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Hawk


The members of Hawk. From left to right: Suigetsu Hozuki, Sasuke Uchiha, Karin, and Jugo.Hawk (鷹, Taka?) is a group formed by Sasuke Uchiha that consists of Orochimaru's former subordinates. When first formed it goes by the name "Snake" (蛇, Hebi?), with its mission being to find and kill Sasuke's brother, Itachi Uchiha, to avenge the latter's slaughter of the Uchiha clan.[17] After Itachi's death and Sasuke discovers that the Uchiha were wiped out under the orders of Konohagakure, Sasuke renames their group "Hawk" and changes its mission to the destruction of Konoha. In the meantime, Sasuke has agreed to work with Akatsuki to help them capture the remaining two tailed beasts.


Jugo
Jugo (重吾, Jūgo?) is the final character to be recruited for Snake. He is mentally unstable, sporadically fluctuating between a bloodthirsty and a docile personality.[18] While in the former mindset, Jugo kills anyone around him without remorse until he somehow returns to his senses, at which point he seeks confinement or solitude to protect others from himself. It is for this reason that he sought out Orochimaru, hoping that he could find a cure for his impulses.[19] While examining him, Orochimaru isolated enzymes in Jugo's blood that caused him to radically transform the appearance and capabilities of his body. By extracting these enzymes, Orochimaru was able to reproduce the transformation in his own subordinates. Though Orochimaru's refined transformations are more controllable, his subordinates are limited to using only one form. Jugo is able to alter his transformed state to suit the situation, and can even isolate the transformation to a single part of his body.


Karin
Karin (香燐, Karin?), a former assistant to Orochimaru during his experimentations, is the second character to be recruited for Snake. Karin has red eyes, matching hair color and an unusual hairstyle; her hair is short and unkempt on one side, and long and combed on the other. She tends to fluctuate between two dynamic personalities, appearing tough and in control when Suigetsu or Jugo are present and highly flirtatious when she is with Sasuke.[20] Karin has an almost obsessive interest in Sasuke, as she goes so far as to keep one of his battered, sweat-drenched shirts for herself and plans to "ravage" him after the rest of the team has fallen asleep. Karin's special ability allows her to find and track specific individuals through chakra. She is able to do so over long distances and can even notice subtle changes in an individual's chakra. Kakashi Hatake surmises that Karin is a particularly skilled chakra-sensing ninja, as she is not only able to tell that his eight-man team is approaching her location, but also that one of them is a dog.[21]


Sasuke Uchiha
Main article: Sasuke Uchiha
Sasuke Uchiha (うちは サスケ, Uchiha Sasuke?) is originally one of the members of Team 7 and the founder and leader of Snake, later renamed Hawk. He was created by Kishimoto to be a rival to Naruto Uzumaki, as well as a "cool genius," which Kishimoto believed was an integral part of an ideal rivalry.[22] He is one of the few remaining members of the Uchiha clan, his brother, Itachi Uchiha, having killed the rest of their family.[23] Because of this, Sasuke's sole desire is to kill his brother, and he develops a cold and withdrawn personality.[24] Though his interactions with his fellow teammates, especially Naruto, make him focus less on revenge, being defeated by his brother during a brief reunion causes Sasuke to leave the village to seek more power from the criminal Orochimaru.[25] His teammates' attempts to recover him from Orochimaru form a major component of the plot in Part II of the Naruto storyline. In the Japanese anime, Sasuke's seiyū is Noriaki Sugiyama,[26] and his English voice actor is Yuri Lowenthal.[27]


Suigetsu Hozuki
Suigetsu Hozuki (鬼灯　水月, Hōzuki Suigetsu?), a former test subject of Orochimaru, is the first character to be recruited for Snake. Suigetsu is able to reduce himself to liquid form and return to bodily form at will.[28] This allows him to change the size of his limbs, proportionally increasing his strength in the process.[29] It also makes striking him somewhat difficult; since he is made of liquid, any sufficiently powerful strike will go right through his watery form. Sometime before being introduced, Suigetsu trained to be one of Kirigakure's Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, an organization of particularly violent swordsmen. Having been unable to become a member himself, Suigetsu has begun collecting all of the swords of the Seven Swordsmen for himself.[17] He retrieves Zabuza Momochi's giant Kubikiri Hōchō soon after joining the group, and hopes to be able to take Kisame Hoshigaki's Samehada by working with Sasuke.