Ayato Nakada

Ayato Nakada (あやと なかだ), is a jounin-level shinobi of Konohagakure. He is 14 years old at the start of the series and 17 in Shippuden. He is part of Team Izumi, together with Eizo Arita, Miya Ueda and Izumi Yoshida.

Background
Ayato Nakada was born in Konohagakure, his mother owned and ran small bar and his father, now retired because of a spine injury, was a jounin-level shinobi. He has a younger sister (3 years younger than him), with which he gets along very well and is extremely protective of.

He rarely saw his father, who, being a highly skilled shinobi, was often away on missions. He spent the time he had together with his father to train in order to become a shinobi himself. It was his father who taught him the basics of taijustu, wind techniques and chakra control.

At the age of 8, his home was invaided by several bandits, who intended to kidnap his younger sister and trade her for secret documents, which his father had access to. He failed to protect his family, and the bandits would have escaped if not for Ayato's father, who came back from a mission early and ambushed the bandits. This event greatly impacted Ayato, and pushed him to further pursue his goal of becoming a powerful shinobi. He graduated from the Academy at the age of 12, became a chounin at 14 and a jounin at 17.

Personality
Ayato is a calm, laid back person, and often seems bored or distracted.

He is a kind and friendly person, getting along with most people he meets, he tends to befriend people with a similar personality to his such as Nara Shikamaru, Hatake Kakashi, or

He is often very protective, especially of girls who remind him of his younger sister, a trait he inherited from his father.

He is can be easily distracted and impatient, he dislikes waiting, lengthy planning and is quite restless, which often leads to him being unprepared and hasty when it comes to missions. He often gets sidetracked, due to his short attention span. He owns several cats, which seem drawn to him, as he can sometimes attract stray cats while on missions.

He can be quite smooth and confident when talking to women, since he was raised mainly by his mother with his sister. He tends to flirt with most attractive girls he meets and admits that he "can't help but like every pretty girl I see". He often makes jokes or witty comments.

Appearance
Ayato Nakada has messy, medium-length brown hair. He has dark, tired eyes, with dark bags underneath then, (caused by his sleeplessness), which he covers with white face paint. He wears his headband turned slightly to the left, (similarly to Zabuza).

He wears a green military-style jacket, unzipped at the top, revealing his neck and part of his chest, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, showing the bandages around his arms. He wears long, black pants and black sandals.

He has a slightly slouched posture and often has his hands in his pockets.

Abilities
Ayato uses ninjutsu and taijutsu in combat. He utilizes wind type techniques.

His signature weapon are the bandages on his arms, which he can freely control using his chakra, using them to grab, hit or even cut opponents when he combines the with a wind type jutsu.

He is a short to mid-range fighter, and often uses ninjutsu in order to get close to his opponent and engage in taijutsu.

He is an overall skilled shinobi, his strengths being his incredible speed when using ninjutsu and exceptional taijutsu skills. His weakness is genjutsu, which he can not use and is highly vulnerable to. He is known to use a summoning technique, which transports his trained cats, which he uses for tracking and pursuit, to his location.

At the age of 17 he began attempting to master lightning type techniques, with moderate success, thanks to aid from Hataka Kakashi, but hasn't developed his skills far enough to confidently use lightning techniques in combat.

Trivia

 * His favorite food is Ramen.
 * He has 3 cats, named Kumo, Tsuki and Taiyō.
 * He suffers from insomnia.