[Nakahara Yuushi]

Yuushi had never heard of this cult until suddenly there was news that they'd taken over a village in the Land of Fire. Apparently they'd been a thorn in their side for quite some time now, refusing to take the hint that nobody liked them OR their Blood Rituals. But it'd never really spilled over into Kusagakure, even now. But it was close, close enough that Ichi and the new Hokage came together to decide to put an end to this once and for all. A mission to help further build a relationship between nations. But Yuushi wasn't a political person, beyond the occasional twinge of anxiety he got from the fact his home seemed to be a revolving door of leaders, he just wasn't capable of politiking. He saw things in an almost simplistic view, you helped friends and allies, and that was that. No backroom deals, no last minute backstabbing. And this simplistic view made him well suited for this mission, he didn't care about the politics behind a joint mission, he wanted to save these people because they were in danger and needed saving.

He had no idea if this sentiment would be shared by his partner, actually he didn't know anything about them. Simply a name and a meet-up point before they got to the village that had been taken hostage. He didn't like the idea of delay, the idea of what these cultists might be doing to the townspeople, but he knew just rushing in was a bad idea. At least, rushing in alone was definitely a bad idea. Besides, with his meet-up, this Uchiha Kazui, they could save the villagers in half the time. And hopefully before anyone got hurt. So, he distracted himself about just who he was going to be meeting. Even he'd heard of the Uchiha, despite having been bedridden for most of his life. They were legends, and he was interested to see just what if was like to meet one. A legend. He'd loved stories about heroes and legends while he was an ill child, and he couldn't help but a little excited that he might get to meet one. So despite everything, there was an anticipated skip in his step, and a smile on his face as he walked towards a new story of legends in the making.

[Lady Kazui]

Don’t just weather the storm.
Dance in the rain.

❧

The same couldn’t be said for Kazui, unfortunately. It had been a while since she last smiled, and honestly there just wasn’t much to laugh and giggle about - not with the troubles she and her village was faced with. A sigh parted the Hancho’s lips as she remained standing, leaning with her back against the base of an old oak tree, eyes shifting through the page of a popular konohagakure novel. Simply kill the time before her comrade was to arrive, that was the goal but she would’ve liked to get a move on soon rather than later.

Luckily enough the man didn’t keep her waiting for long and for that she was forever grateful, though she was a bit confused, "Why are you so happy?” The woman asked genuinely, hoping to understand what joy he could be experiencing during these times. She observed the Grass shinobi closely with a raised brow. "You’re not one of the crazy ones, are you?” Kazui asked more jokingly this time around though her expression remained neutral akin to the likes of someone unimpressed by their own joke, but that’s because there was a bit of sincerity behind her curiosity. Regardless, the book was shut promptly before being stored away in the jonin’s coat pocket. The ravenette’s gaze returned to Yuushi, roaming up and down before the Jonin would get the formalities out of the way.

"My name is Uchiha Kazui, and you must be the delegate from the Land of Fields, Nakahara Yuushi, Yes?” She asked with curiosity. Pushing away from the tree, Kazui would give a big stretch, reaching towards the sky with all her might before relaxing and focusing her attention back on Yuushi. "We have little time to waste, come along, we can chat along the way.” Her voice was void of much emotion but it did little to take away from the statement made.

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Always Passively Active:
NAME: Kagura Shingan [Kagura Mind's Eye]
RANK: A
CHAKRA USAGE: Very Low
CLASSIFICATION: Ninjutsu // Hijutsu
ELEMENT: N/a
DESCRIPTION:
This ability allows the user to find, sense, and track individuals through their chakra over vast range that exceeds ten kilometers. This is done by focusing and opening the mind's eye, though due to the low chakra cost many users keep it active often. The ability also extends to telling when a person is lying from the fluctuations in a person's chakra made from dishonest emotions or detecting if someone, including the user, is under a genjutsu. Also by focusing on a particular chakra, the user can perceive its location and movement with great detail.

Little Know It All - Extreme Intelligence
It was no secret that Kazui was regarded as a scholar when she was in the academy. One of the smartest in her class, the Uchiha often found herself correcting and/or helping out people older than herself. Many considered her very intellectual then, but that was just only the surface of her potential. Now, the girl is regarded as a genius, her IQ is nothing to be taken lightly or to be taken for granted, even as a young chunin. The teen possesses amazing mental capacity, is able to concentrate flawlessly even in the heat of battle, can calculate things in her head with great speed, and is able to remember many things with perfect recollection, even if it’s just useless information that is meant to be disregarded. In addition to that, Kazui is very deductive, competent, and witted. Her mind is the most dangerous weapon she possesses for many reasons. The girl is highly alert, aware, and very analytical, and she is also very ingenious and is capable of thinking outside of the box as well. Not only is she capable of reading, analyzing, and breaking down a person’s fighting style, but she can also determine what kind of person they are just by the way they speak, the way they carry themselves, and their thoughts on certain things. While doing this, it’s incredibly difficult to deceive the girl, especially if one is not skilled in the art of deception. Furthermore, Kazui can formulate numerous plans to certain situations in mere seconds. She thinks 10 steps ahead, and always has a back up plan just incase.

Gone In The Wind - Blistering Speed
As a child, Kazui was born weaker than others. Her health conditions set the girl at a disadvantage physically since birth, however her constant effort and drive to become the best has pushed her far beyond many others the same rank as herself. Her speed is nothing to be taken lightly, she has pushed herself physically to be able to not only outpace her opponent, but outright force them into keeping up with her and pushing them to the brink with her speed as well. The girl is fast, quick, and agile, even rivaling those who dedicated their entire life to the art of taijutsu to the point where if they haven’t specifically honed their speed, then the girl could outright outclass them in that regard. Those with weak perception often have trouble perceiving the girl’s movements, and to a normal human’s eye perceiving her is nigh impossible. All of her movements are inhumanly quick and hard to keep track of, and when used in conjunction with her sharingan, it can make her a formidable opponent for even the strongest of shinobi.

The Minimalist - Chakra Control
There was a problem that Kazui noticed during her time in the academy and that was the fact that she often found herself tiring out and exhausting herself rather quickly, even when she had just started she could feel herself beginning to wilt. So to counter those measures, the girl studied and asked around, trying to find the reason behind it and if there was a way she could fix it. She wasn’t born with massive reserves so while she utilized her justus, she often did so wastefully. But now, the girl has managed to control the amount of chakra she uses in a technique that allows her to fight much longer than before. She uses the absolute bare minimum of the chakra that’s needed, and not a drop more.

Uchiha Bloodline: Two Tomoe Sharingan
Being born within the Uchiha clan, Kazui has been blessed and/or cursed with a power that only an Uchiha can possess and use to its complete and full potential when they have experienced extreme emotions that causes their chakra to pour into their optic nerves, gifting them with the Sharingan, also known as the eyes that reflect the heart. There are three stages to the sharingan, and it is tracked by the amount of tomoe that appears around an Uchiha’s pupil. One tomoe unlocks the eye of insight, it grants the user the ability to see chakra within an opponent or ally and it also gives an increase to the user’s perceptive abilities. Two tomoe grants the user the eye of hypnotism, while in turn increasing the previous abilities that the ‘Eye of Insight’ grants. The girl’s precognition and perception is heightened well beyond what’s achievable by even the most skilled and elite shinobi, allowing her more of a predictive insight on her opponent as well as the world around her. In terms of her being able to track extremely fast objects and people alike, the eye also allows a natural reactive ability that helps her respond more accurately than a single tomoe could ever allow. As for the ability to see chakra, with a second tomoe the smallest and most faint sources of chakra can easily be spotted by the eye without any issue at all. Assigning color and analyzing the flow of the chakra, Kazui can tell which nature is going to be used as well as where the chakra will be coming from.

The Eye of Hypnotism on the other hand is much different than the previous eye, it allows the girl the ability to cast and break genjutsu with no issue at all, in a way only the Uchiha are capable of. It also gives her access to a set of genjutsu only known to those who possess great visual prowess amongst the clan. These illusions are very powerful in nature and are some of the most dangerous known to the art, they are well beyond standard genjutsu, and in addition the illusions can be casted with just a single glare. Those who met her gaze will find themselves under her spell before they can even realize what happened.

Tiny Dancer - Elusiveness
Kazui is one quick girl, which isn’t hard to tell. Thanks to her training, the girl has amazing agility and reflexes that allow her to keep herself out of harms way. Even without her sharingan being active, Kazui possesses sharp perceptive abilities and reflexes that allows her to become an escape artist of some sort as well as a complete nuisance to those trying to fight her. The girl’s reaction speed is superb and not to be taken lightly as it is, however, when the dojutsu is active, taking into account the girl’s great speed and adding her keen reflexes into the mix, it’s capabilities are much more potent and useful to the Uchiha. With this, not only is Kazui capable of keeping track of even the most renowned speediest opponents and attacks, the girl is able to keep up with, and react to them as well with relative ease.

Wake Up To Reality - KME Genjutsu Prowess
As an Uchiha it is believed that Kazui and many of her clanmen were born with a natural affinity for the art of genjutsu, but of course none of it can ever come to fruition if there is no effort placed behind it. However, since she was constantly reminded by those around her about that fact, the girl began to focus on the art more than ever before.

Although her illusions do become much more elaborate, less flawed in a certain sense, and stronger, the true results come more in the form of defending herself against genjutsu. Her vast knowledge of the art as well as her training and extremely high sensory capabilities allow for the Uchiha’s escape efforts to be significantly stronger than it normally is, allowing her to free herself from genjutsu up to 1 rank above what she is typically capable of via the special ability granted to the Uchiha with The Sharingan’s genjutsu escape. It should be noted however that genjutsu reversal does not receive any additional boosts from this ability.

Sleight of Hand - Seals Master
As Kazui grew older and gained more experience and familiarity with the ninja arts, the girl’s chakra control had essentially been mastered along with her speed and accuracy with forming hand-seals. Countless of hours spent training, learning, and even creating new jutsu has made the girl grow familiar with every seal needed to perform any jutsu, every motion for every combination, her body absorbed and memorized - allowing her to flow through the motions with no given thought or effort. Her speed with forming these seals is insanely quick and precise, she’s even capable of stringing together the lengthiest combinations of hand seals and casting jutsu faster than most can even dream of keeping up with, making it appear as if she hadn’t even tried to use any hand-seals to begin with. Her vast knowledge and familiarity with sealing in addition to her refined chakra control has lead her to being able to utilize only a single hand to form a seal as well, though she only does this under certain circumstances.

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[Ronin]

Mission Details, for my convenience

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It was morning, and with the way the weather was, it was difficult to say for certain whether it would turn out to be a bright sunny day, or the clouds in the sky would persist, or even worse, they could get heavier and pour rain. In any case, the day was early, and pregnant with possibilities. There did not seem to be very many people on the road on which the two allied ninja were meeting, not because it was not a well-used road, but because of the time.

There was still some distance to cover before arriving at the quiet sleepy village known as Chinobasho. As its name implied, the village was unsurprisingly, like many others in the region, mostly given to agriculture, and naming it 'the Place of Earth' could not be more fitting. However, there seemed to be some unfortunately dark humor involved, as the word 'chi' was homophonous for 'blood'. In that case, Chinobasho could, by the sound of it, also be translated to mean 'Place pf Blood', an ominously fitting name for the things that seemed to be going on there.

Ever since the Blood Heralds had been revealed to be more of a systemic infection called the Apostles of Blood than just some small cult, Konohagakure had been trying to keep tabs on their activities. It was this level of vigilance that would perhaps save lives today, as word had come that very likely members of that nefarious group seemed to have been traveling from all across the country towards a singular spot, none other than Chinobasho. Now it was up to the combined efforts of the Grass and the Leaf to ensure that these Apostles of Blood never terrorized anyone else again.

Nakahara Yuushi | Lady Kazui