Mujina Bandits

The Mujina Bandits are an international outlaw organisation whose ranks are filled with missing-nin who abandoned their home villages. Every member answers to Shojoji, a body-stealing criminal whose signature technique lets him take on the exact appearance of anyone he kills. The group's name nods to the mujina, a shapeshifting badger-yokai of Japanese folklore, a fitting reference given its leader's talent for wearing other people's faces.

The gang's operations span several schemes with mixed results. In one anime plot, Shojoji hides from capture by posing as Tsukiyo and ends up locked in Hōzuki Castle, where he discovers a former member turned deserter named Kokuri. To keep the runaway from spilling the organisation's secrets, Shojoji strikes a deal with the head jailer Benga and murders Kokuri, then assumes his form, though he first has to extract everything Kokuri knew to match a notebook the man had handed to Boruto Uzumaki. A separate manga job sends a three-man cell to rob a bank in Konoha, but Team Konohamaru intercepts them before they can reach their boss. The gang's most ambitious plan has Shojoji impersonate a servant of the Fire Daimyō to abduct the daimyō's son Tentō, demanding five hundred million ryō and the release of every Hōzuki Castle prisoner, all as cover for taking Tentō's shape and seizing power through his forbidden body-theft jutsu. Team Konohamaru foils the plot once more, and the entire ring is thrown behind bars. The anime deepens Shojoji's motive, revealing he intends to devour Ikkyū Madoka and eventually build a lawless world where any cruelty is permitted.

Shojoji leads the bandits and drives nearly all of their major schemes. Tsukiyo once served as the organisation's second-in-command before Shojoji sacrificed him to protect his own disguise inside Hōzuki Castle. Kokuri, a former accountant, fled after grasping the true nature of the group and was hunted down and killed by his old master. Additional members appear only briefly, including the cell sent after the Konoha bank and a spy assigned to watch Tentō Madoka.