Abe Ikkaku

Clan

Abe Ikkaku
Seer of the dead.
The Rundown
IC	Summer, 2115
OOC	April 9th 2098
Voice Actors
Japanese	Emily Adachi
English	Vic Mignogna
Personal
Birthdate	April 9th
Gender	Male
Age	15
Height	5'7"
Weight	145 Pounds
Kekkei Genkai	Ochi Blu
The Abe Clan
Blood type	AB+
Occupation	Shinobi
Affiliation	Sungakure no Sato
Team	-Ryu Keichi
Partner	--Ryu Keichi
Rank
Ninja Rank	Genin
Nature Type Sand Release (Affinity) Wind Release Void Release
Jutsu Ninjutsu Genjutsu Desert Coffin

Background

It is a bit different when growing up as a child, you often wonder truly who you are and where you came from, but such is the life of those who belong to the more obscure bloodlines that have made a mark in the history scrolls. Ikkaku had been born preluding the height of the NCIA invasion, his mother and father, fearing the persecution of their remaining family decided their best option was to flee the lightning country, in search of a more safer dwelling, perhaps in the country of fire.
Though shortly after they had attempted to leave the lightning village, they were met with one pitfall after another, complications on their travel route had gotten them lost and running out of food quickly, and having an infant child with them was only slowing them down even more. Being that the only memories of his parents occurred before the end of his second year of life on this planet, Ikkaku has no real memories of his parents, only fading glimpses here and there in his dreams. This is because his parents decided to make what he hoped was a very hard decision for them, to sell their son to a slaver for a hefty fee, in the hopes that they could escape to somewhere they would not be persecuted for their gifts and abilities. Leaving him with nothing more than a silver pendant bearing his first name, Ikkaku, in kanji etched into the metal.
Ikkaku was sold to the slaver, and after growing up through his infancy into early childhood was immediately put to work in some of the work camps they had around where ever it was that he was at, he had no idea having no formal schooling or teacher to guide him through life save this horde of bandits and mercenaries that regulated the child labor camps. It was around this age that Ikkaku began what he thought was hearing voices in his head, it wasn't until he had grown out of his infancy and early childhood into his younger teenage years that he was able to put two and two together and realize that they weren't voices in his head after all, but voices of the ghosts of humanity's past.
At age nine he had seen an opportunity for escape, after behaving for so many years and getting to know the group of thieves, he was ready to do something better with his life. He seized the escape opportunity and made his way northbound, hoping to find a village nearby and figure out some kind of plan to survive.
His plan had a bit of a wrench thrown into it when the mountainous region around him slowly turned to that of the desert, a terrain he was completely unfamiliar with, especially why something such as that was so dangerous of a climate to be in without knowing. A sandstorm came after he had been walking for hours in the hot desert sun, his only companion the ghost of a boy who had died of a similar fate, warning him that he should find shelter and water soon or he may join him shortly.
Ikkaku was so dehydrated that he lost consciousness somewhere in the middle of the suna desert, when he awoke he was in what appeared to be a building shaped from clay or hardened sand, a strange symbol above the door, rustling the sheets had gotten the attention of the nurse in the room.
“Ah you’re awake, how are you feeling?”
“Wh..where am I?”
“You’re in the sand village child, what were you doing all the way out in the middle of the desert? Had you not been brought to us by a passing rider, you surely would’ve been dead by now with how bad that sand storm was. What’s your name hun?”
“Uhh...Er...I..Ikkaku.”
“Ok Ikkaku, what’s your last name? So I can contact your parents.”
“I…I....don’t...know. I dont know who my parents are. Or where I was from, ive been held prisoner for the past few years by slavers.”
The nurse grew wide eyed with terror as she realized what he had been saying, saying nothing else but walking over to the boy, she pulled him towards her and gave him a big hug, a loving embrace that Ikkaku had never once experienced before, it made him feel strange inside.
“Oh you poor child. How old are you Ikkaku?”
“The necklace I have from my parents has my birthday etched into it, here,”
Ikkaku passed the nurse his necklace, she stared at it for a few minutes before answering, “Ahh an april brithday! Youre really only seven years old huh? You seem pretty sharp for someone so young. Tell you what Ikkaku, you’re coming home with me tonight, Id like to offer you a place to stay and some food to fill your belly, no one should be so alone, and without their parents.”
Ikkaku couldnt hold back the tears that began forming in the corner of his eyes, no one had ever been so selflessly generous towards him before, he felt this strange sinking feeling in his chest that he had never before experienced. And then suddenly, he clutched her waist with his tiny arms, mumbling into her clothing just two simple words over and over.
“Th-thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
Ikkaku was taken in by Katsune, and for the rest of his childhood never wanted for anything, after he came of age and enrolled in the shinobi academy, he completed it in record time, graduating years before his peers that he had started off with, in that time his ability to communicate with ‘the other side’ had drastically grown as well, being able to hold entire conversations with the spiritual beings that graced his presence, after he had been graduated for several months, he breached the topic of his true parents with his caregiver, asking if she had any information about them, but with what little they had to go from there wasnt much he could do to track them down. He vowed to find them and make them answer why they abandoned him so long ago, if it was the last thing he ever did.

Personality

Ikkaku has had a bit of a poor childhood; but he's also shown to have a very high intelligence time and time again. Though he is only 15 years old, he is highly knowledgeable in chakra control as well as physical hand to hand combat style fighting. He likes to read books of practical knowledge that he is interested in and has the habit of falling asleep in the position that he reads. He speaks informally to everyone and is often blunt or cold in his replies. Ikkaku does not trust others easily because of growing up in the poor environment he did, even as a child he constantly went out by himself, often leaving his brother wondering just what he was doing with himself. Even when he agrees to become someone's partner, he does it for the sake of fulfilling his own desires and needs, there is always a secondary agenda when it came to Ikkaku. However, despite his sometimes self centered thought process, he has a soft spot for women and children, and loathes the idea of hurting them. During his mischievous early teens, Ikkaku discovered a new hobby, pick pocketing people, he had an almost vigilante way of doing it, because he only targeted people who were clearly so wealthy they would never want for anything, especially if he saw them treating others as if they were beneath them, simply due to their money. That was something that truly set Ikkaku off.

Appearance

Physical Description: Ikkaku is a lean young male of average weight and height, sporting messy onyx dark black hair that seemed to go in every conceivable direction, with a pair of deep turquoise blue eyes to go along with them. He was decently attractive, evident by the girls that always seemed to be not far behind him during his shinobi academy years, though none of them seemed to really interest the boy, in truth this was due to the fact that he was struggling with his own self identity, which he would later determine to be his bisexuality that was the root of his confusion. If you asked a friend or classmate of his if Ikkaku cared about his appearance or vanity, they would most likely say no, because of the vibe Ikkaku gives off to those around him, almost as if he's distancing himself from them.

Trivia

OOC Trivia:
Ikkaku graduated the academy after only six months of attendance.
Ikkaku is bisexual.
Ikkaku has an IQ of 195.

Generally Known IC Trivia:
Ikkaku and Keichi ended up doing three missions in three days since meeting each other, which he felt was quite a feat, despite their manual labor like qualities.
Ikkaku smoked weed with his tema mate the first night they met.

Private IC Trivia:
The one thing Ikkaku yearns for more than anything in life, though hell never openly admit it, is falling truly deeply, and madly in love with another person.
Ikkaku often wonders if he is losing his mind, or if the voice she hears are ghosts. Its a question that often keeps him up at night.

Quotes

• "Oh god no....hes not.....Yeah. He did."
  
• "WHAT WHY?!"
  
• "Oh god no. T_T"