Roots of Yygdrasil - Old Profile Thread [DNP]

[Kazuraii]

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Full Name: Ryoku Nara
Nickname: Ryo

Age: 16
Birthdate: September 20th
Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 145

Nindo: "Death is only a shadow away"

Personality: Ryoku normally does not care for a whole lot. He a bit of a desire to appeal to his parents. He has a slight bit of an over confidence to him once he starts learning his clan techniques. He has not yet taken an interest in girls and often enjoys just relaxing in trees and by water sources. He later assumes his responsibility but only after experiencing a dangerous situation. Ryoku can be over confident at times due to all the work he put into pleasing his parent. Knowing when he actually applies himself he could be very dangerous.

Village: Konohagakure
Rank: Genin
First Class: Tamer
Second Class: Bloodline















【Full Name】 Chloe
【Nickname】 none

【Age】 7
【Birthdate】 January 8th
【Gender】 Female

【Species】 Red tailed Hawk
【Height】 20"
【Length】 20" Wingspawn: 40"
【Weight】 4 lbs

【Nindo】 "....."

【Personality】
Chloe has always acted as a guide for Ryoku, always watching over him from above but never the two are unique to their own. They usually keep a bit of distance from each other but always within calls reach. Chloe watches from overhead 80% of the time keeping a sharp eye on Ryoku. Usually has a slight distaste for Ryoku's constant lazy attitude.

【Village】 Konohagakure
【Rank】 Genin
【Owner】 Ryoku Nara

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Bloodline: The Nara Clan Approval


Chakra Pool: 230
Stamina Pool: 245
Chakra Element: Katon (fire), Suiton (water)
Chakra Color: Dark blackish flames
Chakra Materialization: As a fire

Strengths:
• Extremely fast thinker
• Very fast, nimble.
• Always able to have a plan for whatever the situation.
Weaknesses:
• Very bright lights
• Weakness to treats
• Not very motivated to do tasks
Fears:
• Loosing his home
• Misguiding his team (when assigned)
• Being outsmarted

Class Disciplines :
• Eternal Partners: The user is able to nurture, grow, and bond with a single animal, almost becoming an animal themselves with traits, characteristics, and natural weaponry. This single animal will be exactly the same at the user's level in chakra and stamina pool, and able to manipulate any two elements, perform 3 activation a post (max of 2 offensive), and gaining +8 jutsu slots a rank.. For every rank the user increases, they can claim a trait associated with their chosen animal (communicate with species, natural weaponry, senses, ect) to be approved in the custom jutsu thread, and add it to their character.

• Blood Bender: User receives and additional 3 custom bloodline techniques. To clarify, these are custom techniques that must involve and utilize the characters bloodline.

Reductions:
• Learn bloodline techniques one 1 post faster.
• The Nara learn ninjutsu one 1 post faster.
• Can learn bloodline techniques in 2 less posts but cost one extra post for Bukijutsu (PA)

Personal Attributes:
• Clan Loyalist: Can learn bloodline techniques in 2 less posts but cost one extra post for Bukijutsu
• Clan Extremist: Bloodline Techniques cost -10 chakra in addition to Taijutsu costing +10 more stamina/chakra.



【Tamer Partner】 : Chloe

【Chakra Pool】 230
【Stamina Pool】 245
【Chakra Element】 Fuuton [Wind], Raiton [Lightning]
【Chakra Color】 White
【Chakra Materialization】 As if smoke was waving in the wind.

【Strengths】
• Eye sight, Long distance vision
• Swiftness
• Strength (ability to fly with greater weights)

【Weaknesses】
• Fire
• Under water
• Having to rely on people other than Ryoku

【Fears】
• Loosing Ryoku altogether
• Large cats
• Open sea with no land in sight


【Partner: Chloe Jutsu's 】

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Maruton:
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Ryo: 両 0
AC: 0

Missions Complete:
D Rank :: 0
C Rank :: 0
B Rank :: 0
A Rank :: 0
S Rank :: 0

Limitations:
• Ninjutsu : : 00 / 06
• Genjutsu : : 00 / 02
• Taijutsu Styles: : 00 / 02
• Bukijutsu Styles: : 00 / 01
• Customs : : 00 / 11 (3 must be used for bloodline abilities.)



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Weapon Type: Whip
Weapon Range: 15 Feet
Weapon Weight: 1.5 lbs
Weapon Location: On the back of his belt
• Black Whip

Summoning Type:
Summon Sage:
Pacts:

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• Long string
• 8 Kunai
• 7 Shuriken
• 1 lbs dried beef (hawk food)

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Maruton: {Start with the following six only}
• Henge no Jutsu [ Transformation Technique ]
• Kawarimi no Jutsu [ Substitution Technique ]
• Bushin no Jutsu [ Clone Technique ]
• Suimen Hokou no Waza [ Act of Water Surface Walking ]
• Kinobori no Waza [ Act of Tree Climbing ]
• Kai [ Release ]

Suiton
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Katon
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Way of the shadows, Nara
• (Kage Benkyou Shiru [ Shadow Studying ]
• (Kageton: Endai Yami [ Shadow Release: Far Reaching Darkness ]
• (Kage Nui no Jutsu [ Shadow Sewing Technique ]
• (Kuro Higanbana [ Black Spider Lily ]
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Ryoku was born and raised in the leaf village with his two parents who always seemed to be over achievers. He normally tried to achieve their attention but after so many attempts and no matter how hard he tried, it seemed to no avail. He soon started to not care much about how his parents felt and began slacking off. Mostly just enjoying himself on his day to day endeavors.

He also has a older brother in the Anbu, but due to this he has not seen him even once since he was recruited. It weighs some on his consciences not knowing weather he is alive or dead, and not being able to inquire about it ether. In his mind once given the chance he would like to join Anbu at some point himself to possibly find his brother. (they were close)

Being young and touching a baby hawk while still in the nest, not knowing that it would be disowned by its mother carried it home to his parents. They quickly scolded him and were forced to take it in or otherwise condemn it to death. Since then Chloe the hawk (what Ryoku named it) was one of his best friends growing up. Between the ages of 9-16.  

[First Lady Jocelyn]

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Full Name: Annalisa Cambria Hyourin
Nickname: Cam

Age: 16
Birthdate: 11/10
Gender: Female

Height: 60 inches
Weight: 105lbs

Nindo: "It’s always the quiet ones you have to look out for."
Personality: Generally of a soft spoken nature, she appears to be the epitome of the term “wall flower”. Calm as a pond on a breezeless afternoon she is cool and collected in even the most stressful of times. Yet even the most placid of waters can be chaotic and even deadly in the right circumstances.

Village: Konohagakure
Rank: Genin
First Class: Taijutsu
Second Class: Medical

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Bloodline: Hyouton

Chakra Pool:270
Stamina Pool: 270
Chakra Element: Water and Wind
Chakra Color: Citrine
Chakra Materialization: Wisps of deep yellow aura, that start from her feet, waft up her body and move in a similar motion to that of fog. As she steps the roots of the aura in her feet move with her. The less Chakra she has the weaker the aura appears.

Strengths:
• Close range attacks
• Elevated Chakra control
Weaknesses:
• Elemental weaknesses to Earth and Fire
• Too quiet. Ie: she wouldn’t just walk up to some random person and strike up a conversation with them.
Fears:
• Heights
• Drowning

Class Disciplines :
• Berserker
• Efficiency Expert
Reductions:
• Learns Eiseijutsu (2) posts faster
• Learns Taijutsu (1) post faster
Personal Attributes:
• Learns Eiseijutsu (1) post faster
• 1 additional taijutsu slot

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Ryo: 両0.00
AC: 0
Missions Complete:
D Rank :: 0
C Rank :: 0
B Rank :: 0
A Rank :: 0
S Rank :: 0

Training Missions Complete:
• Basic Training Meditate♏

Limitations:
• Ninjutsu : : 03 / 04
• Genjutsu : : 00 / 03
• Taijutsu Styles: : 00 / 02
• Bukijutsu Styles: : 00 / 00
• Eiseijutsu : : 06 / 08
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Weapon Type: War Fan
Weapon Range: Close Combat
Weapon Weight: 2.3lbs
Weapon Location: When folded it measures 13 inches in length and 1 7/8 inches in width. Therefore her Obi makes a perfect hiding/storage place.


Summoning Type:None applicable
Summon Sage: No
Pacts: None applicable

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• Shuriken x15
• Kunai x15

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Maruton:
• Henge no Jutsu [ Transformation Technique ]
• Kawarimi no Jutsu [ Substitution Technique ]
• Genso Bushin no Jutsu [ Illusion Clone Technique ]
• Suimen Hokou no Waza [ Act of Water Surface Walking ]
• Kinobori no Waza [ Act of Tree Climbing ]
• Kai [ Release ]

Suiton
•Water Reflection Clone Technique♏
• Black Cloud Technique♏
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Fuuton
• Sword of Wind♏
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Bloodline::Hyoton
• Ice Release♏
• Ice Manipulation♏
• Ice Prison Technique♏
• Water Release Cold Sky Water Attack♏


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• Healing Hands Technique Minor♏
• Bruising Sky Leg♏
• Chakra Scalpel♏
• Poison Removal♏
• Healing Hands Technique♏
• Diagnosis♏
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The weather was calm and mild, the air still fragrant from the summer blooms, the morning her mother was finally laid to rest. It was as if even the birds were showing respect for the loss of her mother with an eerie silence. Not even a whisper of wind swept through the tall grasses. No crickets chirping in the hazy last hours of light signaling twilight.
The twinkling of night’s first stars left her mind wandering back to the time before her mother’s illness, to her youth as a student. Years had passed since she graduated from the academy and yet she hadn’t even thought to practice, to even go on a single mission. It would have required her to leave home, something she hadn’t even passed through her head as being possible. Her mother had required so much care in the end that Cam felt like she had become the mother tending to an ill child. Her time as her mother’s personal caretaker, however, had given her the ability to study and read about the things she would’ve otherwise been doing.
A dull ache filled her chest each time she thought about her jutsu that she had thus far been letting lay dormant. Her Father had been an accomplished Medical Nin and it was her aspiration to follow in his steps. She just needed to take the first leap of faith. She had to go back to the main village and find a team, she needed to train. She only hoped it wasn’t too late.

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[b]‡ Konogakure ‡[/b]
[b]‡ Suiton ‡ Fuiton ‡[/b]
[b]‡ Genin ‡ [/b]
[b]￥ Ryo:[/b] 00000 [b]￥[/b]
[b]AC:[/b] 00100
[b]‡ Chakra :[/b]---/270 [b]‡ Stamina :[/b]---/270‡[/align]

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[Blinkkyz]

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Full Name: Ibara "Ino" Yamanaka
Nickname: Ibara

Age: 21
Birthdate: Jan. 4
Gender: Male

Height: 73 in.
Weight: 181 lbs

Nindo: "Interrogation? Heh, you wish it were that easy."
Personality: Ibara is confident in his abilities, almost to a fault. He never backs down from a fight and will defend his squad with all his strength. As a medical nin he feels that anyone who dies around him he could have protected and feels guilt for such. He is very independant though his jutsu are mostly of a supportive role.

Village: Konohagakure
Rank: Genin
First Class: Sensor
Second Class: Medical

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Bloodline: Yamanaka (Bloodline Approval)

Chakra Pool: 465
Stamina Pool: 115
Chakra Element:
Chakra Color: Yellow
Chakra Materialization: Ibara doesn't like it but it appears as golden flower petals falling from his body.

Strengths:
• Enemy Detection
• Espionage
Weaknesses:
• Taijutsu
• Bukijutsu
Fears:
• Having a teamate die on his watch.
• Failing

Class Disciplines :
•Oracle: The character, through a special talent given at birth, can naturally sense chakra around them. The user can sense chakra around them up to a 5 yard radius without the use of a sensory technique. This radius is increased by 5 yards every time the user ranks up. Additionally, sensory techniques do not take up ninjutsu technique slots.
•Medical license: The user is much more adept at utilizing items during combat. The user gains 2 free custom items, one at Chunnin and one at jounin. These items must be associated and utilized medical abilities. Additionally, they gain a -5 chakra cost to all techniques.

Reductions:
• The Yamanaka learn genjutsu and eiseijutsu one [1] post faster.
• Learn Medical techniques one [1] post faster.
• Learn ninjutsu one [1] post faster.
• Learn genjutsu one [1] post faster
Personal Attributes:
• Prodigy: Ibara sacrifices ability to learn Taijutsu all together to learn bloodline techniques [2] posts faster.
• Look ma one hand: Ibara, through intense training, can use one handed hand seals leaving his other hand free to move and defend or attack as needed.

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Ryo: 両 4000
AC: 3600

Missions Complete:
D Rank :: 4
C Rank :: 0
B Rank :: 2
A Rank :: 2
S Rank :: 0

Limitations:
• Ninjutsu : : 04 / 07
• Genjutsu : : 01 / 07
• Eiseijutsu : : 02 / 08
• Taijutsu Styles: : 00 / 00
• Bukijutsu Styles: : 00 / 00
• Custom styles: : 00 / 08


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Weapon Type: None
Weapon Range: N/A
Weapon Weight: N/A
Weapon Location: N/A

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• 5 Kunai
• 5 Shuriken
• 5 Senbon

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Maruton:
• Henge no Jutsu [ Transformation Technique ]
• Kawarimi no Jutsu [ Substitution Technique ]
• Bushin no Jutsu [ Clone Technique ]
• Suimen Hokou no Waza [ Act of Water Surface Walking ]
• Kinobori no Waza [ Act of Tree Climbing ]
• Kai [ Release ]
• Kage Bunshin no Jutsu [ Shadow Clone Technique ] X ::
• Shunshin no Jutsu [ Body Flicker Technique ] X ::

Katon
• Kita no Jutsu [ Aerial Explosion Technique ] :: Rank C :: X ::
• Go [ Five ] :: Rank B:: X ::

Fuuton
• Atsugai [ Pressure damage ] :: Rank B :: X ::

Eiseijutsu
• Shindan [ Diagnosis ] :: Rank E :: X ::
• Chiyute No Jutsu: Karui [ Healing Hands Technique: Minor ] :: Rank C ::X ::

Yamanaka
• Yamanaka Clan Telepathy :: Rank E :: X ::
• Kanchi Shisutemu Jutsu [ Sensing System Technique ] :: Rank C :: X ::
• Eye Mind Reading Technique :: Rank D :: X ::
• Chakra Hair Trap :: Rank D :: X ::
• Shintenshin no Jutsu [ Mind Body Switch Technique ] :: Rank C :: X ::
• Mind Reading Technique :: Rank C :: X ::
• Shingyakushin no Jutsu [ Mind Reverse Body Technique ] :: Rank B :: X ::
• Shinranshin no Jutsu [ Mind Distrubance Technique ] :: Rank B :: X ::


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• Hada no Kamereon [ Chameleon Skin ] :: Rank E :: X


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Ibara was a very confident male. He had burst into the academy thinking he was the best thing since sliced bread but has since dulled it back considerably. During the genin exams he discovered his role on the team, he was to be their eyes and their doctor. Healing wounds, cuts, scrapes, burns, etc. Finding enemies was his specialty he knew where people were without even having to look for them, he was a sensor in every sense of the word and touted as a prodigy. This didn't displease Ibara at all, actually it made him even more confident in himself. He wasn't cocky confident it was the kind of confidence that rubbed off on other people. A bravery, a type of rallying trait that made him respected by his peers although he was a genin. His team was the class of their class and had to fight every day to keep it that way.  

[Lanfaer]

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Full Name: Shouka Ishimoto
Nickname: Ishi

Age: 15
Birthdate:
Gender: Female

Height: 64 in (5'04")/ 162.6 cm
Weight: 113 lbs/ 51.3 kg

Nindo: "Power is life, love, and freedom - I care not from whence it came"
Personality: Shouka is a twin, yes, and she loves her sister dearly. But what is love to someone as she? Power is everything to her: it is love, life, and freedom in all its splendor. Power gives ones the ability to do what one wants, and that is the ultimate freedom, and thus does Shouka seek it. All her actions are those of the manipulator, the con artist, the user of tools with all who exist being said tools. She does not speak a word that is unnecessary, nor useless. Every word that leaves her mouth must have a purpose, and each is calculated beyond reason in the single moment between each spoken syllable. She cares for her sister, for she is a useful tool, one that can never lose its value, but no one else could come close to that value. Her people skills are fantastic, however, and her ability to be social quite graceful, but in all things she is calculating and suspicious. Trust is not a commodity, nor something to be earned from her. Shouka trusts no one, not a soul, and never will. She will betray as easily as she will be loyal, and will love as easily as she murders.

Village: Konohagakure
Rank: Genin
First Class: Bloodline
Second Class: Musician

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Bloodline: Shouton :: Crystal Release

Chakra Pool: 365
Stamina Pool: 135
Chakra Element: Doton :: Earth || Suiton :: Water
Chakra Color: Aurora Borealis
Chakra Materialization: A pressure in the air, a distortion of reality. The world fuzzes and the air rings, sounding like static, and the more powerful the distortion the more brilliant the aura of chakra around Shouka. The pressure is emotional and physical, a tightening of the skin, a warning of the horror about to transpire.

Strengths:
• Knowledge of Anatomy :: While choosing the path of the Bloodline and Musician classes, Shouka decided knowledge of anatomy and bodily functions would be more than slightly useful with her personal goals in life. She has textbook knowledge of the human body, as well as most animal bodies, that some medics would envy.
• Understanding the Soul :: Oddly enough, Shouka has spent years studying the many tells of the human and different animal bodies that show when someone is lying. She is, in reality, a human lie detector, with a ninety-nine percent accuracy.
• Ninjutsu
• Taijutsu
Weaknesses:
• Lightning Techniques
• Fire Techniques
Fears:
• Becoming powerless, unable to make own decisions
• Losing freedom
Class Disciplines :
• Blood Bender :: User receives and additional 3 custom bloodline techniques. To clarify, these are custom techniques that must involve and utilize the characters bloodline.
• Painting Pictures: The user is able to perform on their insturment like they are performing hand seals, making brilliant ninjutsu appear. This ability comes at the cost of not being able to perform genjutsu through performance or instrument. Can perform B rank ninjutsu and lower at gennin, A rank at Chunnin, and S rank at Jounin. At Konin, all ninjutsu cost 5 less chakra to perform if performed through an instrument or performance. at Sannin, ninjutsu cost 10 less chakra if performed through instrument or performance.
Reductions:
• Learn bloodline techniques one (1) post faster.
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Personal Attributes:
• Musical Blood || → Due to possessing both the Musician and Bloodline classes, Shouka is able to utilize her clan jutsu through her music, following the restrictions on the Painting Pictures discipline. This has been accepted by both AOandE and Yoko_the_Great.
• Bloody Geologist || → Able to utilize current and naturally formed crystalline structures to utilize bloodline jutsu. This affinity for crystal also allows for bloodline techniques dealing with Shouton to be learned easier when in the presence of a large amount of natural, non-chakra crystals. This culminates as a two [2] post reduction, but the crystal quantity must be large enough to fill a large building, or one [1] if the size of a medium size room.

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Ryo: 両 0
AC:

Missions Complete:
D Rank :: 0
C Rank :: 0
B Rank :: 0
A Rank :: 0
S Rank :: 0

Limitations:
• Ninjutsu : : 00 / 07
• Genjutsu : : 00 / 05
• Taijutsu Styles: : 00 / 01
• Bukijutsu Styles: : 00 / 01

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Weapon Type: Bladed, Spiked Knuckles [x2]
Weapon Range: Fisticuffs
Weapon Weight: Two Pounds [2 lbs]
Weapon Location: Up sleeves or in pockets

Summoning Type: -
Summon Sage: -
Pacts: -

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• 9 Kunai
• 6 Shuriken
• Bolas [x3]
• Sling → Reinforced Leather
• Medical Textbook → [Latest Edition!]
• Mortar and Pestle
• First Aid Kit → [To clean wounds and treat them]
• Blank, completely printless white book → [2" x 4", made from the skin of her parents]


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• Six bottles of water
• Hair tie → made of tough leather
• Four diamond bracelets → [Pure, Transparent, two on each arm]
• Two ruby earrings → [solid ruby with gold fittings and platinum clasps]
• Four ruby rings → [both ring and index fingers, small red tinted water wells inside the gemstones. Water is mixed with iron particles]
• Eight toe rings → [Sapphire in color, with miniature wells of water within their stones]


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Maruton:
• Henge no Jutsu [ Transformation Technique ]
• Kawarimi no Jutsu [ Substitution Technique ]
• Bushin no Jutsu [ Clone Technique ]
• Suimen Hokou no Waza [ Act of Water Surface Walking ]
• Kinobori no Waza [ Act of Tree Climbing ]
• Kai [ Release ]

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My history? Why would anyone want to know such things, when it is clearly mine and mine alone to know or remember? Bah, but I suppose that should I die, such knowledge could prove useful, and perhaps bring change to a world long gone dark and cold from the evil within it.

My oldest memory comes from the days shortly after my birth. Is this odd, to remember before memory was supposed to have existed? Before the brain was to have developed into the receptacle of knowledge, experience, and the pain that both bring that it is now? Well, I suppose it matters not, for it simply was another facet of life for me. I remember the love my mother and father gave us, growing up in the plantation out on the farther borders of the Land of Fire. Were we rich? Yes, I suppose we were, though at the time I was too small to consider what it meant to have food on the table every day, to have all our desires met within minutes of demanding them. I remember all of our workers loved us, loved our family, for we fed and housed their families on the great chunk of land that belonged to us.

I remember us being...happy. Is it odd that I cannot remember what it felt like, nor liken it to anything I have felt since? Perhaps I should ask Rei, as she is the more emotional of the two of us. My sister and I, twins, had our own language and communication methods and thus were always inseparable, so maybe the happiness came from her being with me? Who knew. Either way, we were happy, but that all changed when we hit puberty. You see, my sister and I were "early bloomers", as it was put in those days, and we reached our womanhood at the tender age of ten [10]. But with that blooming came something else, a power that we had not known existed. Somehow, my sister gained the ability to grow her bones, to replace those that she had accidentally broken or snapped out. As adventurous a child as she was, that came frequently. However, with it came a tolerance for pain I could not match. My sister knew, instinctively I suspect, that it would be wrong to show these powers to anyone. I only wish now that I had had that instinct, for I gained something else. I could reach into the physical world and change its structure, forcing it into something else, something...pink, blue, green, red, and a myriad of other colors: Crystal. I could change anything into crystal, and that included anything with blood within their veins. We were harmless however, and did not use our newfound abilities to harm anyone, or anything.

Yet when our parents one day came home and discovered us showing each other what we had learned to do with our powers, it wasn't happiness that registered in their expressions. Instead it was disgust, hatred, and terror. I, at the age of eleven [11], handed a crystal flower to my mother to make her smile, but she did not take it, nor did she smile. I, as the younger of the two of us, was dismissed for the moment. My sister was the one in charge, the one held responsible for my actions, and it was she whom was focused on. My father immediately struck her face, knocking her to the ground, demanding to know who had shown her such things. When she wailed instead of answering, my father kicked her in the head, hard. Blood sprayed out from a wound that had been left by his hard boot. I remember the cracking noise as his second kick connected, the screams as my sister begged for mercy, wailed and shrieked to know what she had done to deserve this. Both of us had never been punished, never seen punishment bestowed on another living creature, so we could not cope at all with these actions. We could not cope with the shock, with the pain. I watched as my sister was brutally beaten, but then my own vision swam as my mother took a vase from a wall and shattered it across my skull, demanding to know where her daughter was, who I, a monster, was. I screamed that it was me, begged her to stop, but she continued. All went black a moment later, the continued wails of my sister still echoing within my skull.

She always was difficult to put down.

We woke what seemed years later, but what was obviously only hours. We were locked in the cellar midst broken bottles and refuse, and I knew without a doubt we were going to die. But no, that was not their goal. Our parents had gone mad, believing us to be changelings, monsters from Kirigakure no Sato that had followed them and tried to end their lives. I will not retell the horrors that were inflicted upon us as we, barely more than eleven, were tortured in ways that would break full grown, fully realized shinobi. What I do remember is the final day, the day they decided my sister was the changeling, and that she had corrupted me. They decided that I was to be the breaking point for her answers, that I was to die in agony so that she would speak. They pinned me to a wall, arms strung up behind me, arms rotated so that the weight alone would soon dislocate my arms, and pressed a knife to my throat. I remember my sister's eyes as she awoke in the darkness and saw me, our eyes having adjusted in the weeks of the cellar. I remember my parents grinning, evil, horrid grins, knowing they had won.

Or rather, they assumed.

The next instant my sister exploded into action. Her pupils shrank to points, nearly making them completely white. Her body quaked, the air whistling in the room in ways that defied reality. Dust swirled and formed in the wind, formed around her into the hazy outline of some mystical beast. She screamed-no, she roared, and her bonds broke as bones protruded from her body, slicing apart her chains and bonds. She rushed my parents and leaped upon them, and tore into them as they in turn screamed for mercy. At first I was horrified. I knew my parents were monsters, and could not understand nor comprehend their evil actions, but witnessing her sister do this? Become the beast? Yet she could not blame herself as her voice, cracked from long being parched, egging her sister on, demanding she tear them apart, disembowel them, feast on their flesh, make them be the ones this time who suffered!

It seemed like hours passed before I awoke again, not realizing I had blacked out. I was on the floor, my bare skin against the cold stone earth, with something sticky covering most of me. When I opened my eyes I saw my mirror, my twin sister, Rei, above me. I realized I was in her lap, my head between her legs, while my body and her's were within a massive cascade of blood. Everything was covered in what had been my parents.

We escaped that same day, fleeing from our homes. I suspect the people of the plantation knew of what had happened, but could do nothing to stop our parents. I could not blame them, nor was I angry, for they left us to flee in peace. I learned later that my sister had changed forever, turned dark and maniacle, twisted by our experience, and she had no memory of what had happened in the last year. Nothing at all. We went to Konohagakure then, seeking asylum, and the Hokage at that time showed us clemency. He took us in and helped us, set us up with shelter and feed. We repaid it by training to become shinobi, working ourselves into oblivion to lash away our hidden past, for none we told of what happened, other than that we were escorted into the village by the Hokage himself, us covered in gore.

But I did not escape this unscathed, no. I too was damaged. Gone was the young, happy girl who trusted all and loved all. Gone was she who saw the world as light and clouds. No, she had died, tortured into nonexistence, and in her place was the new Shouka. She had a knew goal, to find out what had happened with her parents, those monsters, and what had caused their evil. Blaming Kirigakure no Sato, that was what she lived for. That was her new goal.

And I have no regrets.