Saito Kaori

Kaori
Personal
Birthplace	Land of Lightning
Birthdate	Jan. 10, -18 B.F.
Gender	Female
Age	24
Height	5'9"
Weight	145 lbs
Blood Type	???
Kekkei Genkai	Secret
Classification	Senshi
Areas of Expertise	Taijutsu, Kenjutsu, Elemental Ninjutsu
Clan	Saito
Affiliation	Kumogakure
Team	None yet.
Rank
Ninja Rank	Jounin
Genin-Equivalency Age	14
Chuunin-Equivalency Age	18
Jounin-Equivalency Age	23
Nature Type
Element (Affinity)	Lightning
Element (Affinity)	Wind
Element (Kekkei Genkai)	Velocity
Family
Cousin	Saito Jon
Cousin	Saito Minku (Deceased? Status uncertain)
Mother	Saito Kinou (Deceased)
Great Grandfather	Saito Masahiro

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Babel Crumble

Saito Kaori was once just a civilian, or "commoner". While the Clan Wars raged, she had no idea that her own mother was an accomplished and powerful kunoichi — Saito Kinou. Likewise, she had no idea she even belonged to the Saito Clan. She had been sent into hiding to protect her from would-be assassins. She carries a secret in her blood that could reignite the Clan Wars… Or do even worse harm to this shinobi world.

Background

+ The shadowed past revealed...

Saito Kaori spent the first 12 years of her life believing her name was Sakamoto Kaori. She had been told she had been adopted, having been orphaned by the Clan Wars, but she considered her adoptive mother to be no different from her 'real' mother. Living in a coastal hamlet known as Siromachi, Kaori spent most of her time performing the chores and tasks expected of a girl in a fishing village during a period of bloodshed and chaos such as they were being subjected to. Then came the day when ninja arrived at her adoptive mother's home and informed her of her true heritage.

She was actually the daughter of Saito Kinou, a powerful Jounin who had fallen in battle recently and had left secret instructions with the rest of the Saito Clan in regard to Kaori's protection and instruction in the arts of the ninja in the event that this exact circumstance came to pass. As the great grand-daughter of the head of the Senshi, Saito Masahiro, Kaori had the protection of an organized, skilled, and loyal ninja Clan against any who might try to use her as a means to strike at her great grand-father or the rest of the Clan. However, she also had to leave the hamlet that had been her home for all of her life thus far and she was expected to learn ninjutsu and become a kunoichi like her mother had been.

This was a rather daunting prospect, as one might imagine. Kaori had no experience at fighting, ninja arts, the use of Chakra, and had never even held a sword! However, perhaps not entirely truthfully, she was told that if she stayed with her adoptive mother any longer she would be bringing great risk and danger to the same home and hamlet she had grown up in. If she wanted to protect these people, she HAD to go with the Saito ninja and become strong enough to achieve the goal of being a guardian.

That is the role of the Saito, after all… To protect those who cannot protect themselves. Eventually, Kaori agreed. After that, she began receiving a 'crash-course' of sorts in all things 'ninja'. When her instruction was complete, she met one of her many cousins, Saito Minku, and established a sort of love/hate relationship with the haughty, angry, violent teenager. There were many ups and downs in their time together, and as they both grew stronger, they formed a rivalry that pushed each red-haired young woman to push herself harder and harder.

Despite Kaori's somewhat flighty and occasionally air-headed behavior, she proved to be a fast learner and to possess a drive to fill the shoes of the late mother she had never known. Her 'rival' only made her more eager to make up for her life until then being comprised of 'peasant work' by making Kaori wish to win the approval of her estranged cousin. Kaori loved Minku despite the harsh treatment she received from the same. She loved her in a way that made her feel strange, to question whether this love for another girl was 'normal' in any capacity, and to feel somewhat ashamed that it was towards her own cousin no less!

Minku had some degree of protectiveness she showed towards Kaori, and over time it seemed like Minku as 'softening' somewhat, and accepting Kaori as a true friend… Then Kaori discovered that a Kekkei Genkai, 'Velocity Release' existed within the Saito bloodline, had been possessed by her mother, and that it had been passed down to her. Her relationship with Minku immediately took a turn for the worse upon awakening this power. Minku had striven her entire life to be worthy of the respect and admiration of others by her own merit, her own 'innate superiority'. Then Minku's own cousin surpassed her in a few short years and revealed a hidden power that none had suspected existed.

Minku was furious and became much more verbally and physically abusive towards Kaori after that and over the years that followed. There were fights, both spoken and with their ninja skills. But they still worked together, even if they seemed to be going along different paths in life…

It all culminated in a serious and violent confrontation between Kaori and Minku, at the ages of 22 and 21 respectively, in the year that the Land of Water attacked the Land of Fire with an army of seemingly endless "golems". Kaori spoke of how they should aid the Land of Fire despite the unrest in the Land of Lightning, and Minku's temper got the best of her. Minku attacked Kaori. In the ensuing battle, even with Kaori doing her best to NOT use lethal force, she wound up severely injuring Minku. A blood-transfusion on-site with Kaori's own blood saved Minku's life, but their relationship
hasn't been the same since.

Minku was distant now, much calmer-seeming, and though Kaori hoped that her cousin had simply gotten a heavy dose of reality and maybe decided to stow the attitude a bit, she worried that the problems between the two of them had only gotten worse and now extended much deeper than what had been so readily on the surface in the past.

Her cousin's issues aside, with the Raikage falling ill from a mysterious ailment and her own great grand-father, Masahiro, becoming Candidate Raikage, and the rebellion of the civilians in the Land of Lightning that had started in 5 A.F. continuing into 6 A.F., Kaori simply doesn't have the time or energy to spare worrying about Minku.

But she worries anyway, because that is the type of person she is. She wants to protect EVERYONE… Even those she knows she can't.

Personality

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Appearance

Kaori is a woman of about 5'9" in height. She has long, straight, bright-red hair with several 'spikes' of bangs that hang down over her forehead. Her bangs end just above her red eyes, nearly concealing the arcs of her dark-red, 'wing-shaped' eyebrows. She has a small 'bump' of a nose, that when taken together with her slightly pouty lips gives her a slightly childish expression to contrast with the maturity of the rest of her face and form.

Kaori's frame is one clearly designed for power and control. She is lithe, graceful, and light on her feet, and yet she possesses an athletic body, with musculature that indicates she may have considerable experience with Taijutsu. Her chest is pretty darn large in size, to the extent that one might wonder how she can even be a ninja without straining her back. Her waist is narrow, her hips wide, and her legs powerfully-built, likely aiding her greatly in running, leaping, and kicking.

Usual Ninja Outfit
Kaori's typical kunoichi outfit is a tan-leather vest with reinforced straps over her shoulders and around her throat, with a grey flak jacket of the type usually worn by Kumogakure ninja. Loose black pants on Kaori's legs, a tool belt hanging on her hips, and tabi with shinguards complete her attire, though she also wears heavily reinforced and padded armguards, with similarly strengthened gloves when she is expecting combat.

The emblem of the Hidden Cloud Village is located on her jacket, and on her hita-ite (forehead protector) when she wears such.

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