Name: Kagome Yuu
Nicknames: Yuu. "There's not really much you can shorten that to."
Age: Thirty-one.
Gender: Male.
Birthday: August 16th.
Height: 5'7". "Don't you dare call me short."
Weight: Around 135 lbs, so, fairly skinny.
Blood Type: AB Negative
General Appearance: Yuu is the sort of guy who is so ridiculously feminine that it is difficult to believe he is actually a male. He has a slender, petite build, and is far shorter than just about everyone else he meets. His hair is pitch black in colour, and ruler straight. Yuu will normally wear it in a very messy ponytail, going for the 'stylish bed-head' look that really ends up looking more like the 'bed-head' look. His eyes are a curious shade of mint green in colour, and outlined in strange black markings that go halfway down his nose. He has very pale skin and often appears to be rather sickly. His clothes are almost always black and tend to have far too many chains and buckles to be practical. One of his quirks is that he often is wearing a collar around his neck, for some reason that most people have been too scared to ask.
Village: Otogakure
Rank: S-Rank Missing Nin
Classification: "Human. Even if my abilities make that difficult to believe.". He is member of Team One of the Akatsuki.
Academy Grad. Age: 11
Chuunin Prom. Age: 13
Jounin Prom. Age: 18
Departure from Village: 23
Personality: Yuu is moody, hateful, and pessimistic, if you want to sum him up. He is the sort of guy who could care less about whether other people are happy or not, and only cares for his own benefit. He does what he wants when he wants, and dislikes obeying orders. The only reason why he is currently a member of the Akatsuki is because it lets him have power, and he likes power. Yuu is an ambitious, power-thirsty man who will do anything to rise to the top.
He does not understand the concept of 'right' and 'wrong', and believes in 'all's well that end's well.' Basically, he'll use whatever tactic that is required to complete a job, whether it ranges from brute force to cruel wit. Yuu is always willing to kill and manipulate people. He can be shockingly clingy around people he knows well. It is rare for Yuu to not be uncomfortably close to someone whenever he is around people he knows. This tends to annoy people quite a bit, especially considering the fact that he doesn't know where to draw the line between uncomfortably friendly and erotic. The more sentimental of those who he knows blames this on him not getting enough love as a child. Most people don't know this side of him, and view him as cold and rude, purely because he hates social contact with strangers.
History: From the very beginning, Yuu's life was strange. He didn't have parents, and instead was born in a test tube as a lab experiment created by a shinobi who wanted to recreate the experiments of the infamous Orochimaru. Due to his creator not having an intelligence near the extent of Orochimaru's - in fact, if Orochimaru was considered a knife, Yuu's creator would probably be considered a spoon, at most - Yuu was the only one of the experiments who managed to survive and still have a near normal intelligence. Even Yuu is missing some of the things normal people have: empathy and a general sense of right and wrong. The fact that he was born from Orochimaru's data is also what makes him have some similar features - his eyes and his hair being the main ones - to the legendary Sannin, although he does not actually have any genetic relationship.
Despite the odd beginnings of his life, Yuu's childhood was fairly normal. He didn't have many friends, but that was okay with him, since he was naturally an anti-social person. Yuu spent most of his childhood in his creator's lab, training his abilities. When he entered the academy at eight years old, he was already ahead of the class by quite a bit. The only thing that held him back was his inability to communicate with people, which meant that he graduated at age eleven.
Yuu was promoted to the ranking of Chuunin when he was thirteen, which pleased him quite a bit, since he was always one who wanted to get ahead as fast as possible. When he was fourteen, his creator died in a lab accident. This didn't affect Yuu in any way other than annoying him a bit, since it meant he would have to handle the money and most of the work himself. Still, he continued training his ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu skills, and ended up becoming a Jōnin when he was eighteen. He lived in Otogakure for five more years before becoming fed up with having to be loyal to the Kage there, and left the village to join the Akatsuki. He has been a more-or-less loyal member to the Akatsuki ever since, even if he has murdered a few of his partners.
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Tailed Beast: None. "Wouldn't that be fairly obvious, considering it's my job to hunt the biju an' all?"
Clan: Kagome
Weapons: A Bō staff that is about 5'9" long, like a traditional bō, and is made of red oak wood inlaid with strips of iron. Basically, it's something you really would try to avoid getting hit by. Like most ninjas, Yuu also carries a rather extensive supply of paper bombs. They're his last resort weapon, and he tries not to use them that often. "But, hey, if I can't manage to kill or capture someone using my ninjutsu and taijutsu, why not blow them up instead?"
Chakra Type: Doton (Earth) and Fūton (Wind)
Kekkei Genkai: Shōton (Crystal Release)
Description: Yuu is able to create crystals out of his surroundings and manipulate existing crystal-like structures. He is even able to crystallize the moisture in the air, as well as the cells in a human body, meaning that if anyone were to shatter the crystal someone was stuck in, the person would shatter and die as well. His crystal release technique is weak to Raiton (Lightning) Chakra, as well as to pure energy, since it cannot solidify anything that doesn't have a physical form. Basically, if you can't touch it, his kekkei genkai won't work.
Signature Techniques:
-Doton: Pillars of Earth [A technique that makes large towering formations rise out of the ground, surrounding the target and entrapping them. It can be shattered with good taijutsu or a lightning jutsu]
-Shōton: Crystal Prison [Used after Doton: Pillars of Earth] [This transforms the pillars of earth from the previous technique into mint green crystal (the same shade as his eyes) that is nearly impossible to shatter, unless it is struck by a lightning jutsu]
-Fūton: Razor Winds [The target is trapped in a whirlwind that is made of razor sharp gusts of wind. This often inflicts hundreds of smaller cuts on the targets body, none of them being large enough to cause substantial damage alone but the combination of them making a very painful fight for the target. This jutsu can be stopped by the target halting the flow of their chakra, much like how most genjutsus can be stopped. It is not advisable for the target to use any nature chakra in attempt to get out of this jutsu, purely because it will just merge into the whirlwind and only strengthen it]
-Shōton: Crystal Dust [Small particles of crystal fly into the air, causing the targets to inhale them. They then get lodged in the lungs and cause breathing problems for the targets, but do little more. Yuu only uses this jutsu if he needs to make a getaway without harming his opponents too much, and finds it too weak and too inaccurate to use in normal battle. He can only use this jutsu for perhaps five minutes at most, and the crystal dust can be blocked from being inhaled by covering the nose and mouth with finely woven cloth]
He uses a few other techniques, but none commonly enough to make them his signatures.