Riku Takayanagi

Personal Information~
Name: Riku Takayanagi
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Village: Land of Swamps

Ninja Information~
Rank: Genin
Main Class: Vanguard
Secondary Class Beserker
First Element Lightning
Second Element Fire

Appearance and Personality~
Picture OR description:

Riku is a slightly tall person, about 5 feet, 10 inches. He has a thin, wiry frame, though densely muscular due to years of martial arts training. He has a slight tan, due to day after day after day of being in the sun, doing various activities. His face gives off the impression that he is older than he looks, having a face like that of an 18 or 19 year old person. His hair is short cut and brown, so as not to get in his face when he is fighting or doing something else. He usual outfit consists of a white jacket, with only two pockets situated on the inside. It is usually unzipped. Underneath the jacket is a black shirt, white lines outlining a cross through the middle. Underneath his t-shirt is standard-issue chain-mail, to help protect him against kunai and shuriken attacks.

On his lower half, he wears regular jeans, which are very odd for ninja (as said by his colleagues). The jeans look like they are tight fit, but they have great maneuverability for kicking and the like. He has shoes, that are brown, that he found on a corpse that he cleaned VIGOROUSLY since his favorite shoes got messed up while running around the village. On his hands he wears leather, fingerless gloves so that he has a bit more protection on his hands while training. On his skin he has a huge scar from the right side of his collarbone to his left hip, a small scar on his neck, and several scars on his back, feet, and arms from training incident (and his own hardheadedness.)

Personality: Riku is a very kind, shy individual. He is soft spoken, yet able to speak his mind when the time is right. He stands up for what he believes in and when he starts something, he sees it through to the end. He is very caring also, taking care of his friends and even strangers when they are injured or sick. He's not the kind to try to steal the show, but can if something happens. Despite his age, he has very sage-like wisdom on some subjects, such as relationships or battling. He is very warm hearted, and is able to listen if someone is having problems. He is also very protective of those he considers friends or allies, willing to lay his life down on the line even against impossible odds. His eyes shine with a caring light, and he is never too mean. He can take things too literal at times, but he's really good natured.

A Jack Of All Trades by nature, its natural for him to help out others to the best of his ability with his god given talents. He's not very good with women, however, since he blushes at the first sign of a compliment and is not good with flirts either. He gets very embarassed very easily. He always acts kind though, until you hit a soft nerve. Those soft nerves come in the form of threatening or hurting his friends or family. An even worst soft spot that anyone could pick at is his parents. Whether making fun of them or even alluding that they weren't good people or good ninjas will set Riku off. In battle, Riku is calm, cool, and collected, and thinks out his attacks before he acts.

Due to a traumatic experience he had in an earlier part of his life (will be explained in history), he developed a split personality. This split personality was born of all the negative emotions that Riku has kept welled up over the years. This personality is more of a cold blooded, psychopathic killer. A complete 360 from his usual personality. When not in battle, if this personality is let out, he is cold and distant from anyone else, and threatens or injures anyone who tries to get too close to him on purpose.


Justu~
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Jutsu(1) Lightning Style: Lightning Surge
Jutsu(2) Dynamic Entry
Jutsu(3) Leaf Great Hurricane
Jutsu(4) Body Flicker Technique
Jutsu(5) Shadow Shuriken Technique

History(optional)~
History:Birth Arc

A small, pale skinned baby was born under the the half moon on the day of may 4th 1989. The cooing of the baby. The mother of this small child held and fondled the baby lovingly, saying sweet nothings to the newborn baby. The father sat in the corner, tears of joy in his eyes. The nurses soon came to get the baby cleaned after he met his father and mother for the first time in his short time in this life. The baby was cleaned, sanitized to make sure no germs got to him too soon, his immune system too weak to fend off a virus. The mother stayed in the hospital bed, too tired to follow her child to the infant ward, where they took care of the babies in their first day of life. The father stayed behind with the mother, having to also rest from this whole ordeal. Though they looked in surprise; he had wing like birthmarks on his back!

The Newborn baby was shrouded in darkness, but flooded by warmth, which it could only tell was its new world, the world it had been brought into. He was taken in, from what he heard with his developing ears, to others like him. He opened one eye, the light blinding him for few precious seconds before he opened his eyes fully, trully experiencing this new world he was in. He was sat down in a soft bed, a wave of tiredness now running over the newborn. Soon he was asleep just like his parents, resting, napping.

Early Childhood Arc

Riku's childhood was good...for the first five years. Riku's was treated well, he played and had fun like any other kid. Even though he barely met his father sometimes, at least he knew he had a father. He made friends when he was small in the village he was in. He constantly had a smile on his face, even when he was young. He went to the academy often, like other kids his age did. He had a good life for the first five years of his life....but things all changed then.

Six. That was the age Riku was when the most horrible event in his life happened. Six. His father came home, after having been gone for a year. But he seemed like a changed man. No longer was the soft smile that embroidered his face there, but a glare of pure contempt, aimed at his mother for some reason. He had just got back from his Karate practice, having worked hard. For some reason, his mother was crying hysterically, on the ground, her hands in her face. His father sprouted wings, just like he had. He hid, not wanting to be seen. Then in an instant, his father was gone, a singular black feather on the ground. He swore he saw a smirk on his father's face before he left. As he went into the house to see his mother again, his mother lashed out at him, trying to kill him with the nearby butcher knife. She had completely snapped. She was soon constrained by the authorities, Riku now being parentless since his father had dissapeared and his mother was now insane. The next day he found a letter, instructing him to go literally down the street, to meet a man named Shio. That was the man who would be his family for the next 10 years.

Rest of Childhood/Teenage Arc

Most of the rest of Riku's Childhood and all of Riku's Teenage years were spent with his master, which he affectionately known as Shio. He was taken to the eastern islands on boat when he was 6, having met up with Shio after a message saying that the worst had come had reached him. Shio was a tall man, being 6'6. He was very muscular, scars all over his forearms and chest. He had a cut on the bridge of his nose, a confident smile on his face at all times. He wore a biker-like jacket, with a white T-shirt and ripped blue jeans. A part of his left ear was missing, and his tail had its end missing. Though he always cared about Riku, he came off very rough. Training was very soft for Riku in his first four years training with Shio, being like his old Karate class.

But when he turned 12, his real training began. On the first day of real training, his master accidentally put too much power in a Shuto Karate chop and gave Riku a deep scar, his sternum having been able to be seen. He was stiched up, but the cut would remain in scar form. Throughout his teenage years, he attended a nearby school, but also trained with the man known as the 100th Dan Karate master. Riku became a very good martial artist in his own right, also learning Kenjutsu from his master, though he had to go to an acquaintance of his master to learn more about Kenjutsu and Iaijutsu. He had another accident (his own fault this time) involving a practice sword. He got a not-so-deep scar on his neck, which taught him that katana hurt...alot! At 16, he was allowed to go on his own, having already been a genin for a good couple years but having too much time on his hands to train.

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