Ugashi Tao-WIP-

[Souku|Raidon|Tao]

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Name: Tao Ugashi

Alias: none

Rank: Jounin

Gender: male

Age: 20

Village: Konohagakure no Sato

Clan: none

Appearance: Tao's fairly tall, the tallest member of his team in fact, standing(when he isn't slouching) at around 167 cm(about 5 ft 9), give or take a few. He also weighs the most of the team, coming in at 69 Kilograms. Though compared to a lot of other males his age, he looks diminule. Most of his weight comes from his muscles and unusually large build(for an Ugashi anyway, there are plenty of people larger than himself), results from years of intense training and pushing himself more than most. His unusual size comes from his mothers side, not his fathers though, as his father is of Ugashi Bloodline. His mother's father was fairly large and the trait seems to have wormed its way into Tao's own blood. Dispite his unusual size in accordance to his Clan liniage, he has a deceptivly lanky body. As said, he's extremly tall, even for a male and his muscular frame is spread out proportunatly throughout. Though physicaly strong, he's not very solidly built, rather, he's easily brought down in close combat. He's build specificly for speed and long range fighting. Though he's not skinny, nor is he weak, he isn't the best at holding his own when push comes to shove.
His face is fairly narrow, though not overly so. Even so, he's one of those people with a flexible, expresive face. No matter how good he is at controling his emotions, and no matter how hard it is to tell those emotions apart from one another, the expresions that do cross his face from time to time are well defined and all to obvious if he lets his tight hold on his feelings slip for any amount of time. His eyes are equally, if not more, expressive as his face. Fairly narrow, though bright and liquid shined, they hold the same absolute focus as his personality. Peircing and rather cold at times, it can make anyone squirm to have him completly and utterly focused on them. Like many of his clan mates, those intense eyes are a brilliant shade of blue, bright and lively dispite his colder emotional exterior. There always seems to be bags under his eyes, most likley from stress. His hair is kept up out of his vision, his pratical nature taking over in his personal grooming. Even with his messy bangs, his hair only hangs just above his eyes. His hair is short, again to keep it from burdening him on missions, spiked and straight except in the front where his bangs betray his naturaly slightly curly hair. He's peirced his right ear three times, adding to his(what could be considered) "bad-ass" look. Though it must be recognized that he hardly intended such an assumption to come from looks alone.
His clothes have, and always will be, selected for praticality. Never mind if such things were to be "stylish". None the less, his artists mind seems to have come through and selected quite a few uniquer items for the young man. The fore-most visable and noticable thing is his hooded jacket, bearing equally unseful colours. Most of the jacket is a lighter green while the right and left side of the jacket have darker green steaks running from the top to the bottom of the thing. On the right side, there are two streaks, the first one being a few inches thick while the second one runs to the side until reaching mid way across Tao's ribs. The left side has smaller lines, being of the same size. The first one only goes about a fourth of the way up the front of his jacket while the other one is only slightly taller. Both sleeves are a darker green as well. Under the sleeve on his left side, is a small compartment that contains small sheets of paper he can use in battle. On his right arm is a noticable, permident scar running from about half way up his upper arm, down the top of his forearm and stopping half way across the underside of his forearm. He obtained the scar while trying to defend Suki from his father after Kaji struck her in an attempt to kill her. Like all of his clan mates, he is almost always wearing the navy shoulder pads bearing his clans insigmia. On the underside of either shoulder pad is another small black pouch contianing more paper. Under the jacket, he wears navy collared shirt, allowing the thick collar to be visable above the hood of his jacket. Below that is a simple black T-shirt. Strapped to his chest is another compartment, similar to the rest, which holds even more paper. He wears longer khakei shorts, ending about halfway between his feet and his knee. And strapped to either of his thighs is, naturally, two more compartments for paper. As any ninja, he carries the back pouch(also filled with paper). Being right handed, he keeps it on his right side, as well as the smaller pouch strapped to his leg(again, no kunai, just paper). Around his neck he keeps a thick, square chain with a copper cross. The cross displays a brass tinted dragon wrapped around it. On his right wrist is a black wristband covered by four, rounded, silver braclets. But even this serves a purpose. Under the wristband are small bits of paper(about 1 in. by 1 in. each) with the kanji symbol of each of his paper puppets elements, written in his own blood, allowing him to summon any of them, even if he lacks access to the actual scroll he uses most of the time.

Special body armor: Lightweight, navy coloured, metal shoulder pads. They are unique to his clan, though they don't actually serve much purpose when it comes ot protection. On many missions he also wheres a durable metal piece of armour he constructed himself. The metal itself is fairly soft, similar to the carbon alloy used in many knives, and might, at best, deflect a kunai or two. Upon receiving a large blow, it would easily be bent and could prove more harm to Tao that anything. However, Tao isn't a boy to equip himself with usless things. The seven strips of metal used to make each portion actually are formed of three layers. The first and third layer are simply the softer metal. Sandwitched between those two layers are long strips of paper. The method behind this hidden defense is that because the metal isn't very protective, it's very light and flexible, somthing a person like Tao would find very useful. However, Toa's ability to channel chakra along the paper strips and harden them causes the metal to become hard as diamond at any given moment. In short, Tao can remain light on his feet, but the moment he is in danger of taking an otherwise life threatening blow, he can save himself. The build of it is fairly simple. With seven seperate pieces to each portion(his front, covering from his upper chest down to his belt level|Either side of his ribcage under his arms) And his back, matching the dimensions of the front of it), the entire piece of armour allows for flexibility and completley normal movment in battle.

Personality:
Tao, to get it out of the way right here and now, is an artist. But if you were expecting the kind hearted, gentle voiced, day dreaming artist who simply travels around all day pondering his excistance, well your about to have some illusions shattered. If you want to accompany one to ponder for hours and hours with, talk to his former team mate, Souku, not him. You can also go ahead and squash any expectations of knowing him based on what you see on first glance. He's a master at smoke and mirrors and over the years, the smoke has only gotten thicker and harder to see around. If ever you manage to coax him into even standing next to you long enough for you to learn anything about him, then you can consider yourself a very rare person. Because its not often he opens up, or even speaks for that matter, to anyone. Even his closer friends(he has no closest friends and it's impossible to become one. You just have to hope to get a little closer each time you see him). Imagin looking at a coin when looking at him and attempting to figure him out, because he is, without a doubt, nothing short of more than one person mashed together to create his character. But you can't call him schystophrentic, when one personality literally takes over. But the way he hides one side of himself and reviels the other can make it impossible to ever really figure him out. Perhaps he would be easier to figure out if it were but two personalities, but no. When attempting to adopt Tao as a friend, you can be well assured that you will end up with, not one friend, but two or three, and on some occations, four or five. Dont try to tell whats on his mind to often, its much to difficult. Eagerness, pain, sorrow, joy, love, regret, and anything in between and beyond such emotions can fleet across his expresive face in an instant before you even have time to pick each one out. Good luck trying to seperate them, he can easily mash, blend and seperate them all over again in the blink of an eye. But the good news is that with each individual personality he chooses to display, what you see is what you get and nothing else, even if trying to figure all of them out will keep anyone running around in emotional circles for years.

For the most part, dispite his many personalities, he generally tends to keep to just one side of himself. Still, perhaps a better comparison for him would be with a rock. Not because of his stubborness(though theres plenty of that to fill a great deal of his nature) but because he tends to hunker down beneath a rough exterior. But rocks are never as smooth as in the movies or cartoons. You'll find many, many bumps and ridges that somehow blend together to create one person. It's quite an amazing emotional ability, really. You won't see anything but a stoic copy of his father on the surface, but drill deep enough into his mind and you'll find hes quite vulnerable emotionaly. There's a great deal of hurt behind those harsh glares he tends to keep showcased on his face. Dig beneath the rocky, earthen layer he's tunnled beneath and you'll find far too much raw emotion for anyone to have ever had to repress. But don't ever think him helpless. He's not, and he never has, nor will he ever be, helpless. Vulnerable, yes, not helpless. He won't allow you to shift the dirt without a hard and long fight. Reluctance drives most away and his quick wit gives him the knowledge to know just what you may be trying to manipulate him into revieling. But if you can picture the rock he presents upon first glance again, you'll probably find yourself gazing into what he thinks he must be; your looking at his father, Kaji, not Tao. His fathers drive to get missions simply for the sake of getting glory(for his father, not for himself), his fathers desire to be a shinobi, and his fathers pride and admiration. Think highly of Tao all you want. Compliment him a thousand times over and he will simply look at you blankly, perhaps saying a muttered "hn" or "Thanks" to be polite, all the while knowing the back of his mind it means nothing. Now, once you notice this, upon first instinct you may try again, thinking of his lower self esteem. But again with the blank stare, at worst, he'll suspect your motives. Insults generaly appeare to roll right off his back, but don't be so easily fooled by the dust. Once it settles, you'll be quick to notice the hidden pain. But so long as he can keep you at a distance, he can fool you into his act of indifference. If you catch the two together, it will be Kaji himself coming up behind Tao, shadowing him, to say thank you and boast about his accomplishments. While Tao...just sits and watches the scene with an uninterested expresion. But it's not as if the boy ever wanted any of the man's imprents, rather they were forcibly passed to him after being shoved down his throat and beat into him, literally. And inside that could-have-been artistic mind of his, he hates every minute of it. He loaths any and everyone who feeds his old man's ego. Because Tao isn't stupid, he knows all too well what lies behind the mans big grins and fake shouts of approval. If you gaze upon side A of the dusty rock, you won't see Tao, you see his fathers manufactured copy of himself. You see the ninja living, breathing, and willing to give his life for his fathers pride. But side A is why Tao's so good at smoke and mirrors.

But as said before, a rock must have other sides. Especially when you are trying to observe a rock comparible to Tao. You aren't looking a a nice smooth pebble of a person with maybe two personalities at best. Remember, your looking and many sides, lumpy, dusty chunk of misshapen boulder. Peer around to side B. It's quite an easy one to find. Just locate the boy and you'll find him training. You'll find a true, renowned shinobi, but a reluctant one none the less. As said, he only became a shinobi because of his father forcing it on him. Even so, he plays the part of a reluctant hero well. Faithful as any hound, he's saved his team from certian death on more than on occation. But there's a quirk to his efficiancy, thanks to the reason he became a shinobi. From day one, his father told him one thing. It was beat into him, screamed at him when he failed missions, and then beaten into him some more. "The mission is the most important thing in your life!" he learned quickly that to fail missions meant more pain for him, physicaly, emotionaly, and mentaly, from his father. He won't steer off course from whatever they are supposed to do. Nothing in the world can stop him from completing any mission he's sent on, aside from perhaps death. He acts, when on duty, as though if he were to die, he would deserve it. Of course such a thing is complete absurdity, something he's begun to realise as of late, but he does it anyway. If it's not part of the mission, it shouldn't be bothered with. EVER.

Side C is a confusing one. It's much to dusty to realize much of the actual surface. None the less it's a side people know him for well as it, much like the two indentations on his character before it, is one he uses to mask himself in each and everyday. However, the dust that hides his true intentions and reasoning on this part of his rock is what they know and what he showcases. Side C brings him to be moody and apathetic. However, once you understand his fearfullness of being made weak in front of others, it obvious that these are simply defenses for his lack of emotional stability. There's always a sort of restlessness about him, even if you don't know him, it's more than obvious. He's well known for wandering around aimlessly or simply pacing back and forth for no reason. Aggressivness, depression, and emotional detatchments are horid habits he's aquired, unbeknowist to him. If he weren't to stubborn and were coaxed into visiting some sort of theropist for such things(Suki tried to get him to go once...didn't work out to well), the doctor would quickly declare the boy was plauged with Post-traumatic stress disorder. But such subjects like his past, especially with anything about his father, are taboo to bring up. Which calls in the fluke in his stoic, patient character. Because while he may be patient, seemingly emotionless(though you should know by now such is not the case), and hardly ever angered, he will pointedly dodge the subject by either A; snapping that it's none of your business, or B; acting extremly jumpy and suddenly walking or even running away. But again, you must realize that these reactions are simply his mental defenses coming to help him cope with his unfortunate memories.

Another smooth corner, the one that seems to mold the prior emotions together, holds his usual coldness towards the world. Unlike Suki and Souku, he beleives himself to be quite low in the world. In spite of his stubborn beleifs, he's a natural born leader, thirving on praticality and a determined will seem strong. But an inherient aloofness chains him from everyone else and forcing him to shy away from the pleasures of gaining and keeping friends. He's much to distrusting for that, you can see it in the way he seems to avert his eyes all the time. He's a loner, though not by nature. Again his almost lack of a personality he built himself(rather his father was the one to forcfilly build it for him) gets in the way. In the back of his mind, he longs for friends, but the thoughts and behaviors forced on him at a young age make him heistant and emotional abuse spawned a terrible insecurity that causes reluctance when in a group. You won't ever catch him stepping forth in the team to blurt out random ideas though he speaks up when he feels the need. Tao is cursed, truley he is. Being torn between what he thinks he should be doing for his father, and what he wants and knows he could be doing to make himself happy. Unfortunatly, after having Kaji tear him down many times, as a child up to today, he doesn't consider himself to deserve happyness.

After those sides, your begining to push a bit too far for him to avoid becoming nervous around you. You've begun shifting the dirt beneath his hunk of rock that is his being. You'll quickly find he hastily pushes most away at such a point, wary of them nudging the open wounds left from his past. Like any stubborn boulder, he has sat there for twenty years now allowing life to take it's tole without complaint. Storms have beaten his sides and broken his bones and emotional floods have weathered his mind and now the once thick walls have started to crumble. But inside his mind is just as a torrent as his outside life. But he sheilds such vulnerability from the world. He'd die before he seemed weak and helpless. And he would happily accept the former to avoid the latter. With such harsh times almost always beating against him, he's patient, much like his team mates. But unlike his two friends(though be sure to use the term as loosly as possible) his patience is what it is. The stoic uncaring attitude he holds to lifes problems is nothing more and nothing less than just that. There is no quirk in his span of patience, nothing to 'rouse his anger suddenly and without warning, like with Souku. And he's not only patient with his closer friends, like with Suki. No, with that visable half of him, what you see is what you get. There's nothing to indicate the usual smoke and mirrors, and nothing complicated about him. But that's not to say he wont get angry. When irritation finally arouses his temper, he can be bitterly sarcastic and can spew any number of verbal assults that would make anyone think twice before talking to him again. But his anger is seldom triggered. From his past and his current relations with his father, Kaji, he has enough emotional and physical resistance for a hundred people. But there's a limit to his resitance as well. You can't break him down easily. Be it broken legs or just about any other part of his body you can tear apart, he'll stubbornly get up to stand his ground. You'd probably have to kill him before he quit being unsure of his beleifs. But physical strength isn't what will most likely be his demise. Rather, his mental and emotional state is slowly crumbling. Apathy has taken a strong grip on his mind as of late and he's been pointedly avoiding any and everyone around him. No doubt his father is to blame. But don't think his vision isn't clouded occationally with unshed tears, on the inside though. If ever you catch him broken down and allowing them to escape the guarded steel gates of his minds barriers, you can be assured that hes somehow been horridly cut apart, right down to his soul(corny as that sounds...).

Once you manage to wedge yourself beneath the great outer layer of the rock, you'll come across the considerably smaller side that harbors his fears. No, he's not afraid of spiders, or dogs, or even dying for that matter. No trivial fear is going to send this shinobi fleeing. He's not even really a sissy when it comes to physical pain, as he has proven many times and again that he can take injuries without flinching for hours on end. But these fears...they run much deeper and are his darkest secrets. The fears inflicted from his younger years when his father first enforced his power over the poor boy, many of which can be taken note of in many every day situations. Observe him if ever you happen to accidently corner him between yourself and the wall by some mistake. His cluastriphobia will set in at such a time and you'll catch a strong look of urgency, perhaps even what looks to be the start of a panic attack, as he suddenly shoves you aside in order to free himself from the memories of his childhood. Grab his hand or shoulder to tug him back when he doesn't seem to be listening and you'll see him whip around, as if on instinct alone, and snap at you not to touch him. Try to chain him and you will earn his distrust and have to coax him into not avoiding you for the rest of your life if he decides he doesn't like you anymore. And even if you manage to pull him back in, his nervous ways keep him, emotionaly, at bay, all the while expecting you to turn on him. But his biggest fear is one most wouldn't expect. His father, Kaji. Unlike most, the man was nothing like the men he saw with his classmates at school. Instead, Tao had a deep fear enstilled on him from a young age. Now, the man takes a rather sick pleasure in bleeding old wounds for all young Taos got. However, after the man rejected Tao's love, Suki, it would seem as though he's finally bled the boy to death. But he wouldn't dare talk back to him, ever. His fear brings him to hesitate and inevitably grind his usually fearlessness to a halt. With every step forward, Kaji seems bent on jerking his son back to his knees to worship him. Because Kaji abused him, not only physicly, but mentaly and emotionaly as well, Tao has horrid self esteem and in spite of all the praise hes gotten before, he only sees himself as being a useless tool for his father to gloat about.

But if you stop here, where hope for his emotional sanity seems lost, you miss the tiny clump of stone hidden away under the dirt. Remember once more, he could be a great artist if such mental and physical abilities could somehow be nurtured and could grow. Dispite all of his stoic, seemingly selfesh behavior, he and Suki have fallen madly in love with each other, even becoming lovers. Such artistic talent had been brought out considerably since the two became closer. Hes proven to be quite the affectionat person. But towards her and her alone. Don't expect for him act so lovingly and jovial towards anyone else in the world. In fact, if you were to observe him around her whie the two were in public, say, in a small sociol group or something similar, you'd notice he's border line territorial. Of course he's not up in every other males face about it, but the fact that Suki gets along naturally with the opposite sex seems to trouble him greatly. He could be compared to a sort of watchdog. Quiet and reclusive as long as Suki is safe(in any situation), but push his patience to far and you will be met with the dogs mad snarling and snapping. And such a thing Suki teases him for. Suki seems to be the only one to be able to pry the rock from the dirt and reach his romantic, artisticly creative side. She also is the one person in the world to be able to draw him from the tiny cage he imprisioned himself in for fear of his father, and call him to sit calmly and talk of everything and absolutly nothing at the same time. But there is something that even she doesn't really, truley understand about him. Beyond the quiet intensity he holds, he's masked a boiling passionate nature. Pasionate in that he carries both a crackling spark that sends most cringing under his steady gaze, and a fiery brutality. Unfortunetly, his father rejected Suki completly when they brought up getting married with him. All the personality Suki had managed to pull from him were jerked right back in as his father jerked him back into the cage when he struck Suki, threatening to beat Tao to within an inch of his life. Fear, once again caused him to slink back under the rock and now he even has done all he can to avoid Suki, even after finding the will to stand against Kaji. His shame and embarassment bringing him into a lowly state of apathy.

Don't think that observing every one of his emotions is an easy thing. On day he might be easy going, laid back and you might even manage to bring forth a smile from him(don't get your hopes up), the next day he might be training until he's broken his arms and legs, and the day after that he might be deppressed and moody, and so on and so forth. Trying to get a good feel for him will keep you going for years to come. Frustrating as it may be, you can't really get angry at him if you understand the way the emotion runs together. Because surprisingly, there may be a sort of pattern. Observe him when hes put training aside for a moment and you may find him with his clever mind endugled in a book of old plays and other fine arts. But while he will gladly converse with you on such a topic, he will begin to wonder, half-way through, if you might pose as a good training or sparring partner. He may train with you for hours on end and then suddenly call it off in the middle of a sparing match to go off and read some good poetry. Keep yourself in tune with his double, triple and quadrupal sided ways of thinking and behaving and you might just learn to figure the young man out. But...don't get your hopes up...

[Souku|Raidon|Tao]

Jutsu Techniques:

Genjutsu:
Shadow Clone Jutsu(Bunshin no jutsu)
Water Clone Jutsu(Mizu Bunshin no jutsu)
Dispell (Kai)
Paper Clone(Kami bunshin no jutsu) - similar the the Mist Villages Water Clone and Gaaras Sand Clone techniques, Tao can create a fairly durable paper clone of himself, using chakra to move the ink throughout the paper to make it look like him. Unlike regular shadow clones, the clone may be rebulid, since it is simply paper. However, because it takes considerably more chakra to both build it and move the ink through the paper than a regular shadow or water clone, it is seldom used in battle.

Artistic Seclusion(Geijutsuka no kakuri) - By using paper to enclose the area surrounding Tao and his opponent(which moves with the opponent if needed to save on paper)the area is darkened and by using chakra to regulate the way the ink in the paper moves, Tao may create any sort of scene he wishes for the opponent to see. Usually, given his darker past, it can leave the target in tears.

Scapegoat(Migawari) - Using the Artistic Seculsion technique, Tao can create a paper clone of an opponents parter or companion can have the clone attack the opponent, giving the illusion of betrayal. The victom isn't actually hurt, but it looks as though the clone "partner" were attempting to do so. Afterward, Tao usually drops the illusion and simply works on the grounds that his opponents have become enemies amongst themselves, leaving his he and his comrades to escape.

Ninjutsu:
Substitution jutsu(Kawarimi no jutsu)
Transformation Skill(Henge no jutsu)

Paper Manipulation Skill(Kami Ayatsuru no jutsu) - His main technique, the ability to use chakra to control paper objects to any extent. Be it to create weapons or simply smaller oragami animals(not like his summoning puppets). Anything made of paper, he can control. He can also allow his chakra to stay with the creation for a limited ammount of time(depending on how much chakra he channels into the object) allowing his creations to move independantly from him. This also is what allows all of his other techniques to be preformed properly.

Paper Manipulation: Ten Thousand Paper Needles(Manka Kami Hari) - By using hundreds of small peices(or large, depending on the need) he can roll each peice of paper and harden it using chakra into a vitually unbreakable needle. He can also use this to create weapons for himself, either to defend himself with or to throw at enemies. When throwing them, because his chakra lingers on the needle, he can hit a target with near pinpoint accuracy.

Messanger(Tsukai) - A simple move using his skill with the manipulation of paper. Using any amount of paper he can send notes by creating a small animal that can generally go unnoticed by most. He can also create animals to carry scrolls(or turn the scrolls themselves into mobile animals), weapons, supplies or even people depending on the size of the animal created and the ammount of avaliable chakra he has. The distance he can send them also depends on his chakra supply.

Paper Manipulation: All Seeing Eye - Allows Tao to see through the perspective of any of his creations working independently from him. Mostly usefull for tracking or spying.

Summoning: Sun and Moon(Kyuchiyose: Taiyo toka Tsuki) - After graduating from the Acadamy, Tao, as per tradition in the Ugashi Clan, was allowed to sign a blood contract with two giant Koi fish(which he based the disign for Ki on later), one white, one black. They are named Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi respectivly. The two can have amazing strength both together and seperatly, however, obviously, Tao must be near a body of water to summon them. He can also summon their children(whom, due to the vast number of them, shall remain namless...) and for a while, that was all he could summon.

Summoning: Paper Puppets - Wind/Earth/Water/Fire/Blood (Kyuchiyose: kami yubinigyo - Kaze/Tsuchi/Mizu/Hi/Ketsueki)- He can summon five paper puppets he's created at any given time. Because they are made of paper he can simply rebuild any parts they happen to have damaged in a fight so it's fairly hard to get rid of even one save for setting it on fire, and even then he might still be able to use the thing. They are created in the image of five different animals, all of which can be used to preform different tasks. They aren't summoned by name however, but by the element, which is permedantly tatooed in the corosponding Kanji symbol on each animals forehead. A magenta perigiune falcon, Aka(Kaze). An Cyan coloured bull, Sian(Tsuchi). A yellow koi fish, Ki(Mizu). A black tiger, Kuro(Hi). And an extremly flexible white dragon, Shiroi(Ketsueki).

Water Style: God of Water(Suiton: Mizukami) - An awsome jutsu passed down through generations in the Ugashi Clan. Taos most powerful and dangerous jutsu, both to the enemy and to himself. Obviously it drains all of his chakra and takes extreme physical energy. So, it's seldom used. Its power is easily comparible to Chidori or (possibly, and if used by EXPERIENCED persons)Rasengan. By channeling all of his chakra from his feet into the water below him, a massive amount of water in the shape of a koi fish is brought forth, usually underneath his feet while he stands on top in order to properly and directly control the water. The water can be controled for a maximum of three minutes - IF Tao has a least ninty percent of his chakra - as Tao is still quite young and unable to control the water for the full five minutes that it CAN be moved. Generally, because of his extremly short time frame, Tao will engulf the target, possibly drowning them.

Paper Puppeteers Skill(Kami Ningyotsukai no jutsu) - Aside from simply controlling them using chakra strings, like most ninja puppeteers, he can also channel chakra into the paper hardening it and making it so his animal puppets don't simply crumple when attacking or being attacked. The jutsu also allows him to manipulate the paper that makes up their bodies allowing him to spontaniously forge weapons from any part of them.

Water Style: Exploding Water Shockwave(Suiton: Bakusui Shoha)

Water Style: Summoning Liquid Fire(Suiton: Kyuchiyose Mizu no Hira) - It only works if Tao is near a good sized body of water, like a lake of a pond. Ki, his koi fish puppet, is made specially for this jutsu, with an entire layer of explosive tags just beneath the visable yellow paper. After summoning it, he can force the layer to the top and harden the rest of the fish with chakra. Ki then lunges from the water just above Tao and his opponent. Tao activates the explosive tags and escapes while his opponent is caught in the masive explosion. If possible, he tends to drop more tags into the water to create a number of smaller fish that can create an even larger explosion.

Water Style: Water Missile Protection(Suiton: Mizuairu Hogo): After using Bakusui Shoha, Tao can summon Ki and create several shadow clone copies of the giant fish. Ki and the clones will defend Tao from on coming attacks from any opponent. Often times, he will simply use Ki without any clones, depending on how few or many opponents he is dealing with. However having clones is extremly usefull with multiple opponents. The fish will also defend any companions around Tao at the time.

Earth Style: Horn of One Hundred Bulls(Doton: hyaku no Oushi Tsuno) - After summoning Sian, he can create many clones of the oversized bull. However, though the technique is similar to the Water Style version with Ki, the clones rush the opponent and transform into kunai just before they hit the target. Like Ki in relation to the Liquid Fire Jutsu, Sian is built specially for this move. Near the center of the puppet there is a small tag made to summon the kunai. Because this is concealed within Sian, the clones have it as well. Using chakra, the kunai are summoned and the clones paper body dissapeares. Sian is left after the opponent is hit to take the opponent down completly, assuming they havnt fled or dodged.

Fire Style: Black Fang of the Tiger(Katon: Tora no Kuro Kiba) - A brilliant disply of flames engulfs Tao for a few moments, in which time he summons Kuro. Using chakra, Tao is able to protect Kuro from being burned to bits, as he is still paper. The flames surround Kuro and the tiger is sent out to fight the target. While Tao has enough chakra left in Kuro to keep the flames at bay, the big cat can do massive ammounts of damage via burning and the fact that because he is covered in flames, he doesn't even have to land a direct hit to cause damage. When he does though, because he is so compactly built, he can easily break bones and level anything in his path. When the chakra fades, Kuro can generally escape being burned since the flames die before the chakra loses its effects completly. In cases of emergency however, Tao can trigger the mass of just explosive tags at the center of his puppet and Kuro explodes, the flames give the explosion a good kick to make it even larger, and if all of it goes according to plan, Taos target is generally nothing more than a burnt corpse beside his poor black tiger.

Wind Style: Dragons Breath(Futon: Ryuuiki): Shiroi is summoned for this one. Using its hollowed out inside, the dragon is able to breath large ammounts of paralyzing gas from her mouth. The gas causes a decrease in muscle coordination and victoms often feel nausious during and long after the gas wears off. It can be used to preform her other jutsu or simply to allow time to escape.

Wind Style: Dragon Missile(Futon: Ryuuka no Misairu): After paralysing the target, Tao can freely attack his opponent. Because Shiroi is hollow, while she cannot fly, she is incredibly fast. Her speed gives her the illusion that she is hovering close to the ground. Thanks to this, Tao can manipulate her to ram the target bluntly from multiple angles, each attack within mere seconds from the last one. Each time the opponent is rammed, Shiroi bites and scratches them, adding to the damage.

Ultimate Human Weapon(Kyukyoku no Ningen Buki): By drawing a large amount of paper from his supply(its fairly usless otherwise) he can create either a sheild, if he has enough paper, or he can create any sort of weapons. Using the smaller paper in the cartrages under his sleeves, he can spontaniosly create both a sheild or a weapon at any time. However, this uses a large amount of chakra as he both as to move all of the paper and harden it to be effective. Plus, generally, it's difficult to harden so much paper in time to properly block an opponents attack completly.

Kanji-teki

Taijutsu: None

Doujutsu: None

Hijutsu: None

Kinjutsu: N/A

Weapons:
Paper: It can be paper he's brought along with him, or paper from a book. Anything made from paper he can harness as a weapon and use against his opponent. By channeling his chakra along the paper he can control its movment fluidly and without much effort. Though simply preforming such a task with one sheet of notebook paper proves to be no harder than lifting and bending the sheet with his bare hands, the more paper he uses for each technique, the more chakra he requires. However, he's cut down the usage by about half by learning to move large paper made objects as a whole by channeling chakra along the tops and bottoms where each sheet connects, instead of controling each individual peice of paper. Also, after making physical contact with a sheet of paper, he can force a limited amount of his chakra into the paper, allowing him to move the peice without having to touch it afterwards or use chakra strings. This is demonstrated in many of his techniques. In his possesion he carries huge ammounts of very thin, square paper. Though less durable than normal paper, he can carry much more of it and it's easier to wrap his chakra around thinner sheets. Therefore it's actually much more usefull than normal, thicker paper. He carries thousands of peices as their thiness allows him to pack compactly. And not just in his standard ninja gear pouches. Strapped to either arm, a few inches above his wrist is a small cartridge holding smaller paper squares. Combinded, he's got about half of the amount he does of the regular kind. Because he can use and control paper, he does not carry kunai or shuriken, or any other kind of weapon for that matter. THe only drawback to his methods and abilities is that he MUST make physical contact with the piece of paper before being able to control it seperatly from himself. While he has the ABILITY to use chakra strings, his kill in that area is very limited and hardly as effective as channeling his chakra into the paper.

Explosive tags: He can't carry as many of these, but he has about ten to twenty tags at any time. These can be manitpulated just like normal paper.

He carries around five scrolls to summon five paper puppets he made himself. Each of the puppets are a different animal, colour, and represent a different elemant which he summons them by. Their element is labled in Kanji on the forheads as Kaze/Wind, Tsuchi/Earth, Mizu/Water, Hi/Fire/, and Ketsueki/Blood. In battle and in general reference, they are refered to by their names coorasponding to what colour they are. Sian, the Cyan coloured ram. Kuro, the black tiger. Ki, the yellow Koi Fish. Shiroi, the white dragon. And Aka the magenta periguine falcon. Aka is the only one with out a correct colour name, as having a falcon named Magenta didn't siute to well with Tao, being a male and all.
The puppets are not just one layer of paper. They would obviously be destroyed easily at even the slightest bump. Instead, its many, many layers of paper, one on top of the other to create a large mobile object, moving depending on how Tao directs them to. Think of them as paper rubber band balls as the same concept applies to their design. Dispite their design, they move with relitive ease and posses much more speed than one would think. Because of the way Tao moves them, it gives them the appearence of being much more vulnerable and easy to tear apart than what they actually are.
Aka is the smallest puppet, about the average size of a periguine falcon, and Ki is the largest, a bit longer than Tao is tall and three times the size. Sian and Kuro are both about twice the size of a normal ram and tiger. He usually summons them to preform different elemental jutsus, giving him a much broader span of attacks than either of his team mates. If he has enough chakra, the puppets may also opperate independantly, as with all of his paper creations. After he's touched them and channeled enough chakra into them, he may control them without having physical contact or using chakra strings. However, Ki is the only puppet able to go under water, and Aka is the only able to fly.
Each puppet is designed a little differently. Ki has an entire layer of explosive tags just under the visable layer of paper. Sian has a tag in the center to summon large kunai. Kuro is compactly built, with strength and power as well as decent speed in mind, and his entire center is made of a large mass of explosive tags. Shiroi is hollw inside, making her less durable, but easier to repair and much faster than most people can even begin to follow with their eyes. Aka is built so he can fly, but he, like Shoroi, is not made durably. He isn't used in battle, but rather to deliver things to and from Tao.
Tao seems very sentimentaly attatched to them, going to far as to refer to them as though they were living things. Shiroi is the only one he does not refer to as being male, however.

Along with his five large battle puppets, he also keeps a large amount of small paper animals used for various tasks outside of battle, namley spying, tracking, and whatnot. There are a few, however, he uses the most, even giving names to them as well.
Nezumi: A tiny brown mouse used mainly for tracking and spying. Nezumi was Tao's first paper puppet, created in the image of a feild mouse he had found as a child. It's one of Taos favorite minor puppets and because the mouse is so small, it can squeeze into pockets, bags, and even cling to articals of clothing and go for quite a while without being noticed. It's design differs only slightly from his other puppets. Because of a small seal hidden on the bottom of it's front paw, Tao can transfer chakra into the mouse and it can be stored, remaining "dormant" for a while until Tao needs to locate it again. He generaly keeps Nezumi folded flat and compactly with his leg pouch for easy access. A lot of times, Tao will use the mouse to plant tiny slips of paper onto targets. This makes it good for all sorts of things, though at one point it was being used for assasinations as it would plant miniature explosive tags onto people and return to Tao to alert him that it could be set off.

Inuishi: A light coloured dog about three and a half feet tall. Because of it's design and the way Tao has distributed the ink, the dog appeares to be real if not for the lack of a fuzzy coat. Like Nezumi, Tao created Inu-san when he was a child, so he handles the dog with ease, even over long distances. Usually, Inuishi is used for spy missions, given its likness to an ordinary stray dog. It's small enough to go unnoticed most of the time, though large enough not to be missed in broad day-light. Because of this, it's usefullness only goes so far, but for sneaking into villages unnoticed, the dog serves it's purpose. As with most of Tao's puppets, teh dog is infused with a safe gaurd against being tracked or followed. Because Tao generally uses the All Seeing Eye jutsu with it, opponents can be sensed even if the dog lacks actual senses. When Souku Inuzuka was still on the team, his dog, Murasaki would often be sent with the puppet as well(after removing his collar, of course). But even with the helping hand absent, Tao can still see through the puppets eyes, so to speak. So when an unwanted follower is seen(they cannot being heard, smelled, or felt, however), a seal in the center of the puppet can be activated and the dog would simply burst into flames, removing anything anyone might be after. Because of this, the original Inuishi has long ben lost, and rebuilt several times, often being renamed by Tao in the process.

Kisa: An orange tabby cat Tao created just before the chuunin exams. The cat was created to counteract the fact that Taos opponent was using his sense of smell to direct large amounts of fire towards Tao. Before the chuunin exams, Tao had tried a similar trick with his former teammate Souku Inuzuka by fooling his dogs nose. Kisa is used to combine the substitution technique with Taos rendition of the Inuzukas Beast Human Clone jutsu. By having Kisa transform into himself and he tranforming into the cat, Tao is able to evade danger in many instances. In the case of his battle in the exams, Tao simply tied his headband to the puppet so it carried a bit of his scent, succesfully confusing both Souku and his opponent.

Continued..

[Souku|Raidon|Tao]

Along with these, Tao can create near any animal(or person for that matter, though this has limits) given that he has the correct combination of ink in his Inked paper to do so. This makes him one of Kohona's best and brightest when it comes to tracking and spying.

Main fighting style:
Mid to long range paper or paper puppet based ninjutsu and genjutsu.
His chakra nature is water and he uses a variety of Water Based Jutsu as well, given the nature of his clan.

Fighting strength: Hes a brilliant stratagist in combat, able to spit out high level plans in a matter of seconds. His paper manipulation, because he doesn't have to keep in contact with each weapon he makes, allows him to use long ranges attacks with ease. He has an unusually high ammount of chakra as well, thanks to hours upon hours for almost sixteen years of training on controling and buliding up his chakra. Hes a master a puppetry, but again, he isn't limited with the need for chakra strings when it comes to controling his paper creations. Hes able to keep calm under many situations and doesn't seem to be held back by physical wounds, having proven his ability to keep fighting with broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder, along with quite a few other wounds all at the same time. Hes always totally, utterly, absolutly, completly focused on the battle or mission at the time and it's not likley, once hes decided to kill you, that you will make it out alive.

Fighting weakness: His main weakness, more often than not, is that he simply does not know when to stop. Be it putting missions aside to help friends or just telling himself hes done enough, he has hurt himself numerous times trying to get things done.

His ability to control his creations, though marvoulous indeed, does have a limit. Depending on how low his chakra supply is, he may only be able to control the object for a few moments or less. He can only put so much chakra into one thing before its just a waste of time.

His emotional stability is highly unpredictable and he could be clinicly diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Hes proven hes quite suseptable to having a semi-nervous breakdown in the middle of a fight(as its happened before). His claustophobia or sudden, unexpected flashbacks triggered by being attacked by an opponent tend to trigger him freezing up suddenly. Though it doesn't happen often, the weakness is still there.

Team members:
Yui Hiroshi: The current Leader of Team 24. Dispite her petiete form and amazing looks, she's a harsh teacher and has earned a nasty reputation amongst the Village for it. But her ways aren't bad, just extremly damanding from her students. She's quick minded, though stuck in the past when it comes to how children should be delt with. Closed minded and absolutly convinced her way is the only way, it took quite a while for the team to get used to the shift from Roys laid back nature to her sharp drill sargernt one. She's much more brash with Tao and Souku though, given that they're guys. Its not at all uncommon to see her barking out orders to them to help Suki with just about anything, be it opening a door, or acting as a dummy for a demonstration. Expectantly, she's considerably softer towards Suki "because men should always be kinder to ladies. Thats how a gentlemen ought to be." She says. And treats the team accordingly. Even so, she helped them to get much stronger than they were and her training techniques soon became something they were accostumed to. Even Souku swallowed his pride in order to learn from her. Unfortunetly, the two never really had a good "student master bond". Souku was to stubborn to let her beating him to a pupl stop him from insulting her, and she was far to easily irritated with his arrogance and the fact that she just couldn't get him to budge and let her win.

Suki Yashino: Really, no matter how you look at it, Suki is the only thing that ever held the dysfunctional team together. With an extremly soft heart for Tao and the fighting skills to match any male in Konoha, shes a force to be reconed with in battle. Suki has masted most of the fire style jutsus the Uchiha clan was known for and even created her own. Of course she had always loved studying the once great clan and if not for her appearence and known liniage, you could suspect she was an Uchiha herself. Shes fiery spirited and a really down to earth kind of person. Shes one of those people you can never really bring to a stop, much like her team mates, and has proven her usefullness for the team many times. A well known feminist and supporter of anyone with the same opinions, she won't take any crap just because shes a female. Shes extremly temprimental at times, known for lashing out suddenly and without warning when angered enough. Though kind hearted to everyone and everything, her patience seems to end at different points for each person.
She, like Tao and Dani(formerly Souku), is a current member of Team 24. She eventually developed a strong love for Tao, recently becoming his lover. However, after being rejected by his father when they attempted to be married, he's been avoiding her. She's continuously attempting to coax him into interacting with her again, only to fail miserably at it. Her relationship with Souku, though hardly a romantic one, is comparible to a sibling bond. She was the only one to ever find out his parents were killed after he confessed such things to her. She is also one of the only people who know he isn't dead. Since Souku had attempted to leave Murasaki with her before leaving, she located him and, though didn't try to stop him, told him he would be welcomed back anytime. She still refuses to consider his position on the team taken by his replacment, whom he has yet to meet.

Dani Tonosei: Soukus replacment on Team 24. Hes proven, on many occations, that he can also be Soukus opposite. Where Souku would be pratical, independant, and more of a loner; Dani is irrational, impractical, and demanding to be the center of attention. He is, right to the core of his being, narcasistic, self-centered, trouble-making, greedy, prone to jelousy, inconsiderate and a fairly good example of a maniac, in any sense of the word. Hes also shown quite a sexist attitude towards Suki(though oddly not minding his teacher, given her looks), conflicting with Sukis feministic behavior as well as her quick temper. But hes brilliant too, border line genius(not so much as Shikamaru, but fairly close) and he quickly figured out how to manipulate his way to self proclaimed leader of the group. Hes quite clever, learning quickly and worming his way into the bad side of almost everyone he meets. But his cleverness is often muted, usually ending in a situation that proves quite humiliating for him, though he seems quite deaf to any sort of embarassment. Hes quite cocky, showcasing a sort of nonchalant outlook towards everything in general, even things that he knows well are his fault. Hes known for adopting rediculous theories to cover his actions and walking calmly away. Unlike Souku, who proved himself to be overly independent, Dani much prefers to manipulate others into doing things for him, mostly do to his rather lazy nature, comparable to that of those within the Nara Clan. However, unlike most Nara, Dani's quite the whiner about things he beleives he shouldn't have to do. But his laziness seems limited to some extent. Example; he managed to gather the strength to walk from the teams training grounds to Suki's house to complain that she needed to retreive the kunai he had lost.
When Tao and Suki first came across him, they beleived he would be a lot like Souku. However, they quickly found that such a thing was only half right. Rude, immature, and downright sexist against both his new teacher and Suki, hes not well liked by any of his team. Hes proven several times over the past five years during Soukus absence that he can be quite the opposite But hes brilliant too, border line genius(not so much as Shikamaru, but fairly close) and he quickly figured out how to manipulate his way to self proclaimed leader of the group. Tao was hit the worst. Finding out that Tao was both claustrophobic and that he had a terribly low self esteem, Dani black mailed, bullied, and even went so low as to eavsedrop on him and his father speaking. After that, he quickly found out he could threaten Tao by using his fears to get to him. Suki was also picked on. After attempting to defend Tao when he froze up in a sparring match, he mocked her for being a lousy female, yelling that she should stop be a ninja altogether. Tao avoids him and Suki loaths him, constantly lashing out at him both verbally and physicly.

Friends/family:
Kaji Ugashi: Tao's father and the main reason for Tao's hidden insecurity. Tao usually refuses to refer to him as "dad" or even "Father", instead, using much more formal terms as though he and the man weren't ever related. Usually sticking to "The Old Man" or just "Kaji when in public and using "sir" when around him. Kajis a brash, hard headed man. He beleives and holds strongly to all traditional customs(like you have to ask to be married...). He is an awsome ninja and could be called the perfect Leaf Shinobi depending on how you looked at him. But he only seems to care about missions and showing his pride for the Leaf Village. While he has earned quite a name for himself, he only cares about upholding that name and giving his small family honor. But sadly, hes let his pride cause both physical and emotional pain to many people around him. His wife, Hanako, and Tao seem to be nothing short of trophy items at times. Hes given all hell to Tao since the poor boy was able to walk. From day one all he ever did was push Tao into becoming a ninja, even though the idea seemed a bit to farfetched to Tao. None the less, hes molded Tao into an amazing ninja, using his son to get more glory from his neighboors and to feul his pride as a ninja. Tao doesn't seem to have any sort of affection for the man, in fact hes down right terrified of him. Kajis training techniques are more than brutal and are simply inhuman to be quite frank. Really, Tao cant afford to be anything less than what his father tells him to be. But dispite the fact that Hanako is well aware her son has been abused in more ways than one(Kaji has gone so far as to beat the boy)he uses power and threats to gain authority over his family. So far niether of them has questioned or even spoken back to him, niether do most of his nieghboors unfortunatly. Since a haevy sparring match where Tao managed to beat him, hes been meaner than ever to him, threatening to toss him out of he "didnt learn to respect his betters". He also rejects Suki entirely, even going to far as to strike her in front of Tao. But because of Taos fear of him, he did nothing.

Hanako Ugashi: Taos mother. She is fairly affectionate towards Tao, though they dont make much interaction with each other anymore thanks to Kajis bitter attitude towards Tao as of late. Tao doesn't seem to ever refer to her with the usual title of his mother either, much like Kaji. Instead, hes opted to use her either her name or "ma'am". Shes not a kunoichi, though shes an excelent healer though she tried to keep it a secret from her husband. He found out though, when he caught her healing Taos broken arm after a sparring match between the two males, at which he kicked her, breaking her ribs. She hardly ever leaves the house given Kajis forceful insistance that she be like most good wives and keep the house clean.

Tres Ugashi: One of Taos cousins and older brother to Kaisuke. He and his brother were taken in by their Aunt and Uncle when their own parents were killed. He's one of the only people Tao communicates with in a friendly manner. He's also the only person outside of Taos direct family to know what happened to Tao as a child with his father. He has a great amount of sympathy towards Tao, even if he won't tell the boy upfront, knowing full well that Tao would only glare at him and tell him not to. Tao isn't aware that Tres knows about what his father did to him, but he refuses to bring it up. Tres acts as one of the few constants in Tao's life aside from Suki. Easy going and light hearted, he tends to joke around a lot, hiding his ability to be quite the advisor. He, like his aunt, Hanako, is a healer, even though he's not an actual shinobi, and often brightens up the more depressing mood in the Ugashi houshold. He's a great older brother to both his own sibling and to Tao, watching out for the two in times of trouble. He's the only person to ever stand up to Kaji aslo. He gets along well with Suki and was actually the one to propose the two that they should bring up marrage with the family. It's because of him and his brother that both Tao and Suki weren't murdered by his Uncle, Kaji, and Tao believes himself to be in great debt to his cousins for that.

Kaisuke Ugashi: Taos older cousin and younger brother to Tres. He and Tres' parents were killed and they were sent to live with their Aunt and Uncle. He's a laid back, extremly mellow person. Like his brother, he's not a shinobi, though he knows a great deal of basic fighting skills and a few taijutsu moves. He considers himself to be Tao's rival, though Tao tends to ignore his antics and defead himself easily against his attacks. Dispite the fact that he constantly tries to beat Tao in sparing fights(mostly one sided ones), he prides himself on being able to seperate being a fighter and being a person, as he's put it. He supports Taos artistic ability, allowing Tao to nurture such skills and form most of his jutsus today. Though he hates Kaji with all of his being, he rarely stand up to him. Though, to protect Suki and Tao, he rose up with his brother to stop Kaji from killing them when they requested to be married.

Roy Williams: Former Sensei and leader of Team 24. Goofy and clumsy, he seemed ideal for such a tense team. Instead, he only seemed to make a fool of himself. All three of his students beleive his name to be "odd". Dispite that, the start was hardly a rocky one. Instead, his light hearted personality allowed them to build a sterdy foundation.
The mans quite the charmer to those who like silly and sometimes scatterbrained antics. Its not offen he leaves any mission alone without devising some sort of hairbrained sceme to finish the job. Though many times, his ideas involve a lot of unnecisary steps and take more time. Dispite this, hes actually a brilliant man, which is why he left Team 24 once they became chuunin to take care of business with the ANBU Black ops. He was later send off to fight in a battle with the Sound Village, which unfortunetly ended his carrier as a ninja when he was handicaped, becoming a pariplegic.

Other companions:
Isaac - A tiny brown and white ferret who tends to pop in and out of Taos daily life. Generaly perching himself comfortably on Toas shoulder when he does decide to show up, the


Character history: WIP

Roleplay Sample: I'm not sure it I need on for Tao and Souku, but for now, just look at Souku's for a refernce and I'll make one here if need be.

[º•.Ki-Chan.•º]

Accepted. =3

[Souku|Raidon|Tao]

Thanks! Here's his history...my poor fingers

(A lot of this is copy-pasted from Souku's history as much if it is the same)
Tao, as you probably can guess by now, didn't have a happy, normal life. Luckily, his father was miles away when he was born. It was quickly found that he was, in all aspects, an artist. His cousins, having been sent to live with his mother and father after their own parents had been killed, along with with mother, nurtured such abilities for quite a while. Had such things continued until this day, he probably would have been a very happy person. However, at about age two, his father returned from his mission. Of course, he was overjoyed his first born was a son and it didn't take long for him to begin his "training" with Tao. But such methods weren't really about training for a shinobi, even if that had been the goal. Rather, because Tao, like most of his clan-mates, was an artist, he didn't make for the great prodigy his father had hoped for. So Kaji took it upon himself to beat the lesson into Tao. Literally. For most of his childhood, Tao was doing one of two things, training for the ninja carrier he didn't want, or being locked up in a room while Kaji abused him, physicaly, metaly, and emotionaly. His mother, terrified of Kaji herself, did little to stop it. However, despite this, she did help her son by using her healing abilities for him behind Kaji's back. Tao's personality was quickly being molded by his father and his
insecurities were born.
At only age ten, Tao graduated from the acadamy; two years earlier than any of his peers. But still, it didn't seem to be good enough. Kaji began his own training with Tao just behind their house. From that training, Tao earned his brutality and quickly learned much of his current battle mindset. "Stay on your feet, or die". Around that time, Tao's two cousins, Tres and Kaisuke, had been set to live with them after their own parents were killed on missions. Tres was a natural leader and as sympathetic as he was light hearted, and quickly decided he would be the one to coax Tao out from his shell. After tending to his younger brother(who was twelve at the time, Tres was fifteen), he went out one day in search of his younger cousin. Finding him in his usual training spot a good two miles from the Leaf's main gates, Tres was able to earn the boy's trust only after Tao had collaped with eghsaustion and Tres healed his wounds. The two took to each other and it wasn't long before Tao and Kaisuke were like brothers as well. However, Kaji began to suspect that his family was healing Tao and took the action as a question to his authority and a challange to his name. So during a fight with Tao, he snagged the boy and broke his arm. Afterward, he caught Hanako healing his leg, Tao was forced to witness his mother being beaten by his father. Guilty and frustrated at what he had supposedly caused(according to Kaji), Tao distanced himself from his mother, for fear of putting her through something like that again.
Despite the fact that he had graduated early, his father refused to allow him to join a ninja team until nearly a year after his peers had. And at thirteen years old, he was paired with two of his classmates, Inuzuka Souku, and Yashino Suki. He and Tao had always been rivals, even before the Acadamy. And their resentment towards each other had only grown over the years. Suki, however, managed to keep the two from tearing each others throats out for a while at least. Roy Williams, an easy going, goofy guy was put as their sensei. Right away, the three seemed a tad reluctant to take him seriously. After relaying his name, Souku even shouted bluntly "What the hell kinda name is that!?". Dispite the rough introductions, Team 24 got off on a good foot right from the start. For a while they trained, mostly individualy, went on D-Rank missions of all sorts and spent a good few months adgusting to each other. Unfortunatly, Souku and Tao never really got along. Tao continued to show contradictory indifference to Soukus fiery, bull-headed outbursts of rage towards him. And things only got worse as Suki and Tao proved to work excilently together while Souku lagged behind. When Roy pointed this out and offered(on a D-Rank mission) to send Tao instead of Souku with Suki, Souku lashes out at him. Worried, but not at all disuaded, Roy allowed Souku to go on the mission all the same.
The team's first C-rank mission was a difficult one. For Tao, it would reviel the true extent of his nature and the real personality his father had bred. It had been a simple mission to aid the Leaf's bonds with the Snow Country. A wedding for one of the Snow Country's Lords was being held and Team 24 was sent to just make sure thing's went well. But the Snow, at the time, was in a heavy civil war, thus the reason for the missions request. Unfortunetly, all of the chuunin were away on missions, so they sent Team 24. The trip there went smoothly enough, but once getting their, the first domino fell when Souku met Kiah Himisashi. From the start, Tao was wary of her, especially when Souku began spending all of his time with her. On his round gaurding the groom of the wedding, Tao offhandedly mentioned his suspitions about the girl. It was then that he found out that the girl was the bride. When it was time to switch positions, Tao warned Souku not to get involved with her. Souku lashed out at him, saying he was only trying to interfere because he also had feelings for Kiah. While Tao denied the accusations with much disgust, Souku refused to listen. After Souku runs off, Tao is attacked by a ninja from the South side of the Snow Country, Tao easily defeats him using his Paper Manipulation Skill and takes off to find his team. He easily locates Suki and later Roy and Souku return to them. Roy tells them that the Southern side is taking prisoners and they cant afford to get the Leaf mixed up in war. But a large explosion gets them seperated. After a large explosion, the team is seperated. Tao saves Suki from being killed by a Southern Snow Nin and quickly tries to find Roy and Souku. Spotting Souku, Tao urges him to return back to the boat so they can return to the Leaf. But Souku refuses, saying he has to go save Kiah. However, Tao tells him that shes a POW now and they cant interfere with the Snow Countrys war because it was never part of the mission. Souku rejects the mission and takes off claiming that hes done with the mission completly. He and Murasaki try and head off. But Tao sees that an explosive tag was thrown at the car with Kiah in it. Tackling Souku to prevent him from going any further, the car explodes and Kiah is killed. Devistated, Souku attacks Tao blaming him for the death of Kiah. He repeates that he could have saved her if Tao hadn't stopped him. Still, surprisingly, Tao refuses to hurt Souku. Instead, since Soukus attacks are random punches and kicks anyway, Tao simply dodges them until Roy shows up and stops the fight. Souku takes off on his own leaveing Tao with the threat that he'll tear his God damned throat out if its the last thing he does.
The team returns back saftly with only a few cuts and bruises to show for it. Souku isolated himself from the others for some time before Suki manages to coax him into training with them again. But they aren't given much time to rest. They enter into the Chuunin exams. Tao is able to relay the realization that its a cheating exam during the first part using his paper manipulation technique. Sure enough, Suki and Souku are able to pass without much problem. The second round gets a little rough. Suki was injured and plauged with gangrene for some time before Tao and Souku found out. Unfortunatly, by that time, Suki had passed out and was held hostage by another team. But by forcing themselves to work together, Tao created a fake scroll via another Paper Manipulation Jutsu and Souku and Murasaki were able to free Suki while Tao took them out after they found out it was a fake. After that, they simply stole the defeated teams scoll and made their way to the tower in the middle. The third part of the exam was shockingly easy for them. Souku and Murasaki easily defeated their opponent with Gatsuuga. Suki used her fire jutsus and ironicly enough, Taos opponent left with a series of horrid paper cuts((XP)).
Leaving for their first mission as Chuunins, Team 24 made their way now to a swampy land just south of the Sound Village. And investigation mission as to where people were dissapearing to when they got lost in the swamp. Roy was called back to the Leaf for business concerning the ANBU. So, the team bickered for a while over who will lead the mission, namely Souku, who beleives hes an excilent leader. Unfortunatly, the fuss quickly attracts the Sounds shinobi and the group is attacked.
Seperated, the Sound nins leave the kids, thinking they'd be killed by the swamp. Lost, confused and getting hungrey, its three days before everyone manages to even begin to get remotly close to each other. Tao, proving to be a natural navigator, quickly and practicly plots out his location in longitude and latitude thanks to him being able to use a paper puppet to go up above the trees and get a general reference as to where he is. Drawing up his three minor paper puppets, Nezumi, Inuishi, and Kisa, he sends them out with instructions as to how to find his makeshift camp. However, his attempts prove to be unsuccesful as he has to call them back after three and a half days when his chakra supply is depleted. Half lost, hungry, and with no way of knowing if his team is still alive, Tao is forced to stay put. Reluctant to fall asleep because of his paranoia, Tao soon succumbs to halucinations and starts to have a nervous breakdown. However, before he can reach that point, Souku, with his new found summonings, helps the team get out of the swamp.
Quite a while passed without much action. Suki and Tao became good friends, much to Soukus jelous dismay. Roy continued to train them to be better. Tao creates his five large paper puppets and gets to work designing new techniques for them. However, it wasn't long before Team 24 was called away on another mission, to Iwagakure this time. They are told to locate a lost child, requested by the parents who, because of their wealth and the fathers position in the military, could prove a valuble person to be in debt to the Leaf. Again, the team goes alone while Roy "takes a vacation" with his newly aquired girlfriend. Though bitter about their teachers lack of intrest in their missions, they continue on anyway. Once within the mountianous regions though, Tao suggests splitting up to cover more ground to search for the boy. Tao and Suki converse for a while, admitting a little more about each other than they had meant to, before Tao deploys Kisa and his new paper falcon, Aka, to search for the boy. After about an hour, Aka returns with news and the two head up a mountian range to find Souku and the boy, Gin, duking it out. Dispite Soukus boasting, Suki literally lights him on fire when she sees what hes done to Gin, telling Souku he should be more sympathetic since Gin is blind. However, upon hearing this, Gin lashes out at her saying he doesn't need sympathy from a bunch of pansies like them. Though Tao and Souku seem a bit miffed at being called pansies, Suki continues to try and help him. But before Suki has a chance to help him, a large ash coloured wolf comes and Gin takes off after creating a large cloud of dust. With Gin gone, Tao notes that theyll have to begin the search again, blaming Souku for not controling his temper. Suki manages to keep the two from killing each other though, reminding them that Gins blind and really cant be trusted alone without hurting himself. Tao however, seems a bit more understanding towards Gins actions. When they begin to head back, Souku listens in, dispite being ahead of his team mates, as Tao explains his meaning to Suki. He tells Suki that its harder for a good shinobi like Gin to accept sympathy as it only really makes them seem like they cant do anything on their own. By denying that, Gins managed to develop himself into an awesome ninja. Souku retorts bitterly that
theres no way that Gin can deny being blind and that he is what he is. By then they've reached the village and through questioning and asking around, Suki finds out that the Takamichi clan is one of the only remaining clans still loyal to the Leaf, which explains why their leader, Gins father, called on the Leaf for help. While the rest of the Stone is allied to Orochimaru and the Sound, it would seem the Takamichi clan was a rebel clan. Tao suggests that he go off and look for the boy while Souku and Suki go to speak with Gins father. However, after conversing with Raibion, Gins father, they learn that the Takamichi Clan had become split over the years. Through fear, many of the clan members allied themselves with the Sound and a civil war broke out among the clan between those who were with Orochimaru, and those who were against him. Tao returns suddenly to alert them that, ironicly enough, Gin was captured by a band of Sound Ninjas from the Takamichi Clan. Raibion quickly offers to pay them triple what they were origionaly being paid to save Gin. Dispite Taos reluctance Suki manages to convince him that saving Gin would in fact be a part of the mission, as they have yet to return Raibions lost child. So the three head off to save Gin, whos being kept in a large cave, tied to the ceiling so as to prevent him from using any jutsus. Arriving after Souku and Murasaki, Tao and Suki, as well as Gin's father, help to free him and Gin is ordered to be locked up in the house and placed under constant suppervision. The Team is thanked and Tao is ready to leave. However, they are delayed quite a bit after Souku and Murasaki disapeare for quite some time before returning to leave.
After returning to the Village again, the Team took a well earned vacation. During which they spent most of the time training, much to Roys dismay. However, shortly after the vacation began, Team 24 received a dramatic blow. Roy quit as their sensei because of rather personal reasons he never reveiled to them. Souku was outraged as was Suki, but Tao seemed indifferent towards the news. So they spent the next few days waiting for their new teacher. Turns out though, Roy had already picked one. A rather...attractive woman named Yui Hiroshi. Unfortunetly, unlike the Souku had originaly muttered to Suki and Tao, she was nothing of the OCD, priss they had initioally thought. Instead, she promptly ended the vacation and began training them harder then ever. Nearly twenty four-seven she had them running laps, practicing with dummies, enhancing their jutsus, lifting weights, tree climbing, water walking, any training method that had been created she had them doing day and night. Eventually, Souku drew the line. Even Tao, who normaly was well known for working himself to death, decided it was enough. So, the three planned to get rid of her and followed through with the plan via a number of rather...hairbrained scemes provided by Souku and Suki. Unfortunatly, by the end of the week, they had only managed to tired themselves out more. Tao finally quite the idea of getting rid of her entirely.
Another mission quickly came after their vacation time, giving them some break time from their training. They were headed off to Suna to investigate the recent death of an ANBU Black Ops squad leader and the lack of communication between the Leaf and Sand Villages. Unfortunetly, just a few hundred miles into the desert they were stopped by members of an few Shinobi from the Sound. Dispite the teams reluctance and complaints, Yui immediently ordered them to head back to the Leaf. However, they were dogged from quite some time before the Sound nin attacked, seperating the team entirely. With Suki and Tao gone, Tao was left alone to try and regroup again. However, shortly after, he was attacked by one of the Sound nin. The man recognized the Ugashi clan insigmia on Tao's shoulder pads and taunted Tao with new knowledge of another Ugashi clan member who had joined Orochimaru. Tao refused to beleive it and used Bakusui Shoha to create a massive body of water and summo up Ki, his paper puppet koi fish. The man, Aira, was quickly defeated, depite his talent with wind style techniques. Impressed, he offered Tao a spot within Orochimaru's army though Tao quickly shot down the idea. With his remaining chakra, Aira hit Tao with a wind blast and forced him under the water, pinning him to the ground beneath it. Using Ki to defend him, Tao was able to regain his footing. However, Aira was able to gain the upperhand by trapping Ki underwater with an air bubble. Trapped, Tao tries to fight using only taijutsu and hand to hand combat, but his own weakness in such an area proved to be his downfall. Aira was about to kill him using a blade made from wind when Tao had a nervous breakdown and, out of desperation, sent a blast of water at him. Depite his own doubts, Tao was able to successfully preform his clans technique; God of Water. He kills Aira by drowning him. Yui eventually finds him, soaked and injured, and they head off to find Souku only inches away from death. They save him and later find Suki as well. Suki was soon rescued as well and because of their wounds, they are forced to head home. Once back at the Leaf and out of the hospital, Yui announced that they have proven their ability to handle deadly situations. So, she continues to say that because of this they may consider themselves shinobi of Konoha. However, they continue to train even harder until another mission draws them away. This time, though, Tao is sent away with his father for "Family business".
After Yui had told him of the mission, Kaji pressed Tao for details. Tao admits, reluctantly, that he was able to preform the God of Water jutsu. For the first time, Kaji seems proud of his son and takes him with him on a trip to allow him to be able to summon the clan's two koi fish, Amateratsu and Tsukoyomi. Tao takes the news in stride, always wary of his father in a good mood and not beating him half to death. Tao is able to summon the two fish and sign a blood contract with them and is ordered to go on the mission with his team regardless of whether or not he was supposed to. He catches up to the other two fairly quickly and learns that they are going on a simple recon mission to a village in the north-east. Souku assured them he knows a shorter way. Seeing no real reason to say no, Tao and Suki follow rather blindly after him. However, it wasnt long before the ran into a much larger Shinobi Village(in comparison to every other one they saw, it wasn't nearly as large as the Leaf). Wary and getting suspisios, Tao quickly notes that most of the people there seem to be criminals, pointing to the assumption that its perhaps a refuge camp for those on the run. Suki agrees, pointedly asking to leave, even at Soukus stubborn persistance. Of course it doesn't take long for the other two to realize hes looking for someone. Still a bit cautious, Tao orders the team to split up; Souku and Murasaki took one end of town and he and Suki took the other. Suki confused as to what the boys were doing, bugged Tao for answers. He tells her that Souku seems to be looking for someone and has been acting up since they were attacked by the Sound nin. He confesses his worries about Souku's behaviour and eventually tells her that he never thought Souku to be a valuable asset. Suki slaps him, scolding him for not appreiciating the entire team, including Souku. Shocked that one of the people he actually trusted would strike him, Tao loses focus and the two are attacked. Suki is kidnapped after Tao breaks down again in the middle of his fight. He begins to panic and, unable to locate Souku right away, returns to camp. In only fifteen minutes time, he's ready to head back for reinforcments. However, Souku returns with news about Suki, saying he knows who kidnapped her. Tao says he already knows this and that they have to go back to Konoha for help. Souku rejects the idea but after being told to sleep some to travel non stop in an hours time, he accepts. But Tao wakes up and finds him gone in the middle of the night. Frustrated and paniced about Suki being held hostage, Tao takes off to rescue both of them. He meets Suki halfway through though and Tao actually hugs her. Surprised, Suki tries to calm him down as he seems to be headed for another panic attack, even if he was releived. Eventually, the two are able to head off. Suki had been injured and Tao sent her back to camp and he heads off to resuce Souku. However, Souku is ungrateful and attacks him once they return to camp. Though Tao defeats him easily enough, he confesses he is worried that
their team is going to be broken apart soon, a worry that would be recognized soon enough.
Once they return home, Team 24 is quiet and not a week later, Tao finds Suki returning from somewhere at the gates of the Village. She tells him that she couldn't find Souku or Murasaki, and the two begin a search for him. However, after two months, Souku is pronounced legaly dead. A funeral was held, but Tao refused to attend, though he is troubled by Suki's odd behaviour and lack of interest in the whole deal. The two continue their lives for a while, though now, the face a new problem; Souku's replacment.

(I'm so sick of writing this, the rest is in bulletins and covers most of the five years from Souku's leave until the point I will begin rping him)
- Suki and Tao are put on temporary leave until a replacment can be found for Team 24.
- The two begin bonding more and Suki interacts with Tao's family, despite him forbidding her to do so.
- He eventually catches her talking with Tres, as does his father. Kaji tells her off and smacks Tao for allowing an 'outsider' within the clan.
- Though Tao avoids Suki for a week, she eventually corners him and the two converse about life as a ninja(as Tao is avoiding
talking about his father)
- Eventually, they confess their love for each other..and the rest of the conversation is cencored XP
- After about a year, Dani Tonosei is placed on Team 24.
- The three struggle to work out differences and thus, Yui refuses to allow them to go on anything but D-ranked missions.
- After three months, they, reluctantly, begin regular missions again.
- However, a month later, word is sent that Roy, their former sensei, has been kidnapped.
- Suki and Tao request a privite mission(without Dani) to rescue their sensei and are allowed, heading to the Sound Village to do so.
- They are told that Roy has been killed, however, Tao quickly realises that it is a lie and Suki pieces together that Roy had never been kidnapped. Instead, they are looking for Ugashi Clan secrets.
- Tao is captured and Suki is forced to rescue him, but not before he is tourtued.
- Suki kills them and the two struggle back to Konoha.
- while Tao is hospitalised, Tres speaks with Suki and later convinces the two to get married. Tao is leary because of his father, but eventually agrees.
- Tao, Suki, Tres, Keisuke, and Kaji gather within Tao's home to allow Tao and Suki to try and convince Kaji to allow them to marry. Tres and Keisuke came on Tao's request, fearful of Kaji's temper.
- As Tao expected, Kaji loses it and attacks Suki, threatening to kill her and Tao, for bringing her here and Kaji had already arranged a marriage with a very high member of the Ugashi Clan. Tao would marry his daughter, Kiria. Tres and Keisuke were able to stop Kaji from killing her. But after he tried to drag Suki out of the house, Kaji ordered Tao to stay and, fearful, he did. Telling Suki he was sorry, Tao orders her to leave before she was killed. Suki leaves and Kaji takes after Tao. Tres, however, manages to grab Tao and force him out of the house, taking his punishment for him.
- For several weeks, Tao is harrassed by Kaji and avoids everyone, especially Suki and his two cousins. Guilt ridden, he locks himself away from everyone, enveloping himself in training and solo missions. Now he is one a mission to the west, having spent almost three months away from his home in the Leaf.