Suizuma Kazu
Suizuma Kazu is a jonin of Kirigakure no Sato, specializing in assassinations and espionage. She is also a proficient hunter-nin, and prefers to work alone. Kazu changed her name before she seriously took on this work as a jounin, wanting to stay out off the radar to be able to do her job better. She prefers anonymity, but gained some notoriety after her identity change when she competed in the Arrakis Ninja Arts Tournament and soundly defeated every opponent she was faced with and walked away with only minor injuries.
Kazu is a high-speed Taijutsu specialist, and uses a few Ninjutsu techniques for utility when necessary. She also specializes in leaving lasting damage on her opponents, using poisons and making sure that they bleed and burn after her attacks. Her bloodline allows her to use Steam techniques in conjunction with her attacks, by heating up a reserve of her own body water. She has mastered her bloodline so well that she has learned to incorporate the earth element in her bloodline, absorbing and including toxins in her attack to further inflict pain on her enemies.
Appearance
Eye Color: Light blue
Hair Color: Kazu's hair is black and naturally wavy, and is just barely long enough to touch her shoulders in some places. She generally parts it on the left side of her head, and keeps the hair on the left behind her ear. The right side falls just barely over the front of her face, but not enough to cover her right eye.
Clothing: She is rarely seen out of her ninja equipment, which is a mostly light armor made of black leather and metal for protection. Her Hitai-ate is almost always around her neck, favoring protection in that vital area instead of her forehead. She wears a hooded cloak as well, enjoying the anonymity it can sometimes provide. Her clothing offers what she considers a perfect mix of protection and freedom of movement; the protection for the rare case she is taken by surprise and has to take a hit.
In the rare instance she is not out on a mission she prefers light clothing, or as little clothing as possible. She grew up having to dress lightly to assist in mastering her bloodline, but in recent years she has been able to perfect it and release her steam in specific areas without having to waste chakra or her own water.

Physical Description: Kazu has a small build and an athletic frame. Her skin curiously pale, something of an oddity in her family since almost everyone else in the Suizuma clan is at least a bit tan. Her appearance gives off the impression that she is a professional, as does the natural look on her face. She has the tattoo of the Suizuma on her left arm, starting an inch below her shoulder and ending three inches above her elbow. She also has a tattoo of the crest of the Umikoi high on her right arm, a tribute to her first and only love that died during the Kirigakure Civil War of 2115. Her most prominent tattoo is of a serpent, with the tail at her lower spine and the head at the back of her neck. This covers most of her back, in an intricate black and white design.
Various scars cover her body in various places, testaments to close calls that were not quite enough to kill her. The only two that are noticeable are both very faint and on her face; an inch long one that comes down from the right side of her lower lip, and a much longer and jagged one that comes down from just below her right eye. Her eyes are almost always sharp and piercing, another trait of the Suizuma that she managed to inherit.
History
Childhood
Kazu was very sheltered growing up, and was dysfunctional to the concept of 'friends' for most of her early years because of it. Both her father and mother were talented medical ninja, and mostly left her to herself upon the discovery that she had no desire or penchant to cause trouble. They had named her well; Kazu could mean a great many things, but they chose her name because it closely resembled a meaning for 'discipline'. She was well loved as a child, even though her parents were often busy with their work. She took the free time to learn to read and study from an early age, and developed an interest in science quickly. She enjoyed biology the most, but took a liking to finding out how most everything worked.
Quotes
- "Let's go, I want to at least be there if I can help. I know I can't do much right now… but I'm not going to hide."
- "I guess I'm off the hook, then... Can't be punished by someone who's dead."
- "You should know better than to try to get more out of me than I'm offering. Really, now."
- "Let me return your honesty with some of my own. No one has ever crossed me and lived long afterwards."
- "Maybe you'll think twice about picking off my comrades if you're swimming in your own blood."
- "Sometimes talking can rattle the enemy, I've done it before. But sometimes people just like to hear the sound of their own voices. Hard to tell sometimes."
- "You’re too slow to answer, I’m too irritated to wait, and you’ve got a lot less time than we do if you don’t start talking."
- "Yeah, Tubby. Eyes only, you’ve exceeded your allotted ass-grabs for the night."
- "People with talent often have the wrong impression that things will go as they think."
- "If you grow accustomed to others clinging to you… Someday, you’ll be dragged down with them."