Team Ganryū

Led by Ganryu, this Kirigakure unit operated roughly ten years ahead of the founding of the Allied Shinobi Forces. Working with backing from Iwagakure, the squad set out to recover an important document that Kumogakure had seized from the Mist.

The mission turned disastrous once the papers were in hand. The Stone shinobi who had been assisting them turned on the Mist team, cutting down Junsai and Suiren, the latter of whom threw herself into harm's way to shield Ganryu. This bloody double-cross came to be remembered as the Tragedy of Yosuga Pass, and it ignited open hostility between the two nations. A distinctive marker of the group was its gear, a modified flak jacket cut like the Stone Village's own but dyed slate grey, worn with a jade-green band around the right forearm.

Ganryu heads the team and outlives the massacre that claimed his comrades. In the years that follow, he draws together a small band of fellow Kiri shinobi who share his bitterness toward the Stone, and together they strike at Iwagakure ninja wherever the chance arises.