Ranka

is one of the ninja in Anko Mitarashi's team that has been assigned to investigate Madara Uchiha's lair in Mountains' Graveyard.

Confining the Jinchūriki Arc
Ranka and the team learn of the massive army that Madara possesses and Anko tells him and the others to run while she would continue further. Chūkichi and Deidara discover them and Tokuma Hyūga decides to hold them off while Ranka and Muta Aburame flee. It is later seen that after surviving his battle with the revived Akatsuki, that Sasori took over his limbs and began to use him as a puppet to fight the Ambush Squad. He was later release by Omoi's Cloud-Style Reverse Beheading.