[b][u]Name[/u][/b]: Makashi Ayane
[i][u]Nickname/Alias[/u][/i]: None.
[b][u]Gender[/u][/b]: Female
[b][u]Age[/u][/b]: 18
[i][u]Sexuality:[/u][/i] Bi.
[b][u]Village[/u][/b]: Sunagakure no sato (Village hidden in the sand)
[b][u]Rank[/u][/b]: Chuunin.
[b][u]Chakra Nature[/u][/b]: Unknown.
[b][u]Appearance[/u][/b] Ayane has long, black hair and alert, purple eyes. Her skin is a bit pale despite the fact that she lives in a desert. She’s pretty and quite slim, not one of the thin big-boobed kunoichis who always wants to appear as sexy (she thinks they are exaggerated and highly over-rated as most of them aren’t worth their boobs in jutsus).  As for clothes, she wears an armless top that’s black with a front-zipper over the chest and white over the stomach. The white part is made from an elastic fabric, so it’s easy to dress and undress and at the same time, it looks good while on. She uses her foreheadprotector as a belt, and below it she has a short black skirt, not even reaching halfway down her thighs. She also has black gloves and black open-toe ninja boots.
[hider=Like this, but with the Suna mark instead of Konoha][img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs45/f/2009/143/6/d/CM__a_shippuden_ninja_by_RedPig31.jpg[/img][/hider]


[b][u]Personality[/u][/b]: Ayane is an easygoing young woman who likes to have fun. She was a late bloomer and has just now begun to get a real interest in boys, although she is very careful about that sort of thing. She is very interested in mechanics and ninja dolls of all sorts, but doesn’t use poison as much as other puppeteers. She is also very observant, as attention to detail is key to making a good ninja doll. 
[u][b]History[/b][/u]: 
[hider=History]Ayane had an easy childhood. Her father, Akira, was one of the hidden sands top puppeteers. Because of this, Ayane never had a want than could not be satisfied. For as long as Ayane can remember, her family has been wealthy enough to be economically independent. Starting at a very young age, Ayane was taught the secret of puppeteering from her father. She trained with models, some toys and eventually some sample dolls made by Akira. As she became older, she was sent to the ninja academy to be trained like all the other children with a talent for the ninja arts. She was an above average student. Good at most things, but no genius. She was always one of the sharpest at chakra-control, thanks to her fathers training; she was already able to form decent chakra-threads.
 
At age 10, Ayane graduated and gained the rank of genin, Akira let her train with real ninja dolls for the first time. These sharp, stingy, poisonous and lethal contraptions caused some serious and at one time life-threatening wounds on the girl. But she was never afraid of them, no matter how huge or monstrous they seemed. She trained every day for several hours if she could. Apart from gaining access to her fathers dolls, she got her own as a graduation gift from her mother, who sadly passed away just a few weeks later, killed on a mission to find a criminal. After that, Akira stopped training his daughter, and never again went on a mission. Two years later he too passed away.
 
Ayane trained by herself and with her new team and jounin commander. Having a puppeteer in the team meant that her teammates could go all-out without having to fear for their opponents life as the opponent just as easily could be a puppet. This also meant that Ayane got a lot of training and developed her skills further than she could have done if she just had her father to train with.
At this point, she still only used the doll that her mother had made. It was a basic humanoid doll without hidden weapons of any kind. It was great to practice basic puppeteering, but Ayane knew that a puppets real strength was its hidden arsenal.
Ayane began to discover the different kinds of weapons that could be fitted inside a puppet. Everything from hidden blades to poison, her fathers puppets contained them all. After a few weeks of daily bruises, cuts and stab wounds, her father had had enough.
“Choose one of my puppets, Ayane” He said one day, and tried his best to smile.
Ayane ran into her father’s workshop and quickly chose a puppet named Yume.
Made to look like a young girl, the puppet was armed literally to the teeth with hidden blades.
“If you have chosen, meet me out back, I have to fetch something.”
 
Ayane went outside. The Makashi mansion had a big garden, with enough room for a decent ninja battle. As expected, Akira came out, followed by one of his latest creations.
“If you can beat me, Ayane, that puppet is yours to keep… Along with my whole workshop.” Her father said, but without the smile.
Ayane did what she could. She sent Yume to attack, but was blocked by Akiras puppet. She switched tactics and attacked the puppet, but got mauled in seconds.
She tried to use the hidden blades, but Akira managed to counter every attack Ayane could make. Less than a minute later, Yume was destroyed, far beyond repair. Ayane herself lay bleeding on the ground.
“Do you know, Ayane, how I beat you?” Akira asked, but she was too weak to answer.
“I made Yume, every joint and blade. The creaking of her movement tells me what you are going to do… Using any of my dolls, you could never win.” Ayane lost consciousness.
 
A few days later Ayane woke up in her room. Akira was by her side.
“I see that you are awake again… The med-nin says that you should be alright to move around again, which is good.”
Akira got up and moved to Ayane’s window, overlooking the village.
“I’m going to do to you what my father did to me when I was your age” He said.
“I’m banning you from this house, from my presence…”
“Father?”
“I have bought you a small house in the village, complete with a basic workshop where you can build your own dolls. I have already spoken to my suppliers, they will give you anything you desire and send the bill to me.”
“Father, why?”
“So that you can grow. In this house, surrounded with complete dolls, with me… You can never make the mistakes that may change your life, I would never let you. You must make your own puppets to master them, you could never win with Yume, remember?
The keys are in the bag, pack, and get out. Come back when you have mastered your puppet, until then…”
“…You are not my child.”
These were Akiras last words to his daughter.
 
Ayane packed slowly, taking the rest of the day to do it. When she left, her father was nowhere to be found. The house that Akira had bought was nothing compared to the mansion she had grown up in. Three rooms, a bathroom and a workshop in the basement. Ayane cried herself to sleep the first week, missing her father very much. She started to work on her puppet, dismantle it, putting it together again. Changing parts, adding… Fitting it with weapons. She trained with it every day, practicing new manoeuvres she made up. Her teammates would come around now and then, allowing her to try her techniques against real people, training both, or all three of them.
 
She was nominated for the chuunin-exam, and made it quite a long way, but not all the way. The head of the kugutsu corps was one of the judges, and claimed that Ayane’s doll was one of the worst ones he’d ever seen. Ayane ran away before she could hear the famous puppeteer say “The girl must be a genius to have come this far with it”. When she came home, she threw the doll in a crate and stashed it in her cellar. She could hear her father’s words in her head, about never beating him with complete dolls. Ayanes teammates both became chuunin that year, and left their friend behind as they went on bigger and more dangerous missions. Later that year they both disappeared while on a mission, no trace of them were found.
 
During the following week, Ayane was not seen outside her house. Men and women from the village came by almost every day, delivering everything from wood to metal blades to food. On the seventh day, her Jounin commander, Makoto, became worried, and came to check up on his student. Ayane was found in the basement, sleeping in the hollowed-out torso of a great wooden spider, screwdriver still in hand.
When she woke up, Ayane explained that she was building a new doll, from an idea given to her by watching some of the other contestants for the Chuunin-title. She took the incomplete doll outside to show Makoto the progress she’d made. After two minutes, the doll broke down into a pile of rubble.
 
Ayane became so angry that she cried and kicked the pile, cutting herself on a sharp metal edge. It hurt, and she’d cry some more. Makoto sighed, and did what he could to comfort his student. As a reward, he was told the whole story about Ayane and her father. Leaving his student with wishes of good luck, the Jounin went to visit Makashi Akira, Ayanes father.
But Akira refused to help his daughter, he claimed that Ayane had known about the risks of their duel, and had to suffer the consequences. When Makoto told Akira that his daughter could never learn the art of building dolls without him, Akira turned around and left. The Jounin waited for a few minutes before he left without seeing Akira again.
 
When he came back, Ayane was already trying to repair the doll. Makoto told her about Akira, and was surprised to see that the young girl did not even flinch. Afraid that the shock might be too much to let out, Makoto laid down some wisdom.
“It might be the best thing that could happen to you” He said, and Ayane looked up from her work, looking insulted.
“This way, you can choose freely whom you should be taught by”
 
So, Ayane besieged the head of the kugutsu corps (Daikoku Hideyoshi) home, begging for his training, and help. At first, he was flattered by the girl’s attention, but after a few days, he started to get tired. He did just like Akira, and challenged Ayane to a duel. If she could land just one hit on him, he’d become her private teacher. If not, she would never speak to him again.
 
Ayane pulled out her unfinished spider-doll and got ready. Hideyoshi faced her with a grin, not really believing that the girl would fight him with a broken toy. He summoned one of his oldest dolls, a wolf-like bamboo-construction, and attacked.
Ayane tried to block the attacking doll, and managed to place her creation between herself and it, and felt safe. But the wolf broke right through her flimsy doll and approached mercilessly and fast. But then it suddenly stopped, and sagged into a sad pile on the ground.
A second later, she could hear Hideyoshi say “You won” with his jaws clenched together.
As the dust from their fight settled, she could see the shapeless pile of her own doll spread out over a large area, and one of it’s metal blades sticking out of the master puppeteers left arm.
He later told her that as his wolf broke the spider, the dust-cloud forming covered almost his whole range of sight. Parts of the broken doll came flying and Hideyoshi jumped to avoid them, but were blind-sided by the flying blade and only managed to shift a little, he could not avoid it entirely, only make sure it wasn’t lethal. It was a hit landed in their duel, and he would stand by his word.
 
The next day, Hideyoshi came to Ayane’s home, and looked at her equipment and techniques.
The day after, he threw almost everything away.
On the third day, new stuff was delivered. And the building could begin.
They spent all the day and all the night together, and over the following days he showed her how the basic mechanics worked and was put together, he answered any questions she had (and they were many), he helped her make blue-prints for a new doll and he helped her build it. When it was done, he even helped her train with it.
With Hideyoshi as a teacher Ayane quickly became better and better. Her skill was already top notch, but without a good doll even the best puppeteer would fail. She named her new doll Zanza, after a legendary swordsman, and entered the chuunin exam as an individual. With Zanza as her backup she breezed through the exam and got her Chuunin rank. Only then was she informed that her world had collapsed. Her old teammates was missing and her father had died. She spent a month in solitude, surrounded only by her dolls for comfort. When she came back to the world it was as if nothing had ever happened. She sold her father’s mansion and her own crappy place and bought a new house with forge and workshop. She was happy, smiled and was genuinely pleased to meet people. Makoto-sensei was worried about her at first, but as time passed, her mood stayed the same, he figured that she’d gotten over her loss. 
She made new dolls as well, using the knowledge Hideyoshi had shown her. She was developing into a fine puppeteer.[/hider]

[u][b]Other[/b][/u]: Ayane owns a total of four dolls, but will only use a maximum of two at the time. She believes that perfect control over one puppet is better than barely any control at all over ten. Each puppet is built using collapsable joints. This means that Ayane has purposefully built in weak parts that should break before anything important does. This cuts down on repair time and material cost as 90% of repairs will be a simple case of “change the weak part”.  

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[b][u]Weapons/Items[/u][/b]:
[hider=Summoning scroll]
[b]Description:[/b] Basic summoning scroll containing Ayane’s dolls.
[b]Appearance:[/b] [hider=pic][img]http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/200H/i/2014/290/3/5/naruto_sage_mode_scroll_by_kyotaka-d837qan.jpg[/img][/hider]
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[u][B]Puppets:[/B][/u]
[hider=Zanza]A humanoid puppet, height and build approximately that of a normal human, dressed in simple cloth and wields two zanbatou. Is built out of strong wood.[/hider]

[hider=Oni]A humanoid puppet, height and build approximately that of a smaller human, dressed in simple cloth with sharp claws instead of hands. Is build out of light bamboo and very fast.[/hider]

[hider=Shishi]A humanoid puppet, height and build approximately that of a large human, dressed in simple cloth and wields a large shield and a spear. Is built out of metal, which makes it slow, but extremely durable. With the shield Shishi can even stop a cannonball.[/hider]

[hider=Jin]A humanoid puppet, height and build approximately that of a normal human, dressed in simple cloth, unarmed, rarely used in combat. Mostly used for espionage. Made out of strong wood.[/hider]

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[B][U]Special Traits[/U][/B]
Not only an expert puppeteer, ayane is a sneaky bastard whose forte is espionage. She has limited experience with taijutsu fighting, and prefers to ambush and assassinate. Her puppeteering skills are at least jounin-leveled and she can control her puppets from quite a distance thanks to a few microphones and cameras that has been installed in each of her puppets. These devices transmit to a special pair of goggles that Ayane wears.

[b][u]Kekkei Genkai[/u][/b]: None.

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Fighting style: Sujite Ryuu. (Stringhand style)
As Ayane is weak in taijutsu, she has developed a style to counter it.
When in hand-to-hand combat she will use her Kugutsu no Jutsu to disrupt her opponent’s movements by attaching the strings to arms, legs or weapons and pulling at the right time. At her peak, and given the right chance, she may make an enemy kill himself with his own weapon.

[b][u]Jutsus[/u][/b]:
[hider=Canon Jutsu]
[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Shunshin no jutsu 
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] (nin/tai/gen) (offensive, defensive, supplementary)
[b]Rank:[/b] D
[b]Range:[/b] Short - mid - long.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] A basic Ninjutsu. The ninja will appear and disappear in an instant, allowing them to retreat or attack suddenly. To facilitate the movement the ninja will often use nearby elements such as mist, sand or leaves to mask their appearance or disappearance.
[b]Weakness:[/b]

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Kuchiyose no jutsu (summoning technique)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Supplementary.
[b]Rank:[/b] C
[b]Range:[/b] Reach.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Allows a ninja to summon animals and objects to fight on their behalf. The ninja normally signs a blood contract with the animal species, which allows them to summon different size and skill levels of creature. Ayane use this technique to summon her different puppets from a summoning scroll.
[b]Weakness:[/b]
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[hider=Custom Jutsu]
[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Kugutsu henge no jutsu (Doll Companion technique.)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Supplementary.
[b]Rank:[/b] C
[b]Range:[/b] Short - mid - long.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b]  Ayane will use a special type of henge on her puppet to make it change appearance.
[b]Weakness:[/b]

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Kugutsu kawarimi no jutsu (scrapheap technique)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Defensive.
[b]Rank:[/b] C
[b]Range:[/b] Short - mid - long.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Timing with an incoming attack, Ayane will pull her doll back or away swiftly while also opening a hidden compartment full of discarded trash, this will create the illusion that the doll was hit and destroyed.
[b]Weakness:[/b]

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Juubun kugutsu no jutsu (perfect puppetry technique)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Supplementary
[b]Rank:[/b] B
[b]Range:[/b] Short - mid - long.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Ayane’s own technique (under development) that gives her ultimate control of her puppet. It works just like the canon “kugutsu no jutsu” as a base, allows for more advanced maneuvers. Instead of adding more puppets (Like Sasori, Chiyo and just about any puppeteer we’ve seen) Ayane has figured out how to increase the amount of strings she can produce and how to move her doll(s) with more strings. Currently she can make two strings per finger, which gives her the same amount of control over her doll as a martial artist has over his own body. Alternatively she can use two dolls with as much control as a normal puppeteer could move one.
[b]Weakness:[/b]

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Metal bees technique
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Supplementary
[b]Rank:[/b] B
[b]Range:[/b] Short - mid - long.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Using her chakra threads Ayane can pick up weapons and swing them around, creating a zone full of flying sharp metal bits.
[b]Weakness:[/b]

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Minced meat technique (Oni)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Offensive.
[b]Rank:[/b] A
[b]Range:[/b] Short - mid.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Oni can fire his clawed hands away, but they are still attached to the body by several threads of razor-sharp ninja wire. Oni will move around its target and capture it within the wires, next the claws are retracted and as they speed through the air along their preset path the wires cuts the target to shreds.
[b]Weakness:[/b] If the wires should be cut, this technique has no effect at all.

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Terrible mist technique (Zanza)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Offensive.
[b]Rank:[/b] A
[b]Range:[/b] Short - mid - long.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Zanza holds within him a large smokebomb that is powerful enough to envelop a whole area in smoke. Ayane will the move out of the smoke and wait for the target to escape the smoke, the use Zanza (or another doll) to intercept it and kill it.  
[b]Weakness:[/b] Ayane can only cover a part of the smoke cloud, if the target should exit somewhere else, it may escape.

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Painless suicide technique (Shishi)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Defensive.
[b]Rank:[/b] A
[b]Range:[/b] Short.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Shishi will move in to intercept an incoming enemy with its shield up. At the last moment the shield will be moved away and the belly of Shishi will open. if all goes right the target will fall into the belly which will then close up again. Shishi will then turn his spear around and stab himself through the belly.
[b]Weakness:[/b] An opponent with good reaction time can escape this technique.

[b]Name of Technique:[/b] Hug of death technique (Jin)
[b]Type of Jutsu:[/b] Ninjutsu, Offensive.
[b]Rank:[/b] A
[b]Range:[/b] Short.
[b]Nature Type:[/b] N/A
[b]Description:[/b] Jin will grab hold of the target and wrap himself around it. Then he will squeeze the target and break as many bones as possible, rendering the target either dead or incapable of fighting.
[b]Weakness:[/b] If Jin cannot grab and hold the target, this technique is useless.
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