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| テンテン Tenten | |||
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| Manga | Naruto Chapter #36 | ||
| Anime | Naruto Episode #21 | ||
| Novel | Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky | ||
| Movie | Naruto Shippūden the Movie | ||
| Game | Naruto: Konoha Ninpōchō | ||
| OVA | Hidden Leaf Village Grand Sports Festival! | ||
| Appears in | Anime, Manga, Novel, Game, Movie | ||
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| Birthdate |  March 9
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| Sex |  Female
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| Blood type | B | ||
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| Ninja Registration | 012573 | ||
| Academy Grad. Age | 12 | ||
| Chūnin Prom. Age | 15 | ||
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Tenten (テンテン) is a member of Konohagakure's Team Guy. Using her weapon skills, she trains to be a substantial kunoichi in her own right.
Background
Tenten as a child.
Since her time as a student in the Academy, Tenten had a goal to become a legendary kunoichi like Tsunade, one of the Sannin, which she openly shared to others. After graduating, she was assigned to the jōnin tutelage of Might Guy, alongside her classmates Rock Lee and Neji Hyūga. For their final test to become genin, Guy forced his potential students to spar him and see their commitment to succeed. Ultimately, all three passed.[6] During this time of trial and failure, trying to emulate Tsunade, Tenten attempted to become a medical-nin, building up her raw strength and such. While each failed attempt was damaging to her pride, Tenten later discovered her talent for fūinjutsu and thus developed her unique fighting style. Realising her own nature, she stopped trying to becoming like Tsunade, but still has not given up on her dream of becoming a legendary kunoichi in her own right.[7] Later, Tenten and her team-mates were offered the chance to enter the Chūnin Exams in the possibility of being promoted to said rank. However, all three decided to pass on the exams for the time being to further hone their skills.[6]
Personality
Tenten dreams of Guy and Lee being mature.
Tenten is depicted as naturally inquisitive and observant, with a personal dream to become a legendary kunoichi like Tsunade. This has led to her to become strongly opinionated about women, defending that girls can be just as skilled as boys in taijutsu when Neji thought otherwise. Tenten exhibits a distaste for weakness or being overly dependent on other people. Though she can be quite fierce at times,[8] Tenten is kind and caring toward others, comforting her friends when they are going through a hard time.[9]
Being around her overly enthusiastic team-mates, particularly Might Guy and Rock Lee, Tenten is often left exasperated at their antics and wishes they would behave more maturely; her Infinite Tsukuyomi dream actually depicts this. She is more easy-going and dislikes having to travel for whole days[10] or continue training when she is already tired, for which reason she enjoys her days-off from missions. However, she cares greatly about her team, helping to go save Lee during the Chūnin Exams when he didn't report back at their base. She also held great respect her other team-mate Neji Hyūga and often helped him train.
Appearance
Tenten has black hair and grey eyes, both of which are depicted as dark brown in the anime. She wears her hair in two Chinese-style buns on her head with short fringe-bangs framing her face. She keeps this hairstyle consistent throughout Parts I and II. In The Last: Naruto the Movie, her hair buns are braided and held together by a short plait that falls just below her shoulders. As an adult, her braided-buns are still kept, but her straight bangs cover her forehead.
Tenten's outfits serve as a reference to Chinese culture. In Part I, she wears a pink sleeveless qipao-style blouse (initially depicted as blue in the manga) with red sleeve trimmings and yellow fastening buttons and dark green pants. A pouch is adjusted to her thigh and her forehead protector and sandals are both blue. In Part II, Tenten sports a long-sleeved, high-collared white blouse with maroon edges, black fingerless gloves, low-heeled sandals and a black forehead protector. She wears maroon, puffy hakama-styled pants with the exposed parts covered in bandages and the shuriken holster removed. She usually carries a large scroll behind her back. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Tenten wears the standard Konoha infantry flak jacket and assorted clothing, along with a holster around her waist that carries two small scrolls.
In The Last: Naruto the Movie, Tenten wears a white sleeveless, high-collared qipao dress with red trimmings and a pink flame pattern on the left, tied with a maroon obi. Underneath, she has fishnet leg stockings and black high-heeled boots. She no longer wears her gloves and forehead protector, but wears a pair of black scrolls around her wrists like bangles, and has two scrolls in the colour of green and light grey strapped on her lower back. As an adult, Tenten once again wears the similar outfit she wore in Part II, while sporting red dangling tassel-like earrings.
Abilities
Tenten destroying one of Kakuzu's elemental masks.
Tenten is quite a capable kunoichi, her skills being held in high regard by her team. By Part II, she was promoted to the rank of chūnin, greatly improving her skills to a point where members of Akatsuki are left dumbfounded.[3] Indeed, she could help battle the powerful member Kisame Hoshigaki,[11] as well as destroy some of Kakuzu's elemental masks during the Fourth Shinobi World War. Tenten has shown some knowledge of wounds and can perform basic medical treatment.[12][13]
Bukijutsu & Fūinjutsu Prowess
Tenten's fighting style.
Tenten is a weapons-user, showing great proficency in a large variety of weapons; in fact, she can effectively commandeer a very unorthodox weapon just after receiving it.[14] The weapons, used for either for melee combat or as long-range projectiles, are sealed inside scrolls of varying sizes; in Part I, she has several hand-sized scrolls that store small projectile weapons, but in part II, she carries a larger scroll on her back that carries more weapons than before. She uses them mainly to barrage her enemies or coordinate attacks with those of her team-mates. She has excellent marksmanship, noted by her team-mates to never miss her target, hitting 100/100 marks each time.[15]
Tenten's arsenal of weapons.
Tenten's preferred attack method is to swing her scrolls open to release any number of given weapons; the anime calls this move the Twin Rising Dragons.[15] If need be, she can use strings to better guide the weapons' trajectory or add explosive tags to make them more deadly, such as a grenade of kunai.[16] Besides weapons, Tenten can store and summon other items such as a fire dragon,[17] and a large metal dome for protection.[18] Tenten's proficiency in sealing objects is such that she can store almost any item, provided she has enough chakra, even those as large as an entire ship or a massive volume of water.[19][20]
Tenten's usage of the Enclosing Technique.
During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Tenten obtained the Bashōsen, one of the Treasured Tools of the Sage of Six Paths. Despite having no prior experience with it, she used it successfully to destroy Kakuzu's lightning mask,[21] and in the anime, his wind mask.[22] She also managed to successfully seal both the Benihisago and the Kohaku no Jōhei, two other sacred tools, into one of her scrolls. She later acquired another of the Sage's tool, the Kōkinjō, after the war.
Physical and Chakra Prowess
The anime shows that Tenten is well-versed in taijutsu, being able to defeat several assassins on one occasion.[23] Her speed of movement and recovery is impressive, able to quickly regain consciousness after being hit by Raiga Kurosuki's lightning-based attack, in time to evade his point-blank range attack.[24] In Part II, Tenten's chakra reserves grew considerably, being able to seal away objects of enormous size, as well as survive after using the chakra-taxing Bashōsen several times.[19][20][25]
Intelligence
Tenten manipulating the Jidanda's movement with explosive tags.
Tenten has a good level of intelligence and analytical skills, seeing things others would generally miss. During the Chūnin Exams, she can measure the perfect distance for attack or defence between herself and her enemy.[15] She found another way to wield the gigantic Jidanda weapon by using explosive tags to lift it and use it as a defence, despite her first time using it.[14]
Stats
| Databook | Ninjutsu | Taijutsu | Genjutsu | Intelligence | Strength | Speed | Stamina | Hand seals | Total |
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| First | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1.5 | 2 | 16 |
| Second | 2.5 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 1 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 2 | 18 |
| Third | 3 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 2 | 2 | 20.5 |
Part I
Chūnin Exams
Team Guy at the start of the Chūnin Exams.
By having not been allowed to participate the year before, Team Guy took part in the Chūnin Exams along with the Rookie Nine. They initially tried to avoid attention by acting weak by being beaten around by the two Chūnin that weren't letting them pass through, but Lee accidentally let slip his true strength by interfering with a fight between Sasuke Uchiha and Kotetsu Hagane. After Neji asked Sasuke to present who he was, Sasuke didn't answer, to which Tenten giggled to herself, thinking it was cute. During the written exam, Tenten assisted Lee in gathering answers. Using strings to adjust hidden mirrors on the ceiling, Tenten allowed Lee to see his fellow ninja's answers and copy them without being caught. To know that Lee saw the answer she sneaked in for him, Lee had to adjust his forehead protector.
She was seen again during the second part of the exam in the Forest of Death with her team-mates. Their team decided to split up to find weaker teams to corner and take scrolls from. She and Neji met back up at the assigned destination, but became worried when Lee didn't return. She and Neji went looking for Lee and arrived in time to find an unconscious Lee surrounded by Team Dosu. As Neji insisted they would use full power to avenge Lee, Sasuke awoke and they watched as he brutually defeated the Oto-nin. After this, Tenten was seen taking over watching an unconscious Lee for Ino, and then proceeded to wake him by violently shaking him.
Tenten uses her special scrolls as her trump card.
During Sakura's and Ino's match, Neji not being impressed commented on the skill of their hand to hand combat, wondering whether this was as far all kunoichi can fight, to which Tenten replied that it didn't matter whether a man or woman was in battle. Tenten was pitted against Temari during the preliminaries of the Chūnin Exams. Since their fight went unseen in the manga, the anime adaptation explained the circumstances that occurred. Tenten began the match by throwing a few of her weapons at Temari while keeping the best distance for offence and defence. The Third Hokage complimented Tenten's strategy, though Temari easily blew the weapons away with her fan. She was surprised that not one weapon reached Temari and tried a different approach.
Temari finishes off Tenten.
Temari explained the power of her fan and that once Tenten had seen all three moons the match would be over. Since nothing had even come close to hitting Temari, Tenten used one final technique that she was saving for the finals, the Twin Rising Dragons, but ultimately ineffective against Temari's fan. As Tenten ran out of weapons, she used strings to control the weapons and fling them once again back at Temari, in an attempt to surprise her. Temari however quickly used her fan to blast Tenten, along with her weapons and she hit the floor. Temari finally used her fan to trap Tenten in a cyclone and propel her into the air. As the cyclone dispersed and Tenten fell to the ground, Temari had Tenten land on her closed fan, knocking her unconscious and calling the match she just had boring. Even after she was declared the winner of the match, she threw Tenten off of the fan in attempt to have her land on the many weapons on the ground to injure her more. However, Lee jumped in to save Tenten before she hit the ground.
Before the finals began, Tenten helps Neji in his training to perfect his techniques. She was seen using her weapons to help Neji perfect his Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven technique, commenting to him that he has surpassed all kinds of human capabilities.
Later, she watched Neji's fight against Naruto in the finals, where she admired Neji's skills and thought that there would be just no way that Naruto would beat a genius like him. For pretty much all of the fight she rooted for Neji and watched him in amazement. Tenten was shown to be shocked, praising Naruto and his abilities for defeating Neji. She was later seen again during Temari and Shikamaru's match. When Temari used her wind ninjutsu, she commented to herself that this technique was the thing that knocked out all of her weapon attacks back in the preliminary rounds, thus was what led to her defeat when she faced Temari.
Konoha Crush
In the anime, it was shown that Tenten went down to check on Neji, telling him that Sasuke's match could be any time, and that they should both go watch him since it could be an interesting fight. She also told him not to be too down, and that it was only sheer luck that Naruto won. Neji smiling said that he was free, thus leading to Tenten smiling. Chaos was heard by the two outside, witnessing giant snakes attacking the whole village. Unseen in the manga, it was shown that Tenten along with Neji and Kiba were sent on a different mission to get back Hinata whom was captured. They then had a battle with a bunch of wolfs which was a trap to not let the gang proceed. Tenten summoned a fire dragon from her scroll, obliterating many of the attackers. She then told Neji and Kiba to go save Hinata, and that she could handle this on her own, as she summoned a bunch of different weapons around her while the other two went off. Ultimately, she defeated the enemies she was faced with and Hinata was saved.
Later, Tenten can be seen at the Third Hokage's funeral alongside the other villagers, mourning his death.
Search for Tsunade
When Tsunade returns to Konoha for becoming the Fifth Hokage, Tenten can be seen when she went to Neji after his training. She tells him that Tsunade has returned and asks him to check it out with her, which Neji replied that he was not interested.
Kurosuki Family Removal Mission
Ranmaru is discovered.
In the anime, Team Guy and Naruto were sent to get rid of the Kurosaki family. After taking care of most of the enemy members, they ran into their leader, Raiga Kurosuki, who was more than enough to handle her and team-mates. Ultimately, they Raiga was defeated. She and the others soon found a youmg boy named Ranmaru who was not only working alongside Raiga by using his dōjutsu but was cripple, and thus couldn't take care of himself, much to Tenten's disgust. Later, she saves his life by taking him to the Curry of Life shop. She brought Ranmaru out of his depression and convinced him to live and to stand on his own two feet. After this she made a formidable opponent for Raiga Kurosuki when she faced him in a one-on-one fight. Knowing that he used Lightning Release techniques, she quickly deduced that her metal weapons would be a bad idea to use, and took on the missing-nin using her wooden based melee weapons. She appeared to gain the upper hand in the battle when she succeeded in disarming Raiga until he ultimately overwhelmed her with his techniques.
Academy Student Lead Mission
Tenten and the Academy team assigned to her.
In the anime, the Academy students were divided into teams of three and were assigned to a genin who would lead them on a mission against the other teams. Tenten was assigned to lead a team of three Academy students. Her time with them was not covered much except that she was doing better than Naruto.
Cursed Warrior Extermination Mission
In the anime, she was sent on the mission to the Land of Birds with Naruto and Neji. During this mission the capablities of her taijutsu skills were shown when battled assassins as well as her great preciseness when she encountered the Cursed Warrior. When she, Naruto and Neji came across a trap that would possibly set off if didn't hit incorrectly, Tenten took it upon herself to allow themselves to pass after correctly dismantling it. She later smacked Naruto for faking his own death and claimed she was worried about him. While this was true, she showed anger toward Naruto and Neji for leaving her out of their plan.
Star Guard Mission
In the anime, her team and Naruto were assigned a mission to Hoshigakure.
Menma Memory Search Mission
In the anime, she, Neji and Naruto were assigned to escort Menma — a young boy who has amnesia — to the Land of Vegetables.
Konoha Plans Recapture Mission
In the anime, the Konoha 11 was brought together to stop Gennō from bombing Konoha. Tenten was shown to be a very keen observer, picking up on facts that others overlooked.
Sunagakure Support Mission
In the anime, Tenten was the only one out of the Konoha 11 to be left out of the mission to save Gaara's student from the Four Celestial Symbols Men, and Tenten scolded Lee because of it. Lee explained that Tenten was away on another mission and so couldn't have come, though Tenten attacked him anyway, using the Dynamic Entry to defeat him.
Interlude
In Naruto's Footsteps: The Friends' Paths
About two years after Naruto left the village to train with Jiraiya, Tenten's team entered an early Chūnin Exam hosted between Konoha and Sunagakure. For the first exam, Tenten and her team-mates were randomly split into different rooms. Shikamaru, as proctor, explained that everyone only needs to answer one question on the test, but their team's combined score must equal exactly 100 points to pass.[26] Neji decided to send vibrations through the wall to tell his team which question they should each answer. Afterwards, Shikaramu instructed everyone to answer a bonus question of what team-mate would be sacrificed as a necessary, to which that person would be disqualified. Tenten, being loyal , chose not to answer at all, and ultimately her team passes the first round. A race to Sunagakure was then issued where only the first 30 teams to arrive would qualify for the second exam.[27]
Thanks to Tenten's summoned ladder, Team Guy was able to escape the pit.
Ultimately, Tenten's team arrive in time to qualify. The following day, the second exam began. Each teams was each given either a Heaven or Earth scroll and were required to obtain the missing scroll and bring them to the main building of the Demon Desert within three days. [28] As Neji's team began searching for enemies, they were soon encountered by a Suna-nin team. Sen removed a genjutsu, revealing to Tenten's team that they were standing in quicksand and were dragged into Sand Waterfall Pit. After managing to escape the pit, they found Team Shira and saved them from their treacherous fellow Suna-nin. As Neji asked why they attacked Shira's team at all, it was explained that they had no respect for Shira as a ninja since he held no skill in ninjutsu nor genjutsu.[29]
Recognising Shira's similar struggles, Lee angrily went after the other Suna-nin. Tenten and Shira's teams soon caught up with the overzealous Lee and saved him from the Suna-nin's group assault.[30] After the other Suna-nin left, Lee challenged Shira, which the latter happily accepts. Tenten was amazed at how equal the two fought, to which Neji noted Shira had the advantage as his larger build allowed him to endure more damage. When the two taijutsu fighters began going all-out, Lee with five of the Eight Gates and Shira using his self-created Seven Heavens Breathing Method, the fight was ultimately called off because of Shira's previous wounds reopening but parted ways with respect to each other.[31]
Tenten and Ajisai trapped together.
On the third day of the exam, Tenten's team ran into a team of Ame kunoichi. After a small skirmish, the enemies retreated, deciding that Team Guy was not the target they sought from their chakra levels. Despite this, Tenten's team pursued the Ame-nin into an old ruins. As the battle continued, the ground collapsed, swallowing Tenten and Ajisai. After Tenten awoke, she went to check on the seemingly unconscious Ajisai.[32] After casually telling the enemy kunoichi to put her weapon away, realising she was ready to attack, Tenten convinced Ajisai to a truce. Despite this, Ajisai showed an obvious resentment to the Five Great Shinobi Countries for not understanding the struggles of smaller villages. Ultimately, they were able to escape their cave-in when Tenten unsealed a vast amount of water to forcibly wash away the rubble. Once on the surface and reunited with their respective team-mates, the two teams parted peacefully.[20]
Tenten and Neji about to rescue Gaara and Fū.
Later, Team Guy was caught in a massive sandstorm. Tenten summoned a protective dome for them to wait out the storm.[33] After the storm cleared, they spotted Matsuri, who begged for them to help save Gaara. They learned there that not only was the Taki kunoichi Fū there and a jinchūriki as well, but that the Suna-nin Hōichi was attempting to extract btheir respective tailed beasts. Working along side Fū's team-mates, Tenten and Neji went after the the two jinchūriki while the rest distracted Hōichi. Tenten provided Neji with a chakra blade to break through Fū's Cocoon as means to hold the extractions. Neji then used his Gentle Fist to block their chakra points, forcing the chakra chains binding Gaara and Fū to be removed and turn on Hōichi, binding him.[34]
Later, despite lacking a matching set of scrolls, Tenten's team decided to finish the exam and head to the main building. There, it was learned that the Chūnin Exams ended early due to controversy happening in the second exam. Instead, it was decided that a report on each participant would be sent to their respective village leader for them to decide any promotions. Upon returning to the village, Tsunade decided to promote Tenten and Lee chūnin plus Neji to jōnin per Gaara's recommendation.[35]
Part II
Kazekage Rescue Mission
Team Guy attacking Kisame.
Team Guy was assigned by Tsunade as back-up to assist Team 7 in rescuing Gaara after he was captured by the Akatsuki. While on route they met up with Pakkun who redirected them to Team Kakashi's destination: an Akatsuki hideout where Gaara was being held. Not long after, they were intercepted by the Akatsuki member Kisame Hoshigaki. Team Guy attacked him, with Tenten using a spiked kunai bomb, but Kisame blocked the weapon with his sword and retreated under water to avoid the explosive damage. After an ongoing battle and finding Guy's students to be a problem and preferred to fight Guy alone, Kisame created three water clones that trapped Tenten, Neji, and Lee in water prisons to prevent their interference. After Neji broke himself and Lee out, Lee immediately attacked and defeated the water clone trapping Tenten, setting her free before suffocating. After being freed she watched on as Guy defeated Kisame. Afterwards she along with the rest of the team examined Kisame's body only to find someone in his place. Realising they were being stalled Pakkun led them off towards Team 7.
Tenten defeats her doppelgänger.
When they convened with Team Kakashi, Team Guy was tasked with bringing down the barrier blocking the entrance to the Akatsuki lair. Neji used his Byakugan to find the seals keeping the barrier in place and directed the locations of them to the rest of the team. Once they found the seals they simultaneously took them off, succeeding in removing the barrier but in the process were immediately ambushed by copies of themselves. Tenten fought hers but, unlike her copy, had only a finite amount of energy and thus started to get tired. Lee communicated to her and the rest of the team a solution: to become stronger than they had been when the copies had been created. Tenten pushed herself beyond her limits, raining dozens of different weapons down on her double, defeating it.
Team Guy confronts Deidara.
With their battles won, Team Guy went to meet up with Team 7 again. After Neji used his Byakugan to locate Deidara they snuck up behind him in time to block his escape. Deidara realised he was outnumbered, so he tried to retreat. As her team attacked she unrolled her scroll and launched several weapons at Deidara though he managed to avoid her attacks. With Team Guy on Deidara's tail, they cornered him, leading him to make a exploding clone, resulting in almost killing both teams were it not for Kakashi's intervention. After Gaara was rescued and their mission completed, both teams accompanied him back into the village and later paid their respects at Chiyo's grave. Soon after Team Guy and Team 7 left for Konoha. In the anime after returning to the village, she is shown irritated by Guy and Lee's race.
Akatsuki Suppression Mission
In the anime, Tenten attended Asuma Sarutobi's funeral.
Three-Tails' Appearance
Main article: Three-Tails' Appearance
Tenten attacks Guren's men.
In the anime, when word got out to the Konoha that Orochimaru was after the Three-Tails, Tsunade took action. Tenten was placed on Team Two — the guarding team — along with Lee, Yamato, Kiba, and Akamaru. When Naruto commented on why Tenten wasn't placed on the sealing team along with the rest of the girls, seeing as she too was a girl, Tenten angrily told him that she doesn't have delicate chakra control. She then gave Shizune the big scroll the sealing team would need. When her team took position, they came across some of Guren's men. Lee attacked first, resulting in him being trapped in a smokescreen by Kigiri. Tenten got worried and was prepared to help but was told by Yamato to wait, not wanting to mistakenly attack Lee too in the cloud of smoke. Lee eventually found his way through the smoke, defeating Kihō in the process. Tenten relieved, threw a variety of weapons in rapid succession. She managed to temporarily immobilise the foes with the explosion set off by the explosive tags attached to her weapons. The enemies were ultimately finished off by Kiba and Akamaru.
Tenten and Lee confront Guren.
She and Lee were then left to guard the sealing team as they sealed the beast while Yamato and Kiba went to take care of other matters. Guren made her attempt at disrupting the sealing, but Tenten and Lee sychronised attacks and kept her at bay. During the battle, Tenten summons a fireball from her scroll that breaks off some of Guren's crystal armour. Unfortunately, the sealing was distrubted and the Three-Tails was freed, creating tidal waves that washed she and the others to shore. After recuperating, they agreed to try again. Later, Kigiri, Nurari, and Kihō returned for round two, where they gained the advantage since Kabuto forced open their cursed seal. She and her team battled their best but evidently were defeated, and was forced to take cover. The task to seal the beast ultimately failed again, and thus they all returned home.
Pain's Assault
After completing their mission, Team guy decides to have a rest before returning to Konoha. While resting, the team notices a number of birds flying away from the direction of the village, which Guy took as a bad sign and the team decides to rush back to the village. On their way, Neji discovers Gamabunta injured with his Byakugan and they approached him, only to be told that Pain had attacked the village. When they arrive to the village, they found it destroyed and soon found Hinata, who was injured and in bad condition. After examining her, Tenten noted that her wounds were not fatal but she needed immediate medical attention.
Team Guy gets medical attention for Hinata.
After regrouping with some survivors, Tenten stood watch as Sakura healed Hinata and was happy when she regained consciousness. Katsuyu later informs all of them that Naruto was fighting with the last Pain much to everyone's shock. Guy insisted that their team should provide back-up, but Katsuyu explained that Naruto wanted to settle the mater alone. This angered the team, although they complied with Naruto's request. After Naruto returned from defeating Pain, Tenten along with the rest of the village celebrated his victory and cheered him on.
Past Arc: The Locus of Konoha
Main article: Past Arc: The Locus of Konoha In the anime, while she and Neji were heading to a Konoha Weapons Lab to resupply their village's military strength, Tenten recapped her previous visit when she led Team Guy, with Naruto substituting for Rock Lee, on a similar mission to get weapons from Iō in the aftermath of the Konoha Crush. It was during that time that Tenten got to briefly use the Jidanda. Though Iō relieved her of the still developing weapon at the time, Tenten express hope that the Jidanda is finished so she can use it again.
Five Kage Summit
The "Konoha 11" deciding what to do with Sasuke.
When news reached Konoha of Sasuke's recent dealings with Akatsuki, Tenten and the rest of the Konoha 11 decided that they should personally kill Sasuke before he involves the village in a war. Ino who was unhappy about this, cried and was criticised by Kiba but was comforted by Tenten. She also stood up for Ino, shouting at Kiba, telling him not to talk to her like that. When Naruto came back to the village along with Sakura, he insisted that dealing with Sasuke be left to him. Tenten got angry and told him that this should not be something he undertakes on his own, and that none of them would just stand by and watch. Despite this, Naruto firmly stated that he would be the one to handle Sasuke, and that he'd tell them everything when the time came, as he walked off to Ichiraku, leaving Tenten and the others in mixed emotions.
Power
Main article: Power (Arc) In the anime, Tenten, her team are sent to provide back up for Team Kakashi on their mission to investigate the mystery of The Hole in the Tonika Village which Kabuto Yakushi was responsible for. Kabuto reincarnated a few shinobi, one of which was Hayate Gekkō who she clashed with. After a Naruto clone formed into a larger four-tails version of Naruto, she had to move to a more secure area. She later battled Kabuto's puppets with her comrades while Naruto took on his clone. After Naruto defeated the clone and Kabuto retreated, she and the other Konoha-nin returned to their village.
Paradise Life on a Boat
Main article: Paradise Life on a Boat In the anime, Tenten and Shikamaru were sent on a mission to deliver supplies to Naruto and his squad. Facing a few difficulties, such as being trapped in a whirlpool and sailing around in circles, Shikamaru caught on. With the help of Tenten sealing the ship in one of her scrolls, the gang outsmarted the ninja who wanted to rob the ship, and take all its loot by unsealing the ship, and having it dropped on the enemy ninja.
Later, Tenten returned to the Hidden Leaf Village. As she was in charge of the weapons supply room for preparations of the Fourth Shinobi World War, she decided to round up all the Konoha girls to a Barbecue dinner so that their minds would be taken off from all the stress, and have a night surrounded by friends before the war started. Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Shiho and herself all gathered up and started reminiscing on how they met and were brought close like classmates at the Chūnin Exams, shortly after being interrupted by a drunk Tsunade whom was stressed out from all the Hokage work, and Shizune who also joined in. On the other side of the restaurant, Chōji had gathered up an all guy's night, hence not being invited by Tenten, as she said it was a girls only night, which he commented that it was bold of Tenten for inviting Lady Tsunade. With the night ending, everyone went their separate ways home after Tsunade suggested drinking their sorrows away, and not being able to remember anything the following day.
Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation
Tenten part of the First Division alongside Chōza.
When the Fourth Shinobi World War begins, she was placed in the First Division with Chōza Akimichi and Hiashi Hyūga. The First Division was sent to the border of the Land of Lightning to defend against an approaching portion of the White Zetsu Army. In the anime, Chōza told Tenten not to worry, because they had Shikaku, the best strategist around, and to have faith in her comrades. Reassured, with a smile Tenten agreed.
With the White Zetsu Army approaching, Tenten was overwhelmed by the amount of them as she stood alongside Choza and Hiashi. After Darui's initial assault on the approaching enemy forces, Tenten shouted that she wouldn't let any of the enemy to pass, as she jumped into battle and launched a barrage of projectile weapons filled with kunai and shuriken at several of the opponents that hit on point. Tenten was later seen on the sidelines devastated and shocked that one guy could be doing the massive damage that was being caused by Kinkaku, whom was transformed as a Jinchuriki. Shortly after, Shikamaru, Ino, and Chōji came as reinforcements. Tenten was seen aiding the alliance by launching a barrage of kunai from her scroll towards Kinkaku to help aid the Ino-Shika-Cho team to defeat the enemy by sealing it in the treasured tool, Kohaku no Jōhei.
Tenten attacks Kakuzu's lightning mask with the Bashōsen.
After the First Division defeated Kinkaku and Ginkaku, she found the lost Bashōsen on the chaotic battlefield. She was eventually drawn into battle with Kakuzu's lightning mask and destroyed it with the Bashōsen using the wind element.[21] She commented to herself that the Treasured Tool she had in possession was sweet, but that it took up a lot of chakra. This did not stop her from keeping on fighting, so she ran to find new enemies to defeat. In the anime, she's also able to take down Kakuzu's wind mask with the Bashōsen, using the fire element by sending a huge wave of fire.[22]
Tenten was later seen collapsing on the ground, exhausted from using one of the Treasured Tools of the Sage of Six Paths, having barely enough chakra to live. A fellow Konoha shinobi healed her, and told her not to touch the fan again, or it might kill her much to her dismay since she had great proficiency with the tool, as another fellow shinobi stood behind her examining the treasured tool. After being healed later when night time hit the alliance, Tenten was seen to be pulling on Ino as she walked behind her, begging to get the Bashosen back. After it was time to get back on track, she joined up with Team Asuma, aiding them in devising a strategy, though she was left despaired for not being allowed to use the Bashōsen despite her proficiency with the Treasured Tool.[36]
Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax
Tenten and the Allied Shinobi Force confront the Ten-Tails.
After being informed by Inoichi Yamanaka from HQ that Naruto and Killer B were fighting the "masked Madara" Tenten and the rest of the Konoha 11 rushed to their aid as fast as they could. As she ran alongside Ino, she worries about Guy and whether or not he was all-right and protecting Naruto. Allaying her fears, she noted that since Kakashi was there as well, everything would be fine. Later, Tenten arrived with her division which was announced by Darui, she stood alongside the remainder of the Allied Shinobi Forces as they prepared to face their opposition by trapping the Ten-Tails which turned out to be a failure. The Ten-Tails later began its move.
After facing several attacks from the Ten-Tails, Tenten later learned of Neji's death, and appeared with Guy and Lee beside Neji's corpse with Naruto and Hinata gathering along with them. As she tried to console a weeping Lee which didn't seem to be working, Might Guy, Kakashi, and Naruto ultimately share words of comfort with everyone despite Obito's disparaging words.
Birth of the Ten-Tails' Jinchūriki
Having received chakra from Naruto, Tenten and the other members of the Alliance charged towards the Uchiha and the Ten-Tails. With the situation later turning grim as the Alliance was trapped in a barrier with a Tailed Beast Ball-firing tree, Tenten along with the remaining of her team Gai, Lee and the other shinobi soon found themselves shrouded in the previous Version 1 mantles again which Naruto gave out again. She and the others subsequently found themselves on the outside of the barrier, escaping the near-fatal attack thanks to Naruto and Minato's action. The Ten-Tails transformed into its final form, the God Tree, and ravaged the Alliance. Tenten was able to escape its chakra absorbing attacks. Hashirama Senju then had Ino link-up everyone telepathically. While his words fail to inspire anyone, Naruto's senjutsu-enhanced Tailed Beast Mode combined with Ino's telepathy caused his emotions and personal memories to be transferred to everyone, spurring them on. Later on the five Kage returned to the battlefield, and charged towards the God Tree along with the rest of the Shinobi Alliance. As everyone got ready to charge, Guy, Lee and Tenten were shown to be standing together by one another, with Guy stating that their youth is limitless, with Lee and Tenten agreeing to their sensei, and getting ready to jump into battle. After Tsunade and Sakura summoned one tenth of Katsuyu's body and started healing the alliance, Tenten and her team were seen, with Guy and Lee jumping in the healing gue produced by Katsuyu. Tenten then got irritated and told the pair that if they knew what was going on, then they should get going.
Tenten and her comrades using Naruto's Rasengan to attack Obito.
When Naruto later contacted his comrades telepathically, Tenten and Lee both sensed Naruto calling them and went without hesitation. They both mobilised together with the others by jumping down to the main battle inside the Susanoo, and are shocked when Tailed Beast Mode mantles surround them upon entering Kurama's tail and as well as by being given massive Rasengan. Carrying out the plan spot on, Tenten and the rest of the Konoha 11 break through Obito's defences using the Rasengan Naruto had created giving him and Sasuke the opportunity to attack Obito directly with landing a final blow. Tenten and her comrades later assisted Naruto with wresting control of all the tailed beasts' chakra from Obito's control in order to stop the holy tree from blooming and succeed.
Tenten regrouped with Guy and Lee. A weakened Guy went on about the power of youth, which Tenten commented if only his body kept up with his heart. Then the team saw Gaara, Sakura, and a dying Naruto fly over them from above with Gaara's sand, and wonder what is going on in the place they were headed to. She is soon exasperated with the pair as Guy is determined to still fight and head over to Kakashi's location, even though severely exhausted and Lee, adamant to follow his sensei to the letter. As she asked why Neji had to leave her alone with these two extreme characters, referring to them as bone-heads, Guy and Lee are struck down by the falling Kohaku no Jōhei and Benihisago that was discarded by Madara. This caused Tenten to fall over as well due to the impact. After she regained her conciseness, Tenten asked weather Guy and Lee were alright or not, she then recognised the Treasured Tools after Madara had expelled them from within him, leaving her in shock to their reappearance. Guy went on ahead to where the main battle was occurring later on followed by Lee. When Lee saved his sensei, Guy asked where Tenten was. According to Lee, Tenten had stayed back to check on something.
Tenten falls victim to the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
The chaotic tremors later felt across the battlefield caused Tenten to fall over and drop her scroll, which was shown to be unrolled with the two treasured tools exposed. As she slowly started getting up, she contemplated how best to use the Treasured Tools which she had sealed away to defeat the enemy and noted that she needed to ask someone from the Kumogakure to tell her how it works first. The scroll is then pierced by a piece of Madara's discarded forehead protector which left her in shock. Later, when Madara Uchiha finally succeeded with the activation of the Infinite Tsukuyomi, much like the rest of the world, she too was caught by the roots of the God Tree and fell under the genjutsu's power. Inside the genjutsu, Tenten dreamed of Guy and Lee acting more mature and "cool" as well as wearing mature clothing, proudly speaking about it with a still-alive Neji.
In the anime, her possession of the Six Path Sage's tools appeared to have caused an unique affect to Tenten's illusion, allowing her to retain her memories of the war. Finding herself seemingly back in Konoha, she was shocked at how different all her friends and allies were acting, including Naruto being known as "Menma". Concluding that she was stuck in a very elaborate genjutsu she attempted to dispel it but to no avail. Ultimately, she decided to avoid conversing with any of her friends, believing they may in fact be agents of Madara.[37]
After failing to get help from Kurenai, who in this world was only an avid fan of genjutsu, she was approaching by a travelling merchant, who said there was a shinobi in Amegakure with advanced genjutsu prowess who could help her. Accepting his map to Amegakure, Tenten decided to leave without asking for approval. This lead to her being captured and branded a traitor as the map was reveal to have secret information on Konoha concealed. While locked up, Neji and Lee secretly met with Tenten, promising to prove her innocence. Later, the village was attacked by Amegakure. As Tenten watched in horror, Menma appeared, locking up the merchant who framed Tenten as he was actually a spy for Amegakure who allowed for the invasion to happen. Menma lets Tenten out of her cell as she was cleared of all charges and explained that he realised that Tenten was different from the Tenten he knew after tailing her since her strange nature began. Regardless, he still considered her a friend. Deciding to help, Tenten joined Menma in fighting off the Ame-nin, using the two Six Paths Sage tools. After the enemies were defeated, Tenten was applauded by all, convincing her that she belonged there.[38]
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki Strikes
Tenten freed from the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
After Naruto was able to defeat and reform Sasuke, Tenten along with the rest of the Shinobi Alliance were released from the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Tenten then went to where Darui was, and unsealed the Benihisago from her scroll that she sealed two of the Treasured Tools in which Madara discarded earlier. After giving the treasured tool to Darui, he released the captured Kumo-nin: Samui and Atsui from it as well as showing her how to wield it for future use. She later attended Neji's funeral along with the rest of the Konohagakure shinobi.
Blank Period
The Last: Naruto the Movie
Main article: The Last: Naruto the Movie Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, when the meteors begin falling on earth, Tenten stand along with her team, Kakashi and Ino.
Konoha Hiden: The Perfect Day for a Wedding
Main article: Konoha Hiden: The Perfect Day for a Wedding Tenten performs her morning routine of weapon throwing and think about what present she'll give Naruto and Hinata for their wedding. She wants to give them a kunai of her collection. However, during the night, she became concerned that such a gift would be expected of her and a bad sign that she is solely interested in weaponry and not finding a relationship for herself like Naruto and Hinata have with each other. She has a little money, because she spend it only on rare weapons, but Tenten contemplates using what little she has in order to buy a "normal" gift.
Tenten at Naruto and Hinata's wedding.
Lee comes see Tenten while she trains. He is wearing a dress and make-up and is lifting dumbbells. He explains his and Guy's earlier reasoning and how, by dressing as a housewife in order to test out their idea, he is convinced that he and Guy made the right choice and he now wants to make sure Tenten isn't going to get Naruto and Hinata the same gift. Tenten doesn't understand Lee's explanation at all, but is nevertheless put at ease by what he says. Because of Lee's gift, she can give kunai like she originally planned and she won't need to worry about having the worst present for Naruto and Hinata. She resumes her training, glad that she can continue to be herself. She later attends Naruto and Hinata's wedding, taking a photo of herself along with Hinata, Sakura, and Ino.
Epilogue
Years later, Tenten decided to become a weapons maker and opened a weapon shop to spread her joys of weapons with others. Amongst her various weapons, the Treasured Tools lied on display with a sign that said "not for sale". However, she lamented, due to the fact that the world was so peaceful, it got in the way of business since she didn't get many customers.
Boruto: Naruto the Movie
Main article: Boruto: Naruto the Movie Tenten is put in charge of the second phase of the Chūnin Exams along with Shino Aburame.
In Other Media
Movies
Naruto Shippūden the Movie
Tenten only plays a small part appearing with some of the other Konoha shinobi protecting the village, but had no speaking part. She was seen being led by Kakashi and Guy in making a counter-attack against Mōryō and his stone soldiers to buy time for Naruto and Shion to defeat Mōryō.
Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire
Tenten was first seen with the rest of Konoha 11 eating barbecue to celebrate Naruto and Sai's recovery. After Naruto and Sai arrive, Naruto exclaims that Shikamaru is paying for everyone. She and the others quickly thank Shikamaru before he can protest. After Hiruko announced a fourth ninja war will occur, she was one of Konoha 11, except Naruto, assigned by Tsunade to secure the village. After Naruto and Sakura left the village, she and the others were ordered to go after them and bring them back. When they encountered them they all got ambushed by Ichi. Tenten released the others from Ichi's tentacles with some exploding kunai and they started to battle them while Naruto and Sakura went ahead. Neji told Shikamaru that Team Guy will handle the battle and sends the rest of the team after Naruto and Sakura. Tenten uses her weapons to distract Ichi while Neji and Lee prepare to use the Front Lotus: Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven. They succeed in defeating Ichi before San summons him and Ni to make a more powerful chimera.
She and her team-mates join back up with Team 8 and Team 10 and take over fighting the chimera for and exhausted Shikamaru, Sakura, and Sai. In the end when Hiruko revealed his true form to Naruto and Kakashi, she and the others all defeated his chimera together with Tenten landing the final blow with Twin Rising Dragons, covering the beast in exploding kunai and detonating them. She and the others praise Naruto for defeating Hiruko and witness the strange moment between Naruto and Kakashi that occured because of his creepy smile after remembering Obito.
Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison
Tenten, along with the rest of the Konoha 11, Guy, Tsunade, Shizune, Kakashi, and Yamato, went to the Hōzuki Castle to free Naruto. She and the others held off Satori while Naruto went into Sage Mode.
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie
In the alternate world, Tenten is not as proficient in handling weapons, rather she is very clumsy and throws what she sees tends to injure herself as a result. When Rock Lee steals her underwear, Tenten's scream is heard through the whole village. She then slaps Lee and kicks him away.
Video Games
Tenten is a playable character in the following video games:
Trivia
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- The name "Tenten" literally means "heaven, heaven" (天天). It can also mean "little by little", "this and that", "here and there" or "dot" in Japanese. It is also a possibility that her name insinuates "ten out of ten", as a reference to her marksmanship or one of the names for a Japanese ellipsis meaning "mark-mark", referring to her use of targets with bukijutsu.
- Tenten has slowly been improving her ranking in the Naruto character popularity polls. She placed 24th in the first and fifth, 30th in the second, 29th in the third and ninth and most recent poll , 22nd in the third and 15th in the seventh. That is her highest rank in all of the polls. She is not in the top 30 in the eighth poll.
- In an interview, Kishimoto said he preferred Tenten out of the four Konoha 11 girls because he liked her design.
- Like the rest of her team, Tenten's character seems to draw inspiration from Chinese culture as seen from her attire and hairstyle, the Chinese style Chignon.
- According to the databook(s):
- Her hobby is fortune-telling.
- Tenten would like to have a rematch with Temari, and she would also like to fight Tsunade's apprentice: Sakura Haruno.
- Her favourite foods are Sesame dumplings and Chinese food, while her least favourite is pickled plums.
- Tenten's favourite phrase is "A hundred shots, a hundred bull's-eyes" (百発百中, Hyappatsu Hyakuchū).
- Tenten has completed 62 official missions in total: 28 D-rank, 23 C-rank, 3 B-rank, 7 A-rank, 1 S-rank.
- Tenten loves to investigate.
- Tenten and Neji have the same theme in the anime, but Tenten's has a slower beat. It is often used in flashbacks and emotional moments.
- In original colour illustrations of the manga, Tenten's costume is blue. This is changed to pink in the anime and later manga images.
- In the omake for episode 209, her name is written in Chinese: 天天.
- Tenten is a main character in the Naruto: Shippūden spin-off series, Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth, in which her appearance is more dominant than the Naruto: Shippūden.
- On the back of Hyō no Sho, her hair colour is black rather then brown.
Quotes
- (To Neji about Ino and Sakura fighting) "It's not because they're girls you know, Neji. It's just that those two are using kid gloves. It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman in battle."[39]
- (To Naruto about Ranmaru) "I can't stand weak and indecisive people!"[40]
- (To Ranmaru) "I won't let that happen. No way you're not getting off that easy! The people you and Raiga killed, they all wanted to live but you didn't leave them that choice! You decided for them! Well you don't get to decide this time, okay?! You're gonna live and you're going to take some responsibility for all those people's lives you cut short!"[41]
- (To Naruto) "You're gonna fight Sasuke alone? And you think all of us are just gonna stand here and let you?!"[42]
- (To Naruto) "Three members of Team Guy specialise in close-contact battles so I often render aid from the distance. I don't mind providing back up, but I was hoping to find new ninja tools that would enable me to fight on the front lines."[14]
- (About Iō's weapons) "Amazing… The brilliance of the blade… the design. They're all beautiful! I want to take them all home!"[14]
- (To Guy) "I want to be a great and powerful ninja! To walk in the footsteps of the legendary kunoichi, Tsunade!"[7]
- (About Lee) "Lee! You never give up, no matter what! And because you always go for it, I tell myself not to lose to you and I'm able to give it my all too."[7]
- (To herself) "I no longer wish to be like Lady Tsunade anymore. But I haven't given up my dream to become a legendary kunoichi."[7]
References
- ↑ First Databook, page 81
- ↑ Second Databook, page 112
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Third Databook, pages 112-113
- ↑ Fourth Databook, page 123
- ↑ Retsu no Sho, page 32
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 360
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Naruto: Shippūden episode 237
- ↑ Chapter 57, page 6
- ↑ Chapter 459, page 4
- ↑ Chapter 255, page 7-8
- ↑ Chapter 256, page 8-9
- ↑ Chapter 441, page 8
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 293
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Naruto: Shippūden episode 184
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Naruto episode 43
- ↑ Chapter 256, page 7-8
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 192
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 109
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 231
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Naruto: Shippūden episode 405
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Chapter 533, page 2
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 276
- ↑ Naruto Episode 163
- ↑ Naruto episode 158
- ↑ Chapter 536, page 15
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 396
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 397
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 398
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 399
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 400
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 401
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 404
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 410
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 412
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 413
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 303
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 427
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 428
- ↑ Naruto episode 42
- ↑ Naruto episode 152
- ↑ Naruto episode 155
- ↑ Chapter 488, page 11
