Mayu Uchida

 Maya Neko  ( 猫摩耶 , Neko Maya), also known as Maya Mokusei (木製 摩耶, Mokusei Maya) , is a jōnin-level kunoichi of Ōkamigakure's Neko clan and a member of Team Airin (Team 121). Maya is also an apprentice priestess at the village’s ninja temple: Ōkami-ji, but abandons this occupation. Years after participating in the Fourth Shinobi World War, Maya becomes Airin's personal assistant and ultimately she marries Hameita Mokusei, having three children with him: Ichirou, Eiji and Masuyo.

Background
 Maya was born as the second child, and the only daughter, of the Neko clan leader Lenalee Neko and an Ōkamigakure shinobi, who possess the advanced nature kekkei genkai- Dark Release.

 Until the age of five, while her mother was on missions, Maya was raised mostly by a caretaker, named Miya Toshiro, with whom, the girl developed a strong friendship. In spite of this, she always wanted to spend more time with her mother, but Lenalee’s duties as a clan leader and the missions she had, made it hard. As a consequence, she became more attached to her father, who trained her in Shade Style Techniques and taught her the basics ninja skills.

 A few years later, when Miya died in a fire, the young kunoichi was deeply affected by the incident and mourned the loss of her caretaker for several weeks. She was even scolded for this by Lenalee on the ground that a shinobi must endure the loss of a loved one. Thus, the older kunoichi told Maya that, the first and the last time when she would be allowed to cry is when her (Maya's) parents will die. Eventually, she was raised by her grandmother, Fuchūina Neko, who taught her ikebana and calligraphy.



 During her early years in Academy, Maya was frequently bullied by her distant cousin Miki Neko, due to her strange traits: pale skin and blue hair. At a certain point the girl started to rival with two of her classmates: Akemi and Yuzuki, in learning medical ninjutsu. Also, she made a crush for a shinobi, who is   four years older than her : Hameita Mokusei, and started to chase after him in lunch breaks.

 In the meanwhile, she received from her big brother, before his moving in Iwagakure, a ninken, which she named Pāru and which became her partner. Eventually she meets her cousin Airin for the first time. Liking each other' s personalities and abilities, Maya accepted Airin's proposal: to become the best kunoichi of their village.

 Graduating Academy, the kunoichi was chosen to be one of the members of Team 121, under the supervision of Tomoko Higure. She also met her other cousin Daisuke Hashimoto, with whom she became good friends.

 At Airin’s suggestion of changing the team' s name, Maya gladly accepted the idea that it should be renamed after her cousin.

Personality
 As a child, Maya lacked self-confidence and was highly self-conscious about her strange appearance. Due to these features, the kunoichi became also an antisocial and pessimistic individual; keeping herself to herself, the only time when she spoke about something was when someone asked her. After she met her caretaker, Maya became a bit bolder and began to talk more, but when Miya's death occured, the young girl shrank into herself again. As her mother scolded her, Maya began to feel useless and a burden for her parents and clan, but in the same time, this made her to prove that she could become a capable ninja.

 During her Academy years, Maya was noted to be a vivacious and smart student. In this period, she showed a great interest in medical ninjutsu and started to rival with two of her classmates: Akemi and Yuzuki. Because of their rivalry, the kunoichi became selfish and decided to not help the others anymore when they needed help.

 After she graduated and met her cousin, Airin Uchimoto, Maya became again more self-confident and bold. Her intuition also increased, so she began to be able to sense the moods, feelings and emotions of the people around her. As a result she began to care for them.

 Towards her family, especially her father, Maya is an open-minded person, she likes to make jokes and share secrets with him; this strong parental relationship, helped her to pass more easily over the bullies and teases. Toward her mother, the kunoichi has fully respect and complies with her decisions. In general, Maya has a dreamy romantic nature and always finds the poetic beauty in anyone or anything, who or which have great importance to her. She can drift off, quite easily, into her own fantasy world and she has a vivid imagination, sometimes surprising her father or cousin.

 During Part I, when the kunoichi met for the first time Naruto training in the forest, she was a little bit timid, but after meeting him she was shocked that he didn't run and instead complimented her. She still kept her shyness, when she had met, for the first time, the other ninja teams. Maya also showed a deep care for her cousin, when Airin was almost on the edge to start a fight with Naruto Uzumaki, telling her that it was only a poor joke.

 During timeskip, while she was on a mission with Hameita and Yuzuki, she got jealous, when the last started flirting with him, and went purple with anger avoiding his presence. Yet, when Hameita stopped and asked her, why was she avoiding him, Maya turned on the waterworks and shared her love for him without looking into his eyes. She was happy that the shinobi feels the same for her and accepts her as she is.

 As was seen in Part II, by the time of the war, Maya's bravery and confidence has extended to the part where she is willing to put her own life on the line for the village, friends and family. She fought courageous against some Ten-Tails clones, putting her life in danger several times to save other shinobi and kunoichi.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As an adult, mother and wife, Maya becomes more mature and is truly involved in her and Hameita's children's education and provides them an easier childhood than she had; as well as her love for her husband grows with each day.

Appearance
<p class="MsoNormal"> Maya is pale,  almost gray,  skinned girl of average height with big  bright purple eyes. The most noticeable trait in her appearance, is her blue spiky hair with a strand covering the right side of her face. She was often bullied by Miki due to her strange appearance and received the nickname of "Bluish demon". During Part I her bust size was of 80 centimetres, while in Part II was about 88 centimetres.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As a child, Maya wore just a simple black dress with yellow designs and black ninja sandals. She wore a yellow clip on the left side of her face and a tiny black mark under her eye.

<p class="MsoNormal"> In Part I, as a genin her hair was tied in a high-ponytail and reached down to her waist. She wore a long gray sleeveless dress underneath which she had a white skirt with black designs. On her dress she had the Neko crest and a animal print obi at her waist. Maya also wore a pair of grey boots, had a bandage on her right arm and three piercings (one below bottom lip, above chin and two in the left eyebrow).

<p class="MsoNormal"> In Part II, Maya had shoulder lenght hair, a shade of blue lipstick and she still had her piercings. She wore a purple sleeveless dress with a yellow belt around her waist and a pair of knee high blue boots. On her dress, the kunoichi had the Neko clan crest with white and she also had the bandage on her right arm. At her back, she wore a brownish medical pouch, in which she kept her poisons, scalpels and injections, as well as militay rations pills. Next to her medical pouch, she had the pocket with weapons and scrolls. When she was not on a mission or during training, Maya wore a wide tangerine blouse, with a skinny apple-green pants and long white scarf at her waist.

<p class="MsoNormal"> During high-ranked missions and in the war, the kunoichi wears a black jumpsuit and apurple flak jacket in which she stores her scrolls, weapons and supplies. She also wears her right eye covered with bandages and a red forehead protector. As an apprentice priestess, the kunoichi wore a red kimono with white designs, having on the back the symbol of the temple.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, Maya has long braided ponytail tied with her great-grandmother's necklance and a black strip of cloth. The mark under her left eye lenghtened and she still wear her piercings. The kunoichi wears a black bra over which she has a purple blouse with yellow medium lenght sleeves and seam, a black skirt with a also yellow belt on which she keeps her pocket and black high heeled boots. She wears a shade of blusih lipstick.

<p class="MsoNormal"> As an adult, Maya retains most of her make-up, now has shoulder lenght spiky hair and wears a black short dress pants outfit, tied at her waist with a red belt with three buttons and the Neko clan on it. Over her outfit, the kunoichi has purple haori with yellow desings. On her fourth finger of her right hand Maya has her wedding ring and as footwear she has a pair of high heeled black boots. When off-duty, she wears a long white apron over her clothes.

Abilities
<p class="MsoNormal"> Although, Maya considered herself to be a failure, during her Academy years, the kunoichi proved cleverness and an excellent visual memory, as her sensei said. She became determined to grow stronger and to prove to the others that she could be a capable kunoichi. During Academy she "trained" her memory with different pictures and maps, under the supervision of Dokueki, being able to memorize an entirely map when she has missions in other countries. This ability compensates the lack of good sense  of direction of her teammates, as Airin admitted during the Chunin Exam Arc in Part I.

<span style="font-family:DroidSerif,Verdana,Arial,serif;font-size:15px;">Summoning Technique
<p class="MsoNormal"> During Fourth Great Ninja War, Maya showed herself to be able to summon Pāru onto the battlefield. By summoning Pāru, the kunoichi is capable to track down more easily the targets, objects and traps. Tomoko noted that Maya and her nin-ken have a very strong relationship.

<span style="font-family:DroidSerif,Verdana,Arial,serif;font-size:15px;">Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation
During timeskip, on a mission with Yuzuki and Hameita, Maya found a copy of Second Hokage's kinjutsu. Taking the copy in secret, the kunoichi decided to learn the technique. Between Part I and Part II, in her first shown use, she reincarnated just animals, however as was seen in the Second Part, Maya was able to resurrect her great-grandmother to her full power.

Even the kunoichi could control Katsumi with talismans, she did not wanted to rein her in, so she left her to have full swing to do whatever she wanted.

<span class="mw-headline" id="Nature Transformation" style="font-family:'OpenSans',Verdana,Arial,serif;">Nature Transformation
<p class="MsoNormal"> Maya’s one method of stealing chakra and souls of her opponents is through kiss; during the absorption she can gain her target’s memories and elemental affinity. For instance, on a mission with Daisuke during timeskip, after she sucked out the affinities of one Iwagakure shinobi, she was able to use Earth Release techniques to creat rock pillar spears or mud wolves, in order to set traps for the opponents. The kunoichi can take a small chunk of rock and turn it into the chape of a staff, trowing it with pinpoint accuracy at their opponent; Maya also can blend into rocks and then move in and out of other rocks undetected.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Even if she does not have an affinity for Fire Release techniques, she can surround her targets with a stream of fire or use Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique. Besides this, Maya by using Wind Release techniques, can creat with a gust of wind several small tornadoes or slash her opponents. During Fourth Shinobi World War, Maya was seen to creat a blade of wind with a wave of her hand to slash through some white Zetsu clones with ease, as well as powerful blades.

<span class="mw-headline" id="Nature Transformation" style="font-family:'OpenSans',Verdana,Arial,serif;">Kekkei Genkai
The kunoichi posseses a unique ninja art, inherited from her father and developed under his supervision, the advanced nature kekkei genkai - Dark Release. The kekkei genkai allows her to absorb, manipulate and release chakra taken from an opponent.

By using this power, she forcibly extract the physical and spiritual energy of another ninja, even from a considerable distance. She can absorb the chakra into the upper square of the mark on her left or her mouth. She is able to completely remove the victim's chakra, potentially causing death. Maya then converts the chakra absorbed into light blue flames, in order to attack her enemies, expelled through the lower square of the mark.

<span class="mw-headline" id="Medical Ninjutsu" style="font-family:'OpenSans',Verdana,Arial,serif;">Medical Ninjutsu
<p class="MsoNormal"> With general knowledge in medical ninjutsu accumulated during Academy, she is able to heal severe injuries with relatively little effort and a little amount of chakra. Under Kazuko Nakaguchi's supervision during timeskip, Maya became specialized in creating poisons and antidotes to them, as well as she can use the Mystical Palm Technique. However, even she has such skills, she does not want to excel as a medical-nin.

<span class="mw-headline" id="Chakra Control" style="font-family:'OpenSans',Verdana,Arial,serif;">Chakra Control
<p class="MsoNormal"> Maya has a good control over her chakra and the ability to use techniques without using to much. During years she preferred to store the chakra in her left eye, the one covered by hair, in order to use it in future battles, as she does in the Fourth Shinobi World War.

<p class="MsoNormal"> The kunoichi also has the ability to use the chakra to freely manipulate her hair, binding, cutting or suffocating her opponents with it.

<span style="font-family:'DroidSerif',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);">Dōjutsu
<p class="MsoNormal"> Being born as a female member of the Neko clan, Maya inherited through her mother the Kyattusai. However, she manifested it only once, and back then unintentionally and just for a few seconds. When she “used” it her eyes were light purple with big black cat like pupils.

<span class="mw-headline" id="Intelligence" style="font-family:'OpenSans',Verdana,Arial,serif;">Intelligence
<p class="MsoNormal"> During the Academy, she mostly focused on her studies, and less on trainings, which affected her physical performance. Studying hard, she developed an excellent logical inference and began to give special attention to details. Because to these she rarely participates physically in mission. In the

<h3 class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:OpenSans,Verdana,Arial,serif;">Other Skills Maya can use wire strings to form a powerful dome, repelling most basic taijutsu attacks.

Chūnin Exam Arc
<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> In the first episode of the Chunin Exam Arc, Maya could be seen alongside Airin and Daisuke visiting different shops and traditional inns in Konohagakure. She also met for the first time Naruto in the forest around the village training for the exam. She was shocked very much that he did not run, but complimented her. Before the start of the first phase of the exam, Maya and Daisuke were stopping their cousin Airin from beating Naruto, eventually to death.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> During the first written portion of the exam, Maya received, through Tsuin, the answers to the questions, from Airin, being very thankful for them. Eventually, she gave them further to her other team-mate. After passing the second phase, team Airin encountered Orochimaru in the forest, but they did not had any conflicts. Later they were attacked by some Konoha shinobi, who wanted their scroll, but team Airin won. At a certain point being lost in the forest, Maya, thanks to her ability to memorize maps, found the good way and guided her team through it.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> In the preliminary matches of the exam, the kunoichi, as the rest of the team, was welcomed by Tomoko, who said that the examination for them was over. While Airin was watching the matches, Maya with the personal summon and Daisuke were searching after herbs around the tower, in the center of the forest, at a distance of a few hundred meters.

Invasion of Konoha Arc
<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> A month later, when the invasion of Konoha began, Maya and her team-mates were in the public watchingthe match between Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara. She was unable to repel the sleep inducing genjutsu. After the end of the invasion, team Airin left Konohagakure and returned to its home village, Ōkamigakure.

During timeskip
<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> Arriving home, Maya completed different missions, with her team or attached to other teams. During one of them she and team Airin were sent to help Hikaru Kamishiro, the daimyō of their village with some paperwork. She was, at first, worried about Hikaru's position as the last heir of his clan, but later after she got to know him, she calmed down. When Airin crushed down his gates, Maya panicked and almost had a heart attack.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> The kunoichi was also attached to a team consisting of Yuzuki and Hameita Mokusei. Throughout the mission she and the other two were sent to investigate Orochimaru's unknown hideout. Here, Maya discovered a copy of Second Hokage's kinjutsu, which she took without her team-mates knowing, in order to study it in detail. As the mission reached its end, Maya saw Yuzuki flirting with Hameita and became jealous, wenting purple with anger while she avoided his presence. She was later stopped  and was asked  by the shinobi, why she was avoiding him. As a result she started to cry and share her love for him, to eventually learn that he loves her back and accepts her as she is.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> After the mission, Maya suffered from a severe dust allergy, which almost suffocated her and was hospitalized at  Ōkamigakure's Hospital. During her staying in there, she was visited by Airin and Hameita, who stayed with her in order to not get bored. She also received books from her team-mate, as well as flowers and small gifts, from her crush.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> During timeskip, the kunoichi trained under Kazuko Nakaguchi's supervision and accumulated knowledge about poisons and antidots. She helped her master, to creat and to discover new poisons and antidotes to them. As well as, Maya learned the Mystical Palm Technique. Maya also started trainings with her mother and grandmother, in Fire Release techniques, and eventually Earth and Wind Release techniques.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"> For a short period  Maya was  apprentice priestess at the village’s ninja temple: Ōkami-ji, at her mother's request, but she left the temple after just eight months, after realizing that this occupation did not attracted her.

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Naruto the Movie 2: Legend of the Stone of Gelel
Maya and the team were send, by the Urufukage, to steal the  Book of Gelel, but they failed.

Naruto 5: Blood Prison
<p class="MsoNormal"> During Naruto’ s arrival at the prison, Maya and the teammates can be seen escorting a criminal to the castle. She assured her cousin that they would return back home safely. As te rest of her team, she was surprised to see Naruto in prison.

Naruto 6: Road to Ninja
<p class="MsoNormal"> In the movie, Maya is classified as a missing-nin who committed criminal acts against her own village, as well as Kumogakure and Konohagakure. She was eventually captured by Konoha's Torture and Interrogation Force and handed to team 121 in order to imprison her in Ōkamigakure's prison. In the alternate universe, compared to Maya that Naruto know, the kunoichi was more assertive, confident with herself and cantankerous. Her personality appeared to be similar to Airin.

<p class="MsoNormal"> Like her counterpart, the alternate Maya mentained her physical features, her skin, hair, which is depicted short, and eyes color, but was dressed in a navy black robe and wore a pair of white pants that functioned as her shoes, with high heels. At her back, the kunoichi also had a big pocket with scrolls and medical items.

Trivia

 * "Maya" (摩耶) is the name of a mount in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan: Mount Maya. The name of the mountain has its origin in the 8th century, when a High Monk Kobo brought back a statue of Maya, the mother of Buddha from China, and dedicated it to its temple.
 * " Māyā " means " love " in  Sanskrit . " Māyā " is also called " Mahāmāyā " (" Great Māyā ") and " Māyādevī " (" Queen Māyā "). In Tibetan she is called " Gyutrulma " and in Japanese is known as " Maya-fujin "(摩耶夫人).
 * Her last name "Neko" (猫) means "cat". After marriage, she change it in "Mokusei" (木製) meaning "of wood".
 * Maya has the twitch to gibber, this thing, annoying sometimes her mother, because she does not understand what her daughter is saying. The only one who can understand her is Airin.


 * She is not good at cooking, a trait that she has in common with Airin. She prefers her husband cooking for their children.


 * She still oscillates if she should become a medical-nin or an Academy teacher.
 * According to the databook(s):
 * 1) Maya's hobbies are collecting nail polish and ink wash painting.
 * 2) She wishes for rematches with Airin, while her last was to demonstrate to all that she's a capable kunoichi.
 * 3) Her favourite foods are sweets, such as daifuku/daifukumochi and anything spicy, for example curry bread.  Her last favorite food was higashi. During spring she likes to drink sakurayu tea.
 * 4) She has completed 130 official missions in total: 100 D-rank, 5 C-rank, 25 B-rank.
 * 5) Maya's favourite phrase is: "Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."

Reference
Maya Neko is an OC created for the Naruto RPC Universe by http://mayamyneko23.deviantart.com/

Naruto(c) Masashi Kishimoto