Karitegaki

[Rilon]

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Clan Name: Karitegaki Clan

Clan Village: Iwa [ Formerly of the minor Hidden Village of Waterfall]

Clan Starter: Torofihanta Akira

Clan Head: Karitegaki Shikon

Clan Age and Status: Six generations old, surviving remnant of the extinct Torofihanta Clan, history relatively unknown in their new home.

Clan Bloodline: Shuukaku

Clan Element: Earth

Clan Emblem: None

Clan Info:

A long time ago, there was said to be a clan which were born with what was thought to hold superior physiques. The Torofihanta Clan of the Hidden Waterfall Village was believed to hold the keys to physical invulnerability. Durable, able to handle the extremities which nature could offer without much for wear. Strong, the founder was known to create seismic depressions as an example of his power. They were also fast, known for delivering messages faster than homing pigeons and founders of the courier service. They were bearers of a muscular abnormality. Dystrophin, a protein that lies under the muscle fiber membrane and maintains the integrity of the cellular system was produced excessively. It created mesomorphic offspring, guaranteed to birth members which carried superior physical abilities. The pores in their skin became tighter and layered, covering the points of their chakra circulatory system. Without avenues of escape, they learned to enhance their physical capabilities instead of manipulating the elements, often shunning those who performed elemental techniques…calling it a waste of human potential. They believed that all which was required were might and the hardening of their bodies, being able to withstand the elements at its most treacherous.

It soon became apparent that what was believed to be their strongest attribute also became the reason of their downfall. The start of each generation brought with it weaker members, usually starting to decline in strength in their pubescent stages. The amount of dystrophin in their bodies increased steadily, ceasing to feed muscle tissue while increasing the size of the intravenous system. By the end, their limbs were useless to them as their skin warped with knots of corded veins and arteries as the rest withered. Treated as lepers by the villagers, they were ostracized due to fears that it might be contagious.

They were taken to a cave located in the mountain region less traveled and simply forgotten, a prayer in their heart that they were never heard from again, and life moved on for the majority as well as the Torofihanta. The majority died to starvation, incapable to move using their own strength and simply gave up hope. But a teenager at the time from the Karitegaki family learned how to cope with his ailments and never gave up. Karitegaki Akira learned how to use his chakra to make his enlarged circulatory system which appeared like thick tendrils to act as a substitute for his dilapidated muscles. As he became more skilled, he noticed other abilities…at the expense of the remaining survivors.

Akira learned that their lack of muscles gave him peculiar advantages. His weight was reduced by a third of his weight without a penalty towards physical abilities. Another was the ability to separate his skin to allow access to his tendrils, making them stick out at first like small spikes while in later development as an extension for limbs to capture prey. But the strongest ability was that of harvesting. The Shuukaku bloodline bearer is able to extend their lifetime exponentially by transplanting human hearts into their body. This also served to nullify the chains of their predecessors, as the Shuukaku learned how to manipulate one of the elements which their organ donor formerly knew as well as certain techniques and abilities which they also held.

Decades later they re-emerged back into normal village life in a new home, Iwa. Hiding their abilities for the most part while hunting among the freshly [or almost] dead on the battlefields, they are known as ordinary shopkeepers, refugees from a small village who sought life in a bigger one. There was no mention of their predecessors, as those of the older and feeble generation were sent back to their caves in the Waterfall village, where it is there responsibility to take care of loose ends; the destruction of their feeble through the fight for survival.

Edited September 8, 2009 by Rilon

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