Raiga Kurosuki


 * '''Name: Raiga Kurosuki
 * Age: ???
 * Status: Deceased
 * Rank: Unknown, classified as a Missing-nin
 * Seiyu: Keiji Fujiwara
 * Voice Actor: Doug Erholtz

is a former member of Kirigakure's Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, though he apparently disliked all of the other members. As one of the Seven Swordsmen, Raiga wields two spiked swords that he uses in a manner similar to lightning rods to attract and channel lightning and electricity. He can connect them at their hilts to form a larger double-bladed sword, effectively increasing the weapon's size and allowing him to perform different and more powerful attacks. Lightning acts as a power source for him, and so long as he has access to it he can battle continuously. While he was still loyal to Kirigakure, Raiga met Ranmaru, a disabled boy who came to act as additional eyes and ears for Raiga in exchange for being carried upon his back in a case while the rest of Raiga was under a hooded robe. Ranmaru would become the only person Raiga cared about, despite Ranmaru's pacifist nature and Raiga's love for battle.

When Raiga had enslaved a town and forced it's villagers to work in it's mines, he assembled some followers (including Karashi) to form the Kurosuki Family. Besides him, his followers wore a hooded robe and enforced his laws. Should a law of his be broken, that person would end up being buried alive funeral style.

When it came to his latest one of Rokusuke, his group ran afoul of Naruto Uzumaki, Rock Lee, Neji Hyuga, and Tenten. He later engaged them using a mist jutsu that negated Neji's Byakugan. While unconscious from one of Raiga's attacks, Rock Lee manages to fight him off despite this. When Naruto asks if he knows Zabuza Momochi and Kisame Hoshigaki, Raiga stated that he hated those two. He was apparently defeated by Naruto's Rasengan.

Raiga later returns to reclaim Ranmaru. When Ranmaru acts on his beliefs and tries to convince Raiga to stop fighting, Raiga feels betrayed and, upon being knocked off a cliff by Naruto Uzumaki, kills himself in midair with one of his own bolts of lightning.

Behind the Scenes
Raiga is an anime-only character, and was installed during the filler sequences leading up to Shippuuden.