Pakura

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Pakura (叶仓)
Alias(es)	Pakura of Scorch Release; Pakura of the Sand 109 110
Gender	Female 110
Affiliation	Sunagakure; aligned with the village elders’ faction after Rasa’s betrayal 151
Occupation/Role	Fifth Kazekage; formerly an elite jōnin, war hero, elder, and diplomatic envoy 118 126 184
Status	Alive; serving as Kazekage and approaching Amegakure with Zhengye in the latest provided events 313 315
First Appearance	Named in Rasa’s assassination plot 109; appears in person at Greenstone Ridge 110

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Elite jōnin; established Scorch Release specialist	110 126	Already an experienced combatant and influential war hero. Demonstrates lethal fireballs and fireball-assisted gliding.
Fifth Kazekage	184	Elected after Rasa’s capture; her rescue of the Gold Mine Battle survivors establishes her claim to leadership.
Flight technique development	260	Experiments with hot-air support and fireball explosions for lift and directional movement. Describes the result as “still only gliding.”
Scorch Release: Blazing Fire Flight Technique	297 298	Achieves powered flight and aerial combat. Rotating fireballs beneath her feet provide thrust and rapid acceleration, eliminating Rasa’s previous aerial advantage.
Passenger-carrying and sustained flight	309 313 315	Carries Chiyo while fighting and Zhengye during the journey toward Amegakure. Maintains ten to fifteen supporting fireballs, but prolonged flight still exhausts her.

Background / History

Betrayal in the Land of Water

Pakura was an influential Sunagakure war hero whose political position threatened Rasa. Although they disagreed on policy, she had always prioritized the village and had never considered killing him. Rasa and Suikazan Fuguki nevertheless arranged to exchange her life for progress toward peace negotiations with Kirigakure 109 110.

At Greenstone Ridge, a supposedly friendly Mist guide attempted to stab her. Pakura evaded him and killed him with Scorch Release, but a cliffside trap then launched more than seven hundred shuriken. Zhengye protected her with his gray Susanoo and killed the remaining attackers. She suffered four bleeding wounds and received treatment from his companion, Kyoko 110.

Rather than immediately returning home, the injured Pakura accompanied Zhengye. His admission that he had taken Gaara from Sunagakure surprised her, but his openness helped establish her trust in him 111.

Ceasefire and Political Authority

Pakura joined the group confronting the controlled Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura. Once restored to himself, Yagura voided Fuguki’s private agreements with Rasa and authorized a new ceasefire, with Pakura and Mei Terumī drawing up its terms 115 118.

Returning to Sunagakure, Pakura sought Chiyo’s advice instead of confronting Rasa directly. The agreement gave her credit for securing peace without surrendering resources, mining rights, or villagers’ livelihoods. Chiyo used that achievement to transfer part of the village’s external liaison work to Pakura and grant her participation in approving A-rank and higher missions 126 128 129.

Gold Mine Battle and Kazekage Succession

After receiving Zhengye’s message, Pakura mobilized more than a hundred subordinates. A sandstorm forced them into ancient ruins, where they encountered roughly thirty wounded Sand elites abandoned by Rasa. The survivors believed she had sent Kaguya Gaito to rescue them and pledged their loyalty to her. Although she had not arranged the rescue, she accepted them and promised that they would advance and retreat together 151 154.

Gaito explained that the rescued shinobi were deliberately given to her as political support. Pakura reluctantly accepted his advice to delay intervention until a decisive moment rather than sacrifice her own force prematurely 161 162.

When Rasa fled again, Pakura entered the battlefield with Scorch Release: Blazing Sun, rallying the remaining Sand forces. She created an opening through Kitsuchi’s Mountain Soil Technique, but nearly exhausted her chakra and required Gaito’s help to escape with the survivors 164 165 166.

With Rasa captured and Iwagakure threatening invasion, Sunagakure urgently needed a leader. Pakura’s rescue effort, the elders’ support, and Baki’s backing secured her election as Fifth Kazekage 184 185.

War Against Iwagakure

Pakura inherited casualty compensation obligations, scarce funds, and an approaching enemy army. With Chiyo’s help, she learned the administrative demands of her office and recovered gold that Rasa had diverted to Crescent Moon Oasis 192 193 195.

To gather intelligence and prevent morale from collapsing, she personally led an ambush against Stone reinforcements. Han, the Five-Tails’ jinchūriki, overwhelmed her attacks and pursued her for hours. Pakura used her knowledge of the desert to lead him into sandworm territory, where Zhengye found and rescued her 206 207 208.

Zhengye treated her injured foot and proposed combining his flight device with her Scorch Release. Their repeated aerial raids devastated Stone camps and supplies, forced defensive adaptations, and allowed Pakura to order a reversal from defense to offense. She coordinated Baki’s pursuit forces and later led six hundred shinobi to the Liyan Pit ambush 209 210 212 213 217 229.

Rasa’s Second Trap

During a mission near Red Hemp Forest, Rasa secretly sabotaged Zhengye’s flight device with gold dust and abandoned the pair inside a Stone encirclement. Pakura condemned him for betraying the village. When she could not keep pace with Zhengye, she urged him to escape without her; he returned and carried her instead 238 240.

Her charged Scorch Release broke through five Earth-Style Walls, but Han, Obito, and thousands of Stone shinobi blocked further escape. Zhengye ultimately defeated the army with a gigantic armored Susanoo. Afterward, Pakura carried the exhausted Zhengye into shelter and tended him 239 241 242.

Pakura resolved to place Rasa on the wanted list, exposed his defection to her forces, and led the pursuit of Stone’s survivors. Darkness prevented further pursuit, so she ordered battlefield recovery instead. The victory and recovered supplies strengthened her authority; Zhengye’s system subsequently confirmed that her regime was fully stabilized 242 243 244 248.

Recovery and the Desalination Project

Recognizing that Sunagakure could not rely indefinitely on Zhengye, Pakura began developing independent flight. She delegated political work to capable elders while concentrating on the combat strength needed to protect a village without a tailed beast or its former Kazekage 260.

Zhengye sent solar-powered seawater desalination plans, hardy pasture-grass instructions, and seeds. Pakura ordered copies distributed to the elders and work begun. Two years into her tenure, she personally escorted a crucial thermally conductive crystal ore shipment, using her new flight technique to repel Rasa’s attack 260 297 298.

Iwagakure then hired Akatsuki to attack the desalination project. After Deidara destroyed Gourd Mouth’s device, Pakura and Chiyo defended Sea Mountain Cliff against him and Sasori. They repelled the attackers without deaths among the Sand defenders, though shinobi were injured and property was damaged 307 309 310 311.

Mission to Amegakure

After reuniting with Zhengye, Pakura agreed to retaliate against Akatsuki at its stronghold. She ordered a public declaration of war on Amegakure and entrusted the camp’s defense to Chiyo 312 313.

Pakura carried Zhengye toward the Land of Rain, eager to demonstrate how far her flight technique had developed. Flying through the night exhausted her and consumed most of her fireballs. Near Amegakure, Zhengye helped her recover with a Soldier Pill, food, and a restorative hot spring before their next move 313 315.

Appearance

• Hair: Green, piled high, with orange bangs beside her temples 110 210.
• Clothing: A sleeveless, backless black top, tight shorts, and purple arm guards 110.
• Distinguishing features: Fair skin, a curvaceous figure, and an exposed back that make her readily recognizable to Sand shinobi 110 126.
• Official attire: Wears Kazekage robes after succeeding Rasa, but continues using her familiar combat outfit on field missions 193 297.

Personality

Pakura’s loyalty centers on Sunagakure rather than its incumbent leader. Rasa’s first betrayal shattered her expectation that political disagreements would stop short of murder. She subsequently became more politically practical, accepting faction-building and calculated battlefield timing, even when delaying a rescue troubled her 110 154 162.

As Kazekage, she grows into a confident commander who balances aggression with responsibility. She leads dangerous missions herself, earns immediate obedience from her troops, and abandons pursuit when it could expose her to an isolated ambush. She does not crave power for its own sake and willingly delegates to capable elders 206 229 260 311.

With Zhengye, Pakura shows a more vulnerable, affectionate side. His reliability inspires admiration and romantic feelings, while his warnings against emotional attachment hurt her. She wants his recognition, pushes herself to impress him, and eventually becomes comfortable teasing him openly 213 216 228 312 315.

Abilities & Skills

Scorch Release

• Lethal heat: Her kekkei genkai rapidly evaporates bodily moisture, turning ordinary targets into desiccated corpses within seconds 110 206 233.
• Fireball control: Directs multiple revolving fireballs and can burst them into scattered flames; even fragments can cause severe injuries 207 216 298.
• Barrier penetration: Melts Earth-Style Walls and, with a fully charged merged fireball, breaks through five defensive layers 206 239.
• Anti-puppet application: Damages metal and destroys delicate chakra-conducting structures inside Sasori’s puppets 310.
• Limitations: Han’s Tailed Beast Cloak blocks her fireballs. Experienced Stone troops also develop reinforced, layered shelters that withstand her repeated bombardment 211 225.

Scorch Release: Blazing Sun

• Creates a fireball over ten meters across, illuminating the battlefield and launching pillars of flame into enemy formations 164.
• Melts an opening more than ten meters wide through Mountain Soil Technique 165.
• Its initial formation consumes approximately eighty percent of her chakra, leaving little reserve for a prolonged engagement 164 166.

Scorch Release: Crimson Flame Flowing Fire

• Forms a large crimson halo or rotating fireball that releases numerous smaller Scorch Release projectiles 210 216 311.
• Used for aerial bombardment, attacks on retreating troops, and suppression of Sasori’s puppet formation 210 233 311.
• Requires maintained hand seals; sudden evasive movement can interrupt the technique 211 233.

Scorch Release: Extremely Steaming Murder

• Launches five large fireballs in a concentrated attack 206 216.
• Destroys reinforced shelters and instantly desiccates exposed occupants 216.
• Used against Han while Zhengye restrains him with gravity manipulation, forcing Han to escalate to full Five-Tails transformation 232.

Scorch Release Flight

• Blazing Fire Technique: Uses fireballs and their updraft to glide 207 215.
• Blazing Fire Flight Technique: Rotates supporting fireballs beneath her feet and replenishes them with chakra to sustain powered flight 297 298.
• Burst movement: Consecutive fireball eruptions propel her thirty meters away almost instantly 298.
• Passenger transport: Carries Chiyo during combat and Zhengye over long distances 309 313.
• Limits: Consuming fireballs faster than she replaces them reduces speed and can threaten her ability to remain airborne. Extended travel causes substantial exhaustion 298 315.

Scorch Release: Fire Charge

• Accelerates a fireball with a stream of heat, delivering a powerful impact 298.
• Melts Rasa’s Gold Dust defenses and can scatter around a blocking whip, burning him through his Sand Armor 298.

Leadership and Diplomacy

• Negotiates a ceasefire directly with Kirigakure’s highest leadership without sacrificing Sand resources 118 129.
• Coordinates containment, pursuit, ambushes, and battlefield recovery 217 229 244.
• Directs postwar infrastructure projects and delegates border-barrier responsibilities to the Sealing Team 227 260.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Personal messenger bird — Automatically locates Pakura; Zhengye uses it to find her in sandworm territory 208.
• Antidotes from Chiyo — Kept within immediate reach for the confrontation with Sasori 308.
• Kirigakure contact scroll — Given by Mei Terumī to facilitate future communication and assistance 118.
• Shuriken and signal flares — Uses shuriken against the Mist trap and a flare to redirect her forces during Han’s pursuit 110 207.

Relationships

• Uchiha Zhengye — Rescuer, military partner, and benefactor whose support helps her become Kazekage and rebuild Sand. Pakura develops romantic feelings for him; their later interactions become openly flirtatious, but no formal relationship is established in the provided events 110 184 216 260 312 315.
• Rasa — Predecessor and political enemy. Twice arranges circumstances intended to kill her; after his defection, she resolves to have him listed as wanted and later defeats him in aerial combat 109 238 242 298.
• Chiyo — Political mentor, administrative adviser, and battlefield partner. Supports her accession and helps protect her against Sasori’s poison 126 184 193 307 308.
• Maki — Apprentice with an affectionate, almost mother-daughter bond. Pakura supports her responsibilities as Sealing Team captain and confides in her about Zhengye 227 228.
• Baki — Senior subordinate who supports her election and follows her military and reconstruction orders 184 217 260.
• Kinoshita and Aikawa — Former Rasa loyalists who pledge themselves to Pakura after Gaito rescues them in her name 154.
• Kaguya Gaito / Kaito — Zhengye’s disguised identity; rescues Sand elites, builds support for Pakura, and helps her extract survivors from the Gold Mine Battle. Pakura initially does not know who he is 150 154 161 166.
• Karatachi Yagura and Mei Terumī — Diplomatic counterparts who help replace Rasa and Fuguki’s private arrangement with a legitimate ceasefire 118.
• Han — Battlefield opponent whose speed, stamina, and tailed-beast defenses repeatedly overwhelm her in individual combat 206 207 231 232.

Notable Quotes

“Since everyone believes in me, then follow me, Pakura, from now on. We will advance and retreat together!” 154

“At the very least, we need to let them know that Hidden Sand Village is not here just to take a beating.” 206

“All right. And I'm putting Rasa on the wanted list!” 242

Trivia

• Zhengye’s reward system treats Pakura’s survival as a multi-stage change event: escaping death, becoming Fifth Kazekage, and securing her regime each produce further rewards 119 185 248.
• Before growing close to Zhengye, Pakura had never been in a romantic relationship and admired Anko’s willingness to love and hate openly 111.
• Pakura’s own defensive abilities should not be confused with Zhengye’s gray Susanoo: it repeatedly protects her during their joint battles 110 232 239.