Baki

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   Jōnin of the SandDebut Arc · Chūnin Exams

   A senior soldier

   Baki is one of the Hidden Sand's trusted jōnin, the steady hand the village turns to for hard work. He carries himself like the career soldier he is — quiet, exacting, and hard to rattle.

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   Sensei to the Kazekage's children

   Leading the dangerous team

   Baki is given charge of Gaara, Temari, and Kankurō, the Fourth Kazekage's children. Guiding the volatile young Gaara through the Chūnin Exams is a duty that would have broken a lesser teacher.

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   The invasion plot

   The Sand and the Sound

   When the Sand allies with the Sound to attack Konoha, Baki is in the thick of the planning. The operation is his village's order, and he serves it without question.

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   The witness silenced

   The proctor who overheard

   When the Konoha proctor Hayate Gekkō overhears the invasion plan, Baki kills him with the Blade of Wind to keep the plot secret. It is a soldier's act, cold and without hesitation.

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   Betrayed by Orochimaru

   Turning to Konoha

   Orochimaru murders the Fourth Kazekage and turns on the Sand from within. With the betrayal exposed, Baki helps steer the village away from the Sound and toward an alliance with Konoha.

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   A pillar of the Sand

   A steady hand afterward

   In the years that follow, Baki remains a senior figure of the Hidden Sand, the kind of veteran a recovering village relies on. His loyalty to the Sand outlasts every shift around it.

Baki is a wind-and-blade jōnin and a capable squad leader. His signature is the Blade of Wind, an unseen vacuum cut that lands before an enemy knows it is coming, backed by Wind and Lightning nature and a soldier's swordsmanship. What makes him dangerous is less flash than precision.

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• Who is Baki?+

  Baki is a jōnin of the Hidden Sand and the sensei who led the team of Gaara, Temari, and Kankurō. A disciplined career soldier, he played a key role in the Sand's invasion of Konoha and its later turn toward an alliance.
• Was Baki Gaara's teacher?+

  Yes. Baki was the jōnin leader of the team made up of the Fourth Kazekage's children — Gaara, Temari, and Kankurō — guiding them through the Chūnin Exams.
• Did Baki kill Hayate?+

  Yes. When the Konoha proctor Hayate Gekkō overheard the Sand–Sound invasion plot, Baki killed him with the Blade of Wind to keep the plan secret.
• What is the Blade of Wind?+

  The Blade of Wind is Baki's signature technique: an invisible vacuum cut that strikes a target before it can be seen, making it extremely difficult to defend against.
• Why did the Sand turn against Orochimaru?+

  Orochimaru had murdered the Fourth Kazekage and impersonated him to manipulate the Sand into the invasion. Once the betrayal was exposed, Baki helped steer the village away from the Sound and toward Konoha.
• Has Baki been a Narutodle answer?+

  Baki is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date he was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
• How do you guess Baki in Narutodle?+

  Baki has no clan or Kekkei Genkai, but his Suna jōnin reading, his Wind + Lightning natures, and a Kenjutsu jutsu-type for his sword narrow him down quickly.