Sokudo Ichiro

Sokudo Ichiro
Gotta Run, Gotta Run Now!
Username	Kouta
Debut
Game	Ch.1 "Capture Nankan Kirano"
Real World	Spring 2015
Voice Actors
Japanese	Reiko Kiuchi
English	Ian Nelson
Personal
Aliases	First Son of the Sokudo
Birthdate	June 1, 2100
Gender
Age	15
Height	5' 9" | 175 cm cm
Weight	135 lbs kg
Kekkei Genkai	Speed Force
Blood type	O-
Clan	Sokudo
Affiliation	Kumogakure no Sato
Nationality	Rai no Kuni
Partner	--
Rank
Ninja Rank	Genin
Ninja Registration	131604
Academy Graduation Age	15
Family Sokudo Remiya (Mother) Otomo Kei (Father)
Nature Type Lightning Release
Jutsu Bunshin no Jutsu Kawarimi no Jutsu Henge no Jutsu Eternal Acceleration; First Run [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Cheek Tap [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Round We Go [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Here I Am! [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Acknowledge Your Prince! [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Thunder Clap [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Who is Zoom? [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Nighty Night [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Which One Are You? [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Now You See Me [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Now You Don't [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Gut Punch [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Spin! [Rank Up! Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Hit and Run; Nosebleed [Rank Up! Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Cornea Irritation Shunshin no Jutsu [Reduced by Path of the Balanced] Shuriken Kyousen no Jutsu Shuriken Kansho no Jutsu

Appearance

Hair Color: Blonde Eye Color: Green
Clothing: Ichiro is often seen wearing relatively form-fitting clothing, despite his thinner nature. He usually wears blacks, white, and golds, all the colors of kumo, and tries not to restrict his movement at all. Typically his means he tends to wear sleeveless attire, or shorts whenever possible. Ichiro also wears coverage on his forearms most of the time, either bracers or wrappings, in order to cover the marks of burns he suffered.
Physical Description: Ichiro is not of an unusual height, but his 5’9” rarely leaves him feeling inadequate, and he is still young and has growing left to do. Still, like many of the Sokudo, he is thin and built for running, not feats of strength. Ichiro doesn’t boast a lot of muscle tone or mass, his slender build almost giving him a feminine appearance. Ichiro, like most of his clansmen, bears burns on his forearms, shoulders, and shins from entering his Critical Friction state too often and too fast. He covers these up whenever he can.

History

⚡ The NCIA and Lynx Ichiro was young when the NCIA came to call. He was just under eight and had very little idea of what was about to happen. He and his mother were ushered off into the catacombs under Kumo, where the experiments were to begin that would change the Sokudo forever. His father, married into the clan, and not born to it, was left out of the experiments. His genetics could give no secrets of further the project.

The initial year of living in the laboratory was pretty peaceful. The children all lived in a shared dorm-like area. The various mothers would rotate babysitting, and they were basically left alone. The first year was where the peaceful breakthroughs occurred. Sokudo unlocked the potential in their genes for infinite acceleration, and aside from a few shots, the children were unharmed.

It was a slow transition into something worse. First, the mothers would come to babysit bearing burn marks, or other wounds. They didn’t talk about them, but some of the children were old enough to figure out something was wrong. Then they quit rotating entirely. Ichiro’s mother, a pregnant woman, and a grandmother who was too old to participate in the trials remained to watch them. They ceased seeing the other members of their clan, and visits from fathers and friends stopped entirely. All that remained were these women, and those who had not begun to exhibit the superior speed which was their birthright. The older women, Ichiro’s mother included, began to grow depress, despondent. The older children would then begin to care for the young ones, feeding them, making sure they didn’t show off any ability that would get them in trouble. Ichiro remembered well the days when one of them would accidentally get caught zipping around the small room, though. The looks of pain on the mothers as their children were pulled away from them.

Nobody who went through those doors ever came back.

When Ichiro was ten, the scientists began to make forays into the child holding area. They had all learned by now that running was not allowed, and so nobody had been taken away in some time. The scientists planned to change that. They took the oldest children and submitted them to a battery of tests, including, unfortunately, making them run. Ichiro, and a lot of other children, were taken from the room that day. The young boy thought he’d never see his mother again.

Two months of tests sent Ichiro running as fast as he could under pain of death. Most of it remains just a blur to him, blacked out except for a few clear fragments of himself bursting into flame and being put out over and over again. Luckily, Ichiro did not follow the fate of many of his clansmen, and after two long months Lynx’s laboratory was discovered and shut down.

Ichiro and the other surviving subjects were hauled from their cells beneath the lab and reunited with the three women and the children who remained. All in all, it looked like only 20 or so Sokudo had survived their ordeal. Ichiro was glad he and his mother were among them. Many families had not been so lucky.

The Clan went back to their land, vast and empty with so few to fill it, and took stock of what they had. Four women and five men who had all survived, broken as they were, and eleven kids of varying ages. They were a sad, sorry lot, but they had survived. They attempted to return to their lives, though few felt it was quite the same anymore.

Ichiro and mother felt that particular strain. They hadn’t seen Ichiro’s father in over three years. He had never been allowed to visit, and surely had looked for them when they never came home. Yet none of them were the same people they were when they left. Ichiro’s father had taken up drinking, his mother was scarred and scared, and Ichiro himself was trying to repress the last two months of his life.

⚡ The Speed Force Ichiro’s family did not repair overnight. It wasn’t some mystically fairy tale that ended when everybody came home. His parents were distant, and tended to be wrapped up in their own problems. Nobody noticed Ichiro sneaking out practically all day and playing with the other kids, running with them, when they felt brave enough. The boy was basically invisible. The other children, those with parents, shared similar stories.

Until Sokudo Han.

The second oldest Sokudo left standing, Han refused to let his future be determined by one asshole of a man. He vowed to return the limiter that let them safely harness their speed. IF it could be removed, why not replace it? So he set off, failing miserably at his goal, but attaining a secondary miracle. The Speed Force. When he returned, not only unscarred but also moving faster than any of them had known they could, the whole clan thought it a miracle. Those older and more damaged refused to learn from him, but he taught the children of the Sokudo to discharge excess energy using lightning attuned chakra. He taught them to harness the forces he had stumbled on by pure accident. He gave them back their life.

⚡ Becoming a Ninja His parents were slowly coming back to themselves, and by the time Ichiro was of age, they had formed some semblance of a family. His mother smiled again. His father was only occasionally drunk off his ass, and had started to find work again. Ichiro would mark it as a win. So he went to the academy in Kumo, where he began his training to become a ninja. He couldn’t entirely say that he agreed with his country’s teachings, since they allowed his horrible history to happen in the first place, but he could understand the idea of protecting his loved ones. He had to be strong enough to ensure nobody in Kumo could ever attempt what had happened to the Sokudo. He had to be strong to end them swiftly, and if necessary, violently.

So believing that he could make a difference, Ichiro entered the academy, practicing a habit of hope. For both himself, and for the future.

Quotes

• "I don't think I'm ready for this,"- Ichiro to Sato
  
• "Do you always invite women to your secret mountain house?"- Ichiro to Sato
  

Trivia

General Knowledge Available to Public; IC

• Ichiro cannot actively use Ninjutsu or Genjutsu. He can only intuitively use them in hybrids.

Private Knowledge; OOC

• Ichiro was a subject of the experiments the NCIA performed on the Sokudo Clan. He has burned across a large portion of his body to prove it.

Outside the Box; OOC

• Ichiro is a perfect candidates for the Celestial Gates. He doesn't possess them because his controller, Kouta, already has a Gates user.