Puppet Jutsus - A puppet is a tool used by various shinobi in the manga and anime Naruto. With a puppet, a shinobi can attack using the puppet instead of endangering themselves. Becoming a puppeteer is no simple task, and few throughout the world that have been accredited the title of puppet master ("Kugutsushi"). Even though puppeteer shinobi are rare, they are very powerful and formidable opponents. While an ordinary shinobi risks his own life in battle, a puppeteer can hide in a safe location while his puppet does the work for him. Since puppets are usually equipped with an array of often-fatal instruments, this makes fighting a puppet much more dangerous than fighting a human.
~Kugutsu no Jutsu
Type: C-rank, Offensive, Defensive, Supplementary, Close to mid-range (0-10m)
This technique simply attaches chakra strings to a puppet, allowing the user to control it. The chakra strings can extend to various lengths, the total length being limited by the skill of the user. The amount of chakra strings is also limited by the user's skill. When first learned you will be capable of pushing off up to ten meters with the strings. Every time you learn the jutsu increases ten meters. After that every thirty meters is capable of using another puppet.
~Isshi no Otoshina
Type: C-rank, Offensive, Close to mid-range (0-10m)
This technique uses chakra strings to trip, bind, or otherwise interfere with the movement of an opponent. Instead of attaching the chakra strings to a puppet, the user can attach them to any other object, including their opponent, to resrict movement or buy time for an escape.
~Fukuwajutsu no Kugutsu
Type: C-rank, Defensive, all ranges
This technique uses chakra strings to carry a puppeteer's voice to a puppet, making it seem as if the puppet is speaking. More advanced puppets also have sound vibrating devices, allowing a puppeteer to create any voice they wish.
~Kugutsu Henge
Type: C-rank, Defensive, all ranges
This technique changes the appearance of a puppet into whatever the user desires, making it useful for confusing an opponent.
~Kugutsu Kawarimi
Type: C-rank, Defensive, all ranges
This technique can only be used once in battle, as it requires the puppet to be disguised as its master. With it, the puppeteer switches places with their disguised puppet, making their opponent believe that the puppet is the master. Once the opponent unwittingly gets close, usually enough to cause fatal damage, they are too close to avoid the puppet's counterattack. Because the puppet's disguise is usually lost after this, it can't be used again.
~Ningyoumawashi no jutsu
Type: C-rank, Defensive, all ranges
This technique uses puppet strings to move other objects, such as rocks, switches, and other inanimate objects.
~Human Puppet
Type: A-rank, probably: Hiden, Supplementary
Hitokugutsu is a form of the Kugutsu no Jutsu developed by the puppet master Sasori. This technique allows the puppeteer to create a puppet manniquin which can contain and use chakra. Sasori has done this by making a living human into a marionette. First, the entrails are removed and rid of. Then, once the skin has been peeled off, the user cleanses them up and draws out all of the blood. Once the bodies are manually preserved so they do not decompose, the gadgets are then installed inside of them. The puppet will maintain the same amount of chakra as its original body held when it was alive. If the original ninja was highly skilled, like the Third Kazekage, its puppet can retain their original abilities as well. Even the unique body traits will be passed on to its kugutsu form, like the Satetsu. Thus, the puppeteer master can still use all the original jutsu the ninja once utilised. Sasori had also planned to make Haruno Sakura and Chiyo into his puppets especially because of Sakura's monstrous strength and hers and Chiyo's medic skills.
~White Secret Technique: Ten Puppet Collection of Chikamatsu
Type: A-rank, Offensive, Defensive, Supplementary, Close to mid-range (0-10m)
This jutsu uses the ten masterpiece puppets of the first user of the Kugutsu no Jutsu (Puppet Technique), Monzaemon. Chiyo once used it to defeat an entire castle. It appears that these puppets were designed as a set, since several of them work in conjunction with each other, even using what appears to be a Ninjutsu technique, to devastating effect.
~Puppet Technique
Type: A-rank or Hiden, Offensive, Defensive, Supplementary, Close to mid-range (0-10m)
Just like a marionette, the user controls a puppet using strings of chakra from his fingers. This skill is often prepared in coordination with Kawarimi no Jutsu (Change of Body Technique), so the user can quickly replace their body with the puppet when they feel the need to activate it. Another useful quality of this skill is the fact that the puppet can take the form of another person, object, or, more commonly, the form of the user. Puppets are fitted with various hidden devices, most commonly extendable blades, various projectile launchers, and poison, both in gaseous form and liquid coating their weapons. This technique can also be adapted to control humans as if they were puppets, or another puppeteer's puppets.
The first person to use this jutsu was called Monzaemon. The ten puppets which are called his masterpieces are used in the jutsu White Secret Technique: Ten Puppet Collection of Chikamatsu.
Although puppets are usually made out of wood, Sasori made most of his puppets out of the remains of his opponents. Sasori is also the only person able to create Hitokugutsu (
, "Person Puppet" or "Human Puppet"). A Hitokugutsu is created out of a still living person, and thus is still able to use chakra. Sasori even made himself into a Hitokugutsu.
~Puppet Show
Rank: B
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: The ability to control a number of Puppets in an area while the user is in a distance.
Special: Must be a puppeteer.
Drawback: Drawback is the fact that the puppeteer will not be able to see where the opponents are in the area, but can roughly make out where their location is by the number of chakra strings that pollute the area.
Description: Basically a puppeteer can control a number of puppets in a certain area by using numerous amounts of chakra strings and by staying off in the distance. Using this takes an enourmous amount of concentration, making it easy for someone to sneak up on. With this in hand the user would most likely be in a secluded area, so by the help of polluting the area with chakra strings, a user can pin point where an opponent is.
Limit: Anyone can learn as so long as they are a puppeteer. Starting off the user can control up to five Level "C" Puppets at one time in a radius of twenty yards, while the user is at ten yards in distance. Of course number of puppets and distance can be increased by training. Ten yards increase in radius and two puppets will be a skill of "C" rank training.
~Shield of Chakra
B Rank Unknown, probably: Defensive, Short range (0-5m)
NinJutsu
A technique used by puppet masters, this shield is created when chakra is emitted in the form of a disk from panels which are released from the puppet's arms. This chakra shield can protect the user from several hazardous attacks; however, enough clotting force (such as Iron Sand) can clog up the puppet's arm joints and, additionally, render the arms useless.
, "Person Puppet" or "Human Puppet"). A Hitokugutsu is created out of a still living person, and thus is still able to use chakra. Sasori even made himself into a Hitokugutsu.