[CENTER][IMG]http://i46.tinypic.com/xclv9d.png[/IMG] [B][U]Name[/U][/B]: Matsuri Hyuga [I][U]Nickname/Alias[/U][/I]: Matsuri of the Bells [I][U]Gender[/U][/I]: Female [B][U]Age and date of birth[/U][/B]: 19, December 26th [I][U]Age Appearance[/U][/I]: 19 [I][U]Sexuality:[/U][/I] Straight [I][U]Parents: Hideyori Katsunori Hyuga Length and build: 5'10 Weight: 140 Favorite weather and season[/U][/I] Snow; Winter [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [B][U]Village[/U][/B]: Hidden Leaf Village [I][U]Birthplace[/U][/I]: Hyuga Compound [I][U]Organization[/U][/I]: Dragon Lotus [B][U]Clan/Bloodline[/U][/B]: Hyuga; Byakugan [B][U]Rank[/U][/B]: Experience Chunnin [B][U]Chakra Nature[/U][/B]: N/A [IMG]http://i46.tinypic.com/vmspdd.png[/IMG] [B][U]Appearance[/U][/B]: [IMG]http://safebooru.org//samples/200/sample_d065069b2e27d1d2602be23c5f6569b16de9f46a.jpg?200022[/IMG] [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/23msj6g.png[/IMG] [B][U]Personality[/U][/B]: Matsuri is a meek and kind girl, who doesn't want to feel like a burden to those around her. This can cause her to be more than a little reckless if it causes those around her not to be in danger. She finally has felt she's found her place in the world, and is happy with it. She's willing to defend her niche if necessary, and secretly want to prove to everyone that despite being called talentless, she's not worthless, and has some self esteems issues she's trying to conquer. This is part of the reason she doesn't use any ninja tools or weapons, somewhere, she wants to prove those who called her worthless because of her weak eyes, and trouble learning Gentle fist wrong, so she uses them as her primary weapon, with her own talents in genjutsu thrown in. Matsuri thinks of herself as a coward, because she's afraid of power. She's afraid of the damage it can cause, but she continues to grow stronger because she's absolutely terrified of being powerless against someone else. Being a prisoner did not help this view any. Matsuri's also become a bit more of a loner because of her imprisonment, often having flashbacks and episodes. She doesn't want her team mates, or anyone else, to see her vulnerable side, so she has a nasty habit of keeping secrets, and because she can't quite keep her flashbacks a secret, she tries avoiding people. She ironically doesn't want to worry people, which is why she keeps so much to herself. She'd rather take on their burdens than let anyone else take hers, which is also why she doesn't talk much about her home life. In fact, she doesn't talk much about herself at all if she can avoid it. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [U][B]History[/B][/U]: [hider='History'] The unlucky Hyuga, born 4th daughter of the Head of the clan, never seen as anything other than a spare. She had no talent, she wasn't born a branch member, her Byakugan was weak, and she had little chance to be the next Heir to the clan, earning her hate from nearly the entire clan. Finding herself without talent, Matsuri tried a double portion to be the genius her clan expected her to be, but everything she gained, she had to work extremely hard for, nothing came naturally. Even the basics of gentle fist were hard for her to master, the advanced nature proved impossible, she could not see chakra points, no matter how hard she worked at it. She felt alone in the world. The only solace she had was books, and so she spent much of her time couped up in her room. Matsuri's goal was to make her family happy, but it didn't seem possible. She seemed doomed to be the black sheep of the family. To her, it was her world, to honor the Hyuga clan, despite them ignoring her. She wanted to prove she wasn't worthless. Her life started to change as she passed the academy exam finally, after many attempts, only to find herself almost immediately assigned the chunnin exams, where she managed to make it to the finals, with nothing but Gentle Fist. She desperately fought against her opponent, but lost all the same. She started to sink into a depression in her hospital bed, that she couldn't do anything right. As she lay there, something happened that changed her world. Somebody cared about her. Literally staggering towards her room, Kensuke, her roommate struggled to pay her a visit. The one thing that went through her head was 'why?'. Matsuri had never had anyone pay her mind. Then she was announced as a chunnin. She couldn't believe it. Her struggle had still left victorious, even though she felt weak, she was promoted when others weren't. She started to think what could she do to become stronger. Her real first mission came about, and for once Matsuri was looking forward to helping in it. A mission to the land of Talons, with the Hokage. On their way there, they were ambushed, and Matsuri felt glad as she managed to push back some of the attackers, finally pushing her weight..... finally of use. Matsuri was starting to feel she belonged, despite getting no more credit in her house. She had found a group of people she could be with. During the stay at the village, she had noticed that a girl had been kidnapped and was being abused by the same people who had been assailing the village. Feeling she had to do something, she had to help in someway, she ran off, leaving notice to the Hokage through his daughter Kaname that she would be back quickly, her plan was to quickly rush in, and grab the girl. However, her plan didn't go as expected, she was quickly ambushed during the rescue mission. She managed to quickly defeat her opponent, only to be struck across her eye, losing it, and starting to bleed profusely. Her fight wasn't over though. Kensuke quickly found her..... and his brother found him, Matsuri quickly finding herself on another battlefield. She felt deadly worried for Kensuke, and when he had nearly been struck down, she came to his side, not letting herself lose the first friend she'd ever found. She fought like a lion before being cut down. Kensuke rescued her with a desperate blow to his own brother. As Matsuri lay bleeding to death, help arrived as she was near death's door. The Hokage noticed her Byakugan was dead, and had a sharingan transplanted onto it. Though her first mission was a success, and Matsuri found just how much she loved having teammates, her homelife didn't improve, infact it got even worse. Seeing the Sharingan as a dirty eye, they considered her even more of an outcast. Matsuri was hardly even part of the Hyuga family anymore. At this point, Matsuri started wearing a blindfold, a necessity to keep her sharingan from over extending, and memorizing everything, something that would overload her. Even it being able to see a little bit would trigger this. During the Nine tails fox's attack, Matsuri helped move civilians out the way of the Fox, and marveled at it's power. For the first time, she was afraid of the power of something. She never wanted it. She saw the destruction, and realized that anyone with power could do that, not just a rampant fox. It made her a bit more nervous about high leveled nin, and of herself. Was this what would happen if she was the talented genius everyone though she was? The next event to change her life was the war with the sand. She was sent off in a division to attack the Sand. After fighting half a dozen nin on her own, an enemy who took the Hokage's appearance took her by surprise, capturing her. She would be a hostage for the next three weeks, tortured regularly by the man named Kaija, an event that left scars on her mind. She was afraid of getting powerful, but she became absolutely terrified of those stronger than her. She managed to eventually do what she thought was impossible, see her own chakra points in the darkness of the box they kept her in. She managed to break out when they were off guard, and free the prisoners as her Leaf allies came. With the rest of her team, she managed to defeat Kaija. A very real monster to her. Even in death he wouldn't leave her mind. She suffered flashbacks of being tortured whenever light blinded her. Matsuri felt she had finally found her place in the world though. Even with the flashbacks haunting her, and her finding herself more reclusive, she didn't find herself to be quite so useless anymore. With training from the Hokage, she managed to create her own first B ranked technique, a chakra shell that managed to take a blast from a big fireball, made by the Third Hokage. Matsuri proudly claimed she didn't have any talent, she didn't need it. She had earned what she had needed. Shortly afterwards, after the fake death of the Third Hokage, she became a rogue. Matsuri didn't want to have the cursed seal marked on her forehead and found refuge as Dragon himself recruited her into the Dragon Lotus Order. Ever since then she has been on several missions for the mysterious group, training and working in order to show that hard work is more worth than talent. Only then to be hunted down by Team 4, as she went alone after Ushio. Now being brought back to Konoha, she had been placed under ''house arrest''. Eventually, she has been marked with the Cursed mark of the Branch Hyuuga's. Bittered, she started to isolate herself from people she once respected and liked, thinking that they had betrayed her. It took some time and harsh words of Hiron before Matsuri started to understand how selfish she had been acting before she started to make amends with Kensuke Nimatsu. She started to be less rebellious under the house arrest, starting to release that fighting it when she was too weak to do anything was just escapism. She still dreams of being free, but being less rebellious allowed her to be placed on a normal team again, the first time in years she's fought for anyone but herself. After a time, Matsuri was shocked to find herself placed on a new team. Surprised enough to demand answers from the Hokage, meeting him a bad first impression. She met her new teammates, Chinatsu Hon. The two quickly became friends, even like sisters, enjoying eachother's company in training. Matsuri then met her sensei, and was horrified after a bad training session to find her team disbanded out from under her, and that Matsuri was left once again without a sensei. Matsuri swore that she wouldn't let Chinatsu be abandoned though, projecting herself on the young genin, and continued training with her. When Matsuri was sent on a mission by Zakito to investigate the isle of barren, she went, and illegally took Chinatsu with her. Inside was shown the worst nightmares of the people inside, and Matsuri finally conquered her fears inside, discarding her blindfold. Matsuri however was to be punished from doing this, and Zakito had her removed from Dragon Lotus. Matsuri objected, but at last, did so only with the agreement that her memories of being kicked out were taken, as she refused to forgive Zakito. After this, Matsuri focused on increasing her skills to be able to teach Chinatsu. She asked the hokage for a promotion while patching up her previous conversation with him. He said no, but promised to keep the two together, and send them on a mission. She also asked Aiko for help in genjutsu, though Aiko's best advice was that Matsuri needed to be a friend, not a sensei. [/hider] [I][U]Theme Song[/U][/I]: (Either a link or a video, optional though) [IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/2h5tkk2.png[/IMG] [B][U]Weapons/Items[/U][/B] [hider=Weapons/items] [B]Name of Weapon or Item: Bells Description: Just a normal pair of bells strapped to Matsuri's side, which she uses for her genjutsus. Appearance:[/B] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [B]Name of Weapon or Item: Blindfold Description: A regular blindfold used to prevent too much chakra loss from her sharingan Appearance:[/B] [/hider] [IMG]http://i50.tinypic.com/15qxeus.png[/IMG] [B][U]Skills/Abilities[/U][/B] High Intelligence High Genjutsu - Good Taijutsu - combine for Gentaijutsu Good Speed Good Sensing (her eyes) Average Chakra [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [B][U]Special Traits[/U][/B] Very weak Byakugan, can't see chakra points normally. Suffers PTSD to bright flashes of light. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [B][U]Kekkei Genkai[/U][/B]: [B]Name of Kekkei Genkai:[/B] Byakugan. [B]Clan:[/B] Hyuuga [B]Description:[/B] Matsuri's byakugan is relatively weak, unable to clearly see chakra points, barely able to see her own. Overuse, or even what most byakugan users consider normal use causes her eye to bleed. [B]Name of Kekkei Genkai: [/B] Sharingan [B]Clan:[/B] Uchiha [B]Description: [/B] Implanted Sharingan. After losing her left Byakugan, a Sharingan was implanted in it's place. Matsuri constantly wears a blindfold over it, because it constantly records information, memorizing details, and causes her to become overloaded with information. Whenever she removes the blindfold to use it, she suffers a brief episode of PTSD because of the flash of light, so she's hesitant to use it. When she does use this along side her Byakugan, it increases her taijutsu, as she starts to read her opponents movements, and memorize their style, able to predict their movements, to a certain extent. Her experience doesn't make her able to use the sharingan's ability on skilled taijutsu experts. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [B][U]Jutsu[/U][/B] [hider=Cannon Jutsu] [URL='http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gentle_Fist']Gentle Fist[/URL] [URL='http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Eight_Trigrams_Vacuum_Palm']Eight Trigrams: Vacuum Palm[/URL] [URL='http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Demonic_Illusion:_Hell_Viewing_Technique']Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique[/URL] [URL='http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Gentle_Fist_Art_One_Blow_Body']Gentle Fist Art: One Body Blow[/URL] [/hider] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [B][I][U]Custom Jutsu[/U][/I][/B] [hider=Custom Jutsu] [B]Name of Technique: [/B] Limited Byakugan [B]Type of Jutsu: [/B] Kekkei Genkai [B]Rank: [/B] D [B]Range: [/B] N/A [B]Nature Type: [/B] N/A [B]Handseals: [/B] N/A [B]Description: [/B] Matsuri activates her Byakugan only slightly, to see past her blindfold. It lets her see as if she didn't have it on, the ability to see a small radius around her as well, though only within 10 feet radius. It can't see detailed or chakra in this mode. It's constant however, as it uses very little chakra. [B]Weakness: Name of Technique: [/B] Gentle Fist: Black Widow [B]Type of Jutsu: [/B] Gen-taijutsu [B]Rank: [/B] C [B]Range: [/B] Close [B]Nature Type: [/B] N/A [B]Handseals: [/B] N/A [B]Description: [/B] By inserting her chakra into an opponent during gentle fist using the chakra to cast a genjutsu on the target as well to cause addition damage The genjutsu tricks the targets muscles into contracting, locking up the target, and causing excruciating pain in the part of the body hit. It is extremely painful [B]Weakness: [/B] Can be broken as a genjutsu. Requires close range contact. Exterior pain greater than the genjutsu's effect can break it. ============== [B]Name of Technique: [/B] Gentle Fist: Hidden Spider [B]Type of Jutsu: [/B] Gen-taijutsu [B]Rank: [/B] C [B]Range: [/B] Mid [B]Nature Type: [/B] N/A [B]Handseals: [/B] Snake- Rat [B]Description: [/B] A variation of the Gentle Fist: Black Widow, where Matsuri delays the activation of the genjutsu part. It is weaker than Black Widow by itself, not being as painful. When she initially hits, it doesn't feel like anything, she pours her chakra into the contact point, but it doesn't activate the gen-part of it until she activates the handsigns for it. [B]Weakness: [/B] Same weaknesses as Black Widow, and it has a limited range of within a kilometer, as well as a time of a few minutes. ====================================== ============= [B]Name of Technique:[/B] Toll of the Bells: Doppleganger [B]Type of Jutsu:[/B] Genjutsu [B]Rank:[/B] C [B]Range:[/B] Within Hearing [B]Nature Type:[/B] N/A [B]Handseals:[/B] N/A [B]Description:[/B] By channeling chakra through the bells, Matsuri is able to set up a weak genjutsu on an area on all around. It's a suggestive genjutsu that creates an illusion of the user that will fight an opponent, the illusion is created by the opponent themselves, it fights as the opponent believes it would, their mind filling in the details. It's like an advanced version of the [URL='http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Clone_Technique']clone technique[/URL] [B]Weakness: [/B] A simple kai, or pain will break them out. The genjutsu being sound based can be disrupted as well if the sound is stopped, or interupted ============= [B]Name of Technique:[/B] Toll of the Bells: Masked Presence [B]Type of Jutsu:[/B] Genjutsu [B]Rank:[/B] B [B]Range:[/B] Within Sound [B]Nature Type:[/B] N/A [B]Handseals:[/B] N/A [B]Description:[/B] By channeling chakra through the bells, Matsuri is able to set up a weak genjutsu on an area on all around. It's a suggestive genjutsu that has an opponent refuse to see the user, thus making them invisible. The bells begin to echo when the genjutsu activates, making them hard to follow. [B]Weakness:[/B] A simple kai, or pain will break them out.The genjutsu being sound based can be disrupted as well if the sound is stopped, or interupted. It can be detected as soon as the sound of echoing bells is heard. [/hider] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DN3p4.png[/IMG] [/CENTER]