Special Weapons & Tools

Senbon Needles - Senbon needles, while mainly used for Acupuncture (a form of Chinese healing that includes sticking needles in strategic spots on your body, redirecting ki or your life force so that it balances out) some Shinobi, properly trained, can use them as deadly weapons. One of the reasons it is not all that popular is it requires extreme accuracy and speed, fore these are only deadly if they hit a vital area of the body. Masters of the Senbon Needle combat are in a way, masters of illusion. With the right precision and timing, a Shinobi can throw a Senbon Needle seemingly at a vital target on an ally, but actually missing it by a few inches. This causes the ally to go into a death-like trance in which the Shinobi will appear dead. Even if the opponents were to take precautions to see if they are really dead. The only known Shinobi who uses Senbon Needles in is Haku.

Kankuro's Pupperts (Karasu, Kuroari, Sanshōuo, and ???) - These are the main weapons of Kankuro from the Sand Village. At first he only carries one, but as the story goes on he adds more puppets to his arsenal, reflecting how he himself grows in strength. All of these puppets were originally created by Sasori of the Red Sand, but Kankuro has since then added a few new tricks to them.

Kankuro’s first puppet is first used during the Chunnin Exam. Karasu was most likely named for the dark cloak that covers his body and the four arms giving him a crow-like appearance. Though apparently a simple human-sized marionette, Karasu is actually a fierce offensive weapon and literally every inch of Karasu’s body is loaded with some kind of weapon involving poisoned blades, projectile launchers and even poisonous gas. Karasu’s body can even separate and the individual pieces can be used as weapons and projectiles.

First seen during the Sasuke Retrieval arc, Kuroari is similar in appearance to Karasu except he has six arms and a much larger head and body, similar to the body of a real ant. Function wise, Kuroari is not an offensive puppet like Karasu, but instead is built to capture opponents with barbed blades in each signet of his arms and a hollow body cavity used as a prison. Kuroari also makes a devastating combination when used alongside Karasu as Karasu can be used to harass the opponent in Kuroari’s grasp. Once the opponent has been locked inside Kuroari’s body cavity Karasu, combined with the Kuroari, they performs a devastating Karakuri Engeki: Kuro Higi Ippatsu (The Puppet play: Secret Technique – Darkness attack) wherein Karasu’s Head, legs, and arms separate and extend long blades from their bases. All seven limbs then pierce into special slits on Kuroari’s body and their blades impale whoever’s unlucky enough to be inside.

This third puppet is briefly revealed at the beginning of the Rescue Gaara arc when Kankuro becomes a Jounin of the Sand Village. Unlike the first two puppets which are relatively human shaped and sized, Sanshōuo takes the form of an enormous lizard, and while not much is seen of Sanshōuo, its function is based on brute strength and mass destruction. Given the fact the Kankuro’s favorite hobby is to install new tricks and gadgets into his puppets, Sanshōuo is no doubt loaded with such mechanisms.

After Kankuro recovers from his battle with Sasori of the Red Sand, he appears to have gained a 4th puppet, but since it remained bandaged on his back, not much is known of this puppet.

Temari's Fan - This huge fold-up fan is Temari's primary weapon. This fan has 3 purple circles drawn on it which Temari calls: "stars." Each "star" that is unfolded increases the fan's power greatly. Temari can use this fan to summon great gusts of wind and even use it to fly around.

Gaara's Gourd - Gaara of the Desert always wears this large tan gourd strapped across his back. It contains a large amount of sand, which serves as his one and only weapon in battle. The sand is mixed with the blood of the many people he’s killed and will emerge to shield Gaara from harm, even if Gaara himself does not command it to do so. It is later revealed the gourd itself is also made of sand allowing Gaara to draw sand from within the gourd while it appears closed for a sneak attack. The gourd can also dissolve completely and be used to increase Gaara’s sand supply.

Iron Knuckles - Iron knuckles are pointed knuckle weapons with a blade on the outward facing end. Extremely useful in hand-to-handcombats. This weapon is primarily used by Asuma.

Neck Cutter - This is an extremely large sword used by Zabuza. It is specially shaped and sharpened to be able to cut people clear in half. The sword itself is taller than Zabuza.

Samehada - Its name means “shark skin” and it's named after the fish servant of Isonade, a legendary giant demon shark with three tails and three dorsal fins. This large sword-like weapon is used by Kisame of the Akatsuki. It appears to simply be an extra large sword wrapped in bandages but once unveiled it is apparent that the sword has a great number of sharp, spike-like scales attached and formed into the shape of a sword. As with real shark skin, this sword does not cut, it shaves, and combined with Kisame’s immense physical strength anyone hit by this sword will be hurt significantly.

Flute - Flutes are basic musical instruments but with special purposes. A basic flute used by Tayuya of the Sound Five when added with chakra can create a Genjutsu to any enemy within earshot of the flute. Tayuya also uses this flute to control her summoned guardians.

Sickle and Chain - The Sicle and Chain is basically 2 giant claw-like weapons chained together and used as a 2-man weapon by the Demon Brothers of the Mist.
The edges of the chain are actually sharpened which makes it even more deadly. If needed the chains can be detached allowing each of the brothers to move independently.

Sword of Kusanagi - A legendary weapon wielded by Orochimaru; its name literally means “grass cutter,” but in ancient Japanese, kusa means “sword” and nagi means “snake,” thus Kusanagi can also mean “sword of the snake.” Some Japanese legends also refer to it as Ame Murakumo-No-Tsurugi (Sword of Billowing Clouds); it is said to have been salvaged from the one of the tails on the slain body of the Orochi, a legendary giant monster snake with 8 heads and 8 tails. Orochimaru keeps the sword inside a large snake which dwells inside his body and gets vomited up when Orochimaru wants the sword, which is also vomited up by the snake. In battle, the sword can cut through nearly anything and Orochimaru can move and control the sword even if he's not touching it. The blade often glows bright blue when he does this.

Dosu's Speaker - This is a special Chakra-controlled speaker used by Dosu of the Sound Nin. The speaker is able to take any sound and distort it to Dosu's whim. Anything from frequency to strength of the sound is under Dosu's control making him able to direct the sound at a specific target, completely distorting the enemy's balance and hearing.

Soldier Pills - These pills taken by Kiba allows him to fight for three days and three nights non-stop.

Sword of Raijin - This is a legendary weapon said to have been wielded by the Second Hokage. It looks like the hilt of a standard double edged sword, but the blade of the weapon is made of pure electricity and able to cut through any surface, even through chakra. Reported stolen from Konoha, the weapon resurfaced in the hands of a Shinobi from the Hidden Rain Village only to be destroyed by the damage from Sasuke and Naruto’s attacks.