Raigeki Clan

Legacy of Darkness; Destined to Bring Light.
The Raigeki Rise.
Location: Mizu no Kuni; A rare few actually live in the village of the hidden Mist, most live in their own settlement.
Clan Starter: Raigeki Shitaji
Clan Head: The head of Each Family, in most cases. The Clan Council in 'big' cases and with dealing with criminals from the clan.
Clan Age and Status: The Raigeki are approximately 100 years old, and all but unknown within Mizu no Kuni. The only notations by the village's standards on them are that a few have been shinobi, and one singlehandedly defeated a squardron of NCIA (Before dying from immense damage to his own systems), during the Village's revolutions.
Clan Bloodline: Hiraishin; The Soul of Lightning
Clan Element: Lightning
Clan Emblem: Still being designed/decided on.
Clan Info: - The Raigeki are all but unknown, and while a few generations old have little to no reputation as a clan.
- The clan is very tight knit, and holds a level of reverence for its founder that is seen in few other clans. It is considered an insult to the clan to speak of him in a way that is anything but respectful.
- Because of their history, very few Raigeki are actually shinobi-nin, it is bred mentally and emotionally out of them.
- No player character member of the clan will mention at any point any knowledge of the clan's kekkei genkei or its exact workings. It was last mastered by Raigeki Shitaji, and very few members of the clan are actually born with the abilities to unlock the kekkei genkei. Even fewer are born with it active.
- Members of the Clan have a natural aversion to snakes, this is something that has been bred into their clan's subculture, primarily because of their origins.
- Raigeki are often farmers, skilled workers, or construction workers. Very few take positions which involve their capability to be a warrior, and they shed away from being workers involved with electricity, because if they have the kekkei genkei and can't control it, they can damage expensive equipment on accident.
- The 'Han/Chigyou' (See; Lands/Fiefdom) of the Raigeki clan are upon the north western side of the island south-southwest of the main island of Mizu no Kuni (The main island is the island with Avalon and Kirigakure no Sato on it), and is something around 3 to four and a half miles in total area. A small island inbetween the southwestern corner of Mizu no Kuni's mainland and their han in currently in 'closed dispute' between the Umikoi and the Raigeki, the two sharing the lands, the former primarily using it for fishing and as a naval base, and the latter using it to extend their farming regions. Neither bothers each other, and as such things are fine.

Blood is the origin of us all;

Approximately one hundred and twenty six years ago, a young man by the name if 'Raigeki Shitaji' was born to a rural family within the country of Rice fields. His father was a farmer, and his mother was a skilled weaver. The fourth son in a family of six children, his parents were not too glad for him to have been born that day. The only thing that was eventful that day was the destruction of the family's lightning rod, during a storm in the middle of the time the child was born.

His parents had named him it out of spite, finding his features unagreeable and thinking him solely a sign of bad luck and misfortune. Though his mother fed him and his parents took care of him until the time he was six years old, on the exact day of his birth, six years after he had been born, he was forced from the family. The night before he had gotten in a fight with one of his older brothers, and suddenly, a storm of horrible proportions had come.

The rice harvest was ruined, and though his father and mother had enough money and stores to survive the season until the next, they said their son was too much a threat to their family, and would only cause them to starve quicker if they weren't able to plant more rice seedlings quick enough. With a bloody nose, no food, and only the clothes on his back, the child known as Raigeki Shitaji, the sarcasm of his parents to this child had already hardened him, so when he stumbled into one of the larger villages within the country of the rice, he did well for himself. He was able to steal and fend for himself, living a meager existence, but surviving. When it came to fighting other orphans, he simply fled the scene, knowing himself too weak and inexperienced to take any more than one of them, but not fearing a thing about them.

Years passed, and he was then ten years of age. He had survived and made a name for himself as someone to not mess with, even though if in the process he made himself marked to avoid, and thereby perpetually lonely. It was at that time that he met a mysterious man, a man with long ebon hair and pale skin like none he had never met before. A shinobi-nin of immense power, who saw potential in the boy.

Shitaji saw potential in the man, as well. He hoped to find a place in the world along side that man, and grow strong enough to prove to his family that they were wrong. He was not a burden and symbol of bad luck, he was quite the opposite.

The potential seen in him was rightly placed, as the young man grew quickly, learning the basic arts of the Shinobi-nin without problem, and slowly learning more and more of arts which others had yet to use. He became an officer in the growing army of the ebony haired legend whom would found, the village hidden in sound.

And as he grew, his abilities grew. Slowly, he began to ponder the powers of his own genetics. He had heard all about the abilities passed down through genetics in ninja clan, the amazing, physical law defying powers. But he was not the only one who wondered this, as the man was soon commissioned by his master, after his master had encountered heavy resistance by someone with a particularly 'mysterious' kekkei genkei.

Shitaji was ordered to gather up the people who he had once called his family, and the entire village which the lived in. He had been told to abduct them at first, and then move in with a force of shinobi-nin to take the village all at once. The young officer in the forces of the Snake Sannin of Konohagakure no Sato did as ordered, gathering those forces and even assisting his master in tests with them. Tests in an attempt to activate the 'storm letting' which his master had assumed existed in his protege, and likely in his family.

Tests which quickly quelled their numbers. Tests which would have killed them all, had not fate intervened. In the middle of the night, Shitaji was standing atop one of the fortifications of his village, and a storm rolled in. A Storm of power which he had never even seen.

A storm which hit the follower of the Snake Sannin with over seven bolts of lightning, from which he did not even twinge. His body simply reveled in energy. And as was true with most things in his master's village to be, this event did not escape his vision.

Shitaji was forcibly brought in to be tested on, and after weeks of testing, and being imprisoned alongside the same people he had so tortured, the testings were conclusive. Shitaji bore a gene which was unlike any other member of the clan's. His body channeled chakra in a particular way, and some how activated a sort of 'oneness' with the element of lightning.

He absorbed every shock of lightning the Snake sannin administered to him, and endured immense cold with a mere shake and shiver. The youth's eyes had changed since it had begun. Once, a simple and cold color of the blue which shone in the midnight sky, but now, they bore that blue, with golden rings on the outside.

Those eyes glared in the darkness, bolts of light darting through them, even in the dark as he sat in the middle of his kin, bringing heat in the dark and cold of Orochimaru's laboratories. Every day, he endured the testing, and watched in silence as the snake demon dressed as a man performed more and more tests upon his family, attempting to splice his genes into one of them. It worked, in a few, but others didn't take at all, they simply died from internal combustion.

Days turned into years, and he became a member of his family once again in more than simply genetics. He listened to their fears, attempted to comfort them, and brought light in the dark, practicing with the electrical abilities he had suddenly gained, lighting torches which had been purposefully been dunked in water to keep them from being lit. The snake wanted his lab rats to not see any sort of hope. It continued, and as it continued, Shitaji's will only grew. He remembered his reason for going after this power, and in the middle of an experiment which was being committed by his former master, he let forth a blast of lightning, one after the other.

His mind, pushed by his will, forced the lights in the fortress out, and by the time they came back on, the Raigaki youth and his family were all gone, even his father, whom still did not except him. His place within his 'clan', was not a steady one, however, and his father challenged his right to lead. He demanded that they go back to their former home.

Shitaji knew better, stating the fact that he knew that Orochimaru and his forces would simply move to recapture them, and kill a few as an example. His father, Nobu, ignored it, and demanded the clan follow him back home. More than three fourths followed him, not trusting his son.

A day of waiting in the cold rains of the country of Rice fields passed before it came. Nobu and his coalition were met by a force of Oto-nin led by one of Orochimaru's 'officers', and they would have been taken back, and destroyed, exactly as the youth who bore the name 'grounding point' had so said.

If it was not for Shitaji and a few able bodied others from his clan descending on the point at the same time, 'spearheading' the force right in it's middle, like a lightning strike upon a boat, splitting it two. The fought with a ferocity only matched with the storms which poured rain overhead, lightning striking members of Orochimaru's army dead where they stood, as if some good of storms had decided to protect them.

There was no challenge after this. Shitaji's rule was absolute, his father fearing the power of his son, and realizing his son knew more about their enemy than he ever would. Some in the clan demanded they spread to the four winds, taking refuge in every country which they could get to. Wise Shitaji chose otherwise.

The country of Water, a land of ocean, island, monsters, mists, and storms. A land which they would be safe in, if nothing but from the fact that Orochimaru had enemies which he would not dare coming near in that country.

So the clan, no more than sixty in number, traveled to that land, and when they had landed in it, worked as farm hands for the local lords until they could gain enough Ryo to gain their own farmlands, and build a new village. All the while, Shitaji and his core of men protected their upstart village, paying lipservice to the village hidden in the mists simply to be left alone.

And so the clan remained, growing and prospering, few ninja coming from their ranks, and generally being regarded as a clan of farmers, nothing more, by the general populace. It was because of this that when the invasion of Mizu no Kuni by the forces of Rai no Kuni came, the Raigaki were left entirely alone. It was because of this that they stayed outside of the village's politics, and it is because of this, and the warnings of wise Shitaji, long gone from his clan, that it continued to prosper.

Even now, after the recent revolution, the Raigeki can only count a half dozen if not less as shinobi-nin, and even less whom survived the battle of Mizu no Kuni, within the revolution.