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Name: Hasu Hikuidori
Village: Sand
Branch: Main - Chuunin
Age: 20
Gender: Male
[fontsize="15"]Character Physical Description:[/fontsize]
He is athletically built with an average amount of muscle tone. His hair is black, and his eyes are a gleam of hazel green. His fingers have bite marks on the skin stemming from his horrid habit to bite his fingers and fingernails. Hiku's skin is lightly tan a common trait for those raised under the Suna sun.
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Post Puppet Surgery: Hiku now is nothing more than a container. His body however varies, depending on what he feels is suitable. However he has chosen a body that will serve as his main vessel to be identifiable by his comrades. This shell's hair is indigo, and eyes are deep green resembling Hiku's original eyes. The puppet frame is made of wood, and small amounts of metal. The lower half of the puppet's jaw is metal containing a trap itself. His bio-organic containment unit, is installed directly inside of his shell. It creates it's own chakra pathway system throughout the puppet body, and can drift through the pathway freely allowing Hiku a way to keep his container protected.
[fontsize="15"]Character Behavioral Description:[/fontsize]
Hiku is a simple person who likes to keep to himself. He's always one to refrain from talking about himself too much. He also can be described as having a nervous aura around him, mainly tailored from him biting his nails. In reality he's usually lost in thought, lost in his own mind focusing on things that make him happy. He firmly believes that the job shinobi are tasked with could make someone go insane. So instead of getting lost into the job, the life of a shinobi, he gets lost in the pleasures of a normal man. However he isn't always the most friendly person and would sometimes remain quiet to pile up information focused on giving off as little as he can to people. Although respectful in nature he is strong willed and does his best to believe in what he thinks is right. However even he knows sometimes you have to put aside your pride and live in the real world. To him that means being responsible and doing what you're told even when you don't want to. He sums it up to a perk of being a shinobi.
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Post Puppet Surgery: With Hiku's change to a puppet his mentality has greatly changed as well. He was starting to see himself in another light, and drastically changed to an entirely new being. Currently his new mindset is still being developed, but he's displaying deeper analytical skills and a greater learning curve. His overall expression for becoming a puppet is, joy. Hiku's new mind is still under construction
[fontsize="15"]<U>Character History:[/fontsize]<i></i>
My father used to tell me that I would be the flower of infinity one day. He said I would carry our Clan's legacy into greatness one day, and for a time I believed him that is until I became a chuunin. I got to this level thinking I was something special but in truth I was and I am just another cog in the great design of the shinobi world. I guess this is the price I pay for being proficient with my skill lists. I may not agree with everything I have or will have to do but I damn sure will do it because that is my place in this world. Being larger than reality, living past infinity is a hopeless dream and trying to portray anything different is a violation of integrity. I know this good and well now and I will never forget what I've learned.
I can't blame him for being optimistic who wouldn't be optimistic in a Clan that's skills can be so widely used. I should proud to be apart of the Yamanaka clan but I'm not proud. I'm not proud to be a shinobi this is just a job to me. The only job I'm worthy of fulfilling the only job I should be committing to. This is my life as a shinobi, but I guess I have to go back to where it all began just for note's sake.
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I was born in the fall plagued by the incoming death of a season. However with death there is rebirth and my family believed that I would be the rebirth in their lives. I guess people just read into things and try to give more meaning to something than it should originally have. It should have been that Im a baby and I'm theirs and they should love me but they turned it into some chase for a prophecy that never existed. A way to boost my confidence probably but cockiness can only go so far.
I grew up spoiled though, given the world or at least as much of it as my parents could offer. Being born and raised in Sunagakure wasn't exactly easy since the village went underground. However it was an ample opportunity for his family to study other plants that would or could never be found unless underground. It would also give them a chance to have a stable business of herbs, medicine, poisons, and flowers. Florists what an extravagant life in the shinobi world right?
I can't say I hated our life style though it was fun my parents were always finding new ways to teach me stuff, and always bought me neat toys my favorite toy had to have been that dart board. Every time I played, and won against dad I got a new reward. Could have been candy, a toy, some yen, or even a new pet. Everything was always a rush in my childhood and it helped to channel all of that energy in the shinobi academy. I mean a kid who had tons of energy trying to become a shinobi had to have been appealing to say the least.
I spent three years in that academy starting from the age of 12. My parents weren't too fond of pushing me too quickly to become a shinobi, I've only recently learned why. Of course it was a great time learning and meeting so many other children whose dreams seemed to soar as high as mine did. It's funny there weren't too many who really wanted to be shinobi all their lives. They wanted to be doctors, council, kages, leaders even heroes. Some kids there wanted to be engineers I even remember one kid saying he wanted to reach the stars. I have to say those days were so much cleaner. Although the few kids who wanted to be shinobi already knew the drill the job brought. They didn't treat shinobi academy like some innocent learning zone like I and so may others did. They treated like it should have been, military instruction. We were and always will be trained to kill that was the lesson I learned as a shinobi.
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My genin exam was a prime example of that when we were forced to go under a Genjutsu well hidden I might add. It would have been flawless had the teacher not slacked up. See I never went on record to about my abilities they just knew I was good at throwing kunai. However I had so many more skills that stemmed from my lineage from the Yamanaka clan. It was funny to see the look on his face when I exposed a flaw in one of his illusions. The proctor needless to say passed me once I figured out our death mission was a fake. Although I never understood why they removed me so abruptly. I was instantly moved to a different exam with other kids adept at Genjutsu one that dealt with Taijutsu and I managed to survive with my skills using projectiles. I didn't understand what those kids were going through and why most of them came out different people for better or for worse. It was mental breaking for them, because they assumed every child good with Genjutsu, good enough to figure out the exam should be placed in a physical exam to break them in a different kind of way.
I remember walking through our garden with my parents the day before my 11th birthday as they explained that there were many ways to accomplish a goal. Our clan specialized in taking two approaches to problems. Using their Genjutsu or their flowers. Their toxins hand crafted infused in each petal or poisoning the mind of their opponent through pure willpower. My father began to shift the garden into terrifying trees with fangs of wood and blood. My parents disappeared and I was left alone surrounded by the deadly trees. They ran red and it scared me but then he whispered in my ear and said Don't ever let the fear control you, then my mother whispered to me Always remember that you are stronger than anyone in your mind. I believed them and found a hole in the trees to escape to and make my way to them in another garden full of light and bright, warm colors. They welcomed to their garden of eden where life thrived and I was excited to be there. My parents embraced me telling me how proud they were that I trusted my talents and made my way to them.
It felt good to be accomplished, it felt great to succeed and even better to make my parents proud. At the end of it all the garden shifted back to normal and those loving parents of mine had a large cake out and ready to celebrate my birthday. Apparently it took me 12 hours to break out of that Genjutsu and even though it took so long they were so proud of me. I mean come on I was 11 but at least I survived it all. That's what they were proud of me surviving.
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My Genin years were simple and clean. I did little missions here and there and accompanied scout groups into the caverns in Sunagakure. I even had a few hunts for some small time criminals in our underground sanctuary. Every other day I would train myself practicing my throwing skills, practicing my Genjutsu with my parents, or learning how to control Ninjutsu with my mind. Everything came easy and with the guidance of two loving parents things were accomplished so much easier.
I remember when I first learned how to mind switch with people. Infiltrating minds is such a powerful weapon but not one I could ever completely master. However I wondered what would have happened if I had given more time to my studies. The day things began to change had to have been an expedition for some fungi. A mission requested from my parents and I chose to take it along with four other gennin and one Jonin. We entered the cavern and began our search and everything was going normal until I decided to get adventurous. I left the group and began searching for the fungi on my own wanting to impress everyone. However I came upon something far worse. A corpse, lying on the ground rotting literally maggots eating their flesh. I lost my lunch all over the corpse and began to rest on a wall as I whimpered. I had never seen a dead body before and this was just too creepy.
I planted my head into my knees and began to sit there waiting for help. It felt like an eternity of waiting. There was a few footsteps and I remember looking up to see a pair of red eyes in the distance. They glowed with such malice such evil intent, I ran as fast as I could but of course this beast pursued. It didn't take long for the creature to catch up but I was small and dumb. I jumped into a crevice hoping to get away and by the time I got to it the creature had already disappeared. I waited scared out of my mind until a cracking sound was heard. It sounded like someone breaking the rock formation and then a gray claw broke in and scratched my chest. It hurt so bad that I cried letting my pain overtake me. I layed there on my back as the scratching grew louder.
Then something unexpected happened. A rock slide started and I was hit in the head by a piece of debris. I fell out and then awoke what seemed like a quick second. However it wasn't my squad that got me it was a squad of med nin. The med nin brought me back to the village. Apparently two other children died, and the Jonin lost his arm. I felt like crap, like I was the cause of all that pain because I didn't listen. I couldn't bare to be a shinobi anymore, but this wasn't a life one could always just quit. I tried to push the natural talent deep below but it was hard so I did other things to help me with that. I worked in the garden, and I worked at the shop my parents owned. An equipment store for shinobi would never go out of business especially when conjoined with it you had the best line in poisons and herbs. Even had a floral section which I tended to the most. I loved those flowers, the idea of life being created was just far better than destroying. It was bad though, the ability to destroy people was so natural just seeing somebody I would think of how I would have to try and immobilize them if they became violent. Being left alone with your thoughts can bring the worst out of you.
I couldn't stop training even though I wanted to I couldn't bring myself to do it. I trained in seclusion keeping my skills on a cap. My father helped me with my mental training so I could strengthen my Genjutsu and overcome my mental block for being a shinobi. He extensively searched my mind, and memories to help me get past it. (Well the ones I allowed him to pry that deep into without resistance. Gotta keep the mature content to myself). It took me years to even get a breakthrough but my father never stopped helping he always persisted. I love my father he is a good man and I guess his good nature helped me overcome whatever block I had. See I had to accept that accidents happen and that cavern caving in probably wasn't my fault. The creature that attacked me, can be overcome and I can't allow that to keep me from doing what my heart told me I believed in. However it wasn't the way of the shinobi I believed in. After that experience I wanted to become a protector and never allow harm to befall the people around me if I could protect them.
So I began to work hard again I began to beef up on my training and by the age of 17 I decided to go for the Chuunin exams. I felt as though my skills were far more adapted than those around me. My Genjutsu was on a whole new level and my skills with poisons were advancing but I was still inexperienced still not on the level of Jonin but this step past the Chuunin exams would be the stepping stone to my path of power. I would begin the exam in a secluded underground (under underground) building. Our mission objective was to destroy any apparitions that appeared. Apparently this building was moved underground due to some necromancer like activities. The men who committed these atrocities were taken into custody but claimed it was too late. Suna would fall to the dead soon enough and the spirits were already beginning their phases. Myself and seven others were tasked with entering the building and exterminating the spirits in their infancy. I thought it was easy enough but something was off about this exam.
So we entered the structure that reeked of rotting meat. They paths were full of black smog and the walls almost seemed ancient. and began to make groups of two. We traveled through the pathways running searching for any sign of these apparitions. Upon coming to a room that had a red fog I stopped. My teammate was older than I more experienced, so when I pointed out the red fog they were already at the door. I was out of practice when it came to working in a unit but I damn sure knew what to do to survive. I hadn't entirely slouched so I reached for my pouch and pulled out three flowers. They were angel trumpets an exotic flower found far away. My family had began growing them with chakra and removed the toxins within them to help with their hand crafted poisons. I however grew them, extracted the toxins and then enhanced them with chakra to reinforce the edges of the petals. In a way I had a source of unlimited weapons. Who would assume death from flower petals?
I stayed still against the wall as he entered and upon his I would wait for his signal to move in. I waited a good ten seconds and no signal came. Something was very off, and needless to say I didn't like what was going on. I peeked my head into the room with the red fog. It was like a sick lab with ritual markings all over the room. There was a lot of blood too and my partner was nowhere in site. I sighed, entering the room bracing myself for the smells that entered my nose. It was horrid but it couldn't be worse than a carrion flower. I scanned the room only for my concentration to be broken by the sound of rustling. It came from the hallway and I darted there. I saw a shade run off down the hall of course I followed. However as I followed I would leave a trail of flower petals like a bread crumb trail.
It seemed like tailing this creature was going to take an eternity but I was up to the challenge. I kept the tail warm and eventually we came to an alleyway. The figure turned towards me and stared. It's eyes were deep red, and some of it's body was gray. The rest was like a shadow almost. I felt fear, I felt anger, I felt unfocused because this creature was an enemy I had once encountered. It began to grow in size and then I stopped thinking. I felt a rush of anger, everything I had done in my life was because of what this creature did to me. Although it was my own weakness that allowed me to become tormented and my own stupidity for running off without my team. I could've helped them in that cave in to think that people who could level buildings couldn't beat nature. I began to think again allowing the training my father and I went through in order to overcome my fear. That's when it hit me like a ton of bricks. This was a genjutsu and my fear was feeding this thing. Shinobi's are still people (some of them). We can still feel fear but it's how you overcome it. So I began to overcome it literally screwing the idea that this thing was stronger than I was. It began to shrink and I grew and with all my chakra I could muster I became a spirit of flowers. I manifested the latent abilities of the Yamanaka and created an astral form and began to tear the illusion down around me. Walls began to turn into fog and soon the creature itself began to disappear however I didn't let this stop me from my next satisfying action, when I tore my hand through it's fake chest. Felt good as it howled in pain and then disappeared.
Like a snap my world went black. I awoke in a room with stone tables where the other participants rested. Another Genjutsu exam but this time based to bring out our fear. These exercises were the most practical in an underground world but I survived and surpassed the dreams. The proctors were pleased and they handed me a new emblem and a vest. My last orders were to report to the Kage tower for processing as a Sunan shinobi....
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-2 Years Later-
I hadn't done too much in my last two years. My parents had begun an expedition to expand their knowledge of the world while I stayed in Sunagakure being a Shinobi and protecting the village. I had lost drive to leave village, drive to advance further. Without my parents here it seemed so trivial at this point I had became a semi accomplished shinobi and no reason to show off any longer. I didn't have to impress anyone anymore and that's when I started to have doubt. Maybe my only goal was to make my parents proud but even then they went off and did their own thing.
When you do nothing but think for 2 years things start to come into perspective. I had been basing my goals in others but now was the time for me to do better. I had to commit to this job and that's where this chapter in my life begins. I will continue to make these entries in a journal and will one day pass them down to the next generation of Hasu.
[spoilername="Djinn Event"]Click Here for the Topic
An army had waves, and Suna had an ocean. Earlier that day at some point a creature had unknowingly, and forcibly tried to eradicate a sector of Sunagakure. The Medical facility was the place it striked, was the home operations of the healing in Sunagakure. "Medical shinobi, patients, nurses, doctors, elderly. This creature doesn't lack brains I'll give it that. You cut off the healing department of white mages and the rest fall to injury. Definitely a smart creature, I can only hope the squadron attacking it is still alive. I hope I'm not too late. Hiku hadn't been there for the first wave of attacks. He was escorting villagers to safer locations while the shinobi of the village tried to contain the monster rampaging in their village. Hiku could not stand not being there to help his brethren fight a dangerous target, a village scale threat. What kind of Main Branch shinobi would he be if he didn't report to the battlefield once his group of civilians were safe. Everyone was putting in their part, even the Academy Students who were now on guard under Genin and lower rank Chuunin at the safe zones. What if this creature had friends, or superiors, this situation could potentially destroy Sunagakure, and what little life they had left in these underground caverns.
Apparently the attacks were changing positions and now the creature was within the Toraono Dojo apparently blowing it up and destroying it to pieces. Radio calls were all over the place, this was getting nuts. "What kind of damned creature is this here. What exactly have we stumbled upon in these damn caverns. What if it's a legacy of the First Men? Something forgotten but still held this much power. There are a rare few ancient beings in the village, but I doubt any of them know what this attack is about or what's causing. If they did I'm sure I would have heard a plan of attack on the radio. I'll need to be cautious when I reach the dojo in fact it wouldn't hurt to go in there with a minor preparation. Hiku would continue sprinting towards the dojo, and multitask crafting a few hand seals and then releasing a large amount of chakra. His body would begin to fade and manifest chakra energy around itself. He was being covered by a spiritual like form of chakra surrounded by flower petals as a halo of petals formed around his head. His mind was so clear when he used this technique. Everything around him became easier to decipher, easier to understand, it was the ultimate state of mind. Hiku would invoke the petals around him to form, spread and create something larger than Hiku, probably ten times his size. Wood would spread forming a harder casing of the creature and then in it's final stages a serpent like creature would be formed from his petals.
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This serpent would follow Hiku as he sped up to get to the battfield quicker. Upon reaching the Toraono dojo it was in shambles, there were corpses, and a massive chakra signature being formed at the other side of the structure. Hiku would move through the battlefield as his serpent followed him slithering through the battle field moving aside debris from it's path. Within a matter of seconds Hiku reached the site of the massive chakra to come to a puzzling scene of an ensuing struggle. There was this weird bull like creature trying to use it's chakra to sway energy, and another group, of Sunan shinobi attempting to restrain the creature. There were plenty of chakra signatures far stronger than Hiku's but not even with all of those powerful chakras could they fell the beast. Hiku wanted to help more than anything so he sent his Serpent in to attack while he would fire a jutsu of his own off.
The serpent would try and move as quickly as it could drawing closer to the creature only so it could release a massive amount of petals to use as projectiles for a taijutsu oriented attack. Five clusters would begin to form and attempt to attack the djinn with a jutsu known as Silver Stream. As those clusters would be flung at the creature Hiku would unleash a jutsu known as Pit of Crimson Tears, to create a large wooden venus flytrap that would attempt to trap the creature between it's teeth. Wood jutsu were already in a zone of their own being a more physical form of chakra manipulation however this was not a normal jutsu. This is one of his own "Reality Genjutsu" as he liked to call them. A ninjutsu that strikes the mind like a genjutsu allowing the effects to be strongly felt within the very senses of whoever it was striking. In this form (Name of the Rose) his mental capacity and genjutsu ability were far stronger. Hiku was fresh in the battle he had plenty of chakra, and a lot of pent up aggression against the creature who sought to destroy their home. However in case he was attacked before he could attempt to bind the creature in the Venus Flytrap he would use a technique known as Body Flicker Shuriken.
After attacking the creature Hiku's serpent would stay out there trying to grab the monster's attention while Hiku would rendezvous with the other shinobi. If he reached them he would tell them in a quick paced tone "My name is Hikuidori, I'm of Yamanaka lineage and I can use wood jutsu. I helped a group of civilians get to a safer location. What's going on here and how do I help? It didn't matter what group of shinobi he got to, as long as he made his way to one of them and began to try and assist in any ways possible.
-Using Name of the Rose [Master] (Yamanaka Bloodline Jutsu) and Steel Dragon [Master] (Serpent) before entering the battlefield.
-Serpent (Steel Dragon) will use Silver Stream to attack the creature. My weapon can be found in my FAQ and they are coated with the Yamanaka's Kimberlily poison.
-I will attempt to use Pit of Crimson Tears [Master] (Venus Flytrap). In the event that I'm attacked before I can use this jutsu I'd like to counter by using Body Flicker Shuriken [Master]
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[/spoilername]Hiku stood silently listening to Kuro's explanation. It didn't seem like there was much to his technique but there scope was far larger than he made it seem. Is there more to this than he's letting on.. Hiku thought to himself, wondering what he should believe but there was no matter to make things more strained. People "deserved" to be happy after all that had occurred here. Hiku would do his own research on the techniques Kuro spoke, and would formulate his own resolve on the matter. However he would leave the demon sennin, with a sense of security. "I'll keep your secret... However I'm not sure if everyone will. This is going to be a really hard thing to cover up you know this don't you?" He'd let that linger, knowing it must have been tough on the sennin. With so much power, and now revealing it, he must have felt more than nervous about it all. Hiku could only imagine the incoming problems. He'd turn tail and begin to leave the area, leaving the great scene of destruction and happiness behind him.
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[Thanks for allowing me to join late
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Btw I saw the Yen Rewards but are those the only rewards we receive? What about stat points or jutsu rank ups?
