Jōi

PERSONAL

NAME:
Jōi (上位)

RELATIVES:
Raikage's Bloodline
Yoippari Ina - Wife
Yoippari D - Son
Sarutobi Osa - Son

HEIGHT:
193.04cm

WEIGHT:
126.1kg

EYES:
Black

HAIR:
Black (

OFFICIAL

AFFILIATION:
Currently Kumogakure no Sato

NINJA RANK:
Jōnin

POSITION:
Hermit

AFFINITY:
Lightning

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE:
Jōi is a free-spirited man, unlike his father and his father before him. He finds ninja life to be mundane and tedious, the primary reason why he turned down the position of Raikage when his father died and pushed the responsibility onto his son. In spite of this, he can be moved to action if the scope of what threatens his village, country and self is large enough.

Being so free-spirited, Jōi has no issue letting his emotions be known to all around him without regard for how it might make them feel. Unlike most people, he makes no attempt to hide his thoughts or feelings knowing that he is more than likely able to defeat anyone who would pick a fight with him over it.

Like his younger son, he is something of a goofball and loves to have fun in ways that might disrupt others. His father compared him to Naruto when he was a young boy because of his antics around the village. Jōi never really grew up and he took his antics throughout the Lightning Country instead of just Kumogakure when he left the Kinkaku Buntai and the village as a whole to be a hermit.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Jōi is the son of A and father of Sarutobi Osa and Yoippari D. Being the son of the Raikage, Jōi enjoyed a large degree of freedom in his youth and he was known for being a troublemaker and erratic boy. He found his training to be tedious and time-consuming though it didn't result in lack of optimal results, a testament to his lineage.

Upon promotion to the rank of Genin, Jōi was placed under the tutelage of Darui. In his time with him, he would be taught the secrets of Black Lightning which he would later mix into the techniques taught to him by his father, A. In this regard, he became highly respected by the time he became a Chūnin and by the time he became a Jōnin, had earned the moniker Kumo's Black Bolt (Kumo no Kuroi Inazuma) (雲の黒い稲妻).

Travel was always of large interest to Jōi and so he made his way out of the village whenever possible. It was during those travels that he found himself in Hi no Kuni and made contact with a woman of the Sarutobi clan. In his joint operations with her, the two became intimate and she eventually became pregnant with his child. While such actions might have looked on with contempt in the past, in their age, it was a sign of good will between the Leaf and Cloud villages and the fruit of their union, Osa, was allowed to live as a living monument to the friendship between the Cloud and Leaf villages.

Jōi has easily been received as the strongest shinobi to hail from Kumogakure once his sensei and his father died. In this regard, he was the only candidate in actuality for the position when his father died. However, he denied the appointment in favor of traveling the Lightning Country freely now that his father couldn't rebuke him otherwise. He recommended the council appoint his son, D, to the position in his favor since he was the only shinobi in the village capable of matching his own strengths. Once D was chosen, Jōi left the village as a hermit so that he could continue his travels and potentially repopulate the Raikage's clan.