Tsubuyaku

[Sarutobi Sio]

PERSONAL

Name: Tsubuyaku (呟)

Age: 16

Gender: Female (女)

Date of Birth: October 7 (7 10月)

Relatives: None

Semblance:

Height: Taller than most females that she knows but by no means towering, herself, Tsu-kun stands at roughly 160.2 cm, or 5 feet, four inches.

Weight: Average but still lithe, Tsu-kun has held steady for the last year at around 47.2 kg, or about 104 pounds. She is well-muscled at her core, shoulders and legs due to her training in Bando.

Eyes: Tsu-kun is quite proud of her rich, ringed amber eyes, capable of delivering the most piercing glare known to man.

Hair: Cropped short and pure white, Tsubuyaku's hair is almost in direct contrast with her eyes and skin, giving her a quite exotic and distinctive look.

Personality: The Hierophant (V)- Outwardly, Tsubuyaku seems cool and collected. Her role during the war had more or less evenly split public opinion of her with some feeling that she was necessary to secure peace within the village and protect it from further harm, and others feeling that the existence of her role and her abilities signified an inhuman aspect to the village that was not welcome or needed. Regardless, she does what she is told without hesitation, and whatever is best and needs to be done in order to protect those that she is close to. She has a very black and white view on life as a shinobi, believing that the enemy is the enemy, and that they should be granted no quarter, given no mercy, and feels no guilt for the many she has broken and sentenced to a fate that many believe is worse than death. Still, because of this mindset within the village, she chooses to distance herself from many and is seen as a loner at best, and a bitch at worst.
Truthfully, Tsubuyaku would give her life and her own sanity to protect Konohagakure and the people who live there, and especially the lives of her teams. She loves this village and this land, and if one was to go up and speak with her, they would find a very emotional yet rational and sensible young woman.

Not much of a talker, she'll continue a conversation, but cannot be trusted to start one or rescue a faltering one. Once comfortable around someone, she will gladly talk and joke, though it takes her a while to warm up to new people. A bit edgy, some may think Tsubuyaku to be under some particular stress, but this is her normal demeanor, and while it takes some getting used to, it should not be taken personally.

During the time spent as Genin with her team, she was very much a mother hen to the point of annoying the boys, chasing them around with bandages for cuts or wounds or nagging them to eat correctly or stretch before training. This is a hidden side of her that she very carefully reveals to people as she comes to trust them, otherwise she is generally aloof and seems wholly either unobservant or simply uninterested with what is going on with others.

Background: The time of Konohagakure's formation had to be a godsend for the remaining shreds of Tsubuyaku's clan, which at that point consisted of only her father, a brother aged seven, a grandmother and herself at four years of age. When they arrived at the gates that rainy day on the coldest evening of the year, it was obvious they were a family in crisis, particularly when taken into account that the grandmother was the healthiest of the lot.
Tsubuyaku's brother barely lasted three days in the medical center before he succumbed to the infection that had spread all over his body from the broken leg he had sustained months before. Her father, crippled by so many broken and re-broken bones and scar-tissue invasion which limited his mobility made a full recovery, but he would never walk again, and would live in excruciating pain.
The grandmother had a broken foot, which only needed to be set and cast.
And Tsubuyaku, herself...the first order of business would be to evict the aggressive and dangerous parasites that had taken up residence in her gut. Doing such sent her body into such shock that she had to be placed in a medically-induced coma in order to keep her body from shutting down under the stress. Malnourishment did not help the situation any, and so she was tube-fed while in her coma, all with no guarantee that she would ever actually come out.

It would be a year later that she would open her eyes under her own command. That all the hope and prayers from her father, grandmother, and the staff at the medical center would seemingly pay off. There was still much work to be taken care of...a year missed during her biggest developmental period would cost Tsubuyaku dearly, and she would have to learn to walk, talk and use a fork all over again. Still, all would learn that her spirit was nothing to be trifled with, and it wouldn't be long until she was healthy enough to leave with what was left of her family and begin her new life in Konohagakure.

Even though the clan wars were for the most part over, old habits and mindsets were hard to break. When Tsubuyaku was steady on her feet once again, no time was wasted in resuming what little bit of sporradic training had been started out in the figurative jungle that was Hi no Kuni. Many knew the family, but weren't aware of their connection to them. Known as a fearsome yet respected clan of informants, they employed some techniques for extracting information from unwilling participants that even for that time might be considered somewhat barbaric. Some of those who even began to doubt the savagery to contend that it was necessary and that all was fair in war would retract that opinion once they saw the husks of humans that were left once Tsubuyaku's people had gotten what they needed...

It was a legacy that she was bound to inherit, herself, and one that she would be proud to. At six years old, she was already becoming accomplished in the chakra control that would become paramount to her abilities. Her Taijutsu was the one that would progress the slowest, with one elderly teacher and another who was limited, but that was of least concern. That training would come in time. For now, there would be only this.
The following year, at age seven, Tsubuyaku would enter the Shinobi Academy. It was her family's intention for her all along, as thanks to the village that saved their life and hers. It was the birthright she was born into. And though it was not as necessary as it had been years past, she understood the same as any other that peacetime was no excuse to drop guards.
It would be the following year that Tsubuyaku would be named a Genin and placed into a team alongside teammates Makoto and Yoippari Ittō, under the tutelage of Hata Ojin.

The start was not the smoothest. There was no shame in saying it, and there would be days that Tsubuyaku would downright hate those guys, but over time they would flesh out their issues, embrace one another's differences and prove to be a cohesive unit, eventually taking on more challenging missions until the ultimate test of their skills and teamwork during the Chunin exams two years following. Little trouble would be given to the group in that venture, the rank of Chunin gained and the next phase of their lives as shinobi set to begin.
For the three years following, the team would remain as such, strengthening their own individual attributes while strengthening their own bond as a team. Tsubuyaku's affinity toward Ninjutsu and Genjutsu became frightening, her concentration on the pair now encompassing any time she had been spending on Taijutsu, as well. She became absorbed into her studies, feeling like she needed to keep up with Ittō and Makoto. She felt a bond to them, as well as Ōjin, the likes of which she had never felt before. They were like a second family. Like the siblings she always wished she had, and could barely remember of her own, and like her father had once been before the strife and fighting had taken away from him most of what it meant to be a shinobi. Protecting them, protecting her blood family, and Konohagakure would become her only focus. But not even she could protect against what would happen next.

Kusa no Kuni was the name that would live on forever in her mind. Ōjin went there one day...Tsubuyaku missed the chance to say goodbye to him that morning. It was a memory that would haunt her even years after he failed to return from that mission. Normalcy was gone now, though she and Mokoto and Ittō tried to feign it as best they could. There was no denying that there was grieving to be done, and soul-searching among the three as each wondered how life was to go on without Ōjin. Ittō would be the one to get the painful ball rolling with his own departure from their day-to-day routine. He was still around, but wasn't at the same time. Makoto would be next, eventually taking a leave.

Tsubuyaku would fling herself headlong into her studies now with a ferocity that would threaten to break her. Even the eventual death of her father and grandmother would do nothing but fill her with more grief and loss: fuel for her cause. In awe of the terrible knowledge and skills that she possessed, it would not take her long to become a valued member of the Konoha prison. Her outward title would be that of a warden, and there would be few more feared by the inmates than she was. But behind closed doors, she would resume the ugly heritage of her people. True, Tsubuyaku had a job to do, but she had a duty even beneath that. And she would break every prisoner in that place in order to find out exactly what happened in Kusa no Kuni, even if it took her the rest of her life.

TACTICAL

Ninja Rank: Chūnin

Position: Prison Warden- Former Head of Interrogation

Affiliation: Konohagakure no Sato; Hi no Kuni

Elemental Composition: None/Unknown

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