MAITENSHOU, Joushousen (Genin)

JOUSHOUSEN MAITENSHOU

NAME: Joushousen Kidou Maitenshou
ALIAS': Jou.
AGE: 17
D.O.B.: Unknown
GENDER: Male
HEIGHT: 5'9"
WEIGHT: 151 lbs.
OTHER: Light brown, shoulder length hair. Emerald green eyes.
ORIENTATION: Straight, bordering on asexual.
NINJA RANK: Genin. In name only. Has been purposely holding himself back in rank for several years and posesses all the power and skill of any mid-high grade Chuunin.
OCCUPATION: Front Fighter, Defensive/Support unit. Manages his mother's store in the afternoons.
VILLAGE: Hidden Leaf

PERSONALITY: Something of a die, Jou is quite a multi-faceted person. Not to say that he is two-faced, but he has many different... modes, you could call it. Publicly and outwardly, he is kind, pleasant, and friendly. Easy going, a decent sense of humor, sarcastic at times. Helps others with their problems whether physical or emotional. All in all he might seem to make friends easily. At the same time, he would seem to put forth that skill and power don't matter, having all but dropped out of the shinobi organization at genin, and no longer having a specific team.

When alone, however, the public mask that went along with a full decade of hiding his full capabilities from others fades and you begin to see the real Joushousen. Introspective and contemplative, he's a thinker on a practical and philosophical scale. In his truer skin, he becomes significantly less friendly. Those whom he might seem to be friendly with in public suddenly no longer matter and one gets to the level of actual friends and allies. Quiet, reserved, dedicated. In truth, he takes the gaining of knowledge, power, and skill very seriously, and it is in this mode, unrestricted by hiding his elemental powers, that he trains each and every night. His pursuit of power, however, is still personal. While he will fight for and protect the village and those he cares for, he doesn't gain power for them, he gains it to explore his own ability to its fullest extent, and to master each of the elements as such.

When presented with a situation he finds unpleasant-- IE, the presense of a Hyuuga, or a discussion of the 4th war--, Jou becomes very standoffish, sarcastic, cynical, and critical. Those who are not his friends come to know it in this mode of impersonability, and even those who he honestly calls friend may easily get a snide or bit off comment. With this attitude, he is well enough looking for a fight. Though he may not be the one to start it, he would certainly relish it should it come. However, depending on the opponent, he may still hold back so as to contain his secret.

On missions, something of a combination of the aforementioned occurs. He may joke and laugh among any friends in his team, but otherwise he tends to remain quiet, contemplative, and analytical. Once again, depending on his team and what they already know, he will tend to hold back his abilities even if it means they will fail the mission. This, particularly, is one of the reasons why he publicly seems to have abandoned the pursuits of the ninja.

In combat, against those Joushousen considers enemy, he becomes a totally different animal. His personality can shift from laughing and taunting to silent and deadly to enraged and violent. Regardless of his demeanor however, the element master is truly ruthless. The lives of any who have been deemed "enemy" truly do not matter and he will freely and openly maim, torture, and kill his enemies with out a second thought... or even much of a first, really. While he may consider the tactical value in leaving a person alive, there is no guarantee that he will follow through, especially if no one else is there to stop him. As a result of his resolve to kill, he rarely hides the full scope of his capabilities from his enemies for long. While he may hold back some techniques in order to spring them on the enemy in an advantageous situation, he doesn't care what enemy of his knows that he commands the elements as he does. Afterall, who will you tell once you're resting in pieces...?

All that said, Joushousen is a loyal person. Loyal to his village, his family, and any true friends he makes. And, with the recent death of his adoptive father, Joushousen's public mode has begun to take a back seat to his truer face. Taking a much more serious approach to his training and staying in the public eye less and less. It may quite well result in a search for re-entry into the dealings of the shinobi, and the pursuit to becoming chuunin.

LIKES:

• Heights
  
• Silence
  
• Basking in sunlight
  
• Staring at the full moon
  
• Squid/seafood in general
  
• Training
  
• Observing enemy techniques

DISLIKES:

• Anything to do with the 4th ninja war
  
• Traitors
  
• Responsibility
  
• Not being able to mimic and emulate a jutsu
  
• His inability to perform genjutsu
  
• Cold weather
  
• Rain
  
• The Hyuuga (One, in particular. General attitude trickles into dealings with others.)
  

STRENGTHS:

• Very high chakra reserves
  
• Physical Speed
  
• Elemental Ninjutsu/manipulation (both offense and defense)
  
• Quick thinker during combat
  
• Easily able to breakdown and mimic the components of elemental ninjutsu. Learning them rapidly and even turning them back on the enemy within the same battle in the case of more simple techniques.

WEAKNESSES:

• Genjutsu
  
• Foes whose primary/only weakness is genjutsu.
  
• Physical accuracy over long distances (thrown weapons)
  
• Strategizing/Planning before a battle.
  
• Prolonged taijutsu activity due to relatively low physical stamina (working to eliminate)

LIFE GOALS:

• Completely master all of the elements.
  
• Learn every elemental jutsu in the world.
  
• Find out where he came from.
  
• Locate his birth family and find out why they abandoned him.

WEAPONS:
Kunai, Shuriken, Steel Wire, Exploding Tags, Flash Grenade Spheres, Two Fuuma Shuriken, One basic steel katana.

FIGHTING STYLE: Primarily a mid range ninjutsu fighter, Joushousen is capable of skilled hand to hand combat. While he is not the strongest or best around, holding his own with kunai, katana, or his bare hands has never been an overt issue. Having trained for several years in kenjutsu as part of any and all taijutsu training he participated in, his utilege of swordsmanship is varied and effective. Quick of foot and hand as a general rule, he strikes fast, hard, and without mercy.

His true shining point, however, is using his elemental capabilities combined with intermittant physical conflict to counteract whatever the enemy throws at him in order to open up any weak spots in their offenses or defences. Quick thinker during the heat of battle that he is, reacting to an enemy jutsu with what would counter it is veritably instinctual for the element master.

In his pursuit of elemental dominance, Jou employs a wide range of jutsu for numerous different effects. Ever seeking to increase his range of usefulness in combat, he actively attempts to mimic his opponents. Stealing their jutsu. Attempting to recreate and copy their movements and actions outside of battle, if not still within.

CHAKRA NATURE: "Elemental". Only his Earth techniques are public knowledge; meaning that no one who hasn't been specifically shown his other skills knows what he can really do.

TECHNIQUES:

[Unique]

• Name: Butai Seiha- Element Mastery.
  Type: Kekkei Genkai
  Nature: Elemental
  Rank: Varies
  Chakra cost: Varies
  Range: Varies
  Description: The kekkei genkai of a forgotten clan whose only remotely known origns lie in the hidden cloud. Beyond that is unknown. This bloodline trait grants in the inheritor the capability to utilize all of the elemental chakra natures at will. Elemental Ninjutsu of all kinds and, with increased chakra requirements and significantly less shape control, free manipulation of given elements outside the restraints of jutsu are all within the realm of the element master. The utilage of this capability over the hopelessly unknown and uncountable generations gives the user naturally enhanced chakra levels as well as the uncanny ability to breakdown and adapt new element based jutsu into their repetoire, even if it is of a level beyond their ability to properly-- or even safely-- use. Theoretically, it would even, eventually (read B+/A- jounin level), give the user the ability to combine the given elements into their various unique releases. However, such a high degree and unusual varience of chakra control would require it be directly and specifically taught to a butai seiha user by either a senior clansman who has already mastered the skill or someone who possesses-a/has-control-of-their Kekkei Tota trait.
  Weaknesses: The chief weakness is the chief strength... in creating such a natural talent for elemental based jutsu, other jutsu outside of raw chakra control (which is still largely individually based), suffer greatly. Butai Seiha inheritor's have absolutely zero capability to use Genjutsu of any kind; Even getting a hold of the basics would take years of specifically focused training. Other, non elemental ninjutsu suffer as well. While they can learn or even modify the given jutsu to utilize an element, it tends to take significantly more time than usual to learn so. Their taijutsu, however, remains relatively unaffected, one way or the other. Another issue with this ability is in its genetics.... It is something of a recessive trait that, regardless of specifically focused breeding has a very slim chance of manifesting in a child. Even the main line of any given clan of Butai Seiha would have spotty results in its progeny's inheritance.

[Earth]

• NAME: Stone Shuriken
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  NATURE: Earth
  RANK: C
  CHAKRA COST: Low
  RANGE: Medium
  DESCRIPTION: The user calls forth-- or uses preexisting-- rocks from the surrounding area, reshapes them into the vague shape of simple ninja tools such as shuriken, kunai, and senbon, and hurls them at the enemy.
  SIDE EFFECTS: Using chakra to directly throw the shuriken uses more chakra than just forming the shuriken, though they can also be thrown by hand. Once thrown, they're out of the users control, and another must be created.
  
  
• NAME: Wall of Stone
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  NATURE: Earth
  RANK: D
  CHAKRA COST: Minimal-medium
  RANGE: Close-Medium
  DESCRIPTION: The user calls a stone slab from the ground to be used for defensive purposes. Size of the wall is directly proportional to chakra cost.
  SIDE EFFECTS: Once called forth, the wall is stationary. Another utilage is required for further defense if the user moves away from the first. As with any Earth Jutsu, offending Lightning element of sufficient power (proportional to how much power was used/how large the wall is in this jutsu) can break through the wall.
  
  
• NAME: Doton: Doryooroi - Earth Release Armor "Stone Armor"
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: The user coats their bodyparts in durable stone armor, making them more resilliant to damage. With applied shape manipulation, the armor can become blunt or dully edged weapons, making this both an offensive and defensive technique.
  
  
• NAME: Doton: Retsudo Tenshou - Tearing Earth Turning Palm
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: By caving the earth in on itself, the user creates what would appear to be an unrefined, rocky pit of rotating quicksand which pulls in and crushes enemies. Particularly effective in rocky terrain.
  

[Fire]

• NAME: Katon: Karyuudan - Fire Dragon bullet
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: A thin, lengthy stream of fire breath exuded from the user's mouth.
  
  
• NAME: Katon: Goukyaku no Jutsu - Great Fireball Technique
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: User builds chakra in their mouth before expelling it in the growing shape of a fireball. The end result is a massive ball of roaring flames that lauches forward and will explode on impact with any overtly solid object.

[Wind]

• NAME: Kaze Kaiten - Whirlwind
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  NATURE: Wind
  RANK: B
  CHAKRA COST: Moderate
  RANGE: Close
  DESCRIPTION: By commanding and containing a rotating vortex of air, the user guards themselves on all sides with a strong shield that deflects most everything away from the user in the direction of the rotation.
  SIDE EFFECTS: Large, heavy objects (ie, large boulders) can overwhelm the shields rotation and get to the user inside. Excessive/powerful fire based jutsu can ignite the shield, turning it into a flame vortex that can then harm the user.
  
  
• NAME: Fuuton: Ressenpu - Violent Whirlwind "Gale Fan"
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: A wide-spread, high powered wind blown from the mouth. It is strong enough to blow thrown weapons back at the attacker, and even stop charging attackers in their path. It can even buffet and injure weaker clones enough to dispell them.
  
  
• NAME: Soaring Draft
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  NATURE: Wind
  RANK: C
  CHAKRA COST: Low
  RANGE: Self
  DESCRIPTION: A strong gust of wind that pushes up beneath the user, greatly increasing jump height as well as enabling the user to glide by drastically reducing fall velocity. Can be further improved by wearing baggy clothing that will increase surface area affected by the wind.
  SIDE EFFECTS: Gliding for extended periods continually drains chakra.
  

[Water]

• NAME: Suiton: Ryuuchouben - Flowing Whip
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: After spewing water from the mouth, the user shapes it into an elongated whip that can be used to lash enemies or strike down projectiles.
  
  
• NAME: Suiton: Mizu Bunshin no Jutsu - Water Clone Technique
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: Clones made of water. Being solid rather than illusionary, these clones can attack or perform other physical tasks away from the user. The range, however, is limited. Sending the clone too far away will result in losing control, and the collapse of the clone back to water.
  
  
• NAME: Suiton: Teppoudama - Gunshot "Water Bullet"
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: C
  RP DESCRIPTION: A concentrated blast of water fired from the mouth. Fired at high velocity, they possess as much penetrating power as an actual gun shot.
  

[Lightning]

• NAME: Jinrai - Thunderclap
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  NATURE: Lightning
  RANK: D
  CHAKRA COST: Moderate
  RANGE: Medium
  DESCRIPTION: Charging chakra into the fist, the user builds a powerful bolt of lightning that is then fired from the palm or finger tips. Can be directed very slightly with active shape control during the split second that the bolt is firing. It can, however, home in on metal objects on a target's body.
  SIDE EFFECTS: Narrow, singular bolt of lightning. As such, it can be dodged if the target sees it coming. While it can arc slightly to seek a target, the same metal tracking can be used by the target to direct the blast away from their person by throwing a metal object away from themselves.
  
  
• NAME: Inabikari - Flash of Lightning
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  NATURE: Lightning
  RANK: C
  CHAKRA COST: Minimal
  RANGE: Medium
  DESCRIPTION: The user generates and issues a massively bright, wide-spread light from their body which temporarily blinds all who looked at the flash, making their eyes useless for approximately ten minutes.
  SIDE EFFECTS: Adversaries must be facing the user for it to take effect; closing the eyes but still facing the flash still blinds but for significantly less time-- around five minutes. Can easily result in friendly fire if allies are ill informed of the users intentions.
  

[Neutral]

• NAME: Ki Nobori no Shugyō - Wall/Tree Climbing
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: E
  RP DESCRIPTION: The user covers their feet with at thin layer of chakra, which acts as a sticky substance to allow them to walk up solid surfaces.
  
  
• NAME: Suimen Hokō no Gyō - Water Surface Walking
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: E
  RP DESCRIPTION: The user covers their feet with a thin layer of chakra, which acts as a solid surface to allow them to walk on water.
  
  
• NAME: Henge no Jutsu - Transformation Technique
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: E
  RP DESCRIPTION: This jutsu changes the users body. They can change into another person, animal, plant, or even weapons.
  
  
• NAME: Kawarimi no Jutsu - Body Replacement Technique
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: E
  RP DESCRIPTION: Allows the user to replace their body with a nearby object to avoid an incoming attack. This causes the enemy to believe that their attack has hit the target, providing enough time for the user to escape or attack.
  
  
• NAME: Kai - Dissipation
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: E
  RP DESCRIPTION: The user stops their flow of chakra and then applies a stronger force of chakra to break out of the genjutsu. This can also be used to harmlessly break a genjutsu's effect off another person.
  
  
• NAME: Shunshin no Jutsu - Body Flicker Technique
  TYPE: Ninjutsu
  RANK: D
  RP DESCRIPTION: A sudden burst of chakra and the user disappears. Often utilizing elements such as dirt or leaves to disguise his disappearance, this technique is mostly used to provide a swift escape or even rapid movement over short distances when used in succession.
  

Parents:

• Birth Parents: Unknown
  
• Adoptive Parents:
  • Keigetsuki Aizen Maitenshou - Father. Deseased.
    
  • Yurona Maitenshou - Mother. 61. General store owner.

Siblings: Unknown/None

Love Interest: None

Children: None

History: A young woman. A runaway from her reclusive clan. Reasons unknown, intentions unknown, destination... the Cloud. Whether that was where she intended to end up or not is unknown as well, but one thing is clear; the hidden cloud village in the land of lightning is where she settled. And settled down. After proving her loyalty enough to climb through the ranks of the Kumo Shinobi, the woman became pregnant. The father was dedicated enough for things to progress happily. Little did she know of the plot lurking in the darkness behind the silver lining.

Whether shadow units within the Cloud or the machinations of the then Raikage, the woman and her child were marked for death. These unknown elements deemed her capabilities-- free manipulation of all of the elements... ice release, lava-- much too dangerous. It was clear she possessed some sort of powerful kekkei genkai; and while it was clear enough to the normal folk that her intentions were good and pure-- aiding the village--, these shadows deemed her both dangerous, and an opportunity. Dangerous in that a birth of such a potentially powerful clan within the Cloud could easily result in a repeat of what the leaf had recently encountered with their Uchiha. Opportunity in the accuisition and control of her power for their own means.

They could both ill afford to: take that chance and pass up the opportunity to use genetic modifications to acquire this ability of hers. Little did they know of the inherant genetic weakness in her kekkei genkai... there was only a twenty percent chance that any of her descendants would possess the trait... Butai Seiha. Such was the curse of her clan... main family or the most obscure branch. Regardless of genetic purity, every son and daughter of the clan possessed an equally slim chance of being an inheritor. Oh, they were all carriers... but the manifestation... that was rare.

And so the darkness within the Cloud plotted in secret while the woman and the father of her child lived in harmony and happiness. A few short months after their son was born, however, the darkness within the cloud clapped their thunder upon the small family. They both ran with the boy. South. Toward the border of the lightning. They'd go across the sea if they had to.

Enroute, the pursuit unit-- a small army of ninja-- caught up with the pair. The man sacrificed himself fighting them off while the woman rushed on. Upon reaching a cliff that marked the edge of Lightning ground, the woman was cornered. She could jump. Run across the sea. But they could follow just as easily... using a powerful technique that gathered up a heavy cloud, she placed the basket with her crying, infant son upon it, floating gently, and sent it south through the skies. Turning back to her pursuers, she cast a monstrous lava element jutsu and completely incinerated every last one of the cloud ninja and herself, as well.

None too far north of the hidden Leaf village, by a winding river whose shores were cleared of the copious trees that so ironically infested the land of Fire, a thick fog rolled in across the trees and water from the northeast. A middle aged couple, out for a walk-- unwise as that may be-- was just turning back to the village when something that hadn't been there on their way out obstructed their path... a basket with a sleeping-- and dangerously cold-- baby boy inside.

The couple had never succeeded in having children; the man was a Leaf chuunin, so damage was understandable; and so, upon nursing the child back to health, adopted him. Joushousen Kidou Maitenshou. Little did they know what they were truly in for.... The child was quite normal for several years. A little quiet, but always friendly and playful with others. Right about the time that the fourth war was beginning, however, when the boy was six, his parents caught a small glimpse of just what their precious son was capable.

A bottle of juice on a high shelf, and an impatient Joushousen. His mother was off doing some chore or other, and his father was sitting at the table, reading a paper. As the small boy reached in vain, the bottle began slipping towards the edge. Just as it was about to tip over, Keigetsuki looked up from his paper and saw the glass bottle about to crack his son's head open. Just as the aging chuunin sprang from his seat, the bottle of juice stopped in mid air, and floated slowly down to the small, waiting hands of Jou.

Keigetsuki didn't believe his eyes until a similar stunt occured a few days later. Jou's parents stressed in him the importance of keeping his capabilities a secret. Soon after, Kei was called to combat while Yurona was left to tend to the budding ninja and all his miraculous capabilities.

Soon after, with repeated assurances that Jou would keep his abilities secret from the other children, Yurona enrolled the boy in the ninja academy. A short time thereafter, Keigetsuki returned from the war, injured. The medics had been able to treat him well enough, but injuries to his joints and tendons ensured that he'd never be able to perform his duties as a chuunin again.

The years passed as Kei taught Jou the best he could while the boy kept his abilities hidden from all but his parents. However, it took many years and many failed tests for Joushousen to graduate from the academy. While he had already learned and even invented a number of elemental jutsu, many of the basic academy jutsu were so ludicrously difficult for him to grasp. This, of course, frustrated him. His advanced age and secretive nature isolated him from the other children in the academy.

Eventually, he gave up altogether on learning the clone jutsu, its illusiary nature too much for him, and developed a much more advanced Ninjutsu, the water clone. With a rouse of smoke and misdirection, Joushousen kept the fact that his clones consisted of water from the grading sensei's and graduated almost at the age of fourteen (by his parents reckon).

Put on a team of fellow genin of his year, Jou was much older and taller than his team mates; a young, arrogant Hyuuga boy and an impatient and distant lighning user. For months they trained, drilled, and went on missions. And for months, Joushousen hid the large part of his capabilities, displaying only kenjutsu, taijutsu, and a scant two Doton techniques. They regularly failed any C-rank missions they were forced onto, to the point where their sensei, an irritating and strict jounin, held them back from not one, but two chuunin exams.

All the while Joushousen and the Hyuuga brat fought almost continuously. Analytical as he had become, Joushousen figured out the weaknesses in the boy's Byakugan and gentle fist techniques, and even developed one particularly skillful jutsu based on the Hyuuga's Kaiten skill. But every single time... every single match, Joushousen lost. By the second or third match, the young man was confident he could thoroughly bury the Hyuuga brat with his full skillset, but he resisted the urges and endured the insessant gloating in order to keep his secret.

When the third chuunin exam rolled around and Jou had acquired a few more jutsu that he publicly revealed, their sensei forced them to join despite Jou's resistance. In the second round, Joushousen intentionally lost the test for his team. After the event, their sensei chewed them out. Finally, he had had enough. In keeping with his thorough act, Jou said "Look, I'm obviously holding you guys back... just drop me from the team. Get someone else." It took little convincing to get them to agree....

Since then, Joushousen has been without a team, sent only on the occasional mission with another team of young genin. Ever hiding what he can really do in the solitude of training alone in the woods.

Not long ago, however, the element master's world was turned upside-down... his father had been suffering from some cancer for several years. The elderly man, on his deathbed, revealed the truth to Joushousen. "You're adopted, son... we found you in the.. middle of a fog. North of the v-village. You've a power within you th-that is... not from here.... I'm s-sorry.... In our fear of.. of you... being discovered, we've been... h-hold-ding you back.. for s-so long.... B-be proud of you..your abilities... my son. Ple-..please. Do not h-hide any... longer." A tear formed in the corner of a wrinkle ridden eye. "B-be the n-ninja you... can truly b-be...." Keigetsuki died soon after.

It was at that time that the resentment that had been building in Joushousen for all things to do with the fourth great ninja war reached its peak. And it was at that time that the skilled young man, with all his elemental powers, grew determined to become more powerful. He would become the ninja he was truly capable of being. But not necessarily through the means of the Kage and their structured systems of rank and power. He would do it his own way, by mastering all of the jutsu he could. By training on his own as he always had. Harder than ever.

Unfortunately, learning all that he could would likely require access to more powerful opponents than he had as a genin, pretending to be many many times weaker than he really was.... Perhaps he would have to reacclimate himself to the ways of the working ninja... Unfortunately, that would mean subjecting himself to another team of children....