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Gakuto Hara (原がくと, Hara Gakuto) is a shinobi of Konohagakure. He is a proficient   A-rank   fūinjutsu  specialist, particularly in the way of  explosive tags, and a career chūnin. Gakuto is a former member of  Team Yoshino  along with  Yūgao Uzuki  and  Izumi Uchiha.

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Background
Gakuto's parents were both genin-level shinobi of the Hidden Leaf. However, they were first-generation (i.e., civilian-born), which did nothing to help him when he finally decided to join the Academy. His younger sisters Gou and Kou also joined the Academy when they each came of age.

Following his promotion to genin, Gakuto a ccidentally unmasked a high-level Anbu operative. After lying in wait for Izumi after dark (presumably in response to a gag she'd pulled on him), he mistook the Anbu for his teammate and hit them in the face with an egg loosed from a slingshot, knocking off their mask and compromising their cover. Gakuto was subsequently detained by T&I due to the delicate matter of the Anbu's true identity and questioned extensively, forcing him out of civilian-born obscurity as a possible person of interest.

Later meetings with the Third Hokage convinced  Gakuto that his file had been black-marked, but after an impromptu trip to the records office with his instructor following his chūnin promotion revealed that his intel clearance had actually been changed to S-class (although he still lacked an S-class combat clearance, hence the landlocked protocol): the council had made every effort to prevent the event of S-class secrets (such as the identity of the unfortunate Anbu) falling into enemy intelligence by putting heavy restrictions on his leaving the village.

After Team Yoshino was disbanded, Gakuto was traded to one of the Leaf's saboteur squads. His chakra control and creative use of fūinjutsu made him an asset to their covert and non-covert operations.

Personality
As a child, Gakuto was blunt and cheerful. He tracked social cues and internalized his feelings, only revealing what he had decided was appropriate for a person or situation. During a genjutsu, his teammate dreamt of him in the audience of a circus, putting a frame up to his face before bursting into laughter.

In his adolescence and adulthood, Gakuto became less impolite in demeanor. He practiced his blocks with expressing himself emotionally during exercises with his teammates and made efforts to soften his tone and speech around them, especially in Izumi's case. Gakuto is prone to dramatics and attempts to distance himself from stressful situations by micromanaging his teammates and giving in to episodes of self-depreciation. He tends to lapse into more "informal" (read: ornery) figures of speech when he feels put-upon, but more recently Gakuto has made significant efforts to avoid hurting others feelings (though it usually doesn't work).

Appearance
Gakuto is a fairly tanned young man with dark, straight brown hair. In his genin days, his hair was kept uniformly cropped close to his skull, carefully maintained for anonymity's sake. He allowed it to grow out slightly as a chūnin, but mostly his bangs; Gakuto now wears it swept to either side and tied with either a short, spiky fanned-ponytail or a neat bun. His eyes are thin-lashed and dark red, and he has somewhat of an hourglass figure.

Upon making chūnin, Gakuto declines to wear the obligatory flak jacket full-time. His chūnin active duty clothes fit the village standard and were geared to escape notice: he wears dark-coloured cargo pants and  a dark 3/4-sleeved shirt with a collar. He keeps a set of black chakra-channelling gloves on him at all times, tucked into the utility belt at his hip when he isn't wearing them. His headband is usually tied to conceal his hair and his shoes are high black ninja sandals, with most of the foreleg and shin equipped with black armour guards.

His special mission attire, however, becomes much more convoluted: many of Gakuto's additions reflect his specialization and apply directly to his combat techniques. Over his previous genin outfit, Gakuto wears his orange-and-black jacket now cropped just below his ribs; the jacket has a cowled neck that obscures most of his face when fully zipped. He has a large black utility belt (this one a lot less pretty) laden with miniature scrolls and small to mid-sized bags for mission supplies (mostly his customized seals and paper bombs). Gakuto also wears two black harnesses - one across his chest and one around his waist - to carry his shortblades. He usually wears his headband on his forehead, but he has used it before to conceal his hair and once in place of his utility belt.

Chakra and Physical Prowess
D ue to his civilian upbringing, Gakuto lacks the early instruction many of his peers from shinobi lines benefitted from. His nickname of "glass cannon" reflects this; he'll definitely regret it after the fact, but the strength of his attacks can be devastating.

Gakuto is not a genius by any stretch of the imagination. He is, however, very adaptable, and his academy days were productive and showed a competence and understanding of the necessities a shinobi's life contains. Gakuto exhibits surprisingly adept chakra control for a civilian (or as good as), and has made something of a hobby out of chakra control exercises, such as tagging and manipulating items with chakra threads for his teammates to find.

Ninjutsu and Fūinjutsu
Gakuto's ninjutsu is surprisingly strong; his Earth-type affinity isn't common in Konoha and he lacks an instructor to bring him beyond the basics, but he has nonetheless excelled in the use of Fire style techniques. His previous instructor's comments on Gakuto's early performance at the Academy had identified him as a prodigious Ninjutsu-type. Gakuto tends to use Fire style ninjutsu for his main attacks, supplementing his offence to strengthen his attack and defence.

Gakuto's greatest strength is his impressive affinity for fūinjutsu, which he tends to rely on more often so as not to tax his chakra reserves. He has a head for tactics and mathematics, making this particular art something that came easily to him. Gakuto's adaptable nature comes into play once more (particularly in his creative use of  explosive tags ), and in his early chūnin years he made extra money outside of missions making custom tags for his fellow chūnin.

Medical Ninjutsu
Because of his talent for chakra moulding, Gakuto's teammates also encouraged him to study  medical ninjutsu. It didn't exactly take - he can patch wounds and stop blood flow decently enough, but he has no affinity as a  medic-nin. Gakuto lacks the interest required for in-depth study and he has no head for more obscure herbs and medicines. However, his studies did fine-tune the chakra control he has in times of great necessity used it  offensively  on  his opponents; for emergency field ops, he keeps a pair of chakra-channelling gloves on him at all times.

Taijutsu and Bukijutsu
Gakuto tends to work in conjunction with taijutsu, which would allow him to use this skill and his firm grasp of chakra control in conjunction with his attacks. His civilian reserves leave him with what amounts to a "puddle" of chakra compared to the steady "flow" of a shinobi. Gakuto's particular brand of brawling is augmented to accomodate both his use of ninja tools and his ingenuity.

Gakuto frequently employs  bukijutsu in his fighting style. All ninja use a weapon at some time or another during their careers, but not all do so regularly. Gakuto usually coats his weapons with his chakra to alter the weapon's properties, a process called chakra flow; otherwise, he keeps an arsenal sealed within scrolls or some other flat surface for ease of transport and accessibility in combat in the Enclosing Technique and the Unsealing Technique. He has also used chakra threads to manipulate weapons and remotely activate seals and tags.

Stats
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Part I
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Part II
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Trivia

 * Gamut's favourite food is hanabiramochi and his least favourite is sakuramochi.
 * His hobbies are making tags and dogspotting.
 * The name Gakuto can be written several ways, the most notable of which are:
 * Using 岳人, where the kanji " 岳" and "人" respectively mean "mountain" and "man," but combined can mean "a coward."
 * Using 学人, which means "scholar."
 * Gakuto wishes to fight Shisui Uchiha.
 * Gakuto's favourite word is "surprise" (驚かす, odorokasu).

Quotes

 * (To Izumi Uchiha) "I realized I'm tired of feeling helpless."
 * (To Yūgao Uzuki) "I wish they would get what's coming to them!"
 * (To Yoshino Nara) "Again and again, I'll try to rebuild it, just like before."
 * (To Yoshino Nara) "There's something wrong with me. I feel sick, and I'm sure I'm going to die soon!"
 * (To Izumi and Yūgao) "I'm glad we all met. I had a dream like this, I think."