When Sakana brushed past Tsukiko she couldn't help but give him a brief glare, though his offense was forgivable as there really was no reason to be waiting. She was unsure of what to expect for the challenge, perhaps something physically grueling or demanding. But instead it appeared to be a test of wits. The room was a vast expanse of darkness with only the proctor and the scroll floating high above the ground at presumably the center of the giant room. His silver flames were interesting but his attitude left much to be desired. Just his voice began to irritate Tsukiko, let alone his tone. The young woman kept her silence but gave this man a deadly glare, unblinking and unflinching in intensity. Only after he finally finished talking did she relent her gaze.
While Sakana and Kamui began to voice strategies Tsukiko first crouched and sniffed the air a few times. Her sense of smell was far beyond human levels but she couldn't detect the presence of anyone she couldn't already see right now. There were no people or animals hiding among the darkness of the room. Remaining in her crouched stance she performed several handseals and planted a fist against the ground. There was a brief rumble across the room before the floor underneath the scroll and the proctor began to rise. It continued all the way up, stopping just a few feet short of colliding with the two. "Now we can actually reach it," she finally said aloud, now standing back up to her full height. Kamui's clone now had a means to reach the scroll, but Tsukiko already had her doubts of the success.
Much like Usagi, she was concerned by the fire. Surely they had to put it out, but as well the fact the flames behaved so differently meant that it was likely they had different properties as well. Could they even be extinguished? "You know... I can just encase the scroll in rock," Tsukiko announced to her team, finally contributing to the strategy. "Either that counts as a success or the flames run out of oxygen and extinguish in a minute. But we have to consider the possibility that we might not be able to put the flames out, or that attempting to do so might destroy the scroll. We can't even be sure this is the real scroll with that shitty emblem on it."
Tsukiko took another glance up towards the floating asshole before letting her gaze wander around the darkness of the room. "We need to clear the room. I don't smell any people or animals but there may be traps or doors or the like. That man has no reason to tell us the truth so this may not be straightforward. I only have explosive tags to try to light things up to scan the room so I might not be the best for it. But if this room really is empty and that is the real scroll... Then I can grab it if we must."
Among the crowd of Jonin prospects, Tsukiko made no effort to stand out. This wasn't a social event nor did she care for the idea of showing off to spectators. This was merely another step forward, another mission for her to complete. Being promoted to Jonin was one more thing to conquer. For starters it would allow her access to greater challenges along with greater pay, but the prestige of joining the elite was not lost upon the young woman. Tsukiko could feel that many of the others around her wouldn't make the cut. Her instinct told her that the weaklings surrounding her would fail, either by their own nature or by getting in her way. Only a dozen or so stood out in her eyes. The rest were fodder or obstacles that foolishly believed they stood a chance.
But still she kept her silence. Despite performing her daily workout routine this morning she still knew that she had to conserve her energy and her efforts. She had to remain sharp just as much as she had to remain fit and prepared. Perhaps a few may recognize her, but the majority of the participants surely couldn't know much about Tsukiko. And it was for the best, lest she accidentally become a priority target or plans be made to handle her. If anything it would be a boon for the rest to think she was weak or unassuming. To have no expectations of her, a blank slate, would give her the edge for victory. She hadn't spoken a single word to anyone by the time the Hokage finally arrived to explain the first part of the exam. There would be six teams with their own unique challenges, and any team that did not have a scroll would go on to a consolation round to thin the herd.
Alright, that sounds simple enough, she thought to herself, bringing a hand to her chin as she scanned the rest of the Chuunin. If she was going to pick a team it had to look good. Joining weaklings would reduce the odds of moving on in the Exam. Though it wasn't her eyes that found what she was looking for, but instead her ears. "We should try and take another scroll so we finish with two scrolls. Fire first.. and if we have time, a second scroll." Tsukiko turned fully to face the direction of this brilliant idea, finding the culprit to be Sakana. He was explaining his idea to another young woman, Usagi. Though Tsukiko did not recognize either of these two offhand, her intuition was telling her that these were her kind of people.
Hunters.
Another young man joined the team as Tsukiko approached, identifying himself as Kamui Uzumaki. He was blunt and unceremonious about recruiting himself to their cause. As it should be. The team taking the fire scroll was shaping up to be a real group of winners. With a confident smirk Tsukiko herself now stepped forward to the crew. "I will be joining this team as well. Tsukiko Umene," she introduced, before directing her attention to Usagi to answer her question, "And we can do that, physically speaking." By now her smirk was long gone and her new teammates may have a hard time thinking she wasn't already angry. A resting bitchface did her no favors. They didn't hardly have any time before the Hokage spoke up again. After another brief speech he let his "assistant" come in and create several seals on the ground underneath the various teams that had formed. Tsukiko was immediately suspicious but ultimately decided to take no actions as the floor began to glow and envelop her team in light.
When her vision returned she found herself in a new room with only her teammates. As the Hokage's voice explained a little bit further her eyes locked onto the door with the fire symbol. Tsukiko didn't even wait for the voice to finish before she began walking towards the door ahead of her team. There was no need to sit around and waste time. If they could complete this task and get their scroll in a quick manner perhaps they could encroach on another team's challenge and take their scroll by force. The doors surely led outside judging by how the Hokage explained they were on an island. If the challenges were not all fully separated by the different islands being far apart then surely this strategy would be plausible. Once at the door Tsukiko considered just ripping the paper seal off herself but held on with a bit of patience, instead turned to face her approaching teammates. "It's time."
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Full Name】 Tsukiko Umene 【Nickname/Alias】 Honeybadger 【Gender】 Female 【Age】 Estimated to be 19, exact date of birth unknown 【Age Appearance】 Late teens to early twenties. 【Sexuality】 Heterosexual
【Village】 Konohagakure 【Birthplace】 Unknown
【Alignment/Affiliation/Organization】 Konohagakure
【Clan/Bloodline】 Unknown
【Rank】 Chuunin
【Chakra Nature】 Earth Release Wind Release
【Appearance/Wardrobe】 Tsukiko is notably tall for a woman, standing at 5'10". Her body is lean and toned, with her muscles being very easy to see. Her medium skin tone has a light tan to it though not that much is exposed. These features combined with her silver irises make her easily stand out in a crowd. She wears tight bandages to cover her chest, forearms, shins, and feet while wearing form-fitting black shorts. Over all this she wears a loose black and white tunic and black ninja sandals. Her two ninjato are sheathed in an X shape at the small of her back, attaching to her waist by a black leather strap that wraps over her tunic. Her other ninja tools are stored in pouches along the leather strap.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Personality】 A wild, angry creature. Tsukiko Umene has always been a fiery individual with a predisposition to violence. She is quick to act, often violently, and it seems that she is also quick to calm down. Her sporadic and chaotic behavior combined with her severe lack of respect to authority makes her a dangerous individual. One that can act on a whim and that few can keep in check, physically or mentally. She isn't just aware of her own state but is also remarkably perceptive of those around her, being particularly adept at and willing to exploit or attack emotional weaknesses.
Many consider her to be dense, assuming her to be unintelligent due to her barbaric behavior. But that is far from the case. While vocal about many things she is often quiet about her scheming nature. Tsukiko always has a plan and always has a back-up plan. She is shrewd and pragmatic but will attempt to hide it if she is in company that trusts her. To that same effect she doesn't trust anybody. She maintains her volatility at all times, leaving an impression that she could explode into a primal rage at any given moment. Tsukiko is a dangerous young woman and her personality reflects that almost perfectly. Never piss her off because no rule or social stigma can stop Tsukiko from attacking even her own allies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【History】 The earliest days of Tsukiko's life are a mystery. Not for shady or clandestine reasons, but for lack of information. She was found alone in the wild as a child, estimated to be around seven years old at the time. The young girl was completely feral and a cursory search of the area found no signs of any family. She wasn't even capable of communicating with the shinobi who found her by chance, though she did attack them and injured one in her initial ambush. They gave the girl the name Tsukiko, after the full moon on the night she tried to attack them, and then brought her back to Konohagakure against her will. An investigation concluded that she presented no threat as an enemy of the village or spy but nobody was sure what to do with her. She couldn't speak and was very aggressive, limiting the options.
The final decision was to leave her at an orphanage that was tasked to integrate her into society and find her a family. The first order of business was to teach Tsukiko how to speak, which she adapted to fairly quickly. Despite the improvement in communication she remained relatively hostile and aggressive towards the other children and the adults helping her. Some joked that teaching her how to talk was only a mistake as she now was able to verbalize her disdain. The orphanage basically gave up on trying to teach her after almost two years, though fortunately for the wild girl a family had taken a liking to her. The Umene family, an unassuming couple who could not bear children of their own, came to the orphanage and seen the state Tsukiko was in and felt that they could take care of her and provide her a better life. Their first year with the girl was a struggle to say the least but eventually Tsukiko grew attached to her new parents and simmered down enough to keep from making their lives miserable.
But now the young girl had a lot of free time on her hands. She didn't do very well in regular school between the terrible grades and constant trouble. She remained very active with a seemingly endless energy, so her parents decided to enroll her in the Ninja Academy to see how well she may fare there. As it turns out Tsukiko was much better at this. Though her grades in general remained poor and she was always among the bottom of the class in academics, her actual performance with training was excellent. Her physical capabilities were put to good use and she learned the tricks of being a shinobi with relative ease. Her behavior remained a big setback with her education but nonetheless she was able to graduate and become a genin. Her original team didn't take much of a liking to her, and neither did she take a liking to them, but her efficiency in completing tasks was worthy of respect. When she was occupied with a mission her mind was like a steel trap and she proved many times that she was not one to be trifled with questioning orders as long as the end result was made clear.
By this point her ability to speak was perfect and she had largely calmed down from her feral childhood days, but Tsukiko still remained one of the least popular kunoichi to be around. She was fairly popular for completing missions though with her ruthless efficiency. Once her squad finally began taking missions that saw combat it opened a whole new page in her history. As it turned out she was quite good at killing. And once she was allowed to it opened the floodgates of her primal nature. She quickly became notorious for this, getting the attention of Konoha's leadership. Her penchant for killing targets, even enemies that would generally be figured to outclass her, made her a prime candidate for specializing as a hunter-nin. Tsukiko's ability to seek and destroy was uncanny and one of the big deals noted during her chuunin exams when she killed one of her opponents during a match. Since her promotion to chuunin she has spent a majority of her missions hunting down and capturing or killing targets, usually missing-nin. Her sixth sense of murder has always come in handy. Tsukiko looks at it a lot like hunting and gets a thrill of the hunt and the inevitable success. She never looked at it like she was going to fight an opponent, only that she was going to kill them. And everything leading up to that is simply part of the process.
Her recent candidacy for jonin came as no surprise. Her parents are proud that she's come so far even at such a young age, but Tsukiko herself could hardly care less what title she holds. So long as she gets to keep her hands occupied it makes no difference, though preferably higher ranks would give her access to more dangerous and challenging missions. Tracking down petty criminals is beneath her at this point. Even targeting other shinobi seems too easy. What Tsukiko wants is a chance to hunt enemies stronger than her. A dangerous game where failure is more likely than success. A true challenge and test of her capabilities. But to do that she need to prove herself so with no holds barred she entered the jonin exams. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Equipment/Weapons/Items】 Name of Weapon or Item: Dual Ninjato Description: Two straight-edge short swords, capable of being wielded in one hand each. Lightweight and razor sharp, they are excellent at slashing away at unarmored foes. They have no special properties about them. Appearance: As it says on the tin.
She also keeps all the standard shinobi gear including kunai, shuriken, exploding tags, and a heaping of ninja wire. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Noteworthy Traits】 Very stealthy, proficient in Silent Killing. Immense physical stamina. Incredible speed and agility. Superhuman sense of smell, capable of identifying and tracking individuals for miles. Advanced knowledge of trapping and ambush strategies. Absolutely ruthless, will do literally anything to win a fight or kill a target. High pain tolerance. Average chakra pool and chakra control. Sensitive, prone to fits of rage. Easy to manipulate. Almost no book smarts, only intuition.
【Kekkei Genkai】
No Kekkei Genkai. ------------------------------------------------------- Jutsu:
Name of Technique: Wind Release: Thunderclap Technique Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: C Range: Most effective under 5 meters, has an effect out to 30 meters. Nature Type: Wind Effect: The user gathers two compressed balls of air, one in each hand, and then claps their hands together. The resulting explosion of the air has little kinetic force, only creating a slight breeze, but the sound it creates is incredibly loud. Comparable to actual thunder, it temporarily deafens everyone within the nearby area with those closer being deafened the longest. Effects can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, pending distance. Beyond a certain range it is still loud but no longer deafening at all.
Name of Technique: Strong Gust Technique Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: D Range: Up to 10 meters. Nature Type: Wind Effect: After taking a deep breath, the user exhales a strong gust of wind from their mouth. It has enough force to lift an adult human and send them backwards several meters. This means it can effectively halt incoming projectiles as well. This technique has little damage it can do directly. Worth noting is that it can combo incredibly well with Fire nature techniques.
Name of Technique: Spiritual Reversion Technique Type of Jutsu: Nintaijutsu Rank: S Range: Self Nature Type: N/A Effect: The user will temporarily convert their spiritual energy into more physical energy, significantly boosting their physical capabilities. Their strength, speed, and endurance are boosted massively. This creates a visible effect in which the user's muscles become significantly larger for the duration of this technique, as well as their more prominent veins and arteries glowing blue through the skin. As all the chakra has been converted to physical energy, the user cannot mould any of it and therefore cannot perform any other chakra-based techniques while performing this one. The duration of this technique depends on how much chakra they have and how rigorous their physical activity while it is active. In Tsukiko's case at full chakra and with deliberate actions she can make it last up to twenty minutes, but in strenuous combat situations it could be as little as five minutes. Should the user not end the technique before they run out of physical energy they will die from having no chakra thus care must be taken in how much energy they have left at all times. Regardless of how long this technique is kept active it will always leave the user feeling sore afterwards.
Character Theme -Six Shooter --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Full Name】 Tsukiko Umene 【Nickname/Alias】 Honeybadger 【Gender】 Female 【Age】 Estimated to be 19, exact date of birth unknown 【Age Appearance】 Late teens to early twenties. 【Sexuality】 Heterosexual
【Village】 Konohagakure 【Birthplace】 Unknown
【Alignment/Affiliation/Organization】 Konohagakure
【Clan/Bloodline】 Unknown
【Rank】 Chuunin
【Chakra Nature】 Earth Release Wind Release
【Appearance/Wardrobe】 Tsukiko is notably tall for a woman, standing at 5'10". Her body is lean and toned, with her muscles being very easy to see. Her medium skin tone has a light tan to it though not that much is exposed. These features combined with her silver irises make her easily stand out in a crowd. She wears tight bandages to cover her chest, forearms, shins, and feet while wearing form-fitting black shorts. Over all this she wears a loose black and white tunic and black ninja sandals. Her two ninjato are sheathed in an X shape at the small of her back, attaching to her waist by a black leather strap that wraps over her tunic. Her other ninja tools are stored in pouches along the leather strap.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Personality】 A wild, angry creature. Tsukiko Umene has always been a fiery individual with a predisposition to violence. She is quick to act, often violently, and it seems that she is also quick to calm down. Her sporadic and chaotic behavior combined with her severe lack of respect to authority makes her a dangerous individual. One that can act on a whim and that few can keep in check, physically or mentally. She isn't just aware of her own state but is also remarkably perceptive of those around her, being particularly adept at and willing to exploit or attack emotional weaknesses.
Many consider her to be dense, assuming her to be unintelligent due to her barbaric behavior. But that is far from the case. While vocal about many things she is often quiet about her scheming nature. Tsukiko always has a plan and always has a back-up plan. She is shrewd and pragmatic but will attempt to hide it if she is in company that trusts her. To that same effect she doesn't trust anybody. She maintains her volatility at all times, leaving an impression that she could explode into a primal rage at any given moment. Tsukiko is a dangerous young woman and her personality reflects that almost perfectly. Never piss her off because no rule or social stigma can stop Tsukiko from attacking even her own allies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【History】 The earliest days of Tsukiko's life are a mystery. Not for shady or clandestine reasons, but for lack of information. She was found alone in the wild as a child, estimated to be around seven years old at the time. The young girl was completely feral and a cursory search of the area found no signs of any family. She wasn't even capable of communicating with the shinobi who found her by chance, though she did attack them and injured one in her initial ambush. They gave the girl the name Tsukiko, after the full moon on the night she tried to attack them, and then brought her back to Konohagakure against her will. An investigation concluded that she presented no threat as an enemy of the village or spy but nobody was sure what to do with her. She couldn't speak and was very aggressive, limiting the options.
The final decision was to leave her at an orphanage that was tasked to integrate her into society and find her a family. The first order of business was to teach Tsukiko how to speak, which she adapted to fairly quickly. Despite the improvement in communication she remained relatively hostile and aggressive towards the other children and the adults helping her. Some joked that teaching her how to talk was only a mistake as she now was able to verbalize her disdain. The orphanage basically gave up on trying to teach her after almost two years, though fortunately for the wild girl a family had taken a liking to her. The Umene family, an unassuming couple who could not bear children of their own, came to the orphanage and seen the state Tsukiko was in and felt that they could take care of her and provide her a better life. Their first year with the girl was a struggle to say the least but eventually Tsukiko grew attached to her new parents and simmered down enough to keep from making their lives miserable.
But now the young girl had a lot of free time on her hands. She didn't do very well in regular school between the terrible grades and constant trouble. She remained very active with a seemingly endless energy, so her parents decided to enroll her in the Ninja Academy to see how well she may fare there. As it turns out Tsukiko was much better at this. Though her grades in general remained poor and she was always among the bottom of the class in academics, her actual performance with training was excellent. Her physical capabilities were put to good use and she learned the tricks of being a shinobi with relative ease. Her behavior remained a big setback with her education but nonetheless she was able to graduate and become a genin. Her original team didn't take much of a liking to her, and neither did she take a liking to them, but her efficiency in completing tasks was worthy of respect. When she was occupied with a mission her mind was like a steel trap and she proved many times that she was not one to be trifled with questioning orders as long as the end result was made clear.
By this point her ability to speak was perfect and she had largely calmed down from her feral childhood days, but Tsukiko still remained one of the least popular kunoichi to be around. She was fairly popular for completing missions though with her ruthless efficiency. Once her squad finally began taking missions that saw combat it opened a whole new page in her history. As it turned out she was quite good at killing. And once she was allowed to it opened the floodgates of her primal nature. She quickly became notorious for this, getting the attention of Konoha's leadership. Her penchant for killing targets, even enemies that would generally be figured to outclass her, made her a prime candidate for specializing as a hunter-nin. Tsukiko's ability to seek and destroy was uncanny and one of the big deals noted during her chuunin exams when she killed one of her opponents during a match. Since her promotion to chuunin she has spent a majority of her missions hunting down and capturing or killing targets, usually missing-nin. Her sixth sense of murder has always come in handy. Tsukiko looks at it a lot like hunting and gets a thrill of the hunt and the inevitable success. She never looked at it like she was going to fight an opponent, only that she was going to kill them. And everything leading up to that is simply part of the process.
Her recent candidacy for jonin came as no surprise. Her parents are proud that she's come so far even at such a young age, but Tsukiko herself could hardly care less what title she holds. So long as she gets to keep her hands occupied it makes no difference, though preferably higher ranks would give her access to more dangerous and challenging missions. Tracking down petty criminals is beneath her at this point. Even targeting other shinobi seems too easy. What Tsukiko wants is a chance to hunt enemies stronger than her. A dangerous game where failure is more likely than success. A true challenge and test of her capabilities. But to do that she need to prove herself so with no holds barred she entered the jonin exams. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Equipment/Weapons/Items】 Name of Weapon or Item: Dual Ninjato Description: Two straight-edge short swords, capable of being wielded in one hand each. Lightweight and razor sharp, they are excellent at slashing away at unarmored foes. They have no special properties about them. Appearance: As it says on the tin.
She also keeps all the standard shinobi gear including kunai, shuriken, exploding tags, and a heaping of ninja wire. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【Noteworthy Traits】 Very stealthy, proficient in Silent Killing. Immense physical stamina. Incredible speed and agility. Superhuman sense of smell, capable of identifying and tracking individuals for miles. Advanced knowledge of trapping and ambush strategies. Absolutely ruthless, will do literally anything to win a fight or kill a target. High pain tolerance. Average chakra pool and chakra control. Sensitive, prone to fits of rage. Easy to manipulate. Almost no book smarts, only intuition.
【Kekkei Genkai】
No Kekkei Genkai. ------------------------------------------------------- Jutsu:
Name of Technique: Wind Release: Thunderclap Technique Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: C Range: Most effective under 5 meters, has an effect out to 30 meters. Nature Type: Wind Effect: The user gathers two compressed balls of air, one in each hand, and then claps their hands together. The resulting explosion of the air has little kinetic force, only creating a slight breeze, but the sound it creates is incredibly loud. Comparable to actual thunder, it temporarily deafens everyone within the nearby area with those closer being deafened the longest. Effects can last anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, pending distance. Beyond a certain range it is still loud but no longer deafening at all.
Name of Technique: Strong Gust Technique Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Rank: D Range: Up to 10 meters. Nature Type: Wind Effect: After taking a deep breath, the user exhales a strong gust of wind from their mouth. It has enough force to lift an adult human and send them backwards several meters. This means it can effectively halt incoming projectiles as well. This technique has little damage it can do directly. Worth noting is that it can combo incredibly well with Fire nature techniques.
Name of Technique: Spiritual Reversion Technique Type of Jutsu: Nintaijutsu Rank: S Range: Self Nature Type: N/A Effect: The user will temporarily convert their spiritual energy into more physical energy, significantly boosting their physical capabilities. Their strength, speed, and endurance are boosted massively. This creates a visible effect in which the user's muscles become significantly larger for the duration of this technique, as well as their more prominent veins and arteries glowing blue through the skin. As all the chakra has been converted to physical energy, the user cannot mould any of it and therefore cannot perform any other chakra-based techniques while performing this one. The duration of this technique depends on how much chakra they have and how rigorous their physical activity while it is active. In Tsukiko's case at full chakra and with deliberate actions she can make it last up to twenty minutes, but in strenuous combat situations it could be as little as five minutes. Should the user not end the technique before they run out of physical energy they will die from having no chakra thus care must be taken in how much energy they have left at all times. Regardless of how long this technique is kept active it will always leave the user feeling sore afterwards.
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