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Naruto: Revival

^{Iwagakure | CC-B | Critical Defense Kunoichi}

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^{TIME: Present Day - Morning | LOCATION: Forest of Death | INTERACTION: @yoshua171}

Āito arrived in the absolute middle of the pack. She found herself in the center-right of the crowd and watched intently as a man strode out to the center. His presence commanded attention, but not in the way of an angry parent. Rather in a familiar form, those belonging to the ICDO or perhaps the ANBU black ops would know a figure that commanded presence through purely being there. Standing there she felt as though she could feel power seeping from him. It caught the girl off guard. Her ears tuned into the other students around her bickering over their differently unimportant minutiae before the man began to speak up.

He laid the rules out fairly clearly and it was between two major options. She could either participate in some team-based combat, or she had the option of fighting a one on one match, but in that latter route she had to win her fight in order to continue on to the next round.

It was often times that an age-old saying in Iwagakure that when two options are given to you by a neutral party the one associated with risk is often done in such a manner as to dissuade you from taking the best option.

Āito would not make that mistake. She stood perfectly still, clutching her scroll in one hand while most of the others around her began to write their answers onto it. When it came time to hand them in she was escorted to an area to meet with a proctor who went on to explain the essential rules to the fight. She was under no circumstances supposed to stop fighting until commanded, upon that command being issued she was to stop immediately. Failure to do so would result in immediate failure. The rules were simple enough.

Āito took her place while she waited for the other two fights to take place. By the time it was her turn she spotted a few traces of blood and obvious signs of a struggle. It was a good way to understand what to expect. But not for the opponent that had been selected for her. A young man with dark glasses walked out towards her, from the opposite side of the arena.

“This fight will be between Hokusai Āito of the Hidden Stone, and Kenki Aburame of the Hidden Leaf!” The proctor shouted.

He seemed fairly diminutive, which would lead the fight towards her favor as she saw it. Her skill in hand-hand combat was passible, but a more physically dominant opponent could pressure her to the point of no return. She was not all that well aware of the clans in Konohagakure, which made him a threat immediately out of the gate.

If he pulled something that could be used to end the fight immediately she would have to leave it up to her reaction speed. Genjutsu was her primary concern. The proctor’s hand raised and the entire arena quieted. His eyes glanced between the two of us before he closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. She didn’t dare mirror the action as her eyes didn’t leave his stomach area, gazing between that and his legs. She looked long and hard before her peripheral vision watched as his arm dropped.

Immediately she formed the seal of confrontation and waited. But the young man did not move, save for his hand reaching out towards Āito, palm facing her head. The crowd was completely silent as they rested in that pose for a full minute. Both unmoving until suddenly, a small buzzing sound reached her ears and out flew hundred if not thousands of insects barreling towards the woman.

“Fūinjutsu: Bijutsukan.” Āito said, still completely unwavering as her sleeve rolled off of her right shoulder and a beautiful ink dragon reared its head roaring magnificently. His size increasing tenfold from being able to fit on her shoulder to being large enough to for Āito to ride on. He was beautiful water colours primarily greens and blues, with a pair of stag’s horns on his head and piercing red eyes. The bugs grew increasingly closer as she murmured to the illustrious beast. “Suiton: Mizurappa.” And it followed suit.

As the bugs grew ever closer the dragon made a noise not at all based in earthly sounds before expelling a massive stream of water, immediately stopping the insects in their path. It quickly obeyed Āito’s consciousness forcing the stream in the direction of Kenki, water hitting the tiled floor shooting off into every direction, soaking the audience members. While Kenki prepared to react to the beast Āito immediately pulled a scroll from her side and got to work, sitting down cross legged with the scroll in front of her.

Surely the young man would prepare a counter attack quickly. But she had a small window to make quick work. Bugs appeared to be his primary source of offense, she would need something to counteract that. Viscous liquids would work, but perhaps something stronger and something she had more reasonable access too.

But as the water reached Kenki he formed the clone seal and in a puff of smoke, vanished. From the smoke a demon wind shuriken was launched outwards towards Āito’s dragon, striking it and reflecting off and to the right of the great beast. Only a few feet away from the dragon the shuriken turned into Kenki, but was it a clone or the original?

Āito couldn’t immediately tell which caused her to treat it as a threat in and of itself. The dragon roared in agony as ink began to pour out of the beast, just as the Kenki that was airborne sent a stream of insects down through the beast eliciting a sullen screech as it dispersed back into ink. The dragon that had been immediately above Āito, collapsed from the wound soaking the attacking insects and Āito herself in dazzling ink. Appearing as though it had rained ink from the sky Āito closed her eyes as a shower of bugs with wings that couldn’t flap scattered the ground alongside drops of ink. Her eyes opened as she felt the shower quickly begin to lessen, the ground was painted a beautiful mosaic of colour and the smoke from the clone Jutsu had all but dissipated, the Kenki in the air was the original. The seal of confrontation formed through her fingers almost instantly while a second barrage of insects flew from two sides. The chakra channeled once more just fast enough to protect Āito as a massive Albatross sprung up from the scrolls.

The coos of enamored onlookers filled Āito’s ears but she flushed them out innately. She focused alone on the buzzing of her opponent. As the bugs began to land on her they found themselves stuck. The ink that had fallen on her coating her outfit and skin in the viscous liquid. They couldn’t get through it without consuming the ink first. But before he could issue a mental command to his insects, Āito unsheathed her Tanto and simultaneously the albatross flapped its wings once with a powerful gust of wind. Most of the ink on her sides were ejected and it took the insects stuck on it as well. The albatross began to take flight it flapped once more, powerfully ejecting the bugs and ink from Āito’s form before she jumped backwards towards it, keeping her eyes on Kenki who was about to reach the ground.

The bird acted merely as a bridge as it let itself dive towards his landing position and Āito leapt from it, snagging Kenki’s collar and flipping over the boy, bringing him with her. As soon as she made contact with his collar she felt insects begin to crawl out from his body onto her skin. The Aburame seemed to be a vile, if not effective people.

But it was no matter as the boy’s back collided with the ground and a buzzing sound increased within him she activated the seal around the hilt of her Tanto bringing three ink spears to his throat before the sound she had been waiting to hear erupted from the mouth of the proctor.

“HALT!” He shouted.

As commanded Āito immediately withdrew the spears and sheathed her Tanto, the insects that had crawled up her arm and began to eat away at her Chakra took flight off of the girl and the Albatross dissipated into ink that quickly fell to the ground.

“Advancing in this exam will be Hokusai, Āito!” He said, eliciting uproarious applause from the audience.

She offered the young man a hand in rising to his feet and bowed to him before exiting the arena. She struggled for a moment between replacing the dragon she had lost during the fight as it took time and chakra to prepare or repairing her body. But with the dull ache in her wrist she knew what she had to do. She decided to visit the healer as she knew being the third and final fight in the singles rounds meant that things would be wrapping up shortly.

Her healer explained what she was healing, primarily her wrist, she was informed that she had dislocated it during her extravagant flip over her opponent towards the end of the match. Āito was then handed a scroll and told to hang on to it. She felt ready to go.

Lucky that too. Because she was immediately teleported away and into a forest, the forest actually. The Forest of Death.

She found herself near what she could only identify as the likely exit before a voice was heard by all participants.

“SENTOU KAISHI; LET THE BATTLES COMMENCE!”

She immediately sat down and began to sketch. It took only four seconds for her to draw twenty mice. The goal of the mission was clear. She had a scroll, and presumably so did the rest of the participants. Let the battles commence.

With the seal of confrontation formed the mice immediately scurried off into the corners of the forest. She was looking for an opening, perhaps an open conflict.

But before she found anything she was found, perhaps by mistake.

She remembered the feeling of being tossed into a wall and blinked away the pain from the memory. Glistening purple eyes and short black hair caught the girl’s gaze as she saw herself in the reflection of her friend’s headband.

“Aya.”

Naruto: Revival

Hokusai Āito

Hokusai Āito 北斎愛と

Character Theme - Daisy
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【Full Name
Hokusai Āito
【Nickname/Alias 】
Ai-San, Ai
【Gender】
Female
【Age】
27
【Age Appearance】
20
【Sexuality
Homosexual

【Village】
Iwagakure
【Birthplace】
Takigakure

【Alignment/Affiliation/Organization】
Iwagakure Critical Defensive Organization

【Clan/Bloodline】
N/A

【Rank】
B (ICDO Leader)

【Chakra Nature】
Earth, Wind

【Appearance/Wardrobe】
Āito stands around five feet and six inches, marking her at just about the statistical average as far as women her age are concerned. She has piercing yellow eyes fairly reminiscent of a cat’s eye and greenish teal hair. She commonly has the back of her hair up in a ponytail allowing the rest to fall beside her face. She also keeps bangs, just long enough to not crawl into her field of vision. She has a fairly slim but toned build and fairly sharp facial features. Specifically her cheekbones and jawline are noticeable fairly easily. Off-duty she sports a white halter neck top without sleeves and a pair of typical blue pants. This outfit leaves some midriff showing. She also sports black sleeves and fingerless gloves. The sleeves reach from just above her wrist to just below her armpits.

Āito notably looks young for her age. Her quiet demeanor and sharp features paint the picture of a judgemental youth, but she is anything but. She has multiple tattoos which are her drawings in the form of her Bijutsukan technique. Two snakes on her right arm, a large catfish on her left calf, a wicked Nue on her back, and a dragon that wraps around her left arm and shoulder/neck area.
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【Personality】
Āito is a fairly quiet woman, choosing to listen rather than speak most often. While she does speak up, especially when surrounded by friends, she speaks albeit quietly. However she keeps it fairly exact. She says what she needs to without leaving much room for emotion or contemplation. Āito has been known by her very few friends to be really quite sweet where it counts. She often goes out to the store to get their favourite treats when she knows she’ll be seeing them and lives on basically the bare essentials. She often spends nights gazing at the stars and painting them, with regular ink of course.

Her art is perhaps one of the most defining aspects of her personality. She is constantly drawing and has even prepared some drawings should she get ambushed and not have time to draw something. However what she often explains away as simply a defensive countermeasure she is in fact simply expressing her love for art.

Her art style can best be described as Ukiyo-e, an expressive and highly impressionistic view of reality. Somewhat contrary to what her personality leads others to believe. However, the specifics of that style often depend on the mood and situation. As a Kunoichi who utilizes Chōjū Giga on a regular basis she has taught herself through excruciating training to be able to sketch in said style in incredible times. Able to paint an entire tiger or hawk in little under five seconds. While it is obviously not her most detailed work, it need not be beautiful to be effective. Her style isn’t however, drastically different in combat as she is commonly able to use her impressionistic style to her advantage, drawing faster and accomplishing the same task as one who is constantly aiming for a perfect replica.

Her take on her status as one of the leaders of the Iwa Critical Defense Organization is that while she is and can be sent on missions that aren’t exactly ‘defense’ at least not by definition, she is helping the people of Iwagakure. They were the people who took her in when she couldn’t find anywhere else to go and as such it is those buildings she sketches every night. Thusly, she will always support the village.

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【History】
Āito was born in Takigakure to a loving family. A medical ninja named Hiyoko and a young man who would die before Āito was born. When Āito was only two she was entrusted to her aunt, a young woman that Āito cannot remember all too well. With Takigakure under siege from bandits, Āito’s mother was well aware that she could not keep her daughter safe for long enough to justify her living there. Thusly, she sent Āito with her aunt. Unfortunately, Āito’s aunt had other plans and instead sold Āito as a daughter of a medical ninja and a child with extreme promise to the leader of the sieging bandits in exchange for safe passage to Iwagakure. The bandits accepted the deal however they immediately double-crossed Āito’s aunt and took Āito for themselves. By the time Āito was four years old she was being taught art by the leader of this group of bandits.

While he was a violent man who took what he wanted from those weaker than him, he was also a fairly art-minded man who had a great respect for beauty. Āito couldn’t remember him too well either but she simply attributed it to the fact that no single person was one thing or another. They simply were. Thusly she was taught art, however she was barely taught any language whatsoever, she wasn’t allowed to speak unless addressed which was uncommon in itself. While she obviously picked up what she could she had a very difficult time spelling anything and turning her thoughts into words were also incredibly difficult.

It wasn’t until five years later when she was seven years old that the bandits were slain. They were killed by the Iwagakure Critical Defense Organization, a group that Āito would later join.

She was given a small home and a woman from the Tsuchikage’s office named Shiho would come each and every day to make sure that Āito had everything she needed and would walk her to the academy. Essentially providing the girl with a live-in mother. But as soon as she was old enough to fend for herself, she did. She bought her own groceries from the time that she was ten years old and became fairly well known around town for her talented illustrations, quiet nature, and status as a ten year old girl living on her own. While Shiho would still stop by unannounced every once in a while to make sure the girl was doing well, she found the girl was highly independent. The small apartment she had was always spotless and her fridge reasonably stocked with about three days’ worth of food.

After being taught the basics of language and beginning to learn Ninjutsu she found herself progressing very well in the academy, quickly graduating within just two years and becoming a Genin at age twelve. She was placed in a three-man squad in which she was constantly given the feedback of communicating more, which was difficult for the young girl. When she went home there was no one and she was never allowed to speak with her captors unless spoken to. It was an issue to her Jonin team-leader, and thusly she worked with Āito to attempt to work past it. Āito grew to admire her team leader for that and aspired to become one herself eventually.

During her time as a Genin she was reached out to by the Kouken clan. They had a young Genin themselves and heard of the girl’s independence, her time with bandits and her ability to learn how to read and write while also making her way through the academy and wanted her to become their aspirant’s sparring partner. Āito was urged to accept the offer from her team leader, who believed it would be a good amount of experience.

The girls introduced themselves, Āito and Ayame. They would go on to train day in and day out for the coming months knowing quite a bit about each other without truly knowing each other. Though had someone asked Āito would refer to Ayame as a friend, there was a tension there. Each subsequent fight would be even harder fought as the girls sought to prove entirely different albeit similar ideals. Ayame at her heart was a pacifist and Āito was a weapon for her village to use. They butted heads as much as their kunai clashed.

Well after the two became Chunin their sparring matches had continued. They were both twenty years old, Ayame had started on the Barrier corps and Āito the Defense Organization. They were both moving up in their fields as a shield to protect the people a blade to cut down those who threatened it. Āito and Ayame had even had a few conversations, Āito had told Ayame about her childhood and the bandits who had stolen her away from her home, Ayame about the events that transpired with her sister. It was horrible, Āito remembered thinking, but she admired how Ayame didn’t let it stop her.

One training session that lasted particularly long, the Kouken clan elder who was overseeing Ayame’s training that day was pushing the girl yelling at her, goading her on, but Āito could read her movements. Every kick was stuffed, each punch punished. It was fairly easy when Ayame became frustrated, her telegraphing increased as most people who were agitated did. Yet when Āito blocked one punch with a disabling punch to the arm and a leg sweep and Ayame began to fall to the ground, but, as the girl fell a series of hand-shaped barriers reached out to Āito and snagged her. As Ayame hit the ground Aito was flung at high speeds into the wall aobut twenty feet behind her. Smashing into it with enough force to slightly crack the wall. She felt the wind forcibly exit her lungs as she slumped onto her knees, coughing to catch her breath.

Ayame lurched back up just as fast as she fell and stared at Āito, fuming over the training. She was tired, being pushed, unhappy, it caused her to hit a boiling point. While Ayame was typically a kind woman, she also had the heart of a survivor and when pushed enough she had the ability to snap. She stood up to yell at Āito until she saw her handiwork. She covered her mouth instinctively, the words I'm sorry sounded as though they escaped but it was difficult to tell over Āito's coughing.

Āito went home that night and thought about what had happened. She assumed up to this point that Ayame was just nice, that in her eyes she was just an annoyance. This may’ve confirmed it. The nice thing to do would be to accept this not quite plain termination of their friendship and agree to go separate ways. However, Āito enjoyed her friend’s presence and would have a hard time abandoning her. As such she got to work.

She grabbed a blanket from her bed, a nice fluffy comforter and went over to a local dango shop, picking up a fair amount of the treats. The sun had long since set on the day and a silhouetted figure sat atop the Kouken Clan HQ, Āito joined the girl.

“I’m sorry, Ayame.” She said quietly her voice riding the cool breeze to the girl’s ears. Ayame looked up at her with reddened eyes, it seemed she had been crying a little bit and she was doing a rough job with holding it back now.

"What do you mean you're sorry?" She asked exasperated.

"I pushed harder than I should've, you should find solace in my presence, not turmoil." Āito responded quietly, giving her friend both of the dangos and laying the blanket over her while she took out her scroll, ink well and brush. She sat cross legged beside the girl and began to paint the night sky. Ayame seemed to be a loss for words, but as the redness moved down to her cheeks she rested her head on Āito's shoulder as the night continued on.
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【Traits】
-Excellent Chakra Control
-Average Chakra Pool
-Fair Talent in Bukijutsu and Taijutsu
-Lacking in Genjutsu
-Talented with Fuinjutsu
-Excellent with Art-based Ninjutsu and sparing talent in Earth-Based Ninjutsu
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【Equipment/Weapons/Items】

Name of Weapon or Item: Chōjū Giga Scroll
Description: Āito’s scroll for use with the Chōjū Giga Jutsu. It isn’t much different from a regular scroll outside of the fact that it comes completely blank, ready for implementation with the Jutsu. All that is required to activate the technique is the seal of confrontation to be made and the scroll with the drawing be facing open air.
Appearance: A simple scroll.

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Basic tools:
Two scrolls, both with ink in them.

A brush with ink running through the handle that dispenses through the Ferrule. Incredibly easy to reload with ink and in an emergency can also be used with blood. Simply raising the tip of the brush allows for it to be refilled. Can currently allow for up to fifty mid-sized drawings to be completed without being refilled.

30x Kunai
1x Tanto
100m of Wire
50m of Chakra Thread
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【Kekkei Genkai 】
Name of Kekkei Genkai: N/A
Clan: N/A
Rank N/A
Description: N/A


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Jutsu:
All applicable Academy and D-Rank techniques

Canon Jutsu

Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu
Doton: Domu
Sumi Bunshin no Jutsu
Sumi Nagashi
Doton: Doryūheki
Kuchiyose: Raikō Kenka
Kaifū no Jutsu
Kuchiyose no Jutsu
Nunoshibari no Jutsu
Gogyō Fūin
Chōjū Giga
Fūinjutsu: Koshi Tandan

Custom Jutsu

Name of Technique: Fūinjutsu: Bijutsukan (封印術: 美術館 – Sealing Technique: Eternal Museum)
Type of Jutsu: Fūinjutsu, Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: Bijutsukan allows Āito to seal one of her drawings into her body, appearing as a tattoo. Through this technique she is able to store animals, objects, or figures in her body while being able to summon them through channeling chakra into the place in which it has been sealed. This can be anything that Āito paints. It is simply an alternative means of storage that avoids the middle-man that is the scroll she draws on and allows her to prepare for combat more aptly.
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Name of Technique: Chōjin Nise Ga 超神偽画 (Super Myth Imitation)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: By activating either Bijutsukan or drawing a fresh creature and performing the seal of confrontation Āito is able to summon forth creatures of myth itself. These may range from dragons, phoenixes, just about anything. As per usual with the art-based techniques Āito is known for the limit is on her imagination. This technique is primarily A-Rank because of the difference between these and the beasts created by Chōjū Giga. It takes much more chakra to create these monsters and as such they are more durable than the Chōjū Giga beasts. They can typically absorb a single Jutsu before turning back into ink. The other notable trait is that each of the beasts Āito can summon are able to utilize one elemental technique. It should be noted that only one of these creatures can be summoned at once and while they are more durable than a typical ink-based creation they are still fragile in comparison with other actual summoned beasts.
Phoenix: Goukyaku no Jutsu
Dragon: Mizurappa
Lion-Turtle: Doton: Otoshibuta
Nue: RĀiton: Gian
Onikuma: Fūton: Toppa
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Name of Technique: Doton: Noroi Fumu 呪い踏む (Earth Style: Cursed Shuffle)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Earth
Description: An extension of Doton: Domu once Āito’s limb is coated in Earth she can then transfer that to an opponent. Effectively all she has to do is touch a limb of the opponent and the earth-based coating that was on her arm will transfer onto theirs. As this is not simply dirt, but chakra moulded Earth it can be forced to weigh a substantial amount which is the main application of this technique. It also does not have to be applied to a person. This can slow an opponent, restrict movement, drown them, and various other applications. It does, however require physical contact.
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Name of Technique: Sumi Chūdoku 墨中毒 (Ink Poisoning)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Bukijutsu
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: By wrapping the hilt of Āito’s Tanto with a scroll with the words Senkō Suru Āito is able to activate the scroll with the seal of confrontation. Utilizing it, spears of ink branch out of the hilt and attack the target, their sole purpose to inject ink into the bloodstream. While the body can handle a fair amount of ink, because of the nature of this technique and the fact that it deposits ink directly into the bloodstream. The technique need only connect for three full seconds during a fight to be fatal. Which is of course, cumulative. It is not immediately fatal, however as the veins will turn black and the head will stop receiving the proper amount of blood. The victim will become extremely dizzy, experience intense vomiting and eventually will die to heart failure. It is a slow and painful death that must be treated immediately.
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Name of Technique: Kami no Ishi 神の意志 (God’s Will)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: By writing a single word or verb (for example Senkō Suru is ‘to pierce’, which is a single verb) Āito is able to infuse a target with the word that she has written. The technique however is different from most art-based Ninjutsu. While typically one would write on a scroll, this technique requires writing on a palm. The palm then touches the target and the seal of confrontation is made and the Jutsu will activate. This may turn a target sturdy, brittle, sharp, soft, dull, wet, etc. The limits of this technique are once again related to the time required in preparation, its personal range, and the potentially lethal nature.

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Sayuri Nisshoku

Sayuri Nisshoku 日食 小百合

"It's nice to meet you! My name is Sayuri, after the flower."

Character Theme - Shunkan Sentimental

Personal Data

【Full Name】
日食 小百合 Nisshoku, Sayuri
【Title】
The All-Seeing Eye
【Occupation】
Amekage’s assistant/pupil - Chunin
【Gender】
Female
【Age】
18
【Sexuality】
Bisexual


【Birth Country】
Land of Fire
【Current Village】
Amegakure
【Affiliation】
Mostly herself, she does not feel loyalty as strongly as some others.
【Shinobi Rank】
C+ — B- rank

【Personality】
While Sayuri’s father was incredibly strict and pushed her to limits most parents wouldn’t dream of she has maintained a truly jovial nature. She is always upbeat in her outwards attitude, even when fighting what may be her last fight. Due to her upbringing which was focused on pure physical training and very little Ninjutsu or Genjutsu offensive techniques, her training was incredibly demanding. Her father would continually beat her to the point of unconsciousness, and as such it has become something Sayuri is accustomed to. She seeks a fight in which she doesn’t know she can win.

However when she is not training or in a fight Sayuri is often times incredibly lazy. Preferring to curl up and watch the Amegakure rain rather than go to work for the Amekage. That isn’t to say she doesn’t take her job seriously, while she is doing it she performs at 100%. It’s just getting her there that is the issue presented. She is also fairly well known for wearing her pajamas whenever she’s at home, walking around with a blanket wrapped around her. The girl is really quite eccentric, even going as far as getting food delivered to the office of the Amekage during meetings. But she is an invaluable asset as no clan native to Amegakure are in possession of a Dojutsu. As such her position to the Amekage is as an incredibly valued asset.

While her ability to use Ninjutsu and Genjutsu is incredibly blasé she is well practiced fighting against the techniques, as any Taijutsu-centric Shinobi should be. Most of her training with the Amekage has been in this regard and training with an S-Class Shinobi has greatly bolstered her general preparedness against the other two major pathways for Shinobi. Her Byakugan as well gives her a noticeable edge against Genjutsu. Her favourite type of combatant is one that specializes in Bukijutsu, as it gives an incredibly unique challenge for her. As such she has been known to take a solo campaign against raiding bandits in the area. This has actually garnered quite a bit of popularity in the local region of Amegakure, even nabbing the girl a few discounts here and there from local restaurants.

Her team can typically do without her over the top attitude, but she generally has their backs. However she has her own unique way of dealing with the two of them, but more specifically Kaito. He enjoys being praised and Sayuri has made certain she is his number one supporter. Though he doesn’t approve of her having a Kekkei Genkai he will never obtain, she often avoids using it on team missions. Preferring to stick to techniques that he has worked to gain in order to win his approval.

History
Sayuri was born into the main branch of the Hyuga clan. But that life of luxury and fortunate circumstance would not last long. For reasons her father refused to explain to her, her mother and he were banished from the clan. In reality it was a complicated situation of people knowing too much about each other. The off-branch of the Hyuga, the Otsutsuki clan had thrust themselves into the main branch attempting to recapture the glory of the clan for themselves. They were sick of being treated as second-rate members of the clan and they had the perfect situation to force themselves in. When Sayuri’s father spoke out about this, as his wife was about to have a child who would thusly be the next head of the clan he was forced from the main branch by the rest of the clan. The person who forced their way into the main branch was a powerful kunoichi, as she was dying she threatened the life of every single member of the clan and under duress they promised take a single child into the main branch. All but one man opposed and to preserve the clan he was expelled.

Sayuri was raised in Amegakure and had a fairly uneventful life. Her father told her that she was gifted with glorious opportunity to right a wrong that had been committed by many men and women. Amegakure’s harsher nature came in handy for their training, as he would beat her until the training could not go on any further. This training was especially egregious in order to unlock the Byakugan as early in her life as possible. She was only five when it awakened. He was an incredibly vicious man and Sayuri explained him to others as a tiger an apex predator. Sayuri wasn’t placed into the Amegakure academy. In fact her entire experience as a Kunoichi was incredibly strange and against the grain.

Her father brought her before the Amekage and told her to activate her Byakugan, she did so and bowed to her. She nodded, and decided to speak with her father privately. She had been told that while their true name was Hyuga they must never use it. On that day she received her new family name. Nisshoku, the eclipse. It felt fairly fitting for what her father wanted out of her.

By the time the Chunin exams rolled around she was taken to them by the Amekage, she had been a part of a few team-missions with other Genin as support, but she didn’t belong to a squad. While they watched the matches the Amekage would explain to her that next year she would be able to attend them. She felt a swell of anxiousness, not in fear or hesitation, but in a chance to prove herself.

During the lead up to the year she was taught a large amount of information about combatting Genjutsu, Ninjutsu, and how to use her fighting style to her advantage. Her father taught her quite a bit about what you could learn about a combatant by how they started a fight. Should they primarily use Ninjutsu or Taijutsu they tended to start with a more physical fight, if it was Genjutsu they would keep range and attempt to find an opening to land their first technique. She was taught to learn the distinction because her fights could be one in a mere instant. If she learned well enough she could learn how to tell what kind of fighter they were.

The way in which she was trained for the Chunin exams she was taught that for her fighting style to pay off she needed to be able to beat any combatant in a straight Taijutsu fight. Most of them would have far greater versatility than she did and range. As such she needed to be capable of making the fight physical and have the confidence to win no matter the opponent in that regard.

She was taught the Hakkeshō Kaiten and the Shōtei method of fighting in order to deal with Ninjutsu based opponents and she was taught the importance of pain if she were to be caught in Genjutsu. Her Byakugan gave her an advantage over others when it came to defense against the Byakugan but she still had a lot to learn.

When the Chunin exams finally came around they were held in Amegakure, and as such the Amekage announced that the theme would be superiority. Not relying on your teammates, or on hiding, but three rounds of single combat to judge who was worthy of moving onto becoming a Chunin.

As soon as word got out that a Kunoichi would be fighting who had never been in a Genin three man squad the stands were sparking with rumors. It was during her first fight that those sparks would be increased into full on flames of chatter, roaring applause. She was quickly a fan favourite.

As Sayuri approached the area to enter the arena her father pulled her aside. “Sayuri, you may use your gentle fist, but you cannot use your Byakugan. None must know of your status as the true heir.” He whispered, his words felt heavy and viscous. The pounding rain was the only sound as she nodded to her father and walked into the open arena, as the crowd stopped speaking and a silence fell over the area.

“Sayuri Nisshoku.” She said to the Seiki-hei, who nodded to her. Her combatant introduced himself but she paid no heed as she began to stretch for the fight ahead of her. Her brown hair was already matted down to her back, soaked in by the rain. Her opponent must not have been from Amegakure, as he was wearing a cloak. This was a fairly common thing for every day occurrences in Amegakure, however everyone from the village knew during a test it was simply a nuisance.

“SENTOU KAISHI.” The Seiki-Hei shouted to uproarious cheering from the audience. The young boy wasted no time advancing towards her, but he kept his pace under control. By the time they were only a few feet apart, he lunched in with a punch and Sayuri slapped his hand away, striking him with her palm in the center of his chest. This sent him reeling back, coughing up his breath that he seemed to have held.

That was a poor choice, Sayuri thought to herself as she grabbed the cloak and sent a fairly light kick towards his leg, pushing him off of his feet and onto the ground. She stared at the Seiki-hei as she proceeded to strike his back with her palm, expelling chakra into his body and causing severe damage to his internal organs. The proctor stopped the fight and Sayuri stood back up, bowing to the boy who laid in a heap and towards the audience before leaving. The crowd was stunned.

As her second match started she was praised by her father for her quick victory. She walked back into the arena and this time there was no applause nor was there silence. People began to whisper about the girl.

Once more her match began and once more her opponent charged in. But this time they were weaving handseals. That meant there was something they could stand to lose. The young boy’s eyes shone red and he seemed to have multiple pupils, this was certainly a Dojutsu like her Byakugan. It was too bad she couldn’t use her own in order to combat it.

He expelled multiple balls of fire from his mouth as he leapt up over them, anticipating her to jump to avoid them. Instead she braced her foot towards the ground and jumped, but not nearly high enough to dodge the fire. She was spinning rapidly through the air, sending small droplets of rain in every direction. She heard her opponent chuckle to himself as she began to expel chakra through every Tenketsu in her body.

“Hakkeshō Kaiten!” She exclaimed as the wall of chakra formed around her blocking the fire. The boy was already on a trajectory towards her and fell right into the rotation, getting blown back by her technique. But this boy was much more resilient than the last.

As she looked for him once more she caught the red of his eyes and she found herself suddenly sinking into the ground.

Some kind of Earth technique? But, no. That didn’t make sense, he didn’t perform any handseals. Genjutsu? As she continued to sink into the ground she reached into her kunai pouch and sharply grabbed one of them, opening a thin wound on the palm of her hand and allowing her to see her opponent sprinting towards her with a kunai.

Sayuri immediately launched into a back spring catching herself with her hands and avoiding the kunai. She flipped up backwards over top the boy, showing off her dominant physical strength before catching the boy with a spinning heel drop over the back of his head.

The Chunin exams came to a close and by the end of them, Sayuri was somewhat of a local legend. Where had Amegakure been hiding this girl and why wasn’t she part of a three man cell?

That status would only get even more confirmation after one faithful day spent waiting for the Amekage to get out of a meeting. Whenever the Amekage was in a meeting there was a fairly strict code of conduct for Sayuri. First she was to activate her Byakugan and check for anyone preparing Jutsu, hiding things, or people who may be attempting foul play. Should none of those boxes be checked she was to wait in the Amekage’s office until the meeting had finished. Once the meeting was finished the Amekage would either begin training her or give her a task as the Amekage’s assistant. This meeting no boxes were ticked and as such Sayuri awaited her master.

When she did exit the meeting she greeted Sayuri as she normally did and scooted the young girl out of her seat and explained that there were bandits attacked the outskirts of the village and asked if Sayuri would like to handle it. It was the first solo-outing she had been offered and she snapped it up immediately.

Perhaps a more cautious Kunoichi would’ve attempted to use stealth and their knowledge of the surroundings to their advantage. However, Sayuri wanted a fight and she wanted a damn good one. Thusly she approached the town on the main road and simply walked into the gate. A man with a katana and a large scar that traveled down his throat to his chest introduced himself as the man in charge. Other bandits also approached from around her.

She quietly activated her Byakugan but it seemed the bandits didn’t really understand why her veins had suddenly strengthened. They explained that they were from another smaller village and that their crops had died out this season. They had come to take what they needed when they were attacked by some traveling Seiki-hei and decided that they’d had enough of the treatment the border villages had gotten.

Sayuri nodded and agreed that their treatment could’ve been better, but told them that she represented the Amekage and that she would need to kill them for what they had done. The bandits erupted into laughter as Sayuri took a deep breath.

She had been working on a technique that would let her more aptly handle massive odds like these and even increase her lethality when using Shōtei. A golden aura enveloped her person as the first bandit charged her. She allowed her breath to move through her like a current and as soon as he was within striking distance she lunged out and struck him. She struck him hard and fast enough to see a large amount of Tenketsu around his diaphragm seize up leaving him sputtering and coughing on the ground.

The man with the katana was next up but as soon as he unsheathed her Sayuri was upon him, leaping up and over a fence and sending a spinning kick directly to his temple. He rolled through the mud and attempted to run the girl through with his sword. She caught it between her palms and spun it out of his hand before following that up with a Hakke Kūshō that shut the Tenketsu around his lungs and throat. She awaited the next few combatants, hoping they would start attacking en masse, she could only spend so long in the form, and she was getting bored.

Once the village was back under control she apologized to those that survived the encounter for her getting there as late as she did. But they simply nodded and watched the girl take her leave.

Shortly after the Chunin exams she was given a squad with another new Shinobi. His name was Kaito Chosokabe.

At first he was incredibly abrasive when she revealed her Byakugan to him. Thusly, she began to not use it when they were on mission together. She also learned that praising him was an incredibly welcome tactic in his eyes and made their interactions much more bearable and positive. It was on one faithful mission as a team that their relationship would change.

During the mission she failed to perceive a threat to their third member of the team and he suffered for it. This was because she didn’t have her Byakugan activated at the time. He told her in no short words that if she was going to be on his team she had to fight as hard as she could. While he despised that she got an easy win through Kekkei Genkai, he despised the idea of his team being dragged down by her lack of effort even more.

She knew that he was right and from that point forward did not hold back around the young man. They were odd friends, seeing as they were so different, but they quickly came to know each other and understand one another. They would help the other achieve their goals if they had their way.

Combat Data

【Chakra Nature(s)】
Futon

【Abilities and Special Traits】
Fantastic Taijutsu form, notable excellence in Hyuga Kekkei Genkai-based Jutsu.
Strong Tenketsu-based Chakra control, above average Chakra pool.
Vast physical prowess and stamina
Absolutely no offensive Ninjutsu or Genjutsu knowledge.
Some(/currently) training on defensive measures against Genjutsu/Ninjutsu.

Weapons, Tools and Equipment】

15x Kunai (keeps these on a pouch on the side of her thigh

【Hiden Jutsu】

Name of Hiden Jutsu: Byakugan
Clan: Hyuga
Description:

【Canon Jutsu】
Byakugan (Range: 12 km)
Shichi Tenkohō (Please see Custom for detailed information)
Jūken
Hakkeshō Kaiten
Hakke Kūshō
Shōtei
Jūkenhō Ichigekishin

【Custom Jutsu】

Name of Technique: Shichi Tenkohō - Daiichi Kassei七天呼法 第一活性(Seven Heavens Breathing Method – First Activation)
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu/Supplementary
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Yang
Description: The first of the seven heavenly breaths generates a notable but dim yellow glow around Sayuri. This is her Chakra molding with the oxygen around her. The first breath is perhaps the most notable as it is the gateway to the technique in general. It allows her to access her Seven Heavens techniques and also increases her physical strength and speed two-fold. The major difference between the Eight Trigrams and this technique is that while both techniques draw from a user’s Chakra pool, this technique supplants much of that by utilizing advanced breathing techniques. All of that to say that the limiting factor in this technique is stamina and not chakra. Though this technique still utilizes a fair amount of chakra.
Weakness: The lowest rank of Seven Heavens is the technique with the least weaknesses. Outside of general Taijutsu based weaknesses and the other stages of this technique there isn’t a clear single exploitable weakness though this form is tiring to use.

Name of Technique: Shichi Tenkohō – Daini Kassei 七天呼法 第一活性
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu/Supplementary
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Yang
Description: The second of seven heavenly breaths main visual cue is the golden chakra/oxygen combination featuring blue tints due to there no longer being equal amounts of chakra and oxygen. Rather, the chakra is more present. The relevant combat effects are as follows. Due to the chakra around the body collecting further oxygen, much like the effect an owl’s wings has on the air, movement is entirely silent. Note that this applies only to movement without collision. Walking, running and the related actions will sound the same. The boon to physical strength and speed is now three-fold. She is able to move at speeds that look as though they are a blur and are incredibly difficult to track for a regular combatant, less so with Dojutsu.
Weakness: The primary weakness of this form is that its offered stealth capabilities will not be effective for a grounded user. While aerial ambushes are possible, activating the first two stages of this Jutsu for an aerial ambush is no easier than simply throwing a kunai for an aerial ambush. The usefulness of the lack of sound is not based around ambushes. This stage cannot be activated without first activating the first stage. This form is exhaustive to use after long enough bouts without turning it off.

Name of Technique: Shichi Tenkohō – Daisan Kassei七天呼法 第三活性
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu/Supplementary
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Yang
Description: Visually, activating this level of Shichi Tenkohō will cause the user’s skin to turn red as their blood flow has increased immensely. There are three primary boons associated with this stage. The first is that striking power and speed are once more increased to now four times the original. The second boon is that reaction time is boosted to that matching a single tomoe Sharingan. This allows them to predict based on tension in muscles. Sayuri can use this technique in combination with her Byakugan to also predict based on Tenketsu exertion. The third and final boon offered by this form is that it can be activated first, should she choose. Skipping the first two forms.
Weakness: There are a plethora of reasons why this form can be very difficult to use. But primarily it is that Sayuri is not used to moving at four times her speed. While she is helped by the slight bump in her reaction time, it becomes difficult to make nuanced movement. She prefers to use direct paths to the opponent as turning while at full sprint is nigh-impossible without having planned to do so at the beginning of the sprint. Sayuri can maintain this form for an even shorter period of time having trouble supplying enough oxygen to her body. In this form Sayuri has a very large amount of chakra in use around her body. Because of this any technique that drains chakra would prove incredibly lethal due to how much is in constant use.

Name of Technique: Jika Hidoi 直ひどい (Straight Gibbous)
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: A counter-attack primarily, when Sayuri is attacked she can counter with a palm bottom to the opposing limb. By doing this and expelling chakra straight down the limb. In doing so all Tenketsu hit by this shockwave will be closed by it, effectively disabling an entire limb with a single palm strike. The effectiveness is directly related to how much Chakra is expelled by the user.
Weakness: The opponent’s attack must be successfully countered head on for this technique to have its full effect.

Name of Technique: Engetsu Junban 偃月順番 (Turning Crescent)
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu
Rank: C
Range: 1m
Nature Type: N/A
Description: This technique can only be utilized while in one of the Seven Breath forms, preferably the first. By utilizing Hakkeshō Kaiten while being able to move at much greater speeds the user changes the technique somewhat, unlike the Kaiten which simply puts up a wall of Chakra that is hollow, this technique floods the area around the user with chakra and the orb is not hollow. Thusly it can be used to trap an opponent who is close to the user.
Weakness: Due to the nature of this technique it is incredibly draining. The weakness of this technique is that it can only be used at a short ranged distance while it covers a 360 degree field around the user it does not extend very far past the user's own body. While typically Kaiten can be expanded this technique cannot.

Name of Technique: Manpai Kita 満杯北 (Full North)
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu
Rank: B
Range: 20m
Nature Type: N/A
Description: Only usable in Third Breath and above. Utilizing the increased strength gathered from the Third Breath state and utilizing Shōtei and Hakke Kūshō Sayuri is able to send out a shotgun blast-like effect of the Hakke Kūshō. Due to the far greater power behind the attack and using the methodology of targeting vitals rather than Tenketsu from Shōtei it can incapacitate an enemy with lethal efficiency.
Weakness: This technique can only travel in a straight line.

Name of Technique: Hakkeshō: Shin Hōkō 八卦掌: 新方向(Eight Trigrams: New Direction)
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu
Rank: D
Range: 5m
Nature Type: N/A
Description: This technique utilizes the momentum of the rotation spin without exerting the chakra. It is typically used in order to rapidly spin away from a technique, however it can also be used in order to spin towards an opponent to close a gap, or even fake an opponent out by making it look like the user is about to activate Kaiten. Of course, if necessary the user may begin to exert the chakra required for Kaiten during this spin.

Weakness: This is only really a viable strategy with the Byakugan currently activated. Otherwise the user will be disoriented and will not be able to immediately discern the location of an opponent. Not an offensive technique.

Name of Technique: Hakkeshō: Otoroeru Chikyū 八卦掌: 衰える地球 (Eight Trigrams: Waning Rise)
Type of Jutsu: Taijutsu
Rank: B
Range: 15m circle - Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: By utilizing the Byakugan to imagine the eight trigram circle around her, Sayuri is capable of closing her Byakugan’s range down to just that 15 meter circle. While this can be incredibly dangerous as it limits much of her reaction time outside of the circle, inside the circle her reaction time is bolstered even more. However that is not the technique at hand. With perfect special awareness within herself and her trigrams she is able to counter physical blows by taking them and expelling a massive amount of chakra through the Jūkenhō Ichigekishin technique, albeit a lesser version. She can do this either as the attack makes contact in order to disable more Tenketsu or just before, in order to preserve her own safety.
Weakness: Significantly decreasing her field of view is easily exploitable and should an opponent discover this weakness this technique is all but useless as simple kunai will prove difficult to react to. The opponent can also choose not to engage in a hand-hand fight with her after suffering this attack once. This technique cannot be turned off until one post after the application of it.

Yuki Kareha

Kareha Yuki 枯葉旋回, The Ice Flower

"My name is Kareha Yuki, and this is the story of how I came to rule the world~"

Character Theme – Colors by FLOW

Personal Data

【Full Name】
二重性花 Kareha Yuki
【Title】
The Seventh Swordsman of the Mist
【Occupation】
Seven Swordsman of the Mist/Akatsuki
【Gender】
Female
【Age】
???
【Sexuality】
???

【Birth Country】
Kirigakure
【Current Village】
Missing-Nin
【Affiliation】
Chaos I guess man idk
【Shinobi Rank】
A+ Because I'm as perfect as they come ~
_{Wait S-Ranks exists???}

【Personality】
Kareha is a jovial woman who lives her life pay check to pay check. She has been a well-known mercenary for years and even had a brief stint as a Swordsman of the Mist. Even after leaving Kirigakure and carving a smiley face into her headband (the classic line just wasn't her) she kept up her positive attitude. She still even does a little mercenary work on the side. She is constantly using the transformation technique in order to appear younger than she is to put an opponent off guard. While she does sometimes have a slightly more serious side to her, she is usually fairly happy and even kids around with the other members of the Akatsuki. Often flirting with them and asking for piggy back rides.

It should be noted that this attitude isn't so much of a facade as it is her sensationalized attitude and apathy towards violence and chaos. She amps that up significantly in order to put her opponents off and cause them a great amount of discomfort. Even going so far as to let them live, just to spread the word about how horrified they were over the psychopath who attacked them. She isn't actually insane, in fact her apathy is pretty much her defining feature, should she ever have a real conversation. But she is willing to play the part of the Akatsuki battery seeing as her other teammates are almost always outta juice.

She does tend to leave fights that are boring, however. Since they can drag her attitude down. She often tells people to calm down when they are crying over a lost comrade or other such occurrences. But she doesn't really mind it all that much. Kareha understands that death will follow her everywhere she goes, but it doesn't make good things worse. Instead it just evens it out a bit more.

She also has a habit of infiltrating villages with no real motive or plan. Just to walk around, interact with people and eat some local food. What can she say? She’s a social butterfly sometimes she needs to spread her wings. Her biggest motivator is money, by miles. She loves being able to spend it and her only stipulation to joining the ranks of the Akatsuki was that they pay her an exorbitant fee upon joining. That accomplished, she’s been happy to go and do some evil stuff.

History
Kareha was a small child, smaller than most children her age, who was adopted by an incredibly kind family from Kirigakure. They taught her fantastic life lessons that would take her quite a long way through her life. For example, always treat guests with respect. Enjoy every day you get in life. And when performing slitting the throat of a victim you have to be absolutely certain that you slice from ear to ear to properly cut through the jugular and the windpipe. Lessons that would really cement her views.

The time she spent as an academy student was incredibly short lived. She was entered and within two weeks she was passed through. This was primarily due to the massive amount of training she had received beforehand. She had already surpassed what the academy expected of a student. This was also hurried along because one of the three-man cells has lost a member. A young girl who had perished during a mission to defend a small bridge. A bridge that Kareha’s mother and father worked on as builders.

When Kareha found out it was her parents that had killed that girl, she was overwhelmed with gratitude. She was so happy that they were willing to go to such an extent to get her a spot on a team as soon as possible. Her time as a Genin was generally pretty normal. She went on a few missions, left no room for mercy when she fought her enemies and made sure to always wash the blood from her kunai before bed.

One mission in particular stood out in the village’s eyes however. A fairly simple mission, she was in charge of interrogating a prisoner. They considered that she wasn’t scary enough. Which was fair, she always made sure to smile when addressing a stranger after all! So she began with freezing the lower half of his body. Of course, she wasn’t all that talented with her Kekkei Genkai at the time, she was only ten after all! So it took a few hours for the ice to fully climb up to his stomach. She figured that was the most painful part, not when she began to shatter it. But with him screaming the entire time it was really hard to tell. Not very helpful at all especially for a girl who is trying to learn these things.

Kareha was able to partake in the Chunin exams by just ten years old passing each test with flying colors. However to continue this level of upwards progression she needed a tutor, and her cell leader was unwilling due to her jovial nature and her refusal to take missions seriously. However, on her first solo mission as a Chunin she was able to meet someone who appreciated her ridiculously positive outlook on the world.

He went by Havoc.

After being trained extensively with the blade, it was time enough to put two and two together. It was around that time that Kareha would claim a blade that would go on to become one of the seven of the mist. Creating a blade made entirely of ice that could shift into water. It suited her and with her training from Havoc she was ready. She would follow his advice and join the Seven Swordsman of the Mist.

In order to join the Seven Swordsman, there had to be an opening. They were a pretty amoral group, so they didn’t really care how the opening was made as long as it was. As such Kareha approached the candidate she considered to be the most powerful, she was going to make a friend.

He, like most of the swordsman, practiced Suiton techniques but he was also known for his Doton proficiency. She approached him on the outskirts of the village, with the rest of the Swordsman and challenged him to a duel for his place in the group. They were on a small bridge overlooking a river, a fairly peaceful area. Kareha was pretty sure that it was where that Genin had been killed all those years ago. Somehow she found herself coming back to this bridge. What a sweet way to celebrate an anniversary!

He was a proud man and waved off any support for the fight, leaving just an incredibly young girl, comparatively anyway, and this man to duel. He pulled his blade from his hip, it was a monstrous thing massive in size. It looked like a chef’s knife.

“Kirigakure no Jutsu.” The bread and butter of the mist. He uttered the words under his breath and a deep mist emanated from his body. She had practiced in these kinds of conditions before, taking the hilt of her blade and dragging her hand alongside where a blade would be. The water droplets formed into a beautiful crystalline sword.

“Hyōken no Jutsu.” She cooed unto the sword, as if flirting with it.

“Sairento Kiringu.” The man said.

“Muon Satsujin.” Kareha replied happily. Their two blades struck one another tiny shards of ice flying from the sword, only to be replaced by the water droplets floating through the air. She giggled in glee as the blades clashed a few moretimes. He attempted to land a punch on Kareha’s mid-section while their blades were still entwined, but she evaded to her right, twirling and allowing his heavy blade to clash into the ground. Before he could follow up her hands had struck the ground.

“Haran Banshō.”

A massive amount of water poured out from above her, and filled the river up to its brim, only thing keeping the bridge safe from being overflown itself were the guard rails on either side.

She jumped onto the water, concentrating the Chakra in her feet in order to stand on it. Muon Satsujin worked well on land, but one couldn’t silence the noise of displacing water with their feet. As she heard her opponent approach she slammed her foot into the water, immediately it shifted into ice, springing forth from her foot and freezing the entire river bed, this stopped him in his tracks.

“Hoho, I like this girl.” Havoc exclaimed, the man was watching from the branch of a nearby tree, clasping his fingers behind his back with a cheeky grin.

The footsteps all but stopped as the ice spread out from around her. All she had to do now was locate him. But as she looked to the left and right as the mist dissipated from around them she couldn’t find her target.

Above! She immediately drew her blade in a defensive pose as he came down upon her. Nearly bisecting her blade and most likely Kareha.

“Still I think there’s a bit too much of a skill gap here.” Havoc whistled, taking in the scene. Though he was talking from the perspective of yours truly of course ~

She knew that it was now or never. She allowed the sword to shatter and dropped the hilt, angling her body away from the massive blade as it struck the ice, hard. She weaved three, four, five, six.

She felt a kick land square on her chest that sent her skidding backwards on the ice. Perhaps fractured a rib.

Seven, eight, nine, ten.

She allowed the technique to release and as he retrieved his sword a ten foot spear of ice came up through his lower back and pierced his midsection. Fatally impaling him. Red tinted the ice, as she came to retrieve her blade.

She followed rank with the Seven Swordsman of the Mist and left the body to freeze over and serve as a warning of her skill.

Of course Havoc applauded as if he had just witnessed masterpiece theatre. Which in a way, she supposed he had.

She soon became something of a local legend with her unique Kekkei Genkai, young age and status as a swordsman of the mist. This reputation elicited her change in personality. From somewhat happy to downright jovial. She was a joy to be around and simply an all-around perfect person, duh!

Only a few years later Havoc would approach her speaking of an organization she had the opportunity to join. After conceding that, yes, she could receive her truly unruly demands as far as Ryo went, she ended up joining the team in a jiffy. Ever since she’s been the mascot, heart, ace, right wing forward, and leader of the Akatsuki.

“And that’s how I joined the Akatakataki!” She exclaimed as Havoc repositioned so that he didn’t lose grip of her.

“I know you tell me this story every Friday.” He responded with a small chuckle.

“Not even the smallest embellishment!” She announced pointing forward unto the great beyond from atop Havoc’s back.

“Mhm.” He responded.

Combat Data

【Chakra Nature(s)】
Futon
Suiton
Hyōton

【Abilities and Special Traits】
S – Kenjutsu (Swords)
S – Ninjutsu
A – Genjutsu
A – Chakra Control
B – Chakra Pool
C – Taijutsu
Note – Incredibly weak against Fire-Based Techniques

Weapons, Tools and Equipment】
Standard Weapons: Kunai x20, carries two explosive tags.
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Unique Weapons:
Name: Omoide 思い出
Description: The old tattered umbrella that Kareha carries around with her. It can fold up to essentially resemble a larger walking stick. She carries it in a large harness around her chest it hangs diagonally across her back.

Special Skills: Omoide has two very specific seals on it. The first, located on the inner portion of the umbrella is a protective seal. By channeling a small amount of chakra into the handle of the umbrella Kareha can activate it and encase herself in a ball of water that can protect her from fire techniques and weaker Ninjutsu. She can deactivate this technique by stopping the flow of chakra from her hand to the handle.

The second and final technique Omoide possesses is in the form of a seal on the outwards facing side of the umbrella. It is activated in a similar fashion to the first technique however instead of one hand being placed on the umbrella, two are required. When the seal is activated it releases a Genjutsu is released that causes the victim to immediately have their senses reversed. This victim will be caught if they look directly at the bright flash of light. It will feel as though attempting to move their right hand will move their left and so on. This technique, unless reversed will only last for twenty seconds. It is only a D-rank Genjutsu, though some may not initially realize it is a Genjutsu, all the same any user who has used Kai should be able to interrupt the technique.

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Unique Weapons:
Name: Gōkyū Kōri 号泣氷
Description: A hilt which is wrapped in bandages with the bandage dangling down resembling a ribbon or silk. The blade itself is made through Hyōken no Jutsu and is constructed through Chakra-infused ice. Kareha can easily sculpt water into the ice for this blade utilizing water and should a strike pass through water can even use that to increase the range. Though striking through water is a fairly unreliable circumstance. By stopping her flow of chakra to a certain point on the blade she can also break off that piece of ice, utilizing it as shrapnel and even boasting the capability of launching chunks of ice at a target.
Special Skills: The seal is activated in the same fashion as Omoide. Channeling the chakra into the seal will activate it creating a flash. Any whom see the flash will see the actions of Kareha half a second delayed. This does mean that Kareha must close her eyes while using this technique, which is a tell in and of itself and a tactical opening.

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Summon Contracts: Whale

Size: Very Large

Unique Traits: They float above land when there is no water to swim in.

Personal Summons Narwhal
Name: Tōketsu Kaiyō 凍結海洋
Ability: Hyōton: Ikkaku Hakugei Toktetsu coats himself in a protective layer of ice increasing his size to 40m before performing this technique.
Suiton: Bakusui Shōha
As Toketsu’s size is so large he is incredibly difficult to summon and may be interrupted. The summoning process, including the biting of the thumb takes Kareha at least three full seconds of uninterrupted casting time.
Size: 20m long
Personality: Tōketsu is a regal warrior of the whales. He refers to Kareha as Madame and bears a very refined voice. He has a near limitless pool of Chakra but is only capable of two techniques and unfortunately, cannot learn the Chakra transfer technique. Much to Kareha’s chagrin. He is constantly apologetic over it, calling it his biggest fault.
【Hiden Jutsu】

Name of Hiden Jutsu: Hyōton
Clan: Yuki
Description: Ice Release Kekkei Genkai

【Canon Jutsu】
Kirigakure no Jutsu
Muon Satsujin
Fūnyū no Jutsu
Kaifū no Jutsu
Gofū Kekkai – Cannot use the perfect copies portion of the Jutsu.
Magen: Narakumi no Jutsu
Magen: Kokoni Arazu no Jutsu
Kuchiyose no Jutsu
Suiton: Haran Banshō
Makyō Hyōshō
Hyōton: Hyōgan Dōmu
Hyōken no Jutsu (Can only be formed atop Gōkyū Kōri)
Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu
Sensatsu Suishō
Suiton: Suijinheki
Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu
【Custom Jutsu】

Name: Magen: Nise Doku 偽毒 (Demonic Illusion: False Poisoning)
Type: Offensive, Genjutsu/Bukijutsu
Rank: D
Range: Contact Required
Hand Signs: Seal of Confrontation after contact with blade.
Description: This technique creates the illusion of someone being poisoned upon contact with Kareha’s blade. This technique is essentially used to create anxiety and force the victim to think about a solution when one shouldn’t be necessary. It takes their mind off the fight. This is especially useful against those who have the means to cure poison as it may draw that out. This is however, simply an illusion and they are not poisoned.
Weakness: A fairly basic Genjutsu. All basic Genjutsu weaknesses apply.

Name: Kaifū no Rengoku 地獄廊下 (Unsealing Purgatory)
Type: Defensive, Fuinjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Close
Hand Signs: None
Description: Utilizing the seal on Kareha's umbrella she is able to defend herself from some projectile based Jutsu. There are however, a couple of defining traits to what she is able to stop. She is able to stop only attacks that are purely chakra - like a Fireball Jutsu for example. Should the technique fit the criteria, however, the technique will be completely negated and blocked with no harm to Kareha or those behind her.

Weakness: This technique takes a great deal of concentration and perhaps more importantly blocks Kareha's view of her target. As this is currently a C-ranking technique, it may only stop techniques of similar rank or below.

Name of Technique: Seppun no Shi (死のキス’Kiss of Death’).
Type of Jutsu: Genjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Very Close (so close)
Nature Type: Yin
Handseals: None
Description: By placing the smallest amount of chakra in her lips Kareha can, upon kissing them effectively and without fail place the enemy in a Genjutsu in which for them it will feel like their heart has stopped and they will be unable to breathe. In reality they will be placed in a deep sleep until true love’s kiss an hour passes. The kiss must last an entire second.
Weakness: If kissing your opponent is really an option for you, you need more help than the Weakness section can offer.

Name of Technique: Seppun no Jinsei (人生のキス 'Kiss of Life')
Type of Jutsu: Genjutsu
Rank: D
Range: Very Close
Nature Type: N/A
Handseals: N/A

Description: Much like Seppun no Shi, Kareha will kiss her victim and when this kiss occurs they will immediately feel a rush of dopamine and powerful Genjutsu will overcome them. One that causes them to essentially fall in love with Kareha. It isn't permanent, but it is strong while it lasts. Enough to cause anyone to wish nothing but greatness upon her and immediately divulge any information she wishes to hear. The kiss must last an entire second.
Weakness: I mean seriously. Just stab a bitch.

Name: Hyōton: Fukyū Hiya普及冷 (Ice Release: Spreading Cold)
Type: Ninjutsu / Supplementary
Rank: D
Range: Contact Required
Nature Type: Hyōton
Hand Signs: N/A
Description: By tapping her foot on or poking a body of water, Kareha can turn up to a 40m radius area of water into Ice. This will be one foot thick and she can determine the size of the radius as long as it does not exceed 40m. As water can naturally form into Ice this Jutsu is not incredibly taxing.
Weakness: I mean there isn’t much to discuss this technique turns ice into water. The weakness is she’s doing this instead of fighting you. Think on it.

Name: Hyōton: Hikami Hashiru氷上で走る(Ice Release: Running on Ice)
Type: Ninjutsu / Supplementary
Rank: D
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyōton
Hand Signs: N/A
Description: Using this technique, Kareha is able to walk on ice as if it was hard dirt. She will not slip on the ground and is completely stable. This can give her an advantage over her opponents.
Weakness: Does walking on water have a weakness? It’s supplementary man I don’t know. It uses chakra.

Name: Hyōton: Shintō浸透 (Ice Release: Infiltration)
Type: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: 15m
Nature Type: Hyoton
Hand Signs: Three: Horse -> Dog -> Tiger + x for bigger spears of ice.
Description: After performing the handseals Kareha is able to manipulate already existing ice to form a spear towards an opponent, impaling them. The size of the spear is directly indicative to the amount of Chakra used and additional handseals performed. A three handseal is three feet of ice. Each additional handseal adds a single foot onto the reach of this technique. It should be noted that upon starting the handseals Kareha has to pick a place to extend the ice into a spear, not after their completion.
Weakness: Not standing near ice completely negates the effectiveness of this technique. However should you find yourself near ice and your ice-based opponent preparing handseals, I dunno, maybe rethink some things. Or move.

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Tōshō 凍傷 (Ice Release: Cold Death)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: 2: Ox -> Snake
Description: This Jutsu is only effectively used when an opponent has been impaled by ice. After they have Kareha can cause the ice lodged inside them to super cool. While this is not immediately lethal it does slow an opponent down significantly and if it happens multiple times or they cannot retrieve the ice from their body/raise their temperature they are under the threat of dying from hypothermia. The reason a target may slow is due to the vessels in their extremities getting narrower to preserve heat in the body. Effectively, this is akin to poisoning a target as they will experience symptoms not too dissimilar. Of course, heat-based techniques can help with a rapidly cooling body.
Weakness: You have to be hit by another technique for this technique to start its work. Work backwards from there.

Name of Technique: Fubukigakure no Jutsu 吹雪隠れ (Hiding in a Snow Storm)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: 100m
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: 4: Monkey -> Horse -> Tiger -> Snake

Description: Combining Kirigakure no Jutsu with Hyōton chakra molding, Kareha is able to summon forth a mid-scale snow storm which will cover approximately 100m in a massive amount of snowfall. It should be noted that it is still possible to see during this technique, it simply obscures some eyesight. This does cause the temperature to drop within this radius to cold enough for a snow storm, approximately
Weakness: Retreat or a Fire technique of the same rank would mostly negate this technique.

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Reiketsuna 冷血な (Ice Release: Cold blooded)
Type of Jutsu: Supplementary/Kekkei Genkai
Rank: D
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: Passive
Description: Kareha’s blood is some of the purest a Yuki can offer. As such she can deal with extremely cold temperatures, however, she is incredibly susceptible to fire-based techniques. As such she uses a fair amount of defensive water techniques along with generally avoiding fire-users. This does mean, however, that she can survive taking a swim in arctic waters.
Weakness: I mean it is really pretty spelled out, frankly.

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Nise no Tora 偽の虎 (Ice Release: False Tiger)
Type of Jutsu: Supplementary/Kekkei Genkai
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: Three
Description: A similar technique to Rain Tiger at Will, Kareha causes it to rain in much the same this technique does. However, this rain is more closely attributed to freezing rain and effectively pelts an radius of 1km around Kareha in rain that causes the temperature to drop massively. Allowing Kareha to set a temperature in any area down to 0 degrees celsius.
Weakness: Leaving the area is always an option, and fire techniques will still heat the area up. This technique has no sensory capabilities

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Hyōga 氷河 (Ice Release: Glacial Touch)
Type of Jutsu: Supplementary/Kekkei Genkai
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: Passive
Description: The next step up from Hyōton: Reiketsuna. Kareha's skin will be inhumanely frigid. So cold, in fact, that basic physical contact can be incredibly threatening if it persists. Resulting in frost bite or even loss of a limb should they continue to touch her. Frost bite would occur after ten seconds of contact with her, while loss of a limb would be twenty to thirty.

Weakness: Fire techniques raising her body temperature are a very real threat. Even a near miss from a technique could leave her seriously in trouble of overheating.

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Yuki-onna 雪女 (Ice Release: Snow Woman)
Type of Jutsu: Supplementary/Kekkei Genkai
Rank: S
Range: 500m
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: 10
Description: Kareha stabs Omoide into the ground and uses it to turn the landscape into a massive snowstorm that would look frigid for an arctic region. The temperature in the surrounding 1km radius is made to -90 degrees celsius with winds that whip around at massive speeds of 70 km/h. While in this area Kareha's body becomes so cold that her entire body is composed of Chakra based ice, freezing almost anything she touches. Five seconds of physical contact is more than enough to freeze an entire limb of a combatant. The chakra through the area also prevents any and all fire manipulation.
Weakness: This is a plot-tech that is not being used in regular combat.

Name of Technique: Tebanasu 手放す (Let it Go)
Type of Jutsu: Genjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Audible range of singing
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: Passive
Description: Kareha sings sweetly, using a Genjutsu to act not-unlike a Siren. One target of Kareha's choice in range to hear her sing will slowly, but surely have their senses confused. Causing the impulses that would usually move their feet to move their arms and vice versa. While this Genjutsu is ended upon using Kai for those talented enough, or simply injuring themself it can be difficult to do so when their nerves are confused.
Weakness: During this time as this does utilize chakra, Kareha is not able to use another Jutsu for the duration of the technique.

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Kōri Shunshin 氷瞬身 (Ice Release: Pareidolia)
Type of Jutsu: Supplementary/Kekkei Genkai
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: Same handseal for Makyō Hyōshō
Description: Instead of Kareha using Makyō Hyōshō vertically, she places them on the ground, under her feet. By doing so they can often be concealed, in a layer of snow or even water. After the mirror at least two mirrors have been placed by using this method, Kareha is capable of transporting herself as she would using the usual Jutsu as if she was using Shunshin no Jutsu. the key to this technique is that she is able to speed at the same speed as her ice mirrors on the ground, with a sword in hand this technique can quickly become deadly.
Weakness: She cannot curve between mirror A and B. She must go directly between the two, meaning that if a target is not between those two points she is not capable of turning or changing directions while using this technique.

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Shōgai 冷血な (Ice Release: Disorder)
Type of Jutsu: Kenjutsu/Kekkei Genkai
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyoton/Suiton
Handseals: Tiger
Description: Kareha using Suiton Chakra flow along her blade is capable of essentially turning her blade into nothing but water. Which is accomplished by performing the Tiger handseal right-side up. In order to shift the water back into ice she must reverse the Tiger seal. While the blade is composed of water it obviously cannot stop incoming attacks but can have its shape changed. The usual form of the blade is ice, of course.
Weakness: While this technique is active she cannot use any other Jutsu.

Name of Technique: Hyōton: Hansha 冷血な (Ice Release: Albedo)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu Kekkei Genkai
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Hyoton
Handseals: Passive
Description: Kareha, using the clone seal can create up to two clones. Each possessing a third of her base chakra and returning said chakra upon being taken out. The catch to these clones is that when they are killed they will explode, shooting ice shards in the immediate area, not unlike a hand grenade.
Weakness: These clones are also instantly defeated and will not explode when hit with a fire-based tech.

Ishi Kakumei

Ishi Kakumei 医師革命, The Young Goddess of Ninjutsu

"Even in the most hostile environments, life can’t help but thrive."

Character Theme – Rain by Sid

Personal Data

【Full Name】
医師革命Ishi Kakumei
【Title】
The Savior of the Sand
【Occupation】
Kazekage
【Gender】
Female
【Age】
20
【Sexuality】
Demisexual

【Birth Country】
Sunagakure
【Current Village】
Sunagakure
【Affiliation】
Sunagakure
【Shinobi Rank】
S

【Personality】
Ishi is most well-defined by her humility and strength of character. She does not take any pay as her time as the Kazekage. She only takes enough to keep herself fed and donates the rest to those suffering in her town. She gave the last of her water to Tokuina when he was just a cub and they were wandering the Wind Desert. She is also as fair as she can be allowed to be to people in the village. She tries to be aware of almost any other villager at any point. Not only because of her massive affection for the people who live in her village, but also because seeing someone for the first time in her village is a massive tell in and of itself.

However, that is not to say she is some kind of fool. She has personally seen a dictator and what cruelty can do to a village and even the greater country. However she is taking a stark attempt to not overcorrect for that. She will not budge when she must not budge, in fact when she believes it is earned she is incredibly vicious. She removes the issue root and stem. But to those who are simple pawns in a plan, she offers mercy. Of course to anyone who threatens her village, she will personally see their destruction and does not tolerate attacks on the village. She has been known in her fourth week personally crushing an attack on the village from a mercenary group of three hundred ninja.

The best example of this calculated mercy came during the overthrowing of the old Kazekage. A wretched old man who had personally fought in the Second Ninja World War. He was a Taijutsu expert which was essentially Ishi’s biggest blind spot. The entire village shook in the conflict and when the dust had settled and Ishi had claimed victory, for their atrocities the entire advisory board were exiled into the desert to attempt to reach a savior and were replaced with those that served the community during its trying time.

In combat Ishi is a woman to be feared. She is incredibly composed, almost never relinquishing even a single step against an inferior combatant. Though she has been known to give way to some Genin in order to build their confidence. Her typical combat involved barely any movement whatsoever, save for handseals. It is something of a horrifying sight to behold, the young woman standing perfectly still as the world bends around her.

Her friends are primarily her summons. While at first her only summon was Tokuina she has garnered the trust of almost every animal found in the Wind Country. To the point that she helped raise some of the summons she utilizes. This has coerced all of them to treat her like a sister, daughter, or mother and most importantly trust her implicitly with their lives. Each and any of them are willing to die for her and commonly put their lives on the line for her and the village. This is implicit in the fact that all of her summons are permanent residents of the village, there to protect any of the villagers like they would Ishi. This is especially true for Tokuina who lays slumbering commonly around the village’s outer ring, a standing testament to how ferociously Sunagakure will protect its right to a peaceful future.

She is a very quiet speaker in combat, though she has been known to annunciate every now and then. She usually just mutters to herself, rather than heroically announcing her attacks. In a normal conversation however she is somewhat motherly and very kind-sounding. She is surprisingly articulate for such a quiet girl and gives off a positive atmosphere.
History
Sunagakure. A desolate land by any measure. Stricken by not only hunger, but savagery, terror, dictatorship, and malice.

Ishi Kakumei was no one worth mentioning. The girl was quiet, meek even. While she was a talented physician by an incredibly young age she was also by Suna law disallowed from the ninja academy due to her lack of talent in Taijutsu. Because her physicality left much to be desired she was completely forbidden from studying Ninjutsu and honing her craft. While she was able to teach herself a simplified version of the Mystical Palm Technique at just age eight. It drained the girl and she found herself collapsing before reaching her bed every night after healing what wounded she could.

The girl was well known, she took food for pay for her services, because she was well aware that charging anything near a price worth of her services in any other village would simply mean losing every customer she had. She wasn’t a truly experienced healer by any means, however she could save a life. While that was good enough for her it wasn’t good enough to become a licensed doctor, rather she was just the right amounts of talented, naïve, and desperate for a source of food that she became something of a legend in Sunagakure. But the Third Kazekage did not admire legends, nor did he respect them. He wasn’t even prepared to tolerate this one.

Quickly tracking the girl’s place of operation down the Kazekage along with his royal guard saw to immediately expelling the girl. Exiling her to walk through the desert and find either death or redemption. The desert was known as a mass grave of sorts. There wasn’t much any ninja could do, no less failed medical ninja, in order to survive. As a final courtesy to a citizen of Sunagakure they gave her a single kunai which they through to the right of her shaking foot in the sand, and a small canteen of water which was made of steel and grew hot quickly, as did the kunai.

Ishi decided to put both the kunai and the canteen underneath her shirt in order to make sure they avoided direct sunlight so as to not heat up so much so that she would have to abandon either of them. It would be a full day of walking before Ishi would see a single living thing from the time that she left Sunagakure. As she reached the precipice of a sand dune she saw a small lion cub being surrounded by three Hyena’s. Ishi knew she had to act immediately, but as she ran down the dune her weight carried her further forward catapulting her down the dune and causing the kunai to puncture her side.

As she rolled down the hill the attack on the cub lessened and the Hyena’s looked to prey upon her. But as they attempted to killed her she ripped the kunai from her side and stabbed one through the bottom of its jaw, wrenching it around until it could no longer move its bottom half of its mouth. The other Hyena’s contemplated attacking, but the look in the girl’s eye was not human. Rather, it was sincere threat. She would absolutely not die without killing at least one other Hyena. So they ran off, yipping and laughing, deciding most likely to wait for the girl to die and simply pick the meat from her bones later on.

She hurried over to the cub on all fours, the sand scorching her extremities as she crawled along it. The poor thing was dehydrated, and seemed to be on the verge of death. She thought about giving the cub water for what felt like an eternity. Whether it was the right thing or not, her self-preservation instincts knew that she needed that water to live past the new few hours. But she gave the cub the water, passing out a few minutes later after trying to nurse it back to health.

She fell onto her back and felt herself fall through her own consciousness, as if she was descending down an elevator. She went down, down, down and finally. She awoke.

She was surrounded by shade and the sound of running water. She felt blades of grass surround her ears and her fingers. She gripped the sand but felt nothing but cool soil. She must’ve died, she thought. Before a lion cub licked her face and his claws poked into her ribs.

“Ow…” She uttered quietly attempting to free herself from his clutches.

A booming voice pierced every part of her being as a massive face she had mistaken for a mountain side came close to her person.

“You have saved my son. Tokuina, we have saved you.” The voice bellowed as Ishi’s eyes shot open. A massive lion was staring directly at her, his teeth each a bit larger than Ishi herself. “You have afforded me the opportunity to be more careful, to look after my son more diligently. I will teach you whatever it is you wish to know.” He said bowing his head to the floor, putting his nose directly in front of Ishi.

As she sat up she noticed there were multiple lions all doing the same thing. And immediately to her left, was Tokuina the small cub.

Ishi thought about all the things she could learn from these lions, but the only thing she found herself thinking of were the people of Sunagakure. And this oasis.

“Where did you take me?” Ishi asked quizzically, the girl may’ve been a half-baked medical ninja but she was still only a child.

“We did not take you anywhere, this place is where we found you, we simply made it more hospitable.”

“Teach me that.”

And they did.

Ishi didn’t return to the village for a decade after that. But she did return. She returned as a medic, a warrior, and as Sunagakure would come to describe her, a goddess.

A magnificent lion walking the girl into the main entrance of the city. She stood proudly upon its snout. Her headband engraved onto her chest. The Kazekage stood on the other side of the desolate landscape, the village was in shambles. She had taken her time and others had suffered for it. She wouldn’t make that same mistake again. She would have to offer her apologies for that transgression.

But first, she would start with this one.

The Kazekage started on Ishi, but his direct approach was not appreciated.

“Katon: Hibarashi.” She muttered spewing fire in front of the lion that trailed a small ring around him. A massive ring, to be sure but it had the height of only a few inches. The Kazekage continued his advance laughing and ripping his cloak from his back, the dark-skinned man hurling himself through the air, his incredibly reactionary speed would have to be worked around. She tapped Tokuina’s snout and he knew what that meant.

He threw her into the air, catapulting her as the Kazekage leapt over the fire and reached Tokuina’s mouth. Stopping himself just short of the beast and leaping up to meet the girl. As she reached the apex of her height, she could see the entirety of the village as a tear was forced from her eye, due to the intense speed and wind.

“In'yu Shōmetsu.” She uttered, as she began to prepare, watching the Kazekage carefully as he approached her. She would need to time it perfectly, heal where he was to strike. She had one chance.

The Kazekage was closing the distance swiftly, as he did Tokuina’s voice bellowed out through the streets. But with the wind whipping past his ears, the Kazekage did not hear it.

“Fūton: Toppa.” He roared. The flames climbed up the winds that were being expelled by the lion, engulfing the ground around them and causing citizens to recoil in horror and retreat back. As the Kazekage reached her his wicked grin taunted her. He had won.

He was a flawed thinker. Always very direct. The fastest and easiest answer was the best to him. That much was clear to her.

He struck her and his fist managed to hit her side, cleanly going through her side and out her back. “Ranshinshō.” She said, lightly striking his collar bone and releasing lightning-based energy into his nervous system. He plummeted back to Earth, his eyes darting around wildly as his body twitched unnaturally as he fell. He wanted to scream but it only made him exhale. He fell and a massive amount of sand. Shot up where he landed. Directly into the combination technique. As Ranshinshō wore off and the man was allowed to scream he was already burning alive in the fire superheated by the wind supplied by Tokuina.

Ishi landed and immediately began to cough up blood. The use of In'yu Shōmetsu undoubtedly had saved her life as the flesh was already beginning to restore, but she needed to heal for much longer. The main threat had been defeated, however.

As Tokuina gently laid her down, Ishi was already healing herself, one hand clutching her side as the fire died down and the man shriveled and black was turned to ash, whisked away by the Desert wind. She reached the center of the town and began her work as everyone silently watched the girl.

“Sabaku no Yūdai.” She announced, this time loudly so that any onlooker could hear what she was to do. Before even a second went by Sunagakure’s metamorphosis began.

Rivers rolled down the side streets, creating streams and water. The sand turned to soil along the shorelines of the rivers, and in the soil vegetation sprouted forth creating shade. The sound of a waterfall distantly echoed forth from the center of town, it was a fountain, however. Sand latched onto walls of buildings on the slums and created structure where there was none. Clouds formed over the village and rain began to fall. The Kage let the Ram seal go, and when she did Sunagakure could no longer realistically be called a Desert Village.

It was now a veritable oasis, a gem in the Wind Desert.

She took the assistants and men and women who served under the Kazekage to the entrance of the town and handed them kunai and canteen’s kindly and with great care. She spoke unto them as Tokuina looked on, staring down at them from his mighty stature.

“I hope that one of you should be as fortunate as I. To find a friend in the desert, to find life like no other. I wish you well in your journeys, just know that from this time no oppression that was faced for all of these years will be tolerated in Sunagakure for as long as I live.” She paused for a moment. “By all means, live a prosperous life, start a family, redeem yourselves.” An ugly silence hung in the air, her eyes turned sharp as if she was a hunting bird who had just found prey. “But you are not welcome to do it here.”

Combat Data

【Chakra Nature(s)】
Suiton
Doton
Katon
Raiton
Futon

【Abilities and Special Traits】
S – Ninjutsu
B – Fuinjutsu.
S – Chakra Pool
S - Chakra Control
C – Genjutsu
C – Taijutsu

Weapons, Tools and Equipment】
Standard Weapons: One massive scroll that has all of her summoning contracts on it. Hung from her shoulders hanging horizontally along the small of her back. Carries no kunai or shuriken, but does carry 500m of chakra thread.

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Summon Contracts: Lion, African Spiny Mice, Fennec Foxes, Camel

Size: Very Small – Very Large

Unique Traits: N/A

Personal Summons
Name: Chitose 千年
Ability: Each of the mice summoned share a hive mind. They are all collectively referred to as a Chitose. Currently with her chakra pool Ishi can safely summon up to 10,000 of these mice. Their only ability is to heal wounds by nibbling on them, essentially with ten of them providing a slightly weaker Shōsen Jutsu, closer to Kodomo no Kibō.
Size: length: 3 inches
Personality: Chitose has a small and incredibly fervent voice, constantly looking to please their master. They are a very kind small beast and find themselves helping. They are somewhat afraid of larger summons but are also consistently brave in the face of that fear. When not in combat they can be found all across Sunagakure, acting as a spy agency for the young Kage. In this way Sunagakure can fairly be considered to be one of, if not the hardest villages to infiltrate.

Name: Shun 旬
Ability: A pack of ten Fennec Foxes, they are either collectively referred to as Shun or individually named Ichi, Ni, San, etc. They are well versed in Doton style techniques listed below and have an incredibly ability to work together. Able to shred even an intelligent combatant in mere moments due to their sheer capability to synergize with one another effectively. Perhaps their most useful strategic advantage is by carrying seals around with them and releasing them at random points in the battlefield. This can create a veritable minefield in combat.
Jutsu:
Kuchiyose: Doton: Tsuiga no Jutsu
Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu
Doton: Shinjū Zanshu no Jutsu
Size: length: 65cm height: 50cm
Personality: Shun are all fairly scrappy and treat each other as if they were ten brothers, constantly trying to outdo each other and impress their mother, Ishi. She is stern with them as their performance is important to her, but they tend to fool around a lot. However, should they receive a personal steak in a fight they are a vicious pack of animals, easily capable of tearing out the throats of a victim. While they are foxes, they are the rough size of a blood hound and have the teeth to match them. When not in combat they are often found running and playing throughout the Kazekage mansion.

Name: Tokuina 特異な
Ability: Tokuina is an incredibly massive lion. Able to devastate small platoons simply by pouncing on them. He is also able to his tail as if it was a whip due to its massive size. He has an affinity for Futon and Doton-based techniques which are listed below. Tokuina is also capable of performing the combination transformation technique with Ishi along with a few other combination techniques. Though due to their sheer size and devastation they do not commonly do this.
Konbi Henge
Fūton: Toppa
Fūton: Renkūdan
Fūton: Fūjin no Jutsu
Fūton: Shinkū Taigyoku
Fūton: Kami Oroshi
Doton: Tajū Doryūheki
Doton: Doryūheki
Hari Jizō
Hari Jigoku
Size:
Length: 100m
Height: 48m
Personality: He has been Ishi’s summoning contract since the girl could make one and Tokuina was only a cub. The lions of the Wind Country’s desert being the ones to teach her how to control her chakra and teach her what would become her Hiden Jutsu. Ever since the two of them have felt indebted to one another teaching each other about life and truly what it means to be alive. Ever since Tokuina became the leader of his pack and Ishi the leader of her people. They call each other ‘old friend’ when he is summoned into combat. Which, he rarely is. When not in combat the mighty beast can often be found either sleeping around the border of the town or leading his pride on the outskirts. None of Ishi’s summons ever stray far from the Village, however. Not as a sign of power, but as a sign of solidarity. She is known as a woman who brought the country together and they show that the summoning contract beasts are with her as well as her people.

【Hiden Jutsu】

Name of Hiden Jutsu: Sabaku no Seikatsu 自然の生活
Clan: N/A
Description: A type of Jutsu that Ishi has created herself requiring acute control over one’s own chakra and all five basic element capabilities. In this she is able to create nature and essentially ‘life’ where there was none.

【Canon Jutsu】

A-S ranking Jutsu

Shōsen Jutsu
In'yu Shōmetsu
Chakura no Mesu
Saikan Chūshutsu no Jutsu
Ranshinshō
Raisuiryūdan
Tōmegane no Jutsu
Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu
Doton: Yomi Numa
Kuchiyose: Sanjū Rashōmon

B ranking Jutsu

Konbi Henge
Raiton: Raiu (Ishi can use this by herself)
Katon: Gōryūka no Jutsu
Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu
Suiton: Suijinchū
Suiton: Suijinheki
Raiton: Kangekiha
Raiton: Gian

C-E ranking Jutsu

Kuchiyose no Jutsu
Suirō no Jutsu
Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu
Kanchi no Jutsu
Doton: Doryū Taiga
Katon: Karyūdan
Katon: Karyū Endan
Katon: Hibashiri

【Custom Jutsu】

Name of Technique: Kodomo no Kibō 子供の希望 (A Child’s Hope)
Type of Jutsu: Medical Ninjutsu
Rank: C-A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Handseals: Ram -> Palm on injury
Description: After performing the ram handseal, Ishi is able to use this Jutsu, which once was a far weaker, but is now fairly on par version of Shosen Jutsu. The main advantage this technique offers over Shosen is the ability to heal one’s self in combat since after the handseal is created it only takes one hand to use.
Weakness: Because a similar effect to Shosen Jutsu is being created with one hand the chakra cost is twofold.

Name of Technique: Sabaku no Kawa砂漠の川 (Desert’s Gift)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Hiden, Supplementary
Rank: A
Range: 30m
Nature Type: Suiton, Doton, Katon
Handseals: Ram = Water, Ox = Dirt
Description: By twisting her foot into the sand she is able to completely transform sand or dirt into water, creating a veritable oasis. If left for long periods of time the oasis will flourish, creating small plants, grass and generally rebirthing nature itself. Instead of creating a small pond she can also strike the ground with her foot to create a river flowing in the direction of the strike. This river will be 100m long and 3m wide. She may also utilize this technique to convert sand into fertile soil and dirt. This does not require any motion on her part simply kneading the surrounding area with her chakra sewing it in as if she were sowing seeds into the ground will create fertile soil.
Weakness: Simply creation of water, it will make her stand in water so she is weak to Lightning release techniques while she is standing there.

Name of Technique: Sabaku no Kokyū 砂漠の風 (Gale of the Desert)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu. Hiden
Rank: A
Range: Hollow, Radius of anywhere from 15-150m in combat, any size with a large amount of preparation.
Nature Type: Doton, Futon, Raiton
Handseals: 15

Description: Sabaku no Kokyu creates a sandstorm that is absolutely lethal to those who attempt to move through it, though just touching it will only scrape the skin from the point of contact. The sand in that storm is sharper than glass and infused with chakra, tearing apart any who attempt to move through its radius. One of these is currently surrounding Sunagakure. There is one way to completely avoid all damage the technique would inflict. Simply channeling chakra and keeping the seal of confrontation upon one’s hands will stop any and all damage the technique would inflict. This sandstorm acts as a webbing of Ishi’s chakra allowing it to repel most Jutsu. The high speed wings also allow it to repel some tools like for instance a puppet or a weakly-thrown kunai. Can be maintained for up to ten minutes in combat.

Weakness: Nothing happens in the middle of the sandstorm. Some Jutsu, like Waterfall Basin and sturdier tools can make it through the storm. Also body armor fully covering the body would allow for someone to pass through the Jutsu.

Name: Sabaku no Ibuki砂漠の呼吸 (Breath of the Desert)
Type: Ninjutsu, Hiden
Rank: A
Range: 30m radius
Nature Type: Doton, Futon
Hand Signs: 5
Description: By performing the five required handseals Ishi creates a very light sandstorm that covers a wide area large enough to cover all of Sunagakure. The sandstorm is imbued with Ishi’s chakra and as such she is able to roughly feel any movement that is making contact with the trillions of grains of sand. This only works, however, when the sand comes into contact with beings that have chakra. It is dangerous to open one’s eyes without some kind of eye protection. Sunagakure citizens know of this technique as something of a curfew, perhaps more aptly, an indication that Ishi is searching for someone. Can be maintained for up to ten hours.

Weakness: Pretty much just Pain’s Rain tech but flavored for Sunagakure. If there was a weakness perhaps it is just that this does not tell the user of the identity of anyone tapped by sand.

Name: Sabaku no Shisen砂漠の視線 (Gaze of the Desert)
Type: Genjutsu/Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Katon, Futon
Hand Signs: Tiger -> Snake
Description: Ishi utilizes Wind and Fire chakra to superheat the air around her and trap it around cool air. Causing a mirage effect that she will ultimately disappear in. She can cause the image of her to appear closer to an opponent up to five metres away without revealing the nature of the technique while also obscuring her own presence. Of course any Dojutsu will clearly see through this technique, as will moving closer and noticing the mirage. However at range the victim of this technique will not be able to see her proper location.
Weakness: Being close to the user stops them from perfectly obscuring themselves.

Name of Technique: Fusoku Seikatsu 不足生活 (Scarcity of Life)
Type of Jutsu: Medical Ninjutsu, Ninjutsu, Hiden, Kinjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Doton, Suiton, Katon
Handseals: Rat
Description: After performing the Rat handseal Ishi places her hands in position. This position is on the surface of something that is alive, however importantly it cannot be a human being, otherwise this technique will not work. An animal or plant will work, however. The second (right) hand will be placed on either an injured party or directly on an injury. Afterwards, Ishi transfers the life from her left hand to her whatever her right hand is on. This will most times kill the victim or giver of the life energy and heal the target of the technique incredibly quickly.
Weakness: The technique does kill one of the participants, but on top of that it is interruptible, like most if not all medical Ninjutsu.

Name of Technique: Sabaku no Sekitsui砂漠の脊椎 (The Desert’s Spine)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Hiden
Rank: B
Range: 30m Radius
Nature Type: Doton, Raiton, Suiton
Handseals: Rat -> Snake -> Dragon -> Tiger

Description: Ishi summons forth a field of cacti after performing the above handseals and slamming her palm into a field of sand. The cacti in question have a deadly poison that is secreted in their needles that is not unlike a rattlesnake’s venom. Causing the blood to congeal thusly stopped blood flow through the body. What some may not realize about the technique is that there is an antivenom contained within each of the cacti which will almost instantly cure a victim’s symptoms through simply coming into contact with their body. Meaning this technique is actually more effective against one that attempts to remain cautious around the cacti as they will not break the plants but will likely suffer being pricked by one of their needles. Once exposed to the antivenom a person in question will be unable to be poisoned for the next hour.
Weakness: This poison comes with an antidote, however finding it is difficult and somewhat irrational. However, one can simply avoid the cacti rather than fight through them or even simple reckless fighting will allow a victim to be healed. The first time a victim is struck they will be dizzy, the second time very nauseous, the third they will be in danger of dying. Each grade of the poison can only last up to one minute and thirty seconds.

Name of Technique: Sabaku no Hogo 砂漠の保護 (The Desert’s Protection)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Hiden
Rank: B
Range: 5m radius around Ishi
Nature Type: Doton, Katon, Raiton
Handseals: Ram
Description: Ishi is capable of controlling the dirt around her in order to harden it and form protective shields around her. However, there are a few steps that must be taken before she is capable of doing so. She must first use Sabaku no Kawa in order to create dirt around her person, as sand is far too loose to control like dirt. Secondly she must have already sown chakra into the ground beneath her. Once those two perquisites are met she is capable of controlling the ground below her with mere thoughts. She can use it to form a shield around her, trap an opponent’s feet who stand on the dirt, or even use it to help her evade an attack by knocking herself on the ground. The earth itself is harder than steel when kneaded with her chakra in this way.
Weakness: Ishi isn’t capable of reacting any faster than she typically can. Rather this is used to shield her from long range attacks that she’d otherwise have to evade, like kunai and weaker elemental techniques. Earth’s elemental affinities apply here.

Name of Technique: Sabaku no Nigiri砂漠の握り(The Desert’s Grip)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Hiden
Rank: B
Range: 10m
Nature Type: Doton, Futon, Suiton
Handseals: Boar -> Dog -> Palm on ground
Description: After placing her palm on the ground Ishi imbues the sand below an opponent in a 10m radius with her chakra specifically, wind, water, and earth chakra. In doing so she is capable of turning the sand into quicksand and causing them to sink deep into the ground. She is capable of making the sand approximately eight feet deep. Ishi can control the speed and extent to which it pulls a target, and of course as quicksand typically exists, struggling makes one sink faster.
Weakness: This technique does require the opponent to be standing still, should that condition be met it does have the distinct weakness of being countered by channeling chakra around the area the sand is meeting. By doing so the quicksand cannot pull a target further in. Any normal means of escaping quicksand also apply here.

Name of Technique: Chishiki no Hozon 知識の保存 (Preservation of Knowledge)
Type of Jutsu: Fuinjutsu
Rank: B-S
Range: Varied
Nature Type: Varied
Handseals: Handseals required by Tech -> Snake -> Rat - > Seal of Confrontation -> Other palm on Seal
Description: This technique allows the storage of completed Jutsu inside a seal. To activate the Jutsu one must allow chakra to flow through the seal, any chakra is fine it does not require the same chakra of the original caster.
Weakness: Once a technique is sealed it cannot be unleashed for at least four posts. Once a technique is released it requires the full chakra cost. The user can only store their own techniques in these seals, not their opponents. The chakra cost is applied to the original user of the technique, not the one placing chakra into the seal.

Name of Technique: Konbi Henge: Uingudo no Miko (Combination Transformation: Winged Shrine Maiden)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Combination Jutsu
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Handseals: Reverse Ram
Description: While atop Tokuina, Ishi performs the reverse ram seal and the two transform into a winged beast with ram’s horns, a lion’s face, and a scaled-tail. In this Chimera/Sphinx form the two are capable of using Ninjutsu on a much grander scale, have a nearly bottomless chakra pool, and can utilize Ninjutsu by simply stating the name of the technique and kneading the chakra. While in this form Tokuina and Ishi are half the regular size of Tokuina and their Jutsu have twice the range than usual except for Sabaku no Yūdai.
Weakness: Such a large size can make fighting a single target, or while in a village nearly impossible.

Name of Technique: Sabaku no Yūdai (The Desert’s Magnificence)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Hiden
Rank: S
Range: As far as Ishi can see
Nature Type: Doton, Raiton, Futon, Suiton, Katon
Handseals: Tiger -> Snake -> Ram
Description: After utilizing the three handseals Ishi is capable of nearly pure unbridled creation. This is the utmost technique of the Sabaku no Shizen Hiden techniques. Using this technique Ishi is able to create lakes, transform sand into dirt and dirt into sand, grow palm trees among other myriads of vegetation in a matter of seconds, manipulate sand in order to create buildings not unlike a pyramid, and even cause rainfall. This technique is quite similar to Mokuton Hijutsu: Jukai Kōtan in it’s ability to create and is the main reason for the rebirth of Sunagakure. In combat it is effective at making a landscape perfect for Ishi to fight in, but not much more than that.
Weakness: Ishi must stand still and hold the ram handseal otherwise she will lose focus and not be able to continue the technique. She can only activate this technique once per day. It should be noted while note a weakness the listed functions for this technique are the only applications this technique has.

Naruto: Revival

Hokusai Āito

Hider

Character Theme - Daisy
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【Full Name】
Hokusai Āito
【Nickname/Alias 】
Ai-San, Ai
【Gender】
Female
【Age】
27
【Age Appearance】
20
【Sexuality
Homosexual

【Village】
Iwagakure
【Birthplace】
Takigakure

【Alignment/Affiliation/Organization】
Iwagakure Critical Defensive Organization

【Clan/Bloodline】
N/A

【Rank】
B (ICDO Leader)

【Chakra Nature】
Earth, Wind

【Appearance/Wardrobe】
Āito stands around five feet and six inches, marking her at just about the statistical average as far as women her age are concerned. She has piercing yellow eyes fairly reminiscent of a cat’s eye and greenish teal hair. She commonly has the back of her hair up in a ponytail allowing the rest to fall beside her face. She also keeps bangs, just long enough to not crawl into her field of vision. She has a fairly slim but toned build and fairly sharp facial features. Specifically her cheekbones and jawline are noticeable fairly easily. Off-duty she sports a white halter neck top without sleeves and a pair of typical blue pants. This outfit leaves some midriff showing. She also sports black sleeves and fingerless gloves. The sleeves reach from just above her wrist to just below her armpits.

Āito notably looks young for her age. Her quiet demeanor and sharp features paint the picture of a judgemental youth, but she is anything but. She has multiple tattoos which are her drawings in the form of her Bijutsukan technique. Two snakes on her right arm, a large catfish on her left calf, a majestic phoenix on her back, and dragon that wraps around her left arm and shoulder/neck area.
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【Personality】
Āito is a fairly quiet woman, choosing to listen rather than speak most often. While she does speak up, especially when surrounded by friends, she speaks albeit quietly. However she keeps it fairly exact. She says what she needs to without leaving much room for emotion or contemplation. Āito has been known by her very few friends to be really quite sweet where it counts. She often goes out to the store to get their favourite treats when she knows she’ll be seeing them and lives on basically the bare essentials. She often spends nights gazing at the stars and painting them, with regular ink of course.

Her art is perhaps one of the most defining aspects of her personality. She is constantly drawing and has even prepared some drawings should she get ambushed and not have time to draw something. However what she often explains away as simply a defensive countermeasure she is in fact simply expressing her love for art.

Her art style can best be described as Ukiyo-e, an expressive and highly impressionistic view of reality. Somewhat contrary to what her personality leads others to believe. However, the specifics of that style often depend on the mood and situation. As a Kunoichi who utilizes Chōjū Giga on a regular basis she has taught herself through excruciating training to be able to sketch in said style in incredible times. Able to paint an entire tiger or hawk in little under five seconds. While it is obviously not her most detailed work, it need not be beautiful to be effective. Her style isn’t however, drastically different in combat as she is commonly able to use her impressionistic style to her advantage, drawing faster and accomplishing the same task as one who is constantly aiming for a perfect replica.

Her take on her status as one of the leaders of the Iwa Critical Defense Organization is that while she is and can be sent on missions that aren’t exactly ‘defense’ at least not by definition, she is helping the people of Iwagakure. They were the people who took her in when she couldn’t find anywhere else to go and as such it is those buildings she sketches every night. Thusly, she will always support the village.

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【History】
Āito was born in Takigakure to a loving family. A medical ninja named Hiyoko and a young man who would die before Āito was born. When Āito was only two she was entrusted to her aunt, a young woman that Āito cannot remember all too well. With Takigakure under siege from bandits, Āito’s mother was well aware that she could not keep her daughter safe for long enough to justify her living there. Thusly, she sent Āito with her aunt. Unfortunately, Āito’s aunt had other plans and instead sold Āito as a daughter of a medical ninja and a child with extreme promise to the leader of the sieging bandits in exchange for safe passage to Iwagakure. The bandits accepted the deal however they immediately double-crossed Āito’s aunt and took Āito for themselves. By the time Āito was four years old she was being taught art by the leader of this group of bandits.

While he was a violent man who took what he wanted from those weaker than him, he was also a fairly art-minded man who had a great respect for beauty. Āito couldn’t remember him too well either but she simply attributed it to the fact that no single person was one thing or another. They simply were. Thusly she was taught art, however she was barely taught any language whatsoever, she wasn’t allowed to speak unless addressed which was uncommon in itself. While she obviously picked up what she could she had a very difficult time spelling anything and turning her thoughts into words were also incredibly difficult.

It wasn’t until five years later when she was seven years old that the bandits were slain. They were killed by the Iwagakure Critical Defense Organization, a group that Āito would later join.

She was given a small home and a woman from the Tsuchikage’s office named Shiho would come each and every day to make sure that Āito had everything she needed and would walk her to the academy. Essentially providing the girl with a live-in mother. But as soon as she was old enough to fend for herself, she did. She bought her own groceries from the time that she was ten years old and became fairly well known around town for her talented illustrations, quiet nature, and status as a ten year old girl living on her own. While Shiho would still stop by unannounced every once in a while to make sure the girl was doing well, she found the girl was highly independent. The small apartment she had was always spotless and her fridge reasonably stocked with about three days’ worth of food.

After being taught the basics of language and beginning to learn Ninjutsu she found herself progressing very well in the academy, quickly graduating within just two years and becoming a Genin at age twelve. She was placed in a three-man squad in which she was constantly given the feedback of communicating more, which was difficult for the young girl. When she went home there was no one and she was never allowed to speak with her captors unless spoken to. It was an issue to her Jonin team-leader, and thusly she worked with Āito to attempt to work past it. Āito grew to admire her team leader for that and aspired to become one herself eventually.

During her time as a Genin she was reached out to by the Kouken clan. They had a young Genin themselves and heard of the girl’s independence, her time with bandits and her ability to learn how to read and write while also making her way through the academy and wanted her to become their aspirant’s sparring partner. Āito was urged to accept the offer from her team leader, who believed it would be a good amount of experience.

The girls introduced themselves, Āito and Ayame. They would go on to train day in and day out for the coming months knowing quite a bit about each other without truly knowing each other. Though had someone asked Āito would refer to Ayame as a friend, there was a tension there. Each subsequent fight would be even harder fought as the girls sought to prove entirely different albeit similar ideals. Ayame at her heart was a pacifist and Āito was a weapon for her village to use. They butted heads as much as their kunai clashed.

Well after the two became Chunin their sparring matches had continued. They were both twenty years old, Ayame had started on the Barrier corps and Āito the Defense Organization. They were both moving up in their fields as a shield to protect the people a blade to cut down those who threatened it. Āito and Ayame had even had a few conversations, Āito had told Ayame about her childhood and the bandits who had stolen her away from her home, Ayame about the events that transpired with her sister. It was horrible, Āito remembered thinking, but she admired how Ayame didn’t let it stop her.

One training session that lasted particularly long, the Kouken clan elder who was overseeing Ayame’s training that day was pushing the girl yelling at her, goading her on, but Āito could read her movements. Every kick was stuffed, each punch punished. It was fairly easy when Ayame became frustrated, her telegraphing increased as most people who were agitated did. Yet when Āito blocked one punch with a disabling punch to the arm and a leg sweep and Ayame began to fall to the ground, but, as the girl fell a series of hand-shaped barriers reached out to Āito and snagged her. As Ayame hit the ground Aito was flung at high speeds into the wall aobut twenty feet behind her. Smashing into it with enough force to slightly crack the wall. She felt the wind forcibly exit her lungs as she slumped onto her knees, coughing to catch her breath.

Ayame lurched back up just as fast as she fell and stared at Āito, fuming over the training. She was tired, being pushed, unhappy, it caused her to hit a boiling point. While Ayame was typically a kind woman, she also had the heart of a survivor and when pushed enough she had the ability to snap. She stood up to yell at Āito until she saw her handiwork. She covered her mouth instinctively, the words I'm sorry sounded as though they escaped but it was difficult to tell over Āito's coughing.

Āito went home that night and thought about what had happened. She assumed up to this point that Ayame was just nice, that in her eyes she was just an annoyance. This may’ve confirmed it. The nice thing to do would be to accept this not quite plain termination of their friendship and agree to go separate ways. However, Āito enjoyed her friend’s presence and would have a hard time abandoning her. As such she got to work.

She grabbed a blanket from her bed, a nice fluffy comforter and went over to a local dango shop, picking up a fair amount of the treats. The sun had long since set on the day and a silhouetted figure sat atop the Kouken Clan HQ, Āito joined the girl.

“I’m sorry, Ayame.” She said quietly her voice riding the cool breeze to the girl’s ears. Ayame looked up at her with reddened eyes, it seemed she had been crying a little bit and she was doing a rough job with holding it back now.

"What do you mean you're sorry?" She asked exasperated.

"I pushed harder than I should've, you should find solace in my presence, not turmoil." Āito responded quietly, giving her friend both of the dangos and laying the blanket over her while she took out her scroll, ink well and brush. She sat cross legged beside the girl and began to paint the night sky. Ayame seemed to be a loss for words, but as the redness moved down to her cheeks she rested her head on Āito's shoulder as the night continued on.
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【Traits】
-Excellent Chakra Control
-Average Chakra Pool
-Fair Talent in Bukijutsu and Taijutsu
-Lacking in Genjutsu
-Talented with Fuinjutsu
-Excellent with Art-based Ninjutsu and sparing talent in Earth-Based Ninjutsu
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【Equipment/Weapons/Items】

Name of Weapon or Item: Chōjū Giga Scroll
Description: Āito’s scroll for use with the Chōjū Giga Jutsu. It isn’t much different from a regular scroll outside of the fact that it comes completely blank, ready for implementation with the Jutsu. All that is required to activate the technique is the seal of confrontation to be made and the scroll with the drawing be facing open air.
Appearance: A simple scroll.

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Basic tools:
Two scrolls, both with ink in them.

A brush with ink running through the handle that dispenses through the Ferrule. Incredibly easy to reload with ink and in an emergency can also be used with blood. Simply raising the tip of the brush allows for it to be refilled. Can currently allow for up to fifty mid-sized drawings to be completed without being refilled.

30x Kunai
1x Tanto
100m of Wire
50m of Chakra Thread
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【Kekkei Genkai 】
Name of Kekkei Genkai: N/A
Clan: N/A
Rank N/A
Description: N/A


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Jutsu:
All applicable Academy and D-Rank techniques

Canon Jutsu

Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu
Doton: Domu
Sumi Bunshin no Jutsu
Sumi Nagashi
Doton: Doryūheki
Kuchiyose: Raikō Kenka
Kaifū no Jutsu
Kuchiyose no Jutsu
Nunoshibari no Jutsu
Gogyō Fūin
Chōjū Giga
Fūinjutsu: Koshi Tandan

Custom Jutsu

Name of Technique: Fūinjutsu: Bijutsukan (封印術: 美術館 – Sealing Technique: Eternal Museum)
Type of Jutsu: Fūinjutsu, Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: Bijutsukan allows Āito to seal one of her drawings into her body, appearing as a tattoo. Through this technique she is able to store animals, objects, or figures in her body while being able to summon them through channeling chakra into the place in which it has been sealed. This can be anything that Āito paints. It is simply an alternative means of storage that avoids the middle-man that is the scroll she draws on and allows her to prepare for combat more aptly.
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Name of Technique: Chōjin Nise Ga 超神偽画 (Super Myth Imitation)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: By activating either Bijutsukan or drawing a fresh creature and performing the seal of confrontation Āito is able to summon forth creatures of myth itself. These may range from dragons, phoenixes, just about anything. As per usual with the art-based techniques Āito is known for the limit is on her imagination. This technique is primarily A-Rank because of the difference between these and the beasts created by Chōjū Giga. It takes much more chakra to create these monsters and as such they are more durable than the Chōjū Giga beasts. They can typically absorb a single Jutsu before turning back into ink. The other notable trait is that each of the beasts Āito can summon are able to utilize one elemental technique. It should be noted that only one of these creatures can be summoned at once and while they are more durable than a typical ink-based creation they are still fragile in comparison with other actual summoned beasts.
Phoenix: Goukyaku no Jutsu
Dragon: Mizurappa
Lion-Turtle: Doton: Otoshibuta
Nue: RĀiton: Gian
Onikuma: Fūton: Toppa
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Name of Technique: Doton: Noroi Fumu 呪い踏む (Earth Style: Cursed Shuffle)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: C
Range: Personal
Nature Type: Earth
Description: An extension of Doton: Domu once Āito’s limb is coated in Earth she can then transfer that to an opponent. Effectively all she has to do is touch a limb of the opponent and the earth-based coating that was on her arm will transfer onto theirs. As this is not simply dirt, but chakra moulded Earth it can be forced to weigh a substantial amount which is the main application of this technique. It also does not have to be applied to a person. This can slow an opponent, restrict movement, drown them, and various other applications. It does, however require physical contact.
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Name of Technique: Sumi Chūdoku 墨中毒 (Ink Poisoning)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu, Bukijutsu
Rank: B
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: By wrapping the hilt of Āito’s Tanto with a scroll with the words Senkō Suru Āito is able to activate the scroll with the seal of confrontation. Utilizing it, spears of ink branch out of the hilt and attack the target, their sole purpose to inject ink into the bloodstream. While the body can handle a fair amount of ink, because of the nature of this technique and the fact that it deposits ink directly into the bloodstream. The technique need only connect for three full seconds during a fight to be fatal. Which is of course, cumulative. It is not immediately fatal, however as the veins will turn black and the head will stop receiving the proper amount of blood. The victim will become extremely dizzy, experience intense vomiting and eventually will die to heart failure. It is a slow and painful death that must be treated immediately.
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Name of Technique: Kami no Ishi 神の意志 (God’s Will)
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Personal
Nature Type: N/A
Description: By writing a single word or verb (for example Senkō Suru is ‘to pierce’, which is a single verb) Āito is able to infuse a target with the word that she has written. The technique however is different from most art-based Ninjutsu. While typically one would write on a scroll, this technique requires writing on a palm. The palm then touches the target and the seal of confrontation is made and the Jutsu will activate. This may turn a target sturdy, brittle, sharp, soft, dull, wet, etc. The limits of this technique are once again related to the time required in preparation, its personal range, and the potentially lethal nature.

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Persona - Academic Akrasia

@Krayzikk, @Plank Sinatra, @Kafka Komedy, @Crimmy

With that Hitomi nodded a content nod. It wasn’t her usual chipper affair, but it’d do for the others. She didn’t feel like it was time to answer Kazou’s question and Daisuke seemed fine with the matter. She knew that Kimiko had some trouble with the request, but less due to the nature of it and more than her own disposition. Hitomi chose not to ignore it, but didn’t give Kimiko much, simply nodding to her commander and taking her snug seat in the back of the van.

She waited patiently to arrive at her family home, she felt her phone which was pressed tightly in her pocket against Kimiko’s thigh buzz a few times. Once or twice she swore she caught a glance from her commander, however Hitomi knew what was more than likely being said and decidedly didn’t answer the phone.

“This is it Sasori-San.” She said quietly and only as loud as she had to. He pulled the van over and she glanced at Kimiko who was looking at her with some suspicion, but not of any malicious ilk. Rather, it was perhaps concern, curiosity, or candor. But the girl knew what happened when people saw how her family acted.

Still she was not one to refuse her commander.

“Any and all of you may come inside, or at least up to the door, but I should only be here briefly.” She said quietly. But glanced at Sasori. “Well, not you. You might scare them.” She added before exiting the van.

She entered her house and her mother’s ire lashed out immediately in the way Hitomi was looked at. It caused her to flinch as she noticed the open window. She knew she had to speak first and set the volume of the conversation.

“I’m sorry some friends held me up after work, I’ll empty the dishwasher and I’ll find my own dinner tonight.” She said aptly, before immediately making good on her promise. But her mother did not move, simply shaking her head in the corner of the kitchen.

It looked nice enough, white cabinets, a marbled grey island that stood in the middle of the room and added a feeling of separation to the doorway and the kitchen. The dining room and kitchen had a grey stone tiling on the floor, whereas the entryway and den were both a beautiful hard wood. Hitmomi’s father had spent many summers perfecting their home’s appearance.

“You’re leaving your father and I for dinner?” Her mother scoffed, her lips curled into a snarl. "If you're like this now, how will it be when you're moving out? Leaving your father and I for dead as soon as you can leave."

“If that’s alright, yes.” Hitomi replied ignoring the latter part of her mother's statment, the only noise whenever one of them wasn’t speaking was the empty clatter of chinaware against the wooden cabinets.

“Who are these friends of yours? You didn’t have friends yesterday.” Her mother said blankly. Not removing her gaze from the back of Hitomi’s head.

“I just met them when I was coming-“She started.

“Speak to your mother when you’re addressing her.” Hitomi’s mother snapped, taking a single step to affirm her point, loudly colliding her foot with the tile.

“I’m sorry mother,” Hitomi said bowing slightly after turning to her mother. “I met them when I was coming home from practice.”

“Are they men?” She asked her daughter. Hitomi winced a little, but didn’t show it on a surface level.

“Two of them are, yes. But there is a girl as well, and we should be going to her house, her parents will be home.” Hitomi said, waiting while her mother silently judged her.

“Well you be home before the street lights are on,” was the only reply she got.

“Of course, mother.” Hitomi said quietly closing the dishwasher with a gentle touch and immediately gathering up her things to leave. She snagged her phone off the counter, the small bird bauble that hung off of it gyrated around the phone and wrapped around her thumb as she reached out to the door and heard her dad call out to her from the upstairs.

But she pretended not to hear it and ran outside of the house all the same, hiding behind a small half-wall and leaning against it. She took a shallow breath before closing her eyes and adopting the same smile they had all become used to.

“Sorry for the hold up!” She said retaking her place in the van.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Survival in Grimm Studies

@NarayanK @Krayzikk @FlitterFaux

“I hope you can hold on.”

I said with a smirk about as wide as the Dionaea itself. I allowed Ben to get a strong grip before looking out towards my foe. I knew what had to be done. As Ben managed to grab on to me and my wings unfurled, I noticed the recently cut vine began to thrash and the Dionaea’s gaze unnaturally quickly shifted in our direction. I felt an immediate pang of fear. But I was not about to let Ben or the team down.

But the young man was right. We didn’t know what this thing was nor did we know whether or not the so-called weak point was a trap. But it didn’t matter. Taking us in closer was the only way we’d be able to attempt to finish this thing. With that, I knew what I had to do.

With what felt like a full minute’s pause, we jumped into action. The vines immediately attacked Ben and in correlation myself, along with the group below us. I wrapped an arm around Ben so that he wouldn’t be jolted out of his grip and immediately took off, using my semblance to reach a speed that wouldn’t be possible with my normal acceleration. C’est la Vie at the ready just in case the vines came near us. I immediately took evasive actions, with one vine rapidly ascending in an attempt to smack me towards the ceiling, flatten me against my own speed.

But I twirled to my right and felt the wind catch my feathers as the vine passed us by. I curled them around Ben and me and for one single moment, there was silence as my wings enveloped us. “Don’t worry, I own the air.” I said reassuringly opening up my wings and spinning us around another vine. Since some of its attention was diverted on the others I did have the opportunity necessary to take the time to evade and plan my path towards the Dionaea. From here I could see just how thin we must’ve been spreading it. While it did have multiple heads, there was one that was central the beast’s physiology and that very same one was larger than the others.

This may’ve been my first Grimm Studies class, but I knew that meant one was more important than the others. So that was the plan. Take it out.

With Ben wrapped up in my arms I continued my advance, C’est la Vie at the ready.

I knew that I most likely couldn’t bring us in for a landing, but I could drop him at the base and continue to divert hopefully. If, not he’d have to divert attention for me. Either way worked for me.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Survival in Grimm Studies

@NarayanK @Krayzikk [@Azeriah] @FlitterFaux

I blinked as the Dionaea made eye contact with me. This was the closest I had come to a Grimm this size. I had barely fought any, let alone a giant such as this. Riesen class were horrifying to fight. Like fighting mythology itself in a way. It was a horrifying thought, this monster by itself if it had not been pruned could have potentially killed a class even bigger than this one. By itself.

”1-1, Nuit!” Ben called out snapping my attention to the vine that hit the ground with a thud before slowly disintegrating. Right. This was a Riesen-Class, sure. But it was also a chance for me to grow.

“Fine then.” I called out to the team leader as the Riesen continued to flick between myself and two other points of interest. “Let’s do this.” I said.

But the fates had another idea. The Dionaea’s head stopped on the third point. Not myself, but another boy in the room. It decided to truly go on the attack as vines began to slither towards Ashe and myself. I watched as a myriad of attacks from other students shot out over the battlefield but the first thing I noticed was the smaller, thinner roots on the ground dodged those preliminary attacks, continuing their advance towards Ashe and I.

Well fine then Dionaea I’ll use my advantages then.

“Ben, I’m going to fly up, you’ve got roots coming in from my side, hold position for a moment.” I said my wings bursting out to full length ready to take flight. “I'll scout ahead, get these roots off my back.” I motioned to the roots quickly approaching.

I rocketed skywards nearly fifteen feet before beginning to slow down so I could get a greater view of the area. I scanned for incoming roots and found a thicker root coming towards me. I immediately furled my wings around my body, feeling the warmth they provided as I began to drop, unfurling them once more with a mighty flap, I felt the massive wind follow the thick root that attempted to smack me out of the air. The thin roots were already approaching Ashe and it seemed Skye also had roots snake around her wrist. She called out to Sangue to tear the roots but I saw the issue immediately.

I lined up the shot and as she pulled back to make the root taught my spear found its mark and sliced clean through it. Bringing it back with my semblance I snagged it out of the air and nodded towards Skye’s position. I glanced towards the Dionaea and… Something caught my eye.

It glowed orange from the center of the Dionaea, much easier to see from the air. A weak point?

No. That doesn’t make sense. This isn’t a video game and Grimm unless armoured, do not have weak points. However, perhaps it was the main head. If we could destroy it then maybe, just maybe we could kill this thing. I allowed myself to plummet to the ground landing with a thud directly beside Ben.

“There’s an orange glow at the center of all the roots. We have two options, I could fly us up and drop you and I on the center, or we can try and wade our way there. What are your orders, Cap?”

I made sure to keep vigilant while speaking, keeping my spear at the ready.

"That's also 2-1"

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Survival in Grimm Studies

@NarayanK @Krayzikk @FlitterFaux

And so it begins.

The fight started slower than I had anticipated. There were enough sayings about caging an animal to infer a certain behaviour, and Grimm were nothing if not worse. The Dionaea immediately lashed out towards our group, perhaps completely randomly. I struggled to resist watching all sides at once, it was an impulse that being in a survival situation thrusted upon you. Especially since Skye and Sangue seemed more likely to dodge past blows, instead of guard them. Which left myself and Ben to do the majority of repulsion.

Speaking of which the young man started to prove he deserved the title Lauren always referred to him. Ben took a strong stride forward to meet the incoming blow from the Dionaea for one second that seemed to last ten where the root collided with Joyous Guard. But soon after the root slid down the side deflecting the blow from truly colliding with Ben at full force. The ground felt shook as the root smashed into the ground.

But the boy wasn’t done and neither was the Dionaea. The beast struck once more, and once more the blow was deflected. But this time, with a hefty slice into the root. I grinned wickedly watching it lurch back in pain. While it was nearly as thick as a tree trunk it was noticeably wounded. With no blows incoming as far as I could see and the root swiftly returning after having been sent hurtling backwards I outstretched my left arm aiming the spear towards my target. It was a difficult shot, but I was able to correct somewhat with my semblance. Of course correction would cost speed.

I took four steps, coming to a quick sprint and stomped my left foot into the ground, focusing on stopping completely. The entire right side of my body came across rapidly as I let go of the spear. While my body twisted my eyes followed the spear frantically.

It was on target.

I reached out towards it and pushed it away, further increasing its speed and sending it completely through the root like a bullet from a gun.

The root fell from point of contact towards but further to the right of our squadron with a massive thud. As it crashed into the earth I caught Ben’s gaze before falling back.

“1-0”

I reached out towards C’est la Vie that rapidly returned towards me, almost magnetically connecting with my hand.

Let that set the tone.

I returned to my place on our flank awaiting the inevitable counterattack.

Persona - Academic Akrasia

@Krayzikk, @Plank Sinatra, @Kafka Komedy, @Crimmy

Hitomi rode around on Kimiko’s back while she answered the phone. Hitomi inquisitively glanced at the phone, prodding her head a little close to Kimiko’s cheek to glance at the name. “Toku Mom”.

Mom?

Hitomi felt herself slipping backwards as Kimiko straightened up a little so she nudged herself forward and wrapped her legs around Kimiko’s stomach. Her arms dropping further down Kimiko’s neckline but hanging in front of her like some gangly necklace you’d find at a weird art show. You’d probably find Hitomi there too.

Kimiko nuzzled the phone into Hitomi’s arm to end the call and Hitomi glanced as the call faded away.

“Bye mom.” She said quietly moving herself to allow for an easy transition to the ground. She left behind a small braided strand of hair that she had been fiddeling with while Kimiko was on the call. “Kimiko,” Hitomi said, using her commander’s first name. Which she had heard could even get her rejected from active duty. She slid off of her back and walked in front of the group, to face Kimiko head on. “I need to get some things from my house, could we stop there?” She asked, not even to the odd gumshoe who would be driving. But to the co-pilot who would be driving the speakers.

She seemed off to the group, most certainly, full sentences, eye contact. It was strange for the small girl to be so functional. “I told my parents that I would come home after work, I'm sure they'd like to see me before I leave again for the rest of the day.” She said simply to the other girl. She was still holding on to Kimiko’s sleeve, not very tightly just a loose grip. She gazed into Kimiko’s eyes looking for an answer. During these moments of lucidity she felt the prettiest.

But also the least like herself. Like she was a completely different person.

She found her mind drifting to the idea of a persona quite often since Daisuke had mentioned it.

Hitomi took a deep breath and stopped being a small bird. She was Hitomi Fukushima now, a respectable girl with good grades.

She didn't like being Hitomi Fukushima. Her parents didn't like it either.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Survival in Grimm Studies

@NarayanK @Krayzikk @FlitterFaux

I laughed a little when Ben did a double take at the position of C’est la Vie. But the entire atmosphere of the room changed dramatically once Port wandered into the room. Even Ben’s eyes narrowed and focused on the stout man as he painstakingly made his way to the front of the class. It seemed Grimm Studies wouldn’t simply be theoretical work today.

As the class began to get lead to another room I found myself near the back of the line. It was ominous how the nervous chitter chatter seemed to stop as soon as everyone walked in. But surely it couldn’t have been that ba-

“Oh my god.” I said quietly, while absentmindedly bringing a hand up to my mouth. The creature, Port named it Dionaea was massive. It was larger than any living thing I had ever seen, but it wasn’t the kind of massive that came with an elephant. Large, slow, and heavy. This thing was fluid, it moved in ways that didn’t seem natural at all. My wings unfurled completely, ready to take off at the slightest hint of an attack. It was a defensive mechanism. Port espoused about the lack of teeth.

Teeth? What about the tendrils?

I scanned everyone’s faces and they all seemed to be reciprocating the same thought I was thinking myself. What the hell were we supposed to do to kill this thing?

”Hey Nuit,” Ben said cheerfully, as if he was handing me a drink at a party. ”I’ll probably have its attention pretty quick. If it gets hairy, drop behind me. Sangue, you too. We’re gonna need to cut our way towards its trunk. I can take a few hits if it gets a little pissy.”

“Who’s ready for some fun?

I looked at Ben’s face and he was. Ready. The old members of Jumpercable and Bastille fought a Riesen-class Grimm last week and they killed it.

I can do this.

My arm launched upwards throwing C’est la Vie towards the ceiling, the purse transformed into its spear formation almost instantly and I used my semblance to bring it right back into my hand, arcing it across my body and letting it rest just below my lower back and near my legs, wings still outstretched.

“Well I might’ve won round one Ben, but you better not slack off here.” I said eliciting some confusion from others around us. “Most tentacles killed wins? I’ll count the root as three.” I said preparing for combat.

Sky joined Ben, Sangue and myself asking what she should do. Truth was I hadn’t seen her fight yet and had only recently gotten her dossier.

“Follow Ben, Sangue, and I. Stay in formation and if something is coming your way find Ben. We’re going for this thing’s trunk.” I said confidently. Perhaps I was only confident because of Ben’s exuberance, but if that was what could get me out of bed and ready to kill a Riesen-class Grimm today, that would be enough.

"And Ben. My semblance is attraction and repulsion." I said speaking fairly loudly so he didn't have to turn to hear me. I was already beginning to formulate a plan of attack to take this thing down for good. While her semblance could perhaps repel at least one tentacle, two or even more from multiple directions would be incredibly problematic. It was much easier to move something that wanted to move. Perhaps like Ben or his sword. We would have to think fairly carefully. The tentacles were thick enough that my main concern was essentially being crushed. I bunched a tiny bit of aura into her pointer finger and saw a familiar briliant pearl of aura. It shone dimly, yet beautifully. I had only attempted that once, now, against a Riesen-class Grimm was absolutely not the time to take that level of risk. Only if it was life or death, I promised myself.