Expert Bowman Ninja; His falcon "Pallas" usually assists him with multiple of his Clan Jutsu. His Musical Bow assists him with multiple of his abilities, thus his attacks are all basically equipment based.
Ziste is a quiet type of guy, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know how to have a good time. Although he might love education as much as the next Bowman, he'd rather spend his weekends with his friends shooting around than studying because he believes "The best way to learn is a field test."
When on the battlefield he is the same. He believes that he'd go on instinct than listening to somebody telling him what to do which is a pretty dangerous act because rules are rules, and they can save your life. But according to Ziste "Rules are meant to be tampered with."
But there is a more serious part to Ziste. When it comes to things like proving who's the best, he will take all advice that is needed to destroy his opponents.
Minstrel Bow:
A bow that was made by a wandering bard, by remodeling an instrument. It has a beautiful curve and appearance, so it clears the user's spirit.
Let's start with the father shall we?
Shoken Sogekihei, a self proclaimed ace sniper had it all when he was a young Bowman. He took on sniping missions assisting Leaf Ninja from time to time to make a few extra dollars so he could continue his good life living as a "Young Blood." What is his definition of a good life you ask?
Drinking, sleeping with random women in hopes of never seeing them again, and gambling. Yep... definetly had it all.
For years his lifestyle went his way until a very attractive white headed girl came to "Visit" family in the apartment next to his.
Being quite a ladies man Shoken was not only able to lure the woman away from her family, but was able to sleep with her as well.
Now after this Shoken had hoped never to see the girl ever again, but to his horror... she did not leave. This left Shoken in the stage of panic because he knows that once she had become pregnant that he would have to end his "Young Blood" lifestyle and take on the role of a father. Now Shoken hated to be responsible for his father tried and tried when he was a child to make him exactly like him in every way, so Shoekn did what any other panicked man would have did... he ran.
He escaped to the village of Sand in where he became a bowyar, fletcher, and professional hunter. For years he lived selling bows, arrows, and his findings to the people of the sand village, but one day he got a letter from a woman named Shikari stating that she was on her way with her son coming to visit him.
Shoken now more mature than he was four years before did not remember anybody named Shikari, but when she arrived her cloudy white hair told him everything he needed to know about her.
After days of talking and discussing how her brother was wanted in the Leaf village for murders of which he did not commit she only could think of one man to run to and that was him. So Shoken took her in and eventually married her two years later.
Now, as for Ziste...
Ziste's first few years living were hell because of the low amount of money his mother was able to bring in at a time. He went on for days wearing the same dirty diapers, and sometimes even unfed, but he was a strong baby and was foretold to grow to become a strong man one day so his mother did not worry.
After years of trying to get by his mother had to flee Tanzaku Gai in order to prevent capture of herself because of her brother's actions which he denied. Her brother was said to be an expert with bows and arrows and sniped many people walking along the road to Tanzaku town, and stole their money in order to live for himself. Being that he actually WAS an expert with the bow and arrow, it would be hard for him to deny any actions he was convicted of so he helped his sister flee to the village of sand, a place where a good friend of his moved to.
Ziste then began to grow fond of the bow and arrow and started using his first short bow at the age of six. He did not master the weapon, but he was very dedicated to his training and his father saw that he had the potential to be a great bowman, so he trained him both physically and mentally.
Ziste went with his father on training runs, hunts, and was even taught how to make his own equipment. He was basically an expert at age eight.
He was trained to block out all sound and distractions when sniping so he could get a perfect shot on the target of which he was aiming at.
It wasn't long before he was almost as good as his father, and he was only eleven.
His father began to grow old, and could no longer teach his son his methods, or hunt for that matter so he told his son to take over for him as he became nothing more than a normal husband to his wife. Ziste's newfound responsibility was a dream come true, he had become just like his father, but upon saying this to other children that were living in the village he was called a loser because he chose work over play, even when there was no work to be done. So he slowly became more and more like his father's old self which is what Shoken feared the most.
He began hanging out with friends, shooting around endangering lives of others, and even participated in the act of fornication just as his father did.
Shoken would not have that so he told his son to either shape up, or ship out. Ziste is now living with his father at the age of sixteen doing what needs to be done, but still participating in childlike acts. His father doesn't know about all of them, but he figures he will grow out of the childlike attitude just as he did.