Nagahashi Clan

The Nagahashi clan is a small clan which was formerly only found in Konohagakure but since it's founding and decrease in members the clan has also spread throughout the Land of Fire and the Land of Woods.

Founding of the Nagaha Clan
The Nagahashi clan was founded by Mami Nagaha and her brother Izami Nagaha. The two had a rare ninja ability which allowed them to use flowers in combat and to make certain types of flowers grow and merge with their chakra. The clan was co-founded by Yuuka and an unknown forth member belived to be related to Yuuka. The two were skilled in sensory type ninja skills and it was discovered that Izami, Mami, Yuuka and the unknown forth member had compatible chakra's. Combining their unique skills the Chissai Hana Combination was formed and a clan made up of the shinobi able to learn and use these techniques.

Nagaha to Nagahashi
At first the clan was made up of sensory ninja and others who Mami and Izami also found has similar abilities to there's however after a few generations more and more children were being born with both techniques found in them giving them the ability to use the Chissai Hana Combination techniques and more. However as the clan grew there became less and less need for combination techniques until they disappeared entirely. The Kekki Genkai became known as Chiisai Hana in honour of the old combination techniques the clan used to have.

The first to master the use of Chiisai Hana was a girl named Mamishi named in honour of Mami Nagaha and was the grand daughter of Izami Nagaha and Yuuka (who married Izami after the founding of the clan). Mamishi died during the second shinobi war. In her memory 'shi' was added to the end of the clan name and thus the Nagaha clan became the Nagahashi clan.

The Downfall of the Nagahashi Clan
By the end of the third shinobi war the Nagahashi clan had halved in size many casualties having occured during the shinobi wars. However the true downfall of the Nagahashi clan came when a disease, one that had previously left both Mami and Izami orphans. The disease only effected clan members that had inherited the Chiisai Hana kekki genkai which at the time was quiet common for a clan member to have. Suffering many large losses during the outbreak and with no success in finding a cure once the disease had done it's job it seemed to fade, disappearing with no reason of how it got there, why it had only targeted those members with the kekki genkai and why it had stopped spreading to the next generation of kekki genkai users.

The clan disbanded with the small and few members that remained either leaving the hidden leaf village and seeking a life outside that of the ninja way and a single few remaining behind in the leaf village as shinobi.

Hierachy
Just like many other shinobi clan the Nagahashi clan also had it's own hierachy, the ranks went as follows.

Representives - two members elected by the previous representives they are the leaders. They out rank everyone else in the clan and they have equal say in everything. Should they contradict on a choice the desicion goes to poll with the rest of the clan.

Elder Council - Made of the oldest members of the clan as the name suggests they are a council and Representives and other clan members come to them for advice.

Kekki Genkai Users - Though it was not a spoken rule amongst the clan it was often suggested. As more and more Kekki Genkai users were born those that didn't have the unique ability to use Chiisai Hana became shunned through out the clan even if they had skills equal to or more then any other member. Likewise a lot was expected of members with a kekki genkai and these members were often pushed to become genius shinobi and experts in certain fields.

Non Kekki Genkai Users -  See Kekki Genkai Users

The hierachy of the clan fell apart when it disbanded.

Jobs
Members of the clan were commonly expected to become shinobi of the leaf and many went into one of the following units: The other option was for a member to look after the clan green houses and plants however this was heavily frowned upon if you had the clan kekki genkai. Some of these clan members also worked alongside the Yamanaka clan to sell flowers and other plants as well as supplying some medicine herbs to the Nara clan.
 * 1) Tracking
 * 2) Medic
 * 3) Coding
 * 4) Interrigation (Lest common)

The Clan Symbol
The Nagahashi clan has always being extremly of what they can do, part of which came from how the clan was formed from some nobodies to a group of shinobi some of whom are well remembered. The public manifestation of this pride is the clans symbol and almost every clan member wore the symbol with pride, without being asked too it was just something they did.

The Symbol is on a dark grey circle with wavy edges, on top of this is a light grey six point star, the points just passing over the edge of the circle, between each point is a petal (a total of six petals) three of light colours and three dark. These petals can be of any colour and the combination is often unique to the wearer (See Traditions for more info). In the centre of the grey star is is a small group of six curved lines that do not touch, at the bottom of each petal inbetween the gaps between the petals there is a small dot, halfway up the length of the petal in the middle of the gaps there is a large dot then at the point of each star still in the light grey area there is another small dot.

Marriage
Inter Clan marriage was promted during war times and when the clan was still growing. Since hardly any of the origional members of the clan had being related no one had to worry about marrying their cousin, brother or sister however after the second shinobi war it was perfectly acceptable to marry outside the clan if you didn't have the clan kekki genkai. If you did then it was banned. This ban was dropped just before the third shinobi war and was never put back in place.

Of Age Traditions
There were three traditions that the Nagahashi clan had which related to age. The most well known of these traditions was the Colours Ceremony.

It took place when a child reached the age of fifteen and this is how the petals on the clan symbol that each clan member wore was chosen. The elders would conduct interviews with friends, family, teachers and team mates then finally the teenager themself. Sometimes the teenager would go through extra trials and challenges other times they would simply be asked to complete an easy errand and occasionally nothing extra would be needed. You see the clan was very closely linked with the earth, particularly with flowers and stones and part of that had to do with colours. There for the colours shown on each persons petals often had to do with their personality or at lest the colours given during this ceremony were.

Traits and associated colours

People were able to change the colours later in life especially when something signifcant had happened to them in their lives.

The second most well known tradition that had to do with age was when a member reached the age of six. A child would be taken to the greenhouse and would be allowed to walk around and choose one plant. This was used mostly for inter clan competitions, the plant you chose would become your future team for these small competitions however as time grew on the tradition held a new significance in the way that this particular plant became your small personal symbol just as the colours you recieved would.

The plant a member chose was also the one they had a chakra link too (see Kekki Genkai for more information).

Lastly there was the elder's tradition. This happened when you either retired from being a ninja or you reached the age of fifty six. Here the entire clan would celebrate the selected members life, stories would be told and when it struck midnight the entire clan would file out of the compound, the selected elder and the youngest children able to walk following roughly by age would walk straight from the compound, out the village gates parade around the Konoha walls from the outside and re enter and the same gate before taking a different route back to the compound.

Flower Festival
Every year the clan would hold a small festival of flowers, naturally this would be in spring. Soon the clan started sharing the traditional festival with other plant and flower lovers until they started hosting a festival every spring for any one in the village who was interested in attending. The festival would customarily start of with the handing out of flowers, everyone would recieve a flower from the clan members and a welcoming speech then there would be activites, competitions and food followed by a late night dance and fireworks.

Often the clan would work heavily alongside the Yamanaka clan for this festival because although the Nagahashi clan had a fierce love of their symbolic plants they had to admit their skills in floral arrangmens lacked severly compared to that of the Yamanaka clan. The festivals stopped for a few years after the shinobi war and just when they were starting back up again the disease spread throughout the clan and the festivals were discontinued.

Naming
Names throughout the clan origionally came in a large variety however after the second generation of children a tradition came up. The first child would be named after the first thing that came to the mother's mind when she looked into her child's eyes.

Example: Kaito was named after his blue green eyes reminded Kotomi of the ocean.

The second child had no regular tradition, sometimes they would be named after a flower or plant other times they would be named in rememberance of another clan member and sometimes it would simply be up to the father to choose a name since the mother always chose the first child's.

Example: Kae means one who is older sister or fragrance (depending on kanji used) Masa named her Kae for the second reason because he claimed she was as 'sweet as the fragrance of flowers' but Kotomi who always intended to have three children agreed to the name because of the first meaning.

The third child was nearly always named after a flower, the only exceptions were boys but often the third born male child would have a femine name if he wasn't named after a flower.

Example: Ruka (The youngest of the triplets) means Bright Blue Flower and is a unisex name though is more common amongst girls then boys.

Kekki Genkai
The Nagahashi clan kekki genkai is known as Chiisai Hana and translates to Little Flower. In order to use this kekki genkai the subject must have good chakra control.

There are three units of the Chiisa Hana kekki genkai, the combat unit, the tracking unit and the medical unit. When the clan was at it's large and times were peaceful it was common for kekki genkai users to focus on and speacilise in only one unit however when war came upon the clan members normally speacilised in one field while learning compulsory combat as well even if it was only minor.

Chiisai Hana involves using live flowers/plants for all their techniques. Each clan member often has chakra compatible with at lest one plant from birth (this is determined by the Flower Choosing Ceremony). The said member can transfer chakra freely into the plant and stimulate the chakra in the plant. This can be used to make the plant grow or taking/changing/encouraging the properties of the plant. When a member has become compatible with a particular type of plant it is known as a Chakra Link.

Clan members are taught to think of the plant as a living being. It has feelings, strengths, weaknesses, needs and chakra. It is alive and must be treated properly. This is part of learning to use the plants and mixing human chakra and plant chakra together to form attacks, to heal and to track opponents.

Combat Unit

Generally mid range technique's this involved using the skills inherited my Mami and Izami Nagaha to attack/defend in combat. All Chiisai Hana combat techniques are support techniques generally used over time unless an S classed technique is mastered and all sap chakra from their opponent.

Often users who speacilise in this unit are compatible with plants which require large amounts of sunlight to grow and also can store large amounts of chakra in them. The principal behind these techniques is that the user will insert their own chakra into the plant and mix it with the plants chakra this is part of establishing a Chakra link with the plant. From there the user activates techniques which sap the chakra of whoever it doesn't already have chakra of. (Think of it like the Aburame chakra parasites except these plants ofen have pre-requistes to taking another persons chakra)

Often plants have their own prerequisites to take anothers chakra. It's not as simple as inserting your own chakra into the plant. For example take the Kaze Hana (Wind Flower) technique created by Masashi Nagaha.

The technique was infamous for sapping an enemies chakra at an alarming rate and was an S rank jutsu from the moment it was created. Masashi would hardern her Camilia's (The plant she had a Chakra Link with) with her own chakra changing the propeties to be like shuriken. She would then throw them at her opponents, where the flowers cut the enemy chakra would seep out of the users body. The conditions were that the flowers had to cut the enemy at lest .5cm deep and pierce into the chakra system in at lest two places. The technique was effective becase Masashi was a medic ninja and she knew the layout of the chakra system, on top of that her best weapon was working with shuriken and kunai.

No one can honestly explain why members of the Nagahashi clan can change the properties of plants or why the plants they change sap the chakra of their enemies (and in some cases allies) but it is believed the last of the two is due to the fact that the clan members change the properties of the plants.

Known Combat Moves

Kaze Hana (Wind Flower) -- (See above)

Saiteru Yuri (Blossoming Lily) -- a brutal technique used by tracking and combat units. The user slips their enemy chakra modified plant seeds. When the opponent next uses their chakra the seeds start to grow living off the targets chakra, they grow from the targets stomach and ultimately kill them. If lucky due to loss of chakra if unlucky because the roots grow out into their body and the branches and stems of the plant start to puncture organs and tissues. The technique can not be undone. It is forbiddon.

Kuro Kono (Black Leaf) -- A basic technique yet one that requires a decent amount of chakra. The user uses whatever plant they have a chakra link with in a large proportion and surround the enemy with them whether it be through a trap or throwing them around during combat. The user activates the plants with their own chakra and they start to sap the enemies chakra immediately, with fifteen plants around a genin enemy will most likely faint within fifteen minutes if a skilled genin is casting the jutsu. If a jinchuriki is in the trap the plants simply will not activate for unknown reasons.

Tracking Unit
Tracking using one's Chakra Link can be done one of two ways. The first is the easiest in some ways but not in others. It requires the chakra of both the target (or someone with the target) and the chakra of the person using the technique. This is known as the Double Way Tracker, because if you were targeting another tracker from the Nagahashi clan they would also be able to track with their own plant even if they don't have your chakra. Think of it as once you activate this any Nagahashi that has a profiecent skill in tracking will know where you are heading becausing your sending off some sort of huge broad cast to them. They will only know if they have their plant with them (which they commonly do).

Known Double Way Tracker Techniques

Tsuito Shion (Shion Remembrance) -- The user need wind style or water style chakra for this technique. So long as the plant has come in previous contact with the targeted person within the past four days the targeted person can be tracked. Tsuito Shion is an advanced technique at lest B rank because so long as you can visulise the face of your target clearly and they have met the above condition they can be tracked. The user then infuses the plant with their own chakra and can throw it into the air and the plant will begin to move or you can throw it into a stream and follow it, if you only have water chakra and there is no stream nearby you can put them in a bowl of water the plant will move clearly to one edge of the bowl.

Bikou Sagiso (Follow Sagiso) -- Bikou Sagiso is a low level tracking technique that works for any chakra type. The last person (other then the one who the plant has a Chakra Link with) can be tracked so long as that person was within a 30cm radius of the plant and the chakra was 'saved' into the plant. The user can hold the flower and it will bend in that direction, fold petals in said direction or if they have wind chakra throw it into the air and if the person has a large amount of chakra they can simply let the plant float no matter what chakra type they have.

The second option are One Way Tracking techniques and are often the hardest to master. They do not broadcast a users location to other members of their clan nor do they require you to have your targets chakra or for them to have come in contact with the plant. So long has they have come in contact with you.

The one condition to all of these techniques is that you must have a strong emotional reason to find this person. The stronger the emotion the more powerful the tracking and the less likely that you will be led astray.

Known One Way Tracking Techniques

Seno Bejozakura (Tracking Bejozakura) -- The most basic of all basic techniques in the One Way Tracking style. Unlike many other techniques in this field you and your plant both to have come in contact with this person at some point in time, but it doesn't matter when, who, how or what the situation was. This technique works only for people you have known a long time and have a deep impression of. Simply follow your plants directions and you will find the person so long as you truly want to find them. If you don't then you won't find your target.

Medical Unit
Plants naturally have healing properites. Some one who focuses in the medical unit learns to enhance these properties and at times use them without even needing to break/crush the plant.

Known Medical Techniques

Most medical techniques come from constant attention to the plant since it's youth. Using chakra to manipulate it and enhance it's abilites the user everday nourishes the plant with their own chakra with the idea of it being unaturally strong or plentiful in it's cure. This particular style of growing plantsonly works with common plants and different plants often require different upbringings for this to work.

There are only three known medical techniques that involve using a Chakra Link. The first is the Absorbition Technique. When the user is emotional enough and has the plant place it on the wounds of the victim and mix in your chakra the plant will take away the pain of the injuries but won't cure it, this will work for anything however the next person that picks up the plant will feel the effect of the victims pain full blow. Unfortunetly if the plant has a Chakra Link with you, you can not take the victims pain yourself. Sometimes this transfer of pain can kill.

The second technique is a life transfer. The user basically cures just about anything that could normally kill a person with the exception that the user will never be able to use their kekki genkai again and their chakra will perminately be disabled. It has also being known that the user of this technique can activate the deadly disease that has previously wiped out all kekki genkai users of the clan. It is a forbidden technique.

Lastly the final technique is enhanced healing. Using the mystic palm jutsu if one also activates their chakra link they can double the healing ability of the mystic palm technique or whatever healing technique their using however they loose double the amount of chakra.

Clan Quotes

 * 'A flower may be small and delicate, beautiful to the eye and seemingly weak but even the most beautiful rose has sharp thorns that can pierce the skin'  (Mami Nagaha, Clan founder)
 * 'Tree's can be knocked down by a storm but the smallest flower can thrive amongst the windy wheather- sometimes being powerful isn't all that great' (Echo Nagahashi)
 * Earth rained on hardens. Pain makes us stronger, that's what father used to say (Izami Nagaha, Clan founder)
 * 'The first time you see a flower you realise it's beautiful, but when winter comes it dies and it's beauty fades however as spring comes back you look at this new flower with awe for it's even more beautiful then the first time you saw it...Your like that second flower, you were already awesome but your even more awesome now' (Umeko Nagahashi)
 * 'I may be short and I may be named after a delicate flower but I sure as hell am not as weak as you may think!' (Yurie Nagahashi)
 * 'Lost in the wind your blown and pushed but still you stand beneath the sky towering tall even though you're small. Lost with the battle cries your painted red with death hidden in the pain but on you live. Lost in the dark night sky you're colour fades with the winter but you'll bloom once more. Lost in the depths of my heart you'll continue to grow little flower of mine, let your colours show.' (Old Nagaha lullaby)
 * 'Many people think i'm messed up. I have no emotion. I care about very very few people and I have killed before. But tell me- if I'm the messed up one then who is normal? In all my experience I have discovered everyone is capable of being as cruel, emotionless and hurtful as I am. The only difference between them and me is that I do this job so no one else will have to everyone else does it out of spite, revenge or pleasure.' (Kae Nagahashi)

Trivia

 * Nagahashi translates to 'Eternal Bridge'
 * The fourth founder is unknown because he never actually joined the clan
 * The disease that wiped out the Nagaha clan is also the one that targets the kekki genkai users of the Nagahashi clan and only appears when the number of kekki genkai users is double then the number of none kekki genkai users at the total population of the clan exceeds 50 people.
 * Some people believe the Nagahashi and Yamanaka clans are related
 * The common combination of team mates for a Nagahashi genin consists of 1 Nagahashi, 1 Umaretawatta and 1 Aburame, Yamanaka, Hyuga or Nara
 * Mamishi Nagaha was classfied a Chiisai Hana Master however all her techniques focused on her strengths rather then her weaknesses this is the true reason for all her success
 * Kae, Kaito and Yurie are the only known Nagahashi members that currently live in Konohagakure
 * The old clan compound was abandoned when the clan disbanded the green houses are currently used by the hospital upon authorisation of Kotomi Nagahashi before her death.
 * Members of the Nagahashi clan are often prone to feeling lonely and unworthy or misunderstood making the prone to depression so it's good that about 90% of Nagahashi clan members are known for being more stubborn then a mule.

Reference
This clan was created by Nagahashi-Kae

Nagahashi Kae

Yurie Nagahashi