Doki

The three vary in look and in the weapons they carry, but all stand huge and thickly muscled, each cinched at the waist by a purple cord knotted into a reversed bow, the same sash the Sound Four wear, Tayuya among them. The first hides its head and face entirely beneath its own hair, is clad in a dark green bodysuit, and hefts a giant studded club. The second stands shirtless in dark trousers, bald and scarred over a blindfolded head, a claw-like weapon lashed to either arm. The third keeps its torso wrapped in bandages above brown pants, faces away with its head tipped skyward, and bristles with needles poking from its scalp.

The Doki carry no will of their own. Blind, deaf, and mute all at once, they exist purely as instruments of Tayuya's flute, acting out whatever her tunes dictate.

Tremendous strength and speed let the Doki drive their weapons straight through solid trees. With the right tune, Tayuya can force their stitched mouths open to spill out a squirming, worm-like thing riddled with mouths and made almost wholly of spiritual energy. Drawn toward physical energy, these spirit worms fasten on and devour it, draining the strength of whatever they touch. When she is done with them, Tayuya dismisses the demons by forming a half ram seal and uttering a word of dismissal, as she is forced to do once Shikamaru Nara wrests control of them with his shadow during their clash.