, Hashirama Senju, himself. Though Kakuzu most definitely lost that fight, the fact that he even attempted such a ludicrous mission- much less survived- speak to his sheer audacity. However, upon returning to his Village, beaten but alive, instead of being respected as a certified menace for surviving a fight with the strongest Ninja in the world, he was treated as a chump and a failure.
Kakuzu was not amused.
Declaring “**** them Ninjas”, he left the Village and its ungrateful scrubs. Determined to do him, he quickly discovered that in the Shinobi World, those who know certain ‘people’, possess a distinct lack of ‘morals’, and are willing to discreetly ‘take care’ of certain ‘problematic individuals’ can obtain significant amounts of profit ‘on the DL’- if you know what I mean.
If you don’t know what I mean, being a contract killer pays good money- in the entirely fictional Shinobi World of Naruto. Maybe in the real world too, but I wouldn’t know anything about that, and I definitely do *not* condone/endorse that sort of behavior. I’m just saying.
But in the Shinobi World, it do be like that- and Kakuzu quickly discovered that he was excellently suited for such ‘work’, and started stacking hella paper. This pleased Kakuzu, because “women lie, men lie, numbers don’t lie”. Thus, over the next several decades, as his ‘stacks’ continued to increase in volume, Kakuzu firmly embraced a rather loose philosophy of life, summarized as “Money over everything.”
Also, at some point, via ‘Ninja Shenigans’, he became some kind of zombie monster who could (literally) steal people’s hearts and add their abilities and lifespan to his own- it’s weird, but whatever, it’s anime. Point being: he was basically immortal, killed a bunch of people, and made hella cash. A few years before the series, he joined The Akatsuki, and stuff happened.
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