Gosunkugi is a nail-wielding thief who prowls the frontier of the Stone Country, ready to cut down anyone standing between him and whatever he means to steal. His long record of crimes, among them framing an innocent smith for a murder, has earned a three-million-ryō bounty on his head.
No physical description of Gosunkugi survives in the source, which concentrates on his fighting rather than his features. What it does mention is his gear, a sword suggesting a measure of kenjutsu skill, backed by an arsenal of nail techniques.
When it comes to stealing, Gosunkugi is utterly without conscience. He will kill anyone who puts themselves between him and what he intends to take.
Gosunkugi works as a thief slipping across the borders of the Stone Country. In one early crime he butchered a family of three, then pinned the guilt on a blacksmith named Tokichi whom he had briefly fought while leaving. Tokichi, later known as Sazanami, fled the enraged villagers and remade himself into a bounty hunter bent solely on running Gosunkugi down, and over the years the thief's price climbed to three million ryō. His techniques revolve around nails: he can breathe out a soaring stream of hundreds of tiny ones, or sink them into the earth to either pin a target down or send them bursting upward at a foe, and he also carries a sword. After he made off with a treasure belonging to the daimyo of the Land of Tea, Tsunade dispatched a squad to bring him in: Naruto Uzumaki, working with Kiba Inuzuka and his dog Akamaru, plus Hinata Hyuga. Sazanami caught up during the chase but was wounded by a nail jutsu and left behind when Gosunkugi mistook Naruto's shadow clones for backup. The hunt resumed as the thief and his men went after a ceremonial bell; once the henchmen were downed, Gosunkugi grabbed the bell, only to fall to Naruto and Sazanami, after which the bounty hunter Gatsu took him captive. Soon after, Gatsu, joined by the village elder, informed the villagers that Gosunkugi had admitted to the killings.

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Gosunkugi was defeated by Naruto Uzumaki and the bounty hunter Sazanami after he grabbed a ceremonial bell he was pursuing, and the bounty hunter Gatsu then took him captive.
Gosunkugi is a thief in the Land of Stone whose long criminal record, including framing an innocent blacksmith for murder, earned him a bounty of three million ryo.
After butchering a family of three, Gosunkugi framed a blacksmith named Tokichi for the killings, and Tokichi later took the name Sazanami and became a bounty hunter devoted to capturing him.
Gosunkugi fights with nail based ninjutsu, breathing out streams of hundreds of tiny nails and driving nails into the ground to pin foes or burst upward at them, and he also carries a sword for kenjutsu.
Once Naruto and Sazanami brought Gosunkugi down, the bounty hunter Gatsu took him captive, and Gatsu later told the villagers that Gosunkugi had confessed to the killings.
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