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Shino, however, told Akamaru it was all right as the Hokage could have up to three advisers. Akamaru as well as the others would later fall victim to Madara's Infinite Tsukuyomi. Two years later, during a walk with Kiba, Akamaru began to notice that all of Kiba's friends started finding girlfriends and started settling down, which he found annoying. He felt that humans entered estrous too late and that Kiba was the only real shinobi among his friends for not falling for such desires, believing he would become the Seventh Hokage.

However, after hearing from many young women that they were certain Naruto was going to be the Seventh, he began to worry about Kiba. Later, when Kiba went off on his own, Akamaru became worried since he realised Kiba was being deceitful and followed him. Seeing that Kiba was secretly meeting a girl, Akamaru became annoyed and even admitted that Kiba probably didn't have the skills to become Hokage if he focused so much on girls.

However, he changes his mind when he realises Kiba was meeting a young vet to give him his immunisations by surprise. In the end though, Akamaru became overly protective when he noticed Kiba had a strong mutual attraction with Tamaki and tried to "protect" Kiba by fruitlessly pulling him away from her.

A decade later, an older Akamaru dozed while Kiba spoke with Tamaki about biding his time until he became Hokage while a young pup and a few cats played around them.

They soon met up with Naruto and Himawari , the latter who was delighted to meet the dogs. While Kiba couldn't find a doll for himself, he decided to help Naruto find one for his daughter. When Kiba managed to find one and entrusted Akamaru with it, the hungry dog decided to trade it to a man for a burger on the grounds that Kiba forgot to feed him that day.

Akamaru joined Kiba and Tamaki on a date to the Quarrel Festival. In the anime, when the grown-up Sasuke and Boruto were sent back in time to shortly after Sasuke's defection, the two pretended to be travelling performers and were put under watch by Naruto. Past-Akamaru and his friends helped Boruto and Naruto clean up a bathhouse after the commotion Naruto and Jiraiya caused.

Days later, Konohamaru , Moegi , and Udon approached Akamaru and his friends for help, telling how Naruto and Boruto were battling a dangerous foe. They quickly agreed to help.

By the time they arrived however, Urashiki was already defeated. The group then escorted their injured friends to the hospital. Days later, after Sasuke and Boruto recovered and prepared to return to their time, Sasuke first used his Sharingan to erase the memories of everyone he and Boruto came in contact of the recent events with to protect the timeline. In the anime, Akamaru joined Kiba as he talked with Naruto about whether or not they should close the gates to Konohagakure in light of Kara possibly having spies in the village.

In the anime, Akamaru joined Kiba to attend the memorial service for the fallen people of the Fourth Shinobi World War, albeit Akamaru mostly slept. Although he is a playable character in only a few games, Akamaru appears alongside Kiba in all of his video game appearances. Narutopedia Explore. Wiki Activity. The Beast that was Shot by Love!! List of Volumes Random Chapter. Enter: Naruto Uzumaki! My Name is Konohamaru! Sasuke and Sakura: Friends or Foes?

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Inuzuka Clan. Tools Military Rations Pill. Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2. When Naruto is absent from class, Akamaru sees Kiba being woken up from his nap by Iruka. Once Iruka asks him if he seen Naruto, Kiba tells him no and Akamaru barks in agreement. Eventually, he and Kiba would often cut class with Uzumaki Naruto , while hearing Kiba stating that he wasn't suited to sit still at a desk, or otherwise getting into trouble.

Along with Naruto, Shikamaru and Choji together these four would skip class and go to the practice hall to goof off and not to practice. They thought that it was fun to also test the patience of Iruka, their Ninja Academy sensei.

He and his friends would even hide in the training hall to get away from Iruka's class lectures. Akamaru and Kiba would even hang out with them at the park whenever the adults weren't watching him. When Kiba reaches age 10 - 11, Akamaru would see Kiba get annoy to review whatever jutsu technique Naruto missed out while pulling pranks. Eventually before the start of the series, Akamaru stops hiding inside of Kiba's jacket, and started to have rides on top of his head. Akamaru was then seen with his teammates with the rest of the Rookie Nine, waiting for his new sensei, Yuhi Kurenai.

Akamaru has been described as being very active, and devoted. This can be seen from his interactions with people especially his best friend and companion Kiba Inuzuka who he has always been with since the two met. They often spend their time going on walks, or more accurately, running through trees chasing one another.

His devotion is most often seen when Kiba is hurt in a battle, as Akamaru will immediately run to his side. In the story Rai no Sho , a story from Akamaru's point of view makes Kiba realize his personality. Akamaru is revealed to have a humorous thought process by erroneously explaining something, but then immediately correcting himself.

He has a very scientific thought process about humans thinking that they enter romance too late in life when they should be focusing on being shinobi instead of finding a "mate". It's also revealed that Akamaru is very overprotective of his master Kiba as he immediately tried fruitlessly to pull him away from Tamaki when he realized that the two had a strong mutual attraction to each other as he didn't want Kiba to shy away from his training in favor of romancing Tamaki like "the others".

Rather he is actually insulting the women given his angry disposition at the time or if he always associates women like this is current unknown. In the epilogue, Akamaru had grown old and took delight in just napping most of the day and playing with his puppies. When prompted by Kiba to back him up, he mocked Kiba's notion that he turned down the Seventh Hokage seat, by giving a sly smirk. He spends a lot of time with his son Akemaru, and let's Himawari pet him on his head.

However he enjoys getting hungry when ever Kiba forgets to feed him. During a cat and dog festival he is usually on Kiba's side. In Part I Akamaru was a small puppy with white fur, black eyes, no eyebrows and resembles a Great Pyrenees, while being regularly carried on Kiba's head or inside his jacket.

Akamaru's eyes are usually squinted, appearing closed, and he has a dark brown nose. As well as dark brown patches on his ears, and a dark outline around his mouth. His fur on top of his head is styled to somewhat resemble a mohawk. In Part II, Akamaru has grown into a full sized adult large breed dog. His size is such that Akamaru can now have Kiba ride on his back comfortably. Despite this, Kiba claimed he failed to notice due to the amount of time they spend together.

Apart from his size, his general appearance has remained the same. Years after the Fourth Shinobi War, Akamaru has noticeable aged, by becoming very sunken overall. Akamaru's heightened senses, such as smell and hearing, along with Kiba's ability to communicate with him, makes him a powerful ally for gathering and sharing information. He can 'sense' chakra with his nose, which allows him to judge an enemy's strength.

In combat, Akamaru often takes Kiba's form albeit having a much more feral appearance using the Beast Human Clone technique, or combining with Kiba into a single entity for more devastating attacks.

Akamaru also makes use of the Dynamic Marking technique- urinating on a target with great accuracy, by allowing either Kiba or himself to easily track the target by scent. This is especially useful when they are fused together. He has also been shown to be adept at setting traps such as explosive tags on his own.

Akamaru is also proficient in using other of his clan's technique such as the Passing Fang and Fang Passing Fang where either he alone, or with Kiba spin at ferocious speed and deliver many powerful beast like attacks when contact is made with the target. Akamaru has not been known to talk like some other ninken, but did speak briefly at the end of a special new years episode in the anime.

Akamaru helped Kiba cheat in the first test, sitting on his head to keep an eye out for proctors and to get information from other exam takers. On their way to the tower during the second test, Kiba had the group stop to investigate Gaara's encounter with Team Shigure.

Akamaru was immediately frightened by sensing the strength of Gaara's chakra, and was traumatised by seeing Gaara brutally kill all three Ame genin. Akamaru fought alongside Kiba against Uzumaki Naruto in the exam preliminaries. He was considered a ninja tool rather than an additional combatant, and was thus permitted to fight alongside Kiba. While Akamaru gave Naruto some difficulty, especially after he transformed into a clone of Kiba, Naruto was able to use Akamaru to trick Kiba, by first transforming into Akamaru and coming out of the smoke bomb to ambush him.

After Kiba used the Beast Human Clone technique, Naruto turned into Kiba to prevent Kiba from attacking him, and when Kiba saw through his plan, Naruto transformed into Akamaru to make him think that he had hit Akamaru. Kiba then punched Akamaru, believing him to be Naruto. This made Kiba be off his guard, and made Naruto won the match. He and Kiba are carried off by the medical nin, after Hinata gave them some medicine.

In the anime, Akamaru attempted to warn Kiba about Kabuto, having recognised who Kabuto was. However, Kabuto used his medical ninjutsu and knocked Kiba out. What happened to Akamaru was left unknown, as Kabuto didn't come near him but he still passed out. In the mission to retrieve Uchiha Sasuke, Kiba and Akamaru remained with the group until they retrieved the container, but an explosive tag blew them with Sakon and Ukon into a canyon.

Kiba and Akamaru initially struggled against the brothers, and Akamaru realised that they must use Double Wolf Fang. Kiba was hesitant, given the large amount of chakra needed, which would render them vulnerable if they missed.

Akamaru bit him on the hand, and Kiba, realizing that Akamaru saw him as pathetic, decided to take the risk. When Ukon began taking over Kiba's body, he stabbed himself in the stomach in an attempt to kill Sakon to prevent himself from being taken over and harming Akamaru.

Kiba attempted to escape with Akamaru, and, after Sakon and Ukon caught up with them, Kankuro arrived and killed both of them. Kiba and Akamaru's injuries took some time to heal. Kiba, whilenot wanting Akamaru to suffer that much again, vowed to improve himself. In the anime, when the grown-up Sasuke and Boruto were sent back in time to shortly after Sasuke's defection, the two time-travelers pretended to be traveling performers and were put under watch by Naruto.

During which, Akamaru and his friends helped Boruto and Naruto clean up a hotspring after the commotion Naruto and Jiraiya caused. Later Akamaru learns from Konohamaru that Naruto is fighting a powerful enemy so he and Team Asuma decides to go save him. By the time they arrived however, Urashiki was already defeated. The group then escorted their injured friends to the hospital.

He and everyone then leave the hospital after seeing Naruto get discharge. Later, after Sasuke and Boruto completed their mission to defeat Urashiki, Sasuke used his Sharingan to erase Akamaru and everyone else's memories of the events in order to protect the timeline. Akamaru accompanied Kiba on his missions with Naruto in the fillers.

In the Impostor Arc, his presence was used as Kiba's proof of being the real Kiba as, while his impostor could imitate his face, he could not replace Akamaru. In Naruto episode , Akamaru was infected with a toxin that caused him to go berserk.

When he attacked some ANBU members who were training, the order was given to have him taken into custody. As Hana attempted to make a cure for Akamaru, Kiba smuggled his dog out of the village and escaped, having heard that Akamaru might need to be put to sleep, but Akamaru continued to lose control of himself.

By the time Naruto and Hana caught up with Kiba, Akamaru had turned into a giant version of himself, and attacked anyone near him. Kiba hesitated in the face of the possibility that Akamaru might die, but, after Naruto and Hana's attempt to pin Akamaru down and administer the antidote failed, Kiba apologised to Akamaru while standing still as Akamaru leapt at him. Kiba was severely injured, but managed to inject Akamaru with the antidote, and noted that Akamaru had tried his best to avoid killing him.

Two years after Naruto left the village to train with Jiraiya, Konoha decided to host the Chunin Exams early alongside Sunagakure. Akamaru joined Kiba as usual to enter the exams. After Kiba passed the first exam, Akamaru joined his partner to Sunagakure where the second exam would be held. There, the second exam's nature was essentially the same as the one Konoha previously had, requiring everyone to obtain two matching scrolls before three days passed in a survival competition.

Once the second round begin, Akamaru and his teammates were seen jumping into their location to begin the second round. Later, when the team engaged an enemy team of of Kusagakure-nin, Akamaru joined Kiba against Burami, whose obese stature was used to his advantage, absorbing and repelling all of Kiba and Akamaru's attacks.

Soon, the enemy realized Kiba had the Earth scroll and together were able to steal it from him before retreating. As Team Kurenai attempted to stop them, Burami blasted them with a foul-smelling smokescreen, impairing Kiba and Akamaru's sense of smell.

While the enemy got out of Hinata's Byakugan range, Shino set one of his female insects on the enemy to track. While pursuing the enemy, Akamaru and his teammates fell into a quicksand pit.

Akamaru, however, was able to use his Dynamic Marking to solidify the sand enough for the team to escape. Once recovering, Team Kurenai resumed their pursuit of the enemy. Later, he and Team Kurenai was caught in a massive sandstorm.

Ultimately, his team was rescued by the Suna-nin proctors and brought to a building to wait out the storm before resuming the exams. When Naruto met Kiba while looking for team-mates, he noticed that Akamaru was much larger, especially given that Kiba was now riding on him rather than having him sit on his head.

Naruto asked Kiba to join his team for a mission, and even proposed having Akamaru go with him without Kiba, but Kiba refused the suggestion.

When Team Yamato returned from the Fire Temple with a young monk named Sora, Sora quickly made it known that he didn't care what any living thing thought of him. He quickly got into a staring contest with Akamaru, to which Kiba became annoyed at.

When Furido and his men attacked the Leaf Village, Akamaru demonstrated that his new size also helped considerably in battle, as he was able to take down several zombies without transforming.

When Kakashi was ordered to investigate the latest whereabouts of Orochimaru, Team Kurenai was assigned to work with him due to their tracking skills. When they managed to find Orochimaru's hideout, they triggered a trap that destroyed the base. Fortunately, Akamaru's nose was able to find a way out in time. Later, Akamaru began to have trouble concentrating due to a high-frequency sound. It was through this that the team realised that they were being spied on by bats.

When the enemy ambushed them and rendered their sense of smell helpless with a smokescreen, Akamaru convinced Kiba to try their beast-like taijutsu to blow away the smoke. Soon, the team found themselves being attacked by Guren. There, Kiba and Akamaru again worked together to fight off her attacks. After sensing their enemy's new overwhelming might, Akamaru saved Kiba by digging into the ground and hiding them in a pit.

After it was decided that the best way to find Sasuke was to find Uchiha Itachi , Akamaru and Kiba later assisted Naruto in searching for either of the Uchiha brothers, but they were unable to reach Sasuke in time and returned home.

They split up and Iruka sees the destroyed academy, remembering when he began as a teacher and the day Sarutobi Hiruzen assigned Uzumaki Naruto to his class.

The next day, Naruto pulls a prank on Iruka but instead of scolding him, Iruka tells Naruto sit in his seat, remembering the advice given to him from Daikoku. When seeing Naruto being bullied by the other students because of his failed attempts to be better than Sasuke, Iruka tells them not to bother a kid like him. The next day, Naruto learns that Sasuke is the only surviving member of the Uchiha clan.

After class, Naruto wants to join Hibachi and his friends in their "test of courage" though Hibachi tells him to not follow them. Naruto pranks them later in the night by dressing up as a fox demon. Hearing them say they saw a fox demon, Iruka runs to the Konoha grave site and learns it's Naruto. Recognising Iruka's glare as the same one everyone else in the village gives him, Naruto runs off with the intent not to return to the Academy again.

As a member of the Inuzuka clan, Kiba was always meant to have Akamaru. These ninja bond with a ninken or multiple that aids them in combat. That is their ninja way.

When it comes to Boruto , that's an even more interesting fact because of Kiba's new profession. While he's a top dog breeder, he probably particularly breeds ninken. That means that he now likely supplies his clan with the canines meant for partnership. Though Kiba has no children of his own, his dogs might be bonding with his cousins or any children his sister might have had.

With Konoha in relative peace, the Shinobi forces have dwindled. Only the most elite and experienced members remain on missions. Other strong members that are still dedicated to protecting others, though, have banded together under the Konoha Military Police Force. Here, powerful ninja help patrol Konoha to keep restless community members from crime. While the world outside may be settled, that doesn't mean Konoha should lack integrated protection.

Once, the group was almost exclusively run by the Uchiha clan. Though Tamaki and Kiba seem perfect together, their pets didn't initially agree. When they met, Akamaru tried to get in the way of them flirting or spending time together. While not as proactive, Tamaki's cats also gave judging, jealous glares at Kiba all the time.

Their pets didn't want to lose their owners' attention. After all, for so long it was just them. Over time, though, Akamaru, the cats, and all their other animals seem at peace with the pairing. Despite falling in love, Tamaki and Kiba never neglected their beloved companions and have only integrated them into their lives further.

Together, they're better pet owners, not worse ones. Stephanie Marceau is a writer, advocate, gamer, and classic novel enthusiast. She's an eclectic super fan, loving comic books, movies, TV, anime, and novels. Though writing articles is her day-job, she moonlights writing fiction and streaming.

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