Akagi's Puppet Collection

Akagi is said to be one of Sunagakure's greatest puppeteer's. He alone elevated puppetry into levels impossible to follow. A former student to Kankurō, Akagi not only took on his Sensei's legacy, but also transformed black into Obsidian. He created the first ever Bionic puppet. Human Puppets with innards completely made of metal and other cybernetic technology. His puppet mastery is a spiritual connection that brings each and every puppet to life. Turning living people into absolute puppets for his use. Akagi has a mixture of wooden puppets, human puppets and his extremely powerful, Bionic Puppet. His infamous being The Twelve Shēngxiào, no one has yet forced him to delve deeper into his mass arsenal. Whereas, they think those to be his strongest, they are simply his most used. Sadly, the Shēngxiào are his only "living" puppets who exhibit his split personality. When summoned, he believes himself to be summoning actual people to fight for him.

Akagi keeps his puppets hidden in scrolls and tattoo's upon his body. The scrolls are locked inside of a compartment in his arm that releases his scroll upon a mental command, allowing for quick summoning. There are two classifications for his art. Silver and Obsidian. A Silver Secret Technique is simply a puppet whose body is both human and robotic. Making them immensely powerful and nearly indestructible, filled with more devastating attacks. His Obsidian art are puppets made of wood, made for traditional battle and quicker kills. His Obsidian art in theory, encompasses his silver as well. Since his Obsidian art simply refers to an absolute control of his puppet or target through will transferal. His strongest Obsidian art was able to cause an entire army to retreat when word of Akagi's sole arrival reached their battlefront.

To keep summoning simple, Akagi keeps his puppets in specific sets. Each set is comprised of similar roles but with completely different abilities. It is said to be impossible to control Akagi's puppets if his will does not wish it.

Living Puppets
Akagi's secret weapon, developed as a younger puppet master, his Silver Secret Technique is really a gathering of twelve powerful Warriors killed by Akagi. All from distant lands, their powers and abilities are unheard of. Once killed, he transformed each into his own personal puppet. All made with bionic parts Turning each and every corpse into an android controlled by Akagi's Chakra Threads. Each puppet has a specific use. And it is rare that he has to use more than two at a time. In such a case, he is capable of using all twelve, despite only have ten fingers. All of his puppets are equipped with chakra based rocket jets on their feet, as well as multiple blasters across their body.

The Shēngxiào are sealed on various tattoos on his body. What makes this set of puppets unique is that they each represent a personality. His mastery over puppetry caused him to transfer emotions and his subconscious split personalities through his chakra threads onto his Androids. And so, they speak and act as if they are alive. Each with their own unique voice and personality. People would never guess that they fare simply automatons due to their lively nature. And Akagi has no idea that it is his subconscious that controls his puppets. Tho he can consciously control them. Each puppet, he can control with a thread, and they will come to life. This is also a very sad occurrence. Even though he holds full conversations with his puppets, which they all answer back, anyone who knows of his technique and his personality understands Akagi is simply talking with himself. He suffers from multiple personality disorder, which channels itself through each puppet taking on a different personality. And with each puppet, it becomes an entirely different being. Although they talk and act human, deep inside, the puppets understand they are just puppets. But Akagi does not know himself. He believes them to actually be people. Even in a battle where he constantly controls them, Akagi will think they are just really close friends and family. Sadly, this is the only set of puppets he does so with.