He wore a big smile as Sagiri carried him through the paddy fields ー if it were one of his brothers they would have dunked in the water. His sisters would probably have said that being a Shinobi is more serious than that ー Sagiri was nicer than them all in that regard. [break][break]
The man was old (older than his parents at least) and had one of those aged and tired faces that comes after a life of manual labor, and a striking set of eyes that judges everything and is grumpy. Before Yozei could prompt his surprise the man’s eyes had judged them both and said promptly: “This ain’t a playground for kids. Get the hell outta here, I got work to do.” [break][break]
“We’re Shinobi, mister!” Yozei shot back and proudly tugged his headband forward, and gave a light tap of Sagiri’s. “Today’s our very first mission!” At this he heaved and ho’d himself forward and off of Sagiri’s shoulders. He landed and crouched in ankle deep water and stayed there posing after finishing: “And we’re here to save this paddy field!” [break][break]
Very much unamused by Yozei’s antics, the old man instead looked to Sagiri mostly in the hope that she would take away the kid she was babysitting.
He knew his way around the Land of Rice as well as anyone ー it was his home afterall, though his father and mother were always in conflict about it. His father had no intention of laying roots here, that's what he always said, which was an odd thing to say because he wasn’t a gardener. And, his mother tended to agree because she argued with him time and time again. She always got the last word in too, and he remembered those words: [break][break] There’s power here. [break][break] Back to Sagiri, Yozei knew the lay of the land but Sagiri seemed to know people. “Old man Ikeda.” He repeated and offered a grinning, “Nope! But, isn’t everyone nice to you Sagiri?” [break][break] Yozei stepped back to (struggle) peer over the paddies of the field for this old man ー nice old man Ikeda, but his brief attempt had only been met with failure. He wasn’t any taller than Sagiri (she was taller, actually) and the thought of both of them walking through until they found him made him suddenly impatient ー there had to be a better way. The thought came to him, and he acted quickly! [break][break] A short sprint to Sagiri ended with him leaping in the air onto her back, hands pushing down on her hair to steady himself. The childish kekeke left him as he scanned the fields (for until he was allowed on her shoulders). In his quick cursor scan, he thought he spotted something in the distance, something orange that stuck out like an eyesore in the fields of green. “There!” He would shout pointing a finger in the direction.
“I won’t get bored!” [break][break] He said in protest. There wasn’t no way he would get bored on his first mission ー even if it wasn’t the danger he wanted. At the very least there was a chance he could cut himself on the thorny rice, ridiculous as it was. “One day,” Yozei began in a pensive tone. “We’ll be fighting in wars and I wouldn’t want to go hungry then, or have to eat bladed rice.” [break][break] The thought caused him to lick his teeth, blood spilled from his gums and the very real taste of iron on his tongue. He snapped the scroll shut and with it gone went the thoughts and imagery. “Sagiri! For our first mission, we have to do our very best, okay?” Yozei grinned and bumped her shoulder with his, and promptly bounced to the rice paddy field, and he warned as he remembered an important tidbit of what he just read: “We got until the sun goes down too.” [break][break] It was already midday and to say that their mission was already off on a late start was something of an understatement. Oh well, next location, a rice paddy field!
He hadn’t known Sagiri to be animated and he hadn’t expected anything but indifference towards his threat, but still, a part of him wondered why the metal had clinked together. Why his six pointed stars had come together so awkwardly and struck in the wall a ways from his target. Yozei glanced down at his hands for a moment before taking back his shuriken and asked himself, had there been a problem with the flick of his wrist? [break][break]
“Hopefully!” Yozei sprung, excited and optimistic as he retrieved the scroll from his pouch. He had always heard talk of how Genin are given grunt work, boring and often menial tasks (and while he understood boring, he had no clue what menial meant). “You won’t be ready until you try, Sagiri! And, I’ll get as many cuts until then, but look ー” [break][break]
The scroll unfurled and he brought it to Sagiri’s face, and scrunched beside her to read it himself (he hadn’t read it before because he wanted his first mission to be a surprise!) It had a fancy title The Thorne Identity and the gist of it was that they were to inspect a rice field and pick out a terrible weed (or something like that). There was a picture of this Thorne, and it was like a double edged grain. [break][break]
“I think this is one of those menial tasks, the kind that’s perfect for you Sagiri. You’re the smartest kid I’ve ever known.”
His eyes shifted between the clinking shuriken as he tried to maneuver it deftly. The art of overlapping shuriken so that one became two, three, four or five ー his instructor had shown them a trick, and from three flicks of his hand rained twenty-five shuriken. At the time the massive volley had been nothing short of impressive, and the captivated Yozei still wished to acquire that skill. Despite how immediately after his instructor had noted that such a volley would and could be deflected by any Shinobi worth a damn. [break][break]
Yozei wasn’t worth a damn, and he didn’t even know how one could quantify a damn. Take, for instance, Sagiri ー she was someone he considered to be worth a damn, but he doubted she could stop a shower of twenty-five shuriken. Light brown eyes shifted to her person, a dangerous glint took to his eyes as he palmed the shuriken. The best opportunity to strike was always when they didn’t expect it. [break][break]
“Sagiri!” He called, his hand flicked in her direction and a whirling six pointed star flicked under the tunnel’s artificial light. Crystals mostly, there was a trick to it (Yozei figured it a jutsu) that let the chamber lights mirror the world above. And, only if you were raised in the underground could you note that the afternoon was upon them. [break][break]
“We’ve got our first mission!” Yozei said as if he hadn’t thrown a shuriken at her.
APPEARANCE: Yozei is rather undersized for his age at a height of 155 cm and a weight of 45kg, he has short curly white hair that is dark brown at the roots, and a mean set of light brown eyes. He is often seen wearing a simple dark brown attire with a grey set of suspenders and a ninja pouch slung across his chest. His Otogakure headband hangs from his neck like a gold chain, and best believe he’ll die for it.
HISTORY: He comes from a long line of Shinobi, and there is reason to believe that their ties lie to the long lost, but not forgotten, Hidden Leaf Village. His parents are like hawks, and he has a rather large family (his father got busy and his mom was with it all). The one thing of note that he recalls from his parents is that they hold on to the belief that the Leaf will rise again, his father is quoted saying as sure as the springtime of youth will bloom, so will the Leaf rise. For that reason his family, past and present, have fought for Otogakure, and so shall Yozei fight for the village.
After graduating from the academy, he asked his mother why father was so critical of them (and likewise disappointed in his siblings). He isn’t disappointed, his mother claimed, rather there is a lineage, a claim to power that he hopes will one day appear. What is this claim to power, Yozei asked and his mother smiling answered: the Will of Fire.
CHARACTER: Yozei is the last of eight children, five brothers and two sisters and he bounds with energy. His brothers (and father) never really had much time for him, Otogakure is a busy village, so he’s always been eager to prove himself and make them happy whenever he had time with them. Only really his mother made time for him, and his sisters (forcefully) too, and so Yozei has matured more than people realize. He sees things, things they don’t acknowledge that he sees, but he sees and hears it. The thing he understands most is that life has a way of making people sad, and sad people don’t always keep on trucking, so if he could be the best trucker - the trucker that gets everyone trucking on, then that’s what he would like to be.
RANK: Otagakure Genin
Proficiencies
Taijutsu [Rookie] When you look at his size and weight, Yozei doesn’t give the impression of someone who hits hard (and he doesn’t). To make up for his shortcomings, Yozei focuses on concentrated strikes, repeated attacks in one area or precise strikes to vitals (which as far as he knows are things like the neck, eyes, throat, stomach).
Shurikenjutsu [Rookie]
He prefers the kunai to the shuriken, because it can double as a knife (or dagger) and adding an explosive tag makes it much more efficient than a shuriken.
Stealth [Rookie]
Yozei is as trained as the next graduate, and doesn’t have much to offer in the field of stealth (far as being innovative goes), but he is keen on implying misdirection when it comes to this field. For that reason he tends to keep smoke grenades or other distractors (sound or light bombs) to conceal his movements.
Senju Heritage [Unranked]
This comes from his father’s side, and while the Senju genes have been relatively dormant since the fall of Konoha, his father still has hope that the bloodline will awaken.
Bakuton (Blast Release) [Dormant]
He gets it from his mother, whose family is quite known for producing users of the element (she was outcast from the family for marrying a man whose status was and is unproven).
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league of Legends
Yozei Bando looks like Ekko.
Last Edit: Nov 13, 2021 1:27:24 GMT by Sharp: Senju heritage is unranked, the KKG is seperate.
