Outou Hajime
美しい花の奇術師
Illusionist of Beautiful Blossoms
| Two Hearts | Genjutsu Master | Spider Summoner | Bloody Mist | Kurama Clan Head
美しい花の奇術師
Illusionist of Beautiful Blossoms
| Two Hearts | Genjutsu Master | Spider Summoner | Bloody Mist | Kurama Clan Head
Viewed by her fellow residents as:
• Feared Resident of Mist • Destoryer of Mist Hospital • Seductress of the Mizukage • Slaughterer of Innocents
Originally Outou Kurama, nicknamed 'Cherry' when she was younger, usually has ahappy-go-lucky aura surrounding her, and is always found with a smile
on her face. Cherry, like her mother, is a genjutsu specialist, born of
the Kurama clan, and is often found creating illusions of anything that
catches her interests. However, Cherry dislikes showing weakness
and has a slight fear of men, and the things that appear to capture her
interest most is the subject of Death and the possibility of an 'Afterlife'
or 'Immortality.' Born in Mist, once Cherry became a Genin, she was
assigned a team.
Ever two years or so, one would graduate to Chuunin and their
position would be filled by another Genin. Cherry has yet to graduate.
Her fighting abilities - or lack there of - earned her the nickname
'Smiling Demon'. On a mission with her team, they were attacked. It
was a simple C-Ranked Mission which turned into a B-Ranked
Mission with the attack of bandit-nin. Cherry was the only one to get
out without much injury. She suffered a broken right wrist, one
teammate died, the other went to critical care and her sensei had to
go through rehabilitation for a shattered knee-cap. Cherry survived
by unleashing the full fury of her genjutsu abilities, mentally crippling
the bandits, their leader having been the first to call Cherry 'Smiling
Demon'.
Cherry is cruel and harsh when angered, not fearing death, as she
realises that she may die that very day if a second 'self' emerges within
her. A trade-off for being born with the full potential of her clan. However,
all Cherry wants is someone to call a friend, who will look into her pink
eyes and not fear her heightened abilities. Cherry believes she may have
found that very person not a month after the decimation of her team.
Cory Lei, a Leaf Sannin possessing the chakra tendril ability captured her
interest with his claim of immortality and she captured his with her strange
demeanor. Ultimately, the two have suffered similar lives, being
constantly feared and just seeking companionship among their fellow
peers.
However, though it only took a day for the two to find solid common
ground and a potentially strong and long-lasting friendship, it abruptly
ended. A traitor named Blue killed Cory before Cherry's pink eyes. The
Leaf Sannin gave Cherry his own heart which now resides within her
chest, having pushed its way through, sealing itself inside with the very
tendril threads Cory used to control. Now, Cherry seeks the killer named
Blue, wanting his death ingrained in her mind and his blood staining her
hands just as Cory's did.
Having heard of a Mist assassin trying to kill Blue, Cherry went to
investigate, finding Blue's apprentice, a Sand Genin who used puppets.
His name was Cory Lei, just like the Leaf Sannin Cherry had befriended.
They battled into a pause and agreed to go their separate ways, Cherry
now having an increased knowledge of puppetry and an incentive to train
harder to take down the Genin with Cory's name. Cherry returned back to
the Mizukage where she was finally assigned another team - with the
Mizukage as the sensei. After learning some techniques, she had a mock
battle with her teammate - and lost. It was then that Cory the Genin
appeared and Cherry unleashed her genjutsu abilities, making the Genin
burn and blister from fires so real but were actually illusions. After
showing him the pain she felt at Cory the Sannin's death, Cherry released
the genjutsu and the Mizukage took her to hospital. That day, she had
learned all the Genin techniques for wind jutsu. The next day, all of the
Chuunin techniques.
The day afterward, Cherry began taking missions, starting off with some
typical D-Ranked missions before given a C-Ranked where she was to
escort an individual to the fishing village near Kirigakure. They took a
cargo boat to the village but where soon attacked by pirates. Cherry took
the man she was to protect down under the deck while the crew handled
the pirates, used to being attacked. A pirate managed to get through and
found Cherry waiting at the bottom of the stairs. The pirate was over
confident and easily fell into her favourite Genjutsu, Beautiful Delusion
before she slit his throat and was covered in his blood as a result. Cherry
finished her mission and returned to Kirigakure.
Cherry was then placed under the tutelage of the Hunter Nin who had
killed Blue, mysteriously named Z, along with two other Genin, brothers
Hideki and Cody, puppet masters and able to use the ability of Iron Sand.
The Hunter Nin, seeing Cherry's curiousity to the head of Blue he had
brought to the Mizukage's desk, asked if she wanted to feel the pain Blue
went through after she had asked how painful Blues death was. Cherry
readily agreed and fell into the genjutsu which showed her Blue's pain and
felt released and refreshed from the experience, knowing her vengeance
has been appeased.
Sensei Z holds the ability to talks to ghosts and has one bound to him
named Ezio. Not long after they first met, he and Cherry began to know
more about each other and their own troubles with society. Then, another
squad appeared which held a rather clueless and uncaring girl named
Haruken. Cherry instantly felt a dislike to her and her ignorance and
attitude and confronted her. The result ended in Cherry feeling the
fracture of her mentality and the overwhelming strength of her other half.
Flames surrounded themselves around her and grew in strength, so strong
that even her sensei felt their heat. Cherry's father appeared and
demanded that Z kill his daughter, fearing her mentality would
permanently break and her other half would destroy Kirigakure.
Sensei Z denied the order and instead stayed by Cherry's side, talking to
her and helping her to gain back control over her own mind. The damage
was done however and her mind became rather frail for a while as she
remained in bed at her sensei's dojo. As she slept, Z trained his other
students, Haruken arriving and aggravating Cherry further, only causing
memories of pain and fire to arise when in her presence. When Cherry
was rested, Z took his squad on a mission to Sand, not giving them any
details but three masks and Cherry his cloak as she was still covered in
blood from the C-Ranked mission and they didn't want to attract attention.
Arriving in Sand, Z gave each student a note and told them to only open it
once they arrived at a nearby restaurant. They passed through the gates,
after having removed anything linking them to Mist. Arriving at the
designated building, they read their notes. They were to cause a great
disturbance. Cherry left the building, noticing someone watching the three
of them; a genin by her appearance. Cherry managed to create the signal
that started the mission and the two puppet wielders began destroying the
building with their puppets. Cherry stayed outside, keeping watch and
using her clan abilities to make the illusion of the flames engulfing the
building, stopping anyone else entering. While this was happening, their
sensei was actually impersonating a Cloud ninja and tried to assassinate
the Sand's Kage. When a Sannin arrived and started to attack the three of
them, they fled and Cherry dragged them away from the gates to retreat
back to Mist, not liking their situation, leaving their sensei behind.
Arriving back at Mist, Cherry jumped into the water at the dock, washing
away the blood and sand before retreating back to her sensei's dojo.
There, she stripped down to her underwear and dried the clothes and
cloak by the fireplace. Not long after, their came a knock on the door. Still
in her underwear, Cherry answered the door, cold, wet and only wearing
her underwear. On the other side was Tensai and Haruken of Squad Two.
Tensai was obviously embarrassed but had come to inquire about possible
Taijutsu training under Z's care. Haruken had come to apologise. Hideki,
seeing how tired Cherry was, brought out a roll-up bed for her by the fire
to rest and stay warm, even giving her his jacket to help.
Sensei Z returned to the dojo after resting at the hospital and gave Cherrya white cloak to wear instead of Hideki's jacket to help her stay warm. He
taught her how to create a paralyzing concoction out of the toxin from the
Puffer-fish and its antidote. Not long after, Cherry went to her household to
collect her belongings but was attacked by her uncle, nearly killed if not for
the intervention of her sensei. However, a strange man named Zaiaku
appeared and lured Cherry away to the forest where he implemented the
genjutsu of "Lust" on her and Cherry fell helplessly to its effects. He carried
Cherry off to the hospital where two members of the Akatsuki were located,
having invaded Mist, and asked Cherry to burn the hospital to the ground,
seducing her already succumbed mind with words of kinship and understanding
before stealing her first kiss. Cherry razed the Hospital to the ground before
being knocked out by an Akatsuki member.
Once unconscious, Cherry's other half appeared, going on to continue to burn
down the hospital when Zane finally arrived. The other half went away on its own
accord, leaving Cherry weak and feeble. Zane comforted her and revealed his
face to her, the trauma of Cherry's other half pushing Zane to finally reveal
himself in his haste to protect her. She was tended to before taken off to the
dojo by Zane to rest. During her slumber, Cherry's mother visited her, carrying
the sword which was only to be carried by the Kurama head. Cherry tried to
stop her when she awoke to see the sword sitting before her but was too weak.
By the time she managed to explain to Zane what the blade meant, it was
already too late and Cherry was then, by right, the Clan Head. Realising this,
Cherry took a vow and took on her family name of Kurama instead of
Yamazakura; her mother's maiden name.
Since taking on her new title, at the age of nineteen, Cherry went through
many trials. She had to deal with the death of her entire family by the
hands of her own mother and aunt, along with the subsequent destruction
of her family home, pushing away the only person she trusted in the
process. Outou rebuilt her home, a painful process that had her rage
surfacing every time an individual would step foot on her family's grounds.
But it was rebuilt in the end, though she decided to continue living with
Zane instead of moving into the new home. Outou soon fell pregnant to
Zane Hajime; her sensei, Mizukage, and the one whom she owed her life
to. The assassin, in turn, proposed. To this day the Kurama clan head now
goes by the name Outou Hajime.
After the destruction of Mist by the hands of Akatsuki, Outou stood by herhusband, comforting him as he took the blame for allowing harm to his
village. When Zane stepped down as Mizukage and retired, Outou
followed suit, her training as an upper-class house-wife allowing her to
take this new position in her life with relative ease. If it wasn't for the
birth of her twin sons, however, Outou doubted she would have been
able to make the transition quite as well. She is now twenty-seven
years old.
