Entei's early life was rather happy despite his family being poor and living in the outskirts of the always rainy Amegakure, and wanted to grow up and become a successful shinobi to give his parents a good life. One day, however, Entei and his family were confronted by a missing-nin that was passing by, and after the missing-nin was prepared to kill Entei's parents, Entei unleashed his dormant power and killed the missing-nin, shocking his parents in the process. Unbeknownst to them, Hanzō had watched the entire scene and desired to have Entei work for him, and plotted to unleash his dormant power. Hanzō hired assassins to murder Entei's parents in front of him, but despite this, Entei didn't unleashed his power and simply passed out from the shock. A few hours later, Entei woke up at Ameg