Fuguki Suikazan

Standing as the biggest and tallest of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, Fuguki carried an unmistakably fish-like look, with small round eyes and the jagged teeth shared by many of the group. His orange hair grew long down his back with a portion pinned above, and six green bands crossed his face. He dressed in Kirigakure's striped jumpsuit under a black layer and a pale cloak, wore the village forehead protector, and kept loose bandages about his neck; Samehada rode across his shoulder on a broad tasseled belt.

Fuguki held that shielding critical intelligence from enemy hands outweighed the lives of any comrade, and he drilled that creed into Kisame, urging him to do whatever was needed to keep village secrets safe. The stance proved hollow, for Fuguki himself sold information to outsiders, betraying the very principle he preached. That hypocrisy, together with a careless lapse of vigilance during a meeting, cost him his life at Kisame's hands.

Counted among the strongest fighters Kirigakure ever produced, Fuguki rose to jōnin, entered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, and took up Samehada, the most fearsome of the group's seven blades, which drained chakra from anyone it struck and demanded vast reserves to keep fed. He mastered Silent Killing despite his bulk and could stiffen his hair to fire volleys of needle-like strands or stretch it into piercing spears. After the Third Shinobi World War he and his fellow swordsmen cornered a Konoha team of Might Guy, Ebisu, and Genma Shiranui, only for Might Duy to hold them off by opening the Eight Gates at the cost of his own life.

Fuguki assigned his subordinate Kisame Hoshigaki to the covert Cypher Division as a bodyguard, insisting that the codes entrusted to the village mattered far more than the comrades guarding them, a lesson that later drove Kisame to slaughter his own teammates rather than let their secrets reach Ibiki Morino. Fuguki was eventually exposed as a leak feeding enemies, and Kisame killed him, leaving his body run through with chained blades before claiming Samehada as his own.

Years later he was among the swordsmen revived through the Impure World Reincarnation, called up by Pakura and Gari under Kabuto Yakushi to bury the Allied Shinobi Forces. Unable to reclaim Samehada from Mangetsu Hōzuki, he cut down opponents with barrages of hair needles from within a thick mist instead. He fought the Third Division across two days until Kakashi Hatake ran a lightning-charged Kubikiribōchō through his torso, giving Sai the moment needed to seal him before he could regenerate. The eventual end of the reincarnation technique returned his soul to the afterlife.