The 42nd Gecko

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

"I...." Shock was clearly written on Allia's face, and, having just barely rose up, her un-gauntleted hand pulling herself up via the desk, she fell again to one knee. Several moments of silence from her lips, before her head rose. Even the very muted sound of flapping wings died out.

"Are you alright?" She asked, her eyes teary. "To take so many lives.. I don't know what it would be like. I haven't taken one, even in self defense. Zilant always.. Zilant.." Allia looked up at the ceiling, and sighed. "Does it for me. I am still a child in his eyes, and I suppose in yours as well." A smile came to her lips, though still tinged with sadness, "Hah.. He often speaks of finding me a husband with honor but no name.. I imagine he wishes me to continue the Solidas family contract with his clan in that way and would use your penance for that." Her smile widened, "Hah, on the other hand, he'd never let anyone touch me he didn't pick himself."

Then the smile faded, and she rose and clasped her hands in front of herself. "I don't know what to say to you, I know nothing of your grief. I have grappled with the loss of a family, but I have always had Zilant, and I still believe I will meet my little brother again in Our Father's Hall." Her reference was to a small but noticeable cult presence in Exae. Some few noble families had such pride in their founders and history that they believed their founders had prepared a hall in the afterlife for every member of the family who honored their legacy. Solidas was one of these families. "You.. You have someone too, right? Her name was Touhu, yes? Are you also well as can be after what has happened?" In some ways, Allia lived up to one pillar of Alaria, the compassion of Naya.

The wall was hit hard as a stream of Dragon's Fire* slammed into it, the flames lapping around it falling about the sides, enhanced by the Breath of Azazel, and driven by the deepest fury a dragon of over four score years of age had ever known.

"YOU! YOU! LIAR AND DECEIVER!" The dragon's roar crashed on the walls, accompanied by whirling cutting blades of wind that fanned the flames.

"Kaneros the Nimble, Kaneros the Elder, Gregori the Clever, Rumineos the Black, Myejorin the Masked, Casterin the Golden, Gabarinth the Just!" The dragon crashed onto the building, amid the flames, digging his claws in and attempting to rend it apart, crashing through if it's strength was not sufficient to hold him back after his Ninjutsu attacks. "Them and all their wives and daughters, I swore to protect. Slain for the sins of fear not their own?!? I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!"

"Zilant! Wait!" Allia pleaded

"YOU! No lone human could slay them all as that continent was burned to ash! Not even the fires of Azazel himself, Dragonfather-Before-Mountains, could burn away the heart of Alaria! Who helped you?" Zilant demanded, clearly not thinking straight in rage and grief. He didn't even seem to notice that he had both implied that Akaritori did not do it and that she had done it with help. Before even waiting to hear an answer to his question, he let yet one more stream of fire at Akaritori, in a loose, burn everything sense of the word, whether he was still on the roof or on the ground.

Presuming Zilant had breached the wall, Allia grabbed Zilant from behind, attempting to pull him back. She would make notable progress, dragging him back several feet, his claws digging furrows through the gold as he attempted to stay in place. Regardless, Allia was unable to stop the stream of fire at the moment. Even with sound mind, Zilant was not a match for Akaritori, and Allia realized this yelling out, "Please! Don't kill him!"

*Fire Breathing Technique, as I'm pretty sure it's clear.

**Feel free to autohit KO Zilant, he can't even see clearly he's so angry. You can also go for a free kill if you make your attack look nonlethal till the last second, but if you go in with something that looks like it will kill him, Allia will try and get in the way.

***Of course, most of this sequence assumes you don't take the fight to him outside as soon as Zilant snaps.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

"This... This... It's the Citadel.. I remember.. I was little.. Everything was huge." Allia seemed completely distracted from Akaritori, missing her gaze in the wonder of the room. "It still is." Her hands felt over the walls, and then reached out into the beams of light. Allia seemed entirely entranced by the light playing across her armored gauntlet. Her armor too, was distinctive of Exae, for it was not made of light as traditional, but forged of steel by strange craft of dragons. Pulling back her hand, she pulled off the gauntlet, throwing her hand back into the light. "Huh... It's a different light than I remember.. Did it change or did I?" She looked up, gazing at the source of the light rather than where it displayed across her fingers.

Then, she finally caught sight of the person she had actually come here to see. "Oh.. I'm sorry.. I was distracted.. Um.. I.. Do you know what happened to Exae?" Akaritori may have known that she only talked to people who made it to her desk. But, unless there was a sign that said that, Allia didn't.

Fortunately for Akaritori's rule, a dragon-sourced blast of wind sent Allia smashing into the wall just shy of Akaritori, bouncing off without any serious harm to herself, thanks to her ridiculous physique. Up close, it was even easier to discern that Allia was no warrior by nature, but had been trained hard. Her manner was timid, she walked like one out of her element, as though someone dressed her up in this armor she wore. Despite that, she moved as though the armor she wore was no heavier than the silks embellishing it. Aptitude but not attitude.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

"Um, hello... I was wondering if I could, ah, speak to? Or wait, no, it's probably better to just send a note.. Or.." Allia bumbled out words, her timidity transforming her straightforward request into long-winded nonsense. She was dressed in the ceremonial style armor of the House of Solidas, the Sword of Sheol on her back.

"GET ON WITH IT." Bellowed a giant dragon looking through a window. Zilant was highly intolerant of Allia's timidity.

Wincing in the face of true dragon breath, and mildly worried about getting more flammable saliva on herself, Allia steeled herself, opening the door.. To the receptionist.

The receptionist was rather nonplussed*, in the unperturbed but still intrigued sense of the word. While a summoned creature bellowing outside her door was unusual, it was not unprecedented.

"Can I help you?" She inquired dryly.

"Well... Do you have a handtowel?" Allia inquired back, still worried about aforementioned flammable saliva.

The handtowel was produced instantly by the receptionist from somewhere under the desk. The receptionist was still rather unamused.

"I.. mean.. Wait, no, what I came here for was.. I ah.. What I wanted to do.. Was talk to... Or leave a message for the Yamakage... Um.."

"Get on with it!" The bellow could be heard again, but muffled through the door this time.

"YES! Uhm.. You see, she calls herself the Pride of Exae.. And I'm from Exae.. And I was wondering if she knew what happened to my homeland." Allia finally finished her request.

*if you think that's not a meaning for that word, you are possibly English, and right, in the formal sense of that word.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Allia

Used Name: Allia
Full Name: Margravine Allia Rozaria Solidas / Zilant
Birthplace: Exae, Alaria / ???
Age: 27 / 98
Current Village: Yamagakure ~ Tenuous

Rank: Difficult to define, Allia has had wonky training. She knows some ninjutsu techniques that are on Chuunin level, but has not learned basic academy jutsu that everyone is supposed to know. Her Genjutsu is entirely nonexistent, as Zilant did not know any to teach her,. She doesn’t even know the basic anti-Genjutsu techniques. Speaking of which.. Alaria has a Jounin level dragon summon with her at all times, despite being unable to summon him. She has Kage Taijutsu specialist level physical ability, thanks to the Sword of Sheol, but her Taijutsu and Kenjutsu are similarly nonexistent as her Genjutsu, as Zilant had no way to teach her those. She’s practiced at dodging attacks from a dragon, but that’s about it. She has access to a huge pool of chakra thanks to the Sword of Sheol, but her handsigns are clumsy and slow. Dragons without hands are not very good at teaching handsigns. They are also more technically wyverns, but angering self-styled dragons is not always smart. So… I’ll leave determining what rank she is to you.

Backstory/Personality: Allia is a survivor of Exae, of a powerful family who formed contracts with a clan of dragons, who survived only because Zilant was taker her over the sea to form their contract when she was only seven years old. Allia was a child who was viewed as too weak to carry on the family legacy, and thus was likely to be contracted to the dragon clan as a formality before eventually being married off for political gain. Afraid of the Exaen art of swordplay, unskilled at Nykt’s artifice, Allia only learned the compassion of Naya. Well, what of it she could at the age of 7.

After the destruction of Exae, Zilant became the caretaker of Allia, and she the caretaker of him. She was the last member of the family the Dragon Clan had sworn to protect. Zilant, a proud and powerful soul, though still young by Dragon Clan standards, was left trying to forge a timid child into the bearer of the Sword of Sheol. He has performed admirably, but is not entirely successful.

They now reside in Yamagakure because, well, Exae is not exactly hospitable, what with being rendered unto ash.

Jutsu/Items

Name of Jutsu: Dragon’s Scales
Rank: B
Range: Touch
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
User[s]: Zilant, Dragon Clan
Affinity: Draconic Transmutation

Description: The Dragon’s Scales is a technique that uses chakra to intermingle the bonds of an object more thoroughly. The chakra does not actively fight against stress or impact, but rather, due to the bonds it forged through the object, causes any stress or impact to be applied to the entirety of the object rather than just the point of impact. This means that attacks that rely on a cutting or piercing edge will generally fail to breach the object effectively, and that blunt impact is applied diffusely over the whole. However, this means if a focused attack has the power to obliterate the object, it will do so, rather than penetrate one point and go through leaving the rest of the object unharmed. Notably, this is often a nice trait for armor, and Allia’s armor has this jutsu in effect upon it fairly permanently due to its attachment to the Dragon Clan.

Name of Jutsu: Dragon’s Hoard
Rank: D
Range: Touch
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
User[s]: Zilant, Allia, Dragon Clan
Affinity: Draconic Transmutation

Description: The Dragon’s Hoard is a technique that uses chakra to intermingle the bonds of an object a little bit. It causes a group of objects to “know” where they are in relation to each other. Anyone who knows this trait and infuses one of the objects with a small amount of properly tuned chakra will get a “ping” from each other object. This is not a superbly unstoppable technique, and any sufficient chakra barrier is able to “hide” an object from this ping. However, seeing that the number of other people who have even heard of the dragon clan, much less this specific technique, now number all of one person, so walls of chakra tuned against this ability are more likely to be on accident than intentional. The duration of this ability changes depending on the chakra used in initial infusion and the technique of the user. Allia can make it last for up to a few weeks, whereas Zilant can make it last for years.

Name of Jutsu: Breath of Gehenna
Rank: C
Range: Direct Contact/Depends on subsequently used Wind Jutsu
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
User[s]: Zilant, Allia, Dragon Clan
Affinity: Draconic Transmutation

Description: This technique transmutes the air around the user into a fuel air explosive. Allia can perform this technique, but it’s far more chakra expensive if she doesn’t have Zilant or a vial of his saliva on hand. The initial transformation is chakra based, but the fuel-air explosive substance produced is physical in nature with only trace amounts of chakra. The substance can be stored unlit for several days if the trace amounts of chakra still in it are left to stabilize it, but the substance breaks apart in a few minutes if those trace chakra elements are disrupted. Zilant can create considerable quantities of Breath of Gehenna very chakra efficiently by moistly breathing outwards. It’s not nearly as dignified and noble looking as he would prefer. Primarily used before a wind technique to get said fuel air explosive away from you, before lighting it. Using this move while someone is using fire techniques at you is not advised.

Name of Jutsu: Breath of Azazel
Rank: B
Range: Supplements a Fire-Technique
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
User[s]: Zilant, Dragon Clan
Affinity: Draconic Transmutation

Description: Another technique utilizing draconic saliva, this technique renders the flames of the simultaneously performed fire technique sticky. The flames will layer onto the targets, stick like napalm and keep burning. The initial transformation is chakra based, but the napalm like substance produced is physical in nature with only trace amounts of chakra. The substance can be stored unlit for several days if the trace amounts of chakra still in it are left to stabilize it, but the substance breaks apart in a few minutes if those trace chakra elements are disrupted.

Other:
Fire breathing technique. Zilant's good at it.
Fireball technique.
Wind techniques of generic levels.
Sickle Weasel technique, only via wings or handsigns rather than giant fan.
Vacuum Sword.

Name of Armament: Sword of Sheol
Owner: Allia
Rank: S

Description: A western Style sword as seen in the picture, the Sword of Sheol is a blade of the Solidas family that provides their link to the dragon clan. It is a relic of Exae and thus a relic of law, forming contracts between ninjas and the dragons. The blade in infused with enormous amounts of chakra, due to generations upon generations of both Solidas family ninjas and dragons infusing it with chakra. Right now, it is overflowing with chakra, more than even this S ranked artifact can hold, thanks to an entire clan of dragons having nothing to do but send chakra to it. This chakra can be drawn out by anyone contracted to it. This chakra can only be used for summoning techniques of the dragon clan or Draconic transmutation techniques initially, but it can be morphed into normal chakra with time and concentration, or at a slower rate passively. Allia can replenish about 5% of her chakra per second with concentration, while Zilant can replenish about 4% of his chakra per second with concentration, but has slightly over three times Allia’s level of chakra. The passive rate is a tenth of that.

A secondary ability of this sword is that it is able to arbitrate contracts. If two people make a contract sealed by bleeding on the sword, it will punish anyone that breaks the letter of the contract. That punishment is summoning the one who broke the contract to the middle of the dragon clan’s abode. Whether or not that is sufficient to punish them depends on whether they can take a bunch of dragons in combat.

Another secondary ability of this sword is that the bearer’s physical ability is constantly passively trained, due to the fact that having immense energy running through your body being converted to other energies apparently trains your muscles in this world, as established by the Pride of Exae ability.

Other: Allia does not carry normal ninja tools, being untrained in their use, but wears armor and carries vials of Zilant’s saliva, as well as an urn of Breath of Azazel and a few gas grenades of Breath of Gehenna.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

My opinion on Naruto is that it peaked with the Kakashi vs Zabuza fights 1 and 2, and that it was all downhill from there.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

How long ago was Exae burned to the ground?

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Ello, Taylor!

Nice Vi pic. :3

Alright! I'll put some thought into it.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Are the plebes allowed multiple characters? I could certainly roll a hot-blooded Genin to counterpoint a level-headed former Jounin diplomat.

The Derpicorn is growing on me. I might keep it.

Shūkyō Kaikaku (Naruto AU)

Mitsu

This..

Only on this dude..


Real Name: Mitsu (no family name)
Age: 36
Sex: Male
Height: 5’8”
Sexuality: Do YOU have detect sexuality on your technique list? :P

Character Type: Shinobi - Ranked?

Country/Village: Kirigakure
Rank: Jounin, now an honorary title as he is officially retired from ninja service after injuries in the line of duty.
Division: Diplomatic Corps, previously Medical Corps.

Personality: Mitsu is very laid back. His mask gives him an excellent poker face and his body language tells only of a relaxed persona. Mitsu feels little need to prove himself, confident in the man he has become. This is one of the rather few traits he shares with the stereotype of his people’s culture, in that he stubbornly refuses to be drawn into other people’s emotional rhythm. In addition to being relaxed, Mitsu is rather serious in personality. He often considers everything he says carefully and is not prone to flippant speech. He is tactful and obliging but unyielding in his own principles. That said, he is not without humor, as his favored weapon in friendly duels is the bouncy ball.

Likely Mitsu’s most defining principle is his pacifism. Mitsu very much prefers not to kill. That is not to say he does not enjoy battle, as he continues to duel with his original sensei to this day. That yearly ritual is one of the few occasions Mitsu will show boyish enthusiasm. However, he much prefers it when it is a game without blood on the line. Mitsu’s signature sword has no sharpened edge or point, Mitsu’s throwing tools are bouncy balls, and all but one Mitsu most advanced Jutsu are shielding and healing techniques. Even his one advanced lethal technique is a technique accidentally discovered while studying healing. Mitsu, throughout his advancement matches to Chuunin and Jounin, absolutely refused to use lethal force despite the extravagant and potentially lethal techniques usually thrown around by most Genin eager to advance.

Mitsu, in short, loves peace, but is also harsh and experienced enough to understand the world. He is loyal to his own people and serves their interests above his own, but he would prefer if the countries did not have to engage in the shadow warfare they are frequently forced to.

Nindo; “The last cry before eternal silence is the most painful sound.”
Clan/Bloodline: Mitsu has no bloodline or clan, but has pioneered an unusual set of techniques. They could be taught to anyone with the necessary bloodline.
Jutsu and Techniques:
Mitsu was once a master of a variety of Water and Lightning Elemental techniques as befitting a Jounin level ninja, but the loss of his right arm put them beyond his grasp, as he can no longer make the necessary handsigns. However, fortunately, his custom techniques and healing techniques are still available to him, as well as very low level direct manipulation of those elements.

Mitsu’s personal technique is a way of imbuing chakra to create “chakra fields” that work similarly to magnetic fields. This allows him to deflect a variety of techniques, as the number of techniques that rely on a movement or flow of chakra is considerable. However, since the loss of his right arm, he is unable to generate these fields quickly enough to intercept most attacks, save through his signature blade and mask.

Mitsu was not a primary healer when he initially became a Chuunin, lacking the medical knowledge necessary, growing up in Bikitoshi rather than Shijotoshi. At first, it was likely that he would have been shipped off to the Navy rather than allowed into the Medical Corps. However, he developed a peculiar talent with his chakra feels, and learned how to send forth a self-propagating chakra wave similar to an EM Wave that loses very little energy when it travels. Combined with the knowledge of healing he did have, Mitsu developed a long-range healing technique. Mitsu is able to boost and replenish the vitality and chakra of others without actually touching them as long as he has line of effect with no walls of dense chakra between them. This healing only boosts the natural regeneration of the body and will not handle serious wounds on its own. This was useful in the field as the team cannot always reach who they need to heal immediately. Mitsu’s ability allowed him to revitalize casualties for long enough for the team to reach them safely and actually stabilize them. It was also useful to boost the chakra of the primary healer in the team in case a particularly loss filled battle had drained their chakra reservoirs. The rest of the time, he performed as an additional guard member to protect the medic squad.

Since then, he has mastered a Jounin level of medical techniques, especially during his time as a diplomat, relieved of his duties and need to continue studying his no longer usable water and lightning elemental techniques. This has afforded him the use of a singularly lethal technique Mitsu is not fond of. There are certain moments in the heart’s rhythm of beats where it is extraordinarily vulnerable to shock, a tiny window measured in milliseconds. If struck during this part of the hearts cycle, it induces immediate cardiac arrest even without significant trauma. While the heart has not suffered significant damage and can be easily restarted, most people cannot do this on themselves while their heart isn’t beating. Mitsu’s mastery of healing techniques and chakra fields allows him to detect these windows and disrupt both the flow of blood and chakra through the heart with one well timed touch. However, if the slightest disruption to his attack happens, it will through off his timing and cause the attack to do almost nothing.

One other highly useful technique is his ability to use his self-propagating chakra wave to send messages, as it’s a rather absurdly useful ability to be able to send tight band communications with your mind when you are a diplomat. Unfortunately, the communication is one way.

Weapons/Artifacts:

Moonlit Wave: Moonlit Wave is a katana of middling length. Its craftsmanship is fair, but not excellent, as it was forged by Mitsu himself, and while the folding of steel was taught to him by his sensei, he did not have the same knack for it as his master. It is dull, the edge never sharpened. This is the third Moonlit Wave, forged after his retirement after the incident which broke both the second Moonlit Wave and his right arm. The primary boon of this sword is that Mitsu can flow his chakra through this blade, amplifying his chakra field technique. When he swings this blade, he can create a chakra field pointing in that direction of strong enough intensity to deflect even a potent Jounin level technique. Presuming that technique relies on a movement or flow of chakra, rather than a mundane projectile created and imbued with velocity via chakra.

Mask of the Fox: This is kiri-style ANBU-esque mask that constantly generates a chakra field around Mitsu’s eyes and ears. This is able to interfere with many visual or audible type Genjutsu. However, unless Mitsu spends chakra actively to ramp up the field, high level Genjutsu might penetrate through brute force, though likely warped. Note that the rest of his uniform is rather un-ANBU style, thus making confusing him for one unlikely.

WIP parts:
Fleshing out old sensei swordsmith/swordsman NPC
Last minute checks of spelling/grammar
Formalizing his techniques into jutsu. But the principles and mechanics are all there.

Apparently a diplomat won't have anything to do in the story according to Taylor, so new character concept will be needed, to redo the whole along those lines.