Kurokamen

WARNING! This article includes spoilers for Shadows of the Past! Kurokamen (lit. Black Mask) is the leader of the mysterious organization known as the Masked Shadows. He is most often accompanied by Kitsunekamen.

Appearance
The clothes Kurokamen wears are all black. He wears a black, oval-shaped mask with small eyeholes and a long black hooded cloak.

Abilities
Kurokamen's full abilities are not known. However, he does possess some horrifying ninjutsu. Amongst them are Corpse Puppetry and Living Body Puppetry. As the names suggest, these jutsu can control human (or animal) corpses and even living people like a puppeteer controls his puppets with Puppet Technique. However, these two jutsu don't to require chakra strings; just a poke in the flesh of the body the user wants to control. The bodies controlled can use Kurokamen's abilities. One of his elemental jutsus is Fire Release: Abolishing Flames. It is able to create an explosion of fire to a desired location with a snap of fingers, making it hard to escape. Another elemental jutsu is Earth Release: Binding Chains, which summons chains from the earth to bind the enemy.

According to Kitsunekamen, Kurokamen is "the one possessing the greatest understanding of time and space", effectively making him a time-space-jutsu expert and thus making fighting him nearly impossible for most ninja. This is evident in his profinent use of Fox Step and Fox Fist Method.

Kurokamen can also use some high-ranked genjutsu, but not as high level as Kitsunekamen.