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Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

Are you guys still taking applications, by chance?

@Odin

We are, in fact!

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

The single issue of being primarily discord based 😂

@DirtyDingo

Lol, mayhaps we should use the OOC for... something... I don't know. Thread meme dump?

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

Just a minor fun bump for no particular reason.

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

Team Mitsuyo

Hana Bohi, Genjin Kani, and Kuroki Kyuusagi

"You're late!"

"Egh?!? Like five minutes!"

"You're always five minutes late! Every year! Do you not tell time?!?"

"Eeeeh?!? Well, it's tradition then! Get off my back!"

Before Hana had a chance to lunge at Kuroki, Genjin stood and bowed, "We are honored to have you hear again, Kuroki-san."

Genjin's politeness seemed to take the wind out of Hana's sails and she sunk cross-legged onto the ground. It was their tradition every year to climb to the top of the monument and celebrate the next generation. Hana and Kuroki fighting over Kuroki's tardiness was just the same, a tradition from when they were all very young and new, from when they were together, and not Hana, nor Genjin, nor Kuroki would ever relinquish what they had left.

"Ts. I brought the booze. Best stuff that Ichiraku had. Real expensive. Cost a lot", said Kuroki, one hand in his pocket, the other taking out a bottle of what looked like a bottle of unfiltered sake that Kuroki would have never been able to afford. From his pocket, he removed six small shot glasses, three of which he threw in the air. In an instant, Hana had shattered them with pebbles from the ground.

"Sloooow. What? Ain't got enough naughty kids to throw stuff a-" something hit Kuroki in the back of the head. One of the pebbles had ricocheted off a tree right into his skull. He gave a smirk and so did Hana and he took a seat next to Genjin. As he passed out the remaining shot glasses, Genjin and Hana looked out over the whole village. Kuroki popped open the bottle and poured generously into the glasses and raised his own to the sky.

"To the kids", he proclaimed, "May they learn real strength" and drank his shot. Now it was Genjin's turn.

"May they honor their way", and he downed his shot. He did not drink often and cleared his throat a little as the burning liquid made its way down it. It was Hana's turn now.

"May they never know war", she said happily and, not to be outdone, swallowed the drink whole. Hana, unfortunately, never drank at all and almost instantly felt the liquor going to her head. She didn't even notice how tense Genjin became after her wish for peace. But Kuroki did and he refilled all their glasses.

"KANPAI", Kuroki yelled and raised his glass!

"KANPAI", Hana followed with a shakier, "K-kanpai", from Genjin at the end. The second glass went down a little easier than the first, but Hana had lost her balance and was lying on her back looking at the sky. And yet Genjin didn't seem loose enough for Kuroki's liking. He threw an arm over Genjin's shoulder and said quite loudly, "So, you hooking up with any cute girls?"

Genjin looked as if he'd been struck by lightning, he was a solid metal rod, "N-no, K-kuroki-san. I am n-not... hhh... I am not hooo... I am not seeing anybody."

"You're too cute" said Hana from the ground towards the air, "You should have a girlfriend!"

This did not seem to help Genjin's state at all and he poured himself a glass of sake this time and , "ahem"ed.

"I know! I should introduce you to some girls I-"

"N-no! No... that's... quite-"

"Yeah! Do it Hana! This guy needs to get laid!"

Kuroki's crude comments did little to endear him to the now quite tipsy Hana, who pushed herself a little more upright and gave him a hazy side-eye, "He NEEDS to have someone to take CARE of him! He needs a girlfriend, you... unsavory character!"

Genjin was rapidly turning a bright red and Kuroki loudly laughing wasn't helping any. Hana didn't seem to enjoy being laughed at either and the two fell to arguing. It was a little like old times, but as the sun shown down on them so too did the wind blow. And with that wind there was so much change.

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

Misaki Mori

"Challenging me? Really? You must really like getting crushed underfoot."

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"My apologies, Mori-san. It is dangerous to kick so close to me for someone like you." Misaki's eyes glowered at Hiro's cold calm expression with its opposite, blinding inarticulate fury. Except for the shaking, she couldn't move. The most she could accomplish was a snarl from the effort. Come on! Get up! Get up! Her mind screamed at her body, but it would not listen and her voice caught in her throat. She hadn't realized she wasn't breathing and the sound that came out was hoarse and haggard. She tried to yell, she tried to move, she willed her lips to move, willed her lungs to just... pump air. MOVE! COME ON!!! Her leg moved, but it couldn't support her weight and she fell before she had even reached a squat. Her legs... her weapons... her wings... He'd broken her in a single blow. He did not even see her rage. He had not even looked at her at all. She couldn't imagine hating anyone more. And the worst part of it was Jin, jumping out of nowhere, a final indignity. F-fight on her behalf?!? JIN?!? Like she was some helpless girl all over again, like she was just... a piece of garbage-Just back in and out of hospitals, sick and afraid. How dare he take her defeat from her! 'I'll kill you! I'll KILL you!', she screamed in her mind but "Rrragh!, is all she managed to choke out with the fury and effort pushing tears out of her eyes. Hiro didn't even look. His hand remained held out for her, if she could even raise her hand to meet his. Was this it? Was all her training for nothing? "That will be quite enough", said a very manly voice. Misaki tried to turn her head to look and... she saw that the voice had come from... c-come from an enormous duck with billowy head feathers! What was this?!? Th-that couldn't be their jounin! Was this some kind of joke?!? "If you are to be a team, it's time you began acting like one. Fall in", it continued. It was now that Misaki noticed the man sleeping on the creature's back. He was wearing a strange red robe and holding a giant mallet, which, despite its immense size, he only gripped loosely and lazily. It couldn't be as heavy as it looked if he was holding it so casually in his sleep. It was some trick. He was awake. He was just pretending to be asleep. Misaki relaxed her neck back to looking at Hiro's feet and then slowly back up towards his face. He was looking at the duck. He bowed and said, "Welcome. Are you or that man Kamoji-sensei?" The duck lowered its head and waddled over to the small nearby pond where it then dumped the man on his back into the water and hung his duckly head in shame. The man with the hammer splashed around and made noises that seemed more appropriate for the giant duck to have made. By the time he had hopped out of the pond, he seemed to have regained a kind of ease, as if he'd fallen in the pond intentionally. His laziness seemed to infect the way he walked too; it was something between a salesman's swagger and a drunkard's stagger and you could describe the smile on his face the same way. "Hey kids, I'm Kamoji, your sensei! And uh... this is your first day as real ninja, huh?" He looked the three of them over. Hiro was giving the strange man with the hammer his full attention. Jin had ventured closer, fireworks spiraling out of control behind him, one barely missing his head. Misaki still sat right on her butt and shook angrily. Her breathing was a little more regular again, but she didn't hazard to stand. When she tried, she felt nauseous and she still couldn't stop shaking. Well, apparently the hammer man took note of her miserable state because he was waddling right over to her. What else could go wrong? "You must be Miiiisomething. Your name's too long, I'm gonna call you Misa", he said with a dismissive yawn. "Sensei, there is an explanation for th-", Hiro interjected only to be cut off. "What kid? I can't hear you. You're talking too stupid. Looks like a Hyuuga did this. Don't know where that wrongdoer may have gotten to, would ya? Didn't think so, now get out of the way so I can put my hands on her while she can't struggle too much", he said brushing right past the frowning Hyuuga. As the man rounded in on her Misaki's eyes nearly popped out of her head and she desperately tried to force her legs to work... But all she succeeded in doing was falling to her stomach. She tried to worm away. "Y-you can't do that, sensei! It's... It's wrong! Don't make me have to defeat you, and on the first day", said Jin getting into a fighting stance, "For the word of a Kani is as strong as the shell of a crab! UNBREAKABLE!" "Myahmyah", said the man, "Jin... Nice and short. Just stay out of the way, short stuff, and let me get on the job already" But it was Hiro's hand that went to stop him and with an extended palm, he reached for him, "Sensei, I must insist-" But the palm touched nothing. The man was already kneeling by Misaki as she struggled to get away and he wiggled his fingers and laughed before plunging them... right into her back, just below Misaki's shoulder blades. The feeling was indescribable. It was like she had never had a breath until just that moment. Her back arched and she took a deep breath, her head was so light she could barely keep her eyes from crossing and her mouth just wouldn't close, so good did it feel just to breath! Kamoji sat right on the ground next to her while Misaki writhed about on the ground and said, "You look loaded, kid. That'll be seventy ryo"

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

Remi Haruno

"Ah... Don't you think the world will be a little brighter without you in it?"

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It was quite the week! Remi had almost gotten over the disappointment of not being assigned on a team with his beloved Rina when suddenly he'd found himself with no team at all! And how odd... Perhaps life was just like that and it was better to just float on the wind like a leaf. Leaf? No... Like a cherry blossom after bloom. Oh, how lovely the sky was after the festival every year... little pink petals floating in the sky like dreams and wishes. And with those wishes, with those dreams, there went too the hopes of the village. Festivals were important like that. Remi consoled himself that perhaps he too was important like that. After all, the day had a nice cool wind and he was floating along to where he was supposed to be, a new genin carrying with him the wishes and dreams of all the shinobi that had gone before him. He gave a chuckle, put his hands behind his head, and looked up at the clear blue sky. That's right! There was no time to pout! Everyone's hopes were riding on him! He thought about his father and mother, his sisters, how they'd all seen him off on his first day, remembered the graduation party. They all believed in him! And he knew deep down that some day Rina would believe in him too. The thought was heartening. Why... who knew who his new team would be? Maybe she'd be on it! He daren't dream. The crushing disappointment would shatter his fragile heart. No, it was better to suffer under the assumption that they would be separated for now, merely another chapter of pining that would one day blossom itself into the flower of maturity. W-why, h-he preferred it this way, of course! So wrapped up was he in his own thoughts, that he didn't even realize it when he'd arrived at the gates, his reverie ended. Oddly enough, Yue was there! Would they still be on a team? But there were far too many shinobi for that to be certain. With Remi, that made four and that was one two three four many! But one too many for a team, sadly. "Ohaiyo", Remi called out to them and waved a hand. Yue seemed to pretend not to notice, but he noted with a giggle that her pursed lips suggested that she had, "Have I missed anything important?"

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

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✖ ‖ N a m e

Remi Haruno

✖ ‖ A g e / B i r t h d a y

12 / April 11

✖ ‖ G e n d e r

Male

✖ ‖ B o d y T y p e

"I have a dancer's build."

✖ ‖ V i l l a g e

Konoha

✖ ‖ C l a n

N/A

✖ ‖ F a m i l y

Father: Kozu Haruno
Mother: Mabiki Haruno
Siblings: Juri, Ruri, Nuri, and Mana (all sisters)
Others: Saukra Haruno (cousin)

✖ ‖ R a n k

Genin/Team 7

✖ ‖ T i t l e s / N i c k n a m e s

The Delicate Flower

✖ ‖ P e r s o n a l i t y

Upbeat and friendly, Remi is chatty and social-minded. Having grown up with so many sisters, he's a bit more comfortable talking to girls than other guys and his tastes are a little more feminine than most. He's poetic, a little self-centered, and is known to be charming, especially to adults and the elderly. He is extremely vain and can't stand the idea of appearing ugly or even ungraceful. He can be a little presumptuous about other people and even pushy, at times, though he rarely means to impose. At his heart, though, he's not as care free as he seems and will fight to defend his friends. He has had a huge and very obvious crush on Rina Uchiha since as long as he's known her.

✖ ‖ L i k e s

✖ - Rina Uchiha
✖ - Flowers
✖ - Beauty
✖ - Dancing
✖ - Social gatherings
✖ - Poetry

✖ ‖ D i s l i k e s

✖ - Ugliness
✖ - Slights to his vanity
✖ - Stew (He views this as a particularly ugly food)
✖ - Any injury to his face
✖ - Being disliked

✖ ‖ N i n d o

"To champion the beautiful over the ugliness of the world, to show others that beauty and show them their own beauty, that is my ninja way!"

✖ ‖ B i o g r a p h y

The youngest of several girls and the only boy, Remi got a lot of attention and he reveled in it. He loved to play with his sisters and was a ham, even when he was just a baby. Beloved and happy, despite growing up in the middle of the war. His parents did quite a bit to keep the effects of the war away from the family, even though they and his eldest sisters were participating in it. It wasn't until he was four that he had his first experience of it, when his father came home injured, bleeding from his shoulder and head. Though bandaged, he developed a fever and had to be taken to the hospital.

Visiting his father there, he saw all the other casualties of the war. Lying in their beds, they all seemed so... so helpless. And the blood and disease... it was all so ugly. How could there be so much ugliness in the world? It was then that he decided to be a ray of light, a champion of beauty. When he joined the academy, he found that, while not so naturally strong as other boys, he had a gift for grace, for precision, for chakra control. He could move well and easily and medicine became a firm interest for him as well as fuinjutsu. Altogether, he was popular and his gabby personality made him many friends.

But there was one person for whom he gravitated the most... a girl named Rina. When he first met her, she seemed so pained, so sad, so sullen, he wanted her to be happy. Because... she was so beautiful. Why should she be so sad? And though his many attempts to woo her seemed to fall flat, he was determined that one day, he'd succeed. Some day.

✖ ‖ N a t u r e s

Wind/Water

✖ ‖ T a l e n t s

-He can use most weapons
-Ambidextrous
-Very good dancer
-Can cook elaborate meals (but not practical ones)
-Gardening
-Hairstyling
-Perfuming
-Trained in medical techniques
-Chakra control
-Very good with basic clones and illusions

✖ ‖ J u t s u

-Unsealing Technique: A technique used by shinobi to unseal what was sealed within a scroll or a sheet of paper.
-Enclosing Technique: Using this technique, a wide variety of objects and even living things can be stored within scrolls, and can be released when the scroll is opened or meets a specific condition. It is possible to seal ninjutsu into a scroll.
-Cherry Blossom Revealing: A practiced method of unsealing and resealing a pair of scrolls Remi keeps in his robes, which allows him to quickly summon or unsummon weapons stored within them. When a new weapon is summoned, a flurry of cherry blossom petals flies out as well, creating a pretty distraction.
-Cherry Blossom Fist: A taijutsu style that is both beautiful and graceful. Through this style, Remi has practiced most weapons and weapon types. He is much less skilled in the hand to hand aspects of the style.
-Cherry Blossom Flurry of Illusion: Remi creates several clones with a flurry of cherry blossom petals, and they rush around the opponent before charging the enemy at different times, making it extremely difficult to tell when the real attack is coming. Sometimes supplemented with thrown shuriken, kunai, and senbon, making it extra confusing.

✖ ‖ W e a p o n s A n d T o o l s

Basic medical kit, two scrolls which contain the following each:
-straight sword
-three sectional staff
-spear
-spiked club
-chain whip
-daikatana
-two-section staff
-monk's spade
-metal claw
-wakizashi
-a dozen senbon (sent out at once when unsealed)

✖ ‖ F i g h t i n g S t y l e

Versatile, graceful, and ever-changing, Remi stays on the move and makes copious use of basic clones while often changing weapons and duel-wielding even large weapons. He is graceful and quick on his feet, knowing how to stay at the proper range while confusing the enemy. He's unlikely to engage in very close range, but revels in finding good and different angles with which to press his attack. Not having any large moves, he's much more evasive than most, which serves him well when he's attending to a fallen ally. He is surprising.

✖ ‖ T h e m e S o n g

Will think of something later

✖ ‖ P l a y e d B y

Desdamin

Des's Character Profile Repository/Test Threaad

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✖ ‖ N a m e

Remi Haruno

✖ ‖ A g e / B i r t h d a y

12 / April 11

✖ ‖ G e n d e r

Male

✖ ‖ B o d y T y p e

"I have a dancer's build."

✖ ‖ V i l l a g e

Konoha

✖ ‖ C l a n

N/A

✖ ‖ F a m i l y

Father: Kozu Haruno
Mother: Mabiki Haruno
Siblings: Juri, Ruri, Nuri, and Mana (all sisters)
Others: Saukra Haruno (cousin)

✖ ‖ R a n k

Genin/Team 7

✖ ‖ T i t l e s / N i c k n a m e s

The Delicate Flower

✖ ‖ P e r s o n a l i t y

Upbeat and friendly, Remi is chatty and social-minded. Having grown up with so many sisters, he's a bit more comfortable talking to girls than other guys and his tastes are a little more feminine than most. He's poetic, a little self-centered, and is known to be charming, especially to adults and the elderly. He is extremely vain and can't stand the idea of appearing ugly or even ungraceful. He can be a little presumptuous about other people and even pushy, at times, though he rarely means to impose. At his heart, though, he's not as care free as he seems and will fight to defend his friends. He has had a huge and very obvious crush on Rina Uchiha since as long as he's known her.

✖ ‖ L i k e s

✖ - Rina Uchiha
✖ - Flowers
✖ - Beauty
✖ - Dancing
✖ - Social gatherings
✖ - Poetry

✖ ‖ D i s l i k e s

✖ - Ugliness
✖ - Slights to his vanity
✖ - Stew (He views this as a particularly ugly food)
✖ - Any injury to his face
✖ - Being disliked

✖ ‖ N i n d o

"To champion the beautiful over the ugliness of the world, to show others that beauty and show them their own beauty, that is my ninja way!"

✖ ‖ B i o g r a p h y

The youngest of several girls and the only boy, Remi got a lot of attention and he reveled in it. He loved to play with his sisters and was a ham, even when he was just a baby. Beloved and happy, despite growing up in the middle of the war. His parents did quite a bit to keep the effects of the war away from the family, even though they and his eldest sisters were participating in it. It wasn't until he was four that he had his first experience of it, when his father came home injured, bleeding from his shoulder and head. Though bandaged, he developed a fever and had to be taken to the hospital.

Visiting his father there, he saw all the other casualties of the war. Lying in their beds, they all seemed so... so helpless. And the blood and disease... it was all so ugly. How could there be so much ugliness in the world? It was then that he decided to be a ray of light, a champion of beauty. When he joined the academy, he found that, while not so naturally strong as other boys, he had a gift for grace, for precision, for chakra control. He could move well and easily and medicine became a firm interest for him as well as fuinjutsu. Altogether, he was popular and his gabby personality made him many friends.

But there was one person for whom he gravitated the most... a girl named Rina. When he first met her, she seemed so pained, so sad, so sullen, he wanted her to be happy. Because... she was so beautiful. Why should she be so sad? And though his many attempts to woo her seemed to fall flat, he was determined that one day, he'd succeed. Some day.

✖ ‖ N a t u r e s

Wind/Water

✖ ‖ T a l e n t s

-He can use most weapons
-Ambidextrous
-Very good dancer
-Can cook elaborate meals (but not practical ones)
-Gardening
-Hairstyling
-Perfuming
-Trained in medical techniques
-Chakra control
-Very good with basic clones and illusions

✖ ‖ J u t s u

-Unsealing Technique: A technique used by shinobi to unseal what was sealed within a scroll or a sheet of paper.
-Enclosing Technique: Using this technique, a wide variety of objects and even living things can be stored within scrolls, and can be released when the scroll is opened or meets a specific condition. It is possible to seal ninjutsu into a scroll.
-Cherry Blossom Revealing: A practiced method of unsealing and resealing a pair of scrolls Remi keeps in his robes, which allows him to quickly summon or unsummon weapons stored within them. When a new weapon is summoned, a flurry of cherry blossom petals flies out as well, creating a pretty distraction.
-Cherry Blossom Fist: A taijutsu style that is both beautiful and graceful. Through this style, Remi has practiced most weapons and weapon types. He is much less skilled in the hand to hand aspects of the style.
-Cherry Blossom Flurry of Illusion: Remi creates several clones with a flurry of cherry blossom petals, and they rush around the opponent before charging the enemy at different times, making it extremely difficult to tell when the real attack is coming. Sometimes supplemented with thrown shuriken, kunai, and senbon, making it extra confusing.

✖ ‖ W e a p o n s A n d T o o l s

Basic medical kit, two scrolls which contain the following each:
-straight sword
-three sectional staff
-spear
-spiked club
-chain whip
-daikatana
-two-section staff
-monk's spade
-metal claw
-wakizashi
-a dozen senbon (sent out at once when unsealed)

✖ ‖ F i g h t i n g S t y l e

Versatile, graceful, and ever-changing, Remi stays on the move and makes copious use of basic clones while often changing weapons and duel-wielding even large weapons. He is graceful and quick on his feet, knowing how to stay at the proper range while confusing the enemy. He's unlikely to engage in very close range, but revels in finding good and different angles with which to press his attack. Not having any large moves, he's much more evasive than most, which serves him well when he's attending to a fallen ally. He is surprising.

✖ ‖ T h e m e S o n g

Will think of something later

✖ ‖ P l a y e d B y

Desdamin

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

Yue Nara

"Stop... being alive. It's embarrassing."

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"What's this." "It's nutritional porridge. It's an old recipe, which I improved with some of the herbs and flowers from the garden." Yue lifted a spoon of it and watched the thick herb-scented mush fall of her spoon back into her bowl. "It's your day to report in and you never know what your village may be asking of you. I hope you've been reading those shinobi instructional books we bought for you! You've got to make a good first impression", Yue's mother explained and dutifully spooned some of her own mush into her mouth. Yue didn't follow suit and her mother frowned slightly. "Hm..., Yue replied, stirring the unappetizing goop around suspiciously. Over the course of the past week, her mother hadn't let her out of her sight. She'd dragged her around shopping for ninja gear, for new clothing, to meet the parents of her team members. She'd even been dragged around the entire village looking for the jounin instructor to make an introduction, which ended with her instructor very gently brushing them off. Of course this morning she'd received a letter telling her that she had been removed from her team and told to report to the village gates while everyone else would be meeting their team. Yue was sort of relieved. She couldn't imagine how she'd have been able to look anyone on her former team in the eye after having been paraded around the entire village. Yue's mother had taken it less well. "I just don't know how they could have changed your team at the last minute. That's a sign of inadequate organization, in my opinion", she said, "I should like to issue a formal complaint. As a parent, how am I supposed to prepare my child for life as a shinobi if I'm given... INACCURATE DATA!?!" Yue's dad chuckled and yawned and slipped Yue a bag of dumplings under the table with his toes while Yue's mother was cleaning a plate. He had very articulate toes, something he'd developed from spending so much time lazing about in a hammock. Yue hid it expertly inside her jacket and stood straight up. "I... need to head out...", she announced and began walking mechanically away from the table. "Your porridge", her mother called. "I should get their early and make a good impression", Yue replied mechanically, without stopping or turning. Just a few more feet to the door... "Hm... Well, at least pick up some fresh fruit on the way! You should not be hungry for... whatever they will be having you do", but Yue was already gone. She waited until she was well in the middle of the village proper before she snuck a dumpling out of the bag in her jacket and took a bite. It was a busy sunny day, but Yue didn't take the time to notice. Her mind was racing, now that she was finally alone. Sure she'd been agitated about her previous team, Remi and Chotzu would probably have been her last pick for teammates, but being taken off the team? Given nothing? What was this? She supposed that if she was meeting at the village gates, it was because they were leaving the village. Was it a mission? Could be. She was one of the few genin who could be classed as a sensor and even had some medical training. Perhaps she'd been reassigned for those skills. It made as much sense as anything else. But if they were willing to take fresh genin and put them on a real mission... The last time something like that had happened was during the war. She furrowed her brows and stuffed an entire dumpling in her mouth. This the situation was so suspicious. Had anyone else been summarily reassigned this way? What if no one was? Maybe she wasn't going to be reassigned at all. Maybe they were exiling her. Did that happen? She didn't know. She supposed if people were exiled, no one would talk about it... But that was silly, wasn't it? Why would they exile her? She hadn't done anything illegal. Her grades were fine. They wouldn't exile her without exiling her parents... Her mother would never let them hear the end of it... With only three dumplings left, she stuffed the rest of the bag with the rest of her supplies. There was no telling if she'd be gone for long or if it was just some routine thing. She could probably forage, if she had to, but it was better to have something on hand than not. She tried to figure out her coming assignment for the entirety of her walk. When she finally arrived, there were already several other ninja there. "So... I'm going to be on a team with Bakuto and Hiro, am I? Then that must make that woman my jounin and... that... is that a Kumo-nin? Hm...", she thought to herself. She stuck her hands in her pockets and glared silently.

Naruto: Fire From Ember (open/accepting)

Jin Kani

"Feel the sting of the honorable crab, the Fabulous Jin Kani!"

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It was time. As he ran to the training area, he felt a growing warmth in his chest. Oh yeah, this was a day that would go down in history. Even the clouds didn't dare show their faces and cast shadows upon Jin today. As he ran, his scarf billowing impressively, he felt the winds of change following behind him. Why, already even his morning routine had changed! Usually, he'd perform morning calisthenics at sunrise, shower and have his mother's legendary Kani breakfasts, and then walk to class and crush rocks with his hands as he went. Crushing rocks was a simple trick for his clan, which was well known for its incredible grip and limb strength, but he knew that the girls of the village looked forward to seeing what was probably to them the most inspiring and magical part of their day. He didn't like to disappoint them, but today was the first official day of the legendary ninja career of the greatest shinobi to have ever graced the Leaf. Things were bound to be different. He flashed his brilliant smile to girls as he passed and threw roses to the prettiest ones. Unfortunately, he couldn't throw a rose to all of them, he had to save a few. You never knew what beauty you might run into and a true Kani warrior had to be ready at all times to love and war. The seriousness of this thought, of his commitment to being a true and honorable shinobi, hardened his face. Yes... Even without his breathtaking smile, his serious expression was just as impressive. It was impassive as a rocks for which his head had been compared to on several occasions. He had to agree, he was statuesque. But that was his burden, being so attractive, the model of a man, was his responsibility. Someone had to do it and only the Magnificent Jin Kani was up to the task! Though he'd expected to arrive the earliest so as to give himself time to set up his fireworks display for when he made his big entrance, he was surprised to find his teammates Misaki and Hiro had already arrived. Hiro stood in the shade of a tree with his hands behind his back, frowning slightly and looking into the small pond at the edge of the training ground. Damn him, trying that cool look when Jin had only just arrived! His other teammate, Misaki, seemed to be practicing... very risque kicks in Hiro's direction while hurling insults at him. "Just going to stand there? Coward. I'd have thought you were a real man like your dad", said Misaki, aiming her kicks closer and closer to Hiro's head. Hiro, rightly, did not respond. It would have been very improper to hit a girl, after all and Jin knew Hiro to be a man from a good family. While not the manliest, as Misaki had pointed out, he had always been polite and very proper. Satisfied, Jin hid behind a tree and began to set up his fireworks display while the two were distracted. "What's wrong? Afraid you'll get your face kicked in? I understand. If I were as helpless as you, I'd be petrified too", Misaki continued, now kicking within a hairsbreadth from the side of Hiro's head. And yet, Hiro did not move an inch, instead allowing the kicks to whiz by. Despite her cocky words, Misaki seemed frustrated. Her cheeks tinged pink, her fists clenched for a moment and she made a "Ts" with her mouth. Still, a grin plastered itself on her face, "I thought you'd be a challenge...", And she made what would be her final kick aimed directly at Hiro's head. In an instant, Hiro's eyes flashed for just a moment and, though he never even bothered to look at Misaki, his precision and grace were flawless. He stepped forward, missing the kick, and extending a single palm to Misaki's chest, sending her flying backwards and on the ground. She was shaking and, try as she might, it seemed like her legs would not obey her command to stand up and as Hiro slowly approached her, she could only grimace, glare, and tremble. Hiro still did not bother to look at her. "My apologies, Mori-san", he said and extended a hand to help her up, "It is dangerous to kick so close to me for someone like you." "YOU", yelled Jin, jumping out from behind a tree and pointing pointedly at Hiro. A firework fired prematurely and whistled by, throwing sparks behind the incensed crab before it crashed into the middle of the field and fizzled, "I AM THE CALAMITOUS CRUSTACEAN THAT CLAMPS DOWN WITH MIGHT! I AM THE BOTTOM FEEDER THAT DEVOURS THE GARBAGE OF VILLAINY! I AM THE GLORIOUS JIN KANI!" Several fireworks exploded behind him and a branch that had caught on fire fell in front of him and smoldered away, but it seemed his stunningly brilliant speech had garnered Hiro's attention, who looked at him with eyes full of questions. Jin smirked. He'd put him in his place! He threw an arm in front of his chest and swept his scarf behind him in a single movement. "I am the Handsome Guardian of all women who fights for Love and Justice! And now in the name of the great crab, I'll punish", he said changing poses, now gracefully assuming a narrower stance, his arms at first in straight up in a sort of V, a common crab threat display, and then slowly settled his right hand into a pointing finger... pointing at Hiro, "YOU!" Unfortunately, the challenge would be unanswered, for a voice... very manly voice... cut through the trees. It must have been their jounin sensei! "That will be quite enough", said the voice. It was a forceful voice, one that commanded respect. The ninja that possessed it must have been a man of extreme ability! Yes, judging from the voice, Jin was sure that he'd straighten Hiro out in an instant! Jin crossed his arms and grinned. His work here was done, yet another amazing chapter in the legend of Jin. But who was this mysterious jounin with the powerful voice? Jin looked about. The voice had been so heroic-sounding that it almost seemed to pervade the very air around him. He looked to the forest and waited. Luckily, he didn't have to wait long. Something was emerging from trees... it was... A... giant duck the size of a cart horse! And on its back carried a snoring man in a red robe cradling a huge hammer. "If you are to be a team, it's time you began acting like one. Fall in", said the big duck as the man on his back let out a monstrous snore.