General Information Type: Clan
Village: Kirigakure no Sato
Size: Small 5 - 10 “families”
Traits: Kaguya all have white hair, something indicative of their disorder. Additionally, a byproduct of the treatment for their disorder are two permanent red bruises on their forehead
Traditions: The Kaguya clan are not genetically related. Unlike most clans, the Kaguya are linked through disease. This congenital disease causes the body to ossify over the course of a year after birth. The disease develops spontaneously in-utero, it is not genetically passed on, meaning it can occur in any child. The Kaguya clan developed the only known treatment for this disease; a secret chakra based treatment which has never been replicated. This treatment results in their pseudo-kekkei genkai, explained later on.
More importantly, however, is that the Kaguya refuse to use the treatment freely. The parents of any child born with the disease are approached by the clan leaders when word reaches them. Two options are presented, either: a) the parents forfeit the baby to the clan, allowing the infant to be treated but completely detaching them from their parentage and inducting them into the Kaguya clan, or b) the Kaguya will standby and allow the baby’s body to slowly and painfully turn to bone until they die. They offer this only to the residents of Kirigakure, and have never treated anyone outside the village.
The process causes the child to be sterile, completely removing the Kaguya’s ability to reproduce, practically requiring this process for their survival as a people. As such, it is not uncommon for clan members to simply kidnap children of parents who refuse treatment. The treatment leaves two large scars on the clan members forehead for their entire lives, which the clan covers with paint, two red circles outlined with black. You’ll never see a Kaguya without their traditional markings on.
Alongside their academy graduation, as becoming a shinobi is mandatory, Kaguya children are expected to perform their first kill. It's rumored that these criminals are chosen by the Headhunter Division, however any kill will do. The ceremonial killing is watched by the entire clan, and symbolizes the child’s passing from a child, to a warrior.
Kaguya households are more akin to military camps than homes. Children are taught to have discipline and endurance. Abuse is not an uncommon occurance within these para-military families and a blind eye is often turned for children in these families who retaliate against their abusers.
Holidays and FestivalsShow
Public Execution Ritual – The Crimson Dance
Held in a blood-stained arena nicknamed The Marrow Pit, this event features a Kaguya warrior executing high-profile missing-nin or traitors using only their bone jutsu. It's choreographed almost like a performance, but real and deadly. Students from the Academy are required to attend to understand “the cost of betrayal” and to witness high-level taijutsu.
• VIP seating for clan heads and elite shinobi.
• A post-execution speech often delivered by the performer, celebrating their victim's strength—twisted version of honoring fallen warriors.
The Dance of Ten Bones – Annual Festival
A grand event held once a year where ten of the clan’s fiercest youth compete in a brutal tournament. No killing allowed, but breaking bones is expected. Crowd betting, food stalls, and drunken jōnin abound. The winner earns a bone-forged crown and the right to lead hunting parties for the next year.
The Blood Moon (Night of Crimson Honor)
Date: First full moon of spring
Tradition: All Kaguya shinobi go on sanctioned missions or private hunts.
The goal: Spill blood under the moon’s gaze. The more enemies felled, the greater the honor. Bones collected are cleaned and offered to the clan’s shrine the next morning.
• Clan members paint crescent moons in blood on their foreheads.
• No mercy is shown as this is a spiritual hunt.
• Kaguya are not allowed to kill each other during this event due to their inability to procreate.
• Academy students participate with sparring duels or animal hunts.
Marrow Feast
Date: Midwinter, during the longest night
Purpose: A survivalist celebration. Clan members fast all day, then break it with a shared feast made from hunted beasts. Symbolizes strength through scarcity.
• The marrow from the feast's bones is smeared on warriors' hands.
• Traditional chants are sung to awaken “the war spirit within.”
• Sometimes a spontaneous brawl breaks out—“first blood gets first meat.”
Held in a blood-stained arena nicknamed The Marrow Pit, this event features a Kaguya warrior executing high-profile missing-nin or traitors using only their bone jutsu. It's choreographed almost like a performance, but real and deadly. Students from the Academy are required to attend to understand “the cost of betrayal” and to witness high-level taijutsu.
• VIP seating for clan heads and elite shinobi.
• A post-execution speech often delivered by the performer, celebrating their victim's strength—twisted version of honoring fallen warriors.
The Dance of Ten Bones – Annual Festival
A grand event held once a year where ten of the clan’s fiercest youth compete in a brutal tournament. No killing allowed, but breaking bones is expected. Crowd betting, food stalls, and drunken jōnin abound. The winner earns a bone-forged crown and the right to lead hunting parties for the next year.
The Blood Moon (Night of Crimson Honor)
Date: First full moon of spring
Tradition: All Kaguya shinobi go on sanctioned missions or private hunts.
The goal: Spill blood under the moon’s gaze. The more enemies felled, the greater the honor. Bones collected are cleaned and offered to the clan’s shrine the next morning.
• Clan members paint crescent moons in blood on their foreheads.
• No mercy is shown as this is a spiritual hunt.
• Kaguya are not allowed to kill each other during this event due to their inability to procreate.
• Academy students participate with sparring duels or animal hunts.
Marrow Feast
Date: Midwinter, during the longest night
Purpose: A survivalist celebration. Clan members fast all day, then break it with a shared feast made from hunted beasts. Symbolizes strength through scarcity.
• The marrow from the feast's bones is smeared on warriors' hands.
• Traditional chants are sung to awaken “the war spirit within.”
• Sometimes a spontaneous brawl breaks out—“first blood gets first meat.”
History Before they joined Kirigakure, the Kaguya clan were wanderers. They wandered around the world, finding children born with their defect and abducting them from their families, incorporating them into their clan. Eventually, they were sought out by the Sandaime Mizukage, and a young man who claimed to be the head of a Kawazaiwa Family. The three brokered an arrangement between the village and the clan, the clan would move into Kirigakure, and they’d be offered protection for their lifestyle for the village.
The Kaguya joined the village, had a compound built, and were incorporated into the academy to begin creating bonafide shinobi. Since, they’ve proven to be extremely adept warriors, arguably the best in the village. They kept their noses out of most political notions, and held themselves as part of the village.
Shinobi Information Requirements: Only those afflicted with and treated for the genetic disease are allowed in the Kaguya Clan.
Kekkei Genkai:
Quote:Clan Jutsu All Clan Jutsu require the below [Bone Control] concentration.Death Bone Pulse
A byproduct of the treatment for a congenital disorder, Death Bone Pulse allows a Kaguya to consciously control their body’s ossification process as if it were a muscle. This enables them to grow, manipulate, and weaponize their bones at will—creating anything from weapons to armor to battlefield-altering constructs.
Techniques vary in style and complexity, blending raw physicality with intense chakra control. As a result, Kaguya jutsu scale primarily with Strength and Speed.
Quote:E-RankedBone Control
A member of the Kaguya clan, this shinobi has mastered the gift of their clan and can consciously control their bone as if they were a muscle, forcing their body to ossify and grow as they see fit.
~Death Bone Pulse • Lockpick
E-Ranked Taijutsu
The user will place their finger against a lock, ossifying the tip of their fingers, and then forcing it forward into the lock. The produced bone will fill into the lock, producing a key that can then be used to open the lock, or saved for the future. The bone is brittle, and will break rather easily if under too much pressure.
D-Ranked
~Death Bone Pulse • Bone Claw
D-Ranked Taijutsu
The user will grow 3 claws from between their knuckles on one of their hands, allowing them to attack and scratch with them.
~Death Bone Pulse • Proximal Phalanx Bone Senbon
D-Ranked Taijutsu
The user will ossify the tip of their fingers, then make a throwing motion. Causing the ossification to fly off of their hands as if thrown.
~Death Bone Pulse • Heel Spike
D-Ranked Taijutsu
The clan member will cause their heel to ossify and extend in the form of a pointed, but not bladed, spike roughly four inches in length.
~Death Bone Pulse • Bone Kunai
D-Ranked Taijutsu
The user focuses any part of their body, causing it to ossify on the surface and create a kunai made out of bone that can be broken off the body and used as a weapon.
~Death Bone Pulse • Hand Knife Edge
D-Ranked Taijutsu
The user’s hand will ossify and create a straight blade of bone that extends just past the fingertips, resting on the back of their hand.
~Death Bone Pulse • Bone Buckler
D Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
Description: The user reacts to an incoming attack by rapidly producing a dense, shield-like mass of bone on their forearm. The buckler forms instantly and is used to block or parry attacks. The buckler's durability scales with the user's Control stat. Forming at a [Control] speed.
C - Ranked
~Death Bone Pulse • Bonemarang
C Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
Description: The user crafts a curved boomerang from bone and hurls it at the target. This weapon is razor-sharp and designed to return to the user after its initial throw. The Bonemarang's speed and power scale with the user’s Strength. It returns to the user within one post of being thrown. Forming at a [Control] speed.
~Death Bone Pulse • Dead Bone Shackles
C-Ranked Taijutsu
The user is able to form a layer of bone on their palm then make a throwing motion, launching it through the air. This bone will attempt to wrap around the target's wrists, keeping them close to each other and restraining the target with the user’s strength.
~Death Bone Pulse • Mend
C-Ranked Taijutsu
The user causes the bones injured to ossify, completely fixing minor breaks and fractures over the course of a single post.
~Death Bone Pulse • Death's Scythe
C-Ranked Taijutsu
The user flexes their arm causing it to ossify and creating a single scythe-like blade sixty centimeters in length on the side of their arm.
~Death Bone Pulse • Bone Glove
C-Ranked Taijutsu
The user flexes their fingers causing their hand to ossify and create a layer of bone that wraps around their entire hand, taking the form of a glove.
B - Ranked
~Death Bone Pulse • Bone Wall
B Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
Description: The user slams their palms into the ground, rapidly ossifying the earth in front of them. A towering wall of bleached bone erupts from the ground, its surface jagged with ribs, femurs, and vertebrae twisted into a semi-organic barricade. The center of the wall often bears the faint impression of a skull or spine, giving it the appearance of a defensive ossuary. Creates a 12x12 ft bone wall. The wall’s durability is equal to (Endurance + Control) ÷ 2. Forming at a [Control] speed.
~Death Bone Pulse • Dead Bone Whip
B-Ranked Taijutsu
The user rolls their shoulder, causing their spine to break, and regrow, forcing a portion of it out the base of their neck. They can then pull out the removed part, forcing it to regrow as they pull it out. They can continue to pull until they have a whip of the desired length.
~Death Bone Pulse • Ten Finger Drilling Bullets
B-Ranked Taijutsu
The user will ossify the tip of their fingers, then force it forward with a throwing motion, sending forward 10 sharp bone pieces flying forward. Each strikes with individual strength.
~Death Bone Pulse • Scorpion's Sting
B-Ranked Taijutsu
The user roll their hips, causing the base of their spine to ossify and create a flexible tail made of bone that extends behind the user for a total of two meters and has a sharp blade on the end, the flexibility allowing for it to be used as any normal tail would.
~Death Bone Pulse • Juggernaut Bone Armor
B-Ranked Taijutsu
The user tenses their entire body, causing flexible plates of bone to form all around their body as they do so. This armor protects them from almost every angle, and overlaps like chainmail to prevent any holes from being found or utilized.
A-Ranked
~Death Bone Pulse • Bone Healing
A-Ranked Taijutsu
By focusing on breaks in their own body or those of another the user causes the bones of those affected to ossify, completely fixing even the worst breaks in a short time, by concentrating for an entire post the user is even able to replace lost bones though this comes with the risk of being left incomplete if interrupted before then.
~Death Bone Pulse • Devil's Tails
A-Ranked Taijutsu
prerequisite: ~Death Bone Pulse • Scorpion's Sting
The user roll their hips, causing the base of their spine to ossify, and creating five flexible tails made of bone that extends behind the user for a total of three meters and each having a sharp blade on the end, the flexibility allowing for them to be used as any normal tail would. Unlike this technique's predecessor however, the user can freely detach these tails and launch them through the air.
~Death Bone Pulse • Ramification Rain
A-Ranked Taijutsu
The user flexes their hands and then points their hands up to the skies, with their now ossified finger tips sending forward 10 sharp bone pieces. Upon reaching their zenith at 10 meters high, they will erupt into smaller shards that will rain down to strike a 20 meter radius area around the user.
~Death Bone Pulse • Boneyard
A Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
Description: The user places their palms on the ground and infuses the terrain with chakra, causing bones to rapidly sprout and erupt as jagged spikes across a wide area. These spikes pierce, trap, and disorient enemies. The affected battlefield becomes a dangerous boneyard. The area of effect is 10 meters, plus an additional 10 meters for every 10 points of Control the user possesses. Forming at a [Control] speed.
S-Ranked
~Death Bone Pulse • Dead Bone Wrapping
S-Ranked Taijutsu
Flexing their fingers, the users hands will ossify, completely covered in bones they will make a throwing motion causing it to fly through the air. If it makes contact with a target the user can cause it to rapidly splay out, spreading over their body from the neck down and locking them in place. Because it is the users bones, not the targets, the ossification will not kill the target.
~Death Bone Pulse • Petrifying Touch
S-Ranked Taijutsu
Prerequisite: 45 Strength
The user places their hand on the target's body slowly and painfully turning into bone over the course of the next three posts, starting at their arms and legs lowering their movement speed by 8 and strength by 7 through the first post, and then spreading throughout the rest of their body over the second and third, resulting in death at the end of the third post unless contact is broken or the target's control is equal to or higher than the user's strength.
~Death Bone Pulse • Bone Maw
S Rank Taijutsu Maneuver
Description: One of the most terrifying Kaguya techniques. The user slams their hands to the ground, triggering a controlled seismic split beneath their opponent. If the target falls into the newly formed crevasse, jagged bone teeth erupt along the walls. The user then seals the gap shut, entombing their enemy within a skeletal prison that resembles a monstrous bone maw. Opponents must evade the initial crevasse or risk being trapped. The sealing process is nearly instantaneous. The maw’s strength and sealing speed scale with Control. Forming at a [Control] speed.