
Guren was a violent inmate at Orochimaru's Northern Hideout, marked with an experimental cursed seal. When rumours of Orochimaru's death sparked a prison revolt, he butchered his way to freedom before running into Sasuke Uchiha, who cut him down almost at once.
Guren has long, shaggy orange hair and dresses plainly in a white T-shirt and white shorts. Once active, his cursed seal creeps across him like a tangle of vines. Pushed to its second stage it transforms him drastically: wing-like growths sprout from his forearms, a broad flat tail extends behind him, and four horns emerge, one at each side of his forehead and one on each cheek. In that form his eyes turn black with yellowish centres, his face grows jagged, and the skin around his mouth darkens.
Guren is savagely cruel and violent, a man who cannot rein in his hunger for a fight.

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During Orochimaru's experiments, Guren was branded with a cursed seal, and he grew strong enough to reach its second stage, though even the first let him massacre a room of prison guards. A single blow from him could crush a man's skull, and the growths of his second state let him leap from great heights and cushion his own landings. When talk of Orochimaru's death set the prisoners rioting, Guren broke loose, entered the first stage of his seal, and cut down guard after guard who tried to subdue him. Escaping outside, he crossed paths with Sasuke Uchiha and his group and was swiftly struck down.
This Guren was a violent prisoner at Orochimaru's Northern Hideout who broke free during a riot sparked by rumors of Orochimaru's death, cut down guards with his cursed seal, and was swiftly struck down by Sasuke Uchiha after escaping outside.
This Guren is portrayed as savagely cruel and violent, a prisoner who massacred guards during a riot and could not rein in his hunger for a fight.
Guren was held at Orochimaru's Northern Hideout, where he had been branded with an experimental cursed seal during Orochimaru's experiments.
Rumors that Orochimaru had died set the prisoners rioting, and Guren broke loose during the chaos, activating the first stage of his cursed seal to cut down the guards trying to subdue him.
Guren's cursed seal could reach a dramatic second stage that sprouted wing like growths from his forearms, extended a broad flat tail, and grew four horns from his forehead and cheeks.
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