Raiga Kurosuki

Raiga had blue eyes with a darker ripple around the pupil, waist-length green hair with the top two bangs falling down on his cheeks on each side, and having dark, full lips. When he lived in Kiri as an Anbu, he wore the traditional Kiri Anbu uniform with a white mask with thin, short curved eye-holes, a mischievous smile and two red wave design on the top and bottom on the right side, as well as the Kirigakure symbol on the forehead. After his defection, he wore a grey hooded mantle with three red stripes where he hid Ranmaru in a nest-strapped to his back. Under his mantle, Raiga wore a dark-brown sleeveless vest falling to his knees where the inside was purple, light brown belt, a light grey pants and, like all the Swordsmen of the Mist, he had bandages covering most of his body, his neck down to his chest, including his arms and his shinbones.

Raiga had served the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist starting at some point before or during the Third Shinobi World War, where he wielded the Thunderswords: Kiba. Sometime after the war had ended, Raiga and his fellow swordsmen encountered Might Guy, Ebisu and Genma Shiranui on a mission. The shinobi managed to flee until they were cornered, at which point the timely arriving Might Duy saved them by sacrificing himself to use the Eight Gates Released Formation, killing four of Raiga's allies in the anime. Also unbeknownst to him in the anime, Raiga became the father of Buntan, whose mother despised him. At some point in the anime, Raiga served as an Anbu during the Fourth Mizukage's reign, where he was tasked with finding spies that had infiltrated Kirigakure. While looking for his target, Raiga met Ranmaru, a disabled boy who came to act as additional eyes and ears for Raiga in exchange for protection being carried upon Raiga's back. Ranmaru would become the only person Raiga cared about, especially following his own desertion from the village. Sometime after defecting and traveling the world, Raiga migrated to the Land of Rivers and amassed a gang of criminals to form the Kurosuki Family. Under his leadership, Raiga and his gang took control of the village of Katabami Gold Mine, imposing a tyrannical rule upon them. Anyone that had disobeyed him or his laws were sentenced to premature burials.