Seishi Mitou

Seishi Mitou (みとう セイシ, Mitou Seishi) is the captain of the Trap and Capture division of Kusagakure’s ANBU. It was her decision to make Kazō Yakusho an informal member of the squad. She utilizes Kusagakure’s unique grass release ninjutsu.

Background
Seishi was born to Soichiro and Kiyomi Mitou. While her younger sister Kasumi was in the Academy, Seishi was beginning her time as a chūnin. Though she had just been promoted, she was already showing high skill in setting traps and manipulating tools with wire. She also began utilizing grass release ninjutsu, her Kekkei Genkai. After her sister started hanging around Kazō and his group, Seishi would usually keep an eye on them. When Seishi first met them, she wasn’t very impressed. She saw them more as jokes than as future ninja. At times she would even try to convince her sister to stop hanging around them and begin teaming up with stronger allies. After Kasumi graduated from the Academy, their parents set out for world travel. This left Seishi, now a jōnin, full authority over herself and her sister. She soon progressed even further and became captain of Kusagakure’s Trap and Capture Squad. When she wasn’t on missions, she took time to train her sister in their Kekkei Genkai and other areas.

Personality
Seishi has sailed through much of her challenges with relative ease and tends to have a “by the book” outlook on most of her tasks. As a rising prodigy, she wouldn’t think of goofing off, lest it mar her reputation. This led to her looking down on those who didn’t take their tasks seriously. This was shown after meeting her sister’s new Academy friends. She saw Kazō as the worst of the group. He was a wiseass little brat who seemed to take pride in his sharp tongue. Kentaro was an overcautious weakling and the twins, Ide and Buto, were unruly pranksters. She realized the group would probably corrupt Kasumi, and so she tried to steer her away from them.

After becoming a member of the ANBU Black Ops Trap and Capture Squad, it was only natural for Seishi’s attitude to make her the perfect candidate to be a captain. She consistently shows sound judgment on all her missions. After the time skip she even made Kazō an informal member of her squad, albeit reluctantly. Although she detested the boy, her instincts wouldn’t allow her to let one of the most skilled trap-makers in Kusagakure slip away. The role of squad captain suits her and she never falters when giving commands to her subordinates, though Kazō just calls it being bossy.

She is not afraid to be a bit harsh on others either, if she thinks they will benefit from it. When Kasumi told her how much she was progressing in the Academy, Seishi threw a shuriken at her, causing her to jump away in fear. The shuriken was on a wire, so it was never going to hit her. Seishi just used it to show that Kasumi still lacked the strong will and better reflexes a ninja should possess. When Kazō took offense to Seishi calling him a cripple, she grabbed him and held him up by his good arm, saying that if he wasn’t crippled, he could free himself from the simple hold. She wanted him to see that there would be many challenges out there. It wouldn’t always be easy or fair, and even if he disliked the name, he was still disabled.

Although she has such a strict view of things, Seishi can still have fun like anyone else, even if she tries to hide it. Yuka is one of the few who notices this, and tries to get her to relax more. This side of her can be seen especially when she’s with her sister. Like Kazō, Seishi sees it as the older sibling’s duty to pester and embarrass the younger sibling.

As the acting parent figure in the Mitou household, Seishi also has nurturing traits. Since their parents set out to travel the world, Seishi became both Kasumi’s mother figure and father figure. Although she usually shows the overruling aspects a father would show, Seishi can be very kind and motherly. She has been quite mature, even at a young age, and is able to balance these various aspects well.

Appearance
Seishi is a fair skinned woman of average height. She has straight black hair that hangs to her shoulder blades and has grey-blue eyes. Her attire consists of a dark green variation of the standard Kusa attire without a flak jacket. Her forehead protector is sewn onto the stomach of her shirt.

When on missions with the Trap and Capture Squad, Seishi dons the attire of Kusagakure’s ANBU. This includes a beige flak jacket with matching metal arm guards and dark green gloves. She also has an ANBU tattoo on her right shoulder. She carries a sword on her back, and wears a rat shaped mask that is green on the upper left half. Her codename is Yuzu (ユズ).

Abilities
From a young age, Seishi has shown promise as a shinobi. Her skills have remained well rounded through the years, so she doesn’t have an area of specialty, other than trapping. This also means she really doesn’t have many fields that would “need improvement”. As a prodigy, she was expected to excel overall, and her training has shown that she met those expectations.

Though she is well rounded, she still has preferred methods of fighting. She would rather use ninjutsu over genjutsu and taijutsu. She will more often manipulate shuriken with wire than use other weapons, as fits a skilled trapper-nin. She is not the type to rush in, if given a choice, so her fighting style focuses on keeping her distance and setting a trap when able.

Kekkei Genkai
Like many members of Kusagakure, Seishi has the grass release Kekkei Genkai. Grass release ninjutsu enables the wielder to create and control various aspects of plant life. Although common techniques learned through this Kekkei Genkai revolve around grass, Seishi utilizes vines as her main weapon. These vines can serve a multitude of purposes, from strangling an opponent, to simply lashing out at them. She can have them erupt from the ground or even from her own body. As a trapper-nin, vines are the perfect choice for her. Unlike standard traps, the vines can move with the enemy, making escape much more difficult.

To go along with this, Seishi also manipulates ivy plants in much the same way. The ivy, though not as strong as the vines, can branch off of itself. This allows for a person or area to be blanketed in the jutsu instead of just wrapped by a single strand. Another plant-based weapon Seishi can use is burs. Her Bur Spore Technique spreads a powder into the air around her opponent. It then expands into large bur seeds that stick to the foe, making movement difficult.

Summoning Technique
After becoming an ANBU member, Seishi signed a contract with wild silkmoths. She mostly uses them for delivering information; however, she will also use them to set traps. The silk is thin and sturdy, making it a useful alternative to wire strings. On occasion, she will summon larger moths to use as transportation.

Trivia

 * Seishi’s hobby is training.
 * Seishi wishes to fight Kazō in a battle of traps.
 * Seishi has completed 995 official missions in total: 153 D-rank, 170 C-rank, 398 B-rank, 234 A-rank, 40 S-rank.

Reference
Seishi Mitou is an OC created by KusaNin.