Zabuza Momochi is a former member of
Kirigakure's Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, a group of ninja that use particularly large swords in battle. He is one of Team Seven's first opponents. Zabuza possesses a sword called . After a failed
coup d'état, wherein he tried to assassinate the Fourth Mizukage Yagura Karatachi, Zabuza and his followers fled the village and began working as mercenary assassins. He also takes in a young boy, Haku, as his apprentice, mostly treating him as a tool although he ultimately does care for him. Zabuza is skilled in water-based
abilities, but his area of expertise is in assassinations in areas covered by mist. His talents lead to his commission by a criminal named Gato to kill a man named Tazuna, which he is unable to perform due to interference by the Leaf village's Team seven consisting of
Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Sakura Haruno. Because he takes too long to complete the task, his contract is revoked, and his employer tries to have Zabuza killed. Having been redeemed by Naruto, Zabuza kills Gato first, though is mortally wounded and dies soon afterwards. He is one of the shinobi resurrected by Kabuto to fight on the
Akatsuki side and is defeated, being sealed during a rematch with Kakashi. In the Japanese anime, his voice actor is
Unshō Ishizuka, and his English voice actor is
Steven Blum. Haku is resurrected by Kabuto Yakushi later in Part 2 of the series to fight in the Fourth Shinobi World War until being sealed by the Allied Shinobi Forces. His voice actress in the Japanese anime is
Mayumi Asano, and his English voice actress is
Susan Dalian.
Mona Marshall voiced Haku as a child.
Orochimaru is an S-ranked criminal who served as the primary antagonist of Part I of the
Naruto series, having previously affiliated with the Akatsuki. He was a former Hidden Leaf Ninja and
Hiruzen's student alongside his teammates
Jiraiya and
Tsunade, who are revered as the Legendary Sannin. Orochimaru's desire for immortality, so he can learn every jutsu in existence, led him to experimenting on fellow ninja before establishing his own ninja village, the Hidden Sound Village, as his personal laboratory, to continue his work while amassing a personal army to destroy Konoha. His immortality technique involves transferring his consciousness between different host bodies every few years, with his intent to acquire the body of Sasuke Uchiha being his driving motivations throughout most of the series. Following end of Part II, through kept under watch by Yamato, Orochimaru renounced his personal war against the Hidden Leaf Village. He has since created Mitsuki. Kishimoto emphasized Orochimaru's role as the villain by giving him a "pasty and sickly" complexion as part of his theme of distinguishing villains from the protagonists. Because of his different host bodies and the disguises he assumes, a panoply of voice actors are used for Orochimaru; his voice actor for his normal form in the Japanese anime is
Kujira, and his corresponding English voice actor is
Steven Blum, except in the spin off
Rock Lee and His Ninja Pals, where he is voiced by
Vic Mignogna.
Kabuto Yakushi is a spy who works as
Orochimaru's right hand, though he acts on his own whims. As a child with no memory of his past, Kabuto was found on a battlefield by a nun from Konohagakure who raised him before he was recruited by
the Foundation as their spy to infiltrate numerous countries and organizations. But after being labeled a risk to the Foundation for knowing too many secrets, Kabuto becomes Orochimaru's spy after being promised an identity he can call his own. Using his former affiliations, and infiltrating the
Akatsuki, Kabuto gathers intelligence on Orochimaru's behalf; for instance, he participates in the bi-annual Chunin Exams as a Konoha representative to gather information on his fellow participants. Highly proficient with medical techniques and genetic manipulation, Kabuto devises means to heal wounds by reactivating dead cells to grow new ones, and can form a scalpel with
chakra to deal surgical strikes to his opponents. In Part II, after his mentor's defeat by Sasuke, Kabuto integrates some of Orochimaru's remains into his body to become powerful enough to not serve anyone again. Kabuto then masters snake Sage Jutsu while modifying his body with DNA samples of the Sound Five, Jugo, Suigetsu, and Karin to increase his abilities further. After perfecting the Reanimation Jutsu, using it to
bring back Madara Uchiha as his personal trump card, Kabuto forces
Obito Uchiha into a tenuous alliance with him under the promise that he can have Sasuke upon victory against the Ninja Alliance. However, during the second day of the Fourth Great Ninja War, Itachi manages to break free of Kabuto's control and force him to end the Reanimation Jutsu with Sasuke's help. The ordeal of being subjected to Itachi's Izanami genjutsu has Kabuto re-evaluate himself and his life, coming to the conclusion that he should save Sasuke. In the war's aftermath, kept under surveillance by the Hidden Leaf, Kabuto returns to run the orphanage where he was held as a kid, together with his adopted brother Urushi. In the Japanese anime, Kabuto is voiced by
Nobutoshi Canna, and his English voice actor is
Henry Dittman.
Sound Four are Orochimaru's elite bodyguards. The group was originally known as the "Sound Five", but after Kimimaro became bedridden due to his unknown illness, the group resumed calling themselves the Sound Four. As a group they specialize in barriers, defensive walls, sealing techniques as well as possessing their own individual unique
techniques and
Curse Marks that increase their strengths. The group is composed of: • , a large, and quick-tempered, man who specializes in absorbing chakra and close-quarters combat. He is voiced by
Kenta Miyake in the Japanese anime, while his English voice actor is
Michael Sorich. • , a six-armed ninja who can produce spider-webs to fight and specialized in ranged combat. He is voiced by
Susumu Chiba in the Japanese anime, while his English voice actor is
Peter Lurie. • are twin brothers who are the strongest of the Sound Four and count as one member due to their ability to merge their bodies with anyone and kill an opponent at a cellular level. Both Sakon and Ukon are voiced by
Shunsuke Sakuya in the Japanese anime, while their English voice actor is
Brian Beacock. • , a female flautist who uses her flute for genjutsu and controlling summoned demons. She is voiced by
Akeno Watanabe in the Japanese anime, while her English voice actress is
Kari Wahlgren. • , the last of the Kaguya Clan who has his kin's Kekkei Genkai ability to manipulate his bone structure, called the
Shikotsumyaku, became the leader after he defeated the entire group in battle. He is voiced by
Toshiyuki Morikawa in the Japanese anime with
Makoto Tsumura voicing him as a child. His English voice actor is
Keith Silverstein with
Kari Wahlgren voicing him as a child. The Sound Four do not become a prominent part of the story until sent by their leader to escort Sasuke Uchiha to him. Even with Kimimaro joining the group to ensure Sasuke's passage to Orochimaru, the Sound Five all died in the process: Jirobo and Kidomaru killed in their respective fights against Chōji Akimichi and Neji Hyūga, Sakon and Ukon taken out by Kankuro as they nearly kill Kiba Inuzuka, Tayuya indirectly killed by Temari as she had the upper hand on Shikamaru Nara, and Kimimaro succumbed to his unknown illness in the midst of his battle against Gaara and Rock Lee. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kimimaro is reanimated by Kabuto Yakushi as a pawn to battle against the Allied Shinobi Forces. In the anime adaptation, unaware that Kabuto brought them back instead of Orochimaru, the Sound Four were also reanimated and were allowed to act on their impulse for revenge against the members of the Sasuke Retrieval group before being defeated. It was also at the time of the war's climax that Kabuto reveals that he assimilated the Sound Five's DNA to access their abilities.
Akatsuki The is an organization of criminal ninja that serves as the primary antagonistic force of Part II of the
Naruto series. It was founded by Yahiko,
Nagato and Konan. After Yahiko's death, it was led by Nagato with
Obito as his benefactor. The Akatsuki's goal is world peace through the power of the nine Tailed Beasts, with Nagato assuming it would involve mass destruction giving way to a world without war. To achieve their goal of collecting all nine Tailed Beasts, the Akatsuki recruited several rogue ninja, including Deidara, Sasori, and Hidan, among other notable Akatsuki members, to join their ranks. The real goal is for Obito to enact Madara's , which involves feeding the Tailed Beasts to the Gedo Statue, to revert it into the Ten-Tails with Obito as its Jinchuriki; empowered thus, he would project the Infinite Tsukiyomi on the moon's surface, and bring all life into a utopic illusion. The members of the Akatsuki are ninja who have abandoned their villages, and are considered by their former homes to be S-class criminals, the most powerful and wanted ninja in the
Naruto universe. Aside from an attempt by members Itachi Uchiha and
Kisame Hoshigaki to capture
Kurama (the Nine-Tailed fox sealed within Naruto Uzumaki), the Akatsuki is not prominently featured in Part I. In Part II, they take a more active role, capturing
Gaara and extracting the One-Tailed Tanuki, Shukaku, from his body, as well as progressively capturing the remaining Tailed Beasts. Kishimoto called the Akatsuki's members
antiheroes as he wished to expand their backgrounds as much as the ones from the series' protagonists, contrasting them with other types of villains.
Obito Uchiha , also known under his alias is the true leader of the Akatsuki and the primary antagonist for most of Part II of the
Naruto series. As a child during the Third Great Ninja War, being Kakashi's teammate in Team Minato, Obito was similar to Naruto in both wanting to become Hokage and unrequited love for his teammate Rin. When he and Kakashi rescue Rin after she was kidnapped by Hidden Stone Ninja during a mission, Obito's right side got crushed in a landslide. Obito believed his death was certain and had Rin transplant his left Sharingan into Kakashi to replace the latter's original left eye. Obito finds himself saved by Madara and outfitted with Zetsu prosthetics, and is conditioned to become his apprentice, the ninja arranging Obito to witness Rin's death as a casualty of war by a reluctant Kakashi to break his spirit. Coming to the conclusion that he can use the Tailed Beasts to destroy the current reality and create a utopia, Obito takes up Madara's name following the latter's death while masking his voice. Obito would then arrange similar events for Nagato with Yahiko's death to create the current incarnation of the Akatsuki. Obito serves a behind-the-scenes role throughout the first half of Part II while revealed to have caused tragedy prior to the series, most notably Kurama's attack on the Hidden Leaf as revenge on his sensei Minato for not protecting Rin. Other than being able to use his right Sharingan to cast Kamui in a fashion that renders him intangible and lets him
teleport over great distances, Obito can use Wood Style attacks as his prosthetics possess Hashirama's cells.
Zetsu is the only member of the Akatsuki without a bespoke partner, the only nonhuman member, and Obito's right-hand man. Originally, Kaguya created a shadow-like parasitic entity known as to manipulate her grandson Indra and his descendants throughout history for one of them to manifest a Rinnegan and free his creator. Black Zetsu succeeds with Madara, whom he deceived into believing that he had created the entity. was originally part of an army that Kaguya was assembling to fend off her kinsmen, consisting of humans mutated into drones after being assimilated by the Ten Tails during Kaguya's previous Infinite Tsukuyomi. Black Zetsu and White Zetsu operate in symbiosis, Black Zetsu occasionally argued with his easygoing host. As White Zetsu is an extension of the Shinju, he can merge into the ground or vegetation to quickly travel to a new location, and use spores to create clones of himself or whoever he touches. This makes Zetsu not only of use to the Akatsuki as a spy, but also to devour bodies of deceased Akatsuki members or those the organization does not want found. Another of the White Zetsu retrieved from the Gedo Statue, initially referred to as due to the spiral-shaped pattern on his body, later named , served as an exosuit for Obito while the youth got used to his new body. After White Zetsu is killed by Sasuke during the Fourth Great Ninja War, Black Zetsu goes into hiding, later merging itself onto Obito to force the human to resurrect Madara. Ultimately, once the Eye of the Moon Plan runs its course, Black Zetsu reveals his true identity and fuses himself onto Madara to convert the human into a new body for Kaguya to inhabit. Black Zetsu then reveals his role in the conflict between the Senju and Uchiha, while helping Kaguya fight Naruto and Sasuke. He is eventually ripped away from his creator when Naruto severs Kaguya's arm. As Kaguya is sealed away once more, Black Zetsu is thrown by Naruto into the forming moon so he would not make another attempt to free his creator. Tobi, having participated in the war by encasing Yamato to access his Wood-Style, before ejecting him once the Infinite Tsukiyomi is cast, crumbles away after the jutsu is canceled, with his former captive the only witness to his death. As Kishimoto originally planned the Akatsuki to be a group of individuals with close to no human characteristics, he decided to make Zetsu half black and half white to emphasize his
split personality.
Kisame Hoshigaki is a former ninja of
Kirigakure and partnered to Itachi Uchiha, having a unique appearance with pale blue skin, a gill-like facial structure, and sharp acute angled triangle teeth. While he was loyal to Kirigakure, Kisame was one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, a group of violent ninja that use particularly large swords in battle. His sword, , is a living weapon covered in scales. Although it was covered in bandage like cloth in the
Akatsuki arc (while he was travelling with
Itachi Uchiha). That can absorb untold amounts of an opponent's
chakra. Only allowing those it sees as worthy to wield it, Samehada can provide the user with the chakra it holds, ensuring him an infinite amount of stamina. Kisame himself has massive amounts of chakra, and by fusing Samehada into him, Kisame can assume a shark-like form that increases his abilities. In battle, he frequently shapes water into the forms of sharks to damage opponents. After discarding Samehada when it chose
Killer Bee over him, Kisame is decapitated by Killer Bee and the Raikage using Double Lariat. It is later revealed that the decapitation was just a shapeshifting technique performed by Zetsu; the real Kisame having hidden inside Samehada. After Kisame's supposed death, Killer Bee took Samehada for himself, therefore allowing Kisame to enter the Hidden Cloud Village. After a while, he was discovered by Naruto and Kisame attempts to flee with crucial intel from the Allied Shinobi Force but is defeated by
Might Guy and captured. Kisame then commits suicide by summoning sharks and allowing them to eat him, but not before using one of them to steal back the information he had compiled and send it to the Akatsuki. His voice actor in the Japanese anime is
Tomoyuki Dan;
Konan is the only
female ninja in the Akatsuki. As such, Kishimoto originally wanted her to have an obscene appearance showing more of her bust.
Nagato Uzumaki , primarily known under the alias of , is the founder and recognized leader of the Akatsuki, he is the partner of
Konan, with Obito acting as his benefactor. The "Pain" most often seen in the series is the Deva Path, which is actually Nagato's deceased friend, , one of six animated corpses collectively known as , all controlled by Nagato and using one sixth of his full power. The Pain Paths are all outfitted with a number of body piercings that serve as a means for Nagato to control them and to give them a "more dangerous" appearance in relation to their name's installation. Nagato, former student of the Legendary Sannin Jiraiya, killed Jiraiya when he was in the middle of an infiltration mission. After the skirmish, Nagato decided to invade Konohagakure or the Hidden Leaf Village to prevent them from sending more shinobi to avenge Jiraiya and to collect the Nine-Tails, therefore Naruto. After Nagato used his Deva Path to decimate the entire village and the majority of the population, including Kakashi Hatake, Naruto appeared and defeated all Six Paths of Pain using a newly learnt Sage Mode. Naruto then located the original Pain, meaning Nagato, and convinced him to help Naruto bring peace to the ninja world and, after a change of heart, Nagato used the Rinne Rebirth jutsu, which basically revives recently deceased individuals. Due to the sheer strength to revive almost every single person in the Hidden Leaf, Nagato died from the immense strain after successfully reviving everyone. During the Fourth Great Ninja War, Kabuto Yakushi reanimated Nagato Uzumaki alongside Itachi Uchiha. Both individuals eventually had a skirmish with Naruto. Itachi Uchiha then broke free from Kabuto's control after casting Shisui Uchiha's Kotoamatsukami upon himself. The Kotoamatsukami basically subtly or directly overwrites the will of a person. After Itachi broke free from Kabuto's control, he successfully sealed Nagato in his Sword of Totsuka.
Itachi Uchiha is a former ninja of Konohagakure, the older brother of Sasuke Uchiha, and the partner of Kisame Hoshigaki. Though having spent his early youth as the prodigy of the Uchiha clan, Itachi is treated as the antagonist for much of the series. He is initially portrayed as being solely responsible for the killing of his entire clan and family, sparing only his brother, Sasuke Uchiha, with the explanation that he was testing his abilities. Around the time of his death, his villainous role is downplayed; not only is he revealed to offer help to Obito Uchiha in killing the clan, though it is revealed in part two that he performed the massacre under the orders of Konoha's leadership to prevent an Uchiha coup d'état. While battling Sasuke Uchiha, Itachi died in battle due to an unknown illness. Itachi was eventually resurrected by Kabuto during the Fourth Great Ninja War but managed to break free from Kabuto's control, and, together with Sasuke, defeats Kabuto. In the Japanese anime, Itachi's voice actor is
Hideo Ishikawa.
Deidara is a former ninja of Iwagakure, having left the village after bombing it. He was a terrorist bomber-for-hire before Itachi Uchiha forced him to join the Akatsuki. Though he came to embrace the organization, Deidara still holds a grudge against Itachi and all other Uchiha throughout the series, as he feels their Sharingan eyes "look down on his artwork". Deidara, along with his paired-up partner Sasori, nabbed Gaara, the Fifth Kazekage, to attain the One-Tailed Shukaku, though losing his left arm during the battle. Eventually, Hidden Leaf and Sand ninjas try to hunt down the Akatsuki to try to retrieve and avenge Gaara, successfully killing Sasori and Deidara lost his remaining right arm to Kakashi Hatake's Kamui. After successfully getting away, Kakuzu eventually restored both of Deidara's arms and Sasori's position was then replaced by
Tobi after his death. Though he was annoyed by Tobi, Deidara becomes somewhat of a teacher to him, and adopts a genuine care for his well-being. Both of Deidara's hands have mouths on them that, by infusing clay or other fine-grained minerals with chakra, create "sculptures", bombs that explode with varying intensities. Deidara's bombs can take any form he chooses, and from the time of their creation to their detonation, he can animate and control them remotely. Sasuke Uchiha, Itachi's younger brother, is able to systematically nullify his bombs in combat, and so Deidara transforms himself into a
living bomb in a last effort to kill Sasuke and to prove the supremacy of his art, but fails in the attempt. He is later resurrected by Kabuto for the war against the Shinobi Alliance but is defeated by Kankuro. His voice actor in the Japanese anime is Katsuhiko Kawamoto. In his cameo appearance in episode 135 of the English adaptation, he is voiced by
Quinton Flynn, and in the anime of
Shippuden by
Roger Craig Smith.
Hidan is the immortal, foul-mouthed, and sadomasochistic partner of
Kakuzu and a former ninja of Yugakure, the Village Hidden in Boiling Water. He is a member of the religion which worships a deity of the same name and believes that anything less than death and utter destruction in battle is a sin. His religion's experimentations have led to the creation of his unique abilities; by consuming an opponent's blood and drawing Jashin's triangular symbol on the ground, Hidan can create a link with his opponent. Once this link is created, any damage done to Hidan's body is reflected on his opponent, allowing him to kill them by giving himself fatal injuries. Though his immortality keeps him from dying or suffer any impairment, Hidan feels his victims' suffering with an excitement bordering on arousal. After Hidan used this ability to kill
Asuma Sarutobi,
Shikamaru Nara fights him to avenge his teacher. Their battle culminates in Hidan being blown up, and Shikamaru burying his still-speaking remains in a forest that the Akatsuki will never be able to reach. As such, Hidan is no longer considered a member by the rest of the Akatsuki. In the Japanese version of the anime, Hidan is voiced by
Masaki Terasoma.
Kakuzu is the partner of
Hidan and a former ninja of
Takigakure, the Village Hidden in the Waterfalls. Kakuzu is motivated by greed, and joins the Akatsuki to seek out valuable
bounties. However, his extreme temperament and fits of rage leading to his eventual murder of whomever he was partnered with resulted in his pairing with the immortal Hidan. When Kakuzu still lived in his village, he was given a very important mission: assassinate
Hashirama Senju, the
First Hokage. As the strongest shinobi of his time, Hashirama was far too strong for Kakuzu, and the mission failed with Kakuzu barely escaping with his life. Kakuzu returned to his village, and, despite the overwhelming danger and risk he faced, he was dishonoured and severely punished. Gaining a violent hatred for his village because of this unfair treatment, Kakuzu escaped from prison and, in vengeance, stole his village's forbidden techniques, and murdered the village elders (carving out their hearts), becoming a
rogue ninja in the process. Kakuzu's body is composed of a large number of black threads, allowing him to reattach any body part, his or another, back onto its owner. The threads are also capable of piercing flesh, which Kakuzu uses to remove the still-beating hearts of his opponents and integrate their hearts into his body to extend his life indefinitely. Kakuzu can store up to four spare hearts in animal masks that are sewn to his back, which can be detached during combat situations to shoot elemental blasts at his opponents, and quickly recalled to his body if he needs a replacement heart. Kakuzu's hearts are systematically destroyed soon after his introduction by a group of Konohagakure ninja. After Naruto Uzumaki leaves his final heart on the brink of failure, Kakuzu is easily finished off by Kakashi. After being resurrected by Kabuto, he is sent out to participate in the war until being sealed. In the Japanese anime, Kakuzu's Japanese voice actor is
Takaya Hashi and in the English version he is voiced by
Fred Tatasciore.
Toneri Ōtsutsuki is the main antagonist of
The Last: Naruto the Movie, a descendant of Hamura Ōtsutsuki whose family left the world and live on the moon to maintain the imprisonment of the Gedo Statue. But the Gedo Statue was eventually removed from the moon's core by Madara and Toneri, bearing a hatred towards the people of the world for weaponising chakra, acts what he believed to be a millennium-long decision to deliver judgment on them by wiping them out with the moon. Needing to obtain the Tenseigan to carry out his clan's judgment, and as he was born without a Byakugan, Toneri approaches Hinata and reveals his desire to marry her. Earlier however, his puppets end up abducting Hanabi and he uses her eyes to obtain the Tenseigan. Sometime later, Toneri succeeds in capturing Hinata to have as his bride. But once defeated by Naruto and Hinata, Toneri learns the true meaning of his ancestor's decree and resigns himself to exile on the moon after it returns to orbit. During the events of the
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime series, Toneri is subdued by Urashiki Ōtsutsuki. Toneri is voiced by
Jun Fukuyama in Japanese and by
Robbie Daymond in English.
Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki is one of the two main antagonists of
Boruto: Naruto the Movie and a member of the main family of the Ōtsutsuki clan, intending a planet new Divine Tree as the one his faction used to harvest a previous planet's resources is dying. Momoshiki possesses both a pair of Byakugan and Rinnegan, the latter located on his palms, which he uses to absorb and release ninjutsu. He also consumes red pills that enhances his abilities. Targeting the Tailed Beasts for their chakra, attacking Killer Bee prior, Momoshiki and his partner Kinshiki come to Konohagakure with the objective of capturing Kurama from Naruto. The two manage to abduct Naruto to their dimension after destroying the Chunin Exams stadium, but before they could finish the extraction process, the pair are confronted by Boruto, Sasuke, and the four Kage. Overwhelmed, Momoshiki consumes a makeshift red pill from Kinshiki's body, making him even stronger with another Rinnegan appearing on his forehead. Though ultimately killed by Naruto and Boruto's combined Rasengan, in Part I of the
Boruto series makes Momoshiki's final moments to isolate Boruto within frozen time and brand him with the Kama mark so he can take the boy as his new vessel. Momoshiki's attempts to take over Boruto's body become grave enough that Boruto asked Kawaki to kill him so he can stop Momoshiki for good. Momoshiki is voiced by
Daisuke Namikawa in Japanese and by
Xander Mobus in the English dub.
Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki is one of the two main antagonists of
Boruto: Naruto the Movie. He is Momoshiki's obedient subordinate and a member of the main family of the Ōtsutsuki clan. As with his master, Kinshiki was a member of his clan who came to Earth to steal the tailed beasts' chakra. Having managed to kidnap Naruto for Kurama's extraction, the pair are confronted by a group of ninja arriving to rescue Naruto. Realizing that they are overwhelmed, Kinshiki breaks through his binding by the Kage and turns himself into a red pill for his master to consume, enhancing the latter's powers although Momoshiki is soon killed. Kinshiki is voiced by
Hiroki Yasumoto in Japanese and by
Wally Wingert in the English dub.
Urashiki Ōtsutsuki is the main antagonist of the
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations anime series and a member of the main family of the Ōtsutsuki clan, able to siphon chakra with his fishing rod. He joins Momoshiki and Kinshiki on their mission to gather the chakra of the God Tree on Earth, sent ahead of the two to investigate Kaguya's disappearance and subdues Toneri when he attempts to stop him. After Momoshiki and Kinshiki were defeated, Urashiki acts on his own to target the tailed beast chakra by first going after Shukaku. When that failed he learned of the Leaf possess his clan's time travel relic Karasuki and decides to go after Naruto when he was trained by Jiraiya past, only for Boruto and Sasuke to follow after him. In the end, Urashiki is killed by Boruto and past Naruto. Urashiki is voiced by
Kazuya Nakai in Japanese and by
Benjamin Diskin in the English dub.
Isshiki Ōtsutsuki is the primary antagonist of Part I of the
Boruto series and a high rank member of the main family of the Ōtsutsuki clan. Originally coming to Earth with Kaguya for the fruit of a Divine Tree their clan planted on the planet, Isshiki was fatally wounded by Kaguya in an act of betrayal. He was found by a novice monk named Jigen and took over his body in order to survive, placing a Kāma onto his host. But Isshiki began to prepare a new host as Jigen's body wouldn't be able to bear his chakra and founded Kara to create a new Divine Tree in order to obtain the chakra fruit. He also possesses a dojutsu which can use Sukunahikona (ability to shrink or grow an object to any size). Using Jigen's guise, he becomes the founder of the Kara organization to search for a suitable Vessel, eventually ending up with a failed Vessel in Code, and a successful one with Kawaki. After Naruto takes Kawaki in, Isshiki powers up by taking chakra from a captive Ten-Tails and arrives in the Leaf. Naruto refuses to give Kawaki up, so he takes the Hokage away to another dimension. Sasuke Uchiha arrives, having tracked him to Kara's dimension. The two go all-out and push the body of Jigen to his limits; but in the end Isshiki decisively beats them both, sealing Naruto away. After Team 7 rescues Naruto from Boro, a member of Kara, Isshiki is attacked by Koji Kashin; a member of Kara. Though Koji took advantage of Jigen's weakened state, he is overwhelmed after killing the body of Jigen, which forces Isshiki's revival in his weak body. Isshiki destroys Koji, after discovering that he is a clone of Jiraiya created by Amado, his most trusted confidant in Kara. Isshiki comes to the Leaf to re-mark Kawaki, before his time could run out in the failed vessel of Jigen. Naruto and Sasuke arrive to fight him, after his initial destruction. Sasuke unveils his plan, made with Boruto, as the latter uses his Karma to teleport Isshiki to another dimension. Furious, Isshiki effortlessly beats Naruto and gravely injures Sasuke, before maiming Boruto. After attempting to kidnap Boruto to use for his plan, Naruto arrives, in the Baryon Mode and fights on even terms with Isshiki. His lifespan shortened to five minutes, Isshiki grows desperate, but discovers that the beaten Naruto has a chakra link with Kawaki. He successfully teleports the boy to the battlefield and rebrands him. As he begins turning to dust, Kawaki reveals that he only branded his Shadow Clone, and he stomps Isshiki to dust. Afterwards, Isshiki's soul entrusts Code with a Ten-Tails to continue his work. He is voiced by
Kenjiro Tsuda, and by
Keith Silverstein in the English dub.
Kawaki Uzumaki is a tattooed youth who became a member of Kara after being brought by Jigen from a drunkard father, bearing a tattoo of the Roman numeral IX under his left eye and bestowed a Karma Mark by Jigen to be made into a living weapon for Kara. He was heavily modified with microscopic Shinobi-Ware implanted in his body that give him abilities similar to Orochimaru's Curse Marks and Jugo's Sage Transformation in altering his physiology at a cellular level. For reasons yet to be revealed, Kawaki left Kara and encountered Boruto who brings him to the Hidden Leaf as he lives with the Uzumaki family. The two would end up becoming mortal enemies as hinted in prologue of the
Boruto series; an older Kawaki appearing to have perpetrated Konoha's destruction as he confronts an older Boruto while declaring "the age of shinobi has come to an end" before begin the fight. His voice actor in the Japanese anime is
Yūma Uchida His normal self is voiced by
Nobuyuki Hiyama in Japanese and by
Mick Wingert in the English dub. His clones are voiced by
Misuzu Togashi in Japanese and by Alex Cazares in the English dub.
Kara is an organization of ninja that serves as the primary antagonistic force of Part I of the
Boruto series. While much of their history is yet unknown, they are interested in those with Forbidden Jutsu, like Boruto, and seek out a "vessel" for their goals. Kara's leadership are known as the , each in charge of a particular region with a Roman Numeral tattooed on their faces. They use sleeper agents known as to serve them in a variety of ways. • : Kara's leader and an Inner who uses Genjutsu to communicate with the other Inners, and bears a Roman numeral of four tattoo under his left eye. He is a fierce Taijutsu who possesses the ability to bestow Kama marks on others and can access the abilities of Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, whom he a Vessel of. He eventually dies later in the series, letting Isshiki fully reincarnate into his body. He is voiced by
Kenjiro Tsuda in the Japanese dub, and by
Keith Silverstein in the English dub. • : The genius Inner who created Kara's cyborgs and serves as head scientist for Jigen, later revealed to be his enemy, as he sends Koji to assassinate him and defecting to Konoha. He also reactivates Delta as an ally of the Leaf, after her initial deactivation by him. As Amado's role in the Leaf and the threat of Code increases, he reveals that Delta is a faulty clone of his deceased daughter, Akebi, who died from an illness. He also tells the Leaf the history of Shibai Ōtsutsuki, a being considered a god even within the clan of Ōtsutsuki itself. His godlike abilities, called shinjutsu is what Amado harnessed for his cyborgs that were greater than Jigen, such as Eida and Daemon. Amado is voiced by
Akio Ōtsuka in the Japanese dub and by
Greg Chun in the English dub. • : A young Inner with ginger hair and the tattoo of the Roman numeral six. He is revealed to be a defective Vessel of Isshiki, as he has a White Karma, which is only usable as a weapon, granting him the ability to use Claw Marks as a means of transportation, as well as immense physical boosts. Following Isshiki's demise, he releases EIda and Daemon, to cyborgs created by Amado to be stronger than Jigen, but their alliance is cut short, due to Eida's attraction to Kawaki and they soon turn on him. Ending up alone once more, Code aims to use the juvenile Ten-Tails Isshiki left him as a weapon. However, Code's modifications on the Ten-Tails made it sapient and turn on him as the Divine Trees. He is voiced by
Junta Terashima in the Japanese dub and by
Jacob Hopkins in the English dub. • : A female Inner with a destructive temper whose heavily modified body allows her to fight nearly on equal footing against Naruto when she attempts to retrieve Kawaki, bearing the Roman numeral of one tattooed on her forehead. After Naruto destroys her body, her drone returns to Kara base and activates a new body. When Amado leaves the organization, he deactivates her body, but he later on reprograms her as an ally of the Leaf. After Amado's defection, it is revealed that Delta is basically a faulty clone of his deceased daughter, with a personality of her own. Delta is voiced by
Houko Kuwashima in the Japanese dub and by
Amber Lee Connors in the English dub. • : A masked Inner who assigned his sleeper agent Ao to retrieve Kawaki. He possesses the Fire-Style jutsu True Fire of Samadhi, which creates flames hot enough to negate an opponent's regeneration, and can use both Toad summoning jutsu and the Rasengan. Koji is sent to retrieve Kawaki, which he leaves to the Outers Ao and Garo. He infiltrates the Leaf Village, and surveys Kawaki at the Uzumaki house for a long time. He is able to view the fight between Jigen, Naruto and Sasuke and picks his moment for an assassination attempt, on Amado's orders. During his fight with Jigen, it is revealed that Koji is a clone of Jiraya created by Amado. Three years later, Koji joined forces with Boruto Uzumaki to help him achieve his goals. Koji Kashin is voiced by
Yūichi Nakamura in the Japanese dub and by
Kaiji Tang in the English dub. • : A brutish Inner with the Roman numeral of three tattooed on his face. He is the leader of a cult dedicated to the veneration of the Ōtsutsuki and the Infinite Tsukuyomi. In reality, he used the cult to kidnap children suitable to become vessels for Isshiki. After Naruto is sailed away by Isshiki, Boro guards it. Team 7 shows up to save Naruto, but Boro makes their task very difficult, due to his perceived immortal body. Sarada sees through his weakness, and destroys the Scientific Ninja Tool within his body, which healed it and kept it under wraps. Boro loses control and gravely injures all of Team 7, before Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki awakens within the body of his Vessel, Boruto. Momoshiki absorbs some chakra from the unconscious Naruto and disintegrates Boro completely. Boro is voiced by
Kenta Miyake in the Japanese dub and by
Dave B. Mitchell in the English dub. • : A crippled, elderly Inner with the Roman numeral of five tattooed on the left side of his forehead. He is a veteran of the Fourth Great Ninja War, after which he emigrated to the Land of Valleys, where he started a huge company, working with Scientific Ninja Tools. He and his partner Deepa attempt to create their own God Tree, and he sacrifices most of the company workers for his God Tree. Though he is strong, and able to use all five basic chakra natures, Orochimaru and Konohamaru work together to defeat him. Later on, he tries stealing Kawaki for himself, but Koji Kashin kills him on Jigen's orders. He is voiced by
Chō in the Japanese dub and by
Doug Stone in the English dub. • : A fearsome and cruel Inner with the Roman numeral of seven tattooed on his face. He possesses the unique jutsu of creating super-dense carbon, which he can use as thick armor, or projectiles of different sizes and shapes. He murders Omoi's teammates, as well as the Haze ninjas, on his pursuit of retrieving the Hashirama cell from Team 7. Though Boruto, Sarada and Mitsuki give it their all, Deepa is unfazed by their greatest attacks as he beats them. Mitsuki uses his Sage Mode to save his teammates, which results in the failure of several of his organs. While Boruto and Sarada train to become stronger and Mitsuki recovers, During Victor's recreation of the God Tree, Boruto and Sarada arrive to fight him. Deepa dominates, until Mitsuki arrives to even the fields. Through their combined chakra, Boruto is able to destroy his ultimate armor with a Sage Jutsu Super Compressed Rasengan, and he is then crushed by boulders. Later, Amado resurrects his head, in order for Jigen to learn of Victor's betrayal, after which point Jigen orders his disposal permanently. He is voiced by
Tetsuya Kakihara in the Japanese dub and by Chris Hackney in the English dub. • : A highly intelligent and deceptive young Inner with the Roman numeral of eight tattooed on her forehead. She is an unusual cyborg even among the Inners themselves, as Amado used Scientific Ninja Tool enhancements to greatly boost her mental capabilities, instead of physical prowess, since he needed an assistant in the lab, during his research about the human heart and soul. Due to her curious nature, she attempted to study Jigen's heart, at which point Jigen removed a part of her brain and exiled her. While her body breaks down as she is held in stasis, she uses a puppet and genjutsu to capture people and place them in a genjutsu world of traps, to somehow regain her desire to live through them, since she also participates under a false identity, Yatsume. After one of her captives, Boruto breaks through the genjutsu and inspires her, she regains her purpose and sets everyone free, while escaping. She is voiced by
Sara Matsumoto and the decoy old man puppet she used is voiced by
Kappei Yamaguchi and by
Ray Chase in the English dub. • : a female cyborg and Daemon's elder sister, created by Amado to be stronger than Jigen, she is adept at taijutsu, while also possessing the Senrigan, an eye which allows her to predict future outcomes and make everyone on Earth, except members of the Ōtsutsuki clan and their Vessels fall in love with her. During Code's initial attack of Naruto Uzumaki, Eida and Daemon turn on Code, because he attempted to kill Kawaki as he was protecting Naruto at the time. Since there is no known way to resist her charms, or counter Daemons's ability yet, they are granted asylum in the Leaf village. She is voiced by
Kana Hanazawa in the Japanese dub and
Anairis Quiñones in the English dub. • : a cyborg child and Eida's little brother, created by Amado as a weapon against Jigen. He is an incredibly powerful taijutsu user, with the ability to reflect an opponent's attack back at them or someone else, provided he touches them while they attack. During Code's initial attack of Naruto Uzumaki, Eida and Daemon turn on Code, because he attempted to kill Kawaki as he was protecting Naruto at the time. Since there is no known way to resist Eida's charms, or counter his ability yet, they are granted asylum in the Leaf village. He is voiced by
Yumiri Hanamori in the Japanese dub and AJ Beckles in the English dub.
Divine Trees The are humanoid creatures that serve as the primary antagonistic force of Part II of the
Boruto series. They were originally a juvenile Ten-Tails that Isshiki kept in another dimension before it came into the possession of Code, using his ability to create from fragments of its flesh to serve as his personal army to attack Boruto and his friends with. But the Claw Grimes start attacking people for their chakra and transmitting it to the main body, causing the Ten-Tails to develop a consciousness and breaks free while splintering itself in the form of a quartet in the image of those whose chakra was absorbed by the Claw Grimes. The Divine Trees explain they evolved passed their need to feed on an Ōtsutsuki to fully mature, instead seeking knowledge while preying on the loved ones of those they resemble. • : The supportive and composed leader of the group who selected the Nine Tails Jinchuriki as his prey, assuming it to be Naruto before meeting Himawari. • : A Divine Tree who assumed Sasuke's appearance and mannerisms, selecting Sarada as his prey. • : A Divine Tree who assumed Moegi's appearance and mannerisms, selecting Konohamaru as her prey. • : A Divine Tree who assumed the appearance of a Kara Outer named Bug, eventually selecting Eida as his prey. • : A Divine Tree who assumed Shinki's appearance and mannerisms, selecting Gaara as his prey. ==Supporting characters==