Character Sheet:
Name: Kaya Sasaki
Nickname/Alias: (Derisive, only really used as an insult) The Senju's Red-Headed Stepchild
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Birthplace: The Hidden Leaf
Clan/Bloodline: Senju
Rank: (Regarding your rank, if you had one, before you left a village) Jounin
Chakra Natures: Wood, Water, Earth
Appearance: Kaya is fairly tall, around 5'9" (175 cm), though she's only about 100 lb (45 kg). This thin nature is reflected in her body structure, as her limbs, while well-defined, have very little muscle on them. Chakra-less, she'd be barely stronger than a genin, though the muscle definition allows for the chakra's boost to be more than usual for most. Anyway, she wears her bright-orange hair down to her shoulder-blades, and has piercing green eyes, the shade of the forest. Typically, she wears drab brown underneath her cloak.
Personality: Sedate and quiet, Kaya is a woman of thought before action and peace before bloodshed. Though she doesn't flinch at killing - she is a ninja - she is no fan of it either, and feels guilt over every death she's caused. Even as a missing-nin, she was famed for always providing an ear or a shoulder to those who need it.
History: Cadet branches are a messy affair for nobility; determining who was considered family was difficult at the best of times, and had triggered far too many wars. Cadet branches were worse for ninja. Ninja usually followed the nobility's tradition of the woman taking her husband's name, but genetics and chakra followed no such rule. Oftentimes, a clan would collapse after its monopoly on an element was broken by a daughter marrying a wandering nin; when your child can breathe fire, it's hard to keep her from a marriage of love. The Sasaki were one such example of this. Kaya's father, Chiaki Sasaki, was a minor noble's son who - much to the shock of his kin - chose the dishonest life of a ninja, joining the young Hidden Leaf. While there, he met one Ryuko Senju, one of the many members of the large Senju clan. It was love at first sight, and marriage at two thousandth - they met at nine years old, after all. The Senju were, unsurprisingly, displeased, but could do little; Ryuko had befriended several high-ranking ninja in the Leaf's other clans, who would use any attack on her or her husband as an excuse to declare the Senju kinslayers, which was ground for wholesale execution. In that sense, at least, Kaya didn't take after her mother; the younger Sasaki was no manipulator, preferring to be upfront like her father (a vestige, of course, of his noble upbringing).
Alas, all good things must come to an end, and for Ryuko, that was in the Leaf's fledgling medical division. It would take several more years before childbirth of babies stronger than their mother in some way would be safe. In Kaya's case, she'd inherited the Wood Release genes that had skipped over her mother. Without his wife, Chiaki was dead; indeed, though no culprit could be found, he was found dead in his room with a slit throat and bruises befitting a fight, and the Senju name was on everybody's lips. The infant Kaya, miraculously, found defenders in the same opportunistic clans as her mother did, with the same threat of "kinslayer" being her only shield. As such, these defenders cared very little for her health otherwise, and she was forced to grow up quickly; token donations "in honor of your mother, taken too soon" only got a child so far. Instead, the edges of the village, where the great walls shaded populations, was where she could be found. An expectation that any act of kindness would be payed forward was the way that anyone survived there, and she was no exception.
Eventually, she entered the ninja force, and quickly rose the ranks, eventually surpassing both her parents in achieving the Jounin rank. There, however, she was put in jeopardy. Suicide missions were, while uncommon, a possibility for Jounin, who were trusted above all others for such crucial missions. Almost immediately, such a mission, one that stank of her family's influence, found its way to her, and she accepted it after some deliberation. She demanded a significant portion of the pay beforehand, and immediately gave it to those who had given to her with no expectation of benefit from a small child, those on the village's edge. Neither the clan nor the Hokage had any time to get suspicious, as she vanished off into the night right after.
After leaving, she sought out every monastery from the Land of Rock to the Land of Demons, searching for a method to bring about a world where nobody suffered; one where all acted like those she still cherished back in the village. It was to no avail, alas; she found no answer that satisfied her, though the troubles her mother's clan suffered did bring a smile to her face when she heard. However, after witnessing a nation in the farthest east find peace after a ninja forcefully united it, she saw a solution. Being an S-ranked missing-nin - the Senju were affluent, and did not joke around - she had of course heard rumors of the Akatsuki - a group that might be able to accomplish for the world what that one ninja had for his nation.
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Weapons/Items: (optional however if you don't have something listed that isn't basic then you can't just magic it up mid fight.) Kunai, Shuriken, etc.
Various tree seeds/acorns
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Kekkei Genkai:
Name of Kekkei Genkai: Wood Release
Clan: Senju
Description: Wood Release allows her to control and create plants. Though she did not get it from a parent, Wood is nevertheless deeply embedded in her genes and her chakra. However, it is a chakra-hungry element, and she is not particularly affluent with chakra, thanks to her father's civilian ancestry, though she has more than most ninja. Thus, her use of it is slightly limited. However, this constraint has caused her to think outside the box, causing her to create techniques that the main-line Senju never conceived of.
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Jutsu:
Canon Jutsu
Wood Release: Cutting Technique
Wood Release: Smothering Binding Technique
Wood Release: Four-Pillar House Technique
Wood Release: Four-Pillar Prison Technique
Wood Release: Transformation
Wood Clone Technique
Custom Jutsu
Name of Technique: Wood Release: Fruit of the Everlasting Fragrant Tree ("
Mokuton: tokijiku-no-kaku-no-konomi")
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: D
Range: Close
Nature Type: Wood
Description: Creates a single fruit-bearing tree. The fruit doesn't match exactly with any known, though it is similar to a peach. The tree is immune to most disease, and bears fruit far more often than a normal tree.
Weaknesses: Has no use in combat, for obvious reasons. Also is quite heavy on chakra for Kaya.
Name of Technique: Wood Release: Illusion Technique: Middle Country of Reed Beds ("
Mokuton: Genjutsu: Ashikara-no-nakatsukuni")
Type of Jutsu: Genjutsu
Rank: B
Range: Close
Nature Type: Wood
Description: Vines sprout out of the ground, and grab onto enemy nin. Though not particularly strong, they are tough enough that it takes a C rank Wind jutsu or comparable force to break them. After touching the ninja's skin, it pulls them into a plant-themed variant of the Hell Viewing Technique. A normal chakra disruption does not break the genjutsu, though; it must be broken via cutting the vine that connects them to Kaya. If they are under long enough, this difficulty to escape can allow her to even overpower the nervous system and stop their heart.
Weaknesses: The vines are connected to Kaya just as they are to the enemy, so a far stronger genjutsu user, with much more chakra, could overwhelm her and use the technique against her. On top of that, she is physically bound to the vines just as the enemy is, so she's very open to attack while using it.
Name of Technique: Wood Release: Secret Technique: Distant Land of Roots (
"Mokuton Hijitsu: Soko-tsu-ne-no-kuni.")
Type of Jutsu: Ninjutsu
Rank: A
Range: Close
Nature Type: Wood
Description: A root of each of the surrounding trees merges together into one large one that grips Kaya's leg and connects to several tenketsu. Via this connection, she can drain chakra from the surrounding trees, taking their life-force and often killing them in the process. This chakra is a stabilized form of Nature Chakra, and can be used to rejuvenate herself, power techniques, or heal and rejuvenate others.
Weaknesses: It takes a few seconds for her to get free of the roots, which provides ample opportunity to attack her while she can only block with ninjutsu. As well, if the trees are corrupted, infected, or otherwise abnormal, she takes those diseases into her chakra system as well, though usually not permanently.
