Groups

A pairing of adopted brothers out of the Hidden Cloud whose fame as fighting partners spread far beyond their homeland. Their union placed the future Fourth Raikage alongside the jinchūriki Killer B, and rivals whispered of them as the deadliest two-man force the shinobi world had ever produced.

The Akagi Gang is a band of toughs hailing from the Land of Tea. In its brief anime appearance, a pair of its members set out after Tsunade to collect on a family debt, only to find the money had long since been settled.

A band of rogue ninja operating past the reach of every hidden village, Akatsuki reinvented itself repeatedly across the decades under one leader after another. History labels each incarnation subversive or criminal, yet all of them clung to the belief that their brutal path would somehow hand the world a lasting peace.

The Allied Mothers Force is a long-standing Konohagakure group formed entirely of the village's mothers. In times of war they guard the home front and everyone left behind until their fighters come home, standing watch over the village they refuse to leave undefended.

The Allied Shinobi Forces was a wartime coalition uniting the five great ninja nations with the samurai of the Land of Iron. Formed to withstand Akatsuki and the tailed beasts in the Fourth Shinobi World War, it merged bitter rivals under a single banner for the first time in history.

The Ame Orphans were three children left parentless by Amegakure's role in the Second Shinobi World War. Taken in and trained by the Sannin Jiraiya, Nagato, Konan, and Yahiko grew into the founders of the original Akatsuki and a shared dream of ending war forever.

The Analysis Team is a unit within Konohagakure's Intelligence Division, headed by Inoichi Yamanaka. Working hand in hand with the village's interrogators, it specializes in prying information straight from the minds of prisoners who will not, or cannot, talk.

A hastily formed Leaf Village squad put together for a single purpose: to hunt down a rare beetle whose extraordinary sense of smell might sniff out the runaway Sasuke Uchiha. With their usual instructor sidelined, the young ninja found themselves following Shino Aburame into the field.

A band of owl-masked burglars who dressed their crimes up as charity, robbing the wealthy and funneling the loot toward struggling communities. The public embraced them as honorable outlaws, unaware that their founder Gekkō had engineered the whole image to enrich himself.

The nerve endings of the wartime alliance, these ninja kept every division in touch so orders and warnings could travel across enormous distances without delay. Their work leaned heavily on telepathy to bind scattered forces into a single coordinated whole.

A dedicated law-enforcement arm of the Hidden Sand tasked with running down the ninja world's most wanted. Under Kankurō's command, its members chase the names inked into the Bingo Book and bring them in.

A sprawling research bureau in the Land of Stairs devoted to inventing gadgets that smooth out everyday life. Its public mission of convenience masked the greed of its head, whose bid to corner the resource market ended with his arrest.

The Hidden Mist's clandestine intelligence unit, entrusted with codes so valuable that the lives of its own members counted for less. That grim priority would push one guardian to a horrifying choice when the group was finally cornered.

A wartime detail assembled to keep the feudal lords out of Akatsuki's grasp during the great conflict. Led by Mei Terumī, the squad relied on constant movement and hidden traps to stay one step ahead of the enemy sent to abduct their charges.

A band made up mostly of rogue ninja who band together to settle personal scores. Born from the bitterness of a fallen benevolent outfit, it is steered by Karyū, a man who cloaks selfish revenge in the language of shared grievance.

A pair of Mist chūnin, Gōzu and Meizu, who threw in with Zabuza Momochi and made their living on murder. Fighting as a single linked machine, they turned a chained weapon strung between their gauntlets into a trap few opponents could escape.

A trio of Snow ninja put on retainer by Dotō Kazahana to kill off the rightful heiress of the Land of Snow. Clad in specialized chakra armor and skilled at bending existing ice to their will, they met their end against Team 7.

A wartime unit of earth-manipulating ninja folded into the alliance's First Division. Fielding heavy stone barriers, they briefly pinned down one of the resurrected Gold and Silver Brothers before that same foe cut them down.

The Eight Man Squad is a temporary Konoha unit that merges Team Kakashi with the trackers of Team Kurenai, assembled to chase down Itachi Uchiha in the hope that his trail would finally lead the Leaf back to Sasuke.

The Eight-Tails Subduing Team was a specialist Kumogakure unit raised under the Third Raikage to restrain the Eight-Tails whenever its host lost command of the beast and went berserk.

The Enlightened Ones were a movement of rogue shinobi who abandoned their villages to rally behind the revolutionary Gengo after the Fourth Shinobi World War, aiming to topple the ruling class and hand global power to ninja.

The Escort Unit was a hand-picked Konoha squad serving under the Second Hokage, Tobirama Senju, remembered for the war-time mission on which Tobirama gave his life so his subordinates could survive.

Made up of the father Kūi and his boy Daore, the tag team known as Exploding-Till-You-Eat wanders from place to place to enter whatever eating contest it can find. The name baffles most spectators, since the familiar saying actually runs the opposite way around.

The Explosion Corps, also called the Demolitions Unit, was an Iwagakure outfit whose few recorded members shared the rare Explosion Release kekkei genkai.

The Fifth Division, sometimes called the Special Battle Division, was one of the battalions of the Allied Shinobi Forces raised for the Fourth Shinobi World War and placed under the samurai leader Mifune.

The Fire Release Team was a specialist branch of the First Division within the Allied Shinobi Forces, made up of accomplished Fire Release users who fought during the Fourth Shinobi World War.

The First Division, also known as the Mid-Range Battle Division, was a battalion of the Allied Shinobi Forces commanded by Darui of Kumogakure and raised for the Fourth Shinobi World War.

The Five Great Countries' Joint Investigation Team is a combined unit drawn from the shinobi of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, formed to look into serious threats that span village borders.

The Four Celestial Symbols Men were a quartet of shinobi from Takumi Village who schemed to seize the power of Shukaku in order to bring their village's founder, Seimei, back to life.

The Four Ninja Animal Warriors were a band of Konohagakure combat animals led by Condor, renowned for taijutsu skills sharp enough to give a squad of Leaf ninja real trouble.

The Fourth Division, also called the Long-Range Battle Division, is one of the battalions raised by the Allied Shinobi Forces for the Fourth Shinobi World War. Placed under Gaara of Sunagakure with Shikamaru Nara as his proxy, it gathered thousands of shinobi and samurai trained for distance fighting.

Furido's 4-Man Team was an anime-only cell led by Kazuma while he went by the alias Furido. It set out to topple the Hokage and hand sole rule of the Land of Fire to the daimyo, relying on four reanimated lightning users drawn from the Twelve Guardian Ninja.

The Gang of Four were a quartet of shinobi who served the sorcerer Yomi in Naruto Shippuden the Movie. Setsuna nominally led them beneath Yomi, though the group drew its strength from an injected chakra technique that ultimately proved to be its own undoing.

The Garakuta Gang is a crew of washed-up shinobi known for going after valuable antique artwork. The team's name plays on the Japanese word garakuta, which means junk, rubbish, or the worthless odds and ends people leave lying around.

The Gatō Company was the shipping firm run by Gatō, who used its legitimate import and export trade as cover for smuggling and drug dealing. The profits made him the world's wealthiest man and let him tighten his grip on the Land of Waves.

The Genbu Shinobi Trio is a three-man genin squad from Iwagakure that entered the Chunin Exams held in Konohagakure. Despite looking formidable, the group washed out almost immediately during the exam's opening stage.

The Ghost Army was a host of animated stone soldiers bound to the demon Moryo. Carved from rock and driven by an eerie will, the marching figures shrugged off ordinary weapons and were nearly impossible to halt on their advance.

The Gold and Silver Brothers, also called the Two Lights, were a pair of notorious Kumogakure shinobi with a distant tie to the Sage of Six Paths. After surviving inside the Nine-Tails, they came away with jinchuriki-like power and a fearsome reputation in their village.

Haido's Knights were a band of medieval-style warriors featured in Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel. Their leader Haido used them to chase his ambition of conquering the world, which he preferred to frame as building a utopia free of war.

The Hanabi Rescue Team was a specialised Konohagakure squad put together by the Sixth Hokage and led by Shikamaru Nara. Formed after Hanabi Hyuga's abduction by Toneri Otsutsuki, it was charged with bringing her back and confronting the crisis of the falling moon.

The Haze Quadruplets were four brothers from the Land of Haze who specialised in forbidden Haze-Style techniques. Raised together in an orphanage, they grew fiercely devoted to their country and lived by a rule of sharing everything among themselves equally.

Hiruko's Team was a group the rogue ninja Hiruko gathered after leaving Konoha. Trusted enough to be taught his Chimera Technique, its members guarded Mount Shumisen and turned back anyone trying to reach him at the peak.

Within Konohagakure, a small unit of shinobi devoted itself entirely to keeping the Hokage safe. Known as the guard platoon, this trio served as trusted bodyguards across two administrations, mastering a specialized teleportation seal that let them reach their leader in an instant.

Two elderly siblings of Sunagakure earned a reputation that reached far past their village's borders. Celebrated for their skill and wisdom, Chiyo and Ebizō built ties even with lands the Sand had never formally allied with, before age drew them into a quiet retirement.

During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kabuto raised an expendable wave of reanimated ninja gathered from many nations. Their task was simple and desperate: reach the bodies of his powerful revived warriors, already sealed away by the Allied forces, and cut them loose once more.

Konoha assembled a small elite squad, with Anko Mitarashi at its head, to hunt down the elusive Kabuto Yakushi. The chase carried them all the way to Akatsuki's hidden base at the Mountains' Graveyard, intelligence that proved vital to the Allied war effort.

Ino-Saku-Sai is a small, purpose-built Konoha squad that came together under the Sixth Hokage. Ino Yamanaka claimed leadership for herself, and the trio's name winks at her family's legendary formation, the Ino-Shika-Chō.

The fifteenth Ino-Shika-Chō brought together Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka, and Chōza Akimichi, three Konoha veterans who happened to be the fathers of Team Asuma. They fought as a unit in their youth and kept the partnership alive long after passing the tradition to their children.

The Intelligence Division served as the nerve center of the Allied Shinobi Forces, pooling ninja skilled at gathering and relaying information. Under captain Inoichi Yamanaka, it turned scattered field reports into the coordinated strategy the alliance needed against Akatsuki.

The Ishi Terrorists were rogue ninja out of Ishigakure who sold their services to whoever paid the most. Carrying a stockpile of inherited bloodline powers, the cell built a grim specialty in tearing down buildings and sinking merchant ships.