Matsuba

is a villager of Green Banks.

Personality
Matsuba is a kind person who has great respect for the leader of his village, just as he respected her father. For the sake of her safety, he is ready to sacrifice the main value that was in the village. He is soft-spoken in nature, which smooths out Kiri's rougher personality.

Appearance
Matsuba is a short, fair-skinned man with teal eyes and shoulder-length dark hair. He wears a blue high-collared jacket over which is a green vest with yellow trim, brown pants, and a pair of plain sandals. Matsuba also wears glasses.

Genin Mission Arc
Matsuba is on the watchtower with Kiri when Team 7 arrives at the bridge leading to their village. He examines the guests through binoculars and informs the village leader that this is a Konohagakure shinobi. Kiri is surprised that children were sent to them, but Matsuba assures them that they are capable, and then gives the command to lower the bridge. Later, when Team 7 was introduced to Kiri, the leader of the village, Matsuba was by her side along with Iori. At the same time, Ashimaru kills one of the villagers and fights Boruto Uzumaki, causing a ruckus that everyone else runs to, including Matsuba. Konohamaru remarks that this mission is more difficult than the one they were originally given, and Kiri ensures that she handles everything. Matsuba asks her to give the order to take up arms, and then the whole village will support their ruler, but Kiri refuses him.

On the evening that Kiri was kidnapped, Konohamaru reads the note left by the kidnappers. Matsuba doesn't understand what two warnings it refers to, and it turns out that Kiri knew a lot, but kept it from the others. Matsuba says that he became suspicious when Kiri turned to Konohagakure for help, but does not understand why she did not say anything. He tells Team 7 about the former leader of the village and Kiri's desire to protect his people, expressing his wish that Kiri be saved. He gives Konohamaru a scroll with ownership of the bridge, remarking that the scroll's importance is beyond comparison to Kiri's life.

When Kiri was rescued and returned to the village, the villagers, led by Matsuba, greeted her after hearing her apologies. Matsuba says that he is happy about her return and is ready to help her always and in everything. He reports that in stubbornness she is very similar to her father and in time she will become a better ruler than he was, with which all the other residents agree. As Team 7 leaves their village, Matsuba and Kiri set up a plaque in their honor.

Trivia

 * His name means "pine needle."