Mizuki (ミズキ) is a childhood friend and was a former fellow Ninja Academy instructor of Iruka Umino. He later becomes the first antagonist of the series.
Mizuki’s childhood friend was Iruka Umino. Mizuki often stood up for Iruka when Iruka felt bad about losing his parents. However, he began to hate Iruka when other people began treating Iruka better than him, including their friends, the Third Hokage, and even people they didn’t know. Eventually, his kindness towards Iruka became only a front to make other people notice him and find ways to discreetly keep Iruka miserable. Despite obtaining the rank of Chunin and status as an Academy Instructor, such status was not enough to satisfy his ego. Eventually, he decided he would do whatever it took to rise to glory, including sacrificing allies on missions.
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Originally, Mizuki appeared to be very polite and kindhearted, and was described to be a sweet man by his former lover, Tsubaki. In reality, he does not care for anything or anyone beyond his own rise in power. He takes pride in the fact that he is not bound by things like morals or teamwork, and is willing to sacrifice whatever he has to in order to complete his goals. His desire for power seems to come from what appears to be an inferiority complex, as he cannot stand having anyone look down on him. In what is perhaps an attempt to make him even more of an antithesis to Naruto, Mizuki’s least favorite food is ramen, which happens to be Naruto’s favorite. Mizuki also has a particular hatred for Naruto.
Abilities
At the beginning of the series, Mizuki did not seem very skilled beyond proficiently wielding large shuriken. His abilities were expanded upon in the anime, where he was revealed to have always been considered a very clever and talented ninja with a knack for learning advanced jutsu. In truth, the reason he had never advanced beyond Chunin was because there were suspicions on his conduct while in the field. He was also shown to be a very cunning manipulator from how he so easily deceived Naruto and then later the Legendary Stupid Brothers (although both cases were not too difficult, as Naruto was considered to be a little naive at the time, while the Legendary Stupid Brothers were simply unintelligent).
After Mizuki’s life in prison, he seemed to be much more muscular and had an extreme amount of strength. During his battle with Iruka, he demonstrated a new mastery of a random assortment of jutsu. While mostly improvised, he proved very capable of using them in clever combinations that Iruka just barely survived.
He also has a special tattoo (a “gift” from Orochimaru) which was a prescription of a potion that initially transformed him into a muscle-bound behemoth of himself, with tremendous raw speed and strength. It also allowed him to transform further into a tiger-like being with even greater strength but with much weaker speed. But since the potion was incomplete, his body was eventually destroyed, although Tsunade managed to save his life and restore his body, although he lost all his battle and physical prowess.
edit Trivia
* Both Mizuki and Aoi Rokusho share similar traits:
o Both appear friendly to better deceive others.
o They both tricked their “respective” students (Naruto and Idate) into stealing an item in order to “promote” them. Naruto: The Scroll of Sealing to become a Genin and Idate: The Sword of the Lighting God to become a Chunin.
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