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General Information
Name: Kyodo TesakiAge: 18
Gender: Female
Physical Description: Tesaki has long black hair which reaches the middle of her back, a fairly rounded face & chin, and a pale complexion. Her demon has given her a fairly.. Demonic appearance, the biggest differences being a large set of horns, naturally sharp nails, and higher than average body temperature which can be felt a couple feet away. The horns themselves are not useful in any way, and are actually fragile due to their size. She’s usually wearing short shorts and a bikini top -- sometimes paired with a leather jacket -- despite the place she lives.
Mental Description: Tesaki was a rebellious teen, and the habits formed during those years carried over to present day. She can usually be found drinking at bars or going to any party she can find. Her favorite pass times are talking to new people, training, and drinking to get drunk. When it comes to battle, she prefers anything flashy and effective, which is the reason she uses her weapons the way she does. She typically tries to stay calm in battle, but usually doesn’t even try to think of a strategy, preferring to just rush in and react to whatever her opponent does using instinct.
- Separate Personality/Demon Counterpart: Kyodo Masuta
Relationships
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History
Long ago… There was a great war which broke out between two disputing species of demon. Each fought for land, honor, and their status in the demon realm, and fought for many years to get what they desired. At the end of this bloody war, the losing faction was stripped of their title and power, and cast into the human realm where they would be forced to spend their days until extinction. The species saw no hope for the future, and simply wandered the forests in their ethereal form until the day they would surely die. It was many years before anything eventful happened, but when it did, it was something that saved them all. A group of people, seemingly in a very similar situation to their own, happened to wander into the forest that they lived in. At first, the demon’s planned on fooling these humans into playing host until they outlived their usefulness, but after making contact, they realized that their original assumption was correct -- this group really had been through something similar, and they couldn’t bring themselves to just use them. So an agreement was made, in exchange for a place to live -- meaning their bodies -- the demons would grant that group their power. At first, this did little more than increase the human’s physical strength a small amount, but the demon’s evolved over time and began to grow as their hosts did. This made that agreement more permanent, and even extended to the offspring of both the humans and demons, carefully planning when the demon’s offspring would hatch so that each child would have a “partner.” This planning turned into tradition, and various rituals revolving around birth, growth into wo/manhood, and even a special ritual when a member of the group became strong enough. This group became rather exclusive eventually, and started considering themselves to be more than just a group with similar interests. The group began calling themselves the Kyodo, a clan of brothers and sisters that trained themselves to be better than they were. They also established a hierarchy to maintain order, choosing the leader based on strength and wisdom. Occasionally, a traveler that heard rumors of a powerful clan in this forest of legends would wander into their home. At times, this traveler, or travelers would be a master of some kind of taijutsu. In exchange for joining the clan and getting a bride or groom, they were to teach the clan their ways so that they may become a more formidable fighting force. It wasn’t that they intended to fight, but it never hurt to be prepared in case something happened.
Overtime, the clan became a group consisting of many different religions, cultures, and races, all there to seek knowledge and power from the demons the clan coexisted with. Their reason was usually peaceful, but if they had a more sinister idea they would immediately be denied entry into the clan, with absolutely no exceptions. The clan’s original purpose was to help preserve a war-torn species of demons, after all. Not to gain power beyond imagining.
The Kyodo experienced many years of prosperity, with no real end in sight. Until one day, the leaders received rumors of group rising in power… The Jujigun. Stories had been told to some of their hunters, this group had been razing nearby villages because of differing beliefs, and the leaders had no doubt that they would be next. Those rumors were too much to ignore, after all, as they were about a group which lived with demons. Even if they knew the group would be coming for them, they could not soil the clan’s good name. They believed they had trained their people too well to be brought down by such a childish dispute. Their training became more intense, however, to make sure they would not be wiped off the face of the earth by what was sure to be a formidable foe. Weeks passed by, and not only their bodies, but their homes had become fortified in preparation for the war to come. Each story they heard had the Jujigun’s armies attacking villages closer and closer to their sacred forest, until one day they heard not stories, but the marching of the largest force they’d ever seen.
Each and every member of the clan, man, woman, and child alike, were summoned to fight. And fight they did… There was a brief moment of silence as the crusaders approached their hidden village, each clad in armor which made the children quiver. The fight lasted for many hours, days even. The Jujigun struggled to get past the much smaller, but much stronger force that the Kyodo had access to. Eventually, however, the army’s leaders came up with a much smarter plan. Under the cover of night, they began burning down the forest, and in the confusion slaughtered many of the Kyodo’s clansmen. In the end, the leaders called for an evacuation and helped whatever way they could to get everyone they could out.
The remaining members of the clan, roughly thirty members, fled for several days without rest. Fleeing all the way to Lightning Country’s border and beyond. They did not know where they would go, but they did know that most villages which they tried to settle in eventually asked them to leave, or chased them out. It took years of traveling from village to village before one kind soul told them about a shinobi village. Kumogakure. The man suggested they go there, as they were always seeking power to help them carry out missions to aid Lightning Country and her allies. The leaders agreed to seek this village out, and immediately set course for it. After months of traversing the often deadly mountains of Kumo, they arrived at the village’s gates. Each individual from the clan went through screening to make sure they would not harm the village in any way, and in the end they all made it. It only took ten years before the clan became a great power in the village, and the former leaders -- now decrepit and old -- had already named their heirs.
Takai and Ro -- who had been rivals at a young age -- Were both the strongest in the clan at the time. Takai the strongest woman, and Ro the strongest man. Each were hand picked to be trained by one master, as they had the potential to become Gyoshu -- a member of the clan that achieved one of the highest forms of synthesis with their demon, gaining great power from doing so -- and became friends instead of enemies. It did not take long for them to get married after being made the leaders, as they had even more time with each other. Despite it being tradition to consummate marriages within the clan, the two decided to wait. Both of them felt as if something bad was about to happen, and it didn’t help that both of their demonic counterparts felt uneasy as well…
A year after the two were married, the village was invaded. But this was no normal invasion, there were no enemy shinobi throwing their jutsu at the villager’s home and people. No. This invasion was one which was far more sinister, far more evil than anyone might have expected. Demons. Flames so large that they touched the sky, screams so loud that they echoed within each person’s head, sights that would scar the minds of all who saw them. The clan’s strongest warriors were quick to help on the front lines, while the weaker ones stayed back to defend the clan’s estate. After many fights took place, and many people were killed, the battle was over. Some expected no thanks, as it was their duty, others believed they would be treated as heros for their deeds, but this is not what they received. Because of their ties with demons, the citizens and officials were quick to blame the clan for being a part of the invading party, despite their contribution to the village’s efforts. Those that sided with the clan managed to allow them to stay in the village, but they were quickly stripped of their title and forced to live like any other shinobi or citizens.
It was at this time that the leaders of the clan, Takai and Ro -- both descendants of the original clansman -- made a child of pure blood who was bound for greatness: Kyodo Tesaki and her counterpart Masuta. The leader’s started her training at the young age of six, knowing that she would soon be sent to the academy, whether she wanted to go or not. It was practically impossible for anyone from the Kyodo clan not to be chakra attuned, so for a member not to be a shinobi was unheard of. As any smart parent would do, they trained her themselves. She grew at a surprising rate, and with her growing strength came a growing body. Slight demonic features began to show because of the increasing synthesis with Masuta, as she sprouted small curved horns atop her head and grew unnaturally sharp nails. When it finally came time for the girl to be sent to the academy with the rest of the children in the first group since the invasion, she was already capable of passing every single test and physical examination with little to no effort. Each child sent from the clan had to be under surveillance at all times, as they were still considered to be a part of the demons in the war that took place
Tesa was particularly affected by this constant observation, feeling like she couldn’t do anything without being judged for it, and becoming more influenced by her classmates because of this. After all, when in Cloud, do as the Cloudies do. It did not take long for her “friends” to drag her into drinking and partying after class, even if they were only in their teens. Tesa was always the oldest out of the group, having arrived at the village when she was fifteen and being forced into the academy despite her age. She was often used to seduce perverted old men so that they could get the rest of the children cheap booze for whatever stupid party they were going to, and it was at this time that her counterpart really started speaking to her. Masuta had never really spoken with her partner, preferring to study the knowledge passed down to her through blood, but the actions taken by her host were not something she agreed with. It confused Tesa when Masu began speaking to her at times, and even had arguments with what looked like herself in public when she didn’t agree with the demon. In the end Tesa usually got her way, her hard headed attitude frustrating Masu to the point of giving up entirely. After the girl graduated from the Academy, her physical appearance had changed even more. Her nails became sharp, and her horns had grown to an even larger size. It was impossible now to simply blend in with Kumo’s society, and there was not a day that went by when she was not hit on by thrill seekers or insulted by those who hated demons.
At first, Tesa was never considered anything special, and was treated like any other genin in the village. She went on crappy missions that usually involved her finding someone’s lost pet, or worked as an assistant to any gate guards. It wasn’t until she discovered the glory of the arena that she was allowed to show off her true skill. Using her pre-existing knowledge of taijutsu, and whatever ninjutsu she seemed to have an affinity for in the academy, she was able to defeat a shinobi who was recently made chuunin. Words spread throughout the village, and she was soon tested to see if she could be one herself. The exam was sure to prove to be quite the challenge, and there would have to be several times that she almost fails, then after many trials and mental observation, she would be passed. Instead of a traditional exam, however, the village decided to send her on a mission and assign her the role of a chuunin.
The village was quick to send the girl on a mission after she began to show promise, and the Jounin leader made her in charge of one of the squads in the main group. It seemed like a simple at first, A-Rank: Get in, kill whatever bandits you find, get out. The bastards were destroying caravans as they passed through their territory, and stealing whatever they could get off the remains. The first squad was sent in for recon, and after submitting their report, it was Tesa’s time to shine! Her squad members were picked based on their ability to fight, but even with that much information, there was one member she was unsure about. There was was no doubt that the boy was skilled, but he seemed… Worried. If he hesitated for a moment, even if they were just up against bandits, the boy could die. And her worst fears became a reality sooner than she thought, when the bandits revealed a secret they kept during the battle. A shinobi had joined forces with them, and caught the boy off guard while he was fighting off a few large men. Tesa didn’t notice until the last second, and before she could intercept the shinobi it was too late. The boy was stabbed in the jugular, and blood covered the floor of the cave which the bandits called home.
In that very moment, something in Tesa’s head just.. Snapped. She froze in the middle of combat, and the shinobi was already upon her. Time seemed to move in slow motion as the enemy’s weapon closed in on her, but she just couldn’t react. Masu had to use what power she could to influence the way her body moved, and blocked the blade with her own just before it would’ve lobbed their head off. The force from blocking the blade brought the girl back to reality, as she saw the man’s frustrated face before her. She already knew what happened, and didn’t have time to question it. Instead, she summoned another blade in her free hand, threw it behind him, and pulled it back, impaling him before he could figuring out what was going on. At first, she had no idea what allowed her to manipulate the weapon like that, but it was definitely something she would have to train in the future.
In the end, the mission was a success, but the sight of her teammate dying before her, a boy who trusted her with his life and rushed into battle at her side, was equally as scarring as the demon wars must have been. There was no way for her to take anymore revenge either! Any revenge she could take, had already been taken mere moments after the crime was committed. She didn’t have time to get angry then, all of those feelings came while they were on their way back to the village, where she was congratulated. Very few people even mentioned the death of that boy.. But she knew she had to inform the child’s family of his fate, which was even more painful than she imagined it could be. Despite the success of the mission, she did not pass her exam. This was sad, of course, but the mental strain she had from what happened was far worse. Still, she continued her training, and eventually became so strong that the clan had to make a whole new title. Zentai. The bond between Tesa and Masu was so great that they could be considered one entity, and she was granted abilities that any normal clansman could not use. It has been a year since all of this happened, and the girl has gotten over being sad about causing the death of her team mate. Her main focus at the tender age of eighteen, has been the restoration of their once great clan. The Kyodo.
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ower Level:: 1685
