Ranmaru Maika

Ranmaru Maika  (久美屋久スネ, Maika Ranmaru)  is   Chūnin -level shinobi from Konohagakure,and a member of Team Yogai.

Background
Ranmaru was born from an incredible shinobi named Ranku. He has a long-standing relationship with Keiji Motodai. Before the became genin, Ranmaru met Keiji in the village where Keiji was being bullied by the other kids. The other kids took his glasses and started to push him around. Disgusted by the actions he saw, Ranmaru rushed over there and shoved the bullies away from Keiji. Ranmaru gave off a cold stare that made them run away. After the encounter, Keiji is glad to have a friend like Ranmaru, and even became his personal bodyguard.

Personality
As a genin, Ranmaru Maika was sort of a cool and untroubled kid who likes to sit in the middle of a grass field feeling the wind blow in his hair. He does not like to fight, or provoke anyone, especially women.

Ranmaru had the mindset to become a chūnin when duty called. While on duty, Ranmaru always uses his calm nature to intimidate his opponents.

Keiji Motodai is one of Ranmaru's best friends. He respects, trusts, and knows what Keiji is capable of. Believing that both Keiji and Hana are fully capable of using their abilities to the fullest advantage.

Ranmaru enjoys coaching little shinobi before they become into the ninja world. He loves seeing inexperience children learning the ninja ways.

In his dream in the Infinite Tsukuyomi Ranmaru dreamed himself walking along with his wife(who is his crush Kirakira), holding flowers and candies walking towards their son. He had just graduated from the Academy and had become a full-fledged genin. It later shows that they surprised him.

Appearance
Ranmaru is very tall for his age. He is a pale-skinned boy with blue eyes and short, spiky burgundy hair. He has three piercings, one on his bottom lip and two in his ears. Ranmaru is considered very handsome, especially to the girls of Konohagakure. He has short length, spiky wavy burgundy hair, and bright blue, narrow eyes. Initially he wore a white studded earrings given to him by his father. Upon becoming a chūnin, these were replaced by a pair of black stud earrings which were given to him from Hana Kaneko. During Part I, his attire was  consisted of a brown T-shirt under a  long sleeved ecru half- shirt with auburn edges, his blue forehead protector worn around his waist,he wore beige pants, and blue sandals. After his promotion to chūnin, he also wore a Flak jacket over his outfit. During Part II, he has grown noticeably taller. He discarded the chūnin flak jacket. His hairstyle remains the same, but he changed his earrings from rings to studs. He has also undergone a costume change, and among the members of Team Thousand Leaves, Ranmaru is the only one showing off his body, his whole torso his showing along with the mesh. He now wears an open beige jacket, with the collar popped out only a litte, he changed his brown T-shirt into a black mesh top that is percibtible. He wears brown mesh armour on his wrists and ankles. His headband is still on his waist. Another change is that he pierced below his bottom lip, indicating that Ranmaru is immune to central pain. When asked why he did that by his team-mates, he respond to it being "cool" which made Keiji and Hana look at each other in a funny way. He changed his blue sandals into a burgundy color, which is very different from his friends.

In The Last: Naruto the Movie, two years since the Fourth Shinobi World War have passed, Ranmaru's appearance, excluding height and a more mature facial structure, hasn't changed much. His hair has flourish and became much more wavy than spiky. He dons a more simple chest-guard with a darker and longer beige jacket than before, still showing off his torso. He stil wears the mesh armour on his wrists and ankles, but being acting in more. He also wears taller sandals, reaching over his calves, changing the color to black.

Years later, Ranmarus's appearance becomes very much like his father, including a short chin goatee, and changing his studs into silver hoop earrings.

Mind Reading
Ranmaru has the ability to read minds and decipher information about anything. This ability benefits him in time of need. During battles, he can read the opponents movements just by reading what they're going to do next. He can also read the minds of animals, and other beings of the world. He mainly uses the animals for routes along the path he, and his team-mates go through to make sure that they're going on a safe route. The only downside to the ability is that it takes an immense use of his chakra, which he needs to read.

During the Chūnin Exams, Ranmaru read his opponents mind to counter almost every move that he made. In the Fourth Shinobi World War, Ranmaru put his skills to find out what the enemy has planned by reading the reincarnated minds. His abilities helped his division get through a trap.

Taijutsu
Ranmaru is proficient in taijutsu. While not having much skill in genjutsu, he uses his combat skills to use. Mainly using his feet for fighting, Ranmaru's kicks can be deadly to many of his enemies.

Nature Transformation
Ranmaru has shown skill with Earth Releasenature transformation andFire Release. Able to create earth walls and able to use fire tatics in battle. He is also known to be skilled in Yin Release, being that he uses it to expand his mind reading ability.

Intellegence
One of the most interesting characteristics of his ninja tactics is his intellengence. Even as a genin, Ranmaru was renowned for his smarts in battle. His tactics were always well thought-out, and very complex with certain opponents. Seemingly knowing his surroundings on the field, Ranmaru uses his capable mind reading skills to use to communicate with all beings of that area, learning routes. Deriving from his naturally calm nature and sparse loss of composure, Ranmaru is well-aware of his surroundings and able to see through most deceptions and acts quickly when he does. From these traits, Ranmaru can avoid fighting and injury and can handle situations right on the spot. Despite the fact of not wanted to fight, Ranmaru is proficient in trap-setting. Some his traps are very intricate, even his childhood friend Keiji expanded on his trap-making subject when he saw it in action for himself.

Three-Tails Arc
       Main article: Three-Tails Arc

Invasion of Pain Arc
Sune helped by setting traps.

Konoha History Arc
       Main article: Konoha History Arc

Five Kage Summit Arc
The news Danzo Shimura had replaced Tsunade as Hokage didn't surprised Ranmaru that much. He was just worried about why Danzo became Hokage.

Chikara Arc
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Adventures at Sea Arc
Main article: Adventures at Sea Arc

Video Games
Ranmaru Maika is a playable character in the following video games:

Trivia

 * Same as Kai and Naoto, the members of Team Thousand Leaves sets Ranmaru as one of the leaders of the team.
 * While creatng the concept of Ranmaru, the creator wanted a "Shikamaru" type of character.
 * According to the databook(s):
 * Ranmaru's hobbies are walking in forests, studying regions, and meditating.
 * Even though Ranmaru doesn't like to fight, he wishes to show test Naoto's abilties in combat.
 * Ranmaru's favorite foods are fried rice and boiled eggs. His least favorite is kelp.
 * Ranmaru has completed 38 official missions in total: 7 D-rank, 3 C-rank, 9 B-rank, 19 A-rank, 0 S-rank.
 * The phrase he uses more often than usual is "Feel the mind". He says this to the members of  Team Thousand Leaves when they are about to go into battle.