Jigen

is the leader of Kara.

Background
During Kawaki's childhood, Jigen bought the boy from his father with a large sum of money. After taking custody of him, Jigen introduced himself as Kawaki's new father, while telling him he could make himself at ease now. He would later attempt to transfer Kāma to Kawaki and fourteen other boys, with Kawaki being the only known success and thirteen dying outright. Jigen put Kawaki through gruelling training so he'd master the Kāma, and would constantly berate him as only having value as a vessel for the Kāma, striking the boy whenever he questioned him.

Personality
Jigen appears to be formal and courteous, addressing the fellow members of his organisation politely before beginning their meeting, and even extends his manners to his enemies, as he politely greeted Naruto Uzumaki and apologised for having not undid his shoes when in the Uzumaki's household. He is less confrontational than Delta, choosing to simply incapacitate Naruto rather than fight to kill him when he refused to hand over Kawaki. Nevertheless, he holds great confidence in his strength, as when Naruto made it clear he could only get Kawaki by killing him, he calmly declared he would eliminate the Seventh Hokage, who is reputed as the strongest shinobi in the world, for his interference. In addition, he can be very serious and authoritarian when needed, which combined with his supreme strength among Kara made him completely capable of commanding respect among the group, to the point even the prideful elderly Inner and hot-tempered Delta are easily silenced by him. He is very composed and systematic in his approach to matters at hand. Even when dealing with momentary failure, he remains determined as ever, convinced that all will fall into place as he designed it. At the same time, he has shown an irritable side, as when tasks fail to reach his expectations, he can lash out, as he kicked a broken tank after another setback to his plans. He is also shown to be a perfectionist, viewing his work on Kawaki and his Kāma as work of great importance, disgusted to see his adopted son's damaged right arm using a prosthetic and quickly voiced his intention of restoring Kawaki's arm.

He is also shown to have a very amoral and remorseless side, caring not in the slightest at how many innocent lives he must sacrifice to obtain his goals. His single-minded nature views all his actions towards Kawaki, no matter how harsh, as truly in his best interest. Apparently, he views a peaceful world as foolish, likewise feeling the same way about Naruto Uzumaki. Although he appears arrogant, his confidence and composure is backed up quite well with an incredibly cautious and secretive side along with superb perception and lying skills, going to lengths such as ordering the mission to retrieve Kawaki while he had the ability to easily go to him anytime he wanted all to keep the full scope of his abilities secret even from his allies. In addition, even someone as clever as Koji Kashin was unable to fool him into believing his loyalty is ultimately to Kara despite Koji having convinced all the other Inners apart from Delta of his loyalty, Jigen appeared to be the only one who could completely see through him, as unlike Delta who based her suspicions out of prejudice, his suspicions were based on his knowledge of Koji yet he still hid it fully from the other Inners, feigning complete trust to the point of admonishing Delta for not following Koji's way of executing the mission of retrieving Kawaki, and even having been one step ahead from Koji from the beginning without Koji even realizing it, with Koji being caught utterly off-guard when Jigen revealed he had been tricked into revealing his desire to know Jigen's secrets.

Appearance
Jigen has dark long hair tied in a ponyhawk style, a broad nose and large black pupils. He bears a diamond-shaped marking of Kāma on his chin and piercings. Below his left eye, he has a Roman numeral "Ⅳ" tattooed. He wears a black hooded cloak, along with light-coloured capri pants and sandals.

Abilities
Being an Inner of Kara, specifically as the organisation's leader, Jigen is regarded by Kawaki as being a complete monster in terms of power and ability. As the leader of Kara, he is the most powerful member of the organization. His surpassing power is shown by how he is effortlessly able to intimidate the likes of Delta and the prideful elderly Inner whereas they have been seen to argue with even other Inners without hesitation. Koji Kashin also deemed the level of strength showed by Naruto, well-regarded as the strongest ninja in history, in his decisive victory over the fellow Inner Delta as being insufficient to defeat Jigen. In addition, Sasuke Uchiha, credited with being Naruto's peer in power, was greatly unnerved upon seeing a display of his power, deeming the inevitable fight with him a far more dangerous situation than he expected, and chose to retreat rather than engage him. Upon arriving at Konoha, he easily subdued Naruto in his base form and effortlessly restrained Kawaki with his Kāma activated. Koji was also immediately intimidated into ceasing his espionage of Kawaki upon Jigen's arrival. Ino Yamanaka, who had earlier remained unfazed by Delta's presence, was instantly terrified upon sensing Jigen's chakra to the point she almost collapsed, describing it as incredibly sinister, and felt the need to have Naruto backed up by the Police Force when Naruto told her that he would fight Jigen by himself.

Jigen appears to be accomplished in genjutsu, as he is capable of using a projection-type genjutsu to host meetings with the Inners over a large distance at once, during which not only are the images corporeal but he can even alter the surroundings to fit his desires. Jigen also apparently has the ability to manifest items as he sees fit, as he could produce intact copies of destroyed objects and chemical reactions, such as a table, food and drink, and even lit candles. Apart from that, he can travel through dimensions with space–time ninjutsu and levitate in the air. He can conjure and accurately fire several black rods capable of draining the chakra of those they impale. Jigen also has considerable senses, as he was easily able to sense the presence of Koji's toad that went unnoticed even to Naruto.

Physical Prowess
Jigen appears to be an extremely skilled melee-combatant, both with weapons and hand-to-hand combat, having personally brutally trained Kawaki into becoming a specialist in close-quarters combat. He has shown tremendous speed and strength, easily kicking Naruto away, impressing the Hokage with his reaction, and effortlessly caught a punch from Kawaki when he had Kāma activated with a casual grip, even effortlessly causing Kawaki visible pain by merely lightly twisting his arm. He is also highly durable, suffering no injuries from a kick to the jaw from Naruto in his Six Paths Sage Mode.

Kāma
Jigen possesses a Kāma mark on his chin, which he can activate at will, causing it to spread across his entire body in nearly symmetrical sunburst patterns. The nature of its power is unknown, however, he has been shown to have the ability to pass Kāma on to other individuals through the aid of science, albeit with a low success rate, more often resulting in death. Jigen is also skilled enough in its usage to have taught Kawaki how to properly use its power, with Kawaki noting he knows everything about Kāma. Jigen is skilful enough with its absorption powers to absorb chakra from tailed beast-like entities. In addition, he has the ability to synchronise with another Kāma, using it as a portal to teleport towards.

Ao Arc
Upon his organisation's vessel being lost, Jigen held a meeting with the other members of Kara to discuss the urgent situation, during which Koji was given the task of recovering Kawaki. As he dispelled the genjutsu, Jigen voiced that their group must recover the vessel at all costs.

Kawaki Arc
While eating a meal with Delta, she voiced her frustrations about the time it was taking to recover Kawaki, during which Jigen gave her permission to partake in the recovery of the vessel. Later, after Delta's decisive defeat by the Seventh Hokage, she reported that Koji was holding off on retrieving Kawaki to study Boruto Uzumaki after learning that the boy obtained his own Kāma. Smirking at this development, Jigen deduced that Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki was behind this.

Later, Jigen went to an undisclosed location accessible only through space–time ninjutsu to see an immobilised beast. He spoke nonchalantly to it, hovering above and addressing it as Ten-Tails. The "Ten-Tails" tried to eat Jigen, but failed to do so as Jigen was out of reach. Jigen stated that it was too soon as he needed to complete the vessel. Jigen then used his Kāma to absorb more of its chakra and his physical form changed into an Ōtsutsuki who supposedly partnered with Kaguya Ōtsutsuki briefly. After absorbing the beast's chakra, Jigen intended to visit Boruto and Kawaki.

Using the connection between his and Kawaki's Kāma, Jigen teleported to Naruto Uzumaki's house instantly to bring back Kawaki. He noticed Koji's toad and watched suspiciously as it was incinerated by Koji before apologising to Naruto for his rude arrival. When Naruto rebuked his politeness with hostility and attacked him, Jigen easily subdued Naruto by pinning him down with rods and proceeded to easily restrain Kawaki and tried to reason with his wayward adopted son. Kawaki's Kāma activated and a horn grew out of it, surprising how much the mark advanced. Naruto then kicked him away and Jigen, seeing his foe won't back down, activated his Kāma to begin fighting the Seventh Hokage, intent on killing him for his interference.

Trivia

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