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Raiga Kurosuki
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Age: ? (deceased)
Rank: Missing-nin
Seiy¨±: Keiji Fujiwara
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Raiga Kurosuki (ü\äzÀ×ÑÀ, Kurosuki Raiga?) is a former member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, like Zabuza Momochi and Kisame Hoshigaki (both of whom he apparently disliked, along with the rest of the members) were. Unlike those two, however, he wields two pike-like swords which he uses in a manner similar to lightning rods to attract and channel lightning and electricity. Raiga's shorter swords stand in stark contrast to the other swords seen thus far, but he can connect them at their hilts to form a larger double-bladed sword, effectively increasing the weapon's size and allowing him to perform different and more powerful jutsus. Like the other two Swordsmen, Raiga was very arrogant and overconfident. He was also somewhat mentally unsound.
Raiga was a former ANBU of Kirigakure. It was on a mission that he encountered the disabled Ranmaru. Raiga and Ranmaru promised each other to be "two in one" under Raiga's name. Ranmaru became Raiga's eyes and ears, and Raiga became Ranmaru's arms and legs. He used Ranmaru's kekkei genkai in much the same manner as Zabuza used Haku's, although Raiga seemed to genuinely care for Ranmaru throughout their partnership, whereas Zabuza treated Haku as a mere tool.
Later, Raiga took over the village of Katabami Kinzan, claiming that he was liberating the miners from the former owners of the mine, and forced the inhabitants to work for him. Anyone who would disobey would be punished by being buried alive, which Raiga appropriately nicknamed a "funeral". Raiga had a fondness for funerals, frequently referring to them during battle and otherwise. His love of funerals comes from the fact that while a living person is capable of hatred, lies and betrayal, people tend to remember the good in any given individual once he or she has passed away; accordingly, Raiga cries and fondly reminisces about his victims while he buries them. Raiga does not give funerals to his most hated enemies, though, as he does not wish to remember them. A few villagers managed to escape and ask Konoha for assistance, which was sent in the form of Team Guy and Naruto Uzumaki.
At first, Naruto was able to resist all of his electric attacks. Naruto stopped Raiga and nearly killed him with his Rasengan after knocking him over a cliff and burying him with stones, but Ranmaru used his chakra to revive him.
After being revived, Raiga revealed the true source of his power: lightning itself. By channeling lightning through his pikes, he effectively gained a much more potent and virtually unlimited energy source for his electric attacks. After defeating Team Guy, as well as Rock Lee when he took his weights off, and seemingly defeating Naruto, Naruto defeated him again, and Ranmaru tried to convince him to end the fighting. Believing Ranmaru to have turned against him, and thus losing the only person he cared for, he then resolves to kill him. Naruto stops his lightning attack and counterattacks kicking Raiga down a cliff in the process. Raiga then calls upon lightning to "give me my funeral" and is evaporated in mid-air.
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