Ruriko Namikaze

 Ruriko Namikaze ( 波風 るり子 Namikaze Ruriko) is a Jonin level kunoichi from Konohagakure. She is known as the xanthous sealer ( 黄色いシーラー Kiiroi shīrā ) due to her high masterly of Fūinjutsu.

Background
Ruriko was born to Fumiko Namikaze and an unnamed father. A month after her birth, her mother perished on a mission, leaving her in the care of her uncle, Minato Namikaze. It was at this point she met his genin team; over time, forming a close, sibling like bond with Kakashi Hatake. Once she reached the age of four, Ruriko began to learn about her uncle's seals, with Kushina attempting to teach her.

During the Nine Tails Attack, she lost her only parental figure heads, and invited herself to live with Kakashi, during which they spent most of their time grieving for their lost friends.

At the age of 6, Ruriko met Itachi and forced him into becoming her best friend, not giving him much of a choice in the matter. Together, they embarked in several attempts to remove Kakashi's mask before they deemed it a hopeless task.

At 8, she graduated from the academy, passed the Chunin exams as the age of 10 and became an ANBU at the age of 12. During her days off from ANBU, Ruriko would continually challenge Itachi to a spar. She has yet to win one.

When she became thirteen, Ruriko took Hyuga Hinata on as an apprentice in order to pass on her knowledge of Fūinjutsu. During this time, she also began working with Kakashi on creating a jutsu that allowed the user to skate across the ground soly on chakra. This resulted in a huge burn mark running through the main street of Konoha, which has yet to be repaired.

Personality
Ruriko, as a child, was loud, joyous and took everything she had for granted. She was selfish and didn't really take into account the feelings of those around her up until her uncle's death.

After suffering such a lose, Ruriko became more determined to be happy, and remained smiling throughout everything she went through, and always tries to see the brighter side. Everyone once in a while, the issues of being a ninja often get on top of her, such as the expectation to live up to her uncles name, and depresses her.

As a member of the ANBU, Ruriko possesses incredible self control, however this is only ever seen on high classed missions. She will only act professional during B-S rank missions, and can often be found goofing off halfway through the mission.

In addition to being a high ranking kunoichi, Ruriko has reasonably high levels of intelligence, something with Asuma Sarutobi acknowledged. Though is isn't as smart as Shikamaru or Itachi, she has sufficient enough intellect to deal with seals and creating new jutsu.

Ruriko has an ongoing habit of pulling those around her -such as Kakashi, Hinata and Itachi- into childish schemes, in which Naruto participates willingly. These vary from hiding fellow ninja's possessions, to trying out new jutsu she has created, often with disastrous results.

Another habit she has acquired results in her attempting to put the most stoic people she can find into embarrassing situations. A list of victims include; Kakashi, Fugaku, Ebisu, Sasuke and Itachi himself.

Because of this, she has no real shame, and will go to any lengths to get a reaction.

After the time skip, Ruriko has calmed a bit, and takes care not to put herself into any embarrassing situations that could reflect badly on those she has become close to. During this time, she has also become friendly with Tsunade, which results in her ability to dodge the missions she doesn't wish to partake in.

Though few see it, Ruriko is highly capable at manipulating people to suit her own needs through her choice of words, but she knows now to try it on anyone with greater intelligence than her own. She may be known for pushing her luck, but Ruriko knows when to draw the line with those superior to her.

As a consequence of living with Kakashi, Ruriko had a growing fondness towards the Icha Icha series, which has resulted in several ninja figure heads losing respect for her. There has been several incidents were both Kakashi and Ruriko have missed out on a clan meeting or lower case mission to sneak off and read the latest issue. However, these books have also been used against her by a multitude of people,such as her cousin Naruto, Itachi and even the Sandaime Hokage.

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Appearance
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Abilities
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Taijutsu
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Genjutsu
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Ninjutsu
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Summoning Technique
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Rasengan
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Senjutsu
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Shape Transformation
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Fuinjutsu
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Part I
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Trivia

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Reference
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