Shibata Akina

Shibata (柴田) Akina (明菜)
Personal
Birthplace	Land of Wind (風)
Birthdate	April 15th, 5 B.F. (Year of the Boar)
Gender	Female
Age	12
Height	5 ft. - 1.52 m.
Weight	95 lb. - 43 kg.
Blood Type	O-
Kekkei Genkai	None
Classification	None
Areas of Expertise	Poison
Clan	Shibata (柴田)
Affiliation	Sunagakure
Team	Team Two
Rank
Ninja Rank	Genin
Genin-Equivalent Age	12
Chuunin-Equivalent Age	N/A
Nature Type
Element (Affinity)	Unknown
Element (Secondary)	Unknown
Family
Father	Akihiko (明彦)
Signature Jutsu
Poisoned Senbon

Background

+ Reveal the Past

The desert is such a fascinating place. The earliest memories I have were of my father as he carried me on his shoulders through the never-ending sands, teaching me secrets to where to find plants and lizards that can produce the best poisons. As soon as I could walk I started collecting everything I could that could be used for poisons, learning how to properly dry plants, prepare bones, and handle insects. Maybe it was his wonder and fascination in his voice that made me want to learn that much more.
It was a winter that I first noticed the cough. It steadily grew worse over weeks until father ran a fever and could not get out of bed until finally he told me that this illness was one he could not heal on his own. Not without going to the nearest village, and that one was so small that there was only the slimmest of chances any doctor there could help.
That morning I would never forget, slipping my feet into slippers and preparing for another day of taking care of father. Hopeful and naive even then that he would get better any day. But the moment I peeked into his room I knew… he was so still, it was unnatural. The only thing I could bear to do is to close the door and leave him there…
It took me a full day before I gathered my wits, to formulate a plan. I could not stay in the little hovel, just like I could not bury my father. Bless his soul. So I gathered my most important scrolls, even the ones father had in his study, and packed them away as best that I could, with the very few belongings I have in this world. And after that I made my long journey to Sunagakure, through the sands and wind until it was visible on the horizon. Nuzzled against the side of a mountain, lit up with lanterns in the darkness of the night.
Time blurred until I found myself at the outskirts of the village, exhausted and weak. And even the early hours of the morning I was found and taken inside the walls, waking up inside the hospital with a nurse checking on my vitals. When they asked about my parents or family I was honest, I told them I had no one, but they assumed on their own that I was an orphan of war. Just as well. Less questions to answer.
Secrets… just another dark secret…

Personality

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Personality? Personality is only skin deep. It is what you want people to see every day so that they are content with just giving a small little wave to you in the morning without giving you much thought the rest of the day.
Now nature, instinct. That is who and what you really are but never show the real world. And for good reason too. Society is always so quick to cast out what they fear or do not understand while at the same time thinking themselves as civilized. It is why everyone keeps who they really are locked up tight inside. They have that fear too.
Me? For the most part I just want to be left alone. Sure I will play nice with others, but when it comes down to the mission they rely on me just as much as I rely on them. Then it does not come down to friendship, it comes down to that solid knowledge that they will have your back and you have theirs. A sure, unshaken fact of nature.
And that right there is worth more than anything else in this world.
For anyone that might think of testing the matter… they will find their insides slowly dissolving into nothing by my poisons…

Appearance

Before you is a young girl with long, straight ink black hair that tapers off at the small of her back. Long locks shimmer with faint blue highlights frames her pale face. A slender nose is the center piece of her smooth face. Separating her deep coal black eyes and long black eyelashes. Below her nose is a pair of soft lips. The curvature of her chin leads to her slender neck.

Slender shoulders lead downwards, covered the ebony material of a long, hooded cloak that sways with the slightest breeze, clasp a dull and worn iron, though intricately detailed into a symbol that loops around and into itself. The front of the cloak is open, showing the ink black traveling kimono that cups along the undercurve of her chest. The long, dark sleeves of her kimono cover over her lean arms, the long hem to completely envelope her feminine hands and slender fingers.

The lean stomach curves naturally beneath the open cloak, a smoky sash wrapping around her small waist as the smooth curve of her hips continues under the hem of the dark kimono, long hem brushing over her sculpted legs as she moves with little hesitance. A fully equipped ninja pouch strapped to her right calf, out of sight except for the rarest of occasions when the folds part just slightly. Her small feet adorn a pair of black sandals with a slight heel to them.

Relationships

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Team Two

Name	Relationship	Notes
Shippodoku Keiji	Team Leader	Too smart for his own good, but at least I know one way to annoy him. I will use it sparingly but for now I will just make sure to carefully watch my step around him.
Asao	Team Mate	Deceased. I wonder if this is partly my blame to bear. I may not have known him for that long but if I was just a little bit stronger… maybe I could have made that much of a difference that he could still be alive…
Sasaki Kazeodori	Team Mate	Very strange boy. He seems to have his head in the clouds more often than not, and I have not seen the full range of what he can do on the field. I hope he doesn't become a liability
Suterusu	Team Mate	Gender isn't recognizable so 'he' will do for now. He seems very intense when studying people. Perhaps looking for weaknesses? Or maybe just observing personalities. Either way, the length of wire wrapped around his torso, it seems like it could be an impressive weapon. I will have to watch him closely.

Skills And Abilities

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Attacks D-Rank Poisoned Senbon Defenses D-Rank Block II Skills D-Rank Tree Walking Water Walking Transformations

Chronological Timeline & Ninja Journal

May 9, 7 A.F. - September 3, 2012 Tiny Prick of Poison

+ Show May 9th, 7 A.F. - Entry #01: Team Two Captain

How is it that I have been in this village for a couple of years and only when I have graduated from the academy that I come across a Shippodoku. And my team leader no less. I must be cursed with the worst luck…
Mornings are never the best for me personally, but I put up with waking up at such an early hour just to search for plants. Map out where I find different foliage for later in case I ever need them in the future. So it was not all that difficult to incorporate that in with meeting the team captain at the training grounds. I just did not expect a weird mask guy to be that, my team captain.
Those claws of his… the first thought that pierced through my mind when I saw then is… just what they would look out red with my guts stringing from them… I had to keep myself from staring at the metal claws for too long, to make sure that he did not realize just… how terrified I was of him.
So far, so good.
Well, until the first team mission at least.

May 13, 7 A.F. - September 5, 2012 Endless Bubbles

+ Show May 13th, 7 A.F. - Entry #02: First Mission, Technically

You would think that bubbles would not be an issue in such a dry environment like the desert.
The first time he called me for a mission I was leery. Who knows what he could be planning, what he could have up his sleeve. So the only thing I can do is to dive straight in and get it over with. The less contact I have the better.
Maybe even learn a nugget of information or two if I am lucky.
In any case, my first mission was… odd. A walk in the park really, once I found out what the problem was. Chemicals are a bit of a fascination of mind so of course I knew how to dissolve a massive collection of bubbles.
I could not tell if he was surprised or impressed. Damn mask.
After taking care of the bubbles it was an easy enough thing to find the seal that made them. Hidden and stuck onto one of the rocks underwater. Maybe someone’s idea of a joke.
By the end… he was getting miffed that I did not take any stock in his compliments. Or whatever it was. I have no reason to believe that anything he says is genuine. Only thing I can do is shrug it off and do my job.

May 15, 7 A.F. - September 6, 2012 Puppet Play

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Puppets… are so annoying. I do not mind being tested. Even formally meeting Asao-san and learning about his technique was interesting to say the least, but man that puppet… so annoying to fight against. Poison is useless so I needed to attack the puppeteer, but then he uses a substitution jutsu with his own puppet. I knew that with him being more experience I would have to push myself to even do a scratch.
Personally, I was impressed I came up with the idea at all to throw his own puppet at him. The look on his face was priceless. And despite how stiff he may act, Asao-san is a decent shinobi. I look forward to working with him in the future.

+ Show May 15th, 7 A.F. - Entry #04: Discovered Secrets...

He figured it out.
I do not know how, but somehow…
It was a moment of weakness, he caught me off-guard and I… I could not hide it. Not that night.
I could feel my stomach twisting into knots when he put the pieces together and all I could pray for was a merciful death. But it never came. Nothing came but silence. Maybe I am just too pitiful to kill, but he could not care less. Or maybe it did in some way that I could not see, that I still can not.
But after that, just listening to him, maybe there is a chance. A real chance I could be home now. That my secrets would not drown me at any moments or threaten to bust me at the seams.
I cannot suppress at small hope inside, along with the crushing doubt and distrust I have had to live with for so long. Is it really okay for me to trust him?…
With my life literally in his hands, do I have a choice?

May 19, 7 A.F. - September 8, 2012 Pick Pocket Troubles
June 2, 7 A.F - September 16, 2012 Stillness of a Clock

+ Show June 2nd, 7 A.F. - Entry #05: Helplessness

That night… was the first of what was supposed to be a long list of missions with my new team, but…
It feels surreal. Like it never even happened, even though I know better.
I stayed behind to cover the group's rear and before I knew it, Kazeodori took off in the direct we had come from. Chased by shadows… and as much as I wanted to keep from abandoning the rest of the team, I could not let Kazeodori go off on his own unprotected.
If I had known what would have happened to Asao-san… I wonder if I would have followed Kazeodori at all. Maybe. But right now I am so weak compared against everyone else, I would have just been a liability… baggage while others tried to protect me. And I would have hated myself even more because of it. Just like now.
I wish I was stronger… If I was I could have defended my teammates, maybe even enough to give them time to retreat without being taken down.
But… I am not…

June 4, 7 A.F - September 16, 2012 Few Comforting Words

+ Show June 4nd, 7 A.F. - Entry #06: Afterimage

Shinobi are trained to be hardened solders, skilled assassins, and anything else a village needs in order to protect its people, its borders. But seeing what I have seen, knowing the blood that has been spilled for those that will never fully acknowledge, let alone realize just how much of a price is paid for blissful ignorance… Would it be selfish of me to wonder if it is worth it?
The life of a comrade… even worse the effect of his death on our team leader, is it a painful void that will never be filled? Much like my father… Maybe…
I just hate seeing him in this state… it is as if I could see his thoughts whirling through his mind, trying to think of every possible angle where Asao could have lived, but he says that every time he sees just someone else dying…
One life for another… that is not fair. Its cruel…
In the end, he just blames himself. Just like I blame myself for not being strong enough. And I have to ask, do we share blame equally? Is it even anyone's fault at all? Probably. Usually the team leader is the one that takes the blame for whatever befalls their team during a mission, but… this is different. More personal.
I wonder if things will be the same again.

June 6, 7 A.F - September 17, 2012 Non Faces

+ Show June 6th, 7 A.F. - Entry #07: Herbalist

It has been what, only a few days now and already our fallen teammate is being replaced? As if he was not so much as a carton of milk that has gone bad and had to be thrown out…
Maybe I just have a bleak view on the matter…
It was the strangest thing. Just sitting there in the gardens, minding my own business and when I glance up, there he was. Like a shadow clinging to the wall. If he had been… well, anyone else, I would have been done for. And to think he could have so easily killed me in such a remote area of the village is more than unnerving…
I guess he seems nice enough. I can't tell. He has a mask and it is hard to tell whether or not 'he' is a boy or a girl. Not from his voice or anything else even. Its disturbing. He probably does that intentionally, what with being all sneaky-like. I wonder if he can teach me how to do that…
I wonder if things will be the same again.
Being called an herbalist though, now that is insulting.

June 30th, 7 A.F. - October 2, 2012 Never Stood A Chance

+ Show June 30th, 7 A.F. - Entry #08: Trying

Today was the first mission since Asao fell in battle. And the first chance to see how Suterusu will do in action. I am still not sure if I trust him yet, but considering his skill it was fairly interesting.
So far from what I have seen of him, Suterusu is a silent an dconstantly obsorbing what he can of his surroundings. Just like the night I first met him. Maybe that is what he did before he was assigned to team two. And if that is the case, why assign him to our team at all? I would imagine he would work better solo than with a team, right?
In any case, the mission was handled well for the most part. A hostage negotiation. Between the team leader's precise location of each of the targets inisde the building, and Suterusu's expertise with traps and everything shadowy, it kinda made me feel like I was the odd man out. Without much to contribute to the mission as a whole. Though… at least I did not hold us back either. Just… kinda disappointed in myself for the most part.
Oh well.

July 20th, 7 A.F. - October 9, 2012 The Lowest Bidder

+ Show July 20th, 7 A.F. - Entry #09: Courier

There has been plenty of time to train one on one with sensei since he took me under his wing, but I think this has been the first mission we have done together by outselves. Maybe he wanted to see my problem solving skills in action to better access where my training would go from here, or maybe he just wanted to see me frustrated.
I would not put it past him.
Whatever the case may be, we found our target alive and well poisoned by some kind of neurotoxin. But since we got him home safe and sound that is all I care about for the most part.



I wonder if I should make some kind of knockout toxin.

August, 7 A.F - October 16, 2012 Next of Kin
September 14, 7 A.F - November 6, 2012 Hog Crazy
September 28, 7 A.F - November 13, 2012 He'd Be Dead Any Other Time

RP Logs

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