

Naruto empathised with Sumaru, since their goals, and general situations, were the same. There they met Sumaru, who hoped to become a worthy Hoshikage. Despite knowing what the star did, he decided to ignore the effects in the hope of forcing the other villages to accept Hoshigakure.īeing allied with Hoshigakure, Team Guy was sent to Hoshigakure as bodyguards for a mission in episodes 178 to 183, with Naruto joining them later after bribing Tsunade with chestnut cake. The Third was assassinated by Akahoshi, who became the substitute Hoshikage and reinstated the training. Regardless of the terrible side effects, ninja from the Hoshigakure were known for their proud and persistent nature.

Only Natsuhi and Hotarubi, the parents of Sumaru, managed to survive the training, and both died eventually.

Even if a ninja survived the training, the side effects would eventually kill them. The training was eventually forbidden by the Third Hoshikage, after he realised the deadly toll the training took on those doing it the star's intense radiation of chakra was too much for some shinobi to handle, and thus their insides began to corrupt and their organs to weaken, eventually leading to internal bleeding or organ failure. When this technique is fully mastered, it gives the user almost unrivalled chakra control, to the point where they can solidify it as a shield or create wings for flight. Upon the development of the skill, the meteorite was then set on top of an eagle's claw pedestal located inside of and at the very centre of the Hoshi ninja training dōjō, which was constructed for the very purpose of training future Hoshigakure shinobi.

The technique used to harness this power is the Mysterious Peacock Method. The First Hoshikage was able to devise a training method to allow the ninja in the village to harness the power of the star, thus allowing the ninja to gain supernatural chakra levels. The meteorite itself was not that large, but it emitted a chakra-enhancing radiation. The other villages do not recognise Hoshigakure as an equal, nor is there any ninja truly worthy of the title. Its leader is the Hoshikage ( 星影, literally meaning: Star Shadow), although the leader is a Kage in name only. Information gathered from the villagers suggests that the village was founded much sooner than Konoha. Hoshigakure was formed sometime after a strange meteorite, which the inhabitants called the "star", struck its location two hundred years earlier.
