Name: Sho Hayashi
Age: 23
Alias: Naitoshadou (Night Shadow)
Gender: Male
Previous City of Operation: Tokyo, Japan

Appearance: 
Civilian – [img]http://www.exploringtokyo.com/images/photos/new_guide/full/pic_menu_culture_men.jpg[/img]

Costumed – [img]http://img04.deviantart.net/4235/i/2006/158/b/9/ninja_by_aleation.jpg[/img]
Powers: Having taken part in once thought to be long forgotten rituals and training.  Sho has gained the ability to shapeshift himself in numerous ways.  He can stretch limbs or his body, change his face to appear as someone else, or other countless feats.
Abilities/Skills:  On top of his shape shifting abilities, Sho has years of training in what is true ninjitsu combat.  Able to fight and more importantly move both silently and effectively.  Along with that Sho is quite skilled in lock picking.  
Equipment: Sho keeps in his gear throwing knives but most notably his katana.  Given to him by his elders its a blade forged eons ago, and is still as sharp as it ever was.  
Weakness: Sho's shape shifting ability is more mythical by nature than something genetic.  So Sho needs some focus to be able to use his powers.  If he gets dizzied, or put into a state of mental haziness.  His powers won't work and can even malfunction on him.  Leaving him very vulnerable if his mentally drained or strained enough.

Personality: Sho is a quiet, but friendly soul.  He is prideful in his training and abilities and doesn't like having it questioned. Given his background Sho isn't as familiar as he should be with modern tech and pop culture.  
History: Sho's parents were both considered Japanese royalty, wealthy, and the class of the city of Tokyo.  The both of them in secret were funneling money through the Yakuza.  Though they had a classy demeanor on the outside, the pair were ruthless when it came to their business.  Over the years they had certainly gained their enemies.  Even as the parents had a child in Sho, their enemies still ruthlessly waited for a chance to get at them.  It all finally came to a head on a boat out in the Pacific Ocean.  The scene was violent, blood spilled everywhere, and the boat was burned to hide the evidence of Mr and Mrs Hayashi's death.  However little baby Sho was also on the boat, having been spared a murder but left to burn and sink.  If it wasn't for an intervention by a mysterious group of people Sho would've died.

The group of people came to the boat seeing it burn from a distance, only planning to see what they could steal from it when they came across Sho.  They took the baby from his burning soon to be grave.  Returning him to their home.  A relatively small island which is home of a clan of men and women.  Founded in ancient times as a means to dethrone the filthy empires they saw as plaguing Japan.  Generations have passed, but the island's residents still hold the traditions and training in the art of the ninja.  

Sho grew up unaware of his real parents and their lives.  As far as he was concerned he was just as important as anyone else on the island.  He trained and learned with the other young kids on the island.  But unlike them, Sho had real genuine skills he was able to show in his training.  Impressing his elders Sho by the time he was a teen earned the right to be a part of a ritual that was both dangerous and life changing.  The process was long, painful, and by the end of the fifth day draining.  However Sho was able to achieve a new level of control of his body.  Allowing him to shape shift it at will.  When he grew to proper age Sho left the island and returned to Tokyo.  When he saw the crime and corruptions going through the city.  Sho dawned his gear and began cleaning up the city as only he could.  He never killed, but his presence became threatening enough.  Soon the media dubbed him Naitoshadou but his actual being is still not believed by all.  As no photos of him have ever surfaced and the only people who have seen him were the criminals he left for the police.

Other: Mango.