Chapter 3 - Wepons And Hidden Villages

Shuriken
Ninja stars, you have big ones and small ones. With the big ones you can attack a person head on, while the little ones are just for keeping people at bay. Rarely will a shuriken really kill someone. It's sort of a sub weapon which is used to, in most cases, loose enemy pursuers. All ninjas have the small ones, the big ones are used as a main weapon. F.e Mizuki used it in first episode.

Kunai knives
The weapon of choice for most genins, and a good weapon at it. It can be thrown like a shuriken, but can also be used as a close combat weapon. Most ninjas carry more then one of them, and are trained to use the weapon effectively.

Knuckle knives
Sarutobi Asuma uses these. It's a combination between brass knuckles and a knife. Asuma extends his blades using his chakra, and the chakra edges act as hidden weapons. When an enemy misjudges the distance, and can't figure out the secret to Asuma's blades, he will most likely die. It can also act as a defence against swords.

Swords
Though most ninjas rely solely on jutsus and kunai knives. Some use a sword to aid them in their attacks, some use short swords, some use special swords. f.e Gekkou Hayate's katana, Orochimaru's and Sasuke's Kusanagi. More info about these can be found in their character biography.

Bombs
You basically have three types of bombs, smoke bombs, poisonous gas bombs, and light bombs. The smoke bomb is just your ordinary smoke bomb, it's used to conceal yourself, or escape from battle. And of course a poisonous gas bomb releases a poison which is not to be breathed in. While a light bomb is used to blind a person, just look at it like a flash grenade.

Exploding tags
Pieces of paper with the Japanese character 'Baku', which means 'explode' written on top it. Usually goes at the end of a kunai knife, and blows up after a certain amount of time. But these tags can be placed as easily on any other item.

Medical and poison needles
Thin needles can be used for medical purposes, acupuncture to be more exactly. But just as easy as it can be used as an offence weapon. You can just throw them, or use some kind of needle launcher like Shizune. Shizune even launches poision tipped needles at her opponent. Besides Shizune Haku seems the only one to use them. She creates them from water, and controls them using her advanced bloodline.

Puppets
The idea of using puppets in battle was developed in the Hidden Sand Village. Puppeteer ninjas use chakra strings from their fingers to their puppets to operate them. The puppet itself can be upgraded with many weapons and tools. In most cases the puppet master remains hidden while the puppet moves and attacks the target. Kankurou and Chiyo use them, but Sasori takes it to a new level. Read more about it in his character biography.

Fan
A destructive offensive fan which produces high force wind attacks using the user's chakra. It can also be used for people to get airborne, or for defense. It's a good weapon, but it drains a lot of chakra and needs a lot of strength to be properly wielded. Temari is the only known user of this type of weapon.

Gourd
This should hold water, but Gaara has it filled with sand. It's the source to Gaara's strength and techniques. By using his chakra he holds the sand from the gourd, and manipulates it. He can wrap it around an enemy, and then suffocate him or her - create sand bunshins - create sand shurikens etc. It's his on the fly sand, and acts as his backup sand in case he's fighting in an environment that doesn't provide him with sand.

Scrolls
Not only are scrolls useful for taking notes. They can also be used as sealing scrolls, which are used to seal and contain things that might be dangerous. Or as a summoning scroll, which is used by many ninjas to summon creatures or objects. In order to use them it requires some of the summoner's blood.

Staffs / poles
Blunt weapons which are good for deflecting and defending. Only staff so far was the monkey king Enma when he transformed into a diamond-hard pole for the Third. It's the Third Hokage's weapon of choice, and could alter its length and width at will. Ten Ten does summon some Bo staffs using her weapon scroll at some point, but it's just one of the many ninja weapons she summons.

Sonic blasters
Hollow air tubes build into the palms of the user's hands to allow chakra to force out tremendous amounts of sound pressure. Its attacks are strong enough to crack a stone and wipe out everything in its path. Abumi Zaku is the only one we've seen using it so far.

Bells
A genjutsu weapon which makes illusions of the enemy and puts you under high hysteria or hallucinations by hearing its sound. Kin used this weapon to fight Shikamuru in the preliminaries during the chuinin exam.

Broad sword
Zabuza's weapon is much like Cloud's (from Final Fantasy 7) buster sword. A heavy weapon which is able to literally cut almost anything into two. Though it has an immense and brute attacking power, it has the draw back of being heavy and being difficult to carry around all day long.

Samehade
Samehade is the weapon that Hoshigaki Kisame wields. The name means 'Shark Skin', which is ironic as Kisame looks like a shark himself. The blade is not meant to 'Slice', it's meant to 'Shave' people. For that reason it has very sharp fins, and no real blade to actually slice.

Sickle & chain
The sickle & chain is a weapon that is worn by two people. The two are connected by a spiked chain that can quite easily cut anything in two. The chain can be detachted so the users may move father away from each other. And the wielders each wear a large, metal gauntlet with poisonous claws. When using this weapon, you basically try to surround your opponent with the chain, and once your apponent has been trapped, you cut him or her into several pieces.

Warrior pills
Warrior pills are pills which enhance a ninja's abilities. The pills the Akimichi clan and Inuzuka clan use are specialized for just their type of fighting style. The Akimichi clan uses three types of pills, each one having a different effect on the user. But each one causing immense stress on the body, it's possible to die from taking one too many. The Inuzuka clan uses pills to enhance their smell or merge with their particular animal, such as dogs or wolfs.

Gamabunta's daggers
Gamabunta has two daggers, they are quite strong, and bigger than some of the tallest trees. We've see him using the daggers during the Sannin battle, and in Naruto's fight against Gaara fully

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Hidden Villages

Leaf Village
Located in the land of Fire, Hidden Leaf Village (also called Konoha) is the largest and most powerful of all Hidden Shinobi Villages, despite the fact that the land of Fire isn't the largest country. But due to the hidden village's large population, its military presence is very powerful.


The Leaf's most distinguishing characteristic is the mountain overlooking the village. It has the faces of every Hokage incarved in it. Tsunade's face is added sometime during the timeskip.

Nine-Tailed Demon Fox
13 years ago, the Hidden Leaf Village was attacked by the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox (Kyubi). Causing much destruction and killing many of the village's shinobi. It was eventually defeated and sealed into the newborn child Uzumaki Naruto by the village's most powerful shinobi and leader, the 4th Hokage. The 4th Hokage died soon after the battle ended, because of the Ninjutsu he used. Sacrificing his own ife and fulfilling his duty as the village's Hokage.

Since that time, power has returned to the 3rd Hokage, who is later on killed by Orochimaru during the combined attack of both the conspiring Hidden Sand and Orochimaru's Hidden Sound. Tsunade, one of the Legendary Sannin takes on the role of the Figth Hokage at that point.

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Sand Village
Located in the Wind Country, the Hidden Sand Village is one of the top 5 greatest Shinobi countries. Being one of the 5 great countries, this village is ruled by a kage, namely the Kazekage. At the beginning of the series, it's Gaara's father who holds the title of 4th Kazekage.


In an attempt to scale down the country's military presence, the lord of the wind country has cut back on the Sand Village's budget. Furthermore, he has commissioned tasks normally reserved for the county's own hidden village to the Hidden Leaf Village, raising speculation of an attempt to dissolve the Sand Village.

Breaking the peace
To re-establish the Sand Village, Kazekage teams up with the Sound Village and plans to attack the Leaf Village, breaking their piece treaty. This surprise attack is foiled by the Shinobi of Konoha, and the 4th Kazekage is later on killed by Orochimaru. Orochimaru take's the Kazekage's identity in order to get close to the 3th Hokage during the third stage of the Chuunin exam. After the failed attack the Hidden Sand re-allies with Konoha, and acknowledges Gaara as the Fifth Kazekage.

One-Tailed Shukaku
The Hidden Sand Village is also the village that has the Shukaku, one of the tailed beasts. Shukaka is said to be the corrupted spirit of a Sand monk turned demon, and was originally sealed inside a teakettle. The last host for Shukaku was Gaara.

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Mist Village
Located in the land of Water, the Hidden Mist Village is one of the top 5 greatest Shinobi countries. The village's Kage carries the title of Mizukage. Being located in the land of Water, all of their jutsus are based on water techniques. Not much more is known about this village. Although it was commonly referred to by other villages as 'Bloody Mist Village' for its rumored brutality.


This is also the village where Zabuza and Haku originated from before they abandoned the land. The training customs of the village were revealed from Zabuza's childhood. The final exam to becoming a genin was different, and much more brutal, from the exam the students in Leaf Village had to take. The Hidden Mist was also the home of the famous Kaguya clan, a clan with Kimimaro Kaguya as its soul survivor.

Bloody Mist Village
In order for a Ninja Academy student to graduate and become a Genin in the Hidden Mist Village, he or she had to fight, with one of the same friends they trained with, to the death. But all of this had to be changed 10 years ago when one of that year's students, who failed to pass the preliminary exam, went beserk and killed over 100 peers without hesitation. This child was called Momochi Zabuza. After the incident they changed the final exam for the graduating class. In chapter 303 Yamato states that Sai was also subjected to this method of training in preparation to serve under Danzo's Root division.

Seven Swordsmen of the Mist
The strongest and most famous ninjas of the hidden Mist, are known as the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. All of its members wield a unique weapon. Momochi Zabuza, Hoshigaki Kisame and Raiga Kurosuki are the only known members at this time. Out of those three only Kisame is still alive at the moment. The identities of the other four are still unknown.

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Waterfall Village
The Hidden Waterfall Village is a very small village that we've only seen in Naruto's Jump Festa 2004 so far. Because this village is so small and has very few (strong) shinobi, it's build behind a Waterfall - hence 'The Hidden Waterfall Village'. Only its inhabitants know the village's entrance.


The Hidden Waterfall Village has no Kage, but they have something called the Hero Water to help them protect their village. It's some sort of holy water which is extracted from the great tree (located in the Hidden Waterfall Village) every one hundred years. It is suposed to tenfold the user's chakra, and aid the 'heroes' in protecting their village in times of battle.

The hero water
However, this water is a double-edged sword, altough it increases one's chakra, it also eats away your liveforce at the same time. Only the young ones (most of the time younger means weaker, strength grows with experience) will be able to survive the side effects of the water. For that reason, many of the village's shinobi have died not from battle, but from the water.

The holy water is sealed away, and it's the village's leader's duty to protect the Hero Water at all cost. The village's leader is also called the Hero of the Hidden Falls, but the question remains: 'Would you drink the Hero Water and throw away your life, just to save your village and be remembered as a hero?'.

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The recently formed Hidden Sound Village, located in the Sound Country. Ruled and created by Orochimaru.

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Village in the clouds

At one time the Hidden Cloud Village attempted to attack and destroy Konoha, betraying a peace treaty. The Hidden Cloud's shinobi lost miserably.

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Rain village
During the Chuunin Exam a Rain-team was wiped out by Gaara. Akatsuki member Hidan is a missing-nin from Hidden Rain.

Rock Village

Little is known, except for their violent past with the Hidden Leaf. Akatsuki member Deidara is a missing-nin from Hidden Rock.

Grass Village
Zetsu, an Akatsuki member, is a missing-nin from this village. He left his home village behind and joined Akatsuki.

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