Motoi

Motoi is the image of his late father, sharing the same dark-brown spiky hair and dark eyes. The feature that stands out most is a dark green stripe running down the ridge of his nose. He wears the standard Kumogakure uniform with hand and shin guards and a flak jacket, plus a light grey scarf wound around his neck.

Motoi holds deep respect for B, a bond that reaches back to their boyhood. When his father died fighting the Eight-Tails, that grief curdled into hatred for the beast, and the hatred spread to B once B became its host, pushing Motoi to try to kill the friend he loved so as to destroy the creature inside him and avenge his father. After the attempt failed and B greeted him without a trace of resentment, shame and guilt kept Motoi at arm's length from B for the next thirty years.

Motoi and B were close at five years old, but the death of Motoi's father Furui, killed while trying to contain the Eight-Tails after it slipped free of its former host, turned the boy against the beast and against B when B was chosen to carry it. His lone assassination attempt was disarmed with ease, and though his face was covered he believed B recognised him, since B returned the fist bump they had always shared. Watching from a distance in the years that followed, Motoi saw how cruelly the village treated B and came to understand that B's pain outweighed his own, until his resentment gave way to the same admiration the rest of Kumo eventually felt.

As a supervisor of the Island Turtle he is linked to its barrier, able to read how many people cross it and where, though only at the instant of passage. He also tracks skillfully, wields Lightning Release such as the Spider Web technique, and summons owls like Fukuemon to carry messages over long distances. During the war he welcomes Naruto and his Konoha escorts to the island and later guides Naruto to the Falls of Truth, recounting his own history with B so Naruto can grasp B's misgivings. When the island's giant squid attacks him, B saves his life, and the two old friends at last make peace with a fist bump. Motoi afterward reports back to Kumogakure, helps pursue the fleeing Kisame Hoshigaki, and keeps the Shinobi Alliance updated as the crisis unfolds.