(Tanaka) Amara

[Amara]

[Permission for Jinchuuriki has been gained. ^^ Thank you Gaara.]

Name : Amara
Nickname: n/a
Age: 19
Height: n/a
Weight: n/a
Blood Type : AB
Birth date: 17th July
Rank: Chuunin

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Cannon Jutsu: N/A

Custom Jutsu :

Raikouken [Electric Fist]
Taijutsu - Ninjutsu
C Rank

Instead of Gouken [Iron Fist] Amara actually has worked with Rokubi to create an astounding array of Taijutsu, which will cause electric shocks- her claw-like nails, are the main source of this power and would drive electricity into the opponent at the user's will.

Raikou Ashige [Lightning Kick]
Taijutsu
D Rank

Just a kick... emits a little jolt that can shock the user.

Denkai no taiki [Electrolysis of the Atmosphere]
Genjutsu
C Rank

After the required seals, the user simply creates a complete circuit (they need to first make sure they have a source for an anode to a cathode- this can be done to create a positive and negative charge on anything) which can then cause the surrounding atmosphere to appear to split or have a fissure. This can create disorientation to the opponent.

Raiton: Arashi Shuuha no jutsu [Lightning: Storm wave technique[/i]
Ninjutsu
C Rank

If the user happenes to be in the vicinity of clouds, then they could actually send chakra, energy upwards (resist gravity) and successfully this could give the particles in the clouds energy to initiate a lightning storm. The enormity of the storm depends on how much chakra the user sends.

Denkou Raijuu Bakuha no Jutsu [Lightning Raijuu Blast]
Unknown Technique
Unknown Rank

In this form the Rokubi Host can travel very fast in the form of an electrical ball.
This jutsu can only be used if Raiju takes control and shifts the shape of the Jinchuuriki's body.

Special Weapons: None except Raiju, the Rokubi.

Extra info:

1) Is the host of the Rokubi.

2)
With very little physical strength, all that taijutsu training was useless even with her insurmountable speed. It was a good thing that a Rain Jounin noticed Amara's agility at the spritely age of a fifteen year old Genin.

"You want to be strong?"

"What use is that if I gots dead arms? Don't take pity on me, I know am pathetic," she said curtly, not in the mood to be polite or even bother to look at him.

"Your first lesson begins now. Courtesy is the first tenet of this fighting style that I will teach you. If you cannot manage courtesy, young girl- then you will fail in the next four."

Amara finally turned to him, her thick lips pouting as she eyed him suspiciously. "Why're you helping me?"

His eyes crinkled with warmth. "Because you're a ninja like me, and we're both wearing Ame headbands- that should be enough to help."

Amara was surprised at this answer, truly not expecting it and her jaw dropped. His expression went from warm to stern.

"Close your mouth and show some courtesy to your Sensei!"

"Hai, Sensei!" she replied, and would have saluted but bowed instead.

The second lesson was not even physical either, and she was growing tired-- but she was alright with the second lesson of Integrity. The second tenet was complete and they had to move to the third-- where training began.

Perseverance. Which she managed as well through the brutal training regime he provided. Flying kicks, hook kicks, swinging kicks that flew from high to low as well as the punches with the arms held as straight as a vertical katana.

He almost gave up on her when she used her new moves and broke the fourth tenet.

"Self control is extremely important inside the Do-Jang, whether conducting oneself in free sparring or in one's personal affairs. A loss of self control in free sparring can prove disastrous to both student and opponent. An inability to live and work within one's capability or sphere is also a lack of self control."

Amara nodded and said she understood but didn't really. A kid was picking on her brother for being short-- she easily swung her leg up to his shoulder, bent the foot and smashed his head. He was hospitalised.

He was beyond angry, the man was livid!

"I go out of my way to teach you, girl- but you do not understand! You will remain a pathetic, failure of a ninja!" He kept saying as he drenched her with cold water and beat her. Discipline was a rule that was supposed to be known by everyone! She lacked this and he was only too keen to teach her.

Amara learned humility.

He continued teaching her, but Amara noticed that he had mention five tenets-- she'd only learned four... courtesy, integrity, perseverance and self Control. So where was the fifth one?

"I cannot teach you the fifth tenet... you will have to learn it by yourself, it is not a thing that can be taught."

"Why?"

He left her question unanswered and told her to keep her legs straight and improve that spinning kick which would make a dog laugh. She liked the style and understood why he had taught her, unlike the other Tekken style [Iron fist], this did not require on physical strength but on speed- the speed gave the power. This style appealed to her with its fast, high and spinning kicks

He went onto teach her KeupSoh [Vital Points] on the body, increasing her awareness that some areas were more affected by blows than the others and when you attacked these points with power.

"A vital point is a part of the body that, when attacked in the right way (force, angle, accuracy), can cause paralysis, unconsciousness or even death. Attacks to nerves can lead to nausea, headaches paralysis, or death. The human body has approximately 280 vital points."

She trained in them, in forms of learning a fighting style that she didn't even know the name of- and finally, after two years under his brutal instruction, he suggested she try for the Chuunin Exam once more. She would be surprised. And surprised, she was! She got through with taijutsu techniques and her natural speed helped her knock people out faster than they could form seals.

When she twirled in her Chuunin flak jacket, the Jounin smiled and told her he was proud as well as what she'd been learning.

"Congratulations, you have learned the fifth tenet of Taekwondo, the art or way of kicking and punching. The fifth tenet was indomitable spirit-- even against all those odds, you managed to defeat your opponents."

Amara understood that day why the fifth tenet could never be taught, but must be learned and thanked him.

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Personality:

Amara was always known as 'The Lump' in her academy days- which caused her sufficient anguish in her earlier years, but later on, she became accustomed to the title and simply ignored it. She was always known as a slow thinker, weak child and terribly stupid. However, her demonic speed gave her an advantage over her peers-- sometimes. Because what use is demonic speed when your opponent can simply knock you out quickly because your moves are too obvious?

But she is a hard worker (though nobody can ever match Lee's level) and continues to tidy up her sloppy taijutsu, her poor ninjutsu and her non-existent genjutsu techniques.

Amara does not tolerate any sort of criticism, and can be very stubborn when she believes she is in the right. She is tactless, and blunt- a little too straightforward sometimes and lacks what people say 'good manners'. She thinks that she is good for being an honest individual.

This kunoichi is very capable and hardworking, but the flip side of this particular coin is a tendency to be moody, gloomy and quite often, not to put too fine a point on it, dull. But in her better moments, she can be very gentle and kind, as well as empathetic on several grounds.

She has a thirst though, for adventure and is always thrilled to recieve a new mission-- no matter if it's fixing leaking roofs.

Dislikes: The Rokubi (Raiju) nagging her to kill. Having to sing or dance. Herbal tea. Raiju sleeping in her navel all the time.
Likes: Raiju when he is being considerate. Sweet tea. Listening to good stories.

Looks :

Long, thin dark hair that she ties up but some bangs stick out. She doesn't have very nice clothes to wear because the doctor may be doing a prestigious job, but he isn't loaded and can't afford new clothes when she tears them.
Perhaps she even likes her 'rough 'round the edges' look.

When she was fifteen, she was as tall as a bean pole- and according to many girls, they all agreed that they had seen a bendier ruler than her. Well, luckily for her- she managed to turn into an adult by the time she was a chuunin.

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History: [Next post]

Current Village: Amegakure no Sato [Hidden village in the Rain]

Birth village: Outskirts of Kusagakure

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RP Sample

{Note: 'Ah' is Amara's version of 'I'}

"Ah could tell him that am gonna rise from the ashes, y'know? Like be propa' brilliant on mah next mission, but ain't that what ah told him last time?"

It was not unusual to see the scruffy-looking girl, usually smudged with dirt here and there and a tear in her clothes, to be talking to herself, making wild hand guestures. It was even easier to discern what she was talking about even if you could not hear or understand- that expression with drooping shoulders, a tinier mouth than usual and sweaty palms was a huge giveaway. Apparently, she'd failed another mission.

If someone could see the demon that resided within the girl, a mushroom cloud was just passing from his mouth in exasperation. He'd even told her how to dress, how to walk, which way to talk to the heir-to-be and not to use her normal street slang that she always used. How else could she even think about fooling the guests of his ceremony that she was not a guard but a normal guest. Eventually, his relatives and guests found out and were shocked to find his father had hired a ninja to guard the heir-to-be ("Ohji-Sama, do you not trust us?") and then, everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong.

So, here she was, pacing in front of the Kazekage mansion, trying to build up her confidence to report her recent failure to him.

Amara loved doing missions, really- but... she could never acquire the skills of deception that many others had.

"Ah mean... I even bowed right an'..."

"You didn't speak in the correct manner and the way you marched gave you away. And normal guests don't have shifty eyes, you were acting like a ninja- not natural at a ceremony." Shiatsu informed her, wondering why he even bothered to point out something he'd done earlier and she'd still managed to get it wrong.

He knew she was better at hiding, movement, than acting.

"But... ah really wanna rise from the ashes, like y'know them birds?" She declared, flapping her arms about as if the Nibi would not know what a bird looked like. She was depressed again. "Ah really try and stuff, but it's always nevah went me way..."

The two-tailed demon didn't bother answering. If only she'd listen and learn from her failures, then maybe she could avoid them- then, she didn't have to sit cross-legged in front of the Kazekage Mansion like some beggar woman.

Pass code Oops, no, I lied.

What's your first languge? Sindhi, but I know more English.

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[Amara]

Character History

Amara's story may begin in Ame no Kuni (Land of Rain) but to make sense of her character, we have to go back to the story of her parents, specifically- her father.

He originally resided in the neighbouring land of Kusa no Kuni (Land of Grass)- abundant in flora and fauna, even more than the Country of Fire. It's one of the smallest of the countries where Shinobi reside.

Yamamoto Ken'Ichi, the father of Amara, was a leader of a particular clan-- but they weren't really all that important. They simply made wicker baskets to sell and normally, they relied on sustainable farming to survive. They were quite remote until people came in droves to the surrounding plains that they had made their home- development was soon underway.

While Ken'Ichi was overseeing other concrete buildings, he started having dreams which left him sleepless, feverish and terribly uncomfortable. In these dreams, he later described to his wife- he saw an angry pair of amber eyes and a frightful face that whenever he described left him sweating and cold. He repeated 'Rokubi' all the time and then made the sign against evil.

Convinced that this land was cursed, him and his wife left in the dead of night towards the shallow puddles of the land of Rain, perhaps that land would wash away their nightmares.

Until the age of twenty eight (three years after their migration from Grass to Rain Country), he did not have any problems and was delighted to be blessed with a baby girl which he called Amara.
As soon as the baby was born though, the nightmares were back and the eyes were burning with even more zeal and his wife feared him to be insane. Sadly, Ken'Ichi died before little Amara's first birthday.

However, what the mother of Amara, Kikyo noticed was that she was particularly fast. A girl who raced a horse and won. The slippery surfaces, the dampness of their old house was no problem for the girl, climbing them with the ease of an animal and not once falling. No matter how many times Amara's nails were cut, they grew back- filled with dirt underneath, long, hooked and Kikyo did faint sometimes when she saw them. She prayed that the 'curse' in Kusagakure had not followed them here. This was when Amara was aged four that Kikyo got concerned about her and took her to a bigger city, closer to the Hidden village of Rain.

The doctor was rather... disturbed when he scanned Amara. Outwardly, the girl was healthy, albeit taller than most other children her age-- but inwardly, she had a heartbeat to match a trained ninja that should be aged nine. He quickly brought up the point about her chakra reserves that were not being controlled. Kikyo was informed to keep a diary of her daughter's development into the following year- what she saw, shocked and disgusted her all at once, this happened on her fifth birthday, coincidentally-- the night that Ken'Ichi had died. Amara came in, covered in twigs and dirt like a child would, her knees caked in mud and rushed into the bath. When she set aside scrubbing the girl's back as usual, she noticed a big, ugly mark which she later described as some sort of ancient kanji script (it was actually just a seal). She scrubbed and scrubbed until Amara couldn't stop crying from pain at what her mother was doing and why she was cleaning so hardly.

Kikyo stopped her scrubbing, took Amara back to the Doctor and showed her the seal, at which his jaw dropped. It certainly couldn't be the same seal that was being discussed by a woman who was on the council of elders in Sunagakure. Chiiyo was discussing plans to get Shukaku, the one-tailed sand priest into a tool to strengthen the shinobi village. The seal had been drawn and sent to him as well. He also knew that the council of elders in Rain wanted to get that sand priest for themselves to stop attacks from the major shinobi countries.

However, he noticed that instead of there being one single stroke, there were six of them that criss-crossed. He could only guess it to be a Rokubi... six-tailed demon.

Kikyo didn't speak to Amara when they got home, put her to bed and locked the girl in the room. Meanwhile, Kikyo herself was going through mental trauma, not eating or drinking anything. She read. Constantly. Anything to do with demons-- she immediately consulted the village elders (a village near Amegakure, where she'd been residing) and they were all glad to help make sealing jutsu's for the 'demon child' in the room to keep her from wreaking havoc. The village priest prayed and everyone made the signs against evil.

Little Amara, meanwhile was getting hungry- and terribly afraid of what was going on. Sometimes, smoke crept into her room and she would try and hide under her bed but found she was too big to crawl underneath. She would shiver under the covers and shout for her mum... maybe she knew what was going on. But Amara did not know it was her own mother had locked her in. Amara let bitter tears fall when she was alone and sobbed until she was too tired to cry. She howled and roared, not realising that her horrible, monster-like wails were actually hurting the villagers as she shot off electric currents and sound waves spiralling out of control.

The villagers came like swarms of flies to the house, each offering Kikyo something to ward her house and let the demon 'leave' the girl. Unfortunately, the demon did not bat an eyelash. Doctor came once more, a little surprised to see the gathering and all the Hamafuda that were slapped on the door. Kikyo explained how afraid she had become, how she could not sleep and had to think of the safety of the other children as well-- what if Amara managed to kill someone as opposed to shattering a rib or two? The doctor thought her wise but when Kikyo told him she needed his help for something, he knew something was definately wrong.

"Are you sure, you want to go through with this?" he said in the room next to Amara's. "Are you sure you want to forget everything about Amara? To erase your memory is very possible, with my memory obliteration jutsu... but are you sure you will have no regrets?"

Kikyo stared at him hard and began in a clearer and stronger voice than she had used for a while.

"The only regret I have is the thought of that thing coming out of my body!"

On the other side of the wall, a little girl's heart broke in irreparable pieces.

The procedure was simple, Kikyo took the jutsu when she was asleep-- apparently the mind was more vulnerable then, the doctor said. Amara peeked from behind the trouser leg of the doctor, watching as she saw her mother sleep peacefully for the first time in a while.

Fortunately, or unfortunately- Amara was taken in by the kind doctor who had also convinced her that it was best for her mother if she let her forget and not try and meet the woman.

"You're a kind girl, right Amara-Chan? You're going to be kind and let your mum be happy, right Amara-Chan? Amara-Chan promises to not be selfish for her OkaaSan, right?"

Amara promised and never confronted her mother again. Kikyo remarried and had a son with another man and five years old Amara was elated when she saw her little brother. Him and her had the same eyes.

When she was eleven, and the little boy six- he was sent to the shinobi academy in Amegakure-- naturally, Amara followed. She had promised the doctor not to speak with her mother, she didn't promise to not 'keep an eye on her little brother'. So she enrolled as well, which made her the biggest student there. She was picked on for being a little weak and stupid, but when she was in close combat-- she was very fast, but there was no point in being freakily fast if you were too obvious about it. Her usual crying didn't help either, terrible, thunder-like wails which made everyone cringe in hate at her stupidness and leave her in her own pathetic state.

Memories that she'd thought she'd dreamed away came flooding back. "The only regret I have is the thought of that thing coming out of my body!". Amara wept and wept, making everyone call her a big, fat crybaby. She ran away from the academy then and there, running and running with no purpose in mind and soon, she collapsed in a heap like a wounded whale on a park bench.

"Humans... they're ugly wherever they are."

Amara perked up, looking around for someone... her heart a little lighter with hope to see if anyone cared that she was crying. Nobody was there, the park was empty. When she closed her eyes, amber eyes looked back at her and Amara was frightened... just a bit by the power in those eyes. The same voice that sounded like a deep rushing waterfall and a pack of wolves spoke to her again.

"I am Rokubi, or Raiju to people who care. I am inside of you, brat."

When Amara was still, she did not expect any more words and Raiju grew impatient.

"I am the reason everyone hates you. The reason your pathetic excuse for a father killed himself and the reason your mother wanted so badly to forget you."

"You're a demon..." Amara thought over and over, disgust welling inside of her of what lay in her body.

"I was the friend of a god until they came."

Amara was a little shocked at how much hurt, which was not her own trembled through her body. "Who?"

Instead of talking this time, Raiju took Amara to the realms of her mind and she saw, to her astonishment-- a larger weasel than normal with six split tails swishing from side-to-side. It's large, amber eyes, framed with thick eyelashes didn't look as terrible as before when they were on that slender-looking face two darker stripes running down. The weasel turned around and indicated her to follow, which she did... Raiju lead her to a land Ken'Ichi would have recognised. It was his home town and Amara saw her mother, younger than ever with what she immediately assumed was her father. She watched how the people cared for the land and lived among themselves, in peace and tranquility. But later on, there came more people in droves- these people mixed with the other people and also made them change the land, manipulate Kusa into something like an urban jungle. She felt Raiju's anger radiating off in electric waves as he saw how they hunted the animals- more than they ever needed. Scarred the land- more than they ever should.

"These humans had paved my paradise! I wanted revenge so I warned the leader in his sleep, so as not to frighten him if he met me in person. He did not listen. Instead, the humans' greed astonished me as they scraped for jewels in the mountains, raked for gold in the rivers and tore the ground for coal. They disgusted me- these greedy humans so I sent warnings, threats and a hellish vision of what I'd do to him if he continued to let these disgusting parasites squat on my land. He ran... the fool. He ran and I waited, planning the exact revenge on these humans. I was about to destroy those humans after they had killed my children."

Amara saw the humans eating up more land than ever, and the animals that were left homeless as their habitat was destroyed. She felt anger welling up in her, and wondered if it really was her or Raiju's anger. Next, she saw the great Weasel Demon finally awakening, his terrible eyes striking fear into the people who attacked relentlessly night after night. Amara couldn't bring herself to feel sorry for those people. She then saw shinobi from Sand coming in, their kohled eyes trying to fight the demon off. Then she saw the Kazekage, the Sandaime who was about to do a powerful jutsu but Raiju disappeared.

"I was weakened from them... I was defeated, but mustering my last ounce of strength, I willed myself not to die and come and finish the battle they had started. But I needed to be stronger, and so, I took refuge in your body, the only baby that was born when I was at my weakest. The only human child whose blood did not refuse mine, so I was moreso- joined to you, as opposed to 'sealed'. I was very weak, and slept for five years in your body- regaining my strength. My mark was then found by your mother-- and I watched with your eyes, the world of humans that are worse than the demons they call you. But now I am strong, the only flaw in my great plan was... that I am bound to you, disgusting human child, until you die. And then. I die with you. The reason I showed you all this, is because you will now be willing to finish the job of killing the humans, the job that I started but was unable to finish."

Amara was shocked to hear this, and profusely refused at his suggestion that she would kill anyone.

"It's true. You're not strong enough yet, my power is drastically cut in your frail body. You require to be fed, to be clean, to be rested... you humans require too much. Never mind, I have waited this long, I will wait longer and wait for your body to grow stronger. As well as your mind."

Through the course of her years- even though she was faster than her peers, she wasn't terribly bright even for an eleven year-old academy student. She finally graduated as a Genin at the age of thirteen, but she didn't want to really-- her brother was still in the academy. She later went on missions with her three-man team and even though she was fast, agile and an amazing resistance to Raiton jutsu, she was still a lump and stupid and weak, so it took ages for her to be promoted. She was thrown from team to team until she graduated at age seventeen to Chuunin- everyone was glad that they weren't working with the resident lump ninja. She wasn't given missions for a long time, and even then- they were still D or C ranked mission- they couldn't take the risk of giving her a higher mission even with a lot of people.

However, Amara did gradually learn to work with Rokubi. Her surveillance and Concealment techniques were brilliant, much more refined due to her natural state and she'd also grown her nails, she could use them as lightning rods and gather, store, ground or emit electric jutsu's at will.

She is still trying to make herself a little bit better of a ninja and hoping for a B-Ranked mission so she can buy a new apartment and still trying to convince Raiju that it's still not time yet to get the revenge he so craves. Unlike many Jinchuuriki, Amara and Raiju work together a lot-- maybe because, Amara doesn't really have anyone closer to her except the Rokubi, the reason why not many understand her unimaginable speed that could one day rival Lee's or her gangly appearance.

Also, he sleeps in her navel.