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Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

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Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

Wanna wish everyone a happy weekend, soon the RP will begin to pick up pace again. A few Adminstrative kinks to work out, cheers.

Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

Xavimaru Kishimoto

Xavi sat at the monument waiting for his students, the first one to arrive was Ruri, on a carriage, too posh to walk. She looked around, not aware that the blonde man sitting next to the monument was the man who had summoned her. Instead, she was just walking around, looking bored. Serves the little brat right to have to wait.. Xavi thought, with a grin. Soon, the other student, the Hanamoto boy, Daisuke would come. The white haired boy were also heading to the monument, but before he could get there, he saw the girl, Ruri. Xavi smirked, as he rose up and walked away from the monument, and instead headed towards the store on the other side of the street, The shoopkeeper greeting him as "Master Kishimoto" as Xavi looked at the inventory of the shop. Xavi smiled as he picked up a coat and put it out and walked out of the door, the shopkeeper thanking him for his business.

The Beige coat Xavi had picked up was just like the old one he wore, but had gotten ruined on his last mission, so he figured he had to keep up his appearance to his new students. He approached the two genin as they were talking to one another. "Sup Kiddos." Xavi saying, nodding at the two, not really careing for a response.

"Follow me" He said, walking away from the two, until he got to an abandoned street, where all of the houses looked old and damaged, the windows were all boarded up and the houses were empty. [b]"This is street that's marked to get torn apart so that we can build new houses here. But before that happens, we are going to use it for my little test. In case you didn't know, My name is Xavimaru Kishimoto, of the Granite Guard and secret weapon of the Hidden Stone village. Unlike my fellow Guards who will have some silly test for you two to get introduced to each other, I want the two of you to fight each other in these street, head on. Why? Simple. I will only accept one pupil, and I only want the best. You have five minutes on you, and if both of you are still standing, I'm not gonna train either of you, and I won't have to deal with either of your asses."

Xavi told the two, as he took a few steps backwards. "But please, try not to kill each other.. Too much. Lord Tsuchikage would be quite upset with me if my students killed each other on their first day." Xavi motioned with his hand 'go' as he used the body flicker technique to get out of sight.

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Hayashi Junnimaru

Hayashi saw Kanajiro advance on him as he was in the air, he wasn't surprised, he knew full well how good a student Kanajiro had been in class, and to be taken by such a impulsive ambush would've been very much so unlike Kanajiro. As Hayashi landed on the ground, the rock surface he landed on dented under the force of his punch, but Kanajro grabbed him by the arm, and through an impressive feat of strength threw the steel-enhanced Hayashi over himself, but Kanajiro didn't really take Hayashi's increased weight into account, making the boy land where Kana didn't expect it, rendering his punch towards Hayashi's face useless, as the boy could easily just sway his head in the other direction.

"Tssh. Just lucky that I didn't crush you, Kana." Hayashi barked back as Kanajiro jumped backwards, Hayashi grabbed a couple of shuriken and threw at the Hanamoto as the fire came at him, Hayashi charged at Kanajiro as he had to remain on the offense, he crossed his arms in front of his face, the steel enhancement protecting him from the fire making it only slightly pain him instead of giving him real burns. As Kanajiro would come into Hayashi's field of view, Hayashi would send a double cross-punch from his crossed arms towards Kanajiro's shoulders, aiming to hitting his collar bones. Hayashi felt Kanajiro's fist hit him in the stomach, as the Junnimaru had the slightly higher ground on Kanajiro, he rolled on the ground wincing in pain a little bit after their clash, making one roll on the ground he was back on his feet and throwing a kunai at Kanajiro.

"Come on Kana. Ain't you some big shot who's supposed to be better than everyone else? Your punch was weaker than my little sister's, and she's four!" Hayashi taunted at the boy, preparing his counter-attack for Kana's next offensive move.

Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

Yes. Yes we do.

And World Traveler. Come on Justice! : D

Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

Hayashi Junnimaru

Hayashi had awakened at about noon, when his father told him that a lady, a member of the Granite Guard had come by their door, knocked on it, and then written in the sand outside of the door where Hayashi was supposed to meet her, Hayashi's father had almost sweeped the sand away before he realized it said something. Hayashi blinked twice before he realized what was going on. He was one of the ones that were going to become a member of the Guard. This was everything he dreamed off, and more. Maybe his dreams could yet be realized. Hayashi dashed out of his bed, and continued to get dressed while almost tumbling down the stairs from his room, going down to the bottom floor with still only one leg into his pants. He jumped into the air a few feet and put the other leg into the pants, landing on the ground with a light thud.

Hayashi put on his black shirt and his brown jacket and headed out the door, when his father stopped him. "Hey, Hayashi! I almost forgot, your teacher told you you were supposed to spar with another boy, Kanajiro Hannamoto, he's one of the noblemen, leader of his clan, I think. Please son, don't beat him up too much. We've got more than enough influential people on our case." His father told Hayashi, whom nodded and waved goodbye "I get it dad, I'll go easy. Take care and see you later!" He said to his father, moving away from their house, running towards Training Field five.

When he got to the field he scouted the field, looking around the field, and at the other fields, on the other field he saw some other genin practicing with their teachers, but when the black haired boy's eyes looked over his own field, he saw only the white haired head of the Hannamoto clan. No sensei to be seen. Hayashi used the flicker technique to get up into a tree looking over the field, making sure that his adversary had not yet seen him. He weaved his handseals, and felt how his right arm started to get slightly heavier, the metals in his blood stream started to clot around his muscles and skin, making him stronger and more durable.

He then leaped out of the trees towards Kanajiro, his hand pulled behind his head for a as powerful punch as possible as he would come crashing down on his soon to be teammate.

Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

All right.

All Jounin are free to move onto the next day, and so are all genin. Let's see some hustle people.

Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

Xavimaru Kishimoto

Xavi had been one of the ones carrying Hirorama's Casket, the Pulverizer had taught Xavi how to get out of the darkness, how to get redemption for what he did. He gave him purpose again and a reason to live, something Xavi could never pay Hirorama back for. Xavi was supposed to be backup on the mission, but was delayed due to enemy forces, and because of that he couldn't repay his debt to his friend and rolemodel, and it hurt, damn did it hurt. He put down the casket with the others, put a few flowers on the casket, and walked up to the open part of the casket, gently tapping Hirorama on the forehead, a sign of affection if there ever was one. He stood back with the others, looking at the ceremony, and as he did, he couldn't help but feel the need to light up. He fiddled into a pocket and found the papercovered roll of tobacco, as well as a box of matches, he lit the match and put the makeshift cigarette on fire, standing there smoking, looking at the scene that unfolded infront of himself. A few tears gathering in the side of his eyes, but they didn't fall from his eyes.

He inhaled the smoke from his cigarette and quietly let it out, not making too much of a fuss, his hair was brushed and the back had been put into a bun, the bangs gently swaying in the wind and the light downpour. "Dammit Hiro." He let out, Sebaru's speach being beautiful, and when the time came, he bowed with everyone else in the village for the fallen heroes.

He headed back with his fellow Guardsmen into the Kage's quarters, always wonderous about the location the Kage had chosen, why a dojo instead of a bunker, or a finer office? But then again, Sebaru was a man of principle, not one of style, unlike Xavi himself. Xavi got his files, thanked his superior, and headed out of the kage's mansion, not sticking around much longer, the sadness in the air was about to get to him, and he did not want that. He walked towards the monument where Hirorama and Rei were buried, and sat down next to it, leaning against it. He opened up his dossiers and read the files. "Heh.. Lucky me. This is going to be fun." Xavi thought to himself, looking at the pictures and the data that had been given to him.

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Hiruzen Dartan

Hiruzen had followed with the others in, still going over the mechanics behind sadness in his head, it kept him from actually grieving right now, something he didn't think himself capable of doing right now, he wanted to focus. He could feel sorrow and grieve once the war was over. He followed Sebaru into his office, walking right behind Kami. He got in and waited for the others to line up next to him, and when the Tsuchikage put the dossier in his hands, Hiruzen blinked a couple of times, having completely forgotten about the fact that they were supposed to be given apprentices. To train the new generation of Granite Guards.

Hiruzen listened to what Sebaru said, and stood there, waiting for all others to leave, holding his dossiers in his hands, not opened them yet. He looked to Sebaru with concerned eyes. "Sebaru-Sama. How are you holding up?" Hiruzen asked the man, whom scoffed. " I've seen better days, Hiruzen." Sebaru told his former apprentice, Hiruzen nodded. "I realize you don't want to talk now, sensei, but when you want to, just come by my office. Send others my way too, should they need it. Try and rest." Hiruzen recommended the elder shinobi, whom scoffed and nodded. "Will do. Now, make sure to brush up on your students. They're good ones."

" You handpicked them, so I have no doubt that they are."

Hiruzen said, before turning heel and walking out of the office, heading home. He soon arrived in his home, and walking into his office where his clinic was, he lived in a quite large house, a mansion as a matter of fact, Sebaru had given him the house so he could give the clinic plenty of space. Hiruzen sat down in his chair and looked at his files, qutie intrigued with the students he had been given. Hiruzen had his assistants alert his students that they would be meeting in the town marketplace at 9 am tomorrow morning.

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It was next morning, Hiruzen awoke at 7:30, the sun was rising, it was going to be a sunny day, a better tomorrow, one could say. Hiruzen got dressed and had a nice cup of tea and some biscuits before he would head out to gather supplies, he would try and test his student's minds. Just how good were them? A test sure would have to be in order, he figured. Walking around town gathering the supplies.

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Xavimaru Kishimoto

Xavi had not slept all night. He had been practicing his techniques all night, a way for him to deal with his loss, trying to make his techniques faster and stronger. That next time, he would have to be in time to save his allies. He had been fighting sand clones all night, and now there laid remnants of sand all over the west side of the mountains surrounding the village, where Xavi chose to practice. Xavi had dirt and shallow cuts and bruises on his upper arms, neck and a few scratches on his face, and a ever so tired look on his face, looking towards the ground. He held his fingers towards the ground, where a sand clone, looking exactly like himself sat on his knees trying to catch his breath. Xavi was gathering sand in front of his fingers that were aimed right at the clone, the clone himself was waving handseals, and just as the clone lunged at Xavi, the Sand for the Sand-Coffin Technique coming around to grab hold of Xavi, Xavi fired the sand bullet, the bullet hitting the clone between the eyes, instantly killing it.

Xavi walked down to a nearby small lake, which he jumped in and washed himself for a few minutes before taking in the morning sun and drying up. Putting on his clothes again, a grey shirt with a netshirt underneath, black pants and his tabis that were easy to slip out off, he also wore a bandanna on his head, like a cap, on the bandanna he had his forehead protector, his blonde bangs hanging down in front of his face. Normally, he would wear better armor, real armor in combat, but today was for practice, so he would wear casual clothes. He completely trusted that the Tsuchikage had informed his two students where they would meet, at the monument, and didn't bother to pay any mind at all to it, but instead took a relaxing walk towards the meeting place, enjoying the morning. He bought some fruit to eat on his way towards the monument.

Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

Xavimaru Kishimoto

Theme Song

Basics:

Name:
Xavimaru “Xavi” Kishimoto

Age:
24

Gender:
Male

Birthplace:
Sunagakure.

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Known history and secrets:

Personality:
Xavi is a roguish person, one who you can't always be quite sure about his motives. Unlike most of the other Granite Guardians, he doesn't hold any real Patriotism for the village but instead serves the village out of respect for taking care of him when he was banished from his home. He is kind to those that are kind to him and usually not one to start a fight. He isn't above ending a fight, though.

Xavi is quite an artist as well, and as such has a very artistic view on the world. He doesn't always see things like others do, but tends to romanticize them and make them seem more romantic than they are.
The guy is dangerous, and he knows it. He is dangerous because of how reckless he is in a fight, he will obliterate an entire forest just to catch one enemy, should he have to. He also has dangerously fun in a fight and is far from stealthy.

History
Born into the Kishimoto clan he was never supposed to be a warrior, he was supposed to be a painter, or a writer, just like his parents and grandparents. But Xavi was never one to really just sit still and fiddle with his pen. No, the young boy had to get out and use his hands. From a young age he started making sculptures, first out of mud, and when he was seven years old he started to realize he could affect minerals with his mind, it took him some effort to do it, but as the months went by, he started to discover his talents, and he found a natural affinity for Sand.

When he was nine years old, his clan joined into the Hidden Sand Village after much pressure from the independent clans in the country to join them, they choose to join the safer option, the shinobi village. Xavi was quickly chosen to join the Academy, and become a shinobi of the hidden sand, and he did, he excelled in the basic testing, and was promoted to chunnin at the age of 11, only two years after coming to the village, his sand jutsu proving most effective and his chakra reserves proved to be absolutely gigantic.

At the age of 14 he was seen as a Jounin in the Sunagakure Army, where he fought many battles against the other nations, going toe to toe with the hidden leaf mostly. One Leaf Shinobi, a member of the Sarutobi clan killed one of Xavi's friends during a peaceful negotiation, forcing Suna to engage Konoha in combat once again and Xavi chased the Sarutobi down, he hid inside a forest in the land of wind, a forest where there was also a village, a civilian village that Xavi wasn't aware had been setup there.

The Sarutobi ran towards the village as Xavi unleashed his greatest techniques towards the Sarutobi, in the effort he also destroyed the village, killing about a dozen civilians, people of the wind country. He Sarutobi was buried alive, but Xavi had to live with the guilt for the rest of his life. He left Sunagakure, quitting the shinobi life as he was banished and wandered the world for five years, at 19 he was having his head in a bottle, trying to drown his sorrows when a man approached him, saying he would give him purpose again. That there were people who needed him, that would help him get justice for the people he had wrongfully killed. The man's name was Hirorama, a warrior from the Stone Village, in the small village in the south on a mission that he couldn't discuss. Xavi begrudegly accepted, and soon the village was attacked by Kirigakure forces, the village would have gotten annihalated of Xavi hadn't helped using his magnet release to ruin the Mist forces, saving the village and making him feel like he could be a shinobi again.

Since then he's spent the last five years being a Iwagakure ninja and a member of the Granite Guard.

Clan:
The Kishimoto Clan is a passive clan, they're artists, not warriors, masters of the paintbrush, not the blade.
They are located in the Land of Wind and searched out refuge within the Hidden Sand Village when the local clans tried to rope the clan into fighting for them. They hold the unique ability to use Ink Release, a hidden jutsu that they practice daily.

Dreams and aspirations:
To become the leader of the Wind Country and make the Sand and the Rock sister villages.
Short term, it's to make sure that his birthplace and his adopted home don't break their peace and go to war on each other.

General strengths:
Xavi's biggest strength lies in the sheer amount of chakra the guy has, several saying that he has one of the steepest chakrapools anyone has ever seen. This leads to him being able to make large-scale jutsu and advanced techniques much easier than others, as he doesn't have to worry about running out of chakra as much as others have to.

He is a very strong fighting in large areas, having the ability to alter the terrain to his benefit. As such, he is very powerful against multiple opponents and in large spaces. Unlike one would think, he isn't a stationary fighter with his Magnet Release, but actually uses his Assimilate All Creation technique to move around on the battlefield to make himself a much more difficult target to hit.

Guy is a superb Ninjutsu user, this combined with his battle-smarts makes him quite the force to be reckoned with.

General weaknesses:
He is careless with his chakra simply because he has so much of it, it's happened several times that he overuses his chakra which leads to him having to face the consequences of being worn out in a fight before his opponent, even if his opponent has a much smaller chakrapool than him.

Where as his strength lies in changing the terrain to his advantage, his weakness lies in taking control of the fight from him. Fight him in close quarters in enclosed spaces where he can't manipulate the terrain and he will be made short work off.

And lastly is most likely his biggest weakness. His weakness to not one or two elements, but three elements. Water, Lightning and Fire all affects him negatively, Lightning and Fire burns his sand, making it much slower, and if in high enough temperatures it will turn the sand to glass. Water turns the sand into mud, and he can't use his techniques underwater, or really around water, which is why he tries to avoid that as much as possible.

Combat intel:

Known chakra natures:
Magnet Release.

Kekkei Genkei:
He has the ability to use the Hidden Ink Jutsu, as he was tutored in it as a child, but he much preferred to work in sand.

Skill Specialization:
Ninjutsu: Xavi is very skilled at using his ninjutsu in unorthodox ways, not only to affect large areas, but using his sand and All Creation Technique to make his opponents unaware of where he is currently on the battlefield, giving him a rather severe advantage.

Jutsu that (s)he has shown capable of using:

Canon:
Assimilate All Creation – Sand Version.
Sand Bullet
Sand Bullet Barrage
Sand Clone
Sand Tsunami
Sand Shuriken.
Shield of Sand.*
Sand Drizzle.
Sand Coffin.
Third Eye
*Xavi has to consciously block things with the shield. Its strength and size is dependent on how much sand is around him.

Custom:

Name of Technique: 
Earth Style: Grinding Crush.
Type of Jutsu:
Supplementary, Area Of Effect.
Rank: 
A.
Range:  Radius of up to 250 Meters and up to 15 meters deep below the surface.
Nature Type: 
Earth.
Handseals: 
9, and then either palm, or sole of bare-foot into the ground.
Description: 
The user sends their chakra into the ground, the chakra violently turning the earth underneath them into sand, changing the battlefield. It leaves quite the crater behind if used with full force. It can be use in smaller capacities. The sand moves with him, quite slowly on the ground as he moves around the battlefield, as if to prevent his opponents from escaping.
Weakness:
In itself it doesn't have any combat application, it's a technique purely meant to setup, it has a fairly long handseal sequence giving the opponents an opening to attack Xavi. Moving the sand requires chakra for Xavi, so you could actually drain his chakra pool by just running away from him and making him chase you.

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Name of Technique: Sand Sword.
Type of Jutsu:  Offensive, Ninjutsu.
Rank: B.
Range:  Close – Mid.
Nature Type: 
Magnet.
Handseals:
2 
Description: 
Xavi's one and only purely “Close” combat technique. He uses a small stream of sand like a sharp blade that he moves around the air with his magnetic powers. The blade moves at quite high velocities making it cut just like a blade.
Weakness:
Can't pierce armor properly, holds no proper stabbing potential.

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Name of Technique: 
Sand Eruption
Type of Jutsu: 
Offensive, Large Area.
Rank: 
A.
Range: 
Mid – Long.
Nature Type: 
Magnet.
Handseals:
3
Description:^
In a battlefield made out of sand, Xavi will make sand erupt from the ground, making explosions from underneath that sends out sharp sand all around in a 5 meter radius, slicing and dicing opponents. He can make several of them for relative small (for him) chakra costs.

Weakness:
It's possible to predict them because of the small airbubble that can be seen underneath the sand, the sand will poke up a bit from the rest of the sand as it's about to blow, best place to be would be in the air when he uses this technique, either that, or moving too fast for him to actually hit you with the technique. This is one of his biggest “Chakra thieves” as he quickly loses control of how many eruptions he has actually used.

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Name of Technique:
Corkscrew Sandcannon.
Type of Jutsu: 
Mobility, Offensive.
Rank:
B.
Range:
Long.
Nature Type:
Magnet.
Handseals:
5
Description:
Xavi cowers his lower body in sand, the sand starts spiraling beneath him and like a spring it sends him propelling through the air. This is an extremely quick way for him to move around, or to chase down an opponent who is trying to escape his Sand Battlefield.
Weakness:
While in the air, he has little control over his own motions, meaning he's pretty much a sitting, err, flying duck.

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Equipment Info:

Shown weapons:
Name:
Sand Box

Description:
Xavi carries four 'Pouches' on him, two on his waist, one on his left thigh, and one on his chest. They're filled with the highest quality sand Xavi has ever made, they all together amount to about 4 liters of sand, just enough for him to use his small-scale techniques or to make a small Sand Shield. He uses this in situations where he's caught out and cannot generate massive amounts of sand. Due to the nature of his “Apex Sand”, it requires more chakra to use, but is more powerful than regular sand.

Naruto: Bastion Of The Granite Guard

Bwahaha, hold right there palio!

Naw-mate on the Confetti Kunai. They're way too powerful. Splitter grenades is also way too advanced for this period of time.