Three Brothers

Fielded by the Hidden Stone, this trio of siblings gained a reputation for hunting down their targets without fail. They set their sights on Kosuke Maruboshi after he made off with sensitive information that belonged to their village.

The brothers chased Kosuke in an effort to recover what he had taken, and their pursuit came within reach of ending his life. Their teamwork proved so seamless, each sibling's strengths covering the others, that Kosuke could find no gap to exploit and grew convinced they would finish him. The three even boasted that no quarry had ever slipped from their grasp. That streak broke when Team Asuma intervened and dismantled them using the clan-based Ino-Shika-Cho formation.

The squad is defined by the tight bond among its three members rather than by any single standout. All of them displayed notable quickness, moving as though gliding across the ground instead of running over it, though whether this stemmed from an Earth Release ability was never clarified. Their combined precision made them a genuine threat until the Leaf's Ino-Shika-Cho trio countered it.