[CENTER] [I]Character Theme -[/I] [URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbJTDNELRSk]I Stand Alone[/URL] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [img]http://img12.deviantart.net/dfdf/i/2011/189/1/6/hody_jones_render_by_fajerps-d3ler1l.png[/img] [color=lightblue] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【[U]Full Name[/U]】 Sangetsu Hozuki 【[U]Nickname/Alias[/U]】 "Sano of the Blood Mist" "Oni no Keshin" - Incarnation of the Demon 【[U]Gender[/U]】 Male 【[U]Age[/U]】 111 【[U]Age Appearance[/U]】 About 30 【[U]Sexuality[/U]】 Heterosexual 【[U]Village[/U]】 Kirigakure / Chigiri no Sato 【[U]Birthplace[/U]】 Kirigakure / Chigiri no Sato 【[U]Alignment/Affiliation/Organization[/U]】 Chigiri no Sato / The Original Akatsuki / Seven Swordsmen of the Hidden Mist 【[U]Clan/Bloodline[/U]】 [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/H%C5%8Dzuki_clan]Hozuki Clan[/url] 【[U]Rank[/U]】 S - Missing-nin 【[U]Chakra Nature[/U]】 Suiton Doton 【[U]Appearance/Wardrobe[/U]】 Sano is a man of incredible stature, a daunting six feet and eleven inches tall. Obviously he tends to stand out in a crowd due to this fact. He towers over even the largest of normal men, having been born with a peculiar set of genetics. His shark-like appearance leads others to be wary of him, and he uses that to his advantage well. His body is of peak physical condition stacked with toned muscle, his veins showing from his neck down his arms. With blue-grey skin, his appearance sticks out even further from normal humans. Like most members of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, his teeth are pointed like a shark's. He wears the typical black attire of the Akatsuki minus the mask (seen below) with the only modification being a black sash to hold Samehada in place on his back. [hider=Neo-Akatsuki Attire][img]https://img12.deviantart.net/cc96/i/2012/253/5/f/yin_and_yang_by_zargon150-d5e83pv.png[/img][/hider] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【[U]Personality[/U]】 A love of battle covers the surface of his personality. He is quite sadistic by nature, most of those who have met him and lived to tell the tale have reported an utter lack of empathy or compassion for anything. Most would say he only exists to cause chaos and ruin the world. The saying "Some men just want to watch the world burn" fits him quite well. This is all just what he appears to be on the surface, however, as Sano is quite the deep thinker at heart. He has seen what the world has to offer, he has seen the love a family can bring to one another and has decided there is no use for it. There is certainly something off about him, somewhere inside his head the natural functions of emotion have been lost on him, and he has effectively killed that part of him in favor of a more primal, survivalist mentality. Of all of the people he has been partnered with, he normally kills and eats them for being too weak to be considered on his level. Of the few that were strong enough to contend with him, or that he was forced to work with, none have ever matched his lust for blood. Due to this, he considers his opponents very lucky that he is forced to have self-restraint in battle. As a child, Sano never had a place in this world. He was bullied by others for the color of his skin and his monstrous appearance. Due to this he was an outcast, and over time he grew to accept this about himself and never tried to be someone he wasn't just to fit in. He was a loner his entire life, but he liked it better this way. To him, this was just more evidence to prove that he was born an apex predator of the world. His attitude is of a constant hunger for power and development. He is never strong enough, never fast enough, never good enough for himself. He can always be better than what he is now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【[U]History[/U]】 Sano was born during the times where Kirigakure was under the former title of Chigiri no Sato, the Hidden Village of the Bloody Mist. It was during these times where bloodshed was commonplace and danger lurked around every corner. It was every man, woman and child for themselves and there were only two kinds of people in the Land of Water: sharks and their prey. Sangetsu learned that lesson quickly and made his name as a shark even as a boy. Sano's mother was a member of the Hoshigaki clan who defected from Kirigakure. His father, patriarch of the Hozuki Clan, was the one dispatched to capture or kill her as she possessed information that could have been very detrimental to Kirigakure. When his father found his mother and they inevitably fought, his father found the most ruthless, unforgiving Kunoichi he had ever fought. He fell in love with her passion and love for battle and so he brought her back to the village and used his influence as head of the Hozuki clan to pardon her for defection. The two had a single child, Sangetsu, who grew up a victim of bullying and a born outcast due to his grotesque appearance. Having fallen in love with his mother of similar appearance, his father never thought less of his son due ot this. However, he would not accept weakness. And during his early years Sano was soft and weakened by his loneliness. Eventually he grew to own it, and was taught by his mother that he was different because he was a born apex predator, destined for greatness. And in a way she was right. The bullying toughened him up, and he eventually began overpowering his peers with his superior size once he grew into his own. He cared not for the so-called comrades that tormented him growing up. He became a ruthless, cold-blooded animal with no sense of mercy or morality. Everything was fair game, no tactic too dirty or too outlandish. Torture was a game and the battlefield was home. He knew not the concept of love even among his clan, but desire made its way into his heart and latched on tight. Yet what he did know was passion; a passion for battle and blood and carnage. When he became a Shinobi and graduated the academy, he was top of his class in combat skill, and did not bother to complete any written portions of the exams. After completing several missions as a Genin with his comrades, the time came when a fellow Kirigakure Genin was held captive by the enemy who held valuable intel on Kirigakure. There was no hesitation in Sangetsu's mind, he impaled the enemy by going through his comrade, murdering him. He immediately became a menace to his peers. They knew not if they could trust him, and he sure as Hell didn't trust them. The parents of his peers taught their children that his mother was a whore and a traitor because she tried to defect from the village. Because of this his peers grew to resent him and taunt him and his mother. This did not sit well with him, and one day Sano murdered one of his Genin peers for calling his mother a whore. These were the times of the Hidden Blood Mist, and such things were commonplace. Sano was revered by his clan as a true Shinobi and was welcomed by the village as a sturdy young prospect for the future. And then it happened. The incident that set him on his path of loneliness. During the Chuunin exams the higher ups of Kirigakure gave him the green light to '[i]have fun[/i]'. Sano took this to heart and his eyes lit up with a fierce hunger that had followed him since birth. When the exams rolled around Sano bullied one of the other students into stealing the answers to the test for him. He passed onto the next portion where they were thrown into the forest and pitted against each other. This... is where the unexpected occurred... You see, Sano had not yet learned the value of self control. Sano reached the middle of the forest with a plethora of bloodstained scrolls at his fingertips. A trail of bloody footsteps lay in his wake, bodies scattered throughout the forest. Sano himself was decorated with cuts and bruises, whether most of it was his own blood or the enemy's was unknown... or.. his comrades? The Jounin asked how he had made it there in such short time all by himself.. with so many scrolls.. The Jounin counted the number of scrolls he had brought with him, as Sano was merely leaning against a wall, panting and dripping blood on the wall yet saying nothing. "That... that can't be... This is... [b]all of them... they're ALL here...[/b]" The Jounin stuttered in disbelief as the rest of the Jounin checked the forest and found nothing but the bodies of enemy Genin.. and Sangetsu's allies as well. He showed no mercy to anyone, and on that night Kirigakure knew their demon was born. On this day that the Mizukage himself recognized Sangetsu's potential, and revered him as a hero. But not everyone was as thrilled as the blood-crazed Mizukage. His father caught a lot of flak for the fact that Sano had just slaughtered every single Genin in his age range that entered the Chuunin exams. Many important clans' sons and daughters were killed in this ritual of blatant murder. They plotted against the Hozuki clan, and if his father were to live through this, he had to sacrifice his only son to repent. Well, Sano's mother caught word of this and tried to warn her son. She was labeled a traitor and killed before she could warn him. When it was learned that his wife was a traitor, the burden of killing Sano was forcibly put upon his own father. Either his father put down the monster of a son that had stained the Hozuki name, or they would both die by the hands of angry villagers. The result was Sano murdering his own father without remorse after learning that his father allowed his mother to die and that he had willingly given Sano's life as tribute to save his reputation. During the battle with his father, he inherited one of the blades of the Seven Swordsman, Samehada, as the sentient blade prefered Sano over his father. Sano was exiled from his homeland and shortly after his departure the era of Chigiri no Sato was put to rest after the villagers saw the embodiment of that brutal mentality put to the extreme in Sano. They feared what would happen to them all if they fostered those ideals and allowed that kind of behavior to run rampant in their village. This was how the Mizukage of Chigiri no Sato was ousted and Kirigakure was born. For decades after that Sano was nothing more than a killer-for-hire with no place in the world. He lost the only place he had ever felt at home. The Bloody Mist was the only place that embodied his ideals, and that place did not exist anymore. He had no home, and his shark-like longevity subjected him to a life of loneliness for decades. Eventually he was captured and imprisoned in the highest security prison the Land of Water had to offer. It was here he rotted away for several more decades until thirty years ago he met a man by the name of Seijuro Kizaru Nandate who did not judge him by his appearance and embraced his primal nature. Seijuro was the one who broke into the prison just to free him from his shackles in exchange for his services, which Sano gladly obliged for the return of his freedom. At this time he joined Seijuro who promised him a place to call home where he could truly be himself. He followed Seijuro who used him as a tool, which Sano knew very well and was comfortable with this, and together the two took over Kirigakure and reinstated the lawlessness of Chigiri no Sato during the Second Great War. Sangetsu was the de facto Mizukage during the war until Seijuro was sealed, shortly after Sano's regime was put to an end, he was captured and sentenced to death, but every time they tried to kill him he would not die. No matter what they did, they could not end the life of this mosnter. Fearing what he would do to them in retaliation, they opted instead to imprison him in the highest security prison in all of the Land of Water and restrain him in every possible way, but with Samehada fused into his body, they could not remove that from his possession. Twenty years have passed since Sano has terrorized the world of Shinobi so the new generation has no idea of the fear he inspired in the hearts of Shinobi worldwide. His notoriety extends far outside of Kirigakure and the older generations of the other four villages will be keen on remembering just how much devastation and destruction he caused when he was released from prison the first time. And yet Sano remains imprisoned. [i][b]For now...[/b][/i] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【[U]Special Traits[/U]】 Sangetsu appears much younger than he actually is due to his shark-like physique, and due to his snarky sharkness he ages much slower than your average human. He's renowned in Kirigakure as one of the most skilled Water users in the country in the sense that he is capable of performing high level water techniques with little to no water source with limited hand seals. Sangetsu is one of the most infamous Hunter-nin known for his ability to track and kill prey in a manner most brutal. His physical specimen is one to be awed at, his greatest attribute being his durable size and magnificent strength. His endurance and stamina strike fear into the hearts of his enemies who simply cannot fathom how a man can fight as ruthlessly as Sangetsu without stopping for anything. As a prerequisite for wielding Samehada, Sangetsu boasts a monstrous chakra capacity which his sentient friend has become quite accustomed to munching on over the years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【[U]Equipment/Weapons/Items[/U]】 [i] [u]Name of Weapon or Item:[/u] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Samehada]SAMEHADA!!![/url] [u]Description:[/u] Pure, unadulterated snarky-sharky funtime. [u]Appearance:[/u] Like a giant, angry, blue porcupine attached to a hilt. Oh and a scary hidden mouth. Always kept wrapped up in bandages on Sano's back to hide the spooky from other Shinobi. [/I] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【[U]Kekkei Genkai [/U]】 [I] [U]Name of Kekkei Genkai:[/u] Snarky-Sharky [U]Clan:[/U] Hoshigaki [U]Rank[/u] - [U]Description:[/U] Sano looks like a shark. He is massive like a shark. He lives very long, like a shark. [/I] ------------------------------------------------------- [I]Jutsu:[/I] [hider=Canon Jutsu][i]As a native of the Hidden Mist Sangetsu is proficient in using Silent Killing, Hiding in Mist, Water Clone, and all basic techniques such as walking on water and walls, Body Flicker, Body Replacement, etc.[/i] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Killing_Intent]Killing Intent[/url] - [i]Sano's Killing Intent is strong enough to paralyze opponents up to B rank in pure fear, requiring a strong will to break out of. Weaker-willed enemies (children, Genin, and even some Chuunin) will faint upon being in his presence.[/i] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Hydrification_Technique]Suika no Jutsu[/url] [i]This technique offers only a partial invulnerability to physical attacks as they would pass through him, but it would cause a mild to severe irritation to eventual pain gradually increasing with the number of blows taken. In addition to that liquefying requires more chakra if hydration is disturbed. Can only be used once every three posts.[/i] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Steaming_Danger_Tyranny]Joki Boi[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Gun_Technique]Mizudeppo no Jutsu[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thousand_Flying_Water_Needles_of_Death]Sensatsu Suisho[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Rain_Tiger_at_Will_Technique]Ukojizai no Jutsu[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Release:_Water_Shark_Bullet_Technique]Suiton: Suikodan[/url], [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Release:_Great_Shark_Bullet_Technique]Daikodan[/url], [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Release:_Five_Feeding_Sharks]Goshokuzame[/url], [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Release:_A_Thousand_Feeding_Sharks]Senshokuko[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Release:_Rain_Water_Shark_Wave]Suiton: Amesuikoha[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Release:_Great_Exploding_Water_Colliding_Wave]Suiton: Dai Bakusui Shoha[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Release:_Subterranean_Voyage]Doton: Dochu Senko[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Release:_Moving_Earth_Core]Doton: Chidokaku[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Release:_Antlion_Technique]Doton: Arijigoku[/url] [url=http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Release:_Swamp_of_the_Underworld]Doton: Yomi Numa[/url] [/hider] [hider=Custom Jutsu] [b]Name:[/b] Kakoku Jomyaku no Jutsu (River Valley Vein Technique) [b]Rank:[/b] B [b]Range:[/b] Self [b]Type:[/b] Nintaijutsu [b]Nature:[/b] Water Release [b]Handseals:[/b] One-handed Tiger to activate [b]Description:[/b] Using the Hydration Technique the user bulks up their physical body by pumping their muscles full of excess water, enlarging them to the point where the user's body is a steel fortress capable of withstanding extensive physical damage and granting the user superhuman strength. Using a nearby water source to facilitate this technique is advisable otherwise the user risks exhaustion with only one use. The user's blood will boil over time and pressure will build within the user as the battle rages on, causing an aura of steam to exude off the user. After the aura of steam has built up the user is then free to release the pressure at will through their pores in the form of intensely hot steam. Sangetsu has found it very potent to compress the steam into pockets to be released in shockwaves when he strikes, though it takes a few seconds to form another steam pocket, making them practical yet not ample in quantity. [b]Weakness:[/b] Controlling the balance of moisture within one's body means this technique is no simple feat, which means that when Sangetsu uses this technique he is looking at about a minute or two, maybe two and a half minutes maximum before he cannot maintain it, though he often exhausts the built up pressure before the time runs out, causing the technique to end prematurely. The secret to this technique is simple. The more steam Sangetsu uses, the more water his body is losing, causing two things to happen from there. The more water that is leaving his body as he attacks using the pressurized steam, the more susceptible Sangetsu becomes to damage as the water is what is keeping his muscles as hard as steel. Secondly, Sangetsu is losing water from his body causing dehydration. Because this technique is very powerful both offensively and defensively at different times, the entire process of this technique is very taxing on the user's chakra and thus once all the pressure is used up and the user's body returns to normal, it is not sensible to enter this form in succession as if the chakra cost were not enough, it leaves the user physically fatigued after a single use, multiple uses easily ending in exhaustion if a source of water is not found. Also, using the steam attacks excessively causes damage to the user's pores with occasional bleeding. [b]Name:[/b] Hadoutsuki (Surge Thrust) [b]Rank:[/b] C-A [b]Range:[/b] 0-25 yards [b]Type:[/b] Nintaijutsu [b]Nature:[/b] Water Release [b]Handseals:[/b] None [b]Description:[/b] Sangetsu's most basic attack, and one of his most subtle. He attacks the space in front of him, directing a surge of chakra directed through his palm, causing all the moisture in the air to converge inward at drastic speeds to create a pressurized burst of water at the target. This technique uses water vapors as a medium to transfer the force, meaning the more water in the area, the deadlier technique. Sangetsu has stated that if he were in the ocean underwater fighting an opponent this attack would be lethal. [b]Weakness:[/b] As the water vapor converges on the opponent most are unaware until the bubble of water is upon them and ready to burst. As the water vapor travels to its target to form the bubble there is a delay between when the bubble hits its target and when it bursts, giving observant foes a small window to react. [b]Name:[/b] Mizugokoro (Heart of Water) [b]Rank:[/b] A [b]Range:[/b] Ten yards [b]Type:[/b] Ninjutsu [b]Nature:[/b] Water Release [b]Handseals:[/b] One-handed Tiger [b]Description:[/b] Once activating the technique via hand seal a puddle of water will collect at the user's feet from the moisture in the air and cover ten yards in every direction around the user. Within the boundaries of this puddle, Sangetsu has total molecular control of all water. This excludes all water in the body of a person or animal. This requires a focused state of concentration for accurate manipulation, meaning the user must remain stationary for several seconds in order to form the puddle required for manipulation. Within these boundaries Sangetsu can bend the water into any shape he wishes and change its state of matter from liquid into either steam or ice, and back to liquid. With this technique the user can alter their own water techniques as they use them to alter the shape or state of matter of the water they create by adding in a few extra hand seals into the Jutsu's preparation. [b]Weakness: The ice is no where near as durable as true Ice Release techniques and the steam does not harbor the corrosive traits of a true Boil Release user. Besides requiring several seconds of standing still like a sitting duck just to get this technique going, once the puddle has formed the user is free to move about the puddle, though their influence over water will not exceed the bounds of the puddle and they are bound to remain within the parameters of the puddle lest this technique should fail.[/b] [b]Name:[/b] Uzushio Tenouchi (Whirling Tide Palm) [b]Rank:[/b] B [b]Range:[/b] Melee [b]Type:[/b] Nintaijutsu [b]Nature:[/b] Water Release [b]Handseals:[/b] Tiger-Bird-Ox-Snake-Boar [b]Description:[/b] The user guides the moisture in the vicinity surrounding them into a rotating shuriken of compressed water that is thrust or thrown into an opponent, causing pressurized water damage and spiral-shaped lacerations upon the target. When spinning the water pressure of the shuriken is great enough to cut clean through earth and steel. [b]Weakness:[/b] The technique loses some of its power when thrown and is much more deadly when launched directly into a foe. [b]Name:[/b] Samegawa Sandan Ju (Sharkskin Shotgun) [b]Rank:[/b] A [b]Range:[/b] Long [b]Type:[/b] Ninjutsu [b]Nature:[/b] Water [b]Handseals:[/b] None [b]Description:[/b] Allowing multiple drops of compressed water to form on one or both of the user's hands via the Hydration Technique, they proceed to then whip the droplets of water at high speeds at the target with the same piercing ability as the Water Gun Technique. Sangetsu has enough skill with this technique that he can hit multiple targets accurately, including moving targets. [b]Weakness:[/b] [b]Name:[/b] Hamen Tsuiraku (Crashing Wave-front) [b]Rank:[/b] A [b]Range:[/b] Melee [b]Type:[/b] Nintaijutsu [b]Nature:[/b] Water [b]Handseals:[/b] None [b]Description:[/b] Attacking an enemy head-on, the user strikes the opponent with a strong force of Water chakra which transfers the force evenly through the opponent's body as if their body was a single body of water. The attack would flow through them and send them flying from the backlash, though there would be a short delay between when the user makes contact and when the blow is received. This technique is especially dangerous because it breezes past outward defenses and will cause internal bleeding from its effect on the water in the human body. [b]Weakness:[/b] Short range, there is a delay after contact [/hider] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/color][/Center]