Post by Big Guns on Jun 29, 2012 17:21:25 GMT -5
the basics
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Name: Akumei Shōzen [Iron Maiden of Iwa]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Appearance: Here
Village: Iwagakure
Rank: Tsuchikage
Class: S-Class
Clan: [spoiler=Shōzen]Formerly one of the most robust clans in Iwagakure. In their prime almost 15 years ago they were a proficient power within Iwagakure, on the top of the chain. During a planned ambuscade, actually led by an unregistered member of the Shōzen clan, led by an inexplicable platoon known as the Ginten Divide, they were massacred over the course of months. The incident was big news in the village, leading to a very short era of instability. Only two members remain of the clan, one of them being Akumei.[/spoiler]
Kekkei Genkai: [spoiler=Kōton (Steel Release)]Kōton is the Kekkei Genkai of the Shōzen clan, now possessed only by Akumei. It is the ability to convert the physiology of the human anatomy into nearly-hard-as-diamond steel. Its main and most noticeable application is the drastic change in Akumei’s skin color, from tanned white to silver steel [basically her skin shines and is harder, and it cuts like hell]. It’s very similar to Doton: Domu [Earth Spear], in that how it is applied and its appearance. It’s basically a buffed up version of that using further, more advanced functions of steel.
When Akumei uses Kōton, she is nearly impervious to physical damage, or at least she is incapable of being stunned, save higher end skills. She is extremely sturdy and hard to damage. She still takes damage, depending on the severity of the attack, but it usually doesn’t show, and allows her to press forward.
Kōton can also be used for offense. As she gains a nearly impervious armor, that armor can be used as a possibly even more potent weapon. Due to the steel properties of her skin, she has ways of using the Kōton affinity to sharpen her body, literally using techniques assorted with Taijutsu to shred and butcher an opponent. With her agile, flexible, and unpredictable skills in Taijutsu, this makes her a large threat.[/spoiler]
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character information
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Personality: Akumei is a lighthearted, yet rock-hard, stubborn woman. When she’s made up her mind, it’s pretty much impossible to change it. She has a good moral code, preferring to fight honorably and handle negotiations and disputes of the like admirably. She has an insatiable need to attempt to please everyone, and often gets frustrated if things don’t go her way. She has a nearly insatiable appetite.
Despite her honor code, she does have a tendency to get carried away when she gets an adrenaline rush, or when things get frustrating and don’t go her way, as proven when she normally fights. She has leveled an entire small village before from a simple quarrel over a Shirataki plate.
Likes: Fighting, leading, skimpy outfits, fluffy things with a red nose.
Dislikes: Anything lacking intensity, spicy food
Relationships: Takatsu Shōzen (Father), Kentetsu Shōzen (Grandfather)
Strengths: Extremely brutal and unrelenting during battle, she will, if can be helped, not give the opponent a breather. Her overall power is overwhelming with a variety of techniques and utilization methods. Her Ninjutsu and Taijutsu skills are world-class, and her skills with a Halberd aren’t bad either. She’s a chakra monster, with extremely high chakra reserves. Her physical feats are impressive.
Weaknesses: Her Genjutsu skills are barely there, extremely vulnerable to Genjutsu. Her chakra control isn’t the best, but it’s adequate enough. Raiton affinity users have it easier due to her natural affinities. She fights mostly on instinct, rarely calculates or thinks things through.
Fighting Style: Up-close and personal, Akumei prefers fighting face-to-face, using NinTaijutsu to butcher and/or crush her opponents with magnificent force. She doesn't mind fighting from range with Ninjutsu either, her Ninjutsu techniques extremely powerful. With her large chakra reserves, she can go on for a while before succumbing to fatigue. With Taijutsu she has also developed a unique style called Explosive Style, which utilizes close-range proximity to stealthily use explosive tags without the opponent's awareness.
jutsu & techniques
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Weapons: Arashikin - Two handed halberd that Akumei wields with one hand like a lightweight. She rarely uses, preferring fists and Ninjutsu.
Elemental Affinities: Doton, Kōton
Sixth Sense
Rank: C
By placing her hands on the ground, Akumei can grasp nearby obstacles and movement by sensing the vibrations of the ground Earth.
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu
Similar to the Clone Technique, this technique creates clones of the user. However, these clones are actual copies, not illusions. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after one or two solid blows. They can also disperse on their own. The clones will be created in roughly the same condition as the original.
Due to Akumei’s naturally monstrous chakra pool, she is capable of using up to 120, but this is physically and mentally harmful. She usually doesn’t go above 10 if she uses.
Vibrant Prism
Rank: A
Akumei forms her hands across her chest in the shape of a heart. She expels a colorful yet transparent, nearly invisible in the sunlight prism from her hands to hurl at the enemy. It expands upon release and traps anything within it. As the prism captures its intended target, Akumei will condense it to crush anything inside horrifically. The prism is capable of mass expansion and can trap up to 20 people alone at its max. The compression takes time, and when she stops her seal, the technique releases.
Doton
Doton: Dochuu Senkou [Underground Submarine Voyage]
Rank: C
Akumei can sink below ground and quickly travel through the earth. Mostly used for surprise maneuvers.
Doton: Otoshibuta [Dropping Lid]
Rank: B
The user creates a giant earthen lid, big enough to trap over twenty people within it, and throws it in the air so it lands on the target, trapping and stunning him. It can also be used from an elevation to drop down on the target.
Doton: Arijigoku [Inescapable Hell]
Rank: B
Creates a conical crater below her opponent. This twisting, sinking pit will pull the target below ground to imprison and suffocate them.
Doton: Rock Hard Fist
Rank: A
The user will encase their forearm in a hard rock. This rock glove will increase the power behind the user's punch. This jutsu can be used in conjunction with Mega Weight Rock to further increase the weight of the blow.
Doton: Ultra Heavy Weight
Rank: A
This allows the user to increase the weight of the object they touch. When used in conjunction with Rock Hard Fist, it will greatly increase the power behind their arm. This jutsu can also be cast on other living beings when touching them, to grant them increased striking power.
Doton: Ultra Lower Weight
Rank: A
This allows the user to decrease the weight of the object they touch, including themselves. This allows for extra mobility and to carry normally heavy objects they couldn’t before.
Doton: Gargantuan Mountain Smash
Rank: S
When using Ultra Weight, Lower Weight, and Rock Hard Fist in conjunction, Akumei can combine the three to use a destructive ability. By combining her Ninjutsu and Taijutsu skills, she uses the aforementioned techniques to decrease the weight of her body, charge forward with blinding speed, add to her weight as she falls down, and create the Rock Fist and leap down with a punch that can induce craters and destroy sections of a village quite easily. Due to the complicated nature of the jutsu, it took her years to master, and still hasn’t quite done so.
Doton: Fuji Earthen Rift
Rank: S
After performing the needed seals, Akumei will release a large column of Earth spikes, at their best reaching the height of short mountains, to cover and bind the battlefield with its vast earthen columns. A very hard jutsu to escape without a means of escort or mobility.
Doton: Petrification
Rank: S
For a short amount of time after activation, for one minute, Akumei’s hands surge with concentrated chakra. She can petrify to stone anything she touches with her bare hands. The petrification process takes about two minutes to fully complete. The jutsu can be cancelled manually by the target by applying a counter surge of chakra through the body (or the petrified parts of the body). It's not easy at all to do, usually acquiring aid from others. Cannot be used again for the remainder of an hour.
Kōton
Kōton: Opaque Shell
Rank: A
By transforming her physiology into dense steel, her body becomes impervious to most attacks. Her skin gains a silver lining. Her armor is able to shrug off most of the high end jutsu, but not the highest, and it does have a limit before it can collapse.
Kōton: Grating Fist
Rank: A
An offensive version of Opaque Shell. Akumei uses her steel body as an offensive maneuver. Her fingers are useful as piercing edges due to their defined sharpness. Integrates this in with her Taijutsu.
Explosive Form
Akumei has adapted her own form of Taijutsu to a brutish, grappling, and utilizing explosions [by means of explosive tags]. She uses her quick agility and light weight to maneuver around her opponents, using Kōton and/or Rock Fist to pulverize and/or shred them.
Dynamite Exhibit
Rank: B
While approaching the opponent with quick jabs, she uses her quick maneuvering skills for a way to bypass the opponent’s awareness, stealthily and solidly placing explosive tags among their body, or among the surroundings near them. She flips away fancily before the tags detonate.
Golem’s Ferocity
Rank: A
A NinTaijutsu technique developed by Akumei. Using her Rock Hard Fist, Akumei goes for either a crush or a grapple of the opponent. This is simply a means of barricading the opponent within her grasp and utterly crushing their entrails and bones.
Headstone Bomber
Rank: A
Akumei simply grapples the enemy, drilling them head-first into the ground by using her own body as leverage. When combined with Ultra Heavy Weight, the damage can be intense.
Namazu; Mortal Crushing Rapid
Rank: S
Akumei, while using Rock Hard Fist, grapples the opponent, uppercutting them into the air. She will leap up to the opponent will integrate punishing blunt force blows with explosive tags. She boulders and crushes the opponent into the ground, with enough power to induce a 5 meter deep crater. Using her large Rock Fist, which is easily capable of smothering an average sized human, she will hold the opponent within the crater as the explosive tags detonate, condensing and compressing the explosions receiving only mild damage while the opponent can potentially be disfigured and blown to smithereens.
Final Formula; Bloody Mary
Rank: S
Akumei goes for a swipe of the clavicle, followed by multiple extreme-speed open-handed body shots utilizing her Grating Fist Style to pierce and rapture the opponent, normally creating a flurry of blood. Once done, she chops for the neck, attempting to either knock them unconscious, or if going for the kill, swipes with her finger to decapitate the target. This technique has also gained the nickname “The Stygian Shredder.”
the description
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Name: Akumei Shōzen [Iron Maiden of Iwa]
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Appearance: Here
Village: Iwagakure
Rank: Tsuchikage
Class: S-Class
Clan: [spoiler=Shōzen]Formerly one of the most robust clans in Iwagakure. In their prime almost 15 years ago they were a proficient power within Iwagakure, on the top of the chain. During a planned ambuscade, actually led by an unregistered member of the Shōzen clan, led by an inexplicable platoon known as the Ginten Divide, they were massacred over the course of months. The incident was big news in the village, leading to a very short era of instability. Only two members remain of the clan, one of them being Akumei.[/spoiler]
Kekkei Genkai: [spoiler=Kōton (Steel Release)]Kōton is the Kekkei Genkai of the Shōzen clan, now possessed only by Akumei. It is the ability to convert the physiology of the human anatomy into nearly-hard-as-diamond steel. Its main and most noticeable application is the drastic change in Akumei’s skin color, from tanned white to silver steel [basically her skin shines and is harder, and it cuts like hell]. It’s very similar to Doton: Domu [Earth Spear], in that how it is applied and its appearance. It’s basically a buffed up version of that using further, more advanced functions of steel.
When Akumei uses Kōton, she is nearly impervious to physical damage, or at least she is incapable of being stunned, save higher end skills. She is extremely sturdy and hard to damage. She still takes damage, depending on the severity of the attack, but it usually doesn’t show, and allows her to press forward.
Kōton can also be used for offense. As she gains a nearly impervious armor, that armor can be used as a possibly even more potent weapon. Due to the steel properties of her skin, she has ways of using the Kōton affinity to sharpen her body, literally using techniques assorted with Taijutsu to shred and butcher an opponent. With her agile, flexible, and unpredictable skills in Taijutsu, this makes her a large threat.[/spoiler]
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character information
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Personality: Akumei is a lighthearted, yet rock-hard, stubborn woman. When she’s made up her mind, it’s pretty much impossible to change it. She has a good moral code, preferring to fight honorably and handle negotiations and disputes of the like admirably. She has an insatiable need to attempt to please everyone, and often gets frustrated if things don’t go her way. She has a nearly insatiable appetite.
Despite her honor code, she does have a tendency to get carried away when she gets an adrenaline rush, or when things get frustrating and don’t go her way, as proven when she normally fights. She has leveled an entire small village before from a simple quarrel over a Shirataki plate.
Likes: Fighting, leading, skimpy outfits, fluffy things with a red nose.
Dislikes: Anything lacking intensity, spicy food
Relationships: Takatsu Shōzen (Father), Kentetsu Shōzen (Grandfather)
Strengths: Extremely brutal and unrelenting during battle, she will, if can be helped, not give the opponent a breather. Her overall power is overwhelming with a variety of techniques and utilization methods. Her Ninjutsu and Taijutsu skills are world-class, and her skills with a Halberd aren’t bad either. She’s a chakra monster, with extremely high chakra reserves. Her physical feats are impressive.
Weaknesses: Her Genjutsu skills are barely there, extremely vulnerable to Genjutsu. Her chakra control isn’t the best, but it’s adequate enough. Raiton affinity users have it easier due to her natural affinities. She fights mostly on instinct, rarely calculates or thinks things through.
Fighting Style: Up-close and personal, Akumei prefers fighting face-to-face, using NinTaijutsu to butcher and/or crush her opponents with magnificent force. She doesn't mind fighting from range with Ninjutsu either, her Ninjutsu techniques extremely powerful. With her large chakra reserves, she can go on for a while before succumbing to fatigue. With Taijutsu she has also developed a unique style called Explosive Style, which utilizes close-range proximity to stealthily use explosive tags without the opponent's awareness.
jutsu & techniques
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Weapons: Arashikin - Two handed halberd that Akumei wields with one hand like a lightweight. She rarely uses, preferring fists and Ninjutsu.
Elemental Affinities: Doton, Kōton
Sixth Sense
Rank: C
By placing her hands on the ground, Akumei can grasp nearby obstacles and movement by sensing the vibrations of the ground Earth.
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu
Similar to the Clone Technique, this technique creates clones of the user. However, these clones are actual copies, not illusions. The user's chakra is evenly distributed among every clone, giving each clone an equal fraction of the user's overall power. The clones are capable of performing techniques on their own and can even bleed, but will usually disperse after one or two solid blows. They can also disperse on their own. The clones will be created in roughly the same condition as the original.
Due to Akumei’s naturally monstrous chakra pool, she is capable of using up to 120, but this is physically and mentally harmful. She usually doesn’t go above 10 if she uses.
Vibrant Prism
Rank: A
Akumei forms her hands across her chest in the shape of a heart. She expels a colorful yet transparent, nearly invisible in the sunlight prism from her hands to hurl at the enemy. It expands upon release and traps anything within it. As the prism captures its intended target, Akumei will condense it to crush anything inside horrifically. The prism is capable of mass expansion and can trap up to 20 people alone at its max. The compression takes time, and when she stops her seal, the technique releases.
Doton
Doton: Dochuu Senkou [Underground Submarine Voyage]
Rank: C
Akumei can sink below ground and quickly travel through the earth. Mostly used for surprise maneuvers.
Doton: Otoshibuta [Dropping Lid]
Rank: B
The user creates a giant earthen lid, big enough to trap over twenty people within it, and throws it in the air so it lands on the target, trapping and stunning him. It can also be used from an elevation to drop down on the target.
Doton: Arijigoku [Inescapable Hell]
Rank: B
Creates a conical crater below her opponent. This twisting, sinking pit will pull the target below ground to imprison and suffocate them.
Doton: Rock Hard Fist
Rank: A
The user will encase their forearm in a hard rock. This rock glove will increase the power behind the user's punch. This jutsu can be used in conjunction with Mega Weight Rock to further increase the weight of the blow.
Doton: Ultra Heavy Weight
Rank: A
This allows the user to increase the weight of the object they touch. When used in conjunction with Rock Hard Fist, it will greatly increase the power behind their arm. This jutsu can also be cast on other living beings when touching them, to grant them increased striking power.
Doton: Ultra Lower Weight
Rank: A
This allows the user to decrease the weight of the object they touch, including themselves. This allows for extra mobility and to carry normally heavy objects they couldn’t before.
Doton: Gargantuan Mountain Smash
Rank: S
When using Ultra Weight, Lower Weight, and Rock Hard Fist in conjunction, Akumei can combine the three to use a destructive ability. By combining her Ninjutsu and Taijutsu skills, she uses the aforementioned techniques to decrease the weight of her body, charge forward with blinding speed, add to her weight as she falls down, and create the Rock Fist and leap down with a punch that can induce craters and destroy sections of a village quite easily. Due to the complicated nature of the jutsu, it took her years to master, and still hasn’t quite done so.
Doton: Fuji Earthen Rift
Rank: S
After performing the needed seals, Akumei will release a large column of Earth spikes, at their best reaching the height of short mountains, to cover and bind the battlefield with its vast earthen columns. A very hard jutsu to escape without a means of escort or mobility.
Doton: Petrification
Rank: S
For a short amount of time after activation, for one minute, Akumei’s hands surge with concentrated chakra. She can petrify to stone anything she touches with her bare hands. The petrification process takes about two minutes to fully complete. The jutsu can be cancelled manually by the target by applying a counter surge of chakra through the body (or the petrified parts of the body). It's not easy at all to do, usually acquiring aid from others. Cannot be used again for the remainder of an hour.
Kōton
Kōton: Opaque Shell
Rank: A
By transforming her physiology into dense steel, her body becomes impervious to most attacks. Her skin gains a silver lining. Her armor is able to shrug off most of the high end jutsu, but not the highest, and it does have a limit before it can collapse.
Kōton: Grating Fist
Rank: A
An offensive version of Opaque Shell. Akumei uses her steel body as an offensive maneuver. Her fingers are useful as piercing edges due to their defined sharpness. Integrates this in with her Taijutsu.
Explosive Form
Akumei has adapted her own form of Taijutsu to a brutish, grappling, and utilizing explosions [by means of explosive tags]. She uses her quick agility and light weight to maneuver around her opponents, using Kōton and/or Rock Fist to pulverize and/or shred them.
Dynamite Exhibit
Rank: B
While approaching the opponent with quick jabs, she uses her quick maneuvering skills for a way to bypass the opponent’s awareness, stealthily and solidly placing explosive tags among their body, or among the surroundings near them. She flips away fancily before the tags detonate.
Golem’s Ferocity
Rank: A
A NinTaijutsu technique developed by Akumei. Using her Rock Hard Fist, Akumei goes for either a crush or a grapple of the opponent. This is simply a means of barricading the opponent within her grasp and utterly crushing their entrails and bones.
Headstone Bomber
Rank: A
Akumei simply grapples the enemy, drilling them head-first into the ground by using her own body as leverage. When combined with Ultra Heavy Weight, the damage can be intense.
Namazu; Mortal Crushing Rapid
Rank: S
Akumei, while using Rock Hard Fist, grapples the opponent, uppercutting them into the air. She will leap up to the opponent will integrate punishing blunt force blows with explosive tags. She boulders and crushes the opponent into the ground, with enough power to induce a 5 meter deep crater. Using her large Rock Fist, which is easily capable of smothering an average sized human, she will hold the opponent within the crater as the explosive tags detonate, condensing and compressing the explosions receiving only mild damage while the opponent can potentially be disfigured and blown to smithereens.
Final Formula; Bloody Mary
Rank: S
Akumei goes for a swipe of the clavicle, followed by multiple extreme-speed open-handed body shots utilizing her Grating Fist Style to pierce and rapture the opponent, normally creating a flurry of blood. Once done, she chops for the neck, attempting to either knock them unconscious, or if going for the kill, swipes with her finger to decapitate the target. This technique has also gained the nickname “The Stygian Shredder.”
The basics
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Akumei has signed a contract with the Lion family.
Leon
A giant, building-sized golden manned lion that represents the luminosity of the sun. He possesses heightened senses so he can track a target at ease. Its physical feats are astonishing, especially his strength, with teeth that can knaw through most solid substances. His mane is also able to shred, much like Akumei's own Koton. His personality is very outgoing with a thirst for battle, and is on particularly good terms with Akumei.
Lin
A black, stealthy lioness, completely opposite of the brutish Leon. Where Leon is physically powerful, Lin excels in stealth, infiltration, and intelligence. Lin is very quiet and formal, only speaking when addressed. While she respects Akumei, she doesn't think too much of her brutish counterpart Leon.
Leon
A giant, building-sized golden manned lion that represents the luminosity of the sun. He possesses heightened senses so he can track a target at ease. Its physical feats are astonishing, especially his strength, with teeth that can knaw through most solid substances. His mane is also able to shred, much like Akumei's own Koton. His personality is very outgoing with a thirst for battle, and is on particularly good terms with Akumei.
Lin
A black, stealthy lioness, completely opposite of the brutish Leon. Where Leon is physically powerful, Lin excels in stealth, infiltration, and intelligence. Lin is very quiet and formal, only speaking when addressed. While she respects Akumei, she doesn't think too much of her brutish counterpart Leon.
the description
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Akumei was born in Iwagakure, where she has lived all of her life. She was born to the Shōzen clan, immediately refined and accepted from birth. With the former upholding of the Shōzen clan, growing up Akumei’s life was callous, yet rewarding. She was trained every day, never attended her lessons late, she lived up to the full expectations of her parents and her clan.
She entered the academy at the age of 7. She passed with flying colors, the best one in the class. With her skills, she began to gain a superiority complex to the other students, and began scolding them for their less-awesome-than-hers talent. As a child, she was extremely cold hearted, arrogant, and felt superior to everyone else because of her clan. She believed that, from birthright, she was automatically better, even a Tsuchikage candidate at that.
She was daddy’s little girl. Despite his never paying attention to her, she got everything she wanted as long as she did her academy work, and when he went out for work, she never asked questions, because she was ordered never to. Due to her parents’ lifestyles, she was often forced to support herself during her academy years. She gained an understanding of the world and developed her life skills necessary for survival, all while keeping up her status as the top-tier at the academy.
One night, two weeks before graduation, Akumei came home, noticing no one was there. She traveled the village in search, when she came across several people in the shadows in an abandoned alleyway, very seldom visited. She got directly behind the wall and listened intently, as she believed she heard people speaking quietly. She caught the words, ‘rumor, plan, assassinate, Tsuchikage.’ She became scared, and ran for her life.
The next morning, Akumei woke up, noticing that, once again, no one was home. She hadn’t been talking to her parents much lately, but it was still strange they wouldn’t come home after the night, since they rarely went out that time of the day. She began to suspect her parents, and pondered upon the signs of the conversation she heard that night. Upon eating an easy pack of ramen, an Iwa Anbu appeared at the window sill, apprehending her on the spot. She attempted to scream, but he covered her mouth and wired her down, taking her away from the household. Before it truly registered what had just happened to her, she blacked out.
When she awoke, the next thing she noticed, she was tied up to a chair in an empty room with steel walls, a hoard of Anbu assigned to blocking the entrance and exit. The Anbu began interrogating her, using an Interrogation Genjutsu on her that completely zapped away her will to withhold any info. She was asked of her parent’s recent activities, what she knew of the “Geno 66 scheme”, and… how well she was doing at the academy. She answered all truthfully, the Anbu left with no answers. They did not release Akumei, keeping her captive. She was monitored around the clock, rarely ever fed and cared for, just left to sit there and rot and die.
For one week, she never moved a muscle on her body but her head. She began to attempt suicide a few times out of desperation, her sanity slowly slipped away. She began to believe she was going to die, and that they were only prolonging her death for some demented reasoning to see her strive in agony, torturing her will completely away. She had no idea what they wanted out of her, why they were keeping her hostage, nothing. She didn’t really care; she just wanted to go home.
Six days later, 13 days of captivity, she was finally rescued. A masked Anbu snuck in, untied her, and stealthily slide away. Akumei was, at the time, barely conscious, but she believed it to be her dad, since he was an Anbu of the village. Of course, escaping wouldn’t be that easy. The Anbu were immediately on their trail. The Anbu holding Akumei attempted to use an upward vent that led a path up into the roof to escape. He pushed Akumei in, and told her what to do. Before long, the squadron arrived, capturing the Anbu, killing him on the spot for an “act of treason.” Akumei heard the man fall as she crawled through, attempting to hold back her tears.
Akumei managed to escape on the roof, panting heavily; she was at her body’s limit. As she nearly passed out, an Anbu approached her on the roof. He held a kunai, grabbed and clutched Akumei, wrapped his hands around her vulnerable throat and began strangling what remained of the life out of her as he holstered up his kunai. She didn’t notice, but he hesitated, his hand began shaking with an unclear resolve, vacillation. He threw her on the ground, causing her to hit her head, blacking out yet again.
Akumei awoke in her home, the next day, the day of graduation. Her fatigue had gotten the best of her, she clearly wasn’t ready for the exam, she wasn’t thinking about the exam at all. The memories suddenly flashed back to her, as she recalled the Anbu. He was trying to kill her, hell, he had her, and he could have. She didn’t feel dead, why wasn’t she? She searched around the house, regaining her energy after a huge morning breakfast, and found a note, and a scroll. She read the note, it said the following:
By the time you have read this, I will already have committed seppuku. I apologize for dragging you down to my self-manifested Hell, you and your mother, and our clan. Everything that has happened to our clan is my fault. I orchestrated this entire massacre, working on account of “The Masked King.” In the end, I kept you in captivity, I never wanted you to die. Even in the end, I had you in my grasp, I could have killed you, but I could not. I am a failure as a Shōzen, husband, father, and a man. I cannot allow myself to be in your life anymore. Please burn this note after you receive it, and this scroll. Do not look inside.
Unconditional Love,
Takatsu Shōzen
Akumei read the note with a perplexed mix of emotions. She wanted to cry because her parents was gone for reasons that she still didn’t know, but on the other hand, he was weak in the end and gave her up, selling himself out for himself. Akumei tore up the note, a stream of tears filling her face, as she left for the academy.
Akumei attended the academy that day, and passed the exam with flying colors. Although still not 100% in full health, and clearly suffering from severe emotional turmoil, she did it easily, and put on a façade for the others. It was from this day on that Akumei changed her resolve. Her father was always cold, arrogant, hard-headed, and demanding. She took a look back in her childhood and realized that she was like that as well. She only made a vow to never be fake, even as a kunoichi, and to stay true to herself.
At 12, she discovered she had her clan’s rare Kekkei Genkai, Kōton. She began to train and adapt to it, developing a fighting style not seen by anyone else. Due to the rough nature of Kōton, her skin was badly misshapen during her first years learning it, to the point she was incapacitated for two months as her 80% of her skin had ruptured from a Kōton training session.
At the age of 15, she had already adopted a more lighthearted, airheaded, and gracious personality. She loved her village and the people in it. She already had a goal of becoming Tsuchikage, after learning from her experiences. With her Chuunin team, they tackled every mission head on, Akumei often shined as the star player. The village began to recognize her strength, her reputation began exceeding in Iwa, and all across the world as Iwa’s Iron Maiden.
When she was 23, the current Tsuchikage at the time approached her. He offered her a challenge which she couldn’t refuse. Already preparing to retire, he had selected the appropriate kunoichi for his replacement. He decided to have some fun with her, he personally offered her the Tsuchikage position, if she could best him in a ramen contest. In an allotted time, whoever ate the most bowls of ramen without stopping for a minute, vomiting, or giving up, wins. She took him on, and beat him. From then on, she became the new Tsuchikage. Not in a way she had probably dreamed, she had achieved her dream, even at her young age, and now leads the nation with an iron fist, no pun intended. Well, actually she’s pretty lenient and rarely does paperwork, and loves to party.
She entered the academy at the age of 7. She passed with flying colors, the best one in the class. With her skills, she began to gain a superiority complex to the other students, and began scolding them for their less-awesome-than-hers talent. As a child, she was extremely cold hearted, arrogant, and felt superior to everyone else because of her clan. She believed that, from birthright, she was automatically better, even a Tsuchikage candidate at that.
She was daddy’s little girl. Despite his never paying attention to her, she got everything she wanted as long as she did her academy work, and when he went out for work, she never asked questions, because she was ordered never to. Due to her parents’ lifestyles, she was often forced to support herself during her academy years. She gained an understanding of the world and developed her life skills necessary for survival, all while keeping up her status as the top-tier at the academy.
One night, two weeks before graduation, Akumei came home, noticing no one was there. She traveled the village in search, when she came across several people in the shadows in an abandoned alleyway, very seldom visited. She got directly behind the wall and listened intently, as she believed she heard people speaking quietly. She caught the words, ‘rumor, plan, assassinate, Tsuchikage.’ She became scared, and ran for her life.
The next morning, Akumei woke up, noticing that, once again, no one was home. She hadn’t been talking to her parents much lately, but it was still strange they wouldn’t come home after the night, since they rarely went out that time of the day. She began to suspect her parents, and pondered upon the signs of the conversation she heard that night. Upon eating an easy pack of ramen, an Iwa Anbu appeared at the window sill, apprehending her on the spot. She attempted to scream, but he covered her mouth and wired her down, taking her away from the household. Before it truly registered what had just happened to her, she blacked out.
When she awoke, the next thing she noticed, she was tied up to a chair in an empty room with steel walls, a hoard of Anbu assigned to blocking the entrance and exit. The Anbu began interrogating her, using an Interrogation Genjutsu on her that completely zapped away her will to withhold any info. She was asked of her parent’s recent activities, what she knew of the “Geno 66 scheme”, and… how well she was doing at the academy. She answered all truthfully, the Anbu left with no answers. They did not release Akumei, keeping her captive. She was monitored around the clock, rarely ever fed and cared for, just left to sit there and rot and die.
For one week, she never moved a muscle on her body but her head. She began to attempt suicide a few times out of desperation, her sanity slowly slipped away. She began to believe she was going to die, and that they were only prolonging her death for some demented reasoning to see her strive in agony, torturing her will completely away. She had no idea what they wanted out of her, why they were keeping her hostage, nothing. She didn’t really care; she just wanted to go home.
Six days later, 13 days of captivity, she was finally rescued. A masked Anbu snuck in, untied her, and stealthily slide away. Akumei was, at the time, barely conscious, but she believed it to be her dad, since he was an Anbu of the village. Of course, escaping wouldn’t be that easy. The Anbu were immediately on their trail. The Anbu holding Akumei attempted to use an upward vent that led a path up into the roof to escape. He pushed Akumei in, and told her what to do. Before long, the squadron arrived, capturing the Anbu, killing him on the spot for an “act of treason.” Akumei heard the man fall as she crawled through, attempting to hold back her tears.
Akumei managed to escape on the roof, panting heavily; she was at her body’s limit. As she nearly passed out, an Anbu approached her on the roof. He held a kunai, grabbed and clutched Akumei, wrapped his hands around her vulnerable throat and began strangling what remained of the life out of her as he holstered up his kunai. She didn’t notice, but he hesitated, his hand began shaking with an unclear resolve, vacillation. He threw her on the ground, causing her to hit her head, blacking out yet again.
Akumei awoke in her home, the next day, the day of graduation. Her fatigue had gotten the best of her, she clearly wasn’t ready for the exam, she wasn’t thinking about the exam at all. The memories suddenly flashed back to her, as she recalled the Anbu. He was trying to kill her, hell, he had her, and he could have. She didn’t feel dead, why wasn’t she? She searched around the house, regaining her energy after a huge morning breakfast, and found a note, and a scroll. She read the note, it said the following:
By the time you have read this, I will already have committed seppuku. I apologize for dragging you down to my self-manifested Hell, you and your mother, and our clan. Everything that has happened to our clan is my fault. I orchestrated this entire massacre, working on account of “The Masked King.” In the end, I kept you in captivity, I never wanted you to die. Even in the end, I had you in my grasp, I could have killed you, but I could not. I am a failure as a Shōzen, husband, father, and a man. I cannot allow myself to be in your life anymore. Please burn this note after you receive it, and this scroll. Do not look inside.
Unconditional Love,
Takatsu Shōzen
Akumei read the note with a perplexed mix of emotions. She wanted to cry because her parents was gone for reasons that she still didn’t know, but on the other hand, he was weak in the end and gave her up, selling himself out for himself. Akumei tore up the note, a stream of tears filling her face, as she left for the academy.
Akumei attended the academy that day, and passed the exam with flying colors. Although still not 100% in full health, and clearly suffering from severe emotional turmoil, she did it easily, and put on a façade for the others. It was from this day on that Akumei changed her resolve. Her father was always cold, arrogant, hard-headed, and demanding. She took a look back in her childhood and realized that she was like that as well. She only made a vow to never be fake, even as a kunoichi, and to stay true to herself.
At 12, she discovered she had her clan’s rare Kekkei Genkai, Kōton. She began to train and adapt to it, developing a fighting style not seen by anyone else. Due to the rough nature of Kōton, her skin was badly misshapen during her first years learning it, to the point she was incapacitated for two months as her 80% of her skin had ruptured from a Kōton training session.
At the age of 15, she had already adopted a more lighthearted, airheaded, and gracious personality. She loved her village and the people in it. She already had a goal of becoming Tsuchikage, after learning from her experiences. With her Chuunin team, they tackled every mission head on, Akumei often shined as the star player. The village began to recognize her strength, her reputation began exceeding in Iwa, and all across the world as Iwa’s Iron Maiden.
When she was 23, the current Tsuchikage at the time approached her. He offered her a challenge which she couldn’t refuse. Already preparing to retire, he had selected the appropriate kunoichi for his replacement. He decided to have some fun with her, he personally offered her the Tsuchikage position, if she could best him in a ramen contest. In an allotted time, whoever ate the most bowls of ramen without stopping for a minute, vomiting, or giving up, wins. She took him on, and beat him. From then on, she became the new Tsuchikage. Not in a way she had probably dreamed, she had achieved her dream, even at her young age, and now leads the nation with an iron fist, no pun intended. Well, actually she’s pretty lenient and rarely does paperwork, and loves to party.
