Hōki (Watari)

This article is about Watari's Hōki. For another character named Hōki, see Hōki.

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Hōki Mōsō
ホウキ Hōki Mōsō (孟宗)
Debut
Anime	Naruto Episode #162
Appears in	Anime
Voice Actors
Japanese	Kōji Totani Katsuhisa Hōki (Mōsō)
English	Michael McConnohie
Personal
Sex	Male
Height	Part I: 187 cm1.87 m <br />6.135 ft <br />73.622 in <br />
Classification	Missing-nin
Occupation	Chief Advisor to the Bird Daimyō (Former)
Affiliation	Land of Birds
Team	Watari Ninja
Nature Type Fire Release Water Release Yin Release
Jutsu Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique Haze Clone Technique Shadow Clone Technique Water Clone Technique Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique Water Release: Water Bullet Technique Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique
Tools Sword

Hōki (ホウキ, Hōki) was a missing-nin and leader of the Watari Ninja. He masqueraded as Mōsō (孟宗) in the Land of Birds and served as Chief Advisor to the daimyō, Ōwashi.

Background

When Mōsō was Chief Advisor, he secretly poisoned Ōwashi, which resulted in his death. Sagi, who was really Toki, took on the guise of the Cursed Warrior in hopes of avenging her father.

Personality

Hoki has proven to be highly amoral, as shown when he frequently stole techniques from other villages, manipulated the Land of Birds's government and murdered without remorse. He also showed to be arrogant in his frequent belittlement of his opponents, yet this could just be a front, conjured by to his deceptive nature. Hōki also showed to be tired of running from village to village, wanting a place to settle, this place, however, should be under his control.

Abilities

Hōki is skilled in deception, with his strategy mainly revolving around this, which allows him to overcome foes who are stronger than him. This deceptive nature also allowed him to manipulate a Daimyō and through him, a whole country. He is also talented with genjutsu, as shown in a flashback where he won the trust of the daimyō by appearing to swallow a sword.

Ninjutsu

Many of his techniques are weaker copies of the actual versions (his "summoning technique" activating a projector is just one example, or using strings to make it appear that his enemies have been caught in a Shadow Imitation Technique). He also showed some competence in Kenjutsu.

Nature Transformation

Hōki using Fire Release: Great Fireball Techniqu.

Hōki proved capable of using multiple natures in combat, despite that he copied the Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique technique which he used to knock off the Cursed Warrior's mask. Hōki proved to have great proficiency with some high level Water Release techniques in his fight with Naruto.

Part I

Land of Birds Arc

When this threat appeared, Mōsō sent Chishima to Konoha to ask for help, in response to which Tsunade dispatched Naruto Uzumaki, Neji Hyūga and Tenten to the Land of Birds. When Chishima overheard Mōsō's true plot, he fled and barely escaped Nagare, Hokushin, and the other Watari Ninja whom Mōsō had dispatched.

When it came to the final conflict, Mōsō trapped her in an imitation technique (discovering Toki's duo identity in the process) at the same moment Naruto, Neji Hyūga, Tenten, and Kakashi Hatake arrived. Mōsō eventually made off with Toki, leaving the Konoha ninja to Hokushin and the other Watari Ninja. Despite this, Naruto tricked him into revealing his true self when he used water clones to disguise his position. During the attack, Chishima was wounded by Hōki. Naruto defeated him with Naruto Uzumaki Combo. Hōki was handed over to Toki, and Naruto requested that he needed to be forced to repent for what he had done.