Owner: Inuzuka Masami
Hyuuga Kana
General Information Type: Henchman
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Appearance:
- Face/head: As is typical of a Hyuuga, Kana has jet black hair and milky white eyes, though unlike most of her clan she keeps her hair cut short, it reaching down to her jawline on either side of her face while it reaches down to the bottom of her neck in the back. Her expression is usually a stern one, helped by fairly sharp facial features and eyes that are almost cat-like in appearance.
- Body: Kana is thin and lithe with lean muscle and a peachy skin tone. Her flesh while otherwise healthy is heavily scarred, all minor, though still serving as painful reminders of her time in captivity.
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Personality:
- General: Whereas her general appearance, along with the way that she had grown up, gives the impression of a serious, likely cold young woman. Kana is actually rather outgoing, quiet but excitable. Rather than speaking, most often she lets her emotions show through her expression as she's learned by now that more often words aren't quite enough to express oneself. Due to her relative inability to make use of anything other than basic ninjutsu and her subsequent inability to make effective use of her clan's abilities, she has an inferiority complex leading to her often doing reckless things in an attempt to prove herself.
- Hopes/Dreams: Kana's only real dream is to gain the respect of her clan despite her clumsiness and ineptitude.
- Fears: She fears rejection and betrayal, also fearing that she may not be strong enough to protect those that she's pledged herself to.
- Combat Mentality:Kana strikes fast and hard with her fists, or rarely utilizing her tanto though the latter is typically a distraction while she moves to strike with her other hand
Stats
- Ninjutsu: 1
- Taijutsu: 20
- Genjutsu: 3
- Stamina: 10
- Control: 12
- Strength: 12
- Speed: 12
- Instinct: 10
Abilities and Concentrations
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Jutsu
JyuukenShow
Jyuuken:D-RankedJyuuken, also known as ‘Gentle Fist’ is the NinTaijutsu style the Hyuuga Clan has become notorious for. It’s moves appear like a graceful dance to the naked eye, though some of these moves can be quite deadly. Most strikes are aimed to close the tenketsu of the target’s body, limiting their jutsu use and damaging their chakra network.
Requires Upper Body and Deft hands
~Jyuuken :: Eight Divination Signs, Air Palm
D Rank NinTaijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 6 Control
After channeling chakra throughout their body, the Hyuuga will thrust their palm outward, releasing a high-speed palm thrust. A spiraling, compressed shell of chakra is formed and bursts outward in the direction the palm is facing. It travels at a speed of 5, hits with a strength of 5, and travels out up to five meters. If the shell hits the opponent, they will be knocked back 5 meters unless they have a strength of 5 or higher.
~Jyuuken :: Palm Dance of Divination
D Rank NinTaijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 6 Control
One of the fundamental techniques of the style, the user will channel chakra into their palms. They will then quickly strike the opponent in an attempt to damage their tenketsu. This is normally used in conjunction with other techniques. The gathered chakra can be maintained for three posts before dissipating away.
~Jyuuken :: Palm Bottom
D Rank NinTaijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: 6 Control
This attack consists of a quick, precise thrust of the user’s palm to an opponent's body, having channeled chakra into the hand. Though it causes internal damage like other Jyuuken techniques, its greatest asset lies in its ability to be fired off from just about any position and at any given point of the opponent's body.
Strong FistShow
Strong Fist:D-RankedThis style focuses on being overall more physically powerful than your opponent. Users attempt to overwhelm defenses with great speed and strength while chipping away at their opponent’s stamina and keeping their own at the highest possible. Most attacks are simple in execution but extremely powerful in effect, causing battles of attrition to be in their favor.
*[Strong Fist Style • Balance]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Stance
A neutral stance taken by even entry level practitioners. This stance involves turning your body to be perpendicular to your opponent. One foot is rested directly in front of the other with just the toes in contact with the ground. A hand is held back while the other is forward, pointing up. This stance provides ease of dodging incoming blows by using the least amount of motion possible while still being ready to launch into an attack.
*[Strong Fist Style • Leaf Gale]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
A simple sweeping kick aimed low to knock the opponent off balance.
*[Strong Fist Style • Dynamic Entry]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
In this technique, the user builds momentum and speed in order to bridge the gap between themselves and a distanced target. After covering an appropriate distance, the user then lets loose a form of distraction, like a thrown object, in order to misdirect the target's attention. The user then leaps with their momentum, delivering a strong kick to bridge the rest of the distance.
*[Strong Fist Style • Dynamic Action]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Because distances tend to become the problem in most taijutsu, the practitioner will advance with every strike. This creates a tempo of advancement that is designed to wear down their opponent through ever pressing strikes, giving little chance for escape or recovery.
*[Strong Fist Style • One Inch Punch]
D-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
When fighting in close quarters it becomes difficult to generate energy for full powered strikes. Practitioners have learned how to explode force from every muscle with minimal energy wasted and space needed. Every strike done by the practitioner has the potential to be at full strength, so long as they have at least one inch of movement.
C-Ranked
*[Strong Fist Style • Great Leaf Flash]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: *[Strong Fist Style • Balance]
The user will tense the muscles in their lower body to a great degree. Doing so causes them to briefly become immobile but creates an enormous amount of pent up energy. By bringing their back leg forward in a straight kick they release all of this energy in a single explosive burst. This can take out a lot of defenses and unless they’re supported by outside forces will knock a kicked foe back a number of yards equal to the difference in their strength and the practitioner's.
*[Strong Fist Style • Great Leaf Whirlwind]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
A combination attack started by the user unleashing a powerful kick to either side of their opponent. They will then place themselves behind the target and unleash a quick flurry of punches before kicking another side and repeating the process. This process can keep going ad infinitum or until the practitioner disengages.
*[Strong Fist Style • Thunder Leaf Fist]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
An attack that is slow to wind up but powerful in execution. The adept tenses every muscle in their shoulders and arms while twisting their core for a powerful strike. For the 1/4 post they spend winding up they're treated as having a -6 speed. However, when the strike is released it comes nearly instantly and at a +6 strength.
*[Strong Fist Style • Rising Leaf Wind]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
Prerequisite: (Instinct+Taijutsu)/2 greater than opponent's taijutsu
A disrupting kick that can be launched from nearly any position. This kick is delivered quickly and at 3/4 strength but is aimed at any possible opening and extremely difficult to defend against, quickening the tempo the practitioner is keeping.
*[Strong Fist Style • Skyward Strike]
C-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
An often difficult attack to accomplish but good for setting up a string of further attacks. The user will sweep low, attempting to kick their target's feet from beneath them. Before they fall, a second kick will attempt to launch them airborne a number of meters equal to the difference in the practitioner's strength from their target.
B-Ranked
*[Strong Fist Style • Herculean Leaf Whirlwind]
B-Ranked Taijutsu Maneuver
A progression from previous variants, this attack focuses on multi-opponent fights but utilizes the same principles. By employing superior speed the user will dance between targets to create openings and strike as before. However, rather than unloading on a single target they will move to a new opponent and do the same to them in the time it takes the first to recover. They can keep this process up as long as they are allowed.
History Born into Konoha's Hyuuga clan, one could say that Kana had certain expectations placed upon her even before her birth. She was born to a pair of chuunin parents along with her twin sister Kaede and at first both girls were treated equally but as they got older it quickly became clear which of them their parents preferred. At a young age their parents began testing them and it was clear as day that her sister had much more talent, activating her Byakugan first and showing that she had the talent common among members of their clan. Kana however struggled, it being clear as day that not only was she untalented but more importantly, as far as her parents were concerned, she had almost zero aptitude for ninjutsu and even once she activated her Byakugan she struggled with making effective use of it. Even as their parents gave up on her, her sister stuck by her side to encourage and support her. To the twins nothing and nobody was more important than each other and it was her sister's love and devotion that allowed Kana to stay cheerful and keep working to earn her parents' praise.
The twins' love for each other even extended to the rite of passage, Kaede refusing to participate until her sister was eligible as well. As a result both girls were ten years old, having just started their academy training by the time they had their rite of passage. As usual it was a marvelous event and when it came time she spoke of an elder much like herself, who had started at the bottom of the heap but had eventually risen to the top through sheer will alone, and that was exactly what she herself would do if she really had to. It was at this time that she thought she finally saw her mother smile towards her since she was little, though her father remained stoic, obviously unimpressed.
In the academy she began to show progress but it was minimal, though it was enough to make her mother begin to realize that perhaps she really did have potential after all. Her father however was still unimpressed, choosing to ignore her completely while heaping pounds of praise onto Kaede. She found herself beginning to feel inferior to her twin, like maybe she would never be at the same level. However while she did feel that way, she held no sense of jealousy or resentment, the bond the two shared proving to be far too strong to be broken that easily. Anyways, despite her lack of aptitude for ninjutsu and genjutsu she held a great degree of skill in taijutsu and also possessed excellent chakra control, her teachers feeling that if she could ever learn to properly break through her own limitations she could be an incredibly powerful shinobi in her own rights.
Soon enough graduation day came and the twins were finally Genin as they had dreamed of for quite some time given the circumstances of their birth. It was during her time as a genin that Kana's inferiority complex really began to settle in as while her sister was diverse and excellent in all areas, she found herself restricted to Taijutsu and low level Ninjutsu. Regardless, or perhaps for that very reason, she trained as hard as she could, eventually learning the Strong Fist style, hoping to catch up with her sister and earn the respect that she desperately wanted.
It was a few years later shortly after her promtion to Chuunin at the age of 16 that everything went horribly wrong. She had been sent out on her very first solo mission as Kaede had gone out on a mission of her own and she easily dispatched the thugs that she had been told to take care of. However, several stragglers had survived and were fleeing. Kana, wanting to prove herself instantly gave chase and managed to finish off the retreating group as well. However she failed to notice that there had been reinforcements hidden in her blind spot, nor did she feel herself getting knocked unconscious afterwards.
When she woke up she found herself in some kind of cage, bound hand and foot. Somehow she knew what was going on, she had been captured, though for what reaason she didn't know. She didn't speak a word to her captors even to find out. It was a week later when she finally found out why she had been captured. She was currently being held by slave traders looking to make a quick, easy buck.
However it seemed that it wasn't going to be that easy as other than her eyes she looked fairly ordinary and as most ordinary people didn't know of chakra and as such had no idea of her lineage and as such she simply passed off her white eyes as blindness to ward off potential buyers. After all it wasn't like she could escape. Of course she was punished for her antics , most often through whipping but from time to time she would simply be left in her cage bound, naked, and hungry. A month passed and she still kept resisting, after all she was a Konoha shinobi and even though she was absolutely miserable her belief in the will of fire, along with her belief that her sister would eventually rescue her or find someone to do the task kept her strong.
It was at that same time that in desperation Kaede was searching for someone, anyone to help her find Kana as she knew that she couldn't do it alone. Her pleas eventually reached Inuzuka Masami, a girl who had once been captured herself and was actually much like Kana in the fact that she had no talent herself and had had gotten to where she was through sheer willpower alone. Upon hearing the news the young Inuzuka sought out help from a friend, knowing that she wasn't allowed to do it alone, and set out to rescue her, hoping that it wasn't too late. It didn't take long to find where she had been taken and she was soon saved and taken home.
On the way home Kana and Masami had formed a bit of a student/teacher relationship, the latter promising to help her out in any way that she knew how and that for anything she wasn't capable of she would find someone who was. And with that agreement Kana felt as if maybe she would finally grow strong enough to never let that happen again and to earn the respect that she knew now that she deserved.