Chiyoko Kioku

Name: Chiyoko Kioku
Age: 16
Age Appearance: 16
Gender: Female
Rank: S
Village: Konohagakure
Birthplace: Unknown
Previous Village: N/A
Clan/Bloodline: Ketsuekigata Chuuritsu (this is why she has more specialties - since her bloodline limits a whole array of jutsu areas)
Specialty:
Dominant: Puppetry/Medical
Recessive: Chakra Control/Intelligence
Elements: Chiyoko cannot use elemental ninjutsu at all, due to her \'Bloodline\'.
Goals: To save 100 people who deserve to be saved.
Alignment: Herself
Appearance: Chiyoko is below average height, with dark brown hair, which length varies on depending on the time of year or activity. She has extremely dark blue eyes, bordering on navy or black, and is physically in excellent shape. She has a very light tan to her skin from her only average time outdoors, since much of her fighting style requires very detailed preparation for individual fights.

Chiyoko’s clothing, as well as armor, is quite varied. Her garb often changes with the implementation of her skills – the typical choice for her is a tan jacket with an off white cuff and trim. The collar, which is also in the off white, is similar to a men’s formal shirt, but has a hood that is often up (it is also trimmed in off white). The hood is sewn onto the inside of the collar. The jacket buttons down the middle with a series of loops and knobs and is surprisingly thick. Her pants are a very like khaki color and are extremely loose. They tighten around her ankles, which are often taped over (both body and pants) into a slipper like shoe that is designed for traction. The jacket is fairly oversized for her, allowing her to completely conceal her wrists.

When it is too warm for this, she substitutes the jacket for a tan vest over an oversized, thinner, off white shirt. The off white shirt does possess a very thin hood if needed, but it is often not used.

She does have a completely combat based outfit (some parts are interchangeable with her other outfits) - a form fitting, black body suit that has many pieces of armor over various bits of the suit. It protects the chest, arms, and legs, but has fairly large gaps between them. They are very useful at protecting, but require the wearer to position the blows they take to prevent more serious damage. While wearing this, Chiyoko typically wears a metal mask which covers her lower face and ears. It is able to filter the air and nullify sound (should she use that ‘setting’).

Personality: Chiyoko\'s personality is very... fickle. She changes based on the situation at hand. Many assume this is a defense mechanism, but Chiyoko has turned it into an offense mechanism. While not inherently evil, Chiyoko is capable of being quite manipulative and scheming. To those she truly likes, there is no harm, but she does not trust many people. Chiyoko\'s personality, which can be very alluring, is as much of a weapon as any of her jutsu. She is a learner and surprisingly patient with those younger than herself, often expecting the same patience and tact from others (which has often led her into conflict with other people).

When dealing with Chiyoko, a person should always suspect a motive, especially if she is the one that initiates contact. If she does, it is serving some purpose of hers (which aren\'t necessarily evil). She is not shy or timid and if she behaves like that, it is typically a ruse.

History: Chiyoko is the daughter of a deceased master of the puppet arts, known as Li-ebe. Much of that history is just that, history. However, Chiyoko’s life revolves around what happened after her mother’s death. She never really knew either parent, having been given to the care of an elderly lady very early in life, only having a few memories before Li-ebe’s death.

What Chiyoko knows about her mother is that she was driven to madness. Li-ebe, on her wedding day, was nearly killed in an attack by an ambush. However, in the fight, Li-ebe managed to take out many of her attackers, her betrothed no where to be seen. In her later letter to Chiyoko, Li-ebe explains she had two thoughts - one, that Seishin was dead, or he was involved in the plot. However, it would take Li-ebe nearly 7 years to even find an answer to that question.

As she lay, nearly dead, on the ground outside the grounds they had been about to be married on, Li-ebe was granted a second chance. One of the nin that had assaulted her, having been betrayed during the fight and left for dead, imparted her remaining life force into Li-ebe. Li-ebe, whose bloodline dealt with a more spiritual form, was in conflict with the puppet master\'s \'gift\'. This broke Li-ebe down into a one track mind. She had two goals: get revenge on the her attackers for her souls and find Seishin. The first, the easier to accomplish, was down within 2 years. Her hunt for Seishin took much longer and drove her deeper into madness as it progressed. She finally found his body hidden 3 miles from their wedding grounds. He had, from her assumption, been killed by the same people.

It was at that time Li-ebe did something that make people question her sanity for a long, long time. Li-ebe spent the next 3 years, using a combination of jutsu, to \'revive\' Seishin. He was, however, a puppet. But Li-ebe, in some way, got her answers and did eventually marry Seishin (if you can call it that). Having accomplished her goals, Li-ebe\'s mind began to heal, facing her with the crimes she had committed. Unable to bear the burden, she willingly let herself be killed at the hands of her last victim, leaving only the letter, and her puppets, to Chiyoko (who was conceived through a jutsu to allow Seishin and Li-ebe to have children). Chiyoko, at the time was only a few days old.

Chiyoko then spend the first 10 years of her life in care of various people, finally being given to Shikata Ayameko, a widow who had lost her own children many years ago in an incredibly cruel twist of fate. Ayameko is a prominent member of the village. Despite Ayameko\'s well noted abilities, neither Chiyoko nor Ayameko are very close.

Chiyoko did take some knowledge from her adoptive mother, mostly in poisons. Being an expert in plants, Ayameko was able to impart much of this knowledge to her. Being a fairly logical person, Chiyoko readily learned, furthering it by learning as much as she could about not just the poisons, but the cures and about the plants themselves.

The other benefit for Chiyoko was that Ayemeko had a very close relationship with the Kioku and able to get her into learn the style of that family. Outsiders are often barred from learning their style, but Ayameko’s insistence on sharing such knowledge was able to persuade them otherwise.

For the next 6 years, on and off, Chiyoko has studied with the Kioku. Despite the mostly apathetic tendencies of the family (which, ironically, lend themselves well to Chiyoko\'s personality), she did develop a fairly close relationship with a number of their members. Having no last name, and Ayameko being unwilling to impart any name to Chiyoko, she took on the Kioku\'s name with their permission. It is mostly a formality, as well as a way to avoid having anyone question them for teaching her the techniques.

The training, for Chiyoko, was exceptionally difficult. The group, which had a very potent visual technique that allowed them to see people as entities of chakra, rather than in a physical form. It was not specific like the Byuakugan, which could see points, but could only see the entity as a whole. The point to the technique was to watch how the chakra was molded into a various type.

Lacking that ability, as well as being unable to mold chakra into an element, put her at a severe disadvantage. To make up for it, Chiyoko spent much of her extra time watching the other Kioku, as well as studying anatomy, to memorize the points to strike to achieve the same effect. While she could not preform \'jutsu iajutsu\' like the clan, she could, in essence, use her blows to push an opponent\'s chakra out of their body, as well as disrupt them from molding it if she struck while they preformed a technique. In addition, she could preform the signature move of the Kioku with nearly as much skill as a true member of the family.

This study also allowed her to develop a \'state\'. The family, which focuses on control, had such great control with their chakra they could mold their chakra simply by channeling it in the appropriate manners. It still took the same amount of time to prepare as doing the handsigns, but it made them especially dangerous in assassination missions. Chiyoko, having been given access to a bit of their blood, used her bloodline to acquire the ability temporarily to learn how to accomplish a similar feat. Being a puppeteer, the ability would be a staple for her fighting style.

The development of this technique was one of the most trying times of Chiyoko\'s training. It was not something her body was designed to do. It required immense amounts of meditation and observation. She spent hours, upon hours, watching other ninja train merely to watch how they manipulated their chakra for the jutsu they used. Using a specialized mirror, Chiyoko was able to observe the molding of her own chakra as she did jutsu. While she did, eventually, develop a method of accomplishing the technique, it was not something economical for her. It took more chakra for her to mold without handsigns. This led her to operating the molding with only one hand. She only had to bridge smaller gaps to accomplish the same thing, making it as economical as using two hands.

The other interest of the Kioku was in seals. In addition to the gift of the family name, was given the gift of a seal. This happened about 3 years into her training. After having spent as much time as she had with the people, she had begun to adopt many of their views. The group was, for the most part, peaceful. Powerful, but peaceful. They believed in destiny and that all things were foretold if one knew how to read the signs.

Their philosophy was deeply rooted into the I Ching. Their liking for seals derived from this. Many of their children had been given various seals at a young age. For the most part, they were just pretty symbols. Only those who achieved something were given \'destinies\'.

Not being a natural part of their family, but an outsider, Chiyoko was not given a seal to start with. They would not give a destiny to someone who was not a member of their family. However, at the end of her training things had changed.... while they would not give her a destiny, they would give her something else. Partially out of self preservation, the family crafted a new, greater seal. Unlike an individual, Chiyoko was given the complete I Ching. Since Chiyoko would be only Kioku in name, which was known, she would be able to protect the seals of the family (see seal application). It would also impart the family\'s knowledge of seals into her, although she was not formally trained in the art.

History > 60 lines... yes, fits the bill.

If someone wants to speak up about forgoing all elements for a fifth specialty, please do so, but this looks good by my eyes.

Two specialties too high for A rank.

*Notes to kill the Hokage then to increase rank?*

Also, the reason Chiyoko has extra specialties is the fact she absolutely *CANNOT* mold her chakra into elemental type ninjutsu, with the only bypass being if she reverts to a temporary state by acquiring the bloodline of another person (which would require her to acquire their blood and inject it into herself).

I thought such a huge, and uncommon, restriction on power would grant her access to a more diverse type of 'neutral' combat, which is why I selected what I did.

I think I might be at a severe disadvantage being unable to use elemental techniques without at least a bit of extra support, especially since medical, for the most part, is a supportive role, leaving the offensive capabilities solely in the hands of the puppetry and seals, which oddly enough, aren't nearly as impressive as a metal melting ball of fire that I have seen bio'd.

Maybe I should provide less restrictions on myself in order to make sure I am on par, in addition to dropping the extra specialties? What are your thoughts?

Alot of people doesn't have an element in the show, and on the forum, I actually have a few characters who don't use Ninjutsu at all, much less elements. It doesn't necessarily give you a disadvantage in fighting, it actually makes you better at certain specialties as opposed to someone who has the exact same thing but has elements since you have more time to concentrate on your specialties rather than elements. Like alot of people here have Taijutsu as their main tech but my NPC (Kazuki) is probably one of, if not the best Taijutsu user here considering the fact that it's all he does as opposed to concentrating in other areas like Ninjutsu. So basically, the more restrictions you put is going to make you better than another person in a certain area by common sense.

I will edit it when I return from Alice.

Accepted as S-rank leaf.

Need to add a tish more length to the bio though.

I wasn't about to kill you on three lines, but, please, do so.

Accepted, approved, and every other possible like definition.