Madness will set us free!
General Information Age:24
Gender:Female
Height:165cm
Weight:114
Physical Features:
- Face/head: Her face is fair, with nearly no blemishes on it, her skin is porcelain and has a degree of color that still makes her seem pale for those who live in her homeland. Her eyes are jet black with the iris matching her pupil only changing color when she activates her gensryuugan, which shines an emerald green color. Her Deep purple hair that looks almost black hangs short on the sides in a swept bang while the back is pulled into a mid length ponytail.
- Body: Nanami is very thin, not quite to the point that she looks starved but one could guess she misses meals quite frequently. She is short in stature, and her body seems to still lack the primary features of a mature woman.
- Notable Features:The most notable features of the woman are her short stature, and the large blue wagasa she carries with her at all times. When she is feeling emotional her eyes turn an emerald green color that pierces through her upkept hair. The other most notable feature is that the girl is always followed by several butterflies, with some pattern of blue, pink, and white in their wings.
Personality:
- General:Nanami is unhinged, having lost her sanity long ago. She maintains the looks of a normal individual, but on the inside is a storm of voices, emotions, and ideals. When she loses herself to her maddness letting go of the facade of the sane woman she pretends to be there is no such thing as reason, she will fervently chase her current goal. She is chaotic in her thinking with most believing her to be a lost cause in her thought processes. Most of the time she portrays herself as a level headed individual with perhaps a few eccentric screws loose with no desire to stir up trouble. The woman who frequently forgets where she is or speaks in outlandish riddles. She loves to sit and watch her butterflies, and even more she loves to watch people break, she will typically find individuals and break their wills, letting them fall to depravity, bloodlust, and broken logic. She sees herself as a savior for the world, and she intends to bring everyone into insanity one by one.
- Hopes/Dreams: Her current desires are to release the world from logic and reason. Only then can we truly call ourselves free. The ravings of a mad woman to be sure. But when asked she is cryptic and vague, usually denoting her goals as something as to free those in need. Those that live as slaves to their feelings and reasoning should be freed whether through breaking them or death.
- Fears:To lose her freedom, or be caged. To meet those of her past.
- Combat Mentality:Nanami doesn’t like to get her hands dirty, her preferred method of fighting is her kekkei genkai and her illusion techniques to break her opponents mind. When she does have to fight she uses both her swarm of butterflies, as well as her bladed wagasa, which doubles as a shield and spear with a fine tip built into the shaft. She enjoys playing with her opponents, in most cases she doesn't seek to kill, only killing as a last resort. Her primary objective even when fighting is to break her opponents mind through tricks and illusions while also seeing peering into their head with her gensyruugan, if all else fails she will turn tail and run. The moment she is no longer in control she will run using everything at her disposal to escape, whether feigning death, illusions, or feigning her death.
Battle Information Village: Land of Tides
Rank: A
- Chakra Pool:30
- Endurance:15
- Control:40
- Strength:10
- Speed:21
- Willpower:35
- Sync:10
- Power Rank:A
- 5x Kunai
- 10x Shuriken
- 10m of wire
- 5x Exploding tags
- 1x Smoke bomb
- 1x Flashbang
- 1x Large Bladed Wagasa
Companions: (0/1)Bladed WagasaShowThe bladed wagasa is roughly 5 feet long from base to the spear tip, the tip of the spear is 6 inches long. The wagasa opens up to about 4 feet in diameter, and functions as both a normal umbrella as well as a form of shield. Instead of paper it uses strong painted wooden slates that are intertwined to fold in on themselves. While on the arms small blades the size of a kunai rest hidden deep inside that when twisted or opened with force set into place allowing the wagasas open form to cut and slash.
The weight of the Wagasa is roughly 5-7 pounds and is typically stored on Nanami's back or being used as a parasol to protect her from the harsh sunlight.
Affinity/Specialization:Genjutsu
Abilities and ConcentrationsAbilities First Ability Gensyruugan:
The Gensyruugan is a doujutsu utilized by those of the Kuruma Clan. Awakened in the heat of passion, the Gensyruugan is revered in Shio no Kuni for its hypnotic prowess. Kuruma Clan members have incredibly developed mirror neurons that feed into their ocular nerve, the Gensyruugan]’s inherent ability is to focus this information, allowing Kuruma clan members to perceive the hallucinations experienced by individuals around them. Clan members have developed techniques to focus the Gensyruugan making them able to use sustained eye contact to stimulate the mirror neurons in others, tricking the target’s body into relaxing, and even simulating pain. The strongest Kuruma clan members can invoke full hypnosis, forcing those they make eye contact with to perform certain actions. Each stage of the Gensyruugan is unlocked by a jutsu. The Gensyruugan can be used for for [Chakra Pool] posts in a thread, consecutive or non-consecutive.Gensyruugan StagesShow
Awakened
Heightened
Risen
TrueSecond Ability Elemental Fuuton BodyShow
Takes one Ability Slot.
Requires 15 or more Control
Core: Heart
Following the rules of elemental bodies
After achieving unparalleled mastery of ninjutsu, Nanami is able to form her body out of fuuton. After undergoing the process of turning their heart into a core, they were able to gather fuuton around themselves to recreate their bodies. This means that their bodies take on the properties of fuuton at almost all times. Any damage sustained by the body is able to be recovered by gathering more fuuton, and is incapable of bleeding. While this gives Nanami a form of almost invulnerability, if the object that holds their true self is damaged it spells out almost certain death.
Takes one Ability Slot.
Requires 15 or more Control
Elemental bodies quick reference
Third Ability Blue-Tipped Swiller Swarm Description: Blue-tipped Swillers, as their name suggest are a swarmming species of carnivourous butterfly, with pink white, and a light blue ending on the tips of their wings. They have voracious appetites and will pick an unfortunate individual clean. They hunt by seeking out the chakra of living beings, however they prefer dark forrest and caves and hunting at night. They are deadly and use fuuton chakra to make their wings razor sharp, sweeping through the air around the target slicing pieces of flesh as they tear through the body at quick speeds. They are exceedingly rare, with hives of them only being found within remote regions within Shrimp Continent. Yet are renown for thier beautyPictureShow
Personality: Blue-tipped Swillers are devoid of any form of personality, as they are all controlled by the hive mind connection they share with Nanami, allowing her to command them to do her bidding.
Rank: C
Skills: Swillers are able to use fuuton to tip the the wings of their body, in which they become razor sharp applying the Fuuton passive on targets they hit or used to hit, the strength of the passive directly correlates to [sync]Concentrations Ninjutsu Ninjutsu: Advanced Channeling:
This user has superb chakra control, and has learned to perform jutsu by channeling, without the use of hand seals. The user can channel any Ninjutsu that is designed to be channeled, and there are no specified parameters in which a jutsu must fall to be channeled by this method.Fuuton Affinity:
Fuuton Affinity
A character with this concentration is able to utilize Fuuton, and can make and use any custom or archived jutsu that require the Fuuton affinity. Fuuton has an cutting effect.Passive (Cutting)ShowFuuton has a natural cutting property to it, that exists in all jutsu unless otherwise stated. This gives fuuton a unique opportunity to strike with additional power, and to act as a offensive defense. Regardless of their purpose fuuton jutsu passively cut with no distinct pattern at 1/2 the strength of the technique rounded down unless otherwise stated. This means if someone punched a 20 strength fuuton wall, they would get cuts on their hand applied with 10 strength. This also means that fuuton jutsu specifically designated to cut things can create devastating wound by essentially striking twice.Doton:
Doton Affinity
A character with this concentration is able to utilize Doton, and can make and use any custom or archived jutsu that require the doton affinity. Doton has a passive enduring effect.Passive (Enduring)ShowDoton has a passive effect of Endurance, which means that it's power is retained throughout the entirety of the jutsu. All of a single doton jutsu retains the strength of the jutsu, even after the jutsu has been destroyed, and unlike other jutsu, doton does not fade when destroyed. This means that if a doton barrier with 25 strength is cut in half and falls to the ground, a part of that barrier could be picked up and carried as a hand held shield which would still have 25 strength, despite being a fractured part of a jutsu. This creates incredibly potent defenses, making doton a popular affinity among defensive fighters.Taijutsu Acrobatics:
The fundamental skill of [Acrobatics] includes the user’s ability to contort their body into unfamiliar positions in order to avoid attacks, as well as the user’s ability to fall safely and perform Ukemi and other feats of gymnastics. This facilitates their use of related Taijutsu.Alternative Weaponry:
The fundamental skill of [Alternative Weaponry] indicates the user's proficiency with rare, uncommon, or otherwise non-standard weapons that aren't typically grouped under other concentrations. This could be anything like Staves, Axes, Spears, Nunchakus, Shields, etc.Genjutsu Genjutsu: Advanced Channeling:
This user has superb chakra control, and has learned to perform jutsu by channeling, without the use of hand seals. The user can channel any Genjutsu that is designed to be channeled, and there are no specified parameters in which a jutsu must fall to be channeled by this method. Channeled Genjutsu cause the user to be surrounded in an aura of chakra while channeling the genjutsu, until the genjutsu is initiated.Initiation ConcentrationsShowSight Initiation:
This user has learned to use visual cues to initiate genjutsu. Allowing them to perform actions, or draw the eyes to something to capture their targets in a genjutsu.Sound Initiation:
This user has learn to use sound cues to initiate genjutsu. Allowing them to create sounds and sustain sounds to capture their targets in a genjutsu.Touch Initiation:
This user has learn to use physical sensations to initiate genjutsu. Allowing them to physical touch the target, or touch them with objects to capture their targets in genjutsu.Scent Initiation:
This user has learn to use smells to intiate genjutsu. Allowing them to utilize and produce various scents to capture their targets in genjutsu.Sensor Initiation:
This user has learned to use their chakra's presence to initiate genjutsu. Allowing them to initiate genjutsu in people who notice them with sensory techniques.Status Genjutsu:
This user has learned how to utilize Status Genjutsu that impose mental and cognitive effects on their target.Warp Genjutsu:
This user has learned to combine the basics of Status and Illusion genjutsu, allowing them to use single techniques to create sensory illusions, as well as status changes on their target.Illusion of Force Genjutsu:
This user has learned to add a physical component when using genjutsu, allowing them to create the sensation of pulling, pushing, or evoking some force against their target.
JutsuNinjutsuShowBasic JutsuShowThese basic jutsu are automatically known by all village ninja that have gone through a shinobi academy, Nanami however, has developed these techniques due to her time with a missing ninja that was hiding in shrimp country, while she was younger.
D-Rank:
[b]*[color=#80A0FF][Basic Jutsu • Clone Technique][/color][/b]
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
After completing a set of handseals, the user forms a slight chakra 'body', thus creating a single, massless clone. The clone created from this technique is very basic and will dissipate when hit with anything. These clones do not possess vital signs or a unique chakra signature, meaning they don't disrupt the environment, and anything on their person is superficial. The clone has 1 in each stat. They are limited to basic movements.
[b]*[color=#80A0FF][Basic Jutsu • Transformation Technique][/color][/b]
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
After completing the needed handseals, the user of this technique will be able to alter their physical appearance to match that of another person. By consistently emitting chakra throughout their body, the user is able to keep their appearance adjusted at the cost of their Chakra Pool draining over time. As this technique is quite strenuous to uphold, experienced shinobi may see more clearly through this delusive disguise. This technique lasts for a number of posts equal to that of the user's (Chakra Pool/2).
[b]*[color=#80A0FF][Basic Jutsu • Chakra Kai][/color][/b]
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
A jutsu used with the purpose of activating seals and a range of devices and weapons, this technique begins with a single handseal. Once this has been performed, the user will focus a dollop of their chakra into what they are looking to activate in order to complete the task. Seals activated with this technique must be within 10 meters of the user's position.
[b]*[color=#80A0FF][Basic Jutsu • Act of Tree Climbing][/color][/b]
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
By focusing chakra into his/her feet, the user is able to walk up trees and other vertical surfaces in a similar fashion to walking along the ground. This chakra amount must be precise, and although all shinobi learn this technique, the user's control stat will determine how well this jutsu can be executed. Users with low control 2 or lower will often fall during the use of this technique, while users with average control 3 or higher will be able to use this technique functionally. It lasts for a number of posts equal to the user's Chakra Pool.
[b]*[color=#80A0FF][Basic Jutsu • Act of Water Surface Walking][/color][/b]
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
A variation of the Act of Tree Climbing technique, this jutsu requires the user to focus a precise and balanced amount of charka into the soles of his/her feet. By doing so, the user is able to walk on the surface of water as though it were a solid surface. Users with low control 2 or lower are much more likely to fall through the surface of the water, while users with average control 3 or higher will be able to use this technique functionally. It lasts for a number of posts equal to the user's Chakra Pool.
[b]*[color=#80A0FF][Basic Jutsu • Kai Release][/color][/b]
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
A rather simple technique that allows the user to escape from a genjutsu. The user will form a single ram seal and focus to reset their chakra system to purge themselves of foreign chakra. The stat requirements for this technique can be found in the [url=https://www.narutosaigen.com/forums/viewtopic.php?&t=?p=1985641&t=5899683#p1985641]genjutsu rules.[/url]
[b]*[color=#80A0FF][Basic Jutsu • Change of Body Stance Technique][/color][/b]
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
After completing the necessary handseals, the user is able to quickly substitute his/her body with a nearby object that is at least 2/3rds his/her size, but no bigger than their body. This substitution allows the object to take the force of the attack that was meant for the user, additionally allowing the user to create distance between him/her and the opponent. The object used in this jutsu may not be objects that are imbued with chakra or controlled by it unless it is the users own, and they may also only be single, solid objects within a 10 meter radius of the user. This technique may only be used a total of one time in a single thread, give or take how many times Shunshin no Jutsu has already been used.GensryuuganShowGensryuugan Unlocking TechniquesShow
sleep
D-rank Ninjutsu
The user will do a single hand seal, turning off their Gensyruugan
Awaken
C-rank Ninjutsu
Prerequisite: 10 Control, 10 Will Power
The user will do a single hand seal, activating their Gensyruugan to the [Awakened] state. While in this state the clan members can utilize [Shared Cognizance] techniques. Activating at this stage drains a C-rank worth of chakra every 5 posts.
Heightened
B-rank Ninjutsu
Prerequisite: 20 Control, 20 Will Power
The user will do a single hand seal, activating their Gensyruugan to the [Heightened] state. While in this state the clan members can utilize [Hypnotic Depressant] techniques in addition to previous stages. Activating at this stage drains a B-rank worth of chakra every 5 posts.
Gensryuugan techniquesShow
* Carpal Tunnel
D-rank Ninjutsu
[Hypnotic Shock]
The user will do a series of hand seals, locking eyes with their target. The target will experience a sudden cramping pain in their hand. At any point where the user’s Control is greater than the target’s Will Power, the pain will be too great to be able to close their hand, forcing them to drop anything they’re holding, for as long as the user retains eye contact with their target.
Feel
D-rank Ninjutsu
[shared cognizance]
After the user as done the proper handseals they can then share the emotions of the person they are looking at. This allows them to feel basic emotions, such as love, pleasure, bliss, hatred, anger, or sadness. It does not, however, allow the user to read ones thoughts, only allows the user to feel what the victim is feeling.
* Mud
D-rank Ninjutsu
[Hypnotic Depressant]
The user will do a series of hand seals, locking eyes with their target. The target will experience a sudden numbing in their feet. At any point where the user’s Control is greater than the target’s Will Power, the numbing will be intense enough that the target won’t be able to perform complex footwork. This last as long as the user maintains eye contact with their target.
* Knife
C-rank Ninjutsu
[Hypnotic Shock]
Performing a series of hand seals, the user will lock eyes with their target. For as long as the eye contact is held, the target will feel as if a knife has been stabbed into their scapula. As the eye contact is maintained the pain caused by the “knife” will increase as if the knife is being twisted.
* Visual Hallucination
C-rank Ninjutsu
[Shared Cognizance]
Performing a series of hand seals, the user will look at their target with an activated Gensyruugan. Should the target be experiencing any visual hallucinations or illusions, to include genjutsu, the user will experience them for as long as they look at the target to a max of 4 posts.
* Eyes on Me
B-rank Ninjutsu
[Hypnotic Depressant]
Performing a series of hand seals, the users Gensyruugan will glow faintly, anyone who the user locks eyes with will experience a slight depressant effect, reducing their ability to break eye contact with the user. Unlike other Gensyruugan techniques, other techniques can be performed while sustaining this technique. This technique lasts for 10 posts, and as long as the users Control is greater than the target’s Will Power, the target will not be able to break eye contact with the user.
Doton TechniquesShow
*Doton • Binding Formation
D-Rank Ninjutsu
After channeling doton chakra into their foot the user will slam the ground within 5 meters of a target's feet with their heel, causing a formation of rock to shoot upwards at [Control] speed binding the target's feet at [Control] strengthFuuton TechniquesShow
Fuuton • Upward Draft
[requirement]A large fan or similar shaped item that can catch air.
D-Rank Fuuton Technique
The user can channel fuuton for a brief moment, pulling the fan or similar item into the air slowing their descent while falling. This can be done from any reasonable height, and if done from to high in the air one will not be able to properly gauge their technique hitting the ground to hard. This will create a small float effect, but not a flying effect, and can not exceed one post. The technique will maintain its momentum horizontally but continue a slow decent.
*Fuuton • Wind Bullet
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
After performing the required hand seals, the user expels a basket ball sized ball of wind from their mouth. This ball of wind travels up to 10m at [Control] speed, and explodes with [Control] Strength on contact with solid matter or at the end of its range.
*Fuuton • Wind Skating
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
After performing the needed hand seals, the user is able to glide on air as if they were skating on ice. This allows them to move faster (+3 speed) but lowers their ability to translate force (-3 Strength). This doesn't allow them to fly, but rather to travel over things like land, water, and ice with greater ease. The user is only held several inches off of the ground. This Jutsu does not expire until the user’s chakra supply runs out or the user shuts it off. The fuuton passive is not applied in this technique.
*Fuuton • Enhanced Launch
D-Ranked Ninjutsu
After doing the needed hand seals, the user gathers wind around their feet. Then, the user will use the wind to blast them from the ground, enabling them to leap into the air an extra 10 meters at [Control] speed. The Fuuton passive is not applied in this technique.
*Fuuton • Wind Clone
C-Ranked Ninjutsu
After performing the necessary hand seals, the user will create a clone out of their fuuton chakra. This clone will have the users stats. It lasts for [Control/4] posts.
*Fuuton • Flying Swallow
C-Ranked Ninjutsu
After forming the necessary hand seals, the user coats their weapon in a vortex of wind. This extends the weapon's range by 1m while not adding anything to its weight for 5 posts. It also causes the weapon to gain an edge as sharp as your average sword. This also applies the fuuton passive with [Control] Strength on contact with an opponent.
*Fuuton • Pressure Damage
B-Ranked Ninjutsu
After making the required hand seals, the user will focus chakra into their mouth. They will release the wind chakra as a large sphere with a 10m radius at [Control] Speed, which has a maximum range of 40m. Should the target be hit within the first 20m, the attack will inflict the maximum amount of damage, causing a [Control] Strength explosion, spreading cutting winds capable of slicing close to the bone over the same area. Should they be struck in the last 20m, it will only apply [Control/2] Strength.
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*[Genjutsu • Paranoid]
D-Ranked Illusion Genjutsu
The user will do a series of hand seals, then whistle. Anyone who hears the whistle will be captured in this genjutsu. For the following 4 posts, the target will see a shadow in the corner of their eyes, constantly shifting out of view when they attempt to look at it.
*[Genjutsu • Boom!]
D-Ranked Illusion Genjutsu
The user will do a series of hand seals, then within the next post, snap their fingers. Anyone who hears the snapping will hear an explosion in the distance behind them. This works as an effective distraction, or a scare tactic, if properly utilized.
[Genjutsu • Cackle]
D-Ranked Illusion Genjutsu
A rather simple genjutsu that is put into place when the user makes an audible sigh. Seconds later, anyone who hears the users sigh that will hear loud shrieking maniacal laughter, serving as a somewhat confusing distraction. This effect last for three post or until the user ends the effect.
[Genjutsu • Cynical Cries]
C-Ranked Warp Genjutsu
The user will smile at the target, then immediately following the slow rise of whispers of ones parents, children, teachers, and other important figures in their lives. The whispers speak of the victims shortcomings and failures, whether they are truth, lies, or ones own thoughts. This last for three post before the whispers stop abruptly during that time the victim would lose confidence in their own abilities hearing nothing cutting words form those they looked up to.
*[Genjutsu • Doubt]
C-Ranked Status Genjutsu
The user will do a series of hand seals, then whistle, initiating the genjutsu in anyone who hears the whistle. For the next three posts, the victims of this technique will feel tinges of doubt when listening to other people talk. While the doubt isn't strong, it creates a slight feeling that can be used to dissuade them from following instructions of other people if utilized properly.
[Genjutsu • Survivor's Guilt]
B-Ranked Illusion Genjutsu
This is a genjutsu technique that causes its target to see a horrifying vision pertaining to their past trauma. The ninja will perform some hand seals and make eye contact with the target. Once cast, the world will appear normal to the target until they see the illusion. The illusion is at the discretion of the user. However, they can only create a simple visual and audio loop, not a controllable visual illusion. Examples would be a lover asking why they could not protect them before they died before vanishing, Seeing their precious child playing and laughing before reliving their demise. This illusions may only last up to 5 posts replaying on a loop, or until the user ends the jutsu themselves. As a note, this effects sight and hearing.
HistoryHistorical AccountsShowThe early life of Nanami is a fractal mess of mismatching emotions and farfetched fantasies, that even she herself cannot discern fact from fiction. She knew the basics, she had a mother and father, who carried the surname Kuruma. She was long past the point of recalling their faces, as far as she was concerned they were just a man and a woman who gave birth to her. In fact, her early years she struggled to recall, her life was not miserable by any means, she can remember the distant joy that she felt but nothing stood out to her from those younger days. She was one of eight children, and she could remember that she was the youngest. The faces, names, and genders of her siblings were all missing except one….Asami. She was the seventh born daughter to the family she belonged to, her older sister by three years.
She could recall many vivid memories of the young girl, the raven black hair, her fair skin, and well kept although tomboy appearance. She could remember when her sister awakened the special eyes of the Kuruma. The days the responsibilities of adulthood took her playmate from her. How they loved to tell jokes and sneak away, their mutual crush on some boy who had long forgotten about them. The sweet childish kiss they each shared with the boy. She remembered her isolation when her family separated the two until Nanami was old enough to take on her role in the family.
She would often find herself lost in her own thoughts as she remembered bits of her time with Asami, it was fascinating to her she could recall more about her sister than her own past except for what coincided with her sister. She could remember her favorite colors, sing her favorite tune, and remember her favorite dessert. What always stood out however, were Asami’s last words, “Of all of us I hated you the most Nanami,” it always incited a giggle in Nanami. She was long gone now, consumed by the butterflies that now made up her body. In a way, her sister became a part of her just like how she became a part of the hive of insects. How little all that mattered, her sister’s hatred, she was free of all her burdens, her own prisons. She could recall the cave they laid in as children that awful day, her sister's lifeless mangled body. Eyes plucked from her skull by a shinobi of some far off land, her body being devoured by the blue and pink butterflies that once called that place home. What a fitting end for someone who broke to late.
She could remember the scar-stitched face of her kidnapper turned master, Chimon the collector, the missing ninja, who she guessed was responsible for her sister’s missing eyes. How his skin sat across his body with jagged stitch work and scars from old experiments, and surgeries as well as new. The training she had with him as she learned the shinobi arts from him, how he was like a father teaching her to ride a bike. How much he cared for her, taught her how to properly use chakra and most importantly crafted her this body made of butterflies, the very same hive that consumed parts of her body as well as her sister’s. Waking up in the dank and musty ramshackle basement turned lab, looking at her own mangled body. The copper smell of blood filling the room alongside the sour smell of mildew. Chimons bloody hands hugging her to console her after the events she had dealt with.
Come to think of it, that was when she awoke her own Gensryuugan, the greatest gift she ever received from her birth. She could now indulge in another person's emotions and feel what they felt when she broke them, freeing their mind from logic and reason, their self built prisons that they sat in. The feeling of bliss they felt afterwards, she could see their fears, regrets, and hopes with those eyes and her illusion techniques. It was perfect for helping her to spread the awakened madness and bliss that everyone needed. She spent years with Chimon, helping him kidnap and collect the many Kekkai Genkai from the nations of shrimp continent. He would often let her perform her own little experiments on them, she never sought to kill them, but perfect her genjutsu on them, helping them see what life could be if they just snapped and broke down. Of course many times it would end in their death, Chimon was more a butcher than a surgeon. In such an event she would let her swarm consume them, satiating their hunger. Her beautiful children, her little butterflies, each carrying a piece of those she freed.
She could barely remember the faces of everyone she saw, when she turned sixteen, she demanded to leave from under Chimons wing, his sadness when she left, as he lost an ally, and a daughter. She couldn’t keep following the man who by this point had decided it was time to slow down. She wasn’t freeing people, she was caged helping him taking care of his jars and his little compound. So she wandered the lands, appearing somewhere new and never staying somewhere long to gain notoriety.
She would hear tales of locals in small villages talking about a rumored butterfly lady, and how she was sweet and kind. Of course they didn’t know the truth that as beautiful as she was there were horrors behind her pretty veil, like the butterflies that made up her body. Most assuredly though, wherever she went madness was sure to follow, with villages on the brink of absurdity. Men and women on crippled with paranoia, children who have gone mute, and those who now live in a vegetative state. They may not see it now, but one day, they would see the gift she bestowed them.
Nanami clapped her face and broke away from the nostalgic reminiscing of her past. She gripped on tight to her wagasa as she looked out over the cliff side at the small farming village that sat below, she couldn't wait to help these people. She looked around to the five corpses being picked clean by her butterflies, they hadn't lasted long when she broke them using her genjutsu. They were quite boring really their lives filled with regret and shame for having resorted to thievery and raiding. The butterflies consumed them more nourishment, unfortunately they didn't break choosing to take their own lives rather than face their skeletons. Some people just aren't cut out to live she supposed. It was what made her job hard, but she had time, plenty of time, afterall, she would hate to die twice. It's so boring.
The full StoryShowThe early life of Nanami is a fractal mess of mismatching emotions and farfetched fantasies, that she herself cannot discern fact from fiction. She knew the basics, she had a mother and father, who carried the surname Kuruma. She knew she was one of eight children, of course what any of them looked like or their ages were long since lost to her, except for one, her older sister, Asami. From the moment that she could walk she would trail behind her sister Asami, the seventh daughter, who was most often then not mistaken for her twin. She was three years older than her and Asami took on the role of the dutiful older sister, often teaching her the things that she had learned the year prior to Nanami. They were inseparable, anywhere Asami went, so did the little Nanami. Like a little shadow Nanami would walk next to her sister mimicking everything she could of her dear older sister.
They would, more often than not, sneak off from doing their farm hand chores, which at their young age was not difficult work. Typically feeding the animals, cleaning around their home and pulling the weeds in the gardens, but from time to time they would skip out on the weeding and run off into the woods, playing with sticks, and building shelters, small havens they could pretend to be princesses in some far away land, or strong powerful sorceresses consulting with the spirits to cast flashy spells. Nanami, on the days she can recall, would never have traded these memories for the world, precious worlds her sister and she would make in the woods surrounding the Kuruma compounds. They would more often than not come back clothes dirtied from the moss and dead leaves of the forest floor to receive the scoldings they knew were coming when the work they had not done was finally noticed. Usually with awkward grins and apologetic smiles, perhaps even a few fake tears would usually be enough to get their mother in a forgiving attitude.
“Okay but just stay on the compound, what would happen if we couldn’t find you two. Imagine how horrible it would be if your brothers and sisters and I never saw you again?” her mother would always say the emerald green eyes piercing as she let her gensryuugan release in her anger. Her mother was a kind woman never to use it to harm them, but the eyes did carry a degree of eeriness that kept her children in check.
“Yess mother, we will be good,” the two girls would chime together in unison before looking at each other and giggling. “Aah what am I going to do with you two cuties?” she would ask, rubbing the backs of their heads, ruffling up the dark violet hair of the two. Their mother was a consistent push over, a smile and giggle and she was all theirs, they loved her dearly, she was sweet and kind, always caving when her beautiful children were smiling and happy. This of course was not long lasting, eventually kids grew up and for the Kuruma this was when their Gensryuugan awoke for the first time.
Nanami remembered it clearly, the day Asami’s Gensryuugan manifested, the young girl was kissed by a boy of similar age. A small kid with blonde hair and a dark tan, who would on occasion wander near the woods off the Kuruma’s land from the nearby village his name was Ren. Asami and the boy had grown close over the few years they had been sneaking away, he would often be sitting in one of their makeshift shelters waiting for the sisters to play a fun game. On this particular day their actions led to another a small kiss was shared between the two both closing their eyes. It was no more than a peck, like what one would give a relative, if Nanami thought back on it she could remember the blush she made when she saw her sister at the time eight kissing the seven year old boy. How innocent she was back then, blind and shackled, over trivial things like a few small pecks on the lips. Nanami ran up separating the two, “Nooo No No Nooo, you can’t kiss boys, remember boys are icky, think of ourr brotherrrsss,” she said loudly in frustration at Asami.
Asami giggled, “Oh Nanami, it’s harmless seee-,” she was cut off by Ren pointing at her face in fear. Nanami noticed right away the eyes as they sat blinking at her, but Ren seemed to have no clue, “Y-you’re.. Those eyes… O-oh,” he said slowly, starting to shake in fear. “Why didn’t you tell me, I-I….I-I have to go,” the boy said as he swiftly turned to run, his tan skin having gone white like he had seen a ghost. The two girls giggled, it was a normal reaction they saw townsfolk have over the emerald eyes, they never really understood why people feared the green eyes, but it was nonetheless funny whenever they saw the reactions when siblings or their parents used them. They turned to walk home Ren would forget about it soon enough and be back to see them they thought.
When they returned home they found themselves excited to tell their mother about Asami, walking in the door they met her in their families kitchen. Their eyes bright, Asami stepped up, “Mommy look, I got eyes like you and Daddy now,” she said excitedly. It wasn’t Nanami’s story to tell, but she was excited for her sister just as much. Her mother kept a blank stare on her face puzzling both girls. She walked Asami out into the kitchen, “You sit here, Nanami, it is time for bed,” she said, looking at the young girl. She pointed in the direction of her shared room with Asami, and she walked over to the door, entering the room and closing it. She dared not disrespect her mothers wishes; something was different about the woman, who was normally easy to read, and she didn’t desire to see what anger lay behind those jade eyes.
It was the last time she saw Asami for over a year, her bed had been removed from the room, to the adult housing on the other side of the farm. That year was lonely without Asami, she had no one to follow or play with and the only thing to keep her busy were her chores. When she would sneak off to her shelter in the woods she would sit alone for hours. Not even Ren showed his face that entire year. She felt abandoned by her sister and her friend, it wasn’t fair her sister had to leave. That all changed when her birthday finally rolled around the following year. They were allowed to meet, her father bringing her sister to see her as a gift. Now looking back it was another way to try and get her eyes to awaken, something her father had consistently made a point of doing that year.
Asami this time was different. Her expression was cold, her hands and arms were bruised and scarred where her sleeves would ride up. In her eyes the dark expression like no one was home. The Kuruma training no doubt was taking a toll on the young girl's body, but she faked a smile through Nanami’s birthday, it was her day after all and what sister would dare to ruin that. Nanami had to do something to bring her sister back to life, somehow revitalizing the girl she knew was in there. In the evening the Nanami grabbed hold of her sister, sneaking off to a corner of the house, her sister complying with little opposition. “Asami… would you want to come to the shelter in the woods again….I’ve been going myself but it's not the same without you,” she looked with her head down, tears welling up in her eyes. She kicked a small dust bunny with her foot.
Asami, at first shook her head, “we really shouldn't, I'll have to leave you here with Mother, if Father sees me gone-,” she was cut off as Nanami started to cry softly in small whimpers. “P-Please one more time, It’s all I want, one more day being princesses of some faraway kingdom then I won't ask till my eyes come in,” Nanami said through her tears.
Asami looked around, her face filled with unease, “O-Okay, but you have to promise, only for a little bit, thirty minutes max,” she said in a hushed tone. She grabbed Nanami by the hand, drying up her tears quickly as they climbed out a window and were off running across the field. Sneaking away like they used to when they were kids, Nanami found herself getting a small smile as she was whisked away by her sister, like a knight in shining armor fighting off her princess’s tears.
They managed to get to their little spot in the woods, Nanami had done a great job of keeping the shelter in order, having built on to it making it bigger. A place Asami and her, and Ren two if he came back could all live together inside. Hiding away from the village and families and never having to be alone again. Asami’s face was lost in thought, as she looked at the ramshackle shelter they had built together and the doubly so dangerous logs and branches that made up the addition on their little manor in the woods.
“Nanami, I shouldn’t be here, we should get back. The woods… you know they are dangerous and this is a bad idea…,” Asami said coldly.
“B-but why sissy, we just got here you said thirty minutes. The danger never stopped us before, but now I-I….I just don’t want to be alone, we don't have to go back, I want my Asami back,” Nanami screamed, wailing as she finished the words. Asami tried to calm her, but it was to no avail. She was looking around, panicked, when she heard small footsteps in the bushes not far off. The girl readied her hand to the side of her leg. She had brought a small knife with her ready for a fight in case they ran into something while out here. As the small patter of footsteps slowly approached the blonde haired and tan Ren stepped out from the bushes. He looked up at them, eyes in shock staring at Asami before his vision fixated on the blade in her hand.
“H-Hey Asami, Nanami,” he said shakily, lifting his hands upwards to show he wasn’t armed. Asami slowly drew her dagger, it was late the sun had almost completely set, why was a village boy roaming the woods that was a bad look. “H-How h-have you g-guys been…? You know you can put down the knife at anyyytimee..,” he said his eyes wide in fear.
“What are you doing out here? Where have you been, we’ve missed you,” Nanami spoke confused for the both of them, while Asami just watched the boy's movements.
“Listen, I uhm…. I’d like to just… Listen I don’t have any reason too,” Ren shakenly tried to say before his head whipped behind him to a tall man in a long torn haori, as well as a tightening black clothes that looked as if they rarely saw a wash. Around the man’s neck was a headband with the symbol of what maybe looked like rain falling at an angle, or perhaps mist, through the center was a long scratch blocking out parts of the carved image. His face had a long scar that ran from the top left of his head to the bottom right on to his neck.
“Ah damnit kid, you were supposed to get me here unnoticed, looks like no reason to pay you,” he said irritated with Ren.
“Now what are two kids like you doing out here, Ren was a good kid, he has a reason to be but you two, and so close to the Kuruma lands? Oh don’t tell me you're both Kuruma kids?,” he said with a big toothy grin crossing his face. “Run Nanami, get out of here,” Asami said, her irises turning that beautiful shade of emerald green.
“OOOH you definitely are, what a jackpot, Hey blonde kid?,” the man said to Ren, “You did a great job, stick around I’ll give ya a reward after all,” he said laughing as he appeared before the Asami, her knife being caught in his hand as he twisted with a loud audible crack from the girls hand as she cried out. “No no, none of that,” he shook a finger on his other hand, before punching Asami hard in the stomach causing her to pass out. “AAAAAANNNNDDD then there was you,” the man was faster than Nanami could follow, he almost seemed to disappear and reappear.
Nanami felt the sudden thunk as a hand caught her in the neck, her vision had started to blur and she began to fall. Before blacking out she could hear the garbled conversation of the man, and Ren. “Drag the younger one, I need this one’s eyes,” he said as he picked up Asami, before Nanami finally passed out she felt the tiny hands of Ren around her arms as she was dragged across the forest floor.
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Nanami awoke, her head sore and dizzy from the earlier strike. She was looking up at the night sky, the moon and stars shining in great contrast to the trees that lined the clearing. “Na-na-mi….” she heard the whimpering voice of Asami nearby. Nanami looked around, seeing the mangled body of her sister lying in the moonlight, looking around as if they were in a large pit that opened up on two sides to two large caverns. In a far corner she saw Ren tied up and bound in a corner still in a daze from perhaps the same treatment. Nanami crawled over to her sister, there was a lot of blood pooled around the young girl.
“Na-na-mi, are…you there? It’s so dark, I-I can’t see anything…,” Asami said in labored breathing. “I’m here big sis, right here,” Nanami said as she pulled her sister over so her face was facing hers, the sight made Nanami retch. The girl's face had been mangled, the eyelids cut in several places, bruising and clotting from horrid stitch work had settled in an angry black and blue color across her fair skin, and what was worse was the emerald eyes her sister had, were gone having been plucked from their homes on her head not long ago.
“h-he took my eyes,” Asami said, blood ran down her cheek and Nanami could only assume it was the best attempt her eyeless skull could make to cry. “I-I wish, you wouldn’t…have begged me to go to the woods, this…is your fault,” she said, labored but frustrated.
Nanami sat shocked, as the words stabbed her in the chest, this WAS her fault. “No, it’s not I just wanted to see you again, I-I wanted to play one more time but Momma and Daddy kept you away,” Nanami said loudly in a watery protest trying her best to justify her actions that led to their current situation.
Her sister sat idly, her chest no longer moving, the words never connected, Asami had taken her last breath. “No No NO NOO, don’t leave me alone again big sis, please help me, I can’t do it without you,” Nanami cried, her voice having gone hoarse from her wailing. She didn’t know where she was if she was still near the Kuruma farm, or if her family was working to find them. All she knew is she was next to alone in this chasm.
Ren had woken up slacking off his gag, “Nanami quite crying, help me out of these binds,” Nanami looked over at the boy who laid their blood on his forehead, with his arms and legs tied tightly behind his back. She laid her head down on her sister's lifeless body, her tears having run dry and her eyes having dulled, “do it yourself, asshole,” it was the only word she could think of that her mother had said one time. Asami had always said it wasn’t a word she should repeat unless she was really mad at someone. Right now Ren could die like that; her anger towards her betrayer was far beyond what she even knew was possible.
The boy wailed, bargaining, begging, and crying but Nanami didn’t move from her spot. She didn’t know what to do if she left her sister, it was like the world had just crumbled around her, she may as well have died too she thought. Eventually Ren's voice quieted, he would exhaust himself screaming for help over the two days they had now spent there and he had slowly started to realize they were done for. It was only a matter of time, soon starvation or dehydration would kill them off, Nanami’s body was already exhausted and dry. She had no energy so she laid back and stared at the hard and cold chasm floor. Not moving listening to the winds of the day and the labored breathing of Ren when he tried to struggle out of his binds.
On the night of the fourth day, in the moonlight she saw a small blue pink and white butterfly flutter down onto her sister's corpse. It sat there staring back at Nanami, the shimmering pastel colors sticking out like gems on the otherwise gory backdrop. She blinked slowly trying to adjust her eyes, when she saw two more join the first then more and more, till there was a swarm of them swirling around the corpse. Ren looked up seeing those he began to panic, “Uh-h Nanami, please, I’m sorry okay, I didn’t mean to hurt you both, I…I didn’t know he would do this. But if you untie me we can get out,” he said, the haste in his words gave a sense of urgency that was lost to her.
“I don’t care about getting out of here Ren,” she calmly said with nearly no emotion. For her it was true, Asami was so much of her world, her best friend, her partner in crime, and her closest family. She was to blame for her sister's death, she may as well die herself.
“I’ve heard stories of these butterflies, my grandmother called the Blue-tipped Swillers, she said they would pick a body clean down to the bone in seconds. It's supposed to be painful, and horrible, I-I don’t want to die like that….Nanami….Please,” Ren pleaded again.
Ren became uneasy, fidgeting to get himself free, he found it nearly impossible but he persevered in his struggles. Watching as he struggled, her stomach flaring in pain from her starvation, she watched as one of the small butterflies, which had not noticed them, had slowly fluttered to the ground, it flapped its tiny wings twice before they went still relaxing to either side drooping down. A moment later a smaller group of the Swillers swooped down and tore the now dead butterfly’s body apart.
Nanami stared at the grotesque sight, the insects eating their family who had just died. She began to cackle, “Hahahahaha,HAHAHAHA, Oh it's so simple, ha ha,” she sat up, drawing the attention of the boy. “It isn’t my fault you died, haha, it's so silly, you died for me, like the small butterfly died to feed the rest. She died and now like those butterflies I’m free to live another day, and she is free of any burden” she said, a wide eyed, toothy smile forming on her face as she looked at the butterflies. “Shhh Nanami you’ll attract the butterflies' look,” Ren said as the swarm started to b-line straight towards the girl.
His words didn’t get through to her before the swillers began to swarm across the girl's bodies. Nanami laughed, “and now, we both get to live free each a part of the swillers dear Asami,” she cackled as the butterflies slashed into not only her sister's body, but her own body as well. Her cackles resounded across the cavern like a grand opera house, in that moment of pure bliss she reached over her hand outstretched to her sisters, she wasn’t going to die alone now she would be with her sister forever. She grabbed her sister’s cold lifeless hand as the butterflies ripped chunks of flesh from the both of them. Whole fingers ripped off in single cuts, large gashes torn from each of her arms and her torso. Blood ran down across her head where the insects had started to pick at their hair. The feeling of the wind around their wings cutting deep into her skin gave her a sense of pleasure she didn’t expect to find in something so painful. She watched the swillers close, seeing the chakra built up around them holding her hand up and imagining being a part of that, when a wave of energy flowed from her hands to the swarm they stopped in front of her, fluttering in the air. She looked into the pool of blood that had begun to form around her sister, she saw her reflection stair back. Her eyes were emerald, the passion of her feelings of her true connection having awakened the family technique and as luck would have it, so too did some proficiency in chakra manipulation. She already was apart of the swillers and they were apart of her, how lucky she was, she thought.
She looked at what remained of her sister’s corpse and back to the, now still, swillers, “eat,” she said then swung her hand towards the corpse. They swirled down around it quickly, cleaning what was left of the girl who was once Asami. Nanami cackled again, her sister was not able to free herself from her shrewd logic, it didn’t matter whose fault it was, she should have freed herself, like Nanami did in those moments, she realized for the first time. This world was anything but free, Ren was shackled by fear so he sold out his friends, Her sister shackled by duty as the eldest sibling, and her mother afraid of her father was shackled by her own fear. Nanami realized, people who can’t be free in her head should maybe just die. Living in bliss like this was truly wonderful.
“What is wrong with you, y-you let them eat your sister, you're insane,” Ren said, his face filled with fear as Nanami crawled over to him. “She served her part, she couldn’t let go of her silly logic so she died,” Nanami smiled, looking at Ren.
“Now, what to do with you, little rat,” She looked him in the eyes, his face transfixed on hers he was unable to remove his gaze from her emerald eyes. “I’m sorry, I told you I had to do it, he said he would help me, he said if I took him there to the Kuruma estate, he would help my momma,” He sniffled unable to look away as chakra running rampant from her eyes forced him to look at her. She peered deep into his eyes, she could feel how scared he really was, the fear of perhaps the looming death that sat over him, or whatever it was that worried him or his mother she felt every emotion he felt in that moment. “Hmmm, wrong answer, It seems you really are bound to be a slave, but it’s okay I’ll set you free,” Nanami said practically filled to the brim with happiness. She snapped her fingers as the Swillers swarmed around the boy's legs first then slowly his whole body. She watched intently using her eyes, she shared in his experience. She maintained eye contact with Ren, as his eyes rolled back in his head she felt it, he went over the edge finally drifting in bliss as his mind was freed of pain and fear. She sat relishing in their shared feelings.
It wasn’t long when the swillers stopped, the body being picked clean. What lay around her was a pool of her own blood, and the two remains of what once was a friend and her sister. She fell back, her body mangled itself, the tendons cut in her legs, her blood loss, she was exhausted, and truth be told at death’s door. She laughed to herself for a few minutes before she started to feel cold. The butterflies had landed on her and rested peacefully on top of her. “Well well well, I didn’t expect to see anyone alive, and with the swillers all across them,” the manly voice of her previous captor spoke down to her.
“I was hoping to come back and find three corpses not two and a human butterfly garden, let alone that ruthlessness,” the man said from on top of the cavern out of sight of the swillers.
He jumped down onto the cavern floor, and walked over, the swillers were still not moving an inch. “Tckt to bad i was hoping your body would be able to make it, with those wounds you would be lucky to make it, I suppose we could just bypass that all, I’ll fix ya up” he said as he swooped her off the ground and carried her away. “Don’t worry about the swillers, they get a little tired in the sun, but let's not worry, let's get you fixed up,” He said as he sat her down on a large table, laying her back. It wasn’t long after that she blacked out. When next she awoke she was different, her body something far from what she was.
She awoke in a jolt like she had a bad dream. She looked around and saw she stood next to a table, and on it sat her little body ripped apart, its heart missing ripped out. She looked at herself, then to her body, “Not so bad if I do say so myself, your new friends there helped out a bit. You have a perfectly good body now, just don't let them get too hungry,” the man said with a loud laugh. She saw a butterfly exit through her body as if she were a ghost before landing on her old corpse, she threw out her hand and a small swarm devoured her old body.
“Oh I should just say your body is made out of those butterflies, superior craftsmanship,” he said, his eyes now showing an emerald green. “I’m a bit of a collector, I have been traveling the Shrimp continent collecting jutsu and special techniques. Congrats you’re my first attempt to make a body out of insects,” he said again, it was clear he wanted a bit of a reaction. She just blinked confused at the man, he was wearing a torn tunic with long baggy pants, the places of skin she saw on the man were filled with stitches and scars with different colored flesh melded in with the tan weathered skin that was his. “Names Chimon, I’m a.. Well I was a shinobi, well that probably means nothing to you,” the man said to her, in an odd cheerful tone.
“You piqued my interest, that kinda ruthlessness you have deep inside you, I decided it's time I picked up a student, you drew the lucky straw,” he said with a grin.
She looked around the room she was in, the stone walls were lined with shelves and various tools, blood stains were splattered across the floor, he clearly butchered bodies here frequently. She walked around the room looking in the jars he had and the scrolls that sat in the squared shelves. She found her curiosity piqued before she finally looked at the man, “Oh, are you a mad scientist?,” she said with the most disinterested look on her face.
The man was speechless as he looked at her, he shook the confusion out of his head, “oh kid you are definitely an interesting one, yea i guess you could say that,” he said as he laughed.
“So you’re gonna teach me something,” Nanami said, her eyes shining bright emerald green, “let's start here, what does that scratch through your headband mean?,” she said pointing to the headband the man was previously wearing.
Chimon picked up the headband, and looked over it with a sentimental look to his face, “oh this is my symbol of freedom. The thing is practically a trophy to show my freedom, nobody holds my chains,” he said with a sense of pride.
Nanami’s eyes lit up, this man was on a path of true freedom as well, uninhibited by morals or reason. She looked up to him, “I’ll learn as much as I can then senpai,” she said in a girlish cheerful voice.
Under his tutelage they trained, she learned the shinobi arts, basic chakra control, and simple use of ninja tools. Together they found that Nanami had an affinity for genjutsu, developing techniques and executing them flawlessly, that made even him struggle to tell when he faced an illusion or not. Chimon began to fear the girl, as she reached her teen years. Her constant jovial and chaotic nature made her too unpredictable. She would often play with people they came across, breaking them sending them into the night. Her eye technique proved to be exceedingly beneficial however, she could remove pain, and make their victims relax as he performed his surgeries. They had a synergistic relationship and he really cared for the girl as if she were a daughter. It was Nanami however that eventually broke away from Chimon, for one reason or another, the tasks they would carry out were mundane. Chimon was proving to shackle himself for her wellbeing, and it came time for her to leave her master so she set off.
She wandered for several years after that, never staying anywhere long to gain attention. However, she began to hear rumors of the butterfly lady, a cute nickname that would get a bit of a chuckle out of herself, if only the world knew the madness that she would bring to them.
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