A.N.B.U. Member Chen Chideta has shown no signs of defection or intent to cause any direct harm to Konohagakure. He is a quiet individual who seems to prefer the company of himself instead of others. I Dr. [Redacted] would classify him as highly introverted with a INTJ type personality. He prefers to think situations out instead of charging into them headfirst and on a personal note, he thoroughly thrashed me in a game of Shoji. I would recommend trying to force him to make friends soon however, no man is an island and his insistence on being alone is unhealthy.

Chen was what many would consider a prodigy of his time. He graduated from his Academy Class two years early and was promoted to Chunin at the age of 14. He routinely took B rank missions and the occasional A Rank with his Jonin Sensei when everything went wrong.

It was December 31st, he had just turned 17 that year and he was in Nami No Kuni on a job to protect a local bridge builder. He was repairing the famous Great Naruto Bridge like he did every year, but something was different this year. A Nuke-Nin defected from Iwagakure wanted to cut off trade between Konohagakure and Nami No Kuni. This Nuke Nin killed his teammates, his sensei and the bridge builder. The only reason Chen lived was because of his quick thinking which led to him hiding underneath his Sensei's body. Chen had left a young boy who was ready to take on the world, he returned as a scarred man who had seen how cruel the world truly was. He pushed himself harder than he ever had pushed himself before and quickly made Tokubetsu Jonin.

5 years passed, he now regularly lead Chunin out in the field of battle, there was talking of promoting him to Jonin. Chen was uninterested, he was content with being alone. He was leading a team of Chunin to Nami no Kuni. They had received Intel that a Nuke-Nin from Sunagakure had set up shop and was ruling over the locals with an iron fist. They arrived and a battle took place. Complications arose as it was revealed that it was both the Nuke-Nin from Suna and from Iwa, they had teamed up so they could avoid capture. Chen had two choices. He could retreat and fail the mission, possibly leading to the town being killed by these mad men. Or he could sacrifice his team of 4 Chunin, so he could save the town and secure their business in the future. He made the tough decision and came back to Konoha, minus 4 Chunin. He was made an A.N.B.U. in recognition of his superior tactical skills and he was given the moniker of Panther.

Chen uses his Kekkei Genkai to cause frostbite with every hit. Requires Chakra to actively use, as such it is not meant for long conflicts. He prefers to get into short and intense fights rather than long drawn out conflicts. He sometimes likes to use grabs to try and freeze and opponent solid but this requires a lot of chakra, so doesn't do this often, he will typically keep to a medium range while fighting.

Ice Release: Thousand Needles: Chen creates 1,000 needles and shoots them at his target. Requires water to use.
Ice Release: Weapon Creation: Chen can create various tools out of ice. (Note: Weapons made of Ice tend to be broken easily)
Ice Release: Blizzard Dragon: This technique creates a Dragon of Snow and Ice to crush the enemy. Large amounts of water are needed to use this technique.
Ice Release: Hiding Within Blizzard: This technique creates a blizzard in which Chen can hide in.
Ice Release: Birds of the Blizzard: Chen creates birds made of Ice which will attack the enemy. Chen does not need to manually control the birds.
Ice Release: Abomination of the Infinite Tundra: (It's a secret, I will PM @Blu about it though.

Water Release: Large Projectile: Chen spits a large mass of water from his mouth. Mainly used for survival purposes to create clean water.
Water Release: Gunshot: Chen kneads his chakra into Water and spits it out of his mouth as fast as a gunshot. Multiple small shots can be fired or one large shot.
Water Release: Tearing Torrent: Chen creates water that spirals in his hand and is shot out as a drill.
Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet: Chen forms a large body of water into a Dragon which collides with the enemy causing massive damage.

Wind Release: Wind Cutter: Chen uses his Chakra to make wind blades to shoot at the enemy.
Wind Release: Great Breakthrough: Chen creates a massive gust of wind to push or throw an enemy away.
Wind Release: Divine Wind: Chen creates several small tornadoes. He will typically combine this with Ice natured Chakra to create tornadoes filled with sharp ice.

He also has the fang marking of his clan on his cheeks.

Haru Inuzuka was born on July 7th to one of the branch families of the Inuzuka clan. He was an only child who was under the constant care of his grandparents as his own parents were active jonin who were always going off on missions. As a small child he always dreamed about becoming a ninja like his parents and even have a ninken of his own some day.

Soon the day came when he was accepted into the academy which was the proudest day for his parents minus the day that he graduated from the academy. On his first day of school, his father promised him that the day of his graduation he would get his own ninken as was the tradition for their branch of the clan instead of being given the dog during the academy. That was also the first time he met the people that would soon become his best friends in life even after they went their separate ways.

The first one he met was Katsumi whom he sat next to in the academy classroom though she was quiet for the first several weeks and did not speak to anyone. The other friend was a boy from the Yamanaka clan who was constantly challenging him to some competition or another in an effort to best him in some way but it never seemed to work as Haru always came out on top. This went on for the entirety of their academy time with Inotsu sometimes wearing on Haru with the constant challenges but Katsumi always bringing him back and keeping the friendship strong.

Once Haru graduated from the academy, he was presented with a puppy ninken which would become his partner from that day on. The day after his graduation was the day that he was given a team and was disappointed that he was not put on a team with Inotsu and Katsumi but knew that they would still be able to see each other when they were not on missions.

It took the genin twice to pass the chunin exams to embarrassment as it seemed that Inotsu and Katsumi had both passed on their first try and he felt like he was being left behind. He felt this way again once he found out that Inotsu had been accepted into the Anbu Black Ops and decided that he would work harder to caught up with his friend. Haru earned his nickname during this period when he gained a reputation for never letting a target escape his tracking stills which was always helped with the fact that he was always put into sensory teams for back up. Soon after a man named Nise Uyanagi approached him asking if he was interested in joining the Anbu which was quickly accepted.

Inuzuka Techniques:

• Beast Human Clone
• Dynamic Marking
• Fang Passing Fang
• Fang Rotating Fang
• Four Legs Technique
• Passing Fang

Earth Techniques:

• Tearing Earth Turning Palm
• Earth and Stone Bamboo Shoot
• Earth Corridor
• Tunneling Technique
• Earth Style Wall
• Earth Dome

Fire Techniques:

• Ash Pile Burning
• Phoenix Sage Fire
• Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson

Standard Techniques:

• Body Replacement
• Body Flicker
• Shadow Clone limit is 1

**This girl fades into the background often, which is quite a good trait for her line of work. Asuka is quite humble, very rarely is she the one to spark conversation with others if even at all. More times than not she can be found alone enjoying the peace of solitude and a hot cup of tea, and when it is absolutely necessary for her to be with others she doesn't make a fuss over it, though she does seem a little more uptight at these times. Another thing to note is that much like other members of her family she rarely shows expression, though some of the people close to her can drag a laugh out of the girl or even make her crack a grin.

**On the field, she is a good listener who takes orders without fail. Her quiet nature does not hinder her when communication is mandatory, she does not let her personality interfere with her duty. She's quite keen on keeping on following plans that are made, and 'will' often speak out if her colleagues stray from orders that have already been made. Asuka is a strict follower of the Shinobi Rules, it is programmed into her for the most part, though her emotions do sometimes spill out when the situation calls for it.

Asuka was born into the Mizumachi family on a hot summer day in June. It was in their tradition an ill-omen if the child showed any expression as a baby, so families isolated their children early on and gave them very little affection. Asuka was a fortunate child though, while her mother and father didn't give her much attention, a cousin Hikaru did. The small boy would visit often, playing with her during infancy.

This small gesture of love, resulted in a mostly normal girl who joined the Academy at a normal age and made friends pretty easily. Asuka was quite a tomboy during these early years, she was big-headed, mouthy, and rocked a short haircut. This phase passed early on however, and by the time she graduated and was placed on a team she was back to a comfortable level of normal, though still a bit big-headed.

A decent amount of missions later, Asuka and her team participated in the chunin exams, passing the first part with relative ease the team struggled during the second. The team lacked a leading figure and often bickered among eachother when they disagreed on something. At one point the three seperated, though eventually reunited and perservered.

It was during this time that trouble at home erupted. Her mother had fallen ill, and the family elder blamed Asuka's inability to follow the family tradition as its root cause. While her mother didn't entirely agree, she wasn't the type to speak against someone higher up in the family, and thus asked her to remain at home until she could rid herself of needless emotions. Rather than sit idle and sulk, she trained until the family would accept that she wouldn't follow through.

A little over a month passed before her mother finally kicked the bucket. Asuka felt that it was her mother's lack of willpower that actually did it, though it hurt her that they never came to an understanding. Her father couldn't stand to be around her, so he asked that she live with his brother and their family for a while. Though they were part of the same clan, her uncle was a supporter of pushing away the ideals of th3 clan. Hikaru had become a fine shinobi without them, and so would she.

Months passed and finally her father arrived demanding for Asuka to return to the main house. Asuka wouldn't stand for it, even saying that she was already a better ninja than he. Ridiculed and heartbroken, the father frowned for the first time in years before challenging his daughter. A challenge she foolishly accepted. Her father won by using only kenjutsu, and threw some salt in his daughter's wounds saying her mother would be ashamed. In the end her father offered to take her under his wing to teach her kenjutsu if she could just conceal her emotions, to maintain the family's image. Defeated and disheartened she felt it was her only option to accept.

Her cousin Hikaru often sparred with Asuka as a way to express her repressed emotions. Over the course of years her raw combat skill ramped up higher and higher, catchin the eye of Anbu whom could use good men and women. In the years escalating to what may be war, friends and family are visibly preparing for the worst. Asuka herself was now on the front, she had become a decorated Anbu with a lot of potential. Whose to tell what she'll learn and discover in the comimg future.

Canon Jutsu

*All Academy Jutsu*

Basic Techniques

• Body Flicker Technique
• Shadow Clone Jutsu
• Substitution Jutsu
• Time Reversal Technique
• Summoning Jutsu
• Temporary Paralysis Technique

Wind Release

• Spiralling Wind Ball
• Blade of Wind
• Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique
• Wind Release: Vacuum Blade

Water Release

• Water Clone Technique
• Water Prison Technique
• Water Bullet Technique
• Water Fang Bullet
• Water Release: Snake's Mouth
• Water Release: Water Formation

Custom Jutsu
Name of Technique: Diving Hawk
Type of Jutsu: Nintaijutsu
Rank: A
Range: Mid [Must be Airborne]
Nature Type: Wind + Water
Handseals: Tiger, Dragon, Bird
Description: The shinobi first flows chakra into their weapon, then while maintaining the chakra flow they must perform the handseals for this technique. Before using this technique they must jump at great height into the air, and while coming down at their enemy the chakra coating their weapon extends as a long cutting edge of water and is driven down at an accelerated speed causing a long guillotine-like attack.

Name of Technique: Bullet Hurricane Technique
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Short
Nature Type: Wind + Water
Handseals: Tiger, Dragon
Description: After performing the handseals, the Shinobi raises their hand to their mouth before firing a torrent of violently spinning Water Bullets at their enemy. When these bullets are broken, they erupt outwards causing a concussive blow in it's area.

Masuda, like many of his clan, appear to be cold, but in truth he is calm and warm person. He can always be seen smiling and teasing his teammates. His talkative is seen as odd by most, considering the clan he comes from, and many are taken aback after hearing him speak. Masuda is a very big optimist. He tries to find the light in every situation and can rarely be seen upset. He does have his mood swings, mostly with those who cross him. Masuda can hold a grudge like no other and getting even is one of his most important values to him.

Masuda was born into the Aburame clan on October 5th. As the custom goes in his clan, he was offered at birth to several special breed of insects to act as a nest. Besides the Kikaichū that most of his clan used he also had another layer of much smaller bugs know as the Rinkaichū. They were rare even among his clan and he was given some special treatment because of it.

When he entered into the academy he had surprisingly been very likable by many of the others. His bright and cheerful nature scared most at first but soon they all became accustomed to him. He had many friends and was a very average student. His most prominent quality was his optimism despite the brutal circumstances. He made many different friends and tired to be the best he could.

When he graduated from the academy, he was told about the Rinkaichū residing inside of him. At first he was upset for being shielded by this but soon he embraced his situation and learned to live with it. His father helped him learn to control the more independent bugs and soon he had mastered them like no other. He was a prodigy in one aspect, the study of bugs. Throughout the time he was with his squad he trained not only with the Kikaichū, but with his Rinkaichū too. Learning about the poison that the bugs produced and how he could apply it to his different techniques. He created strides in research about the bug and almost was able to create a cure for the poison.

It took him and his squad one try to pass the exams and soon after he worked hard in his research and missions. He earned his name the poison bug due to his usage of Rinkaichū in combat and their deadly effects. His stealth tactics and espionage knowledge, are what earned him a spot in the ANBU. Another thing was the creation of the cure for the poison that the Rinkaichū. He is the only know person to have the cure.

Masuda is a strong bug fighter. He prefers to fight at long rage and set up traps for his enemy to get caught in. He fights like most other stationary fighter, long distance and capturing the opponent dead or alive. The amount of bugs he has is vast, so much that he needs a gourd to carry some on his back. Most of the time you will see this is his main source for the Kikaichū. Masuda utilizes his stealth and spy tactics to avoid direct confrontation. Most of his traps use poison harvested from the Rinkaichū. When he does have to fight hand-to-hand he uses the Rinkaichū, he is not the best fighter, but he will hold his own, usually not having to fight long due to the side effects of his opponents touching the Rinkaichū while they are active.

Noraneko is a little bit of a tsunedere. On the outside she is cold, calm and collected. She tries not to speak much and when she does she speaks in a low pitched tone so people will take her more seriously. As the eldist daughter of several siblings and first in line sucessor to her clan she is often put under a lot of pressure. In many ways this is good as she preforms well under pressure but it does hinder her natural personality.

Her natural personality, which is something most people simply will not see, is a free spirit. She is lazy when she can be. Her sense of duty keeps her laziness in line but if she has nothing to do all day...she will do nothing all day. Her favorite hobby is napping. She adores cute things but actively and intentionally forces herself to hide this fact in her professional life. It is one of her most closely guarded secrets.

She says her favorite food is sashimi and while she love sashimi her favorite food is actually ice cream. This is one of many half truth's she tells about herself to most people.

Given the amount of stress she puts on herself she sometimes gets bogged down by depression. She complains a lot during these times and has a short fuse. It is the only time her shell "cracks" just a little and they get to see her true feelings. Unfortunately for the viewer those feelings are usually expressed in angst and rage.

Noraneko was born into the Mayonaka clan. For more information about what the Mayonaka clan is and its brief history see below.

Her father and mother were both Jounin of the Mayonaka clan. Her father,Mayonaka Akisume, died when she was only 4 years old and she is his only only child. Her mother, Mayonaka Tamari, re-married when she was six to Akisume's younger brother, Haruyama. This dynamic was somewhat political. The clan itself had seen some significant growth from a small clan of only a few families to now a larger clan of more than 30 adult members at the time. Her mother was actually the one that was the one next in line for the title of Okashira as she was the daughter of the former one. However Akisume was far stronger than her and Haruyama was second only to his brother. Upon Akisume's unexpected death during a high risk mission there was a split in the clan. Many in the clan felt that Akisume had been the true leader and so the next leader should be Haruyama. The other half felt that Tamari was the rightful leader. In order to avoid more conflict they both felt it best to reunite the clan.

As a young girl of only 4 she was unable to even begin to understand the complexities of the situation. All she had known was that her father had died and now her mother must marry her uncle. Being unable to accept this sudden replacement of her father so quickly she began to rebel. She did everything she could to try and stop the wedding. She stole the headdress from her mother (with great difficulty as it weighed nearly 20 kilos and she was only 4 years old). She tried to ruin the feast. She even painted the word "no" all over the location. This gained her the nickname within her family "Gaichu-hime" which means "the pest princess".

Despite her best efforts the wedding went off without a hitch more or less. She was confined to her room for the event and was allowed out only to eat if she had promised not to act up. Her life had changed greatly and yet it stayed the same. Haruyama sat in her father's chair, slept in his bed and used his bowl to eat. He brought many of his own things from his home and moved into her house. She had never disliked Haruyama before and still loved him as her uncle but she couldn't stand this thought of erasing her father. It took many many years before she ever called Haruyama "tousaan" rather than "jiisan".

Her training regimen was doubled and her mother and uncle agreed that it would be best if she was the one to take the title of Okashira for the Mayonaka clan. Because of this she excelled in school but this also began her split between who she really is and who she pretends to be.

Through the years she obtained three younger half siblings from her uncle, two sisters and a brother. The eldest of her siblings was a full 7 years younger than her and then the twins were born 9 years younger than her. With such a busy house she began to take on more and more responsibilities. Her mother had to do many important things as the official Okashira of her clan and her father worked tirelessly as a Jounin of the village to help the standings of the clan. The younger siblings often needed someone to take care of them and being so much older she became a second mother to them rather than a sister. Her days consisted of getting up early, making breakfast for her and her siblings, going to school, coming home to train, breaking to make dinner, going back for more training and then assisting her younger siblings to bed before she finally collapsed herself.

Through the years of this rigorous and constant effort in life despite her naturally lazy and haphazard personality she developed into a responsible adult. It was at the age of 12 that she graduated the academy as a gennin with her graduating class. She was the only female in her group and the two boys that were with her were Akimichi Chokuto and Hyuga Momiji. Both were prominent ninja that showed promise and came from old families with long lines of ninja history. At first there was a significant clash between...well all three of them.

Akimichi Chokuto was very very tall for his age and eventually grew up to stand over two meters tall. He was chubby but was leaner and more muscular than most Akimichi clan members. At the time he was an aspiring medical ninja with effective high damage taijutsu skills. When they first met he was about as hugable as a cactus and about as tactful as a drunk. Unfortunatly he rubbed people the wrong way quite a bit at this time and caused friction within the group at first.

Hyuuga Momiji was the opposite but just as bad. He was so self absorbed with his pride and arrogance that he could hardly say two words before you wanted to punch him in the face....which Noreneko has done on more than one occasion. Momiji had a complex of having to be the best at everything which conflicted with Noreneko's similar complex to also be the best at everything. It was a healthy rivalry with a rocky road and kindled hardship.

Thankfully their Jounin teacher Sagara Sorabi was as wise as he was old. He was easily in his 50's by the time they had come around but he was an effective teacher with many many decades of experience. He was a long pole fighter with advanced weapons manipulation. He also had amazing genjutsu abilities to supplement this. While he could use water and earth wind was his primary element. This came in handy when she found out her own primary element was wind. As a fate filled sense of irony so was her primary rival Momiji's primary element. Though she excelled more with weapons both of her teammates excelled in hand to hand combat. This made her the only mid-range member on her team.

At the age of 13 she had mastered several differnet Jutsu both taught to her, self discovered and brought down from her clan. Her eyes had begun to develop the ability to see in the darkness. Her ears are now hyper developed for sound. Her nose was almost as sharp as a ninja dog's and she had begun to develop her "chakra whiskers" as she called them. The real technique's name is Odayakana Ike but she had trouble with such a long name. Her wind element was coming into fruition and her own stealth techniques such as transparency and silent foot techniques were now second nature. With all of this as well as her two teammates by her side they took on the Chuunin Exams and all three managed to pass.

The chunnin exams were far less notable in her time than for many others. It was perhaps a bit of luck or just good timing but they didn't have to fight anyone of substantial strength till the final rounds of the last part of the exam. The most shocking thing that was that she had misindentified the strengths of her teammates. She knew she was on even terms with Momiji but she had mistakenly assumed that the two of them stood above Chokuto. She was not alone in this as both her and Momiji were shocked when Chokuto blew past them in the exams and took the first place in the finals of the last part of the exam. His medical skills along with incredible giant taijutsu and massive reserves of chakra from his fat storage made him fearsome. This was her first truly humbling experience

Shortly after all three gained the new Chuunin titles the group was split up. Sorabi-sensei had taken his retirement from the active ninja world and decided upon a far less demanding job of teaching at the ninja academy. She still to this day visits him and he enjoy's their visits. Chokuto went on to lead his own squad from there and became an instant star in the medic ninja community. The vision of a "support only" style of medic ninja was shattered by his aggressive tactics and strength. Momiji also went with a team that focused on recons and information gathering. As a Hyuuga his Byakugan was the height of sensory Jutsu and she shined at his new skills.

For the next few years she gained the interest of the anbu. It was at 14 years old that they first invited her to take a participation exam. Not much similarity could be found between this exam and the Chuunin exam. Firstly they asked most of the questions and the men in masks would ask her several questions under different conditions. She had apparently passed as they let her get through tot he second and third final stages. From there she was invited on several undercover missions based on stealth. In these missions there was always one or two Anbu black ops members on the team. They always watched her as if they were valuating her.

It took six months from the time she was first approached to the time she was actually granted membership into the Anbu black ops. Now at 15 years old she was given a red and white mask and that was what changed the least. All missions were now top secret. She was not allowed to share any information with her family and this caused tension between her and her mother. In fact she was told she was not allowed to tell her family at all that she was even Anbu. Her mother had gone and dug out that secret on her own.

On the day her mother found out about her Anbu status she came home to a full slap in the face and a long angry rant. Apparently her father had died on an Anbu mission. This information was never told to her as a child and her mother herself is an ex anbu agent. There ensued a long and vehement argument between her and her mother on the subject but eventually her mother gave in. Noreneko's face burned both from the anger she felt and the slaps to her face she had received.

She has been trained to be versitile but her major strengths lay in being highly stealthy. She has mastered transparency jutsu as well as quiet foot jutsu (explained below) that allow her to move nearly undetected. With her wind and fire jutsu she is able to hit close and mid range targets with ease. Using the wind to enhance her knife work is her signature calling card. Assasination, stealth and deadly quick kill shots.

She is armed to the teeth with kunai and similar blades. Her signature blade is a single kodachi. It resonates well with her wind chakra and can resonate well enough with her fire chakra. She has several seals around her body where she can summon her weapons. Most are on her arms or legs but there are a few on her torso.

She also has a large number of paper bombs as well. She often attaches them to her weapons but can apply them directly if needed. She has one large bomb that is actually a ball made up of several paper bombs. It looks as if it will make a huge explosion but rather it actually makes a smaller explosion that sprays dozens of paper bombs around the targeted area to be detonated later.

Stealth Techniques
- Transparency Jutsu
- Silent Foot Jutsu (Essentially it uses the concepts of charka in the soles of the feet to render the amount of sound created with movement to nearly zero. It also helps her speed and balance.
- Hiding in Shadow Jutsu

Wind Jutsu
- Wind Release: Wind bullet
- Blades of wind Jutsu
- Wind release: vacuum blade
- Wind release: great breakthrough
- Wind Release: Wind Dragon
- Enhancing bladed weapons with wind Chakra

Fire Jutsu
- Fire release: Flame bullet
- Fire Release: Flame Dragon
- Fire release: Flame Tiger bombing
- Fire release: flame blade

Blended Elemental Jutsu
- Wind Release: Fire Release: Blaze Wind Wild Wave

Other Jutsu
- Shadow Clone Jutsu
- Substitution Jutsu
- Clone Jutsu
- Shuriken Shadow Clone Jutsu
- Odayakana Ike

Genjutsu
Her genjutsu are given through the eyes. Her sleep genjutsu that traps the individual in a sleep like state is actually transferred scent.
- Sleep genjutsu
- Nightmare Genjutsu
- Basic Genjutsu

Her favorite animal is cats. Specifically tigers but all kinds of cats. She owns three cats herself but none of then are ninja related. She also has a koi pond in her back yard that she helped make when she was younger.

She is allergic to eggs and thus never eats them. She loves spicy foods but dislikes sour foods. She is the first ninja in her family to have blue eyes. They aren't significant in any way but it is an interesting development or old trait that has been passed down as a recessive trait. All of her siblings have brown eyes.

Her next to youngest sibling is her brother Kotaru. He is the most responsible after her and isn't as much trouble. However the twins (twin girls) are highly rambunctious. Their names are Nana and Mimi.

She has never been in love or had a relationship. However she had a mild crush on her old teammate Chokotsu for a short time.

Clan Name: Mayonaka

Key Traits: Jet black hair, typically slender with great senses and reflexes.

History:



Kekkei Genkai: Traits that are passed on would be eyes that are able to see well in darkness as well as highly adapted noses not unlike the Inuzuka clan.

Common Techniques:

I will keep it brief as he isn't a main character but just an NPC. He graduated in a normal way and growing up he wasn't ever really considered "talented". He was always far taller than those of the same age as him and he was always far more awkward and clumsy. He sucked at steal and even his now highly effective taijutsu has historically been very poor.

He lost many comrades through different events in his life and he even gave up being a ninja for a few short months before becoming a Jounin. Of all of the 9 graduates from his class he is the lone survivor. He has all of their headbands back at his home on a glass display case and he looks at them every day to remember the lives that he carries on his shoulders. Over his time as a ninja he has known even greater loss than the average. His first wife died shortly after their marriage. He never had children of his own and since his wife's death he has been unable to get close enough to anyone else to merit a relationship of that degree.

During today's time many people ask him why he chose to enter the Anbu corpse when he obviously had great abilities as a regular Jounin and focusing on the stealth would be a waste of his strength. The answer he always gives with a strait face is
"The masks looked cool." And then he gives them a smile and that is the end of it.

However his best friend growing up had a dream to enter the Anbu black ops. In fact it was not only his best friend's dream but his first love's dream as well. They were in his first team and it was after their deaths that he chose to enter the Anbu for them as neither had ever actually done so prior to falling in action. It is a pattern with his eight fallen brethren. He keeps their greatest dream written on a piece of paper that is hidden behind the metal in their headbands. Each one is a different dream he has to fulfill with his own life. A few of them have already been done. Here is the list.

Naomichi Kajiyama- Become the leader of the Anbu
Kichi Nishiwaki- Be considered a hero by his comrades and save the lives that would have been lost.
Kyuwa Fumihiko- Travel to each and every ninja village at some point.
Yukari Shibanuma- Create a one of a kind personal ninjutsu and make it your signature technique.
Mamoru Anzai- Become a first rate medic ninja and save lives even if you can't in combat.
Youhachi Inoue- Become popular with the ladies!
Oburozuki Ryuken- Become someone dependable that anyone can rely on. Not just in battle but in life. Emotionally, physically and mentally. A wise teacher, a comforting friend, an understanding onlooker.
Mariko Niijima- Overcome your inner demons. Never be afraid to live again. Be free of fear and learn to lough and laugh through all of the pain.

I won't go into each and every Jutsu that he knows except for the rare ones that he uses a lot.

Having an immense amount of physical strength and generally large size he excels in hand to hand combat. His taijutsu is now first rate and he packs a hell of a punch. What is beyond that is he can charge lighting chakra into his fists or feet if need be to increase his damage. He also has mastered the ability of turning part of his body into stone at will. This effect only lasts a few seconds and cannot be done on his whole body.

He has average ability with genjutsu but mostly used just to get through it or dispel it.

His grand ability to fight actually comes with his weapon. He uses two large bladed whip chains that he summons from a tattoo on his forearms. Each link in the chain can be manipulated freely by him so not only does it have any range needed but now it has free range of motion that can attack, bind or throw an enemy. With his superior strength he easily overpowers those that are caught in his web of chains.

He is also able to channel his chakra through the chains as well. With lighting he creates and incredibly powerful chidori style attack that envelops the free moving chain. With fire he is able to superheat the metal without them breaking and break through wind jutsu. Lastly he can use the earth to bind his chains in the ground and seal down an opponent if needed.

Last bit of extra awesome of his Jutsu is he has an a variant of the "shadow shuriken jutsu" where he is able to create additional links in his whip chains. With this ability he can essentially extend his chain at any link (even into multiple directions or different chains from the same link to make a web for example) up to any length.

Saki is painfully aware of how small and young she looks. In fact she is often mistaken for as young as 13. Despite this she is twice that age at 26 and has shown no signs of getting taller in the last decade. Her mother was very similar and even though she is over 40 years old she looks to be in her early twenties. This irrates the living fuck out of Saki. She wishes she were taller and she wishes people would give her the due respect she deserves. However she stands at only about 150 cm tall and has the face of a child.

Her personality is shaped by this appearance. She is quick to get angry about it and is highly self conscious. She feels the need to push her authority around those that are younger than her and she always is out to prove herself. Despite all of this she still tends to be a bit playful with pranks and snide comments about her fellows. As it were she has also developed a sort of sick and sadistic side. Her greatest joy in the world is being able to snipe an unsuspecting target from out of no where. Its not that she simply enjoys murder but rather its the sense of accomplishment and total victory over someone else. To her it is the epitome of her nindo.

Saki was born an only child to a family of ninja that don't really have a long or extensive history. She has always had a talent for being sneaky and stealthy. She has had no choice given her physical abilities. Both her father and mother are still alive and both have ever only made Chunin level ninja. Her mother is only about 45 but her father is 50. Despite that both are still active to this day as semi-retired ninja doing lower level missions just to keep their feet wet.

Starting back when she first became a genin her squad was often given the crap jobs. She was considered to be talentless and her two cohorts were not any better. She managed to unleash her wind chakra, which is still rather are in the village, and she blew past her two fellows in terms of ability. From there she managed to pass the chunin exams at the age of 15 and then reached Jounin at the humble age of 22. She went through several different teams as she advanced in the ranks and was invited into the anbu at the age of 19.

It was with her second master that she found her saving grace which was her long range combat with the blowgun. He instilled the confidence in her to allow her to keep moving forward despite not having a strong desire or goal to be a great ninja. Most of her life she had done it because her parents had done it and was more or less apathetic about surpassing them in strength. However when she saw the good she was able to do in the Anbu her attitude changed. The rush of getting a fresh kill off of a sniped shot while remaining hidden and safe from a counterattack is one of the most sadistically enjoyable things she has ever experienced.

As before I won't give a list of techniques unless NPC's gain more relevance in the story.

She uses wind jutsu and her rapid movements to give herself an advantage in hand to hand combat. Her main weapon in battle is actually a shorter than average ninjato with an amazing wind enhanced blade edge. Her swordplay isn't anything fancy but it is fully capable of slashing down enemies quickly.

Her claim to fame is her Fukiya Jutsu (blowgun). She as a meter long Fukiya with a tiny scope on the end of it. She can summon the weapon at will from a summoning tattoo in her palms. She has a sealing tattoo on her tongue as well. This allows her a pseudo-rapid reload technique where she can keep her Fikiya at the ready and can reload instantly from her tongue.

The attack itself has the longest range of any jutsu used by anyone else in the squad. In fact it is one of the longest range jutsu in the whole of the Anbu. She currently is the only one to have a pure sniper style jutsu that is capable of ending missions from the saftey of nearly a kilometer away. The wind jutsu she uses is a mixture of a spiral wind jutsu and a blast wind jutsu at the same time which causes the needle to be fired with a spiral at ultra high speeds. Its so fast that a normal person wouldn't even be able to see it and its comparable to a bullet. She is accurate within half a kilometer but the actual range is nearly double that. Lastly the needle itself is infused with wind jutsu all focused in a tiny spiral at the tip which allows it to drill through an inch of steel and still hit its target. It normally passed strait through the target leaving both an entrance and exit wound.

Ryuketsu is a tom boy through and through. She grew up with seven elder brothers and she had to fight for every grain of rice and for every moment of peace in her childhood. She is often considered beautiful and she doesn't dislike this but she would rather be feared than respected. She doesn't use a cute voice but rather a deeper raspy voice that commands respect and incites fear. She is quick to action and is rather hotheaded in personal interactions.

Despite her rough exterior she has a warm and soft center. She goes out of her way to defend her comrades and friends and would walk 10k miles to be by your side in a moment of need. To her there is nothing before family and all of her friends are her family. She will not hesitate to break the jaw of the first person to insult her family. She has gotten into a lot of trouble this way but it has made her strong as a person.

She has a foul mouth and let out profanities as easily as she breaths. I don't think there is a single thing "ladylike" about her aside her pretty face.

Growing up the youngest out of eight with seven older brothers makes life tough for a little girl. She learned quickly you have to use all your weapons. She was feisty even as a toddler as she learned to bite rather early. She still bites to this day if she has too. Even with everything that she had to deal with at home with her gang of older brothers if anyone was ever mean to her at school or anything similar her brothers were on them like a yakuza gang.

A single incident that comes to mind most vividly was when she was about 7 years old. She had wrote a little love letter to a boy she liked but the boy showed it to the rest of the kids and ripped it up in front of her at the playground. The boy was two years older than her and in all honestly probably shredded it to cover up his own embarrassment. It didn't matter though. She ran home in tears and in half the time it took her to get home five of her seven older brothers had arrived on the scene. The two eldest sat it out as they were at least 12 years old and graduated ninja. The five younger ones that were still in the academy however beat the snot out of all the boys on the playground. why all of them? They rushed out in such a vehement rage for what had happened to the little sister that they never stopped to listen to which one it was exactly. But being a family of problem solvers they simply beat up all of them to make sure. The rest was just a preemptive warning to the rest of the little bastards.

Much of her childhood was like this and a lot of it was also getting her older brother's hand-me-downs. Over time she began to take pride in this and grew stronger because of it.

Skipping a few years ahead it wasn't until she met the captain Kumogachi that she decided to move into the Anbu. She had been a jounin since the age of 18 but didn't join the Anbu till the age of 21. She has been with Captain Kumogachi the longest and the only one out of his squad that had ever known him prior to him joining the Anbu.

Over time three of her brothers had died in combat. Four of them still live and she has a plethura of little nieces and nephews numbering no less than 15 ranging between the ages of less than a month old to twelve years old.

Same story as the ones previous.

She is a highly taijutsu based combatant. She uses her fire and earth elements to supplement her bare knuckle style approach to fighting. She has next to no long or mid range distant ninjutsu and so focuses almost entirely on close combat. Her strength is unreal and second only to the captain's in this squad. She isn't anything like how Tsunade was but perhaps close to Sakura but with higher speed. She has mastered the ability to release a blast of chakra at moment of impact with her fists to drastically increase the damage output.

She also prides herself in her great grappling abilities. It is here she is able to use her incredible strength and flexibility to literally rip enemies limb from limb. She has learned to twist joints and hold people in locks. This is a skill she developed from wrestling with her brothers all her life.

Despite her simplistic approach to combat she is quite impressive and incredibly useful.

He is usually rather quiet. His mind is a trap that no one can seem to unspring. He mostly lies but they are innocent lies... or so we think. He never lets onto what it is that he is truly thinking. He has been under investigation on several different occasions but always acquitted. His smile is like death and his voice sounds like a nightmare.

Creepy. Creepy creepy creepy. That is what he is to most people. However he isn't this way to everyone. In fact Kumogachi fricking adores him. He finds his attempts to be deceptive borderline cute. He pushes people away usually as a defense mechanism because in all actuality he doesn't have a lot of self confidence. He is constantly surprised if he is able to do something right and he is best at what he does because, in his words, "fear is what I know best."

He is not a strong combatant so he must make up for his shortcomings in differnet ways. However he is always aware of his shortcomings. He worries a lot and puts a lot of stress on himself.

Akumu comes from a less than spectacular family and can be considered probably the best to have come out of his family in generations. He is an only child that was born to two parents, only one of which was a ninja (his father, and the other was a painter by trade (his mother). His early life was spent trying to decide if he would take the path of the ninja or if he would take the path of an artisan of some kind. He didn't really feel that he has the fortitude to be a ninja as he wasn't as fast or as skilled as the other children when they played "shinobi" with paper throwing stars and games such as "chance the devil". But with a bit of prompting from his father he had a "what do you have to loose" sort of attitude about the whole thing.

During his first years of school he found that he was rather dreadful. He faced a fair amount of bullying during his time but he didn't give up. Rather it made him an introvert who wasn't fully capable of seeing his own strength as other seen it. His image of himself had forever been damaged by the cruel things that was said to him at school.

Though in the long run it didn't actually hamper his sucess as he graduated in the middle of his class at the age of 12 to become a genin. He didn't gain the title of chunin however till the age of 18. His lackluster physical skills in both ninjutsu and in taijutsu constantly were at his hindrance. However his genjutsu prevailed to great heights. Even during his years as a simple student his genjutsu was rather powerful and difficult to break. It was not taught to him until much later in life on how to use his genjutsu and moreover how to unlock the secrents of genjutsu.

A master of his who trained him the year prior to becoming a Chunin taught him that the essence of genjutsu is literally mind control. You get inside someone's head and you mess around with it. Akumu who had gotten good at getting into the minds of people and finding their fears managed to excel in a new skill. It was the skill of interrogation. He joined the Anbu specifically to be on the interrogation squad and he quickly made a name for himself. His skills were horrifying and baffling at the same time. He was the first to be able to do what he does in recorded history of the village. (will reveal down below)

While his actual combat skills were still rather low he gained Jounin rank with respect to his other skills. Though he was recently told that he needed to get out and experience the real combat more before he could advance as a person in the Anbu. So this has let him to being assigned to the Kumogachi squad. This first mission was just shortly after the first month of joining the squad. It was his first assasination mission and he has yet to kill very many people.

He is nearly a pure genjutsu user. He can cast genjutsu with visual, auditory and olfactory receptors. If he can ever get in physical contact with a person his genjutsu becomes nearly unbreakable.

In actual combat he works best with someone else. He either casts quick but weak genjutsu on people to give his comrades an advantage or he has the comrades set up him to be able to make physical contact to set in his most powerful mind controling genjutsu.

The powerful mind controling genjutsu actually is a two phase jutsu that first puts the victim into a state of near sleep or hypnosis. From there he can alter their brain activity to either force them into a dreamlike state where he can probe around in their subconscious or he can do his most fearsome skill, implanting memories that feel just as vivid as real memories. With that skill no victim can even tell what is real and what isn't. For some it causes insanity. For others it makes them perfect puppets to force them to do his bidding. What is worse is that these implanted memories don't seem to go away once normal genjutsu are broken. In fact even for skilled genjutsu users separating what is false memories and what are real is nearly impossible.

The downside to the false memory jutsu is that it takes time. It takes a lot of time. For him to totally brainwash someone it would take upwards of three days for a resistant individual.