Tsururu Aria

Tsururu Aria
Yokai Jinchūriki of the Nekomata
Debut
IC	Summer, 2115
OOC	July 16, 2014
Voice Actors
Japanese	Aya Hirano
English	Laura Bailey
Personal
Birthdate	March 6th
Gender	Female
Age	15
Height	163
Weight	49.9 kg
Kekkei Genkai	Idenshi no Nekomata
Blood type	A
Occupation	Kunoichi
Affiliation	Kumogakure no Sato
Team	--
Partner	--
Rank
Ninja Rank	Chūnin
Ninja Registration	097834
Family Tsururu Mira (Biological Sister/Deceased) Tsururu Mara (Mother) Tsururu Faolan (Father) Furousha Eiko (Adoptive/Furousha/Sister)
Nature Type Fire Release (Affinity) Lightning Release Ash Release
Jutsu NinTaijutsu

Tsururu Aria is a Chūnin within Kumogakure no Sato. A Yokai Jinchūriki of the Ash Nekomata. A Furousha transplant and one of the burgeoning Kunoichi of Kumogakure with her eyes set towards the top. A steadfastly loyal Kunoichi to her country she's always ready to protect it and those closest to her.

General

Alias(s): Kitten; Rururi
Sexuality: Homosexual
Likes: Natural Lightning, Heights, Parkour/Free Running, Her Sister, Naps
Dislikes: Rice heavy dishes/meals, Her Parents, Drug Dealers, Traps
Favorites:
-Food: Fresh fish dishes
-Color: Red
-Music Genre: Rock/Harder Songs
-Book Genre: Thriller
-Hangout: Highest accessible point available to her at any given moment. Mira’s Grave (Empty as it is).
Taijutsu Styles: 'Skydancer' style.
Weapon of choice: Claws



Extended Relationships:
-Teacher(s):
Senuskai Sato [Briefly Jonin Sensei]
-Friend(s):
Shiriya Makoto [Childhood Friend/Former Team Member]
Hayashi Tetsuo [Begrudging Team Member/Fellow Jinchuuriki]
-Other(s):
Furousha Clan [???]
Tozeika Jishin [Disliked Raikage/Begrudging loyalty]

Personality

Like much of Rai No Kuni Aria spent her early years, and even now, a family loving girl. It’s this love for her family, particularly her sister Mira, that pushed her to become a Shinobi in the first place as she chased after her sister in hopes of being just like her. It’s that dream that truly rules the girl and dictates much of what she does.

Those feelings of attachment and love for her sister have put her family oriented, and loving, lifestyle to a test as she all but abandoned her immediate family when they refused to let her follow her sister’s footsteps in their grief over her death. To this day she hasn’t forgiven them and shows no signs of wanting to. She loves them, like she loves all of her family and always will, she just can’t forgive them.

At times she can appear to be a truly random and unfocused young women. Hardworking when she is ‘on the job’ or training she has a habit of staring up at the clouds when she isn’t busy with the life of a Shinobi. Running and climbing to find the best vantage spot to settle in and watch the clouds above float on by. Often found dozing off on a 'catnap' once she's settled in.

In short? Aria is a loving, hardworking, if not occasionally daydreamy, young woman whose out to honor Kumogakure and her sister’s memory in her career as a Shinobi.

Appearance

Physical Description: Aria’s paler than a majority of her comrades in Kumogakure. With some of the more notable Shinobi in Kumogakure’s past being of a darker or more tanned nature Aria is one who never really ‘tanned’. She’s almost incapable of it and doesn’t even seem to burn under the sun’s rays. Physically the girl is fit, even compared to Shinobi, though you wouldn’t be able to tell when looking at her. Beneath her coat and pants the girl’s body has an undeniable ‘fit’ look to it. The outlines of muscles noticeable with even a momentary glance should one catch a look at an uncovered limb.

When catching such a glance the numerous scars and bruises from the girl’s body become visible. A consequence of her favorite pastimes Aria has had numerous broken or sprained bones since she was a girl. Even to this day she is punished with an occasional scrape and bruise from trusting the handhold of a rock-wall or a misplaced step when free-running. As such it’s not unusual to find a mixture of the occasional old-slow-healing scar with a fresh wound of some sort.

As of her encounter with the Nibi and Nekomata Aria's appearance has changed slightly. Her ears have shifted their location, thanks to a transfusion of the Furousha bloodline unknowingly given to her, they've been placed atop her head. Where her ears formerly were there isn't a single scar at all, as if healed by some extraordinary source, and the fuzzy things have been known to twitch from time to time in the occasionally cool mountain air of the region. Along with those ears the girl's body has grown a tail that is often times curled beneath some clothing but when given freedom with swish and twitch in the free air.

Misc: Aria has always been a fan of a good bracelet or wrist accessory. Some kind of band, ribbon, or bracelet wrapped around a wrist most of the times. Preferring to right wrist to her left as a simple matter of opinion and not aesthetics.

Additionally, the Hitai-ate is worn tied around her waist rather than her forehead like it is traditionally worn.

As of her encounter with the Nekomata Iromuka Aria has a sealing mark from the creature placed upon her right arm halfway between her elbow and shoulder. The initial/current state of the mark is below.

Yokai Seal Stage One

History

Dawn of a Kunoichi

In the family-centric Rai No Kuni Aria’s extended family uprooted itself towards the more populated and important area’s of the country shortly after she was born. It was around that time when the spark of a Shinobi seemed to spring up within the family tree. Mira, Aria’s elder sister, as well as a few other children showing a potential for the profession. As a result the family moved inwards towards, of all things, Stormhold. The misconception that the Academy would be near the capitol putting a slight damper on the family’s initial plans. Despite this, they settled in outside the Capitol’s protective walls to eek out a living. Aria’s father becoming some-what well known for dishes involving fresh ingredients, particularly fresh caught fish, and starting a small shack of a restaurant around the girl’s second birthday.

It was around that time when Aria’s sister graduated the Academy and became a Genin. Mira having chosen to depart from the family environment to become a Shinobi instead with a few of the other children from the extended ‘family’ group. She returned triumphant, the first of the children, and became a source of a great deal of pride for the family. The girl’s childhood was one of relative and surprising comfort despite the somewhat harsh terrain of Rai No Kuni. Even as a toddler Aria didn’t mind falling down and getting scrapes and bruises as she ran around and explored. Often times, even as a five year old girl, climbing around to heights that would shock her parents. There were numerous times when the girl found herself so high up that she could not climb back down and the girl’s sister would have to come ‘rescue’ her.

It was at that early age that Aria grew attached to her elder sister. Mira would take her even higher up the cliffs and buildings when she went to aid Aria. Taking the child all the way to the top so she could see the best view. Often sitting with the five year old for hours and sharing meals with her atop a seemingly impossible to climb cliff. It wasn’t long before Aria wanted to be just like her sister and become a Shinobi like her. She spent the next two years eagerly ‘in training’, more exploration and getting into dangerous places with climbing, so that she could some day join the academy just like Mira did.

On the eve of her trip to join the Academy the unthinkable happened. Mira died during the initial invasion of the continent that left Kumogakure in a position of power over the entire world. Shocked with grief over the loss of their daughter Aria’s parents refused to let her go to the academy and insisted that she stay home with them. Begrudgingly the grief stricken girl gave into their demands in hopes that they would let her go once they calmed down from the loss. Rife with anger at the loss of her sister and the grieving girl rarely spent time at home. Opting instead to spend her days away from home on the cliffs and buildings that she and her sister would climb together. The girl getting fairly adept and climbing the familiar terrain of Rai No Kuni in the time following Mira’s death.

Time passed rather quickly for Aria and two years after Mira’s passing the first of the countries to try and free itself from Kumogakure, Otogakure, failed in it’s attempt. Sparked by this Aria begged to go to the Academy again. Her parent’s promptly refused her yet again in their concern for their daughter’s safety. Not caring for their perceived cowardice and still grief-stricken attitudes Aria did the unthinkable. She left for the Academy anyway and, to a degree, forsook her family when she did. Rai No Kuni being a very family centric culture it was relatively unheard of for a child to do something of the sort. Still some of her extended family supported her and one of her cousin’s gave her a ride to the Academy when he was delivering goods to the city of Kumogakure.

There she joined the academy with the help of an understanding teacher. The instructor giving her a place to stay while she was a student at the academy. Although she started late, compared to some of her peers, the girl used hard work to push herself through the Academy. Her physical training and climbing helping to edge her out on the physical and Taijutsu aspects of her time at the Academy. She pushed herself to graduate as quickly as possible so she could get out and avenger her sister.

She didn’t get her chance. In the spring of 2110, around her tenth birthday, Kumogakure lost control of the world at the battle of Nigiyakashufu and the Empire fell. This shocked the girl and deterred her from her intentions to become a Shinobi. Initially bent on revenge for her sister she wasn’t sure what to think when a pacifist Kage took over following the fall of the Empire. With the help of the instructor she was staying with she found a reason to continue on: She would honor her sister’s memory no matter the state of Kumogakure.

With renewed vigor she set out, once again, to become a genin. Her initial rush slowed slightly and although her early hard-work had pushed her further ahead to those of her own age she slowed down after the fall of the Empire. She spent the next two years with the rest of the students her own age in an effort to graduate and at twelve years of age she graduated from the Academy. Her parents were at the ceremony and despite her revelations and changed reason for becoming a Shinobi Aria didn’t speak to them or even acknowledge they were there.

She spent the next three years doing the occasional odd-job or small thing as a Shinobi. Never quite doing much of anything with her career intent to catch up with her sister in other ways. Spending much of the time training in various different ways. Taking up the growing ‘art’ of free-running and mixing that with her habits of climbing. Finding new and unique vantage points within Kumogakure and Stormhold.

It was finally with the graduation of the year of 2115 when she picked the pace back up again. After three relative years of slacking that followed her hard work she came across an old friend. Upon meeting Makoto, a childhood companion, she realized how much she was slacking and together with Makoto began training again.

The Era Of The Yōkai (Fall 2115 Onwards)

It was that training that got both Makoto and Aria into trouble. With the Fall of Kusagakure and the return of the Yōkai missions with more and more danger were becoming common. One such mission placed the two genin square in the sights of a rampaging Yōkai who appeared to be sheltered by the monks of Ninshū. The encounter didn't end well for either of the genin as both nearly fell to the creature's Yōkai-Dama attack.

Although they survived that encounter with a Yōkai Aria's luck with the next one wasn't quite as good. It was during a straightforward reconnaissance mission to discover the source of volcanic ash falling across Rai No Kuni territory that she ran into yet another Yōkai. This Yōkai, The Nekomata Iromuka, was fighting a battle of survival against the beast of legend: The Nibi. Two opportune Jashinists had come to hunt the Yōkai ignoring their invasion of Kumogakure's territory in hopes of capturing the beast. During their attempt to capture the beast they came across Aria and her scouting partner and despite attempts to evade them, even with the help of a mysterious Furousha ally, both Aria and Aoi, her partner, found themselves captured by the two men.

It was during this capture that her life, however briefly, ended. Hovering between life and death the Nekomata offered Aria the power to retaliate one last time. Aria accepted the offer and with open arms she traded away what both she and the beast expected to be the last few moments of her life for that power. Using this power she assaulted the Jashinist who had 'slain' her and left him a battered and broken man before finally slipping away to 'death' once again.

She awoke some days later in Kumogakure's Hospital a changed girl. Now host to the very same Yōkai she had made a deal with to survive. The creature had unwittingly been locked within her due to the help of the Furousha who had saved her life, for yet another time. In the final attempt to save her life the Furousha had gifted Aria with much more than life but a new 'family' of sorts thanks to a transfusion of her own blood Aria was now, in part, a Furousha s well as a Jinchūriki to the Nekomata.

Thus, the girl survived her second encounter with a Yōkai although her life changed quite a bit that day.

The next few months were an unpleasant mixture of getting used to her new frame, and the demon within her, and adjusting to growing responsibilities. It wasn't long before she'd become the 'surrogate' partner to one Hayashi Tetsuo, although not by choice but perhaps by destiny, and his missions with her. The missions became more and more frequent and it didn't take long, the opposite in fact, for her to realize one unique fact about Tetsuo: He was like her, a Jinchūriki with a yokai inside of him. A thought that frightened her in numerous ways upon the realization.

Alas, it wasn't long after that that she finally achieved a goal long in the waiting. She became a Chūnin and was one step closer to her sister. One step closer to vengeance.

Trivia

OOC Trivia:
Aria is the first, official at least, Yokai Jinchūriki for Kumogakure.
She's a total lesbian. The more confident and badass of a Kunoichi you are the more she's attracted to you.
Her hate for Konoha is solely reliant on her Sister's death. Otherwise she might have a begrudging like for them and a crush on a few of their Kunoichi.
Aria has only ever briefly left Rai no Kuni's borders. A trip to the Ninshū monastery just beyond the border.

Generally Known IC Trivia:
She's staying with her roommate, and former teammate, Shiriya Makoto.
She hates the leaf. At times uncontrollably. (Do not mention her sister)
She isn't the biggest fan of the current ranking structure of Rai no Kuni. Especially the Raikage and Sato.

Private IC Trivia:
She has yet to reveal her state as a Jinchūriki yet she knows of at least one more in Hayashi Tetsuo.
She's run into the Biju, The Two Tailed Cat, Matatabi and has yet to tell anybody.
She has also met another Yokai (Making it two if you count Tetsuo) within the Rai no Kuni bounds. She's a bit of a demon magnet.
Her transfusion to the Furousha was unknown to her until she awoke after it. She has yet to meet another member of the clan beyond the one responsible.
Although formerly believing in the afterlife after her 'incident' with the Yokai she's no longer religious.
Hayashi Tetsuo scares her. His nonchalant usage of his powers as a Jinchūriki that is. Otherwise, without it, she would find him a tad bit amusing.

Quotes

"I'm so tiiiiired"
"Do I have to..?"
"God... Fucking... Damnit... Tetsuo..."
"The Leaf.. as arrogant as always. After all the lives they've taken you think they could pull their heads out their asses."
"Mira... why'd you have to go?"
"When I find the one who killed her... I'll take my time."
"The only thing I hate more than puzzles, and riddles, and junk... is traps."