Hanamaru Yuki

Shinobu Kishimoto (岸本忍, Kishimoto Shinobu) is a shinobi of Konohagakure. He is an   A-rank demolitions  expert, particularly in the way of  explosive tags, and a career chūnin.

Shinobu Kishimoto is property of Shotons on The N.O.W.


 * THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Background
TBA

Personality
As a child, Gakuto 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. He could best be described as "polite but inconsiderate." During a 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, Gakuto became more accustomed to natural socialization. He practiced his blocks 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. Gakuto is prone to dramatics and attempts to distance himself from stressful situations by micromanaging his teammates and giving in to episodes of self-depreciation. He tends to lapse into more "informal" (read: ornery) figures of speech when he feels put-upon, but more recently Gakuto has made significant efforts to avoid hurting others feelings (though it usually doesn't work).

Appearance
Gakuto is a fairly tanned young man with dark, unruly brown hair. In his genin days, it was kept uniformly cropped close to his skull, carefully maintained for anonymity's sake. He allowed it to grow out slightly as a chūnin, but mostly his bangs; Gakuto now wears it swept to either side and tied with either a short, spiky ponytail or a neat bun. His eyes are thin-lashed and dark red, and he has somewhat of an hourglass figure.

Upon making chūnin, Gakuto declines to wear the obligatory flak jacket full-time. His chūnin active duty clothes fit the village standard and were geared to escape notice: he wears dark-coloured cargo pants and  a dark 3/4-sleeved shirt with a collar. He keeps a set of black chakra-channelling gloves on him at all times, tucked into the utility belt at his hip when he isn't wearing them. His headband is usually tied to conceal his hair and his shoes are high black ninja sandals, with most of the foreleg and shin equipped with black armour guards.

His special mission attire, however, becomes much more convoluted: many of Gakuto's additions reflect his specialization and apply directly to his combat techniques. Over his previous genin outfit, Gakuto wears his orange-and-black jacket now cropped just below his ribs; the jacket has a cowled neck that obscures most of his face when fully zipped. He has a large black utility belt (this one a lot less pretty) laden with miniature scrolls and small to mid-sized bags for mission supplies (mostly his customized seals and paper bombs). Gakuto also wears two black harnesses - one across his chest and one around his waist - to carry his shortblades. He usually wears his headband on his forehead, but he has used it before to conceal his hair and once in place of his utility belt.

Chakra and Physical Prowess
Gakuto tends to work in conjunction with  taijutsu, which would allow him to use his 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. Gakuto's particular brand of brawling is augmented to accomodate both his use of ninja tools and his ingenuity. Gakuto specializes in tactics, genjutsu and Fire style ninjutsu, with a significant bias towards the use of explosive tags.

Gakuto is not a genius by any stretch of the imagination. He is, however, very adaptable, and his academy days were productive and showed a competence and understanding of the necessities a shinobi's life contains. Gakuto exhibits surprisingly adept chakra control for a civilian (or as good as), and has made something of a hobby out of chakra control exercises, such as tagging and manipulating items with chakra threads for his teammates to find.

Ninjutsu & Genjutsu
Gakuto's ninjutsu is surprisingly strong; he has particularly excelled in the use of Fire style techniques. His previous instructor's comments on Gakuto's early performance at the Academy had identified him as a prodigious Ninjutsu type. Gakuto tends to use Fire style ninjutsu for his main attacks, supplementing his offence to strengthen his attack and defence: most notably he has been known to use the  Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique.

Gakuto displays an obvious crutch in genjutsu. He has honed his success in moulding Yin type chakra into cohesive illusions, so this is generally his first line of defence and her go-to strategy for a quick take-down. Unfortunately, Yoshino knew very little genjutsu and was unable to pass on as many useful techniques as Gakuto would like, which puts his work at a disadvantage. His intrinsic grasp of genjutsu components means that he rarely prefers using ninjutsu techniques even in the face of his lessor illusory arsenal.

Fūinjutsu and Bukijutsu
Gakuto frequently employs  bukijutsu in his fighting style. All ninja use a weapon at some time or another during their careers, but not all do so regularly. Gakuto sometimes coats his weapons with his chakra to alter the weapon's properties, a process called chakra flow; he generally uses. Among his miscellaneous skills, Gakuto is shown to have very good aim and his tracking skills are excellent.

Fūinjutsu  (封印術,  Literally meaning:  Sealing Techniques) are a type of  jutsu  that seal objects, living beings,  chakra, along with a wide variety of other things within another object. Fūinjutsu can also be used to restrict movement or unseal objects either from within something or someone. Gakuto's adaptable nature comes into play once more (particularly in his creative use of  explosive tags ), and h e has also used chakra threads to manipulate weapons and remotely activate seals and tags. Gakuto's proficiency with sealing is mainly limited to the creation (and distribution)  his custom tags amongst his fellow chūnin.

Tactical Expertise
Gakuto is an expert in data-collection and resembles a spy. H e displays an uncanny ability  to analyze the abilities of other ninja and can foresee their moves. He frequently  scouts other teams and reviews their patterns, delivering the information to his teammates and enabling them to read their opponents' moves.

Stats
Part I: Part II:

Part I
TBA

Part II
TBA

Trivia

 * Gakuto's favourite foods are barbecue and  hanabiramochi  and his least favourite is  sakuramochi.
 * His hobbies are making tags and dogspotting.
 * The name Gakuto can be written several ways, the most notable of which are:
 * Using 岳人, where the kanji " 岳" and "人" respectively mean "mountain" and "man," but combined can mean "a coward."
 * Using 学人, which means "scholar."
 * Gakuto wishes to fight  Shisui Uchiha.
 * Gakuto's favourite words are "love" and "history".

Quotes

 * (To Izumi Uchiha) "I realized I'm tired of feeling helpless."
 * (To Yūgao Uzuki) "I swear, against my will I leave you!"
 * (To Itachi Uchiha) " Quit saying odd shit. Just stop. "
 * (To Yūgao Uzuki) "Again and again, I'll try to rebuild it, just like before."
 * (To Yoshino Nara) "Ooh, blood?"
 * (To Yoshino Nara) "We're friends without benefits. Friends with absolutely no benefits. Just really, really awful friends."
 * (To Izumi and Yūgao, about Shisui Uchiha) " The devil don't scare me but that? That scared me. "