Kiyoshi KazanganInfernal Anger Burns Deep
----------Character Information----------First Name - Kiyoshi
Last Name - Kazangan
Nickname – None
Gender - Male
Age - 19
Height – 6’-11"
Village - Iwagakure
----------Body Appearance----------Hair Colour – Dark Red
Hair length – Medium (Spiked)
Eye Colour - Brown
Skin Colour - Tanned
Body Shape - Huge, Muscular
----------Other Information----------Likes – Heat, Fighting, Hurting people
Dislikes – Cold, Everybody
Parents – Father(Former Interrogation/Intel Officer, Murdered) Mother(Housewife, Suicide)
Siblings - None
Children - None
Sexual Orientation - Straight
Partner – None & Not Looking
----------Ninja Informtaion----------Elements – Fire, Earth, Lava
Main Focus – Lava Taijutsu
Sensei - None
Squad - None
Specialty – Punching First
Rank – Genin
----------Background----------The Kazangan clan is an ancient clan within Iwagakure that has long served with obedience, skill and without question. They are well respected as strong warriors, but within each generation there is always a black sheep that is looked upon with hatred and suspicion. This is because the Kazangan clan has been host to every Four-Tails Jinchuriki since the beast was first captured by Iwagakure. The reason for this is that the beast in question shares an elemental affinity with the members of the clan, Lava. This shared affinity means that the failure rate of chosen hosts within the clan has been non-existent. The last host of the four tailed beast Son Goku was Kiyoshi’s uncle on his father’s side, Mitsubashi. As with all hosts before him and all hosts to come, Mitsubashi was always treated differently. He was always kept at arm’s reach but under heavy guard and never trusted, people wouldn’t talk to him if they could avoid it and he was never able to take a wife. He was for the most part mistreated by all, that is by all but his brother, who always looked up to him and shared in the pain of how he had been treated his entire life.
----------Birth & Early Years----------Kiyoshi was destined to have a great life. He was from the main branch of a noble family, not only that but he would one day be the leader. His mother and father loved him very much and all the clan’s early tests showed that Kiyoshi would be particularly attuned to the clans Lava style abilities.
That all changed in a moment though, it was well known within the clan that the current Jinchuriki Mitsubashi had taken ill. No one was sure if he would last twenty more years or two, but what they did know is that the Tsuchikage along with the village elders would soon be selecting a child within the clan to become the next Jinchuriki when the inevitable happened.
All that happiness and promise that Kiyoshi was destined to have was taken away in just few moments, it was he who was selected to undertake the rituals and training. His mother took great pride in the honour it bestowed upon their family and son, even if it meant a lonely life for him. His father however filled with sadness and rage, horror and distain about the life he knew lay ahead for his son. He could barely cope with how his brother was forced to live, and now the same was expected of his only child. To make matters even worse it was against clan rules for the Jinchuriki to rule the clan, meaning once he died the clan would pass to one of his jealous cousins who would most likely shun Kiyoshi in order to gain favour with the other clans. Kiyoshi’s father was one of Iwagakure’s top strategists and interrogators, what he lacked in fighting ability he more than made up for in smarts. He knew that time was of the essence, he hated to think of his brother in such a way but he was now a stopwatch to his son’s reckoning. That is why he began to plan in secret… plan the way to rescue his son from his new fate.
----------Age 4----------Despite Mitsubashi being told that two years was the minimum he would live, it also turned out to be the maximum as he died almost exactly two years after contracting the disease. This was bad news for Kiyoshi’s father and his plan. He had completed the majority of his preparations but in regards to actually escaping the village without being tracked he had hoped for more warning, not a sudden death in the night. He knew that ANBU would arrive at the house at any moment to collect Kiyoshi to reseal the Four Tails within him, so he had no choice but to simply grab the boy and run. He fled as fast as he could but with no travel, supplies or real idea of where he was running to the ANBU quickly caught up to them at the outskirts of the village.
“Give us the boy” they shouted as they held the hilts of their weapons. “You took my brother’s life now you wish to take my son! You won’t take his life without taking mine first!” The ANBU looked at each other and tried once more to reason with him, “One life doesn’t outweigh the hundreds that will die if the beast breaks free tonight! No one else has been prepared!” and with that Kiyoshi’s father began to hand seal, all the while with Kiyoshi strapped crying to his back due to all the commotion. “Lava release: Tidal Flame!” He spewed a large amount of lava from his mouth which formed into a huge wave heading towards to the two ANBU, and with that he turned and began to flee again. One of the ANBU tried to use a water wall to block the attack, which would have worked against a normal fire attack but this was lava… And his jutsu simply evaporated as the lava hit it and just as swiftly dealt with him. “Shit!” the other ANBU muttered as he leapt high into the trees scanning for Kiyoshi’s father. It only took a moment to catch up with him, and he was left little choice as with one swift swipe of his katana he cut through not only the binding holding Kiyoshi to his father’s back but through his father’s entire body. The ANBU quickly grabbed Kiyoshi landing on a nearby branch as Kiyoshi’s father fell from the trees in two separate directions.
The night had already been eventful for the four year old child, but it had also scarcely begun. Upon being taken back to the village the Four Tails was sealed within him and his life would change forever.
----------Before the Academy----------Kiyoshi’s new beginning started as badly as his father had feared. And the failed escape had only made things worse. By using his lava release so close to the city and being declared dead the next day most people had worked out the events of that night and deemed him a traitor. Kiyoshi’s honourable mother, who was once looking forward to being the mother of the Jinchuriki was now only known as the wife of the traitor. This lead to her undergoing a huge personality shift from the loving mother Kiyoshi once knew, to the miserable wreck that quickly became. Every time she looked at Kiyoshi, instead of seeing the son she once loved she sees the beast that took her honour and husband. This of course lead to Kiyoshi living a very broken childhood, it would have almost been better to have no mother at all rather than a mother who detested him.
----------Academy Years----------Kiyoshi, as one would expect from a Jinchuriki lead a very sheltered life. He was escorted almost everywhere he went by ANBU which caused the other kids to avoid him. His mother continued to drink herself into a coma each night which meant even at home he had no interactions other than the occasional scream fest she had towards him. However all of that was shadowed by something far darker. The one place where Kiyoshi should have been able to find peace was in his dream, yet they are what brought him the most suffering since as long as he can remember. Every night he would dream the same flashing images, hear the same muffled sounds. None of which, ever made sense to him. He would see a bowl, then the bowl would be filled with lava and finally he would see flashes of his father’s death over and over until he would wake up in a pool of sweat and a rash on his arm burning deeply. When he would ask his father’s cousins, the new head of the clan what it meant he was shunned away as his father feared and left to suffer for many more years.
It got to the day of Kiyoshi’s graduation from the academy, he wasn’t the best student but he also wasn’t the worst. It was the best day of his life by far, not that there was much to compare too. He knew deep down that no matter how much his mother thought she hated him that this would make her proud, and possibly even restore some of her honour that she craved so much. He wasn’t surprised that she didn’t show up to the ceremony so as soon as it was done he took his new headband and ran home. As he burst into her room he was met with a horrific sight, his mother lay in a pool of empty sake bottles laying upon a blood soaked bed. A kitchen knife rest in her hands as her slit wrist are held up towards the sky. There was no note, no evidence to prove any foul play. Only neighbours testimony saying how depressed she was and that it was bound to happen sooner or later. What was left of Kiyoshi’s already miserable life had now been taken from him.
----------Age 16----------It wasn’t until the clock struck midnight on Kiyoshi’s sixteenth birthday that his life took its final turn. The night started off like any other, he went to bed and started to have the same dream that haunted his mind night after night. The difference this night though was the burning sensation from his rash. It started off as normal, waking him from his sleep at which point it would normally die down after a bit, but on this night the pain only got worse. He cried out in agony as it felt like his arm was about to melt away, when suddenly lava started spewing from his pours and seemed to form in the shape of a sealing technique. The lava continued to flow for a few more moments until eventually falling onto his bed, but strangely not burning it. The lava then continued to flow on its own out of Kiyoshi’s room, down the stairs and towards his clan’s shrine. Kiyoshi, not really sure what was going on, and still in intense pain reluctantly followed.
The lava flowed across the floor like water, not seeming to have any effect on the surrounding materials at all. Once it reached the shrine it began to work its way up the wall which had the clans symbol engraved into it. As it reached the symbol it began to flow within the crevices until every groove had been filled. It was only then that the wall began to glow and an invisible seal revealed itself before burning off. Once the seal was gone there was a loud crack, followed by a small eruption of dust as the ancient slab began to move for the first time in many years.
Once the slab had moved it revealed a large passageway behind it that seemed to go on forever, Kiyoshi thought about turning back several times to call for help but something in the back of his head made him keep pushing forwards. After what seemed like an eternity in the dark Kiyoshi finally saw a flickering light, as he pulled closer to the opening he saw a simple cave with a shrine at the end of it. Once again the shrine had the clan symbol engraved into the wall, yet the only other thing there was an empty bowl on a pedestal. As soon as Kiyoshi saw the bowl he recognised it instantly, it was the bowl from his dreams. He looked around a moment to see what else there was hidden down here, but there was absolutely nothing but this bowl. It seemed strange that such a large cave was filled with such a meaningless object. It then suddenly dawned on him that one of the other images from his dream showed the bowl full of lava, he thought for a moment, not sure if it was a good idea or not, the main thing holding him back was the last image in the dream which was of his father’s death, however his father was already dead so that couldn’t come to pass. He took a deep breath and did some basic hand seals before spewing a basic amount of lava into the bowl.
Nothing happened for a moment, the lava just sat there simmering away. Kiyoshi had almost given up hope of finding answers here when the lava suddenly manifested and erupted from the bowl throwing Kiyoshi backwards. As he landed on the ground he quickly propped himself up with his hand while watching the lava as it floated in the air above the shrine. There was a sudden loud roar as the lava began to expand and manipulate itself into the shape of a head, his father’s head. Kiyoshi had no words as the head finished forming. It looked down at him and began to speak. “Kiyoshi, by activating this shrine it means that I am dead and my plans to save you from your fate have failed.” Kiyoshi lay there, looking up in bewilderment, having no real memory of his father apart from a photo in his room. “It saddens me that it has come to this, but I was undoubtedly killed by the village I gave my life too, all because I was unwilling to sacrifice you to them. If it has been hard for you and your mother without me please forgive me, it was never my intent.” By this point Kiyoshi had managed to find his feet but was still very weary of the molten head. “This is however, as you can see an outcome I have prepared for. I did not wish my son to grow up a pawn of the Tsuchikage, nor did I want you to grow up without a father or mentor within the clan. That is why I created this space for you, a space where you can train and learn everything I would ever want to pass on to you. All you must do is ask questions at the alter and if the answer is within the archives I created within I will answer.” Kiyoshi paused a moment still not sure what to make of this or even what to say, after a short silence he finally spoke up, “What is the purpose of all this?” His father’s face seemed to sadden for a moment before giving it’s prewritten answer, “You are nothing but the Tsuchikage pawn, and he was willing to sacrifice my life, your life and anyone else’s life in order to acquire you. He had me killed, he robbed you of your entire life and god knows what effect all of this has had on your mother. I see no other option now but to either deal with the cards you have been dealt or to take those cards and play a hand that no one will be expecting. By now it is too late for you to have a normal life, the Four Tails will already have been sealed inside you, turning you into the Tsuchikage’s weapon. So I say we take this weapon and turn it against the very people that seek to use you for your entire life. Maybe then, you can have a chance of freedom.” Kiyoshi just stood there in silence for a very long time, the only movement being from the cave walls as the light from the molten head flickers around. After what could have easily have been hours Kiyoshi finally asked, “So what do I do?”
----------Age 19----------After keeping him well guarded and trained in solitude for many years to make sure he can control the beast within, the Tsuchikage has finally allowed Kiyoshi to join a squad and begin missions. The adventure begins…
Subject: Kiyoshi Kazengan - The Infernal Anger 
Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:40 pm