Tayuya



A kunoichi from The Hidden Sound Village and a member of The Sound Five.Tayuya is a ninja of the Village Hidden in the Sound and is a member of the Sound Five, a group of elite sound ninja sent by Orochimaru to retrieve Sasuke.

Background Part 1
Tayuya is one of Orochimaru's Sound Four Ninja. She is foul mouthed and ill tempered yet very powerful. Her only weapon is a flute which she can use to summon three giant demons known as the Doki. Tayuya is also very intelligent and can think up excellent strategies and tactics. Tayuya first appears in the Konoha Invasion Arc, in the invasion she along with the rest of the sound four formed a special barrier keeping the third Hokage trapped with Orochimaru in order to stop him from escaping or allowing other people to intefere with the battle. After Orchimaru loses his arms she along with the Sound Four and Orochimaru flee the village. Tayuya was next seen in the Sasuke Retrieval Arc where she along with the Sound Four escort and help Sasuke get to Orochimaru. She ends up fighting against Naruto and Shikamaru but was fooled into letting Naruto getting past her. In her fight with Shikamaru she summons her Doki which causes Shikamaru to hide and run for most of the fight. Eventully Shikimaru traps her in his shadow neck bind jutsu. Shikamaru begins to choke the life out of Tayuya and get close to winning when Tayuya unleashes her Cused Seal second form countering the attack and trapping Shikamaru in a musical genjutsu. Shikamaru then throws a kunai but misses realising he is unable to move properly. Tayuya prepares to finish Shikamaru off with his own Kunai when Shikamaru breaks his own finger using his shadow, the pain then break the genjutsu. He then traps Tayuya in his shadowbind yet again at point blank range. He yet again attempts to stangle her using the shadow neck bind jutsu but Tayuya's brute strength outmatches his strength and she manages to break free from his grasp. Just as he runs out of energy Tayuya once again prepares to finish Shikamaru off but it interupted by Temari who causes the whole forest to be ripped apart sending a tree straight into Tayuya crushing her to death.

Legacy
Much later during the Fourth Shinobi World War arc of Part II, Tayuya's DNA is used by Kabuto in his fight against Itachi and Sasuke. Kabuto causes a formation of her head to grow from his body, which proceeds to use sound genjutsu on the brothers and incapacitate them. Itachi and Sasuke then use a combination of Tsukiyomi and standard Sharingan Genjutsu on eachother to break the genjutsu and free themselves.

Background Part 2
Tayuya along with the three other sound five members were introduced when Orochimaru sent them to send a proposition to Sasuke. Tayuya is the only girl in the group, and the biggest potty mouth. After Sasuke accepted to go with them, Tayuya helped seal him in his transformation coffin, then helped escort him to Orochimaru's lair. During the escort Tayuya was forced to stay behind and battle Shikamaru and Naruto. Tayuya revealed that she uses a flute to manipulate sound and create genjutsu. Shikamaru and Naruto tricked her giving Naruto a chance to get away and go after Kimimaro who now had Sasuke. From their on Tayuya battled Shikamaru. During the battle Tayuya summoned three ogre's. She was able to control each one's individual movements through a series of complicated music sequences and notes played on her flute. Shikamaru figured this out by watching her fingers, doing this he memorized the finger placements and was able to tell where the ogre's would attack. Shikamaru defeated the ogre's, Tayuya then went into her second stage of the cursed seal. Tayuya used her flute to put Shikamaru under a genjutsu. Tayuya then used a kunai Shikamaru had purposely threw to try and kill him. Shikamaru was about to be killed when he revealed he had broke his own finger to get out of the genjutsu. He used his shadow possession jutsu to stop Tayuya in her tracks. They were at a stalemate. Shikamaru's chakra ran out, he was about to be killed again by Tayuya when Temari jumped in to save him. She used a summon of her own to try and kill Tayuya, but was only able to cut her flute in half. Tayuya then went into hiding behind some trees. She was going to try and use what was left of her flute, but it was cut short when Temari used a wind slicer technique using her fan. The attack was so devastating it nearly turned the forest in a wasteland. Tayuya was caught in this attack, and killed.