Post by !Lulu-chan! on Aug 14, 2007 20:01:52 GMT -5
Personal Information
Name: Shuurai Inami
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Personality: Inami is the kind of person that forever seems to have to two layers to her personality. There is the one part of her, the "outside", that people see in everyday life. In reality, Inami is a well respected, fun-loving person with an attractive personality. Known somewhat as a goof ball, she loves to tell jokes, good or bad, and is commonly playing some kind of joke on one or more people. Then there is the inner layer, the "real" Inami, that few ever get close enough to see. This side of her is still reserved, quiet, caring but ever so cautious. Some consider it the aftermath of events in her life, locked in a box and kept in the corner of the closet. When alone of with trusted people, this side comes out. Otherwise, Inami is wearing a smile.
Birthday: June 22
Physical Information
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 107 lbs
Hair: Medium length, hot pink
Eyes: Deep Blue
Build: Feminine, athletic, voluptuous
Village Information
Village: Kumogaruke no sato
Country: Kaminari no kuni
Rank: Oinin Captain
Academy Grad Age: 10
Chuunin Exams Age (at passing): 14
Oinin/ANBU Age: 17
Jounin/ANBU Cap/Oinin Cap/Medic Age: 23
Battle/Tactical Information
Chakra Nature(s): Raiton
Equipment
Kinzoku Ishou (Metal Clothing)
Type: Clothing
Category: Enhancement, Defensive, Offensive
User: Inami
Description: This special clothing is worn by the Cloud ninja Inami. The clothing itself is not actually metal, but has various places around it that are stuffed with or wrapped with heavy metal wiring. These areas include- the thick, black outlining areas of both her jacket and missing shoulder guards, each individual knuckle of her gloves, the cuffs on her jacket, and her hip/waist area. Unused, these act as weights for her, limiting her speed. having trained with them for years, she has grown used to them, and as a result gets a speed "boost" whenever they are not on her. The wiring in the clothing is also used in various jutsu.
Meisen (Wire)
Type: Wire
Category: Varies
User: Inami
Description: At any given time, Inami has on her one or more spools of extra ninja wire. This wiring is used along with the wiring already lining her clothing, and can be used in all jutsu her clothing wire is good for. This wire has a very high tensile strength, able to support a large amount of weight in varying situations. It serves as an excellent capture device, and can easily cut through skin and other weak surfaces with proper movement.
Isshou Ja^n (Laugh Bang)
Type: Gift Box
Category: N/A -- Offensive
User: Inami
Description: These are special red boxes wrapped with a red bow that Inami has on her at any given time. The box itself was unassuming. It is about a single cubic size of her palm, not very big. In the box was not a fancy ring, or a love letter. It is confetti... and lots of it. Add to that a chibi-doll form of Inami loaded on a spring. The doll's eyes and mouth look like "XD", and its round hands both have two fingers coming out of it for the peace sign. The box has two versions. One is nothing more than what is described above. The other ha a time-delay explosive tag hidden under it that detonates just under two seconds after the box top is lifted.
Isshou Ja^n - Kyuubanken (Laugh Bang - Sucker Punch)
Type: Gift Box
Category: Offensive
User: Inami
Description: The Isshou Ja^n are special red boxes wrapped with a red bow that Inami has on her at any given time. The box itself was unassuming. It is about a single cubic size of her palm, not very big. In the box was not a fancy ring, or a love letter. It is confetti... and lots of it. Add to that a chibi-doll form of Inami loaded on a spring. The doll's eyes and mouth look like "XD". This is another variation of the base box itself. Instead of the doll of Inami harmless spring-loading out, its pose is different. It's body is turned to the right, relative to the box's position, an it's left hand is outstretched. Upon the box opening, the doll's hand turns into a giant life-size boxing glove that will almost instantly smash the recipient in the face, knocking them out cold.
Paisu (Earrings)
Type: Earrings
Category: n/a
User: Inami
Description: These are a pair of earrings Inami wears almost at all times. Each individual earring hangs a small replica of the symbol of Kumogaruke no sato, and is a silvery blue color. These earrings are made of metal, but are also made in such a way that they can easily and quickly be removed with a single hand.
Background
Growing up...
Inami grew up in Kumogaruke no sato to a single mother. Her father seemed to be the loving kind of gentleman that was truly family oriented. But for still unknown reasons, he left the family when Inami was only four years old. This left Inami asking the expected childhood question of "Why?" to her mother, sometimes to the point driving her insane. After breaking down one night, her mother finally explained to her that she didn't know, and that her father must have been hiding something. "I've always thought he was hiding something. I had my feelings, I guess I was right after all" was what she said in the end. Slowly as time went by, Inami started to comprehend what her mother had told her, and from that her confidence and trust in most men wained. She would talk to them, but was largely reserved and extremely cautious. Inami drew the conclusion that, if her own father would do that to his wife and daughter, what would other men do?
As a genin...
So that she could become strong for herself, Inami was enrolled in the ninja academy of Kumo. Her partially shattered mother did not want to have Inami totally dependent on her, seeing as she wasn't the most stable of people after her husband's disappearance. It was going to be the main way Inami would train herself and get stronger, for the time in the future where her mother would not be around to protect her. Inami was reserved and shy, as expected. There were a great many males at the academy, and she was not trying to have any part with them. Still, she studied their movements and learned from them, thus aiding her own natural talent.
The graduation test came, and Inami passed with flying colors. She was placed in her three man cell, two teammates and a sensei. Inami was the only girl on the whole team, and the only male she didn't have a problem with was a reserved boy named Shinjo. Shinjo was a mystery to her: he never harassed her, made fun of her, called her weak or anything of the sort. When she needed help, he was there. And even though he was male, and she grew up not trusting the gender, she found things... different with him. Slowly but surely, Inami found that she was becoming attracted to him, the floating enigma that silently seemed to beg to be chased after. As the teams training and missions went on and grew, so did Inami's attraction for Shinjo.
And then came the chuunin exams.
As a chuunin...
By the time her team had finished their main training and entered the exams, both she and her other young teammate were thirteen, Shinjo beating them both at fourteen. Some of the initial questions made her nervous, but she drew from Shinjo's calm and level head, and found the courage to continue on and pass the first portion. Part two followed shortly after, but she and her team found that to be perhaps the easiest part of the exam. Once that was said and done, there was still the preliminary matches between the surviving teams in the exam. Without too much trouble, all three members passed and moved on. There was the customary month long break between the preliminary matches and the real deciding matches of the Chuunin Exams, a time period in which tragedy would strike Shinjo.
Inami came to learn through both friends and Shinjo's own mother that his father had been killed in a freak severe storm by a tornado. Shinjo and his mother were devastated by this, and Inami felt her own level of grief for Shinjo's loss. However, since he had been so kind to her and there for her when she needed him, it was Inami's turn to return the favor. Many days and nights would be spent with him and his mother, just trying to console and comfort them both. When the exams rolled back around, Shinjo was not in the mindset he needed to be to win, and thus ended up losing his first match. Inami and their other teammate lost for unrelated reasons.
After her entire team's defeat in the exams, Inami and friends decided it was time to sit down and have a long, hard talk with Shinjo. She together with everyone else made Shinjo realize that he would have to face his demons in order to recover and stay a ninja for Kumo. It was a success, and Shinjo out of the conversation decided it would be the best way to face his father's death if he were to become a master of Futon jutsu. By the time the team took the exams again, Inami was already on the road to becoming a master raiton user as Shinjo was for futon. With her own impressive host of techniques to use, passing the exams all the way to the end was not a big deal. Thankfully, she, her teammate and Shinjo were all chosen as worthy candidates for chuunin.
As an Oinin Captain...
By the time Inami ascends to the rank of Oinin Captain, she is twenty-five years of age. Even in Kumo where raiton jutsu are as common as day and night, Inami's skill and mastery of the raiton arts is still very much respected, as is Shinjo's skill in futon jutsu. Though she focuses heavily on raiton jutsu, a lot of that focuses still on the physical aspect of that with taijutsu. Aside from going on mission after mission with each other, Inami and Shinjo have the goal of forming their own oinin group composed of five nin, one of each of them having mastered one of the five elements.
Inami's Jutsu
Ninjutsu
Raiton: Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Lightning Puppetry)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. It is used mostly by either medical nin, or by Raiton users with Inami's level of mastery. Touching their index finger typically to the top of the target's spinal column, they send an electrical pulse into the person's body that overrides and then force-stimulates their muscles. The resulting condition is a sort of pseudo-paralysis in which the victims body in controlled, not by their own will, but by the expertly manipulated electrical pulses from the user. The motions are slightly spastic, but the user can manipulate the target into any motion, as long as their is still continuous contact.
Raiton: Tooku Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Distant Lightning Puppetry)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. It is used either by medical nin, or by Raiton users with Inami's level of mastery. This is actually the follow up jutsu to Raiton: Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Lightning Puppetry). It has been compared to the Puppetry technique used by Suna nin, but is generally more restricted. Once a target is effected by Lightning Puppetry, this jutsu lets the user draw out an electrical "string" from the point of contact. Carrying the user's chakra through the entire length of the string, it allows them to continue to manipulate the target from a distance without having to have direct skin-to-skin contact. This technique can only be used on a maximum of two targets. The maximum range is roughly fifty yards. In addition, this can only be used on living beings. The dead cannot be manipulated.
Raiton: Shoudoukoui (Lightning Release: Shock Action)
With a touch, the user can send electricity into a victim, targeting a certain point in the brain. A simple shock will render the victim unconscious two minutes. Requires no hand seals, only physical contact is required. Works through clothing and armor that isn't chakra-enhanced. This is normal sleep. Any means used to normally awaken a person will work on the victim.
Kumo Gakure (Hidden Cloud)
The Kumogakure version of the Kiri Gakure no Jutsu. Rather than creating mist about the battlefield, this technique creates fog for the user to hide in. This effects everyone, even the user -- but normally the user is trained enough to locate his prey.
Kage Bushin (Shadow Clone)
This ninjutsu creates a solid clone of the user. Chakra is evenly distributed between the user and whatever clones he or she makes. Being solid, the clones can take damage, as well as deal it, and must be dealt a sufficient amount of damage before dissipating. When the clones do "poof" all knowledge they acquired is instantly transferred to the creator. The clones also have the power to use any jutsu known by their maker upon creation.
Kinzoku-oou (To Wrap In Metal)
A supplementary ninjutsu aided by the lightning element without the use of hand seals. This is a special jutsu used with the wiring lining the various parts of Inami's clothing as well as any wiring she is carrying herself. Using this jutsu, wiring typically ejected from her clothing is manipulated to wrap around a target's limbs. However, this does not actually do any damage. The wiring simply wraps around their forearms, calves and waistline, tightly enough to where normal means (hands, knives, etc) cannot get in to remove it.
Raiton: Akudoi Inryoku (Lightning Release: Excessive Gravity)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. After a medium length string of hand seals, the user creates a powerful electrically charged area twenty yards in radius that acts as an intense gravitational field toward all metal. This artificial gravity increases the seeming weight of all metal, pulling them down to the ground, and holding it there with the force ten times normal gravity. Projectile weapons like kunai and shuriken are made useless by this, and anyone in Kinzoku-oou (To Wrap In Metal) will find it quite impossible to move at all.
Raiton: Inryoku no Girochin (Lightning Release: Guillotine of Gravity)
An offensive ninjutsu using the lightning element. This is used mostly after a nin is wrapped in the wiring from Inami’s clothing. Though the main target is the wiring, other metals are affected. After a medium length string of hand seals, the user creates a powerful electrically charged area around the target. The resulting pull on the metal is so strong that, in the case of Inami’s wiring wrapping a target’s limbs, it rips right through them. Inami’s wiring cuts through the flesh down to the bone, if not severing the entire limb. Inami uses this often to quickly end fights should her opponent become trapped in her wiring.
Raiton: Hanpatsu (Lightning Release: Repelling)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. After the proper hand seals, a powerful electromagnetic field is put out from the user that forcibly repels all metal. This does not include the metal Inami is wearing, as her clothing remains unaffected as long as she is wearing it. This does mean, however, that things such as shuriken, kunai, senbon, and most every other weapon will find it impossible to land blows on her, if they touch her at all. Inami commonly uses this as a follow-up to Kinzoku-oou (To Wrap In Metal).
Raiton: Sasaru no Rai (Lightning Release: Stuck by Lightning)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. After the proper hand seals, the user slams their fist into the ground and creates a shock wave that moves unseen to the naked eye. This shock wave moves out from the user at very high speed and expands to a maximum radius of twenty yards. If anyone is caught by the outer edge of the shock wave, a measure of raiton chakra is charged into their body. This sudden surge disrupts their entire electrical system, surging through their bodies and overloading it. The end result is that their body will shake for a brief moment from the charge, then all their muscles will lock up from the charge and the person will fall to the ground in numbness. This leaves them completely vulnerable to anything, as the condition lasts for twenty seconds before it wears off.
Raiton: Hadouken (Lightning Release: Surge Fist)
An offensive ninjutsu using the lightning element. When in contact with someone, or with a metal substance or body of water that connects the two, the user can channel a powerful current of raiton chakra into the person(s). Small jolts of electricity are seen coming from her hand(s) when in use. This technique can cause severe damage if held for any extended time, often causing insanity or putting the recipient in need of hospital care to recover. Will kill most nin if held for more than ten seconds, and in a majority of cases, the target is knocked out or rendered unconscious regardless.
Genjutsu
Issen Ja^n (Flash Bang)
A genjutsu used by the Cloud ninja Inami. After a short string of hand seals, this genjutsu can be cast over a wide area. Those affected see a dim flash of light, the typical prelude to a thunderbolt strike. Less than half a second later, they will see a bolt of lightning strike the area near them, missing them only by a few feet. However, due to the proximity of the strike, they will suffer side effects. The only sound they will hear will be a ringing in their ears, and their vision will blur with an affect similar to if everything had a dim light behind it. The realistic effects make it hard to discern that this is a genjutsu, made even more difficult by the fact that Inami is a nin from Kumo.
Taijutsu/Kenjutsu
Shippuujinrai (Lightning Speed)
Not an actual jutsu of any kind, this simply refers to the speed boost Inami gets by not wearing her weights. With her weights on, Inami has the speed of any average, regular jounin-level nin. Once she removes her weights, her speed in general motion (running speed from having the weight removed at all, melee strike speed boost from the removal of shoulder and wrist weights) doubles, her body blurring with normal vision when used to its full potential. Her reaction time itself does not increase. But with her weights no longer hampering her movements, carrying out a reaction once thought is processed happens much faster. As a humorous touch, Inami sometimes removes all her clothing, her weights in the process, to gain this state. This tends to leave her opponents, males especially, oogling at her body, distracting their minds while she still gains her speed.
Seiha: Itadeken (Mastery: Hard Blow Style)
Through various ways to train the body, a person can gain great physical strength, the result being this Taijutsu style. Those who have trained for many years are a physical powerhouse with incredible strength. The can defeat an opponent with ease, provided their hits connect. Those who have this style must suppress their strength at all times, unless they wish to kill their opponent.
Rakanken (Achiever of Nirvana Fist)
Jirobo's signature style of combat, Achiever of Nirvana Fist focuses on simple physical attacks augmented with Inami’s incredible strength. Using simple palm strikes, shoulder thrusts, knee strikes, and punches, Inami can easily defeat an opponent in one or two blows.
Arakan no Doukan (Vessel Of Nirvana)
Having trained against several practitioners of the devastating martial art that is Achiever of Nirvana, one can build a fortitude against such blows, to the point that they would not be killed in the signature two or less strikes needed to kill someone, extending it to ten or more, depending on the area of the body under punishment. This level of physical training also aids against other fighting arts as well.
Katame (Defense)
True to its name, Katame is a defensive style of taijutsu used by most taijutsu specialists. Though meant as a defense against other taijutsu techniques, used properly this style can defend against a multitude of attacks. Instead of outright blocking an attack, Katame focuses on directional parrying that is well-complimented by the practitioner's own physical strength. Straight punches are usually pushed to the sides, attacks from above, if not dodged, are pushed away or to the side, and so on. The actual use of the style hangs on the user's ability to capitalize on such parries and off-balancing the target.
Ikiwotsuku (Take My Breath Away)
An incapacitating blow delivered bottom center to a person's ribcage, usually with a fist strike or palm thrust. This strike literally "knocks the wind out of the target", forcing them to gasp for air as if they had none. This renders them incapable of most any form of attack if hit, as they will be trying to hard to recover and catch their breath. Typically used with the first gate, but is not required to be.
Rai Funka (Lightning Eruption)
The user delivers a powerful uppercut to the target, aided by raiton jutsu, massive strength or some combination of the two. For Inami, it is often both. If it connects, the target is sent flying high into the air, left vulnerable by not only the pain of the punch itself, but whatever other means was used to further aid the attack. Most targets find that they are not able to react in time to recover, as the user is more often then not already preparing a follow-up attack.
Kumo Engai (Cloud Cover)
A taijutsu technique used by Cloud nin Inami, along with other nin from Kumo. This technique mimics others such as the Kage Buyo (Dancing Leaf Shadow) used by many Konoha taijutsu artists. Using superior speed on an already airborne target, the user disappears from their location on a platform (this includes both being on the ground, and using airborne objects as springboards) and reappears above the target. This quick maneuver leaves to door open for a host of follow-up techniques.
Tandemu no Rai (Ride The Lightning)
A taijutsu technique used by the Cloud nin Inami. Though this can be set up a variety of ways, its most common use is the follow-up technique to Kumo Engai (Cloud Cover). Once in position, Inami touches her finger to the person's spinal column in Raiton: Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Lightning Puppetry). Using electrical pulse commands, Inami stiffens their body straight and spreads their arms like the target were attempting to fly. Standing up and sticking her feet to the target's back with chakra, Inami essentially "surfs" the person's body back down to the ground. Seeing as the target cannot brace them self or move of their own will, the landing is often painful if not fatal, Inami's body weight from behind only adding to the impact.
Barasen Fushi (Barbed Wire Knuckle)
A taijutsu used with Inami's gloves. Chakra is used to eject some of the wire into inch long, steel-strong extensions that add piercing, painful damage to her melee strikes. These are not one per knuckle, but are many, and are not neatly standing up. They are straight and criss-crossed, which will cause horrible, wide puncture wounds that are potentially life-threatening. This requires no hand seals.
Rai no Ichimatsu (A Touch Of Lightning)
This taijutsu style adds shocks of electricity to the melee strikes of the raiton user. These shocks are powerful, using the target's own bioelectricity to shock their entire body through the nervous system. These strikes are painful, easily breaking one out of genjutsu. Each hit also leaves burn marks in the attacked area, as well as inflicting gradual paralysis of the area if more than three hits land in the same general location. Attacks to the chest can stagger heartbeats, and strong enough ones can stop the heartbeat altogether.
Oshiri Banpu (Booty Bump)
A taijutsu technique used by the Cloud nin Inami. This technique is born from her having both Seiha: Itadeken (Mastery: Hard Blow Style) and incredible speed. A useful technique both in battle and on the dance floor, Inami positions herself and shakes her hip to the left, right or back, knocking her rear into the recipient. As a normal movement, this move is purely for fun and humor. When actually used to it's full potential, Inami can send a person flying for many yards, sometimes even through other objects. It can easily break through things such as wood, stone, and brick and at least deform most metals.
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Name: Shuurai Inami
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Personality: Inami is the kind of person that forever seems to have to two layers to her personality. There is the one part of her, the "outside", that people see in everyday life. In reality, Inami is a well respected, fun-loving person with an attractive personality. Known somewhat as a goof ball, she loves to tell jokes, good or bad, and is commonly playing some kind of joke on one or more people. Then there is the inner layer, the "real" Inami, that few ever get close enough to see. This side of her is still reserved, quiet, caring but ever so cautious. Some consider it the aftermath of events in her life, locked in a box and kept in the corner of the closet. When alone of with trusted people, this side comes out. Otherwise, Inami is wearing a smile.
Birthday: June 22
Physical Information
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 107 lbs
Hair: Medium length, hot pink
Eyes: Deep Blue
Build: Feminine, athletic, voluptuous
Village Information
Village: Kumogaruke no sato
Country: Kaminari no kuni
Rank: Oinin Captain
Academy Grad Age: 10
Chuunin Exams Age (at passing): 14
Oinin/ANBU Age: 17
Jounin/ANBU Cap/Oinin Cap/Medic Age: 23
Battle/Tactical Information
Chakra Nature(s): Raiton
Equipment
Kinzoku Ishou (Metal Clothing)
Type: Clothing
Category: Enhancement, Defensive, Offensive
User: Inami
Description: This special clothing is worn by the Cloud ninja Inami. The clothing itself is not actually metal, but has various places around it that are stuffed with or wrapped with heavy metal wiring. These areas include- the thick, black outlining areas of both her jacket and missing shoulder guards, each individual knuckle of her gloves, the cuffs on her jacket, and her hip/waist area. Unused, these act as weights for her, limiting her speed. having trained with them for years, she has grown used to them, and as a result gets a speed "boost" whenever they are not on her. The wiring in the clothing is also used in various jutsu.
Meisen (Wire)
Type: Wire
Category: Varies
User: Inami
Description: At any given time, Inami has on her one or more spools of extra ninja wire. This wiring is used along with the wiring already lining her clothing, and can be used in all jutsu her clothing wire is good for. This wire has a very high tensile strength, able to support a large amount of weight in varying situations. It serves as an excellent capture device, and can easily cut through skin and other weak surfaces with proper movement.
Isshou Ja^n (Laugh Bang)
Type: Gift Box
Category: N/A -- Offensive
User: Inami
Description: These are special red boxes wrapped with a red bow that Inami has on her at any given time. The box itself was unassuming. It is about a single cubic size of her palm, not very big. In the box was not a fancy ring, or a love letter. It is confetti... and lots of it. Add to that a chibi-doll form of Inami loaded on a spring. The doll's eyes and mouth look like "XD", and its round hands both have two fingers coming out of it for the peace sign. The box has two versions. One is nothing more than what is described above. The other ha a time-delay explosive tag hidden under it that detonates just under two seconds after the box top is lifted.
Isshou Ja^n - Kyuubanken (Laugh Bang - Sucker Punch)
Type: Gift Box
Category: Offensive
User: Inami
Description: The Isshou Ja^n are special red boxes wrapped with a red bow that Inami has on her at any given time. The box itself was unassuming. It is about a single cubic size of her palm, not very big. In the box was not a fancy ring, or a love letter. It is confetti... and lots of it. Add to that a chibi-doll form of Inami loaded on a spring. The doll's eyes and mouth look like "XD". This is another variation of the base box itself. Instead of the doll of Inami harmless spring-loading out, its pose is different. It's body is turned to the right, relative to the box's position, an it's left hand is outstretched. Upon the box opening, the doll's hand turns into a giant life-size boxing glove that will almost instantly smash the recipient in the face, knocking them out cold.
Paisu (Earrings)
Type: Earrings
Category: n/a
User: Inami
Description: These are a pair of earrings Inami wears almost at all times. Each individual earring hangs a small replica of the symbol of Kumogaruke no sato, and is a silvery blue color. These earrings are made of metal, but are also made in such a way that they can easily and quickly be removed with a single hand.
Background
Growing up...
Inami grew up in Kumogaruke no sato to a single mother. Her father seemed to be the loving kind of gentleman that was truly family oriented. But for still unknown reasons, he left the family when Inami was only four years old. This left Inami asking the expected childhood question of "Why?" to her mother, sometimes to the point driving her insane. After breaking down one night, her mother finally explained to her that she didn't know, and that her father must have been hiding something. "I've always thought he was hiding something. I had my feelings, I guess I was right after all" was what she said in the end. Slowly as time went by, Inami started to comprehend what her mother had told her, and from that her confidence and trust in most men wained. She would talk to them, but was largely reserved and extremely cautious. Inami drew the conclusion that, if her own father would do that to his wife and daughter, what would other men do?
As a genin...
So that she could become strong for herself, Inami was enrolled in the ninja academy of Kumo. Her partially shattered mother did not want to have Inami totally dependent on her, seeing as she wasn't the most stable of people after her husband's disappearance. It was going to be the main way Inami would train herself and get stronger, for the time in the future where her mother would not be around to protect her. Inami was reserved and shy, as expected. There were a great many males at the academy, and she was not trying to have any part with them. Still, she studied their movements and learned from them, thus aiding her own natural talent.
The graduation test came, and Inami passed with flying colors. She was placed in her three man cell, two teammates and a sensei. Inami was the only girl on the whole team, and the only male she didn't have a problem with was a reserved boy named Shinjo. Shinjo was a mystery to her: he never harassed her, made fun of her, called her weak or anything of the sort. When she needed help, he was there. And even though he was male, and she grew up not trusting the gender, she found things... different with him. Slowly but surely, Inami found that she was becoming attracted to him, the floating enigma that silently seemed to beg to be chased after. As the teams training and missions went on and grew, so did Inami's attraction for Shinjo.
And then came the chuunin exams.
As a chuunin...
By the time her team had finished their main training and entered the exams, both she and her other young teammate were thirteen, Shinjo beating them both at fourteen. Some of the initial questions made her nervous, but she drew from Shinjo's calm and level head, and found the courage to continue on and pass the first portion. Part two followed shortly after, but she and her team found that to be perhaps the easiest part of the exam. Once that was said and done, there was still the preliminary matches between the surviving teams in the exam. Without too much trouble, all three members passed and moved on. There was the customary month long break between the preliminary matches and the real deciding matches of the Chuunin Exams, a time period in which tragedy would strike Shinjo.
Inami came to learn through both friends and Shinjo's own mother that his father had been killed in a freak severe storm by a tornado. Shinjo and his mother were devastated by this, and Inami felt her own level of grief for Shinjo's loss. However, since he had been so kind to her and there for her when she needed him, it was Inami's turn to return the favor. Many days and nights would be spent with him and his mother, just trying to console and comfort them both. When the exams rolled back around, Shinjo was not in the mindset he needed to be to win, and thus ended up losing his first match. Inami and their other teammate lost for unrelated reasons.
After her entire team's defeat in the exams, Inami and friends decided it was time to sit down and have a long, hard talk with Shinjo. She together with everyone else made Shinjo realize that he would have to face his demons in order to recover and stay a ninja for Kumo. It was a success, and Shinjo out of the conversation decided it would be the best way to face his father's death if he were to become a master of Futon jutsu. By the time the team took the exams again, Inami was already on the road to becoming a master raiton user as Shinjo was for futon. With her own impressive host of techniques to use, passing the exams all the way to the end was not a big deal. Thankfully, she, her teammate and Shinjo were all chosen as worthy candidates for chuunin.
As an Oinin Captain...
By the time Inami ascends to the rank of Oinin Captain, she is twenty-five years of age. Even in Kumo where raiton jutsu are as common as day and night, Inami's skill and mastery of the raiton arts is still very much respected, as is Shinjo's skill in futon jutsu. Though she focuses heavily on raiton jutsu, a lot of that focuses still on the physical aspect of that with taijutsu. Aside from going on mission after mission with each other, Inami and Shinjo have the goal of forming their own oinin group composed of five nin, one of each of them having mastered one of the five elements.
Inami's Jutsu
Ninjutsu
Raiton: Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Lightning Puppetry)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. It is used mostly by either medical nin, or by Raiton users with Inami's level of mastery. Touching their index finger typically to the top of the target's spinal column, they send an electrical pulse into the person's body that overrides and then force-stimulates their muscles. The resulting condition is a sort of pseudo-paralysis in which the victims body in controlled, not by their own will, but by the expertly manipulated electrical pulses from the user. The motions are slightly spastic, but the user can manipulate the target into any motion, as long as their is still continuous contact.
Raiton: Tooku Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Distant Lightning Puppetry)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. It is used either by medical nin, or by Raiton users with Inami's level of mastery. This is actually the follow up jutsu to Raiton: Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Lightning Puppetry). It has been compared to the Puppetry technique used by Suna nin, but is generally more restricted. Once a target is effected by Lightning Puppetry, this jutsu lets the user draw out an electrical "string" from the point of contact. Carrying the user's chakra through the entire length of the string, it allows them to continue to manipulate the target from a distance without having to have direct skin-to-skin contact. This technique can only be used on a maximum of two targets. The maximum range is roughly fifty yards. In addition, this can only be used on living beings. The dead cannot be manipulated.
Raiton: Shoudoukoui (Lightning Release: Shock Action)
With a touch, the user can send electricity into a victim, targeting a certain point in the brain. A simple shock will render the victim unconscious two minutes. Requires no hand seals, only physical contact is required. Works through clothing and armor that isn't chakra-enhanced. This is normal sleep. Any means used to normally awaken a person will work on the victim.
Kumo Gakure (Hidden Cloud)
The Kumogakure version of the Kiri Gakure no Jutsu. Rather than creating mist about the battlefield, this technique creates fog for the user to hide in. This effects everyone, even the user -- but normally the user is trained enough to locate his prey.
Kage Bushin (Shadow Clone)
This ninjutsu creates a solid clone of the user. Chakra is evenly distributed between the user and whatever clones he or she makes. Being solid, the clones can take damage, as well as deal it, and must be dealt a sufficient amount of damage before dissipating. When the clones do "poof" all knowledge they acquired is instantly transferred to the creator. The clones also have the power to use any jutsu known by their maker upon creation.
Kinzoku-oou (To Wrap In Metal)
A supplementary ninjutsu aided by the lightning element without the use of hand seals. This is a special jutsu used with the wiring lining the various parts of Inami's clothing as well as any wiring she is carrying herself. Using this jutsu, wiring typically ejected from her clothing is manipulated to wrap around a target's limbs. However, this does not actually do any damage. The wiring simply wraps around their forearms, calves and waistline, tightly enough to where normal means (hands, knives, etc) cannot get in to remove it.
Raiton: Akudoi Inryoku (Lightning Release: Excessive Gravity)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. After a medium length string of hand seals, the user creates a powerful electrically charged area twenty yards in radius that acts as an intense gravitational field toward all metal. This artificial gravity increases the seeming weight of all metal, pulling them down to the ground, and holding it there with the force ten times normal gravity. Projectile weapons like kunai and shuriken are made useless by this, and anyone in Kinzoku-oou (To Wrap In Metal) will find it quite impossible to move at all.
Raiton: Inryoku no Girochin (Lightning Release: Guillotine of Gravity)
An offensive ninjutsu using the lightning element. This is used mostly after a nin is wrapped in the wiring from Inami’s clothing. Though the main target is the wiring, other metals are affected. After a medium length string of hand seals, the user creates a powerful electrically charged area around the target. The resulting pull on the metal is so strong that, in the case of Inami’s wiring wrapping a target’s limbs, it rips right through them. Inami’s wiring cuts through the flesh down to the bone, if not severing the entire limb. Inami uses this often to quickly end fights should her opponent become trapped in her wiring.
Raiton: Hanpatsu (Lightning Release: Repelling)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. After the proper hand seals, a powerful electromagnetic field is put out from the user that forcibly repels all metal. This does not include the metal Inami is wearing, as her clothing remains unaffected as long as she is wearing it. This does mean, however, that things such as shuriken, kunai, senbon, and most every other weapon will find it impossible to land blows on her, if they touch her at all. Inami commonly uses this as a follow-up to Kinzoku-oou (To Wrap In Metal).
Raiton: Sasaru no Rai (Lightning Release: Stuck by Lightning)
A supplementary ninjutsu using the lightning element. After the proper hand seals, the user slams their fist into the ground and creates a shock wave that moves unseen to the naked eye. This shock wave moves out from the user at very high speed and expands to a maximum radius of twenty yards. If anyone is caught by the outer edge of the shock wave, a measure of raiton chakra is charged into their body. This sudden surge disrupts their entire electrical system, surging through their bodies and overloading it. The end result is that their body will shake for a brief moment from the charge, then all their muscles will lock up from the charge and the person will fall to the ground in numbness. This leaves them completely vulnerable to anything, as the condition lasts for twenty seconds before it wears off.
Raiton: Hadouken (Lightning Release: Surge Fist)
An offensive ninjutsu using the lightning element. When in contact with someone, or with a metal substance or body of water that connects the two, the user can channel a powerful current of raiton chakra into the person(s). Small jolts of electricity are seen coming from her hand(s) when in use. This technique can cause severe damage if held for any extended time, often causing insanity or putting the recipient in need of hospital care to recover. Will kill most nin if held for more than ten seconds, and in a majority of cases, the target is knocked out or rendered unconscious regardless.
Genjutsu
Issen Ja^n (Flash Bang)
A genjutsu used by the Cloud ninja Inami. After a short string of hand seals, this genjutsu can be cast over a wide area. Those affected see a dim flash of light, the typical prelude to a thunderbolt strike. Less than half a second later, they will see a bolt of lightning strike the area near them, missing them only by a few feet. However, due to the proximity of the strike, they will suffer side effects. The only sound they will hear will be a ringing in their ears, and their vision will blur with an affect similar to if everything had a dim light behind it. The realistic effects make it hard to discern that this is a genjutsu, made even more difficult by the fact that Inami is a nin from Kumo.
Taijutsu/Kenjutsu
Shippuujinrai (Lightning Speed)
Not an actual jutsu of any kind, this simply refers to the speed boost Inami gets by not wearing her weights. With her weights on, Inami has the speed of any average, regular jounin-level nin. Once she removes her weights, her speed in general motion (running speed from having the weight removed at all, melee strike speed boost from the removal of shoulder and wrist weights) doubles, her body blurring with normal vision when used to its full potential. Her reaction time itself does not increase. But with her weights no longer hampering her movements, carrying out a reaction once thought is processed happens much faster. As a humorous touch, Inami sometimes removes all her clothing, her weights in the process, to gain this state. This tends to leave her opponents, males especially, oogling at her body, distracting their minds while she still gains her speed.
Seiha: Itadeken (Mastery: Hard Blow Style)
Through various ways to train the body, a person can gain great physical strength, the result being this Taijutsu style. Those who have trained for many years are a physical powerhouse with incredible strength. The can defeat an opponent with ease, provided their hits connect. Those who have this style must suppress their strength at all times, unless they wish to kill their opponent.
Rakanken (Achiever of Nirvana Fist)
Jirobo's signature style of combat, Achiever of Nirvana Fist focuses on simple physical attacks augmented with Inami’s incredible strength. Using simple palm strikes, shoulder thrusts, knee strikes, and punches, Inami can easily defeat an opponent in one or two blows.
Arakan no Doukan (Vessel Of Nirvana)
Having trained against several practitioners of the devastating martial art that is Achiever of Nirvana, one can build a fortitude against such blows, to the point that they would not be killed in the signature two or less strikes needed to kill someone, extending it to ten or more, depending on the area of the body under punishment. This level of physical training also aids against other fighting arts as well.
Katame (Defense)
True to its name, Katame is a defensive style of taijutsu used by most taijutsu specialists. Though meant as a defense against other taijutsu techniques, used properly this style can defend against a multitude of attacks. Instead of outright blocking an attack, Katame focuses on directional parrying that is well-complimented by the practitioner's own physical strength. Straight punches are usually pushed to the sides, attacks from above, if not dodged, are pushed away or to the side, and so on. The actual use of the style hangs on the user's ability to capitalize on such parries and off-balancing the target.
Ikiwotsuku (Take My Breath Away)
An incapacitating blow delivered bottom center to a person's ribcage, usually with a fist strike or palm thrust. This strike literally "knocks the wind out of the target", forcing them to gasp for air as if they had none. This renders them incapable of most any form of attack if hit, as they will be trying to hard to recover and catch their breath. Typically used with the first gate, but is not required to be.
Rai Funka (Lightning Eruption)
The user delivers a powerful uppercut to the target, aided by raiton jutsu, massive strength or some combination of the two. For Inami, it is often both. If it connects, the target is sent flying high into the air, left vulnerable by not only the pain of the punch itself, but whatever other means was used to further aid the attack. Most targets find that they are not able to react in time to recover, as the user is more often then not already preparing a follow-up attack.
Kumo Engai (Cloud Cover)
A taijutsu technique used by Cloud nin Inami, along with other nin from Kumo. This technique mimics others such as the Kage Buyo (Dancing Leaf Shadow) used by many Konoha taijutsu artists. Using superior speed on an already airborne target, the user disappears from their location on a platform (this includes both being on the ground, and using airborne objects as springboards) and reappears above the target. This quick maneuver leaves to door open for a host of follow-up techniques.
Tandemu no Rai (Ride The Lightning)
A taijutsu technique used by the Cloud nin Inami. Though this can be set up a variety of ways, its most common use is the follow-up technique to Kumo Engai (Cloud Cover). Once in position, Inami touches her finger to the person's spinal column in Raiton: Rai Ayatsuri (Lightning Release: Lightning Puppetry). Using electrical pulse commands, Inami stiffens their body straight and spreads their arms like the target were attempting to fly. Standing up and sticking her feet to the target's back with chakra, Inami essentially "surfs" the person's body back down to the ground. Seeing as the target cannot brace them self or move of their own will, the landing is often painful if not fatal, Inami's body weight from behind only adding to the impact.
Barasen Fushi (Barbed Wire Knuckle)
A taijutsu used with Inami's gloves. Chakra is used to eject some of the wire into inch long, steel-strong extensions that add piercing, painful damage to her melee strikes. These are not one per knuckle, but are many, and are not neatly standing up. They are straight and criss-crossed, which will cause horrible, wide puncture wounds that are potentially life-threatening. This requires no hand seals.
Rai no Ichimatsu (A Touch Of Lightning)
This taijutsu style adds shocks of electricity to the melee strikes of the raiton user. These shocks are powerful, using the target's own bioelectricity to shock their entire body through the nervous system. These strikes are painful, easily breaking one out of genjutsu. Each hit also leaves burn marks in the attacked area, as well as inflicting gradual paralysis of the area if more than three hits land in the same general location. Attacks to the chest can stagger heartbeats, and strong enough ones can stop the heartbeat altogether.
Oshiri Banpu (Booty Bump)
A taijutsu technique used by the Cloud nin Inami. This technique is born from her having both Seiha: Itadeken (Mastery: Hard Blow Style) and incredible speed. A useful technique both in battle and on the dance floor, Inami positions herself and shakes her hip to the left, right or back, knocking her rear into the recipient. As a normal movement, this move is purely for fun and humor. When actually used to it's full potential, Inami can send a person flying for many yards, sometimes even through other objects. It can easily break through things such as wood, stone, and brick and at least deform most metals.
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