{"id":"suna","name":"Suna family and allies","japanese":"忍","category":"places","subtitle":"Family, group and identity are different things.","summary":"Gaara's family is not a supposed Kazekage clan. Shinki is an adopted son, and Chiyo and Pakura have stories of their own.","facts":[["Tipo","Family"],["Procedencia","Sunagakure"],["Genealogía","Identified ties only"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"The Village Hidden in the Sand","t":"Sunagakure is the hidden village of the Land of Wind, governed by the Kazekage. Gaara, Kankurō and Temari, children of the Fourth Kazekage, arrive for the Chūnin Exams under the jōnin Baki. Suna allies with Otogakure to invade Konoha, unaware that the Kazekage who gave the orders was Orochimaru in disguise: the real one had been murdered. Gaara, Kankurō and Temari are siblings, but the title of Kazekage does not create a “Kazekage clan”: the village chooses who holds the post.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-115","pos":115},{"h":"Gaara, Yashamaru and Shukaku","t":"Gaara is the jinchūriki of Shukaku, the One-Tailed beast, which was sealed into him before he was born. His mother, Karura, died giving birth, and his uncle Yashamaru, Karura's brother, looked after him. When Yashamaru tries to kill him on the Kazekage's orders and tells him he never loved him, Gaara shuts himself away in hatred and decides to exist by killing. The fight against Naruto breaks that cycle and pushes him onto another path.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-131","pos":131},{"h":"The Fifth Kazekage and Granny Chiyo","t":"At the start of Shippūden, Gaara is already the Fifth Kazekage. The Akatsuki capture him with the help of Yūra, a Suna councillor and Sasori's sleeper agent, and extract Shukaku. Chiyo, Sasori's grandmother and Ebizō's sister, is the elder who had sealed Shukaku into Gaara. She fights alongside Sakura against her grandson and then uses a reanimation technique that costs her life to bring Gaara back. Her story and Ebizō's belong to the village, not to Gaara's family.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-280","pos":280},{"h":"Pakura and the Fourth Kazekage","t":"The war exposes old wounds in Suna. Kabuto reanimates Pakura, a Scorch Release kunoichi who died the victim of a betrayal between villages, and uses her against the Alliance without her being able to choose. Later, the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, appears through the Impure World Reincarnation and reveals to Gaara that his mother loved him: the sand that protected him was Karura's will. Gaara's reconciliation with the memory of his parents heals the wound of his childhood.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-548","pos":548},{"h":"Suna's new generation","t":"In Boruto, Gaara is still Kazekage and has an adopted son, Shinki, who wields iron sand and teams up with Yodo and Araya in the Chūnin Exams. That Shinki is adopted matters: he does not inherit the blood of Gaara or of the Fourth Kazekage, but their training and his place in the village. Kankurō and Temari also remain tied to the village; Temari, married to Shikamaru, lives in Konoha.","lvl":2},{"h":"Suna in Two Blue Vortex","t":"In Two Blue Vortex, Matsuri, one of the Divine Trees, invades the Land of Wind with the Claw Grime, and Gaara risks his life to protect Shinki's team. Gaara and Shinki end up turned into trees. Team 7 and Konohamaru travel to Suna, where Sarada awakens the Mangekyō Sharingan and defeats another Divine Tree, Ryū. Thanks to the recovered bulbs, Moegi, Gaara and Shinki return to normal. The Suna campaign shows how the bulbs are the only way to rescue those taken.","lvl":3,"ch":"tbv-25","pos":805}],"characters":["gaara","kankuro","rasa","karura","yashamaru","shinki","chiyo","ebizo","pakura","yura","baki","temari"],"related":["chakra","kirigakure","kumogakure","iwagakure","amegakure","otogakure","uzushiogakure","kage"],"reference":"Official series and chapter guides as reading context. The profiles tell known ties apart from undocumented genealogy.","sources":[{"title":"Guía oficial de anime: Naruto y Shippuden","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/anime"}],"figures":[]}