Gakuto Hara

Hanamaru Sadō (茶道花丸, Sadō Hanamaru) is a shinobi of Konohagakure and a former member of Team 9 along with Yūgao Uzuki and Izumi Uchiha. He is a chūnin-level shinobi and A-rank fūinjutsu specialist, particularly in the way of explosive tags.

Background
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Personality
Hanamaru is, in layman's terms, a sociopath. As a child, Hana was blunt and cheerful. He tracked social cues and internalized his feelings, only revealing what he had decided was appropriate for a person or situation. During a powerful genjutsu, his teammate dreamt of him in the audience of a circus, putting a frame up to his face before bursting into laughter.

In his adolescence and adulthood, Azusa became more gentle in demeanor. He practiced his anxiety with expressing himself emotionally during exercises with his teammates and made efforts to soften his tone and speech around them, especially in Izumi's case. Hana is prone to dramatics and attempts to distance himself from stressful situations by micromanaging his teammates and giving in to episodes of self-depreciation. As mentioned, Hana tends toward darker humor, but more recently he makes significant efforts to avoid hurting others feelings (though it usually doesn't work).

Appearance
Hana is a fair-skinned young man with soft, unruly peach-coloured hair. He regularly dyes his hair brown in order to maintain an air of inconspicuousness. His eyes are thickly-lashed and dark blue, and he has somewhat of an hourglass figure.

Hana is the tallest member of his team. In his genin days, his hair was kept uniformly cropped close to his skull, carefully maintained because of its tendency to fluff and curl. He allowed it to grow out slightly as a chūnin and jōnin, but mostly his bangs. His outfit is also geared to escape notice, as he wears standard cargo pants over a 3/4-sleeved black shirt with a collar. Hana's only concession to his vanity is a slim, sparsely-decorated obi around his midsection that conceals a utility belt fitted with mission supplies. Upon making chūnin, declines to wear the obligatory flak jacket. Hana usually wears his headband on his forehead, but he has used it before to conceal his hair and once in place of his obi.

Abilities
Hana is not a genius by any stretch of the imagination. He is, however, very adaptable, and his academy days were productive and showed his competence and understanding of the necessities a shinobi's life contains. Due to his civilian upbringing, Hana lacks the early instruction many of his peers from shin obi lines benefitted from. His nickname of "glass cannon" reflects this; his body is very weak, but the strength of his attacks (particularly his creative use of explosive tags) can be devastating. Hana's greatest strength was his impressive affinity for fūinjutsu, which he tends to rely on more often so as not to tax his chakra reserves.

His secondary focus is taijutsu, which would allow him to use this skill and his firm grasp of chakra control in conjunction with his attacks. His civilian reserves leave him with what amounts to a "puddle" of chakra, compared to the steady "flow" of a shinobi. Hana's particular brand of brawling is augmented to accomodate both his use of ninja tools and his ingenuity.

Hana's teammates also encouraged him to study medical ninjutsu. It didn't exactly take - he can patch wounds and stop blood flow decently enough, but he's no medic; Hana lacks the patience required for in-depth care and he has no head for herbs and medicines. However, his studies did fine-tune chakra control he has in times of great necessity used it offensively on his opponents. Hana's ninjutsu, however, is fairly weak; his Earth-type affinity isn't common in Konoha and he lacks an instructor to bring him beyond the basics.

Stats
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Part I
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Part II
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Trivia

 * Hana's favourite food is jelly roll and his least favourite is milk bread.
 * His hobbies are make-up and cold-reading.
 * His favourite flower is pavlovnia.
 * Hana wishes to fight Shisui Uchiha.
 * His surname Sadō comes from sadō-kan (茶道管), which means “tea caddy” (literally “tea ceremony tube”).
 * Hana's favourite word is "accept" (受, ukeru).

Quotes

 * (To Izumi Uchiha) "I realized I'm tired of feeling helpless."
 * (To Yūgao Uzuki) "I wish they would get what's coming to them!"
 * (To Yoshino Nara) "Again and again, I'll try to rebuild it, just like before."
 * (To Yoshino Nara) "There's something wrong with me. I feel sick, and I'm sure I'm going to die soon!"
 * (To Izumi and Yūgao) "I'm glad we all met. I had a dream like this, I think."