Aoi Rokushō

appeared as a minor character in the Naruto anime. He was a Jōnin from Amegakure, and a Missing-nin from Konohagakure.

Background
A former instructor in Konoha, he convinced Idate Morino, his former pupil, to steal the legendary lightning chakra sword called the Sword of the Thunder God, which had once belonged to Tobirama Senju, the Second Hokage, along with a forbidden scroll. Idate was tricked into believing that this would grant him advancement to Chūnin. Once the sword was in Aoi's hands, he fled the country with Idate, who was ashamed of his actions, and they went to Amegakure. When Ibiki Morino and two ANBU members caught up with them, Aoi had the ANBU killed, and Ibiki ended up captured by the Rain Ninjas, where Aoi then tortured him to read the scroll. Idate escaped under Ibiki's advice as Aoi attacked Ibiki; Ibiki escaped as well. Aoi then managed to become a Jōnin of Amegakure.

Land of Tea arc
Aoi and Team Oboro were hired by Kyūroku Wagarashi of the Wagarashi Family to prevent Idate from winning the Todoroki Shrine race, and to make sure that Fukusuke Hikyakuya won the race. If Idate had lost, Jirocho Wasabi and the Wasabi Clan wouldn't have controlled the Land of Tea any longer. When Team 7 was hired to protect Idate, they were able to confront Aoi and the three Rain Genin, Oboro, Kagari and Mubi. Aoi dodged Sasuke Uchiha's Chidori, and briefly belittled him by calling him the weakest Uchiha member, before striking and knocking him out with the sword. However, Naruto Uzumaki was able to strike Aoi with the Rasengan (which also managed to break the Sword of the Thunder God), which sent the ninja flying off a cliff into the water and rocks. Seeing as he wasn't shown hitting the water or slowing down, it is unconfirmed at the time if Aoi survived the fall or not.

Trivia

 * means blue or green, and means copper rust.
 * He is the only Rain ninja so far in the series to have a surname.
 * Despite being an anime-only character, Aoi's impact on belittling Sasuke Uchiha served to advance the obsession of the latter to defect from Konoha.
 * He also made an appearance as a boss in the Xbox 360 video game Naruto: The Broken Bond.
 * He and Mizuki share similar traits:
 * Both feign friendliness to better deceive others.
 * They both tricked their respective "students" (Naruto Uzumaki and Idate Morino) into stealing an item in order to "promote" them. Naruto: Scroll of Seals to become a Genin and Idate: the Sword of the Lightning God and a forbidden Scroll to become a Chūnin.