Personal Information~Name: Shikigami Kakusan
Age: Biological Age: 94
Mental Age: 11
Gender: Male
Village: Takigakure no Sato
Ninja Information~Rank: Genin
Main Class: Puppet Master- A puppet master specializes in long-range tactics involving decoys and weapons, via the Puppet Technique. Puppet Master's use colorful and richly designed masterpiece puppets --(art that doubles as a killing machine, hah!)-- to ambush and eliminate targets with blades, smokescreens, poison and high power projectiles.
Advantages: can use anything puppet related [including chakra strings]
Gains: +3 Chakra +2 Speed
Secondary Class Seal Master: Shinobi trained in the complex calligraphy art of Fuuinjutsu. These shinobi display high intelligence and creativity, specializing in a variety of exotic techniques from barriers, receivers, traps, and of course sealing techniques. Seal Masters commonly carry some form of ink or solution on them at all times, and adept Seal Master's can utilize taijutsu while creating Fuuinjutsu. Seal Masters may learn all Fuinjutsu in half the training amount, or half the amount of points for canon and custom jutsu purchases.
Advantages: The only ones that can use sealing and unsealing jutsu
Gains: +3 Intelligence +2 Agility
Element: Wind/Earth
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A beautiful yet dangerous flower some say about him. Kyōfu's appearance is utterly breath-taking; it's visage and level of perfection howl the words of 'flawless' 'deadly' 'innocent'. To whom no one knows, or dares to find out, save the one who will dare to walk where no angel will ever tread; Kyōfu's twisted and tormented heart.
The son of a goddess? Indeed with his face that could never have been created by mere human flesh. It is almost as though he could be a puppet with how flawless he appears, his pale skin produces a sheen that both reflects and absorbs light.
Kyōfu has many that hang down both sides of his face, all of them move in even the gentlest wind, these frame the young and innocent appearing face, and there a few that are slightly longer, and almost constantly drifting around the end of his cheek.
This never ending flow of perfected darkness, condensed and compressed into a earthly form, while still retaining it's ever constant hypnotically properties; taking the saying 'left in the dark' a few steps closer to home.
His irises aren't just one color, but many. They separate and entwine with an attractive brightness; variations of the lighter engulfingthe darker flekcs; widely ranging from fierce light aquas to darker tones. However blue was not the color of origin, or the one that holds most prominence, yet is the beginning for his eyes, which perhaps held just every tone of that very colour. His eye lashes are dark, drawing emphasis to the mesmerizing eyes he wields.
The rest of his body is pure perfection, with his muscles toned to the point where they seem to be there and yet not there, only showing up in full strength when they are traversing through a stressful situation. His body is superbly aligned, not a joint out of place. The skin toning is even an smooth throughout the entire body, but unlike most people, his tan has gone in the other direction. Instead of being brown, it has taken in a more milky texture. It seemingly glows with a faint sheen as it reflects the suns gifts away. His lips are marble in color, with just a faint of blood red beneath the surface.
For the most part, he wears tantalizing clothes, a plain black shirt and pants. The shirt in question is far to short for a boy of his stature and frequently rises above his waistline to reveal his stomach. The tracksuit pants that he is keen wearing stop barely above his ankles.
However when Kyōfu is planning on battling on treating the occasion as official, he frequently wears something along the lines of this:
His main color theme once again is the shade of black, and wears a robe over his shirt; which has been swapped with a fabric the color of grey.
The robe has a white pattern stitched around the corners of the fabric, and helps accent the rest of the outfit.
On his hands and elbows is a rust colored red cloth which is again bound by more black leather. His fingers have purposely been left uncovered so they will be unhindered in their range of movement. Like in the ordinary Ninja outfit the backs of the hand are covered by a metal plate, the same is true with Kyōfu's outfit but he has chosen to cover them up.
Around his midsection and ribs are further bound again, in this instance real leather has been used. This is to prevent him from unconsciously taking to deep breaths while in combat and his learned to live with the restricted breathing room.
The gray robes that Kyōfu wears stretch past his hips and reach down to his slender ankles, along the side of the robes is a long symbol that also falls down to his ankles, this to all intents has no real purpose save for decoration. Another thing of note is that the two twin white lines also follow their path along the interior of the robe.
His pants that he wears are a shade darker than the robes and reach a fair way past his knees and like his other pair, reach his slender ankles.
Personality: Kyōfu acts in an aristocratic manner — he seems always serene and apathetic towards other people, even when he is actually deeply conflicted. He is also extremely calm, even in battle, and is very seldom surprised by even the most drastic of actions. He rarely shows any sign of alarm or distress and often has entire situations planned out well in advance. Whenever confronted, Kyōfu is casual and caring, attempting to draw out a conversation and make small talk, which often infuriates the one he is talking to.
Kira can usually be found near the scene of an important event, either showing up in time or being a little late, but rarely steps in to intervene, preferring to be in the sidelines. He often tends to know more information about most of the people he's in contact with. Although being a major player, he usually portrays himself as only the catalyst, having others do the work for him.
Kyōfu is an expert in needling his way into places and generally blending in with the crowd. This is a required skill for Kyōfu who has been honing it since he made his designer statement; fashion-wise.
Kyōfu has little trouble with authority and traditional respect, he is often quite polite and respectful when talking to those older and\or more powerful\ experienced than himself. Normally he is quite restrained with his behavior but occasionally it will leak and very now and a then, making it sometimes difficult to tell whether or not that Kyōfu is being disrespectful or not.
Kyōfu hates fortune telling, horoscopes, fengshui, psychics and anyone whose trade involves taking money from people for things that they cannot see. He has difficulty remembering people's faces and names.
This is mainly due to the upbringing that Kyōfu had which was based mainly around the use of truth and telling a truth with deceit for the greater good. As such Kyōfu will often tell half-truths or twist the truth for his own purposes. Often called 'Logic Chopping' this is an area at which Kyōfu has been taught from the cradle.
Kyōfu has a great sense of self-preservation, perfectly happy with others giving their own lives to protect the village and it's inhabitants when the situation requires to. He's a calm and collected man, and always thinks before he rushes into battle, never doing anything without an appropriate reason.
He is seen as cool and calm, and able to process any information he may recieve, no matter how shocking or disappointing it may be. A
Although Kyōfu often appears aloof and indifferent, rarely showing any emotions other than slight annoyance or dissatisfaction, he has shown to deep care and loyalty to those who are close to him. Putting his personal feelings aside and only thinking about the desired cause and "what's right" is something that will come and go with Kyōfu, at time he wouldn't even flinch if a volcano erupted in his Village. And at times he will go to extreme lengths to protect all that he holds dear.
In battle, his moves are quick and wise, and spectators state that "not a single movement is wasted". he feels no desire to toy around or torture his opponents, finishing them as soon as he can. Unlike many others, he doesn't like to reveal the mechanics behind his techniques and fighting style, believing that he has to grant even the most cruel of opponents a quick death. Kyōfu doesn't fear death, believing death itself is an illusion created by people who led a miserable life, and that it's not the end, but merely a new beginning.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Kyōfu's personality is the fact that Kyōfu has a mental condition which is normally classified as Savant syndrome. This is defined as 'Islands of genius'.
Most Savants have some mental condition that inhibits them, Kyōfu is no nail sticking up, he follows the norm of this rare group of people, Kyōfu himself is afflicted by Autism and as usual follows the normal down-side of such a affliction, Kyōfu naturally avoids any sort of contact with people and is a natural recluse.
Kira has a small case of random obsession that can come and go as it will. It generally afflicts geometric shapes and forces Kyōfu to follow these impulses.
Poor motor skill control is also a very large large way, forcing him to stick clear of the more physical aspects of Ninja training. Although while this had become apparent in his younger years, intense training to repair his eye-to-hand skills as placed him around average.
Justu~General Skills/E-Ranks:Transformation TechniqueReplacement TechniqueRope EscapeClone TechniqueInvisibility Technique Tree Climbing PracticeWater Surface WalkingD-C Rank Jutsu:Jutsu(1)
Summoning TechniqueJutsu(2)
Toad Oil BulletJutsu(3)
Paper ShurikenJutsu(4)
SlyMind EffectJutsu(5)
Five Seals BarrierWeapons~Weapon(1)
[Large] Exploding TagWeapon(2)
[Large] Exploding TagWeapon(3)
[Large] Exploding TagWeapon(4)
[Large] Exploding TagWeapon(5)
[Large] Exploding TagHistory~Shipwreck in the sea of faces,
There's a dreamy world up there,
Dear friends in higher places,
Carry me away from here,
Travel light let the sun eclipse you,
'Cause your flight is about to leave,
And there's more to this brave adventure,
Than you'd ever believe,Where to begin with this preamble of a history? I suppose I shall initiate by describing the events that happened before the Birth of Kakusan, as they are incredibly relevant to how Kaku will act and carry himself in later life:
Unlike most infants, when Kira was born and when he had his first Birthday are extraordinarily stretched, and once again we must return to the period of history before Kaku’s Birth to truly understand the extremities of his time within the womb.
He wasn’t noticeable when his soon-to-be parents set off for the war. And for the first few months of that delicate period, instead of the noise of conversation, and the other comforts that allow a baby to grow happily and undisturbed, where void for little Kaku.
But as he slowly was able to be seen to the naked eye, his Mother -Serena- attempted to spirit the pair away from the Battlefield, unfortunately for them, they where behind enemy lines and had no way of returning Home.
So the most obvious thing to do would be to abort the mission they’d been assigned and make a break for their own Territory.
However for it to work, a diversion was needed, and how to go about this save the sacrifice of one of his parents? Kaku’s Farther –Bruna-, who gave Kaku the Nara Blood, was also a Medical Shinobi.
After some planning by the two of them, and capturing one of the wandering enemy Shinobi, they disguised him to look like Bruna, before using the Shadow Imitation Technique to control him and create the needed diversion before the two and a quarter to escape.
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Birdseye view, awake the stars 'cause they're all around you,
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue,
Chase your dreams, and remember me, speak bravery,
'cause after all those wings will take you, up so high,
So bid the forest floor goodbye, as you brace the wind and,
Take to the sky... The Head Quarters of the Leaf Forces, didn’t take kindly to their Mission being aborted, although the diversion that Kaku’s parents created for him left the Enemy unsure of their position, unfortunately, this spying Mission ultimately resulted in one of the sparks that would light the flame of the Third Shinobi War, and thus Kaku’s Birthday is right on the edge of one of the dates that constitutes the official start of the War.
How long the war went for isn’t important, while most children born around the same Date grew up during the war, and contributed when they graduated from the Academy, however, Kaku never reached his Birthday, not until a good eighty years later, to explain this we converge on the next part of our story:
The Birth of Kaku wasn’t the easiest of procedures, indeed, the labour lasted for a long time indeed. 84 Hours of pushing wasn’t easy on the Mother or the baby, both of whom where very stubborn in their efforts.
And yet again as fate would have it; disaster struck with her cruel blade once again, giving a deceive slash to the Kaku, and in the later hours after the birth was completed, the Village was attacked. And Kaku’s mother was a casualty. Again, this pushed him off the path of ever being normal, and enjoying the warmth of a family. From the tender age of a few hours old, he knew the emotion of rage.
And anger. And hate. And anything else that correlates to the utter destruction of a fellow human being. He was far too young to do anything about it at the time, and indeed to too, was injured. Nothing could be done about such a wound with the present state of Medical Ninjutsu, and thus he was frozen.
Frozen that his body wouldn’t need to breath or in general function; he clung to life on a thread, but even that life was a half one. So was there really anything to loose by simply stopping trying to stay alive? During his time in the womb, he had heard the sounds of war, of people being struck down but rising up again. He had been bred for it in the most literal sense of all.
And here he was, kept alive by Ninjutsu, bound to life by the power of another. And here he would remain, for a long time. His body was preserved to prevent it from rotting, to keep the cells healthy through his extended animation he had multiple Fuinjutsu placed upon him. And like this he slept, long beyond the way and any others who might have been his class-mates, friends or lovers.
One might question why he was left that long? The simply answer is that he was forgotten, the Medic Shinobi believed that their work was done, the system they’d devised was fool-proof. And it wasn’t like they didn’t have other things to do, so he was eventually forgotten, and would only be rediscovered a long time later, when several large tearing where heard from behind a wall of boxes containing forgotten documents.
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On the hills of lore and wonder,
There's a stormy world up there,
You can't whisper above the thunder,
But you can fly anywhere,
Purple burst of paper birds this,
Picture paints a thousand words,
So take a breath of mist and mystery,
And don't look back!
When the Medical Shinobi had the mess cleared away, they found Kaku, and the prison of ice that surrounded him. However the trouble was that over time, the Chakra Maintenance Seals, keeping the Ice Jutsu flowing where faded after all their years of use. Preventing it from sustaining its stable form and the ice and began to crack and thaw out. This was an unexpected development, but most important that if the ice fell to pieces too rapidly, so would Kaku, while not an insurmountable problem, it still required fast work. For the most part Medical Ninja would could utilize the elements of ice, fire and lightning worked around him, attempting to keep him alive and removing him from his prison.
The fire users where raising the room temperature to melt the ice at a faster rate, and trying to keep the baby warm as well, the ice users where moving the ice away from the infant and attempting to keep his body together after having been spending so long in frozen animation. Which after these jobs were nearly completed the lightning users were called in. They spend quite a while attempting to stimulate the young child’s brain to start the bodily functions once again.
The original Fuinjutsu’s placed on his body where reworked to keep his heart pumping and re-start his vital organs.
It was touch-and-go for a long time, but eventually he pulled through. And the high pitched screams where a relief to all.
He was placed in the Extreme Care Unit, and was tended 24/7, and slowly after his long sleep, the boy began to awake from the slumber. But his body was never going to be the same, even now he still required the Fuijutsus placed upon him, and every now and a then, he would cough up more blood and go back into Extreme Care.
To the shinobi of the Medical Centre, he became a team-project, namely it was to make sure he regained what was normally considered a consistent level of ‘health’ but as time wore on, it became much more then that.
After identifying who he was, and a few months later the fact that his parents where dead was also uncovered, they became his family-of a sort.
Seeing your Mother killed before you at such a young age hadn’t been easy on Kaku, and he was distant for most of the time. Which only made the challenge that much more enjoyable.
Eventually after several years he started opening up to them, you don’t have someone save your life several times over, and be disrespectful to them. After doing some dating using a few gathered samples, they learned that biologically, Kaku was their elder, several times over!
But it seemed despite this maturity he was still mentally where he should be for his age. But even so after some calling in some of the Clans that specialized in the viewing of minds and their contents, again what they learned didn’t spell the best for Kaku.
Apparently his mind was in shambles and after several sessions they decided he was Autistic, but after several attempts to lessen the condition, it was once again discovered he was a victim of Savant Syndrome.
And thus the long process of easing the condition from a young and early age began, and thus they decreased the possible effects that might have happened, while attempting to maximize the strengths given to him by his Savantism.
Hand-to-eye/coordination tests where frequently given to the young boy; however it quickly was apparent that he had exceptional memory skills.
For the most part it was deeply saddening that due to his mental condition and to the fact that the Academy would only accept people who where mentally and physically sound he would likely be bared from learning there.
And once again another aspect of the Medical Shinobi’s job began, to properly finalize his induction into the way of the Shinobi.
Training began from a very early age, as soon as he was able to talk, walk; lo, it had begun in earnest.
Being social wasn’t a big part of Kaku’s life and he quickly learned to immerse himself with other things: Books to name but one.
Most of his days where spent within the library contained within the Medical Centre, consuming as much information as possible, and due to the memory given to him by the Savant Syndrome, he rarely read books more then once.
And slowly, very slowly, he began to surpass those of his age. Well most of them anyway, he could definitely be placed on the talented range. But in the Academy he would have been laughed at, and even then, if someone forced him to do something without a great deal of trust existing between the two; he would have fought tooth and nail to resist them.
So this was Kaku’s existence for much of his life, before he decided to leave the Medical Centre for the first time. It wasn’t for a long time, he’d simply taken a few pills out to one of the people who were ill, and circumstances where that they couldn’t pick them up.
This was his introduction to the outside world, and very quickly he dropped by the Shinobi Outfitting section, where most of the shinobi purchased and created their outfits. Kaku found dressing up in almost butler style to be incredibly fitting to his frame and face. Although he did pick up an eye-patch to accent the look, once this was over, a deal was quickly negotiated with the Academy.
Kaku would be allowed to take the Genin Exam to certify himself a Genin and start his career in the Shinobi world.
The question was, was it ready for him?