Kamizuru Yuu [Chūnin]

[Kamizuru Yuu]

KAMIZURU YUU

hidamari sketch • sae
transmale • 18 • july 23 • heterosexual
iwagakure • kamizuru • chuunin • medic
dokushi - poisoned arrow

QUOTE

If you were born a bird, wouldn't you want to wear your rightful wings? Instead of being stuck in the body of a rat? My fur and whiskers may be soft and clean but it doesn't change the fact I was born to fly.

APPEARANCE

HEIGHT
5'7''

WEIGHT
149lbs.

EYES
L: Ice Blue
R: Amythyst

HAIR
Lilac

Yuu is a lean, but strong, individual. Not especially tall, he stands at five seven. Yuu is 149 pounds, upper body rather muscular as required both to be an archer and a medic. He keeps his lilac-colored hair somewhat short; even though it's styled a bit messy he never lets it get too close to his shoulders. His eyes are quite unusual; with the left eye being a cold, icy blue, and the right being a warm, inviting amethyst. Over these Yuu wears a pair of corrective lenses for astigmatism. He usually has three different pairs, for he has the habit of misplacing one then finding another. His favorite is the frameless lenses. Not especially offensive, Yuu isn't very muscular. He's fit and he's more suited to dodging, but stays far when he can. He wears his headband tied around his neck, but he will retie it tightly to his forehead when things start getting serious.

Yuu is rarely seen without his large quiver, always stocked with his arrows. When not in use, his recurve longbow is across his back, hitched to a strap on the quiver. When going on missions he wears his flak vest underneath an open hooded jacket, special pockets filled with wicks, matches, balls of beeswax, as well as ink pens and paper for drawing new seals. The hat he normally wears is replaced by the Iwa headband, the cloth a crisp blue color. There are always 32 arrows in his quiver, 24 straight-shaft bolts with blue fletching, 12 barbed arrows with green fletching, and 6 heavy broadheaded arrows with blood red fletching. He also wears a soft-leather three-finger archer's glove on the right hand, even while in the village, that extends upwards near the elbow. It's laced up from the wrist to the elbow across the top of the arm. On the right hand is a similar glove that lacks fingers completely, a strap instead going across the palm with a guard on the back of the hand to the knuckles.

The clothes Yuu wears are loose and baggy, often cloaking his form with zip-up hooded sweatshirts (usually short-sleeved) and capri-length pants, ankles bound to the knee for stability in sandy-brown sandals. The back of the sweatshirts are always adorned with the insignia of his clan: two black rings arranged in a bullseye. Wearing a long black wifebeater as an undershirt, he is almost always seen wearing the standard Iwa flak vest under the sweatshirt. Often times he'll sport a sandy-brown cap with a rusty-red cross in front in light of his medic training. If you should ever, ever catch Yuu while changing clothes, one thing you may find glaringly obvious is that he is a she. Tightly binding his small, B-cup chest and wearing thick pads in his shorts, Yuu goes about his day-to-day life being the man he should have been born as. In recent years, Yuu replaced plain bandage binding with wearing a light leather zip-up vest over the bindings, achieving the same goal while providing minimal protection. It's easier to explain underarmor than a chest injury.

PERSONALITY

Yuu is a rather friendly and honest person. He has a need for physical touch, and will often pat someone, give a playful punch, or any number of things that creates contact with the person he's talking with. However, he's skittish about most people getting too close to the torso; even if he has his chest bound as flat as he can, he's afraid he might still be found out. That particular concern is often overlooked when he finds himself in a situation with someone who is crying or upset. To Yuu, physical contact is a form of comfort, and he will pat or even hug that person in an attempt to help them calm down.

Yuu gets flustered very easily, especially when girls get just a little too close, or if he gets complimented on something he personally didn't think he did well on or was unsure of. He takes to adversary rather well, rebounding any insults that may come his way and occasionally rebuking with his own. He is extremely good-natured and it is difficult to make an enemy of him. Hell, even if you are an enemy, he'd lend you a hand if he felt you were deserving of it. Yuu calls people by the name he's asked to call them, rarely adding any suffixes unless requested to. He doesn't generally assign pet names, so if he calls you directly by something that isn't your name, your best bet is that you somehow managed to piss him off. Yuu rarely, if ever, curses. So when he does, it's serious.

As far as fighting, Yuu became a shinobi to help others. If at all possible, he doesn't like being the one to kill. His skills lay in supporting his allies and taking to high ground, injuring or disabling the opponent. If you want to bring back someone alive, Yuu makes a good partner for the quest, because he rarely misses his targets. When without his bow, Yuu is rather handicapped as far as destructive force is concerned. He's good at dodging and running, but his taijutsu abilities are less than sub-par. It is at those times that he utilizes the bees his clan is so well-known for.

Generally Yuu doesn't prefer to fight with the suzumebachi, because he feels, by relying on his bow, he's relying on his own power without having to fall back on the creatures he controls. Also, unlike many of the Kamizuru, Yuu has value for life, including those of his bees. They may be insects, but they are vital to the Kamizuru and not creatures he's okay with sending haphazardly to their deaths, even though he's quite aware the suzumebachi are trained to kamekaze. To a man, it is insignificant to save the life of a mouse; but to the mouse, it means the world.

Zealous

Loyal

Honest

Playful

Compassionate

HISTORY

ACADEMY AGE
7

GENIN AGE
13

CHUUNIN AGE
15

JOUNIN AGE
N/A

Yuu's parents met on the outskirts of the Waterfall country. His father had been a part of an excursion to a hotspring village just inside the border, where he had met Yuu's mother, a young kunoichi of Takigakure. During his father's one-month stay in the small village, the pair had become inseparable, and she ended up returning to Iwakagure with him when his group returned home. Not long after the marriage into the Kamizuru clan, the couple became pregnant, and during one unusually hot mountain summer, a pair of twins were born, a boy, and a girl.

For the first five years of their lives, the twins couldn't get along, not that they remember enough to tell you. They always needed to be separated, even as infants, for they'd slap and hit each other in a game of “Who cries first?” Yuu lost every time. When the twins were six, they were introduced to the bees. Kyo, the brother, took to them well, but the sister Yuu was frightened about the way they buzzed and of the sharp stingers they possessed. Not that it stopped her from trying, anyway.

Yuu didn't like fighting. She was a kinder spirit than her brother was. She didn't want to be a shinobi. When her brother enrolled into the Academy, she chose not to. During the next year she worked harder with the bees, building up a tolerance to the creatures and cultivating the honey from the honeybees the clan kept. It was from watching the bees that she realized that being a shinobi was not only about fighting, but also protecting, just as the bees protected their hive, their queen, their own. By the time she was seven, Yuu had entered the Academy.

It wasn't until Yuu was nine that she noticed a significant difference between herself and the other girls. It was more than just a matter of being a tomboy. Trying to be a part of them felt like trying to be something she wasn't. She was uncomfortable with her body; the way it was beginning to develop made her feel wrong. She didn't like the way she looked on a basic level, and began gravitating towards the boys and avoiding the girls. She became one of them.

By the time Yuu graduated the Academy and became a genin at 13, she'd already been tightly binding her chest and wearing baggy clothing. Despite the way she was born, she simply wasn't a girl, and that's all there was to it. Of course, there was more to it to that, but at the time, Yuu believed that to be the one truth. It was just a matter of getting others to accept it.

Kyo, Yuu's brother, had been surprisingly accepting of his sister-turned-brother. Despite the conflict through childhood, he'd always cared for Yuu the most, and was the one that introduced Yuu to the medical field. This is where she, turned he, found his calling. Yuu had become a shinobi to help others, not to fight, and healing was the best way to do it.

Aside from practicing archery with his mother's bow he'd been given, Yuu had set off in search of a medic willing to take on an apprentice. With the help of his genin squad leader, Yuu found Tsuujou David, an aging laid-back medic who would need someone to replace him, well, eventually. Dave always had made it a point to think ahead.

Yuu worked hard to develop his medic skills, insecure at first and growing gradually more confident. Similarly he improved his archery, changing his fighting style completely as he grew better. He didn't like to fight; he preferred supporting his teammates instead. It complimented his personality well. Eventually, Yuu combined his medical knowledge with his archery and made jutsu that would disable the enemy for multiple purposes.

Yuu by far will not claim himself to be an expert on anything; there are many things he still doesn't know and he is always trying to learn. While still helping cultivate honey at home, he spends a lot of time at the Iwa library, trying to learn more and more about himself, his medicine, and anything else that may prove fruitful in the future.

SHINOBI INFORMATION

EQUIPMENT

Kunai Holster (Right Leg) {Always}

• x10 Kunai
• x12 Exploding Tags

Hip Pouch (Left Hip) {Always}

• x10 Shuriken
• x1 Roll of Wax-Coated Wick, 25ft.
• x1 Lighter
• x6 Smoke Bombs
• x1 Reel of Razor Wire, 50ft.

Leather Quiver (Back) {Always}

• x24 Blue-Fletched Straight-Shaft Arrows
• x12 Green-Fletched Barbed Arrows
• x6 Red-Fletched Broadhead Arrows

Personal (Carried Loose on Body) {Always}

• x1 Mahogany and Ivory Recurve Bow, 5'4” long when relaxed.
• x1 Water Canteen {Usually}

Flak Jacket (Pockets/Pouches) {Always}

• x3 Soldier Pills
• ¼ lb. Malleable Beeswax
• x1 Wallet
• x1 Jackknife

Bag (Side Messenger Style) {Usually}

• x2 Water Bottles
• x1 Pocket-Sized Field Notebook
• x1 Ballpoint Ink Pen
• x1 Jar of Raw Honey, 12oz.
• x1 Mortar and Pestle
• x12 Small Blank Paper Slips
• x3 Small Storage Scrolls
• x3 Small Empty Jars, 8oz.
• x1 Pack of tissues.

Basic First Aid Kid (Carried in Side Bag) {Always}

• x30 Band-Aids, various sizes.
• x1 Bottle of Aspirin
• x1 Topical Bacitracin
• x12 Alcohol Wipes
• x5 Gauze Pads
• x1 Roll of Wrapping Gauze, 25ft.
• x1 Roll Medical Tape
• x5 Epinephrine Shots (Epipens)
  

Travel Bag (Larger Side Bag) {When Traveling}

• Contents of Side Bag
• Thermal Blanket
• Small Two-Man tent, Depending on Travel Intent
• Spare Clothes, Enough for Estimated Time Traveling
• x1 Coil of Rope, 100ft.
• Sanitary Pads, x3 Per Expected Day, Plus Two Extra Day's Worth

Field Medic Kit (Carry-On) {Missions or Spars, Generally}

• x6 Tranquilizer Darts
• x6 Plunger Needles of Lidocaine
• x6 Plunger Needles of Hydromorphine
• x1 Bottle of Rubbing Alcohol, 8oz.
• x1 Pair of Bandage Scissors
• x3 Tourniquets
• x3 Rolls of Gauze Wrap, 50ft.
• x20 Gauze Pads, various sizes.
• x25 Cotton Balls
• x2 Rolls of Medical Tape, 25ft.
• x1 Precision Knife
• x3 Blood Pills
• x1 Bacitracin Ointment
• x20 Bandaids, various sizes.
• x1 Bottle of Aspirin
• x5 Various Sized Curved Suture Needles
• x1 Roll of Suture Thread, 20ft.
• x25 Alcohol Wipes
• Various Homeade Poultices (Number and Kind Varies)

SPECIAL ABILITIES

i. Fuuinjutsu — Yuu's offensive bow-and-arrow skills utilize fսսinjutsu. Either carving seals into the wax he dips his arrows in directly onto the shaft or wrapping a paper seal around the shaft before dipping, each seal gives a different effect. He has four offensive seals, but knows a handful of others. A particular favorite is the one that causes the burn in "Burning Arrow," which is what earned him the nickname "Dokushi."



ii. Medical Ninjutsu — Since becoming a genin Yuu has been training to become a medic, under the guidance of Tsuujou Dave. The training is going well and Yuu is becoming an accomplished medic but he understands he has a long way to go still.



iii. Summoning Contract — As a Kamizuru, Yuu is contracted to the suzumebachi bees. These bees can aid him in battle, although he actively chooses not to use them most times. He isn't too fond of bees but he still does not like sending them pointlessly to their deaths. When he does use them, though, the effects can be devastating. Despite his unease with the buzzing creatures, he has a way with them and has never been stung by the clan's normal honeybees nor the Royal Guard bees in the center of the hive. He is one of the few able to cultivate that rare and sweet honey. Cultivating honey is something Yuu enjoys doing, and he will often hand out small jars of it.

^{PRIMARY PATH}
Mind

^{SECONDARY PATH}
Soul

^{TERTIARY PATH}
Body

TECHNIQUES

^NATURE
| Suiton

^{MANIPULATIONS}
| Suiton
| Doton

S-Rank
--
A-Rank
^{ENSUTO JIKANGIRE NO JUTSU [STALL OUT TECHNIQUE]
Fuuinjutsu: Hakai Ya [Sealing Art: Destruction Arrow]
Gyaku Houin [Reverse Sealing Method]}
B-Rank
^{HAYAI CHIYU [ACCELERATED RECOVERY]}
C-Rank
^{Chakra no Mesu [Chakra Scalpel]
Doton: Doroana [Earth Style: Mudhole]
Doton: Doroku Gaeshi [Earth Release: Earth Shore Return]
Doton: Doryūsō [Earth Style: Earth Flow Spears]
Doton: Kawazoku [Earth Style: River Bottom]
Fսսinjutsu: Mahi Ya [Sealing Art: Numbing Arrow]
Fuuinjutsu: Moeru Ya [Sealing Art: Burning Arrow]
Fuuinjutsu: Nemuri Ya [Sealing Art: Sleeping Arrow]
Hachimitsu no Jutsu [Bee Honey Technique]
Hone Naoshimono [Bone Mending]
Kai [Release]
Kamizuru No Jutsu: Hachi No Danmaku [Kamizuru Technique: Bee Barrage]
Kamizuru No Jutsu: Odori No Mitsubachi [Kamizuru Technique: Dance Of Bees]
Kuchiyose no Jutsu[Summoning Technique]
Mitsunento No Jutsu [Sticky Honey Spit Technique]
Shousen no Jutsu [Mystical Hand Technique]
Subako Kawarimi No Jutsu [Hive Change Of Body Stance Technique]
Suija [Water Snake]
Suiton: Iyashi Fureru No Izumi [Water Style: Healing Spring Touch]
Suiton: Seisei [Water Style: Purification]
Tekihutsu [Extraction]
Yuketsu [Blood Transfusion]}
D-Rank
^{Buutai Houin [Object Sealing Method]
Hachi no Senbon no Jutsu [Thousand Bee Stings Technique]
Hone Setto [Bone Set]
Mokuzai Kyouka [Wood Enhancement]
Shunshin [Body Flicker]}
E-Rank
^{Bunshin no Jutsu [Clone Skill]
Henge no Jutsu [Transformation Technique]
Kakuremino no Jutsu [Magic Cloak of Invisibility Skill]
Kawarimi no Jutsu [Body Switch Skill]
Keikoku Mosu [Signal Flare]
Kinobori no Waza [Act of Tree Climbing]
Nawanuke no Jutsu [Rope Untying Skill]
Suimen Hokou no Waza [Act of Water Surface Walking]}

OOC INFORMATION

Chat Name: Yuu
Other Characters: Namame Kashii, Tsukaima Heiki, Renada Rin, Aburame Kagerou, Delta, Hikyoku Ginrei, Kurosaki Seiya, Kennou Shimei, Shimizu Makoto, Hyuuga Hayato, Isei Kimiko, Enoki Izaya

[Rambles]

Bump it's age up a year and we're golden.

1/2

[Optic]

accepted. locked. moved.

2/2