GENERAL INFORMATION | SHINOBI CLASSIFICATION |
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Name: Saitou Rei Birthday: January 21 (Aquarius) Birth Year: 40 TE (25 y/o) Village: Kumogakure Lineage: Saitou, Nanjirou Aliases: *Nanjirou Rei (Kumo) *Reicheru (Konoha) Affiliations: *'The Crew' (Konoha, former) *Kashima (Konoha, former) *Kaibutsu Hunters (Kumo, current) Known Languages: *Common Tongue *Fuego [Fire Country native] *Vulgar Kumogakurian [learned] |
Mission Request Thread (7.5 Total Points)
Completed Missions (6.5 points) Completed Tutors/Classes (1 point) Specialization Points:
Genin -- 3 points Event -- 4 points Chuunin -- 5 points Jounin -- 8 points Total Points-- 20 points Current Specialization: Kaibutsu Hunter Godslayer -- 10 points Total Spent -- 10 points |
APPEARANCE |
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Gender: Female Height: 5'6" / 172cm Weight: 125lbs / 56kg Unassuming in stature and appearance, Rei has the benefit of being able to blend into a crowd given her average presentation. Extensive travel for work lends itself to a minimalistic approach to her wardrobe, and since immigrating to Kumogakure the Fire Country native has taken to wearing heavier layers - jacket, scarf, boots - which conceal an overly toned physique sculpted from countless combat and training hours. Her dark brown hair has been cropped into a shorter boyish cut and often falls into her face and in front of her steel-grey eyes, set in pale white skin that is often dried out from the frigid mountain climate and general lack of a healthy diet or sleep schedule. Distinctive Traits: A scar below her right eye serves as a reminder of her tenure in Konohagakure's Frost war, amongst others that are hidden by her clothing. A burn mark in the shape of an ouroboros resides just below her collar bone, a physical manifestation of the Mark of the King [see Abomination]. When wielding her Ancestral Weapon, Sofu Ken, her eyes take on a violet-purple hue. |
PERSONALITY | |
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Idealism in a shinobi is a recipe for disaster, and that's more or less what we've got in Saitou Rei. She is a woman who feels deeply and cares intensely, and has been punished for these traits in the repeated loss of those she cared for most. This has produced a jaded mentality toward shinobi villages and a more isolated lifestyle as a protection to her fragile heart. Her strong will has been tested, broken, and mended repeatedly, leaving her afraid of almost nothing - even when perhaps she should be. Intelligent, passionate, and capable, Rei would serve well on any team she works with as a leader or subordinate. Daily she is torn by two natures; one that has given up hope and is prone to day drinking and reckless combat choices, and another that demands another step forward toward the ideals of her youth to leave the next generation with. The current crossroads she finds herself at may well be the determining factor to see which of the two will win out for the time being. [TABLE=noborder] [TR] [TD] Dislikes Monkeys Cold weather Caramel Wine Flan ANBU Corps Sparring Cars Gambling Parties | Likes Jasmine Tea Rum Reading The ocean Birds Cats Dango Hazelnut Teaching Traveling |
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HISTORY
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The first-born and only child of Saitou Gorou and Nanjirou Akane, Reicheru wanted for nothing in terms of affection in her first ten years of life. Finding love in her parents and companionship in her cousin, Nanjirou Hiroshi who was her same age, the young girl would have seemed to be set up for an easy life, were it not for the occupation of her parents. Shinobi of Konohagakure, the hazards of such a lifestyle were well-known to even the most sheltered children in the village. Yet Reicheru could not fathom following any other path, even when prodded by aunts and uncles (her father's siblings, of course) to consider a future in literally anything else - shopkeeping, a ramen shop, or going to school for tech development - the last of which had admittedly always been an interest to young Rei, who loved to tinker. Still, when she came to the age of being able to apply to the academy, she did so quickly and with her family's blessing. Her acceptance was a shock to no one; not that she would be the most advanced in her class by any means, but she certainly had the same natural ability that flowed so effortlessly from her Jounin mother. And of course, it helps to have a father on the inside; Gorou was a Chuunin and teacher at the Academy.
"So dad, do you think you'll be my sensei?"
A soft chuckle. "I doubt it, they can't make it that easy for me to have favorites now can they? So no, probably not officially. I'd like to think there's quite a lot I can teach you outside of the academy, though!" he said feigning indignance, ruffling his daughter's dark mop of hair that mirrored his own. They walked home together, his mini-me shadow-boxing with excitement the whole way.
When she began classes was the first time she met her mother's parents; Reicheru had asked before why they never came by, but her parents always skirted the issue. They came to congratulate Rei on her acceptance, and assure her that her Nanjirou blood would ensure that she would catch on very quickly. It was a comment that made Akane's jaw tighten, which Reicheru didn't understand considering the obvious high regard with which her mother held their Nanjirou ancestry. But again, when she asked, Akane and Gorou brushed it off, told her she was reading too much into it.
And then she began! Her first few weeks as an official academy student went smoothly enough; she excelled in her sparring, weapons and history classes, and her ninjutsu was beginning to come along. Genjutsu proved to be a struggle, but it was a challenge Reicheru was excited to meet. It was during one of these classes that a meeting was called at the academy. Such interruptions were not unusual, be it developments at the gate causing a lock-down or to announce a change of teaching staff, typical due to… occupational hazards. But this time, they called the students together to ask if any of them had any information on a certain boy from the academy. Reicheru knew of him - he was one of her father's students, a trouble-maker that everyone, even some of the adults, said had no business training to be a shinobi. She didn’t know why exactly, only that her father disagreed and had spent a great deal of time and energy investing in the boy and hoping that one day, he would see his own potential and be able to show it to those who doubted him. Turns out, that morning the boy had drugged one of the guards at the gate and gone missing. Gorou had gone after him.
Days turned into weeks, and the strength with which her mother assured Reicheru that these types of missions are typical and that her father would be back in no time began to fade. Akane had requested to go on the retrieval mission to locate her husband and the boy, but had been denied as an ANBU team working on a mission in the suspected area had already been alerted. As news spread, Rei learned more about the boy - an orphan being raised by an older cousin, with no obvious talent as a ninja and an even worse attitude. There were some vicious rumors that he had killed his parents, but these were likely spread by kids who had lost to him in play-ground brawls. It didn’t sound at all like the kid her dad talked about; Gorou saw a boy fighting desperately to be seen, to have his existence validated in any way he could. He saw a fighter, a survivor who had what it took to make it in his dream. And survive he did.
"What about Gorou?"
Two ANBU came by the house late, and had informed Akane that the boy had been returned to the village safely.
"But what about Gorou?" The ANBU began to explain a situation involving a gang, and a run-in in the forest after Gorou had found the boy and was bringing him home. As they talked, a third ANBU with a black katana and green, beaked mask ran in behind them. Uncle Daisuke. He pushed his way through the other two, and put a quivering hand out to touch his sister's should, but stopped just short before letting his hand fall.
"Akane… I'm so sorry…"
Reicheru had never seen her mother cry, not ever, until that day.
The following weeks were a blur. The ANBU team had been able to recover Gorou's body, which he had used to shield the boy he had gone so far to protect and bring home, and so they had a proper burial, laying him to rest alongside two of his brothers. Things were quiet at the academy, and once again the announcement was made of a change in staff. The day the run-away boy returned to class, classrooms were buzzing with whispers and sideways glances. When classes dismissed and everyone headed home, someone bumped Reicheru, knocking her books out of her arms. As Rei moved to pick them up and the student paused and turned, they met eyes - it was the run-away boy. Frozen for only a moment, he quickly turned and walked home. Her cousin Hiroshi had been walking toward them and saw it happen.
"That ungrateful…! Someone ought to teach him some manners! I mean, that boy….!"
"He's got a name, you know!" Reicheru almost yelled.
"Okay then, what is it?" Hiroshi shot back defensively, as if asking whose side she was on. Reicheru stammered and then turned away flushed when she realized she didn't remember. Hiroshi softened. "It's alright. I mean, it's not, but…" He stopped while helping get the rest of Reicheru's things, and then suggested they go sit for awhile on the city's cliff-side.
After sitting in silence for some time, he started, "Your dad knew his name. Your dad knew that everyone had potential, that everyone deserved a chance…" As he said this, he pulled the worn red scarf from his neck and put it around Reicheru. She put a hand up in protest, "Your dad gave this to you…" "No actually, your dad did." Her cousin interrupted, eliciting a confused stare. "Dad just told me about it, the night we buried Uncle Gorou. Apparently the winter when I was two, I got really sick; and rather than helping my body recover, my immune system began attacking itself. My dad was convinced I wouldn't make it. Your dad came over, stayed up with me so that my parents could sleep. When I shivered, he wrapped his scarf around me, kept whispering to me that I was stronger than this. It took awhile, but I recovered, and Uncle Gorou told my parents to keep the scarf as a reminder to never give up on anyone, even when it seems bleakest." Reicheru held one end of the scarf, and Hiroshi smiled. "It looks good on you. So does your dad's attitude. You may not remember that boy's name, but you defended him when bitterness would be totally excusable. Your dad would be proud."
As they looked out at the crumbling carvings of past Hokage in the cliff-side, Reicheru's reason for wanting to become a great shinobi and her motivation at the academy shifted markedly from simply wanting to be like her parents, to being rooted in a belief she inherited from her father: that each member of this village was her family, each one equally deserving love and protection. And she would protect them with her life, not if but when the time came.
"So dad, do you think you'll be my sensei?"
A soft chuckle. "I doubt it, they can't make it that easy for me to have favorites now can they? So no, probably not officially. I'd like to think there's quite a lot I can teach you outside of the academy, though!" he said feigning indignance, ruffling his daughter's dark mop of hair that mirrored his own. They walked home together, his mini-me shadow-boxing with excitement the whole way.
When she began classes was the first time she met her mother's parents; Reicheru had asked before why they never came by, but her parents always skirted the issue. They came to congratulate Rei on her acceptance, and assure her that her Nanjirou blood would ensure that she would catch on very quickly. It was a comment that made Akane's jaw tighten, which Reicheru didn't understand considering the obvious high regard with which her mother held their Nanjirou ancestry. But again, when she asked, Akane and Gorou brushed it off, told her she was reading too much into it.
And then she began! Her first few weeks as an official academy student went smoothly enough; she excelled in her sparring, weapons and history classes, and her ninjutsu was beginning to come along. Genjutsu proved to be a struggle, but it was a challenge Reicheru was excited to meet. It was during one of these classes that a meeting was called at the academy. Such interruptions were not unusual, be it developments at the gate causing a lock-down or to announce a change of teaching staff, typical due to… occupational hazards. But this time, they called the students together to ask if any of them had any information on a certain boy from the academy. Reicheru knew of him - he was one of her father's students, a trouble-maker that everyone, even some of the adults, said had no business training to be a shinobi. She didn’t know why exactly, only that her father disagreed and had spent a great deal of time and energy investing in the boy and hoping that one day, he would see his own potential and be able to show it to those who doubted him. Turns out, that morning the boy had drugged one of the guards at the gate and gone missing. Gorou had gone after him.
Days turned into weeks, and the strength with which her mother assured Reicheru that these types of missions are typical and that her father would be back in no time began to fade. Akane had requested to go on the retrieval mission to locate her husband and the boy, but had been denied as an ANBU team working on a mission in the suspected area had already been alerted. As news spread, Rei learned more about the boy - an orphan being raised by an older cousin, with no obvious talent as a ninja and an even worse attitude. There were some vicious rumors that he had killed his parents, but these were likely spread by kids who had lost to him in play-ground brawls. It didn’t sound at all like the kid her dad talked about; Gorou saw a boy fighting desperately to be seen, to have his existence validated in any way he could. He saw a fighter, a survivor who had what it took to make it in his dream. And survive he did.
"What about Gorou?"
Two ANBU came by the house late, and had informed Akane that the boy had been returned to the village safely.
"But what about Gorou?" The ANBU began to explain a situation involving a gang, and a run-in in the forest after Gorou had found the boy and was bringing him home. As they talked, a third ANBU with a black katana and green, beaked mask ran in behind them. Uncle Daisuke. He pushed his way through the other two, and put a quivering hand out to touch his sister's should, but stopped just short before letting his hand fall.
"Akane… I'm so sorry…"
Reicheru had never seen her mother cry, not ever, until that day.
The following weeks were a blur. The ANBU team had been able to recover Gorou's body, which he had used to shield the boy he had gone so far to protect and bring home, and so they had a proper burial, laying him to rest alongside two of his brothers. Things were quiet at the academy, and once again the announcement was made of a change in staff. The day the run-away boy returned to class, classrooms were buzzing with whispers and sideways glances. When classes dismissed and everyone headed home, someone bumped Reicheru, knocking her books out of her arms. As Rei moved to pick them up and the student paused and turned, they met eyes - it was the run-away boy. Frozen for only a moment, he quickly turned and walked home. Her cousin Hiroshi had been walking toward them and saw it happen.
"That ungrateful…! Someone ought to teach him some manners! I mean, that boy….!"
"He's got a name, you know!" Reicheru almost yelled.
"Okay then, what is it?" Hiroshi shot back defensively, as if asking whose side she was on. Reicheru stammered and then turned away flushed when she realized she didn't remember. Hiroshi softened. "It's alright. I mean, it's not, but…" He stopped while helping get the rest of Reicheru's things, and then suggested they go sit for awhile on the city's cliff-side.
After sitting in silence for some time, he started, "Your dad knew his name. Your dad knew that everyone had potential, that everyone deserved a chance…" As he said this, he pulled the worn red scarf from his neck and put it around Reicheru. She put a hand up in protest, "Your dad gave this to you…" "No actually, your dad did." Her cousin interrupted, eliciting a confused stare. "Dad just told me about it, the night we buried Uncle Gorou. Apparently the winter when I was two, I got really sick; and rather than helping my body recover, my immune system began attacking itself. My dad was convinced I wouldn't make it. Your dad came over, stayed up with me so that my parents could sleep. When I shivered, he wrapped his scarf around me, kept whispering to me that I was stronger than this. It took awhile, but I recovered, and Uncle Gorou told my parents to keep the scarf as a reminder to never give up on anyone, even when it seems bleakest." Reicheru held one end of the scarf, and Hiroshi smiled. "It looks good on you. So does your dad's attitude. You may not remember that boy's name, but you defended him when bitterness would be totally excusable. Your dad would be proud."
As they looked out at the crumbling carvings of past Hokage in the cliff-side, Reicheru's reason for wanting to become a great shinobi and her motivation at the academy shifted markedly from simply wanting to be like her parents, to being rooted in a belief she inherited from her father: that each member of this village was her family, each one equally deserving love and protection. And she would protect them with her life, not if but when the time came.
- Eye-stealing incident with the academy student "crew" in the forest.
- Follow up punishment for the incident in the forest; meets Yuu Kenshin.
- [Class :: Passed]
- Met Sugihira Juko, Yasu and Chigokai Ziren.
- Rei unlocks her Nanjirou ancestry in a confrontation with her grandmother.
- [Nanjirou BL Application]
- Met Deguchi Shinzo, developed an appreciation for focusing on agility in battle as opposed to raw power.
- [Class :: Passed]
- Met Mihoki Kahora, Uchiha Maikeru, and Nanjirou Daenerisu.
- On the first anniversary of her father's death, Rei is given the opportunity to reconcile with Mori Kaede.
IllegalAcademy Student Fight Club!
- Rei faces off against her friend Maikeru in round one of the fight club, with a bet on the line: loser buys dinner.
- Going to dinner as the loser of their bet, Rei's relationship with Maikeru develops.
- Just a simple medical questionnaire. No, really.
- Witnessing Uchiha Nitish's death at the hands of the Fourth Hokage sends Rei into a tailspin.
- Wrestling with the implications of Nitish's death, Rei's worldview is shaken. In the meantime, she works to salvage the village's relationship with the "crew".
- Met Senju Tobikuma, Tsukasa Mikasa, and Santaru Soku.
- Joint pass/fail Genin exam with the boys of the "crew".
- [Exam :: Failed :: Passed an individual exam at a later date (OOC promotion)]
- Rei and Daenerisu teach Maikeru all they know about swordsmanship and taijutsu.
- Tea "Heist" art one. Rei visits her Uncle Jirou who is a tailor in Tea, whom Maikeru convinces to tailor outfits for the ragtag team to attend a party.
- Near the end of her Tea trip, Rei is introduced by Ziren to former Hokage Umashi.
- Formation of Kashima, the Konoha Swordsmen, consisting of Rei, Maikeru, Daenerisu and Katsu, with Yukio to supervise the young group.
- Kashima encounter and fight Frost shinobi while securing medical supplies.
- [Frost Event Mission]
- Rei and Maikeru join the Ishi clan, which is attacked moments later. Simultaneously, Katsu mental links Maikeru and Rei to witness the deaths of their friends.
- [Promoted to Jounin]
- Maikeru and Rei recover Riku, Ryujou, and Katsu's bodies after their death, along with some of their personal belongings.
- Maikeru, Daenerisu, and Rei say their goodbyes to Mikasa.
- The three remaining youth of Konohagakure request a permanent exit from the village hidden in the leaves.
- Funeral for Riku, Ryujou, and Katsu in the latter's hometown of Ine-Cho.
- The traveling trio leaves Fire Country...
- ...and arrive in Lightning Country!
- Maik, Danii, and Rei work on developing their cohesiveness as a unit, breaking up the monotony of traveling.'
- [Tutor :: Passed]
- Maik, Danii and Rei request entrance to Kumogakure, met by Kanagawa Nozomi.
- The three request an audience with the Raikage and are ultimately granted Kumo citizenship.
- [Made Kumo Genin]
- Meets Nanjirou Yuzu.
- Begins study of Vulgar Kumogakurian.
- Window Washer
- Kagetsu Yuii wasn't kidding when she said that the new recruits would get the lowest jobs on the totem pole. In the midst of washing the Torre's windows, however, Rei makes an unexpected acquaintance.
- [Mission :: Contract]
- Aftermath of Maikeru's transformation.
- Rei and Danii work together to better understand their heritage.
- [Tutor :: Passed]
- When Kumogakure is attacked by the Monster King, Rei joins the fight - only to be taken control of by Maji, who forces her and Maikeru to run each other through, leaving them both with the Mark of the King.
- [Cursed Seal Get]
- Awakening in the hospital following the Monster attack, Rei and Maik learn a bit about the Mark of the King.
- An escort mission gone... well, about as well as you'd expect.
- [Mission :: Incomplete]
- After encountering Ziren and Nozomi in the forest, Rei and Nozomi duel as a test of the immigrant's mettle.
- Rei and Maikeru discover the truth about Yuii and Umeko's monster history
- Though she certainly has much to learn, by this point one could say that Rei could be marked as fluent in Vulgar.
- [Vulgar Kumogakurian Application]
- A different kind of conversation at the library.
- Maik and Rei get couples counseling from... children?
- Tutoring an eager academy student in the art of sword training.
- [Tutor :: Passed]
- Rei stumbles across and faces off against Basalas, the Kaibutsu Monkey King. During the fight, she finally stops fighting against the Mark of the King and instead begins to use it.
- [Abomination Kinjutsu Application]
- [Chuunin Exam :: Passed]
- [Mission :: Success]
- First attempts to investigate the plans of the Kaibutsu that attacked the gates.
- Meeting a fellow Nanjirou at the library. Why is it always the library?!
- Learning about poisons from Maru!
- [Tutor :: Incomplete]
- 8 Years of Monster Hunting
- [Inactivity]
- Not Much Longer
- A recap of what Rei's been up to for the last 8 years [monster hunting and depression, basically].
- Practical Pacifism
- Rei sets into motion a plan to create a Kaibutsu Hunter Syndicate with Sunagakure, setting the stage for her eventual departure.
- [Promoted to Jounin]
- It Stands to Reason
- Even with Raikage approval, shinobi still can't avoid red tape. A trip to the passport office leads to an encounter with Siu, Kaji, and a rather testy office clerk.
- Soon May the Wellerman Come
- A chance encounter with Okada Kaji leads to quite the ideological deep dive, giving birth to a dream that may change the course of the future.
- Déjà Vu
- After a chance encounter with Chigokai Ziren, their reunion is cut short by the advances of the Tenouzan army.
- And So Will We Yet
- As Kumogakure swiftly deals with the Tenouzan threat, Rei is dispatched to reestablish comms in the southern Lightning Country before proceeding on to Wind on Kaibutsu Hunter business.
- Mugen Train Pt. I: Fool's Gold Rigmarole
- Ongoing.
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