Jiga stood as the middle sibling among the Janin, a trio of brothers who seized the Land of Vegetables through a bloody coup. Swallowing iron from childhood turned his own body into a magnet, a gift that made him lethal in combat and, in the end, engineered his own destruction.
A heavyset build and pale complexion defined Jiga's frame. Curved crimson markings traced down either cheek, and his dull black hair reached his shoulders, with two thicker locks hanging past the chin on each side of his face. Dark grey eyes sat beneath a pair of long, heavy brows. For clothing he favored a sleeveless navy top dotted with pale grey circles, matching arm warmers cut from the same design, light grey trousers, and blue sandals.
Arrogance colored nearly everything Jiga did. He assumed no rival could match him, a conceit that ultimately cost him his life. Greed drove him just as hard. After the three brothers toppled the Land of Vegetables' daimyō, they turned on the very courtiers who had helped install them and cut them down, and Jiga went further still, finishing off his own weakened brother Ruiga so the plunder would be split among fewer hands.
During the clash with the Leaf ninja, he dangled an offer, promising to release Hinata and Naruto if they revealed where Haruna was hiding. Privately he admitted Hinata had real ability, yet he stayed convinced she posed no true threat to him, a judgment that she herself appeared to accept.
Years of consuming iron let Jiga magnetize both his own body and objects around him. He could push that magnetism into an enemy's skull to scramble the electrical signals in the brain, effectively locking down the entire nervous system, and he tore ore and stone loose from the surroundings to hurl as improvised projectiles. A slap to his belly switched the power on or off. That mechanism carried a fatal flaw, however. Left running too long without a pause, the magnetism would drag every nearby ferrous item toward him whether he wished it or not.
He was a formidable hand with the kusarigama, magnetizing its weighted end so it steered itself toward metal an opponent carried, such as a forehead protector. Raw muscle backed him up as well. He swung Naruto around while the boy hung from the chain, nearly dropped Hinata with a single gut punch, and could shatter rock barehanded, shrugging off most of Hinata's Gentle Fist blows and even a headfirst fall from a height. His downfall came when Hinata used the Gentle Fist to reverse the flow of his magnetism, forcing him to attract metal violently until an iron sand vortex swallowed and killed him.

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Jiga was killed when Hinata Hyūga used the Gentle Fist to reverse the flow of his own magnetism, forcing him to violently attract metal until an iron sand vortex swallowed and killed him.
Jiga was the middle sibling of the Janin, a trio of brothers who violently seized control of the Land of Vegetables, and his years of swallowing iron as a child turned his body into a living magnet.
Jiga could magnetize his own body and nearby objects, using the power to scramble an enemy's nervous system by disrupting brain signals, tear ore and stone free to hurl as projectiles, and steer his magnetized kusarigama toward metal an opponent carried.
Jiga was arrogant and greedy, certain no rival could match him, and he even killed his own weakened brother Ruiga so the plundered spoils of the Land of Vegetables coup would be split among fewer hands.
Jiga's magnetism had to be switched on and off with a slap to his belly, and if left running too long without pause, it would uncontrollably drag every nearby ferrous object toward him.
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