Post by arashiraiyate on Nov 16, 2006 1:29:23 GMT -5
Name: Raiyate, Arashi (Surname, First Name)
Nickname: Kumo no Kaminari Kiba (Cloud's Thunder Fang)
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Birthdate: August 15th
Birthplace: Kumogakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Clouds)
Zodiac: Leo
Chakra Nature: Lightning, Wind
Parents: Sado Raiyate & Yomi Raiyate
Siblings: none
Village: Kumogakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Clouds)
Rank: Raikage (Thunder Shadow)
Clan: - Raiyate Clan
-The Raiyate Clan is a lesser known extended family of skilled shinobi within Kumogakure no Sato who all all bore the reccesive gene for the Hakumei Kaminari (Twilight Thunder) Kekkei Genkai. This similarity is what brought the group of skilled shinobi together roughly ten years ago and has kept them close since. But their success as a prominent shinobi group was to be short-lived as the war between Konohagakure and Kumogakure broke out. It was at this time that the entire group of shinobi within the Raiyate house were pulled into the front lines of combat, where they were all eventually slaughtered leaving only their young and elderly back at the village to carry their name. At the end of the war with Konohagakure, the few survivors of the Raiyate house that hadn't gone into battle seperated and went their own ways, leaving only the large mansion that housed their clan behind as a reminder of what once was. Because of this, little was ever discovered of developed within or about the Raiyate Clan and they were practically exterminated before they could expand and grow to become anything greater.
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Clothing and Armor
Arashi choice and style of dress is one that tends to be found slightly unusual in both color and sensibility. Unusually colored because of the bright mustard yellow coloration of several articles of clothing he wears, and unusually sensible because of how loose and bright his clothing is. But if you were to approach Arashi and inquire personally about his clothing, he would reply in the only arrogant way he knew how before feigning ignorance. "What're you talking about? There's nothing that could better fit Kumo no Kaminari Kiba!"
On his upper torso Arashi wears a thin black mesh tee-shirt made of a simple cotton fabric, designed for maneuverability and comfort, with sleeves that reach roughly half-way down his biceps and end in a thick black hem. Over his mesh shirt he wears a simple and thin protective armored vest made of kevlar, that straps around his body underneath his armpits and over his shoudlers. It is worn to grant him some decent protection for his chest and upper abdoman from physical blows and sharper weapons while in combat, but leaves his stomach completely unprotected. Over his vest and mesh shirt, Arashi wears a very distinct white shirt, one that is unique to him and him alone throughout all of Kumogakure no Sato. The shirt is loose upon his frame, is a opaline white color, and is made from a durable and thick cotton-like fabric that is designed to protect Arashi from harsher winds and mildly colder weathers without needing extra clothing for warmth or protection.
But those are not the only features that make his white shirt unique, the left sleeve is long and loose, long enough to hang just past his hands while his right sleeve is shorter, much shorter as it only comes down to about a quater of the way down his bicep and exposes the mesh sleeve beneath it, it also has a extended collar that is about two inches in length and is sniff enough to make it stick up around Arashi's neck and makes it hard to see anything around his neck unless he leans over or you look down upon him. As a last layer of clothing for his upper torso, Arashi wears a thin, cotton jacket that comes down to just below his chest in length and leaves the middle of his chest open and exposing the white shirt beneath. This jacket of his is a mustard yellow collor, with the inside being a charchaol grey color, and has no sleeves at all, leaving much of Arashi's white shirt still exposed and is only worn for visual appeal. Arashi also wears bandage wrapping around both his hands and wrists to protect them from getting scraped or cut up when fighting performing jutsus, he also wears a charcoal grey bracelet on his right wrist with a three Peridot gems attached to it that each bear the Kanji symbol for thunder on them.
For the lower half of his body, Arashi wears a pair of loosely-fit charcoal grey pants. His pants are made of a durable yet light fabric that helps protect from harsh enviroments and weather while granting the wearer a comfortable and maneuverable fit, and feels much like cotton to the touch yet isn't. It is also worth noting that Arashi's pants bear no zipper or regular pockets on them. Over his pants he wears a thick, durable charcoal grey waist wrap, made of a leather-like material that is still as light as cotton, that sits snuggly over his waist and extends in length to just two inches below his knees, leaving an upside-down v-shaped opening in in the middle of his front that exposes the inside of this legs. To hold his waist wrap to his body, Arashi wears a simple mustard-yellow obi, made of cotton, that is tied tightly directly over his groin region.
Over his ankles, he wears a pair of tan shin guards, made of a heavy, durable fabric much like leather but without the rough inflexable texture, which his pants are tucked into loosely. Though they are thick and heavier then just about everything on his person, Arashi's main purpose for wearing the shin guards is not for protection but for training as he keeps roughly twenty pounds of weights sewn into each of them. His shin gaurds are the only real articles of clothing that Arashi wears that are not loose-fitted and are actually snug to his ankles and shins. For footwear he wears a pair of common charcoal grey sandals that bear a great resemblence to normal shoes with the exception that the there is no zipper, laces, and the toe of it is removed to expose the toes. His sandals are snuggly fit to his feet, made of a durable faux-leather and bear a wide mustard-yellow stripe upon it that extends from the toe all the way to the ankle of the sandals.
Arashi also wears several other articles on his person that are worth noting even if they are not clothing or armor. The first of these articles being the twin small, silver hoops that he has peirced in both his ears, to accent his features. Next is the long katana that he has tucked into his obi behind him at a forty-five degree angle toward his right side over his rear, easily within reach of his grasp should he feel inclined to swiftly draw it from it's saya. strapped to his left thigh, partly concealed by his waist wrap, is his shinobi tool pouch that stores his important scrolls, an assortment of tools, and his often too-thin wallet. On his opposing thigh, he has his kunai/shuriken holster strapped, also partly concealed by his waist wrap, which can store up to a dozen kunai and roughly two dozen shuriken all at once without tearing the holster. Arashi also keeps one kunia tied into the inside of his left sleeve, with durable string, in case he needs to swiftly arm himself without arousing suspicioun from those around him.
Physical Appearance
Arashi's physical appearance is one that not many shinobi can say they haven't seen within their occupation as agile soldiers. Arashi stands at 180 cm (5' 11") tall and weighs 64 kg (141 lbs), a figure that goes well with his overall body structure and age. Arashi, with his thin and agile figure, is someone who sacrifices greater endurance and strength for the benefits of greater speed, moderate strength, and the added benefits of agility, flexability, and maneuverability that comes with having the build he does. Arashi's body, at first glance, looks to be scrawny due to his baggy clothes but in reality that isn't the truth, his boy is long and slim for his age, with defined and lightly toned arm, chest, and abdoman muscles and very well defined leg muscles which make him a perfect candidate for anything requiring speed and agility.
He has a almost pale skin-tone that accents his pin straight straw-colored hair, which is unique in it's own right. His hair is an interesting thing within itself, often worn in an unusual spiked style that resembles urchin spikes, with his hair having long, thicker spikes, at his hairline, that come smaller and thinner the furthe back the go until they end at the nape of his neck. This particular hairstyle of Arashi exposes the fact that he has unevenly cut hair, being long nearer his forehead and progressively becoming shorter the further back over his head you go. But this feature alone is one of Arashi's more distinctive ones, as it is his personal mark for his innate talent for lightning and thunder based jutsus.
His hair does well to highlight his facial features and do them justice. His face is slim with little to no baby fat, which often leaves at the but end of jokes regarding he amount of space left within for his brain. He has a smooth, crisp complextion that helps to highlight his pale face better and has a slim jawline that extends down to a stub of a chin with absolutely no facial hair to be spoken of. His eyes are a not small yet not large either, are slightly oval in shape, and are home to twin sapphire blue orbs that tend to exude whatever emotion Arashi is feeling, and are marked by thin straw-colored eyebrows that go well with them. His nose is small and slim, with a stubby end and his lips are thin with a small dimple over the fulcrum of his top lip, bear little color that makes them seem just as pale as his skin-tone. Because of how his mouth appears to be smaller from the way his thin, small lips appear, it is a common joke about how they hide a monster, in reference to his rather loud mouth.
Personality
Arashi has a very hot-blooded outer persona, seeing that he tends to make rash decisions and have internal conflicts over becoming too emotionally involved in situations of all sorts. He has to struggle with the fact that despite his lonely upbringing, he tends to wear his feelings on his sleeve. being that he's such an extrovert, his heart is usually in the right place but keeping his temper back and his head clear is always an issue for Arashi and his biggest challenge in any social or combat setting.
But to look past his over-bearing outer persona and rugged shinobi training, you could hope to see the defining features within Arashi that make him who he is. Arashi is a proud, constantly honest, and a warm-hearted person who is often enthusiastic and charismatic in his actions, even if they often lead to the exposure of his rigidity, intolerant side that tends to make things overly dramatic. He is always self-motivated, as outside sources of influence tend to have little to no effect on him when it comes to his actions and choices in life, and only a handfull of people have managed to get past that part of his personality. Notably, Arashi is also a vain person, often running to the nearest salon upon his return from missions yet doesn't complain when push comes to shove and things get down and dirty. It is also worth noting that he has a fondness for flowers, specifically the marigold and sunflower, and birds, and even owns a messenger sparrow he nicknamed "Yate".
Combat Style
Raiyate Arashi enters the field of battle with a style all his own, built on maximizing his speed and agile maneuvers and attunement with his body and soul, to defeat the opponent. To achieve this effectiveness, he trains and prepares himself by constantly meditating when alone and training in two different styles of taijutsu while also training in kenjutsu and incorperating the swordplay. The first style of taijutsu he trains in is one that is fully offensive, it's purpose being to teach a user to effectively combine speed and power to gain the power to do physical damage in the form of breaking bones and decreasing the opponent's effectiveness through sheer force. The other style takes a complete twist on the first, basing itself around training a user to train the soul aswell as the body to effectively learn to understand their chakra circulatory system and master it. This effectively allowing the user to enable themselves to unconciously rech within themselves and grant them the capability to neautralize and use an opponenet attacks and movements against them.
Because of this mixture of taijutsu styles and the incorperated kenjutsu, Arashi's melee style of fighting has become something of a unique thing to many around him because of it. Using his enhanced speed and agility, Arashi effectively incorperates hastier actions in both the offensive and defensive, making great use of acrobatics in the form of rolls, flips, and other maneuvers to constantly evade attempts to injure him. As such, he also makes use of that speed in his attacks, using his agility as his aid in his combat effectiveness in both his forceful and neutralizing attacks. The whole of his offensive being that he incorperates both attacks that use damaging full-force punchs and kicks in a variety of ways to injure the opponent and attacks that use the opponents attacks against them by meeting, neutralizing, and reversing or discarding them while using the elbows and knees to deal damage. Throughout all of this, Arashi also includes his kenjutsu in the form of his katana he is never without, making use of it's cutting edge as a one-up against opponents who wield kunai while it also tends to be his favorite shinobi tool. He tends to wield the blade in one hand to allow him freedom in continuing to fight in a wider melee sense, while still allowing him to forcefully add a variety of slashing, cutting, and peircing attacks to the fray.
But despite Arashi's off-set as a spectacular close-combat melee specialist, he is also talented with ninjutsu which he can incorperate at a moment's notice in the middle of combat. One constant display of this talent is his ability to use Shunshin no Jutsu on a whim without hand seals due to his constant meditation training granting him an unconscious level of control of the flow of chakra and how he can channel it to different portions of his body, like his legs. But that's not the extend of it, because Arashi has an extensive amount of chakra and is adept with lightning based jutsu, he also has the ability to incorperate those ninjutsu mid-combat with extreme effectiveness without hindering his melee combative style greatly. On an off-side to his capabilities, he is capable of performing but isn't adept with Genjutsu in any real form, thus discarding the style of combat due to his preference for the more offensive taijutsu and ninjutsu styles that he excells in.
Due to his full-frontal close-combat style, Arashi tends to prefer and actually openly enjoys being on the front lines in the heat of a deadly bout that could ultimately end him, and that mindset often gives people the wrong image of him. While at first glance Arashi may appear to merely be hot-headed and fly off the handle into danger, he is truely calmer in combat situations than in social ones unless his emotions are called into play and the latter becomes true to a point unless he calms down. Under normal conditions, Arashi becomes a very observant combatant, making use of his speed even on a mental level to swiftly study, analyze, and discover a way to beat his opponents in the heat of battle while fighting. This style of analyzing and fighting is something Arashi does alot as he's not one to stand aside, watch and wait to attack, nicknaming the style his "on-your-toes fighting" and seems to think that his style makes the fights he gets into more interesting. But despite this, and contrary to others's beliefs, Arashi works well in a team setting where he can't willingly rush off as he pleases and can display patience and obedience when needed although not very frequently.
Unfortunately, to accompany Arashi's various empowering traits in battle comes a decent amount of drawbacks and hinderances within his fighting style. The first being that his lightning/thunder-based jutsus are quite easily counterable by earth-type jutsus or by his opponent grounding themselves. He's very subseptable to genjutsu due to his lack on talent in the art, making him an easy target to trap within one. And Arashi is also easy to anger by using his emotions against him, and when he becomes angry and hot-blooded by becomes more wild and feral in his strategy and technique which makes it easier to overwhelm and beat him down.
Weapons
-Katana - A curved, single-edged 65 cm long sword that is traditionally used by japanese swordmen. The katana is primarily used for cutting, but it's curvature is gentle enough to allow one to effectively thrust it aswell. Though it is intended for use with a two-handed grip, many swordsman styles utilized with this blade tend to include several one-handed techniques or forms. The Katana tends to be acknowledged as the primary tool in most forms of kenjutsu all around and is a symbol of strength amongst swordsmen. Arashi's katana is a traditional katana bearing a silver steel blade, Habaki (collar), Tsuba (guard), and Fushi-kashira (pommel), a black leather Ito (braid wrapping), and is nicknamed "Shirasaya" by him, due it unique onyx-laquered honoki wood saya (sheathe) that it rests in.
-Kunai - A traditonal shinobi weapon originally designed as a throwing weapon, the kunai can also be made to use as a rther usefull hand-to-hand combat ready tool and can cause decent damage when used or thrown right. The blade is shaped like a squashed octahedron with a rod for a handle with a ring on th end, forming an extremely simple yet effective design for the dangerous weapon. It is made of tempered steel, with razor-sharp edges and a polished surface to reflect light when thrown as well as for making handling smoother. The handle is often wrapped in fabric for a better grip, in a variety of colors depending on the user. Arashi wraps his kunai with --- colored fabric.
-Shuriken - A traditonal shinboi weapon that is used for throwing and sometimes stabbing. They are small, sharpened, hand-held blades made a tempered steel much like their counter-part, the kunai. They often are seen resembling a 4-point star with a circular ring in the middle for holding. They are often a supplemental weapon for the more commonly used kunai, though they can often be used in a tactical role in battle.
-Smoke Bombs - small, gum-drop looking grey balls with a large amount of condensed smoke-like gas within. Often used to cloak a person's movements or retreat, these are often carried in a decent quantity by shinobi for those occasions when they're needed or if they can be used in conjunction with a particular jutsu. They are easily set off, as it merely takes a small amout of pressure to pop open one.
-Makibishi - Small, spiked caltrops used by shinobi to deter pursuit. They are often carried in a decent quantity so that if a shinobi should find themselves out-numbered or out-classes, they can scatter the makibishi on the ground before retreating to buy more time while their opponents weave through the dangerous, tiny threat to their feet.
-Shinobi Scrolls - Shinobi Scrolls would seem like a normal scroll with jibberish written on it to a normal civilian, but are highly usefull for shinobi as they can provide a number of purposes. Using specifically written incantations, shinobi can use a variety of scrolls to potentially carry a large number of weapons of objects within a small space without the burden of wieght the objects would present, to summon a very strong creature to aid in battle, to record information in ther blink of an eye, to keep supplies on hand constantly, and for a number of other purposes. To a shinobi, scrolls can often become an invaluable thing on and off the battlefield.
Nickname: Kumo no Kaminari Kiba (Cloud's Thunder Fang)
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Birthdate: August 15th
Birthplace: Kumogakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Clouds)
Zodiac: Leo
Chakra Nature: Lightning, Wind
Parents: Sado Raiyate & Yomi Raiyate
Siblings: none
Village: Kumogakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Clouds)
Rank: Raikage (Thunder Shadow)
Clan: - Raiyate Clan
-The Raiyate Clan is a lesser known extended family of skilled shinobi within Kumogakure no Sato who all all bore the reccesive gene for the Hakumei Kaminari (Twilight Thunder) Kekkei Genkai. This similarity is what brought the group of skilled shinobi together roughly ten years ago and has kept them close since. But their success as a prominent shinobi group was to be short-lived as the war between Konohagakure and Kumogakure broke out. It was at this time that the entire group of shinobi within the Raiyate house were pulled into the front lines of combat, where they were all eventually slaughtered leaving only their young and elderly back at the village to carry their name. At the end of the war with Konohagakure, the few survivors of the Raiyate house that hadn't gone into battle seperated and went their own ways, leaving only the large mansion that housed their clan behind as a reminder of what once was. Because of this, little was ever discovered of developed within or about the Raiyate Clan and they were practically exterminated before they could expand and grow to become anything greater.
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--Visual Appearance--
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Clothing and Armor
Arashi choice and style of dress is one that tends to be found slightly unusual in both color and sensibility. Unusually colored because of the bright mustard yellow coloration of several articles of clothing he wears, and unusually sensible because of how loose and bright his clothing is. But if you were to approach Arashi and inquire personally about his clothing, he would reply in the only arrogant way he knew how before feigning ignorance. "What're you talking about? There's nothing that could better fit Kumo no Kaminari Kiba!"
On his upper torso Arashi wears a thin black mesh tee-shirt made of a simple cotton fabric, designed for maneuverability and comfort, with sleeves that reach roughly half-way down his biceps and end in a thick black hem. Over his mesh shirt he wears a simple and thin protective armored vest made of kevlar, that straps around his body underneath his armpits and over his shoudlers. It is worn to grant him some decent protection for his chest and upper abdoman from physical blows and sharper weapons while in combat, but leaves his stomach completely unprotected. Over his vest and mesh shirt, Arashi wears a very distinct white shirt, one that is unique to him and him alone throughout all of Kumogakure no Sato. The shirt is loose upon his frame, is a opaline white color, and is made from a durable and thick cotton-like fabric that is designed to protect Arashi from harsher winds and mildly colder weathers without needing extra clothing for warmth or protection.
But those are not the only features that make his white shirt unique, the left sleeve is long and loose, long enough to hang just past his hands while his right sleeve is shorter, much shorter as it only comes down to about a quater of the way down his bicep and exposes the mesh sleeve beneath it, it also has a extended collar that is about two inches in length and is sniff enough to make it stick up around Arashi's neck and makes it hard to see anything around his neck unless he leans over or you look down upon him. As a last layer of clothing for his upper torso, Arashi wears a thin, cotton jacket that comes down to just below his chest in length and leaves the middle of his chest open and exposing the white shirt beneath. This jacket of his is a mustard yellow collor, with the inside being a charchaol grey color, and has no sleeves at all, leaving much of Arashi's white shirt still exposed and is only worn for visual appeal. Arashi also wears bandage wrapping around both his hands and wrists to protect them from getting scraped or cut up when fighting performing jutsus, he also wears a charcoal grey bracelet on his right wrist with a three Peridot gems attached to it that each bear the Kanji symbol for thunder on them.
For the lower half of his body, Arashi wears a pair of loosely-fit charcoal grey pants. His pants are made of a durable yet light fabric that helps protect from harsh enviroments and weather while granting the wearer a comfortable and maneuverable fit, and feels much like cotton to the touch yet isn't. It is also worth noting that Arashi's pants bear no zipper or regular pockets on them. Over his pants he wears a thick, durable charcoal grey waist wrap, made of a leather-like material that is still as light as cotton, that sits snuggly over his waist and extends in length to just two inches below his knees, leaving an upside-down v-shaped opening in in the middle of his front that exposes the inside of this legs. To hold his waist wrap to his body, Arashi wears a simple mustard-yellow obi, made of cotton, that is tied tightly directly over his groin region.
Over his ankles, he wears a pair of tan shin guards, made of a heavy, durable fabric much like leather but without the rough inflexable texture, which his pants are tucked into loosely. Though they are thick and heavier then just about everything on his person, Arashi's main purpose for wearing the shin guards is not for protection but for training as he keeps roughly twenty pounds of weights sewn into each of them. His shin gaurds are the only real articles of clothing that Arashi wears that are not loose-fitted and are actually snug to his ankles and shins. For footwear he wears a pair of common charcoal grey sandals that bear a great resemblence to normal shoes with the exception that the there is no zipper, laces, and the toe of it is removed to expose the toes. His sandals are snuggly fit to his feet, made of a durable faux-leather and bear a wide mustard-yellow stripe upon it that extends from the toe all the way to the ankle of the sandals.
Arashi also wears several other articles on his person that are worth noting even if they are not clothing or armor. The first of these articles being the twin small, silver hoops that he has peirced in both his ears, to accent his features. Next is the long katana that he has tucked into his obi behind him at a forty-five degree angle toward his right side over his rear, easily within reach of his grasp should he feel inclined to swiftly draw it from it's saya. strapped to his left thigh, partly concealed by his waist wrap, is his shinobi tool pouch that stores his important scrolls, an assortment of tools, and his often too-thin wallet. On his opposing thigh, he has his kunai/shuriken holster strapped, also partly concealed by his waist wrap, which can store up to a dozen kunai and roughly two dozen shuriken all at once without tearing the holster. Arashi also keeps one kunia tied into the inside of his left sleeve, with durable string, in case he needs to swiftly arm himself without arousing suspicioun from those around him.
Physical Appearance
Arashi's physical appearance is one that not many shinobi can say they haven't seen within their occupation as agile soldiers. Arashi stands at 180 cm (5' 11") tall and weighs 64 kg (141 lbs), a figure that goes well with his overall body structure and age. Arashi, with his thin and agile figure, is someone who sacrifices greater endurance and strength for the benefits of greater speed, moderate strength, and the added benefits of agility, flexability, and maneuverability that comes with having the build he does. Arashi's body, at first glance, looks to be scrawny due to his baggy clothes but in reality that isn't the truth, his boy is long and slim for his age, with defined and lightly toned arm, chest, and abdoman muscles and very well defined leg muscles which make him a perfect candidate for anything requiring speed and agility.
He has a almost pale skin-tone that accents his pin straight straw-colored hair, which is unique in it's own right. His hair is an interesting thing within itself, often worn in an unusual spiked style that resembles urchin spikes, with his hair having long, thicker spikes, at his hairline, that come smaller and thinner the furthe back the go until they end at the nape of his neck. This particular hairstyle of Arashi exposes the fact that he has unevenly cut hair, being long nearer his forehead and progressively becoming shorter the further back over his head you go. But this feature alone is one of Arashi's more distinctive ones, as it is his personal mark for his innate talent for lightning and thunder based jutsus.
His hair does well to highlight his facial features and do them justice. His face is slim with little to no baby fat, which often leaves at the but end of jokes regarding he amount of space left within for his brain. He has a smooth, crisp complextion that helps to highlight his pale face better and has a slim jawline that extends down to a stub of a chin with absolutely no facial hair to be spoken of. His eyes are a not small yet not large either, are slightly oval in shape, and are home to twin sapphire blue orbs that tend to exude whatever emotion Arashi is feeling, and are marked by thin straw-colored eyebrows that go well with them. His nose is small and slim, with a stubby end and his lips are thin with a small dimple over the fulcrum of his top lip, bear little color that makes them seem just as pale as his skin-tone. Because of how his mouth appears to be smaller from the way his thin, small lips appear, it is a common joke about how they hide a monster, in reference to his rather loud mouth.
Personality
Arashi has a very hot-blooded outer persona, seeing that he tends to make rash decisions and have internal conflicts over becoming too emotionally involved in situations of all sorts. He has to struggle with the fact that despite his lonely upbringing, he tends to wear his feelings on his sleeve. being that he's such an extrovert, his heart is usually in the right place but keeping his temper back and his head clear is always an issue for Arashi and his biggest challenge in any social or combat setting.
But to look past his over-bearing outer persona and rugged shinobi training, you could hope to see the defining features within Arashi that make him who he is. Arashi is a proud, constantly honest, and a warm-hearted person who is often enthusiastic and charismatic in his actions, even if they often lead to the exposure of his rigidity, intolerant side that tends to make things overly dramatic. He is always self-motivated, as outside sources of influence tend to have little to no effect on him when it comes to his actions and choices in life, and only a handfull of people have managed to get past that part of his personality. Notably, Arashi is also a vain person, often running to the nearest salon upon his return from missions yet doesn't complain when push comes to shove and things get down and dirty. It is also worth noting that he has a fondness for flowers, specifically the marigold and sunflower, and birds, and even owns a messenger sparrow he nicknamed "Yate".
Combat Style
Raiyate Arashi enters the field of battle with a style all his own, built on maximizing his speed and agile maneuvers and attunement with his body and soul, to defeat the opponent. To achieve this effectiveness, he trains and prepares himself by constantly meditating when alone and training in two different styles of taijutsu while also training in kenjutsu and incorperating the swordplay. The first style of taijutsu he trains in is one that is fully offensive, it's purpose being to teach a user to effectively combine speed and power to gain the power to do physical damage in the form of breaking bones and decreasing the opponent's effectiveness through sheer force. The other style takes a complete twist on the first, basing itself around training a user to train the soul aswell as the body to effectively learn to understand their chakra circulatory system and master it. This effectively allowing the user to enable themselves to unconciously rech within themselves and grant them the capability to neautralize and use an opponenet attacks and movements against them.
Because of this mixture of taijutsu styles and the incorperated kenjutsu, Arashi's melee style of fighting has become something of a unique thing to many around him because of it. Using his enhanced speed and agility, Arashi effectively incorperates hastier actions in both the offensive and defensive, making great use of acrobatics in the form of rolls, flips, and other maneuvers to constantly evade attempts to injure him. As such, he also makes use of that speed in his attacks, using his agility as his aid in his combat effectiveness in both his forceful and neutralizing attacks. The whole of his offensive being that he incorperates both attacks that use damaging full-force punchs and kicks in a variety of ways to injure the opponent and attacks that use the opponents attacks against them by meeting, neutralizing, and reversing or discarding them while using the elbows and knees to deal damage. Throughout all of this, Arashi also includes his kenjutsu in the form of his katana he is never without, making use of it's cutting edge as a one-up against opponents who wield kunai while it also tends to be his favorite shinobi tool. He tends to wield the blade in one hand to allow him freedom in continuing to fight in a wider melee sense, while still allowing him to forcefully add a variety of slashing, cutting, and peircing attacks to the fray.
But despite Arashi's off-set as a spectacular close-combat melee specialist, he is also talented with ninjutsu which he can incorperate at a moment's notice in the middle of combat. One constant display of this talent is his ability to use Shunshin no Jutsu on a whim without hand seals due to his constant meditation training granting him an unconscious level of control of the flow of chakra and how he can channel it to different portions of his body, like his legs. But that's not the extend of it, because Arashi has an extensive amount of chakra and is adept with lightning based jutsu, he also has the ability to incorperate those ninjutsu mid-combat with extreme effectiveness without hindering his melee combative style greatly. On an off-side to his capabilities, he is capable of performing but isn't adept with Genjutsu in any real form, thus discarding the style of combat due to his preference for the more offensive taijutsu and ninjutsu styles that he excells in.
Due to his full-frontal close-combat style, Arashi tends to prefer and actually openly enjoys being on the front lines in the heat of a deadly bout that could ultimately end him, and that mindset often gives people the wrong image of him. While at first glance Arashi may appear to merely be hot-headed and fly off the handle into danger, he is truely calmer in combat situations than in social ones unless his emotions are called into play and the latter becomes true to a point unless he calms down. Under normal conditions, Arashi becomes a very observant combatant, making use of his speed even on a mental level to swiftly study, analyze, and discover a way to beat his opponents in the heat of battle while fighting. This style of analyzing and fighting is something Arashi does alot as he's not one to stand aside, watch and wait to attack, nicknaming the style his "on-your-toes fighting" and seems to think that his style makes the fights he gets into more interesting. But despite this, and contrary to others's beliefs, Arashi works well in a team setting where he can't willingly rush off as he pleases and can display patience and obedience when needed although not very frequently.
Unfortunately, to accompany Arashi's various empowering traits in battle comes a decent amount of drawbacks and hinderances within his fighting style. The first being that his lightning/thunder-based jutsus are quite easily counterable by earth-type jutsus or by his opponent grounding themselves. He's very subseptable to genjutsu due to his lack on talent in the art, making him an easy target to trap within one. And Arashi is also easy to anger by using his emotions against him, and when he becomes angry and hot-blooded by becomes more wild and feral in his strategy and technique which makes it easier to overwhelm and beat him down.
Weapons
-Katana - A curved, single-edged 65 cm long sword that is traditionally used by japanese swordmen. The katana is primarily used for cutting, but it's curvature is gentle enough to allow one to effectively thrust it aswell. Though it is intended for use with a two-handed grip, many swordsman styles utilized with this blade tend to include several one-handed techniques or forms. The Katana tends to be acknowledged as the primary tool in most forms of kenjutsu all around and is a symbol of strength amongst swordsmen. Arashi's katana is a traditional katana bearing a silver steel blade, Habaki (collar), Tsuba (guard), and Fushi-kashira (pommel), a black leather Ito (braid wrapping), and is nicknamed "Shirasaya" by him, due it unique onyx-laquered honoki wood saya (sheathe) that it rests in.
-Kunai - A traditonal shinobi weapon originally designed as a throwing weapon, the kunai can also be made to use as a rther usefull hand-to-hand combat ready tool and can cause decent damage when used or thrown right. The blade is shaped like a squashed octahedron with a rod for a handle with a ring on th end, forming an extremely simple yet effective design for the dangerous weapon. It is made of tempered steel, with razor-sharp edges and a polished surface to reflect light when thrown as well as for making handling smoother. The handle is often wrapped in fabric for a better grip, in a variety of colors depending on the user. Arashi wraps his kunai with --- colored fabric.
-Shuriken - A traditonal shinboi weapon that is used for throwing and sometimes stabbing. They are small, sharpened, hand-held blades made a tempered steel much like their counter-part, the kunai. They often are seen resembling a 4-point star with a circular ring in the middle for holding. They are often a supplemental weapon for the more commonly used kunai, though they can often be used in a tactical role in battle.
-Smoke Bombs - small, gum-drop looking grey balls with a large amount of condensed smoke-like gas within. Often used to cloak a person's movements or retreat, these are often carried in a decent quantity by shinobi for those occasions when they're needed or if they can be used in conjunction with a particular jutsu. They are easily set off, as it merely takes a small amout of pressure to pop open one.
-Makibishi - Small, spiked caltrops used by shinobi to deter pursuit. They are often carried in a decent quantity so that if a shinobi should find themselves out-numbered or out-classes, they can scatter the makibishi on the ground before retreating to buy more time while their opponents weave through the dangerous, tiny threat to their feet.
-Shinobi Scrolls - Shinobi Scrolls would seem like a normal scroll with jibberish written on it to a normal civilian, but are highly usefull for shinobi as they can provide a number of purposes. Using specifically written incantations, shinobi can use a variety of scrolls to potentially carry a large number of weapons of objects within a small space without the burden of wieght the objects would present, to summon a very strong creature to aid in battle, to record information in ther blink of an eye, to keep supplies on hand constantly, and for a number of other purposes. To a shinobi, scrolls can often become an invaluable thing on and off the battlefield.