Hoshigaki--

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Hoshigaki 干し柿

We are the Hoshigaki, the people of the Shark the people of the Dried Persimmon. They thought we would be disgraced by them calling us such a name, as they have for such amounts of time. They thought that just because we had skin like sharks that we would be ashamed, that we would mind being called after the dried fruit of the Kaki Tree. But both Hoshigaki are great! Through strength and through resilience, we will survive and show them our place! We are amongst the most noble of the clans, we are the true strength of our village, we are those marked as the sharks amongst fish, the wolves amongst sheep!

Clan Village: Kirigakure no Sato

Clan Starter: Long since lost to the tests of time.

Clan Head: Hoshigaki Komorizame 干し柿 テンジクザメ

Clan Age: Ancient; Old enough to not have it's exact age known.

Status within their village: Simply because of their age and their ferocious abilities within battle, the Hoshigaki are afforded a level of respect by most of the clans within Kirigakure no Sato. Few, however, like them, with the fact that they are known to be as violent if not more violent than the Kaguya, and the wounds from their member, Hoshigaki Kisame, and his betrayal of the village, are still not healed.

Mark of the Hoshigaki:

Clan Bloodline: Samehada of the Hoshigaki

Clan Element: Water

The exact origins of the Hoshigaki have always been a mystery, and likely will stay that way. Some say a Samekami, a spirit of the Sharks which lives around the country, simply snuck into a session between the ancestors of the Hoshigaki, and the result was a 'devil' child, which looked like a shark. Others say that they simply lived too close to the ocean, or ate a piece of shark meat cursed by a kami as punishment for being disrespectful.

Regardless of the origins of the clan, some time before the arrival of the first incarnation of the village hidden in the mist, and the beginning of the title 'Mizukage', the Hoshigaki came to be. The name of their clan was a pun even then, but the pages of history have not revealed if it was a name which belonged to the clan even before their 'ascension.'

In the beginnings of the village, the Hoshigaki were few in number, and almost all were close family. They were fierce in battle, and they were tough as nails. It was in this time that they met their long standing rivals, the Kaguya. Clans of the same mold, with different clay.

As the wars of the country raged on, and the First Mizukage chose his Seven Most Values disciples, the men who would be known later as the 'Seven Shinobi Swordsmen of Kirigakure no Sato', one of the Hoshigaki's number was chosen, and likewise, one of the Kaguya's. The two were teammates, and rivals. The two fought fiercely against the barbaric rebels whom the Mizukage attempted to quell, but in the end, the two fell into quarrel.

If it was a challenge of might, or something else, the two came to fists, and ultimately, blades. A long battle was fought, on a small island off the coast, and in the end, both were lost to the sea, their blades all that remained, the island herself shattered, now resembling 'shark teeth.'

Both clans blamed the other, and a blood feud slowly became a clan war. It took the first Mizukage's willpower to stop this war from claiming the clans in a field of fire, and in the end, things returned to a relative peace, both clans feeling slightly wronged from the Mizukage interfering, but the Hoshigaki, with their immensely aggressive streak, took it to heart, and eventually began to pick fights with other Kirigakurans, leading to spites, but no blood shed.

Time passed, and the village and country advanced, a new era coming into play, and the legends and feuds of the old time forgotten, at least from plain view. It was in this time, during the reign of the Ichidaime Mizukage, that the first rumors and stereotypes of the Hoshigaki truly cemented, that they were bullies, like sharks in human form.

This perpetuated, until sometime between the Sandaime Mizukage and the Godaime Mizukage, a young boy was born into the clan, which had lived a hardscrabble life, most of the clan being shinobi-nin loyal to their village, fishers, or marines protecting traveling ships. This boy would be known to the world as 'Hoshigaki Kisame', a faithful name. In his time as a shinobi-nin of the Mist, the boy grew to become a very passionate warrior, and to think beyond the bounds of simply protecting his village and 'doing what was right'. He began to ponder other possibilities, and as time passed, he did.

The boy eventually betrayed his village, and joined a criminal organization which strode to take over the world, killing dozens and making the village have even a worse name for itself. As the battle against the Akatsuki raged on, Kisame died, and his clan remained, a clan of people whom looked like him, smelled like him, and often, acted like him.

Several dozen families of the Hoshigaki were killed in the prodigious of the time, and the clan came to hate the world around them, hate those whom they had once loved, even if a bit over enthusiastically. Time passed, and the world came to a sense of relative peace. The clans of old began to reappear in the country of water, as if by the divine will of the gods. The Hoshigaki reclaimed their holdings within Kirigakure no Sato and their old han, and lived, silently, peacefully as they could.

Their tendencies to have over aggressive, greedy, and self-centered people come from the clan lessened, as well. They began to gain the respect of those around their country's hidden village once again, began to loose the mark of red that flustered their bodies before, the mark would plague them even through the time of the NCIA, Hoshigaki Kisame.

The invasion did not hit the already struggling clan as most as others, as they mostly began to focus on fishing as their day jobs, painting their skins of living in seclusion. The Hoshigaki within the village itself almost all died, or went into hiding in rural parts of the country. The reason for this was simple, their fame, their strange unwillingness to betray the country and village that had treated them so, and the fact that they stood out so clearly.

The occupation was hard, as it was on all, and in the liberation of Mizu no Kuni they assisted in stopping ships, working with the Umikaze Naval Alliance, and fighting in the country herself. It was through this action, and their others, that the Hoshigaki began to regain their standing within the village.

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Reserved for Cultural Tidbits

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Relations with other Clans

[Kouta]

cough cough?

[Eechi-go]

I Want One:.

[Warr]

This should be moved to 'dead' clans please, given that an updated version is already approved.

[Cellar Door]

Okie dokie.