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Our story begins on a beautiful morning. The sun was just about to rise; breaking the darkness that covered the world with reds and golds peeking through the gaps in the mountains and lighting the sky like a scene out of a play. The birds were chirping in the vast forests, bringing the firsts sounds to break the silence. At the coasts, the birds' songs were not quite as pleasant and the voice of a gull could barely be called song.
The village itself, which would only have looked like a fly's waste on the map if it had been on one, never slept. When those who lived the day began to get up, those who lived the night were just going to bed. With all the burning, red lights of the small village, people rarely took the time to enjoy the sun's rise.
Despite this day being a beautiful one, by all means, it was not a special day. Special days were rare in this small village. They had their festivals, of course, but for a place that prides itself with being one of entertainment, the festivities of those arrangements were just routine.

As a village divided into people of the day and people of the night, the regular citizens rarely paid any heed to those in the middle; the shinobi and kunoichi of their village. Their warriors and their guards; the ones that kept them safe from the wicked ways of the outside world and made it possible for the small village to remain one of entertainment by their own rights, rather than following the word of a larger village. 

Haruka groaned deeply in the back of her throat when she felt the burning sensation of sunlight filtering through her eyelids and turned to her other side, immediately regretting her decision to move. It was as if even the small movement of turning around made her room dance and she had to open her eyes because it felt as if her bed was spinning around. Her vision was blurry and stars danced before her eyes. She blinked a few times, trying to gain some sort of grip on reality.

She had only gotten home to her tiny apartment a few hours earlier and even though she felt like she had been electrocuted repeatedly by a ridiculously powerful raiton-user, she swung her legs over the edge of her bed and sat up straight. She had to take a moment to keep down stomach contents as she felt as though she had just done 80 cartwheels one after another. She stood and paused again, steadying herself on uncertain legs. With determination usually only seen in the gaze of shinobi fighting for their lives, she trekked to the bathroom, knelt in front of the toilet and heaved.

After brushing her teeth very thoroughly, taking a cold shower and getting dressed in clean clothes that did not smell like the floor of a public restroom, Haruka felt better. She did not feel good, but it was better. She did her usual morning routine, starting with stretching her sore limbs. Every muscle in her body felt like it was on fire. She winced at the usual tug on her abs the scar across her abdomen always caused and opted against stretching her left arm, already feeling as though the formerly-torn tissue of her bicep had been pierced by a branch anew. Instead of dwelling on the memories that threatened to surface, Haruka slipped on her sandals, locked the door behind her and ran.

Usually, she ran around the village once, climbed a mountain and took a nap up there. After finishing her usual lap, she stood before the mountainside and did just not feel it. Her head was still spinning and just the thought of using her sore arm made it sting. She decided to keep running, instead, and push the limits of her own stamina. Running was good for her lungs, anyways and she had had trouble breathing after her last session of training with her water technique.

General Info

Name:
Hagane, Haruka

Nickname/Alias:
Haru, Haru-chan and the unofficial title of “The Clumsy Swordsman”.

Gender:
Female ♀

Age:
19

Age Appearance:
It's hard to say. Her meager height makes her look younger, but her massive amounts of muscle make her look older.

Sexuality:
Heterosexual/Straight

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Loyalty

Village:
Gobigakure no Sato – The Village Hidden at the End

Birthplace:
Konohagakure no Sato – The Village Hidden in the Leaves

Organization:
Konohagakure no Sato – The Village Hidden in the Leaves

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Ninja Information

Clan/Bloodline:
None

Rank:
Chuunin

Chakra Nature:
Suiton – Water

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Appearance


Body Type and Shape:
Although she makes people believe that her muscle does not take hours of daily training, this is actually not true. Haruka has a naturally endomorphic body type, which means that although gaining muscle is possible for her, it requires hard work for it to not become fat.
Her body shape is mostly hourglass, due to the fact that she was blessed with wide hips and her shoulders have become broad with her muscles expanding.

Height:
5'0” - 152cm

Weight:
143 lbs - 65kg

Hair Color:
Haruka's hair has an odd, purple color that would probably be described as “lavender”.

Hair Style:
Haruka's hair is cut in three layers of length. The front, her bangs, are cut to just above her eyes. The sides, her “frames”, are cut to her shoulders. The back of her hair is mostly free-growing, but she does get it cut to her middle back once it reaches her bum.

Eye Color:
Haruka's eyes are a deep, speaking gray color, much like that of steel. This color is common for members of the Hagane clan.

Scars and Marks:
Haruka has several scars littering her body, with the most prominent and obvious one being a large, rather gross-looking scar on her left bicep where a branch penetrated the muscle during her first attempt at the Chuunin exams. She also has a large gash scar across the right side of her abdomen from the same occasion. Other than that, the rest of the scars are small and insignificant and one would barely even notice them being there, unless they already knew.
Haruka lacks one of her front teeth, after a spar got a bit out of hand and her old teammate, Suzaku, ended up knocking it out.
She has a rather large tattoo of a phoenix the back of her left shoulder. One can just see the the tips of the flames peeking out from beneath her top.

Clothing:
Haruka wears a crimson, tall-necked top with gray patches on the shoulders. Along with this, she wears high-cut gray jean shorts, that hold in the fat that clings to her sides and accentuates her waist. Her ninja boots are long, to just under the knees, and has a small amount of heel on them, as well as open toes. Her clothes cling tightly to her skin, both for easy movement and to try and show off the fact that her frame is feminine.
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Biography

The story of how Haruka came to be is not one of unconditional love and burning passion that many can tell of the day their parents met. Rather, it is a tale of a young woman in training as a chef and a charming shinobi passing through her home town for a mission. The young woman, Someina, was still a year away from leaving her teenage years behind her, but yet choose to keep the small bloom of life growing within her.
Haruka was born in the early spring, just when the cherry blossoms had started to bloom and Someina, the mother, had wanted to name her daughter after the pink flowers. The moment she saw the soft, lavender tufts of hair on her newborn's head, she decided that the name was not quite right for her little one and proudly told her mother that she wanted to name her Haruka (春=haru=spring, 花=ka=flower). Her mother, the grandmother, misunderstood the name and wrote it as 遙 (far off/distant) instead and so Haruka's name came to mean something far different from what her mother had wanted.

Despite the very early mishap in her life, Haruka grew up to be a spirited child. She was always full of energy, but liked her sleep as well. She was a perfectly easy baby, although a bit slow at learning. When she was three, she started asking questions. Who was her father and where was he? Her mother, worried about telling her only child the truth of how she had been conceived, told the wide-eyed girl that her father had been a great and strong ninja and that she did not know where he was.
Because of that, Haruka decided at a young age that she wanted to be a ninja, too, and her mother agreed for them to leave their small home town and move to one of the great villages, Konohagakure no Sato, for Haruka to attend the Academy there instead of the measly opportunities ninja had in their home.

Haruka was very young when the war broke out. She did not feel it much, other than many of her friend's parents going off into battle; most of them never to return. A few times, the village was attacked, but the attackers never made it far enough that Haruka really noticed.

Throughout her childhood, Haruka would ask her mother small questions that seemed harmless enough, but would later define the way Haruka thought of herself. One day, when she was seven, she asked her mother;
“Mommy? Was daddy strong?”
Her mother's reply had been with a warm smile as she said;
“Like an ox, sweetie.”
On another occasion, Haruka had asked her mother;
“Did daddy use a weapon? Some of the kids say that their daddies use weapons!”
Once Haruka had stopped ranting on about how they had only been allowed to play with lame little kunai, her mother had told her;
“Your father had a huge sword!”
She had barely been able to keep the blush off of her cheeks from the innuendo of it.

As Haruka grew older, she also grew stronger. Every day, she would train. Every day, she ran longer and longer, lifted heavier and heavier weights and got better and better at hand to hand fighting. She was easily the physically strongest in her class when the time for graduation came, but she still could do very little in regards of using techniques. She could barely manage to form a clone, her transformations were mediocre at best and her substitutions often wound up unpredictable. She did manage to pass, though, mostly because so many ninja had died during the war and the village was in dire need of new shinobi. She proudly presented her headband to her mother.
It brought tears to her eyes when her mother had given her a graduation present; a shiny and beautiful katana. It did not fit Haruka's style in the least, but it had a proud place on her wall as the very first item in her collection.

Haruka's teammates were both boys. One was a soft-spoken and sweet medic with an extensive knowledge on poisons and medicines by the name of Kenta while the other was a moody branch Hyuuga by the name Suzaku. Their sensei was a first-timer, more or less forced into teaching because so many of his peers had died in war. He was suffering from some PTSD and was for the most part just nervous about everything, but went by the name Tora.
For the first year of their genin time, they did not leave the village for their missions. The world outside was still recovering from the newly finished war and no one wanted to risk the life of the children out there. They would spar every day; even on their days off, but it mattered very little. Despite both of her teammates' efforts to teach her how to mold and channel her chakra, she never really did manage to do it. She could mold it fine and Kenta told her that it was not the amount that was troubling her, but she just could not get the techniques to come out right. By the time they had been genin for two years, Haruka had only learned three techniques and relied almost solely on her close-combat skills and her teammates' help. It worked fine for them, with Haruka taking the role of the “tank”, gaining the attention of their foes and making sure that the “healer”, Kenta, could go unharmed while the “DPS”, Suzaku, tossed figurative fireballs from every angle at a distance.

Their team bond was good. Haruka had started crushing on Suzaku about three months after they became genin. Suzaku had bluntly informed her that he thought she was utterly unattractive with her big muscles, weird hair and missing tooth. Kenta had consoled her, telling her that she was beautiful in her own way. It took a year for Suzaku, after Haruka had started developing more feminine attributes, to agree with Kenta that Haruka was not ugly anymore. It took almost half a year after that before he agreed to go on a date with her. And just a month after that first date, they were officially an item.

The time came where the team was to take the chuunin exams and their sensei believed them to be ready for the task. They had not been. The results of the whole ordeal ended with Suzaku dead and Kenta retiring as a ninja, while Haruka was left with both physical and emotional scarring, but a fierce dedication to becoming even stronger, as well.
Left without a genin team, Haruka went on a whole bunch of solo mission inside the village gates and most of her free time was spent either training like a madwoman or learning about medicines and poisons from Kenta, who now worked in his mother's herbal store. He taught her everything from which plants could be made into tea, to which plants could cause a slow and painful death as well as which plants could cure those poisons.

Soon, Haruka was placed in what they called a temporary team in order for her, as well as the others in her team, to take the chuunin exam again. All of them had either lost teammates or had them walk out of them and although Haruka did not bother to even try and form a real bond with them, Amaya and Noburo still became her friends.
This time, Haruka was stronger, her teammates were stronger and the whole scene was different and they did manage to pass. In the final round, when Haruka had to fight some earth user one-on-one, the judges were impressed with her sheer strength as she smashed bounders with her bare hands and produced one weapon after another from scroll after scroll to toss at her enemy. Even though she ended up beaten and battered, with a broken arm and poison coursing through her veins, she did eventually manage to knee the guy in the nose hard enough to have him stay still after.

Haruka had thought that making chuunin would make her feel accomplished, but she still wanted to be more. She wanted to be stronger. She wanted to be better. She wanted to be a hero, like her dad.
Her mother had, just like when she made genin, bought her a present. Apparently, she had bought it the first time Haruka had attempted the exam, but since she had not passed... well, she did not get a present. It was another sword. 判断は邪悪を降りかかる (Handan wa jaaku o furikakaru) was etched into the shiny steel of the blade and Haruka downright wept. She had the magnetic sheathe made the next day.


Today:
After a while, Haruka realized that she would never reach her full potential if she remained in the safety of her home. There were so many memories there and she felt like the weight of her past was crushing her. One early morning, she packed all of her weapon scrolls into a bag, hefted Seidou onto her back and the the village without a word. She wound up in Gobi by sheer chance of luck because she was using the mountains around as a training site and decided to stick around and enjoy life for a little while. After treating her body like a temple her entire life, she wants to let loose and be young.

Personality:
If you only just met Haruka, what you will see is a brash, loud, arrogant and somewhat rude person. Despite how she might appear, Haruka is a very insecure person. She is self-conscious about her looks, her powers and her brains. No matter how casually a remark may be said, she takes them to heart as critique. She gets easily hurt and easily angry, but calming her down is quite hard. Getting hurt is more common than getting angry and when her feelings are hurt, she will say nothing, but just draws into herself.
Haruka does not do things halfway; if she gets angry, she will get murderous. If she gets sad, she will get depressed and when she is happy, she is ecstatic. Usually, she is quite happy.

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Special Traits

Will of Steel
Haruka's will of steel is something that is believed to be inherited by the Hagane blood that flows in her veins. She is stubborn like few and once she gets an idea into her head, she will not stop until her goal has been accomplished.
Not the Sharpest Tool in the Shed
Although Haruka will fly into uncontrollable, table-throwing and wall-demolishing, rage whenever someone informs her of this fact, she really is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Her brain works in mysterious ways and takes far longer to get to a conclusion than most; and most of the time her conclusions are wrong.
The Clumsy Swordsman
Despite the fact that she constantly trips over her own feet, branches or even pebbles, Haruka has chosen to wield a giant, two-hand broadsword as her main weapon. The will often fall over when swinging her sword, due to the sheer weight of it.
Chakra Beast
Despite the fact that Haruka's control of her chakra is far from great, she is not very likely to run out of it. She has copious amounts of chakra for her to use, mostly due to her excessive training in an attempt to perfect her chakra educed strength.
Chakra Enduced Strength
Haruka is obsessed with being physically strong and as so, she has gone as far as to make herself stronger by infusing her muscles with chakra. Due to this, her physical power is far beyond that of a regular human and she is capable of smashing boulders with her bare hands.


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Equipment

”Seidou (正道)”
Haruka's trusty sword. “Her” name means, “The Path of Righteousness”.
“Seidou” is stuck to her back in a magnetic sheath where the blade is “clicked” into place and held there by four small claws.
Ninja pouch
Haruka has her ninja pouch fastened to the back of her belt; right above her left butt-cheek. Within this ninja pouch, she carries with her a roll of bandages, a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a flash of water and a nutrition bar.
Weapon holster
Haruka carries her weapon holster on her left thigh. The holster has room for five kunai, five shuriken, ten makibishi and ten senbon, which she almost always has stocked to the max.
Scroll Number One: Dexterity Scroll
Haruka’s first and most used scroll is her so-called Dexterity Scroll with the weapons she uses for battles where her brute force just is not enough and some skill and speed is needed.
Hoyo & Kisu (抱擁) & (キス)
In her Dexterity Scroll, Haruka carries a pair of sai knives that she has affectionately and humorously named “Hoyo & Kisu” or “Hugs and Kisses” in English.

Shojo (処女)
As one of her favorites when it comes to being quick on her feet, Haruka likes to bring her very first weapon, Shojo (Virgin), with her even if she hardly ever gets to use it.

Scroll Number Two: No-Kill Scroll
Haruka’s second to most used scroll is her so-called No-Kill Scroll, which holds the weapons she uses for battles where her intention is to not kill her opponent, nor cause any real harm to them; bruises and maybe a few broken bones are all these are good for.

Chou (蝶)
These tonfa were purchased on her first trip out of her birthplace. The guy she bought them from claimed them to be antique, with her teammates stating that that meant “old and used”. She bought them anyways and named them “Cho (Butterflies)”.
Bogire (棒切れ)
With the quite literal name of ”Bogire (Stick)”, Haruka’s bo-staff usually is not the most original weapon. It is quite useful, though, and great for keeping foes at a distance.
Tsubasa (翼)
Although even Haruka has no idea how these weapons got to be named the way they are, these nunchakus were named “Tsubasa (Wings)” by her teammate, Suzaku, when he bought them for her. She really has no clue how to use them and is more likely to hurt herself than her enemy, but she keeps them with her, anyways.

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Taijutsu:
Haruka's main focus is on her Taijutsu, with her Chakra Enhanced Strength and Kenjutsu skills. Despite the fact that she is quite good at throwing a punch, she never bothered to name most of it and thinks of her so-called Taijutsu as more of a style than an actual technique.
Name:
Chakra Enhanced Strength
Classification
Fighting Style
Rank:
A-rank
Effect:
Unlike the Chakra Enhanced Strength that Tsunade and Sakura use, Haruka's version of this ”technique” is not focused on chakra control in the same sense. The original version of this technique applied a layer of chakra around the extremities of the user in order to release it as an explosion-like punch or kick. Haruka's version of the technique functions in a way similar to opening the first of the Eight Chakra Gates and actually enhances her physical strength by pumping her chakra veins and thus her muscles full of chakra to such an extent that it seeps from her skin.
Drawback:
Very high chakra use as well as chances of severe chakra burns on both her skin and her chakra veins. Excessive use could render her chakra pathways useless.

Name:
Shinpai no Hi (Judgement Day)
Classification
Kenjutsu
Rank:
C-rank
Effect:
Haruka uses her broadsword katana, “Seidou (Path of Righteousness)” in a series of slashing, brute force attacks, molding chakra to her feet to stay standing while she swings the sword, due to the weight in the force of her swings. Despite being “glued” to the ground, she still moves around.
Drawback:
The technique is physically straining, due to the weight of her sword, and takes constant concentration on her chakra flow to keep glued to the ground – if she does not, she will fall over.

Ninjutsu:
Haruka cannot mold her chakra. Unlike most ninja, she is not able to blend her physical and mental energies together, as she is simply not smart enough and does not have the patience to activate the mental energy. As such, she cannot use any techniques that actually need to leave her body.
Using her physical energy is much like working out; it tires out her body. She needs to eat, sleep and breathe more than others.
Henge no Jutsu – Transformation Technique (E-rank)
Bunshin no Jutsu – Clone Technique (E-rank)
Kawarimi no Jutsu – Substitution Technique (E-rank)
Name:
Water Strike – Mizu Suto
Classification
Ninjutsu
Rank:
C-rank
Effect:
Haruka puts her hand or foot into water, drawing a bubble of water up clinging to the limb as she retracts it. Charging the bubble with her own physical energy, she can launch it as a sort of extension of her own strike and send it off much like if it were her own fist punching someone in the face. The bubble has quite short range and will lose its momentum rather quickly. Even when it has no “punch” left, it can still serve as a minor distraction, if the opponent was not prepared for a bubble in their face.
Drawback:
It uses her own physical energy and will tire her out as if she was doing something very physically straining. It has short range and it would take less of her to just run over and punch someone with her actual fist.

Genjutsu:
Haruka is absolutely terrible at chakra control and as such knows nothing about Genjutsu except that pain can get her out of them.

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