Third Kazekage

This article is about the character. For the puppet, see Third Kazekage. For other uses, see Third Kazekage (disambiguation).

editThird Kazekage
三代目風影 Sandaime Kazekage
Debut
Manga	Naruto Chapter #690
Anime	Naruto Shippūden Episode #457
Game	Naruto Shippūden: Ninja Council 4
OVA	Naruto Shippūden: UNSG anime cutscenes
Appears in	Anime, Manga, Game
Voice Actors
Japanese	Minoru Kawai
English	Benjamin Diskin
Personal
Sex	Male
Status	Deceased
Kekkei Genkai	Magnet Release
Occupation	Kazekage
Affiliation	Sunagakure
Rank
Ninja Rank	Part II: Kage
Nature Type Magnet Release Wind Release Earth Release
Jutsu Iron Sand Drizzle Iron Sand Gathering Assault Iron Sand World Method
Tools Iron Sand

The Third Kazekage (三代目風影, Sandaime Kazekage, literally meaning: Third Wind Shadow) was the leader of Sunagakure, recognised as the village's strongest Kazekage.

Background

After studying the jinchūriki of Shukaku of the time, he recreated its sand-manipulating powers by combining his own magnetic chakra and iron powder, which produced the Iron Sand technique. It was for this very ability that he was noted as the strongest Kazekage in the entire history of Sunagakure.

At some point, Sasori kidnapped and killed the Third Kazekage in order to turn him into a human puppet. According to Sasori, the effort involved in the Third's capture made it his favourite puppet. Sunagakure was not aware of what Sasori had done and searched earnestly for his whereabouts. However, with the ongoing war, the village was forced to choose a Fourth Kazekage, though they still attempted to search for him in later years. It was not until the start of the Fifth Kazekage's reign, did his fate become known.

In the anime, Orochimaru, in his quest to obtain absolute mastery of all ninjutsu, managed to acquire some of the Kazekage's DNA, which he used as a source for the Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation. To test this new pawn, once aware of Sasori coming after him in the Land of Wind, along with his new partner Deidara, Orochimaru unleashed the reincarnated Kazekage to face off against its human puppet counterpart. While Kazekage's Magnet Release ultimately proved stronger than the puppet's imitation, being called a pawn by Orochimaru sparked the Kazekage's consciousness. Refusing to be a tool for anyone, he regained control of himself and forced the release of the technique, returning to the Pure World, leaving Orochimaru to speculate that the reincarnation technique was still imperfect.

Personality

In the anime, after being revived by Orochimaru, the Third held a grudge against Sasori for killing him, proclaiming to him that things would not go the same way in their upcoming fight. Also, he is a very proud individual, boastfully stating that he is not a pawn, but the Kazekage of Sunagakure. To which, he showed a remarkable willpower, able to regain control of himself despite Orochimaru's brainwashing and cancelled the Impure World Reincarnation Technique on him.

Appearance

The Third Kazekage had short messy, dark blue hair, yellow eyes, and wore the normal Kazekage attire minus the Kage hat.

Abilities

While alive, the Third was undoubtedly a powerful shinobi. He is hailed as the strongest Kazekage in the village's history, and even a very powerful shinobi like Sasori claimed that he had trouble killing him. He also appeared to have possessed a high level of intelligence as he was able to comprehend the One-Tail's unique powers and produce his own version of the same, thus creating Iron Sand.

Ninjutsu

Nature Transformation

The Third using his Iron Sand.

The Third possessed the kekkei genkai Magnet Release which allowed him to convert his chakra into strong magnetic forces, enabling him to manipulate magnetic objects. Combined with his research of Shukaku's powers, he crafted his own version of "sand-manipulation", the Iron Sand, by combining his magnetic force control with iron powder; this was the main reason why he was considered the strongest Kazekage there was. His magnetic control also granted him immunity from all metallic weapons, as well as the ability to nullify opposing puppets by clogging their joints with sand. With this "sand", he could make weapons to fit various occasions, thereby making this a very versatile technique, which Chiyo considered to be the "most feared weapon in the history of Sunagakure". In the anime, it was shown that his Magnet Release was especially powerful, as despite Sasori gaining control of the Kazekage's corpse and powers by turning him into a Human Puppet, the Magnet Release was noticeable weaker.

Part II

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The Kage summoning Team 7 and the tailed beasts.

The Sage of the Six Paths calls upon the souls of the Third and all the other deceased Kage at the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War. The Kage combine efforts to summon the members of Team 7 and all nine tailed beasts from Kaguya's Dimensions. Once their task is complete, the Sage returns the Kage's souls to the Pure Land.

Trivia

• Both he and the Third Mizukage are the only Kage whose names are unknown.