| Ghoul of the Desert |
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| Personal |
| Real Name |
Misu Yane |
| Aliases |
Blood Red Sandman, Smiling Jack, The Leather Apron, The Flesh-Stalker, The Zombie Alive, The Ghoul of the Desert, The Death That Walks |
| Birthplace |
Land of Wind |
| Birthdate |
Oct. 31, -148 B.F. |
| Gender |
Male |
| Age |
153 |
| Height |
5'10" tall |
| Weight |
74 lbs |
| Hair Color |
Yellow-brown |
| Eye Color |
Red |
| Complexion |
Withered |
| Blood Type |
Dry |
| Kekkei Genkai |
N/A |
| Classification |
Monster |
| Areas of Expertise |
Cannibal Skills, Creepiness, Food Preparation |
| Clan |
False Immortals |
| Affiliation |
None. Formerly  Sunagakure |
| Team |
None. |
| Rank |
| Ninja Rank |
No official rank. Wanderer. |
| Genin Equivalency Age |
22 (Began training at 20) |
| Chuunin Equivalency Age |
30 |
| Nature Type |
| Element (Affinity) |
 Earth |
| Element (Special) |
 Death |
| Family |
| Mother |
Mirai (Deceased) |
| Father |
Misu Jiro (Deceased) |
| Older Sister |
Misu Ichiko (Deceased) |
| Older Brother |
Misu Ginra (Deceased) |
| Younger Sister |
Misu Niko (Deceased) |
| Youngest Sister |
Misu Sanko (Deceased) |
| Former Teacher |
Urufumaru (Deceased) |
| Alternate Self |
Misu Yane (Other World) |
| Signature Jutsu |
| Cannibal Skill: Smiling Jack |
| Favorite Techniques |
Vanishing Facial Copy
Dirt Body
Cannibal Skill: Breath of Rot |
Background
A legendary monster that many had hoped was simply a story, the Ghoul of the Desert first appeared during the Clan Wars in the two decades preceding the end of that extended conflict. It has inflicted terror, pain, and death on the people (civilian, soldier, ninja, or otherwise) for nearly 30 years now. Even amongst those who have never directly encountered it, the fear of the creature itself has darkened the very lives of many. This is also not taking into account the pain resulting from friends, family, loved ones, neighbors, and so on "going missing" or even being confirmed as dead when their remains are discovered. These remains that show the characteristics of "a Ghoul attack" are but a handfull more tallies to add to the sickening "kill count" of this undead abomination.
Where did it come from? Why does it do what it does? When will it finally be stopped? WILL it ever be stopped? No one appears to know right now.
- 147 B.F.: Misu Yane is born in the desert. He is raised in a tribe of nomads, wandering from place to place in search of food and water.
- 127 B.F.: Yane finds a stranger in the desert, nearly dead, in odd clothing. The stranger is brought back to the tribe and nursed to health. From this stranger Yane discovers how to control his Chakra, and how to channel it into Jutsu.
- 126 B.F.: The stranger continues to teach Yane, but the nomad tribe starts to become afraid of Yane's strange powers, and begin to suspect the stranger of being a demon. They urge Yane to stay away from the stranger, but Yane refuses, seeing their suspicions as paranoia and jealousy. Eventually, Yane and the stranger are both banished from the tribe, and sent out into the desert by themselves. With Chakra and Jutsu, the two are able to not only survive, but thrive. Yane uses Earth Release to shatter the desert and discover new sources of water. The stranger uses his own Jutsu to find food whenever necessary. Training proceeds.
- 109 B.F.: Yane's teacher dies. Yane is horrified that someone as powerful and knowledgeable as his sensei could simply die of natural causes. He resolves that he will have to surpass his teacher in power and knowledge, and discover how to continue living forever.
- 96 B.F.: Yane finds what he is looking for in the form of a preserving fluid normally used for embalming. He works with the substance to infuse it with Chakra, and then injects himself with it. His old tribe discovers him before the Jutsu is completed, however, and when they find out who he is, the new membership attempt to kill him. Yane is far more powerful than a bunch of half-starved nomads, but the chemical he injected into his body interferes with his Chakra, resulting in his "laboratory" collapsing. It caves in on him and the tribe members who do not escape. Yane manages to survive by killing and cannibalizing the survivors trapped underground with him. Eventually, however, he runs out of "food" and water. When he runs out of air as well, he discovers he does not need to breathe. Gradually his body withers down to the skeleton, but his Jutsu maintains a tenuous hold on life. He is left in perpetual agony however, from starvation.
- 15 B.F.: Scavengers discover the site of Yane's old home, and take shelter there. Yane detects their presence and breaks free of his mindless, agonized state long enough to start digging — an activity he gave up on long ago, when he found he could not focus his Chakra sufficiently to move the stone. In desperation to end his hunger, he manages to shift one of the slabs of stone that had weakened over the years, and emerges to the surface. There he kills and eats as many of the scavengers as he can before they flee. Satiated after decades of torturous hunger, Yane begins to wander the desert, unsure of what year it is, what the current state of affairs is, or anything else. He does discover that his body has adapted to the Preservation Jutsu to a certain degree. However, though he can now use his Chakra freely, he is far weaker than he was before, and is unable to use or even remember the vast majority of his Jutsu repetoire.
- 2 B.F.: "The Ghoul of the Desert" has been told of in stories for more than a decade, as people vanish, or are witnessed being eaten. Even people who disappeared for alternate reasons are ascribed to attacks by the Ghoul, and Yane becomes a legendary figure of fear. However, he takes a back seat to the Clan Wars that have been raging between ninja, and between the Lords who hire said ninja. When one man arises with overwhelming power, he begins to draw the various tribes together for mutual protection, and to form a shinobi nation. This man would become the First Kazekage. But first he would have a run in with the Ghoul of the Desert. Yane was scavenging a battlefield for survivors he could kill and eat, when he ran into Kokoroe Sousa and the Kazekage was intrigued by this strange creature. An unkillable enemy is a terrible enemy. An unkillable ally, on the other hand, can be a great ally. Thus, both to study Yane and to gain much-needed support for the foundation of Sunagakure, Sousa offered the decrepit Yane a chance to keep living — as long as he helped him with founding Sunagakure. Yane agreed, and gave himself a new name… Hone Nai.
- 1 B.F.: Nai assists in the Clan Wars in bringing the various tribes under the control of the First Kazekage.
- 1 A.F. ("Year Zero"): Sunagakure is founded, and Nai begins working with the Kazekage's advisors to establish a code of laws for the people.
- 4 A.F. (3 years after Sunagakure's founding): Hone Nai is a low-level Chuunin, serving as a records keeper and assistant to the council of Sunagakure. Occasionally the Ghoul of the Desert re-emerges… Though only bandits and enemies of Sunagakure seem to be suffering from the Ghoul's attacks.
- 5 A.F. (4 years after Sunagakure's founding): To be done.
- 6 A.F. (5 years after Sunagakure's founding; Present year): To be done.
Personality
See: Hone Nai
Appearance
The Ghoul is a withered, dessicated, zombie-like entity. It has dry flesh with visible green-grey decay in places. Its skin is more or less stretched and thin, but there are places where holes may exist and allow a peek at the bones underneath. It has sparse, stringy, yellow-brown hair clinging to a rotting scalp in individual strands and small clumps. It is missing its nose and has no lips per se, and thus its features appear rather skeletal. A lack of eyelids and the continued existence of eyeballs in the sockets produces a disturbingly wide-eyed, constantly-staring look. The irises and pupils are red, with the former bright red and the latter dark red. The Ghoul's teeth are sharpened, almost as if filed, but more akin to the teeth of a meat-eating predator. The gums are blackened strips of flesh.
The Ghoul's neck is thin enough that it looks as though turning its head too fast might make it snap. Its shoulders are similarly covered in a stretched canvas of dry flesh — more like a leathery hide than true skin. Much like with other corpses there are no ears per se, instead the Ghoul possesses only a pair of sickeningly out-of-place HOLES where the ears SHOULD be.
The mix of stretched, holey, dry-yet-rotting skin over an emaciated frame of bones — some of which even protrude through the flesh — and the dirt, dust, and sand of the desert itself makes it all too clear that this is no natural creature. This is no ninja, no jutsu, and though many may desperately hope that the Ghoul is but an illusion, or perhaps a nightmare, it is all too real. It is a monster.
It usually looks hungry too.
The Menu
| Name |
Relationship |
Notes |
| Dead King Yane |
Hated |
"Dead King Yane" was actually an alternate version of the body-possessing ninja named "Sheex" inhabiting the alternate version of Misu Yane's undead body. For a long time, the Ghoul worried that he had the potential to cause the massive death and misery that Dead King Yane did… Then he discovered who was really using that body. Then he ate him. He ate that body after Sheex fled it in the face of Rinako, Ruri, and Kara's fierce assault in the Other-World. Then he ate Sheex's soul too. Sheex's evil proved once and for all that humans are the problem, not the dead such as Yane. He decided he had to do something about it based on this revelation alone. Something like erasing BOTH universes… |
| Many |
Digested |
Sometimes they mattered. Sometimes they didn't. Sometimes it was torment to resist the urge to eat them. Some times it was torment to give in to that urge. In the end, however, they were all consumed. |
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