Bijuu
Those seen thus far are slightly larger than Gamabunta, who is over 100 meters tall. The tailed beasts each have a different number of tails, and each is a different type of creature. Compared to humans, tailed beasts possess a massive amount of chakra, described in the series as the "ultimate chakra". Shukaku seems to possess a chakra level several times that of any human, while the nine-tailed fox's chakra is practically limitless. Despite their unrivaled strength and power, not all of the tailed beasts are able to use it as effectively. The three-tailed beast, for instance, did not possess the intellect to control its own strength, making it weaker.
Those within whom a tailed beast has been sealed at birth are called jinchūriki (人柱力, lit. Power of Human Sacrifice), or simply hosts, and grow up to exhibit extraordinary powers. In some instances, they are actually stronger than the tailed beast they possess. This is because they have the knowledge to control the tailed beast's strength effectively, whereas an unsealed tailed beast may lack the necessary intelligence to do so. The host also tends to have some sort of physical characteristic akin to the tailed beast sealed within them (Naruto's whisker-marks, the rings around Gaara's eyes, and Yugito's slanted eyes). Naruto takes the word jinchūriki offensively, regarding it as a dehumanizing term. According to Akatsuki members, those who host such creatures are typically lonely people who loathe humanity, and so far this has proven to be true (at least at first). When the first two were captured, no one from their villages cared that they were taken or lifted a finger to help; in fact, they were thankful to be rid of them. It is known that the death of a host will result in the death of the tailed beast within, and the hosts seen thus far sometimes exhibit involuntary defensive powers. Likewise, the removal of the tailed beast results in the death of its host.
During the Great Shinobi Wars, each country's Hidden Village tried to make use of the tailed beasts for military purposes, and competed for them. However, no one was ever able to truly bring the tailed beasts under control. The practice of sealing tailed beasts within humans to harness their powers proved the only effective method of harnessing the awesome powers of the beasts
One Tail (Ichibi), Shukaku
Shukaku is a bijuu in the form of Raccon Dog (Tanuki of the Japanese mythology). Before, he was a priest that lived in the Desert of Nara. Because of the dark power released by Yamata no Orochi, and under the heavy assault of wind and sand, he transformed into a racoon dog (His actual form). He has a playful and extravagant personality, resembling the Tanuki nature. Has a pretty active sexual life. Shukaku lives in the souls of people killed by the wind and sand (This actually resembles the case of Gaara’s mother). The violet (blue in the anime) tatoos represent his title of God of Wind.
Ability: Sandstorms, has the control of Wind and Sand manipulation.
Symbolic Element： Wind (God of Wind)
Jinchuuriki: with Resistance
Two Tail (Nibi), Nekomata
Nekomata is a bijuu in the form of cat, and possesses the power of death. This Bijuu lives in a place called “Forest of Death” (Not a mistranslation.) in Hokkaido, to the north. His appearance is a black cat monster (depicted with huge, black angel wings).
Ability: Death; consumes peoples' Spirits/souls, (use them as summons) and has the ability to Breath fire
Symbolic Element: Darkness
[bJinchuuriki: Bloodcrazed
Three Tails (Sanbi),
Isonade
Isonade A Giagantic Tortise with generic water abilities, and a massive reserve of Chackra. However the bijuu is so stupid it can't use its abilities very effectively making it much weaker than most bijuu.
Ability: Generic water powers, can control the currents of water.
Symbolic Element: Water
Jinchuuriki: With akatsuki
Four Tails (Yonbi),
Sokou
Sokou is a bijuu that looks like a reptile. It was a creature that lived near Mount Fuji. Because of the toxic gas and the volcaninc ash, he was transformed into a half-rooster, half-snake monster. The Rooster and Snake are husband and wife in Sokou’s body. Everything around it withers away or dies, because of its poison.
Ability: Controls poison, and can use fused chackra elements
Symbolic Element： Poison
Jinchuuriki:With Akatsuki
Five Tails (Gobi),
Houkou
Houkou is a bijuu which looks like a five-tailed dog. Each tail of this creature represents one elemental power: Wind, Water, Earth, Lightning and Fire. They can cause catastrophic damage when used. Houkou will willingly destroy the nature to obtain the power he desires from these elements. .
Ability: Attacking using mixture of elements; Houkou is skilled in each kind of elemental Chackra and even fuse them.
Symbolic Element： Illusion
Jinchuuriki: Uchiha, Takari (missing) *means she dissapeared from the Capitol*)
6 Tails (Rokubi),
Raijuu
Raijuu, a bijuu in the form of weasel, has four legs and very sharp claws. Its cry sounds like thunder. It was originally the god of Thunder, but because of Yamata no Orochi’s power, it was transformed into a beast. Raijuu can release a huge amount of eletricity for battle assistance.
Ability: Fire caused by lightning, Lightning Thunder, Lightning bolts, Lightning elemental magic arts; Raijuu may also fly about as a ball of lightning.
Symbolic Element: Lightning
Sealed in:Hidden Thunder Prison (lightning Shrine)
Location: Kumogakure
Jinchuuriki: with Akatsuki
Shichibi (Seven Tails), Kaku
Kaku is a bijuu in the form of badger. Its Kanji is also read as Mujina, which is the name the Japanese subspecies of badger (Meles Meles Anaguma) receives in some parts of Japan. It has seven tails, and is the smallest bijuu out of the nine; though it is the most cunning and stealthy. Kaku hunts its prey underground most of the time. It kills by crumbling/destroying the piece of land that is under its target, making it fall right into his open mouth. Above land, whenever he is around he can transform into any type of creature, but he is unable to do it if he doesn’t have clay.
Ability: Transformation (Henge), Clay, Earth elemental magic arts
Symbolic Element： Earth
Jinchuuriki: with Akatsuki
Eight Tails (Hachibi),
Yamata no Orochi
Yamata no Orochi is a Snake bijuu. It has crimsom red eyes, eight heads and eight tails (also depicted to having trees and vines growing around them) and has the power of the Demon world, a symbol of evil. Each head of Yamata no Orochi represents a symbol: Soul, Ghost, Evil, Devil, Monstrous, Kill, The Afterworld and Death.
Its powers were originally weak, the members of the Kusanagi clan, when attacking it, acted carelessly, using the legendary sword Kusanagi no Tsurugi (Oro’s sword). Because of that, as a consequence, Yamata no Orochi takes the sword from them, absorbing the power contained inside, and becoming an incredibly powerful creature, and finally storing it in its body.
With the new power, Yamata no Orochi releases an insane amount of dark energy, awakening the other Bijuu and becoming arrogant. Yamata no Orochi proceeds to defeat many of the Bijuu, but when it battles with Kyuubi, it is defeated. The cause of this is simple: Kyuubi has an unlimited amount of power, making even a hole in the Kusanagi sword. As this happens, it shows how tremendously powerful Kyuubi is, deserving of the “King of Bijuu” title. Not even Sarutobi and Enma (I’m not sure how those two are into the legend) could scratch the Kusanagi no Tsurugi. (That makes connections to the Oro x Sandaime battle)
Legend also depicted it as having a power able to rival Kyuubi’s [in quality], but the fact is, Yamata no Orochi’s does have a limit.
Ability: The legendary sword: Kusanagi no Tsurugi; summoning of evil spirits, control of snakes, has snake like appearance.
Location: with akatsuki
Jinchuuriki:
Nine Tails (Kyuubi),
Kyuubi no Youko
This is a bijuu in the shape of a nine-tailed fox, and the strongest of them all. The reason he is so powerful is simple: Kyuubi has an unlimited amount of power, earning it the “King of Bijuu” title. The power is generated by Kyuubi’s Fire Seal, and as a result, after battling for 100 years with Yamata no Orochi, it becomes exhausted; but Kyuubi continues standing, able to fight. It is also pretty cunning and smart.
Ability: creation of a chackra sheild, near infinate chackra, Ability to mold the sheild of chackra into any shape. Flamming claws, and ability to cause disasters.
Symbolic Element： Fire
Jinchuuriki: Tenkuu Satoshi (god2005)
