Puppet Brigade

The Puppet Brigade was a Sunagakure organisation that operated at least as far back as the Second Shinobi World War. It is understood to have gathered the Sand village's finest puppeteers into a single fighting corps, known in some translations as the Puppet Master Corps. Many of the puppets the brigade fielded were the handiwork of Sasori, whose creations supplied the unit with its weapons.

During the war years, the brigade set out to develop a method that would grant its puppets genuine life, reasoning that living puppets would prove far more effective in combat. Chiyo eventually succeeded in devising such a technique, One's Own Life Reincarnation, but its cost proved unacceptable: bringing a puppet to life demanded the life of the user in exchange. Deeming the price far too steep, the village classified the jutsu as forbidden and shut down the research entirely.

Chiyo stands as the brigade's leader and the mind behind its abandoned life-granting technique. Sasori is closely tied to the unit as the maker of many puppets it used in battle. Comparable elite squads existed in other nations, among them the Kinkaku Force of Kumogakure, the Twelve Guardian Ninja of the Land of Fire, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Kirigakure, and Iwagakure's Explosion Corps.