Post by angelichaos on Mar 26, 2008 22:03:41 GMT -5
Full Name: Yorimichi Takaraiwa
Age: 16
Rank: Elite Jounin (I hope)
Gender: Female
Bloodline: Takaraiwa (Treasure rock) "unknown"
Village: Iwagakure
History: Yorimichi grew up in the most skilled family of the Takaraiwa clan, one of most powerful clans of Iwagakure. In fact, they became too powerful to control. They could control and sense the minerals that formed the land. This made them very wealthy in terms of trade as they could find rare stones such as diamond, sapphire, and emerald. They kept all other aspects of their clan as secret as possible, so very little was picked up of their techniques. All who had witnessed any of their techniques had been eliminated immediately, not even having a chance to record information or pass on intelligence. Some elite ninja of Iwagakure grew agitated with their seclusion and growing power, and decided to "downsize" the clan. They gathered the power-hungry shinobi of other clans in the Hidden in the Rock village and unleashed them upon the Takaraiwa clan. This had a more devastating effect than the Tsuchikage could have ever imagined. He realized that feelings of envy had erupted and created unrest among his people, but a mass geniside? He couldn't believe it! All of the hostility stored up for decades amongst the other clans was unleashed at once; They then had an excuse to get rid of the competition and make their rivals suffer, or so they were made to believe by a few cunning, elite ninja.
Yorimich, only 10 at this time, had been sent out of the village by her mother to gather supplies. She came back to find her parents surrounded by elite ninja from other villages and the rest of her family dead. Her mother, transmitted her voice through the emerald necklace she had given Yorimichi for her 10th birthday as she saw Yorimichi sprinting towards her with narrowed vision, passing the other children by. "Stop, Yori! Don't come any closer! Take the other children and run! Hide! Get away from here! We will hold them off for as long as we can!" Yorimichi's eyes filled with tears. "No! I won't leave you!" She took another step forward. "Stop acting like a foolish child! Take the other children and go!" Her harsh and almost frantic tone felt like a slap to Yorimichi, she stopped in her tracks. "Please, don't die.. Don't... Don't leave me all alone!" "We love you..... Now please g-" Yorimichi watched in silent horror as this hooded figure impaled her mother with kunai knives and proceeded to cut her to pieces. "Goodbye.. mother.." she whispered.
She turned to the children behind her. There were three, Mahiro, Sukahara, and Kyou. "Okay, time to go. Mom told us to go get some more supplies. We have to leave the village to get some of them though, they're really rare. Let's try to go as quickly as we can, just like a real mission, okay?" The three nodded their heads eagerly. Yorimichi smiled, well, she tried to.
The four took off, Yorimichi in the lead. She led them to the mountains to the west, hoping to stay out of sight for a while. As they were getting close, she pulled out 3 other stones, each almost identical to hers. She threw one to each member of her group. "Put these on. If we get separated, I'll be able to reach you. Just speak into them and I'll hear you." "Yah! Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?" Sukahara yells, obviously not the brightest of the bunch. "Shh. We're on a mission, so we have to be quiet." Yuki snarls. "Right, Yorimichi?" "That's right!" she replies in a light voice, praying fervently that the enemy did not hear Sukahara just then. As they were about to enter the mountains, Yorimichi sensed a presence, a bad one, dripping... She hoped it wasn't blood. "Ok.. Let's see which one of you is the fastest and the best at using your surroundings. I want all three of you to sprint, as if your life depended on it, to the mountains and hide yourselves. Let's see who can find the best hiding place." The presence was getting closer, but it seemed to be looking for someone. The three were smiling, laughing, betting on who would make Yorimichi look the longest. She smiled grimly, she would make sure that they survived. No matter what it took. "Okay. Ready? Set. Go!" They took off, Kyou in the lead, Sukahara dogging it. They passed out of sight as presence made itself known in the open.
The figure was tall, looming, daunting. He was covered completely by black cloth spattered with blood. Yorimichi started calculating her chances of survival.. They weren't very good. She was jolted out of her thoughts as the man spoke to her in a gruff, wheezy voice. "Give me what I want. The stone. Give it to me if you want a painless death. I'll even spare the brats." She started to sweat. "Oh yes, I can sense them from here." She finally noticed the necklace dangling from his fingertips. Her eves widened and became fixed on the green stone. "M-mother.." "This?" He held up the stone. "So, you are Megumi's daughter. Perfect. This makes things much easier. Summon the stone for me and you'll live" Her eyes widened. "Yes, I knew your mother well. Before your time, of course." It all clicked into place. Why the village had been so easily overtaken. How he had found both her and the others so quickly. How he could possibly sense their presence from this range. The clan's first traitor. He was her age when he had been exiled and had been classified as a missing nin. "Uncle! Why? Why did you kill mother and the elders?" "It was a pity to kill Megumi. She was always so stubborn. Even as she refused to summon the stone, she pleaded with me to let you go. Now give it to me!" He advanced on her. His eyes narrowed as hers filled with tears and she pulled out a quartz crystal to amplify her powers. "Why do you want it so badly? What could possibly drive you to destroy your own family? Does this stone mean so much to you?" "Foolish child! You don't understand! With that stone I could take over not only Iwagakure, but the other villages as well! All of their strengths and weaknesses would be exposed!" At this, Yorimichi closed her eyes and drew on the chakra stored in her necklace for years. A hatred that she'd hidden for years was finally realized and she would use it to her advantage. It was not a fiery hatred, but a cold one. One that hardened her eyes and made her as unmovable as the stone ground she stood on.
"No. You will never have the stone. It was not meant for war, but to help others while keeping ourselves anonymous. You never understood the will of the clan and never will. Prepare yourself. I will show you the technique you failed to master." Yorimichi wasn't sure if she could pull it off, but she would try. It was the only technique she had mastered during training. But could she pull it off in a fight? She plotted her strategy while her opponent stood rigid with fury. She had almost finished when he screamed, " That's it! I'm going to kill you after I torture those brats to death! I will get that stone no matter what it takes! And you will suffer for your obstinacy, just like your mother." He moved towards the mountains with a smirk, turning his back on her.
Yorimichi's eyes turned a milky white streaked with gray as she took out a second mineral, Hematite. She forced some of her chakra into the stone to amplify its metaphysical properties (lowering blood pressure and stress levels) by over tenfold. She darted after him, her speed a bit astounding for a genin. She had spent her childhood running up and down rocky cliffs and steep inclines while her opponent had always been too lazy to train and spent his last few years in Konoha. She caught up to him in no time. He swung at her with a kunai knife, not expecting a little girl of a genin to put up much of a fight. She ducked under his arm and grabbed his wrist, wrapping her other arm around his neck and her legs around his torso. She slammed the crystal into his back, almost puncturing his heart. He screamed again, this time in pain, and threw her off before she could finish feeding her chakra to the mineral. She landed in a tree. He tried to rip out the stone, but it was too late. It was embedded in his skin with chakra stringing out into his skin. As he struggled in vain, Yorimichi recovered. She put more than half of the chakra she had left into the quartz crystal. She threw it and it glanced off of the bloody part of his back. It released the chakra and hastened the effects of the hematite, causing his blood pressure to rapidly decrease. The properties of the quartz, however, were also released and his wounds were partially healed. It healed him just enough for him to turn his attention to her. "Thanks ever so much for the gift. I'll make sure to return the favor." he snarled, then made a leap towards her. Yorimichi was frozen, she felt drained and he shouldn't have been able even move a finger, let alone attack her. He landed in front of her, just to crumple before her as her jutsu finally started to take effect. He entered a state of shock and was unable to do anything more than stare up at her as his life slowly faded, his heartbeat slowing. Yorimichi was unable to tear her eyes away from the scene. Once the shine of life in his eyes faded, she threw up. Wiping her mouth, she returned to find her quartz crystal. It was her favorite. She took out a piece of cloth and wiped it clean of dried blood. She looked back longingly at the hematite, then felt her stomach lurch once more. She sighed. She'd have to leave the hematite behind now. It was tainted.
Yorimichi was too tired to sense any of the others and walked slowly toward the mountains. She slept under a cliff, out of sight, until her strength returned. When she woke up, she realized her chakra store had been nearly depleted and would take a while to return. She set out to find the others and it didn't take her to long. Sukahara actually found the best hiding place, carving a hole in a stalagmite with his kunai, then using a rock camo sheet to cover it up. Yorimichi praised them, then led them deeper into the mountains where they lingered for two years. She taught them all basic jutsu and how to identify the various minerals around them. She herself trained, mastering other jutsu and recreating those she had never had a chance to learn. She also trained vigorously in taijutsu, as her speed had saved her life in her last battle.
Yorimichi believed it was safe to return after a year and took the children to a neighboring clan. She appeared seemingly out of nowhere in her childhood friend's home, carrying three groggy children. "Y-Yori! Is that you?"she asked in a hushed voice, stunned. "Okuni? Yes, it's me. Please, don't tell anyone else I'm here. Can you take care of them?" she said, turning to show her friends her three burdens. "Oh! Sure, anything! Are they... survivors? Where have you been? They found your mother's necklace next to a dead man near your clan's-..... Is everyone really gone?" "Yes, except for these three.... and me. I took them and hid in the mountains. Tell everyone that you found these three huddled together on one of the cliffs and they don't know who their parents are. Don't tell them anything about my clan." "Ok. But why? And they searched the mountains! Why didn't they find you?!"Okuni asked, her voice gettin louder and a bit heated. "Shh. Not so loud! Someone wanted my clan's secrets and to annihilate everyone belonging to my family. So, I hid in that place we discovered when we were little, in that valley. You can't tell anyone! Please, I beg of you, shelter them! They haven't done anything wrong!" Yorimichi pleaded, fearful of her young students' futures. "Ok, I'll do it. But what about you?" "Don't worry about me. I'm going to take the chuunin exams. Then, I'll come back to train those three. Tell them that I'll be back soon and I'm bringing them a big present. Don't say anything else to them. I want them to be happy." "Don't they know? About their fate? About their friends and family?" "No, they're not ready." "Poor things!" Okuni cried and sank to the floor, taking the three into her arms. Yorimichi kissed each one on the forehead then stood up agan. "I trust you with them. But..." She waited. Okuni looked up into the coldest look she'd ever seen on her childhood friend's face, and was instantly terrified. It became clear to her who had killed that man near Yori's village. "If anything, and I mean anything, should happen to them I will know. I can sense their life's blood through the keyed minerals I have given to them. I will know if anyone but them wears or handles the stones. And I've added a nasty bite to them that will leave a mark. Not only will I kill those responsible, but you too. I hope it doesn't come to that, but that's a promise." She vanished, leaving only three diamonds behind. A faint voice whispered to Okuni, "This should cover all of their expenses until I return. I thank you for giving them shelter. But remember my words to you, for I will carry them out if need be. Good luck, Okuni...." Okuni tightened her hold on the children and sank lower, sobbing.
Yorimichi entered the chuunin exams and passed them rather easily under the alias Megumi Soide. She used her jutsu to heighten her intellect to pass the written part and used mostly taijutsu to pass the second and third parts of the exam. She left her opponents battered and bleeding, but alive. In a couple matches, where she had gotten a bit out of hand, she healed her opponents at the very end when she had either forced them to yield or knocked them unconscious. Only the medical nin noticed the reinforcement... once she was long gone. During the finals, however, she was forced to use ninjutsu to heal herself and to slow down her opponent's movements. She achieved this in a roundabout way, so no one really noticed. Yorimichi was very careful with the way she used her ninjutsu, so no one knows of her actual abilities. She became known for her taijutsu, but continued to work on her ninjutsu and genjutsu in secret.
Meanwhile, an investigation had been taking place around her birthplace. Yori's uncle had apparently been an elite jouin. He apparently, was not favored in any village and had been a nuisance to all. He was accepted as a skilled shinobi, albeit a crazy one. Many shinobi, as well as the Tsuchikage, wanted to know who in the village could have possibly taken him down. The medical nin noticed the hematite embedded in his back and realized that it must have been done by a survivor of the Takaraiwa clan and must have caught the jounin off guard. They concluded that there must have been survivors and tore off into the neighboring clans to question them. Okuni hid the children for as long as she could, but Yuki was eventually taken to be questioned.
Yorimichi felt a shocking sensation emanating from her necklace. She closed her eyes and focused. Yuki! Someone was handling her stone, an outsider at that. She pulled out a kunai knife and slit her finger, letting her blood drip onto the stone. "We must find Yuki." The stone pulled her east, towards the other stones keyed to her blood. Yori ran, outraged that someone had gotten their hands on her precious student. She arrived at the site of her first kill, and found the shinobi interrogating Yuki, terrifying her when they became agitated with her silence. She forced herself to calmly walk up to the three men.
"What is the meaning of this? Why are you questioning her?"
"We're asking the questions here lady. Who are you?"
"Megumi Soide. This girl's teacher. Release her now."
"Soide? Very well. You will, however, answer all of our questions for her then."
"Fine. As soon as I see her safely returned to her home, I will answer all questions." At this statement, her eyes turned a dark shade of green. This startled the shinobi who had been looking into her eyes.
Yori walked Yuki home. When Okuni saw them, she paled. A red mark stood out on her cheek where she had apparently been slapped. "Yuki!" She cried, eyes full of tears. She wrapped her arms around the girl, checking for injury as well. "Yori, I'm so sorry. I tried to stop them. When they saw her, they just knew. I don't know how." She burst into tears. "Shh. It's ok now. Everyone's safe. She is unharmed, so I guess I'll have to let it pass." Yorimichi said with a grin. "Thank you." Okuni whispered, but Yori had already vanished. Once again, she left behind three diamonds. "Next time, bribe them.."
Yori sat on a log beside one of the shinobi, moving too fast for him to see her. "Nice trick. Your eavesdropping was pointless though." The ninja jumped. "Very calm. You're lucky I was not an enemy, or you'd be dead" Yori said calmly, barely holding back a snicker.
"Ms. Soide... Or should I say Ms. Takaraiwa?" he said in a condescending tone.
Yori handed him the tool he'd used to eavesdrop on her. "This, is too obvious. For me, use a special jutsu or summon something to eavesdrop on me. Don't take me too lightly. I don't appreciate being slighted." Her eyes changed again, this time to a dark brown. "I suppose this is what gave Yuki away. She hasn't learned how to control it yet. There's a lot of different minerals around her, so her eyes are probably constantly changing. Oh, did that bother you?"
She asked as his eyes widened and he just seemed to stare at her.
"Didn't you have some questions to ask me?" Yori asked with a grin, she loved what her eyes did to people.
He shook his head as if breaking from a trance. "Yes. What happened to this man? And were you involved?"
"I should think so. I killed him. He was... my uncle. He was after our clan's secrets. Or rather.... a weapon to use against the other villages and take over others. He killed my family and threatened the life of three children. One of which you almost reduced to tears with your questioning. It was unforgivable. He followed me and attempted to torture them, so I stopped him."
"Is that so? Then this investigation will be turned over to your clan and the Tsuchikage would like to see you. Your uncle was a threat to the village and you are to be commended for a job well done."
"Well, just consider the case closed. The children know very little about what happened that day, and I'd like to keep it that way. I declare this as the oldest member of the clan. I want to leave the past where it is, in the past. I have no wish to be commended for killing another shinobi nor letting other shinobi know that the Takaraiwa clan still lives on."
"Very well. We must still attend to your alias and question your skills. Up until now, you have only used taijutsu, showing no talent for any ninjutsu or genjutsu outside of the basics. This raises some very good questions."
"I'm sorry, but I cannot answer those questions. My clan always wished its techniques to remain secret. Besides, it is near impossible for someone else to learn them without killing themselves in the process. Like I said before, I wish no one to know of the survivors of the Takaraiwa clan. I'd like my entire clan to be regarded as dead. We need no more trouble."
"This way. We must hurry. The Tsuchikage will want to see you right away."
"Okay. But I have one question. Do you think you can keep up?" Yori asked with a smirk. She ran at an easy pace, well an easy pace for her. She easily left the other shinobi behind, but kept him within a close range in case someone decided to attack. She arrived several minutes before the out-of-breath, rather sick-looking ninja did and walked right in.
"Ah, Yorimichi. I've been expecting you. I am sorry for your losses. It also appears that my interrogation unit still needs some work." The shinobi standing next to Yori, still wheezing, turned a shade of red. "Anyway, I have a mission for you. I need a shinobi that can get in and out quickly, without arousing suspicion. Otogakure has been acting very suspiciously lately. Our spies managed to relay information about an instrument capable of destroying another village with one song. I want you to bring it back here in one piece so we can study it and learn more about the enemy. We will provide you with all the information you need as well as the layout of the village."
"There is no need for that. I have seen them before. It will take me only a moment to remember everything clearly." Yori said, taking out her Emerald necklace (heightens memory) and feeding it a bit of blood. She closed her eyes with the stone in her palm and focused.
"Where is it located? In the center? I see it? It's made from silver mixed with malachite. Interesting." Yori opened her eyes again, they were a deep green. "I am prepared sir."
"Then go. Good luck."
"Thank you sir." Yori said, then vanished. She appeared outside the village, walking as she arranged her stones so that they would be more accessible. Then, she became a blur as she headed for Otogakure.
As soon as she got there, she swiftly knocked out the shinobi on patrol with the others none the wiser. They weren't on guard and they didn't even see her coming. Then again, people rarely do.
She set a few traps in her escape area that she could avoid easily, but others would become ensnared in if they didn't know about it beforehand. She then picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the village, no one came out and it didn't bounce off. So, no sound barrier. Security was lacking. She decided to be direct and walk right up to the building containing "a weapon of mass destruction" as Sukahara would put it. She drew her crystal sword, one her older brother had made special just for her. It was made of the purest and hardest diamond their village could find and had a huge quartz crystal embedded in the hilt. He's spent his early years storing chakra in it, but gave it all to her for her birthday. It was his last gift.
She raised the sword and swept it a hair's width above the flute. It made a sharp sound and cut Yori's cheek. No sound barrier, but it doesn't need one. If anyone tried to move it themselves, they'd be cut to shreds by the sound.
"Anyone but me, that is." Yori said to herself with a smile. "Mineral encasement jutsu!" The flute became encased in diamond. The mineral silently pooled into the spaces of the flute, making sound impossible. Yori grinned, inspecting her work. She looked around at the architecture of the building she was in, scrutinizing it. Snakes adorned the walls. Yori closed her eyes again, and felt for the surrounding minerals. Everything seemed... grey... except for one black section that seemed to jump out at her. "Ah. Onyx. And it's one of our making. Perfect." She walked over to the snake figurine near the doorway and took out its onyx eye, replacing it with a spare after keying it. She pocketed it, then picked up the diamond block. She stopped at the doorway and took out a small mirror, turning it in all directions. It didn't look like anyone was around, but she led her senses go... just to be sure. No one was walking or approaching the vicinity on foot. Yori walked out of the front entrance and had just walked out of Otogakure's front gate when she felt sensed someone behind her. She moved out of the way as the young ninja jumped past her and had a kunai pressed against his neck within a few seconds. He wrapped his hand around her wrist with a smirk. "Don't even try it. There's no escape for you."
"Oh. Really?" he replied in a somewhat sardonic tone. She felt her strength draining with her chakra. "There's no escape for you it seems."
Yori gasped. She saw his hand glow and realized that she had been careless. He was a member of the Akadou clan. He was absorbing her chakra! He grinned, but it faded as she smirked and twisted her wrist, sending him flying to land headfirst at the base of a tree. "I was hoping not to resort to such unnecessary violence,.. but oh well." Yori thought out loud, then whipped out an adventurine crystal. She gave it a bit of her blood, then forced a bit of chakra into it.
He got up and grabbed her again. His eyes widened as he found that he could no longer absorb her chakra. Yori took out howlite(calming) and carnelian(general healing). "Relax, and go to sleep...." she said in a soothing voice. The boy was almost immediately knocked out. Yori healed his wounds, then took out her emerald necklace. It took only her blood and a minuscule amount of chakra for her to use its metaphysical properties, but to reverse them would take quite a bit of chakra. "Property reversal jutsu" she whispered, then wrapped her hands around the crystal. After she had put most of her remaining chakra into the stone, she placed one hand on the boy's forehead and closed her eyes. She searched through his memories and found the ones concerning their fight. She blurred them, so he wouldn't recognize her nor the village's symbol. She did not have enough chakra to completely erase them, so left him lying on the ground, back up against the tree as if he had fallen asleep. She ran as fast as she could back to Iwagakure.
Age: 16
Rank: Elite Jounin (I hope)
Gender: Female
Bloodline: Takaraiwa (Treasure rock) "unknown"
Village: Iwagakure
History: Yorimichi grew up in the most skilled family of the Takaraiwa clan, one of most powerful clans of Iwagakure. In fact, they became too powerful to control. They could control and sense the minerals that formed the land. This made them very wealthy in terms of trade as they could find rare stones such as diamond, sapphire, and emerald. They kept all other aspects of their clan as secret as possible, so very little was picked up of their techniques. All who had witnessed any of their techniques had been eliminated immediately, not even having a chance to record information or pass on intelligence. Some elite ninja of Iwagakure grew agitated with their seclusion and growing power, and decided to "downsize" the clan. They gathered the power-hungry shinobi of other clans in the Hidden in the Rock village and unleashed them upon the Takaraiwa clan. This had a more devastating effect than the Tsuchikage could have ever imagined. He realized that feelings of envy had erupted and created unrest among his people, but a mass geniside? He couldn't believe it! All of the hostility stored up for decades amongst the other clans was unleashed at once; They then had an excuse to get rid of the competition and make their rivals suffer, or so they were made to believe by a few cunning, elite ninja.
Yorimich, only 10 at this time, had been sent out of the village by her mother to gather supplies. She came back to find her parents surrounded by elite ninja from other villages and the rest of her family dead. Her mother, transmitted her voice through the emerald necklace she had given Yorimichi for her 10th birthday as she saw Yorimichi sprinting towards her with narrowed vision, passing the other children by. "Stop, Yori! Don't come any closer! Take the other children and run! Hide! Get away from here! We will hold them off for as long as we can!" Yorimichi's eyes filled with tears. "No! I won't leave you!" She took another step forward. "Stop acting like a foolish child! Take the other children and go!" Her harsh and almost frantic tone felt like a slap to Yorimichi, she stopped in her tracks. "Please, don't die.. Don't... Don't leave me all alone!" "We love you..... Now please g-" Yorimichi watched in silent horror as this hooded figure impaled her mother with kunai knives and proceeded to cut her to pieces. "Goodbye.. mother.." she whispered.
She turned to the children behind her. There were three, Mahiro, Sukahara, and Kyou. "Okay, time to go. Mom told us to go get some more supplies. We have to leave the village to get some of them though, they're really rare. Let's try to go as quickly as we can, just like a real mission, okay?" The three nodded their heads eagerly. Yorimichi smiled, well, she tried to.
The four took off, Yorimichi in the lead. She led them to the mountains to the west, hoping to stay out of sight for a while. As they were getting close, she pulled out 3 other stones, each almost identical to hers. She threw one to each member of her group. "Put these on. If we get separated, I'll be able to reach you. Just speak into them and I'll hear you." "Yah! Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?" Sukahara yells, obviously not the brightest of the bunch. "Shh. We're on a mission, so we have to be quiet." Yuki snarls. "Right, Yorimichi?" "That's right!" she replies in a light voice, praying fervently that the enemy did not hear Sukahara just then. As they were about to enter the mountains, Yorimichi sensed a presence, a bad one, dripping... She hoped it wasn't blood. "Ok.. Let's see which one of you is the fastest and the best at using your surroundings. I want all three of you to sprint, as if your life depended on it, to the mountains and hide yourselves. Let's see who can find the best hiding place." The presence was getting closer, but it seemed to be looking for someone. The three were smiling, laughing, betting on who would make Yorimichi look the longest. She smiled grimly, she would make sure that they survived. No matter what it took. "Okay. Ready? Set. Go!" They took off, Kyou in the lead, Sukahara dogging it. They passed out of sight as presence made itself known in the open.
The figure was tall, looming, daunting. He was covered completely by black cloth spattered with blood. Yorimichi started calculating her chances of survival.. They weren't very good. She was jolted out of her thoughts as the man spoke to her in a gruff, wheezy voice. "Give me what I want. The stone. Give it to me if you want a painless death. I'll even spare the brats." She started to sweat. "Oh yes, I can sense them from here." She finally noticed the necklace dangling from his fingertips. Her eves widened and became fixed on the green stone. "M-mother.." "This?" He held up the stone. "So, you are Megumi's daughter. Perfect. This makes things much easier. Summon the stone for me and you'll live" Her eyes widened. "Yes, I knew your mother well. Before your time, of course." It all clicked into place. Why the village had been so easily overtaken. How he had found both her and the others so quickly. How he could possibly sense their presence from this range. The clan's first traitor. He was her age when he had been exiled and had been classified as a missing nin. "Uncle! Why? Why did you kill mother and the elders?" "It was a pity to kill Megumi. She was always so stubborn. Even as she refused to summon the stone, she pleaded with me to let you go. Now give it to me!" He advanced on her. His eyes narrowed as hers filled with tears and she pulled out a quartz crystal to amplify her powers. "Why do you want it so badly? What could possibly drive you to destroy your own family? Does this stone mean so much to you?" "Foolish child! You don't understand! With that stone I could take over not only Iwagakure, but the other villages as well! All of their strengths and weaknesses would be exposed!" At this, Yorimichi closed her eyes and drew on the chakra stored in her necklace for years. A hatred that she'd hidden for years was finally realized and she would use it to her advantage. It was not a fiery hatred, but a cold one. One that hardened her eyes and made her as unmovable as the stone ground she stood on.
"No. You will never have the stone. It was not meant for war, but to help others while keeping ourselves anonymous. You never understood the will of the clan and never will. Prepare yourself. I will show you the technique you failed to master." Yorimichi wasn't sure if she could pull it off, but she would try. It was the only technique she had mastered during training. But could she pull it off in a fight? She plotted her strategy while her opponent stood rigid with fury. She had almost finished when he screamed, " That's it! I'm going to kill you after I torture those brats to death! I will get that stone no matter what it takes! And you will suffer for your obstinacy, just like your mother." He moved towards the mountains with a smirk, turning his back on her.
Yorimichi's eyes turned a milky white streaked with gray as she took out a second mineral, Hematite. She forced some of her chakra into the stone to amplify its metaphysical properties (lowering blood pressure and stress levels) by over tenfold. She darted after him, her speed a bit astounding for a genin. She had spent her childhood running up and down rocky cliffs and steep inclines while her opponent had always been too lazy to train and spent his last few years in Konoha. She caught up to him in no time. He swung at her with a kunai knife, not expecting a little girl of a genin to put up much of a fight. She ducked under his arm and grabbed his wrist, wrapping her other arm around his neck and her legs around his torso. She slammed the crystal into his back, almost puncturing his heart. He screamed again, this time in pain, and threw her off before she could finish feeding her chakra to the mineral. She landed in a tree. He tried to rip out the stone, but it was too late. It was embedded in his skin with chakra stringing out into his skin. As he struggled in vain, Yorimichi recovered. She put more than half of the chakra she had left into the quartz crystal. She threw it and it glanced off of the bloody part of his back. It released the chakra and hastened the effects of the hematite, causing his blood pressure to rapidly decrease. The properties of the quartz, however, were also released and his wounds were partially healed. It healed him just enough for him to turn his attention to her. "Thanks ever so much for the gift. I'll make sure to return the favor." he snarled, then made a leap towards her. Yorimichi was frozen, she felt drained and he shouldn't have been able even move a finger, let alone attack her. He landed in front of her, just to crumple before her as her jutsu finally started to take effect. He entered a state of shock and was unable to do anything more than stare up at her as his life slowly faded, his heartbeat slowing. Yorimichi was unable to tear her eyes away from the scene. Once the shine of life in his eyes faded, she threw up. Wiping her mouth, she returned to find her quartz crystal. It was her favorite. She took out a piece of cloth and wiped it clean of dried blood. She looked back longingly at the hematite, then felt her stomach lurch once more. She sighed. She'd have to leave the hematite behind now. It was tainted.
Yorimichi was too tired to sense any of the others and walked slowly toward the mountains. She slept under a cliff, out of sight, until her strength returned. When she woke up, she realized her chakra store had been nearly depleted and would take a while to return. She set out to find the others and it didn't take her to long. Sukahara actually found the best hiding place, carving a hole in a stalagmite with his kunai, then using a rock camo sheet to cover it up. Yorimichi praised them, then led them deeper into the mountains where they lingered for two years. She taught them all basic jutsu and how to identify the various minerals around them. She herself trained, mastering other jutsu and recreating those she had never had a chance to learn. She also trained vigorously in taijutsu, as her speed had saved her life in her last battle.
Yorimichi believed it was safe to return after a year and took the children to a neighboring clan. She appeared seemingly out of nowhere in her childhood friend's home, carrying three groggy children. "Y-Yori! Is that you?"she asked in a hushed voice, stunned. "Okuni? Yes, it's me. Please, don't tell anyone else I'm here. Can you take care of them?" she said, turning to show her friends her three burdens. "Oh! Sure, anything! Are they... survivors? Where have you been? They found your mother's necklace next to a dead man near your clan's-..... Is everyone really gone?" "Yes, except for these three.... and me. I took them and hid in the mountains. Tell everyone that you found these three huddled together on one of the cliffs and they don't know who their parents are. Don't tell them anything about my clan." "Ok. But why? And they searched the mountains! Why didn't they find you?!"Okuni asked, her voice gettin louder and a bit heated. "Shh. Not so loud! Someone wanted my clan's secrets and to annihilate everyone belonging to my family. So, I hid in that place we discovered when we were little, in that valley. You can't tell anyone! Please, I beg of you, shelter them! They haven't done anything wrong!" Yorimichi pleaded, fearful of her young students' futures. "Ok, I'll do it. But what about you?" "Don't worry about me. I'm going to take the chuunin exams. Then, I'll come back to train those three. Tell them that I'll be back soon and I'm bringing them a big present. Don't say anything else to them. I want them to be happy." "Don't they know? About their fate? About their friends and family?" "No, they're not ready." "Poor things!" Okuni cried and sank to the floor, taking the three into her arms. Yorimichi kissed each one on the forehead then stood up agan. "I trust you with them. But..." She waited. Okuni looked up into the coldest look she'd ever seen on her childhood friend's face, and was instantly terrified. It became clear to her who had killed that man near Yori's village. "If anything, and I mean anything, should happen to them I will know. I can sense their life's blood through the keyed minerals I have given to them. I will know if anyone but them wears or handles the stones. And I've added a nasty bite to them that will leave a mark. Not only will I kill those responsible, but you too. I hope it doesn't come to that, but that's a promise." She vanished, leaving only three diamonds behind. A faint voice whispered to Okuni, "This should cover all of their expenses until I return. I thank you for giving them shelter. But remember my words to you, for I will carry them out if need be. Good luck, Okuni...." Okuni tightened her hold on the children and sank lower, sobbing.
Yorimichi entered the chuunin exams and passed them rather easily under the alias Megumi Soide. She used her jutsu to heighten her intellect to pass the written part and used mostly taijutsu to pass the second and third parts of the exam. She left her opponents battered and bleeding, but alive. In a couple matches, where she had gotten a bit out of hand, she healed her opponents at the very end when she had either forced them to yield or knocked them unconscious. Only the medical nin noticed the reinforcement... once she was long gone. During the finals, however, she was forced to use ninjutsu to heal herself and to slow down her opponent's movements. She achieved this in a roundabout way, so no one really noticed. Yorimichi was very careful with the way she used her ninjutsu, so no one knows of her actual abilities. She became known for her taijutsu, but continued to work on her ninjutsu and genjutsu in secret.
Meanwhile, an investigation had been taking place around her birthplace. Yori's uncle had apparently been an elite jouin. He apparently, was not favored in any village and had been a nuisance to all. He was accepted as a skilled shinobi, albeit a crazy one. Many shinobi, as well as the Tsuchikage, wanted to know who in the village could have possibly taken him down. The medical nin noticed the hematite embedded in his back and realized that it must have been done by a survivor of the Takaraiwa clan and must have caught the jounin off guard. They concluded that there must have been survivors and tore off into the neighboring clans to question them. Okuni hid the children for as long as she could, but Yuki was eventually taken to be questioned.
Yorimichi felt a shocking sensation emanating from her necklace. She closed her eyes and focused. Yuki! Someone was handling her stone, an outsider at that. She pulled out a kunai knife and slit her finger, letting her blood drip onto the stone. "We must find Yuki." The stone pulled her east, towards the other stones keyed to her blood. Yori ran, outraged that someone had gotten their hands on her precious student. She arrived at the site of her first kill, and found the shinobi interrogating Yuki, terrifying her when they became agitated with her silence. She forced herself to calmly walk up to the three men.
"What is the meaning of this? Why are you questioning her?"
"We're asking the questions here lady. Who are you?"
"Megumi Soide. This girl's teacher. Release her now."
"Soide? Very well. You will, however, answer all of our questions for her then."
"Fine. As soon as I see her safely returned to her home, I will answer all questions." At this statement, her eyes turned a dark shade of green. This startled the shinobi who had been looking into her eyes.
Yori walked Yuki home. When Okuni saw them, she paled. A red mark stood out on her cheek where she had apparently been slapped. "Yuki!" She cried, eyes full of tears. She wrapped her arms around the girl, checking for injury as well. "Yori, I'm so sorry. I tried to stop them. When they saw her, they just knew. I don't know how." She burst into tears. "Shh. It's ok now. Everyone's safe. She is unharmed, so I guess I'll have to let it pass." Yorimichi said with a grin. "Thank you." Okuni whispered, but Yori had already vanished. Once again, she left behind three diamonds. "Next time, bribe them.."
Yori sat on a log beside one of the shinobi, moving too fast for him to see her. "Nice trick. Your eavesdropping was pointless though." The ninja jumped. "Very calm. You're lucky I was not an enemy, or you'd be dead" Yori said calmly, barely holding back a snicker.
"Ms. Soide... Or should I say Ms. Takaraiwa?" he said in a condescending tone.
Yori handed him the tool he'd used to eavesdrop on her. "This, is too obvious. For me, use a special jutsu or summon something to eavesdrop on me. Don't take me too lightly. I don't appreciate being slighted." Her eyes changed again, this time to a dark brown. "I suppose this is what gave Yuki away. She hasn't learned how to control it yet. There's a lot of different minerals around her, so her eyes are probably constantly changing. Oh, did that bother you?"
She asked as his eyes widened and he just seemed to stare at her.
"Didn't you have some questions to ask me?" Yori asked with a grin, she loved what her eyes did to people.
He shook his head as if breaking from a trance. "Yes. What happened to this man? And were you involved?"
"I should think so. I killed him. He was... my uncle. He was after our clan's secrets. Or rather.... a weapon to use against the other villages and take over others. He killed my family and threatened the life of three children. One of which you almost reduced to tears with your questioning. It was unforgivable. He followed me and attempted to torture them, so I stopped him."
"Is that so? Then this investigation will be turned over to your clan and the Tsuchikage would like to see you. Your uncle was a threat to the village and you are to be commended for a job well done."
"Well, just consider the case closed. The children know very little about what happened that day, and I'd like to keep it that way. I declare this as the oldest member of the clan. I want to leave the past where it is, in the past. I have no wish to be commended for killing another shinobi nor letting other shinobi know that the Takaraiwa clan still lives on."
"Very well. We must still attend to your alias and question your skills. Up until now, you have only used taijutsu, showing no talent for any ninjutsu or genjutsu outside of the basics. This raises some very good questions."
"I'm sorry, but I cannot answer those questions. My clan always wished its techniques to remain secret. Besides, it is near impossible for someone else to learn them without killing themselves in the process. Like I said before, I wish no one to know of the survivors of the Takaraiwa clan. I'd like my entire clan to be regarded as dead. We need no more trouble."
"This way. We must hurry. The Tsuchikage will want to see you right away."
"Okay. But I have one question. Do you think you can keep up?" Yori asked with a smirk. She ran at an easy pace, well an easy pace for her. She easily left the other shinobi behind, but kept him within a close range in case someone decided to attack. She arrived several minutes before the out-of-breath, rather sick-looking ninja did and walked right in.
"Ah, Yorimichi. I've been expecting you. I am sorry for your losses. It also appears that my interrogation unit still needs some work." The shinobi standing next to Yori, still wheezing, turned a shade of red. "Anyway, I have a mission for you. I need a shinobi that can get in and out quickly, without arousing suspicion. Otogakure has been acting very suspiciously lately. Our spies managed to relay information about an instrument capable of destroying another village with one song. I want you to bring it back here in one piece so we can study it and learn more about the enemy. We will provide you with all the information you need as well as the layout of the village."
"There is no need for that. I have seen them before. It will take me only a moment to remember everything clearly." Yori said, taking out her Emerald necklace (heightens memory) and feeding it a bit of blood. She closed her eyes with the stone in her palm and focused.
"Where is it located? In the center? I see it? It's made from silver mixed with malachite. Interesting." Yori opened her eyes again, they were a deep green. "I am prepared sir."
"Then go. Good luck."
"Thank you sir." Yori said, then vanished. She appeared outside the village, walking as she arranged her stones so that they would be more accessible. Then, she became a blur as she headed for Otogakure.
As soon as she got there, she swiftly knocked out the shinobi on patrol with the others none the wiser. They weren't on guard and they didn't even see her coming. Then again, people rarely do.
She set a few traps in her escape area that she could avoid easily, but others would become ensnared in if they didn't know about it beforehand. She then picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the village, no one came out and it didn't bounce off. So, no sound barrier. Security was lacking. She decided to be direct and walk right up to the building containing "a weapon of mass destruction" as Sukahara would put it. She drew her crystal sword, one her older brother had made special just for her. It was made of the purest and hardest diamond their village could find and had a huge quartz crystal embedded in the hilt. He's spent his early years storing chakra in it, but gave it all to her for her birthday. It was his last gift.
She raised the sword and swept it a hair's width above the flute. It made a sharp sound and cut Yori's cheek. No sound barrier, but it doesn't need one. If anyone tried to move it themselves, they'd be cut to shreds by the sound.
"Anyone but me, that is." Yori said to herself with a smile. "Mineral encasement jutsu!" The flute became encased in diamond. The mineral silently pooled into the spaces of the flute, making sound impossible. Yori grinned, inspecting her work. She looked around at the architecture of the building she was in, scrutinizing it. Snakes adorned the walls. Yori closed her eyes again, and felt for the surrounding minerals. Everything seemed... grey... except for one black section that seemed to jump out at her. "Ah. Onyx. And it's one of our making. Perfect." She walked over to the snake figurine near the doorway and took out its onyx eye, replacing it with a spare after keying it. She pocketed it, then picked up the diamond block. She stopped at the doorway and took out a small mirror, turning it in all directions. It didn't look like anyone was around, but she led her senses go... just to be sure. No one was walking or approaching the vicinity on foot. Yori walked out of the front entrance and had just walked out of Otogakure's front gate when she felt sensed someone behind her. She moved out of the way as the young ninja jumped past her and had a kunai pressed against his neck within a few seconds. He wrapped his hand around her wrist with a smirk. "Don't even try it. There's no escape for you."
"Oh. Really?" he replied in a somewhat sardonic tone. She felt her strength draining with her chakra. "There's no escape for you it seems."
Yori gasped. She saw his hand glow and realized that she had been careless. He was a member of the Akadou clan. He was absorbing her chakra! He grinned, but it faded as she smirked and twisted her wrist, sending him flying to land headfirst at the base of a tree. "I was hoping not to resort to such unnecessary violence,.. but oh well." Yori thought out loud, then whipped out an adventurine crystal. She gave it a bit of her blood, then forced a bit of chakra into it.
He got up and grabbed her again. His eyes widened as he found that he could no longer absorb her chakra. Yori took out howlite(calming) and carnelian(general healing). "Relax, and go to sleep...." she said in a soothing voice. The boy was almost immediately knocked out. Yori healed his wounds, then took out her emerald necklace. It took only her blood and a minuscule amount of chakra for her to use its metaphysical properties, but to reverse them would take quite a bit of chakra. "Property reversal jutsu" she whispered, then wrapped her hands around the crystal. After she had put most of her remaining chakra into the stone, she placed one hand on the boy's forehead and closed her eyes. She searched through his memories and found the ones concerning their fight. She blurred them, so he wouldn't recognize her nor the village's symbol. She did not have enough chakra to completely erase them, so left him lying on the ground, back up against the tree as if he had fallen asleep. She ran as fast as she could back to Iwagakure.
