name: Sourei Mushōage: 42gender: Malebirthday: August 13th
birth origin: Mizu no Kuni
birth village: Kirigakure no Satorank: Elite Jōninposition: Hunter-Nin S-rank Nukeninalias(es):[Purple Bolt] [Village]
There's nothing special about the reasoning behind this. Mushō's Hunter-Nin mask was identifiable by the purple lightning bolt on the left side of his mask.
[Sourei Mushō] [World]
He is most known by his name as a businessman. Though his status as a Hunter-nin is unknown outside of Kirigakure, it was known notoriety of the criminal world that landed him in the Bingo Books.
appearance
height: 6ft 2in
weight: 230lbs
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personality
"The end justifies the means."
True to the word of the Sourei, Mushō is a determined individual who does not let morality affect his decision making. As long as he is doing what is true to his ambitions: he is not abashed to pursue them with any means necessary.
Mushō has the eyes of a businessman and much like many of the Sourei has run his own illegal businesses. His desire is to run his own village, and ultimately his determined personality focuses him on it with little regard to the feelings of others.
Mushō can be stoic and pragmatic; not to be confused with not being emotional, Mushō is able to experience a largest range of emotions: but is not driven by them. This makes him extremely difficult to tilt, strain or put under pressure, which is an integral position to being a Shinobi in that the terrors one has to perform in the role - this is made doable by dissociation.
He is not all bad, in that as long as his personal stake is not at risk: has always been more than happy to dawdle and enjoy life's treasures, but with the end goal in mind. He is still humorous, moderately charming and benevolent (again, as long as they are not in contrary to his personal goals). Having been in the position of down and out, Mushō has a sore sport for the ruffians, poor people, the sick and elderly due to his upbringing - and as a result has always been around to perform chores and work free of charge to them. He has always had a strong energy and personality that in result attracts people to him.
Mushō was also a family man, with three children and a wife - he has left them and divorced the wife. He has caring fatherly traits and a desire for them to grow, but the clan's ideology took more precedent with him, having left two of them at a younger age and another while they were 11. He does not regret this decision, and had left them suitable money to grow but without the emotional support he could provide.
history
-38 SDMushō was lucky enough to be born into one of the famous clans that helped found Kirigakure no Sato. Unfortunately, he was born in Kirigakure no Sato. It was almost ironic timing that he was born as the result of coitus deriving from the end of the Second Shinobi war. It was meant to be looking up, with the return of resources and peace - what better time to rear a child? His birth was celebrated well within the Sourei community for the last five years had been bland.
Mushō's parents were overjoyed at the prospect of having another amongst themselves. However, it did not work out as well as hoped: as within the year mere months after Mushō's birth the Third Shinobi War began, leaving his father no choice but to rejoin the fighting. Mushō effectively grew up without a father because of the war: and eventually, the war took him. Mushō was a happy child, but was racked with confusion as is mother took him to flee to the less war torn parts of Mizu no Kuni, further from the action than they could ever possibly go. She was not a Shinobi and had a few tactile skills that she could use to look after him.
It was done through the night where they could not be seen nor found, Mushō's very bloodline was at risk: he had shown aptitude towards his bloodline by his accidental usage of his bloodline as a child. To see the possibility for their blood to be stolen or lost was too expensive to lose. They had gained more distance than they could ever hope to be discovered under the chaos of the war, ever more pressing on the resources Kirigakure no Sato was using, even despite their ideals.
-34 SD By 4 years old, Mushō was running, talking and climbing naturally. But his ability to be a troublesome child was most notable when using his bloodline abilities
Mitsudo Soujuu [Density Manipulation]. Even though his ability was farther than many children of his age and older: His mother had no choice but to forcibly bar the boy from using it whatsoever. It would be at the cost of his potential to be curbed - in exchange for helping to keep him alive. His appearance had changed significantly enough that he was not easily recognised by people who might've known them. His mother had endured horrible hardships and even had shaved her own head to help evade suspicion.
They had managed to join among a open group of people - much like the early clans of old where it was groups of people coming together. They were their own community that shared resources and living spaces, which made his mother's raising of Mushō much easier. The boy had more discipline than before, and was a very happy child during this time with the many new family members of his own.
-33 Even though his mother found the concept of Shinobi abhorrent even while having married one, there were subsidies for people bringing on
fresh meat. Even living with an open group Mushō himself had also gone without meals. Weighing up the options, Mushō was enrolled into the Shinobi Academy and it was finally divulged his secret past of being a Sourei where even in such a violent society, her mother was protected diplomatically in assurance of keeping her child safe.
Even though his legacy grew exponentially after the academy, during it Mushō was relatively useless. Beyond being used as a boy to fetch items and food for other people or moved around, he endured through a suffering of people from other clans. Although he was a Sourei and from one of the founding father clans - he did not have the same status as one by his immunity.
He was average in each of the arts and not really excelling in any of them: his only grace was that he was leagues beyond others in his ability to manipulate his bloodline. When it came for his time to shine it would only run back in his face. When the younger children learned of his abilities, it would only further devolve his tasks into becoming those of amusement as well.
-32 SD One of the darker chapters in Mushō's life and one of the first collective memories he can gather himself back to as a child. At 7 years old he awakens from a slumber to screaming and his mother frantically pulling precious items of memory into a bag. Further in the distance, shinobi are massacre-ing their home, attacking any and all people - nobody left out.
His mother is caught in the crossfire, and her paranoia throughout the years had paid off by her having built a hiding place into their home- tiny enough to accommodate two people, but two was enough. They ended up hiding in a crooked spot in the building's infastructure, hidden by a small slat in the wooden flooring. Fire had been set to their building among many others. Their hiding space was not enough, as the fire caught up to their position, his mother was forced to bear her back to the flames while shielding Mushō. To this day, her back bares horrific scarring from the event.
It is hypothesised that it was an orchestrated attack by the Sourei and another clan, who in turn deny all instances of it. It is not known whether it was an enemy of the state or from home territory.
-28 SD The next few years of Mushō's life run by seamlessly. While fully integrated into the academy he did not have an easy time: but it did grow easier when the boy found his calling to Taijutsu, offered as a suggestion by his homeroom Sensei. It seemed only most useful at that point.
Mushō took the art properly when his teacher was a Taijutsu user - and took to Mushō for his rigorous attitude. It was always clear that Mushō was determined but it was never known how much until he had been given the clear for it to manifest. As his attitude steeled and he became better, without a teacher of his bloodline ability to guide him, he would still be relatively useless. Speaking to his mother, begging even, to allow a teacher was beyond all reach. His mother flew into a rage at the idea and so eventually, Mushō gave up.
Now living properly in Kirigakure he was able to find the Sourei compound himself, but it does not go well there either. His circumstances of growing up had not gone down well, now that he was a known Sourei he was shunned - and then as a double hit his mother found out what he had attempted to do and punished him accordingly.
So without proper tutoring he would only be able to utilise Taijutsu properly. He was able to adequately perform in other areas but it was his focus: he was even able to stop the bullying when he realised that he
could fight back. The particular memory was also a well known one: where he defied a command by one of them and as expected, consequently beat the boy down when he tried to harass Mushō
for his non-compliance. In that day, not only did he win that fight, but he also won the fights to come.
It was not without punishment as the boy found his own graduation delayed by another year as punishment: but graduated the academy aged 13 because in all reason - Kirigakure needed people to fight. Mushō got off free.
-27 SDAs a new Genin he was thrown directly into the war effort, running caravans, defending them or overseeing guard posts as a purely reconnaissance effort, Mushō didn't actually see his first true fight until seven months into his new rank. Other points had been small scrums or disagreements with people.
Working in a cell of 6, their guard post came under attack. Mushō took the vanguard to allow the ninjutsu users an opportunity to cast their techniques before abandoning his space and retreating.
Their tactics ended up working perfectly, by what strategy had been pounded into them by their Chūnin cell leader- Mushō saw them bombarded with Doton techniques and crushed alive. Although he didn't see much action himself beyond occupying the enemy, he saw his duty and performed it. This was one of the first points that he had ever truly encountered death without a filtered lens. It was different.
He made friends with his cell, even meeting what would eventually become his future wife. His work was not limited to just being a guard: in the later half of the war held some effort in scouting out areas of interest and very occasionally, even engaging in combat himself. Where he wasn't made in the academy his time began to shine as an outstanding Taijutsu specialist while working with his teammates.
-24 SD
The year the war had ended had held some tumultuous feelings for Mushō. On one hand, he had earned the respect and admiration from his fellow Shinobi. On the other hand, he was still not notable among Shinobi. He had no name - no notoriety and was no more powerful than he had got in the first place.
It came from a lack of use regarding his bloodline. While he had been fantastic at the reconnaissance efforts and tanking - that had been the end of that. Though, even Kirigakure had been crippled by the long war that had existed for as long as Mushō had been alive: it was all that he had known.
Even the end of the war signified the start of many more issues like agriculture, culture, population - taxes. So many different things that Mushō was very active in the rebuilding of their nation much like all other Shinobi. He played his part and more, barely sleeping as he did his work. He had not been special enough to get promoted for his war efforts, so he thought to stand out by making Kirigakure big again.
While he took out his missions he began to learn about the various dealings of the civilians whom they protected: how he learned about trade and demand in the markets, pricing from the body guarding, negotiation from more reconnaissance - money from extra work. Mushō began offering his services to some of those people directly and on top of the mission reward, managed to perform other extracurricular activities that made him some friends across the Kirigakure isles.
It looked as though you could've taken the boy out of the Sourei, but not the Sourei from the boy. Even at 14, he was able to afford nicer things for he and his mother. Throughout the war she had been cold and distant to the boy, if only for believing his eventual death. It was a cold existence for him but Mushō had developed a sort of haze and coolness which would eventually grow into much of his known personality.
-22 SD Not a lot happened in the immediate years after the war even though it was not expected to have the peace last very long. Mushō had even reached out to the Sourei again at that time but the same as it had happened before, their coldness towards the boy was the same.
Alongside his missions he'd even managed to go on a few higher ranked ones even as a Genin, and reconnected with an old friend from his cell during the war. Everybody had been busy and their cell had been lucky to have all survived. As they reconnected, they would train together - and even ended up sleeping together. Mushō
had grown up in the years, and such a thing didn't register on his mind as being an issue.
Mushō was awarded the rank of Chūnin after helping out the child of a well known aristocrat who had praised him. That was his first strike against the village of Kirigakure. It didn't matter that he had spent years aiding the growth of Kirigakure, or that he had volunteered in shelters, helping the poor and the needy - nor that he had shown his prowess on the field and in combat. But because he had made a child happy. That was something that infuriated him - although he never told others the nature of his mission, it also meant that there was no notoriety to be gained: no special nickname, no special title. He was still unknown as far as the world went.
It did mean that he got access to higher missions, and his use of his Sourei bloodline made him key for certain missions of a lethal nature. Even behind the scenes where the Sourei lie, they were happy with the idea of a disgraced Sourei coming back from a kill failed, anything to push their agenda.
But it did not work out as such. The boy-turned-man relied mainly on his immaterial version and took on the art of killing quickly and seriously: racking up a bout of missions under his belt in fantastic timing. That was when he'd first gained the spectator of a certain higher up: a Hunter-Nin who recognised his potential.
The way that he'd seen it, his money was able to help others: no longer just limited to making his mother happy but even to his new girlfriend who saw Mushō's light.
-20 SD If anyone were to ever question Mushō's history or write about it to keep a compendium of his acts, they would say it started here. Mushō found himself excellent at killing: even more so than other Ninja. It appealed to some of his baser natures and for the first time he understood the wilder side of Kirigakure's ideology.
All of those missions when he was younger and took on the information about businesses, his penchant to take on extra side jobs from clients taking out missions and bloodline ability made him a fearsome businessman. His first venture was a simple one: a bar. From the logistical side of things to hiring staff, setting up routes for alcohol, even the advertising.
It did fail, the bar not even lasting six months but it was the experience that meant the most. He had not learned enough, and he was trying to do too much on his own merit. Even when he was in debt for effort of trying - it was satisfied with more missions and more assassinating.
Mushō ended up having sex again: only this time made his woman pregnant. It was agreed that they would marry before the boy's birth to solidify it all.
Mushō's first son was born in
-19 SD and his eldest was beautiful: it invoked feelings that he didn't know that he had and was now a father. But with his wife being made unable to work, and an extra mouth to feed was all money: it meant that he had to work harder.
Thus came his first legitimate business: a noodle bar. It was an easy investment in his money and it produced a source of cheaply bought ingredients, both a win-win situation for him. He hired a cook, cleaner and let them get to work. As a stroke of luck would have it, within the year it was self sufficient without needing Mushō to do anything. The new income would provide him with a much needed stipend that made him not need to work harder and to spend more time with his family.
It soon dawned to the 19 year old that he could step it up, and the natural hold of the Sourei took control. Him, an outsider was still one of them on the inside.
He would be approached by a Hunter-Nin who had recommended the boy to be made one himself: the opportunity looked interesting, it was among the things he had
already been doing and decided to give it a go.
It was decided quite quickly that Mushō would make a fine hunter-nin. He was a man of little reputation - well liked by most, but average across the board up until his most recent years for his assassination missions. All of which had been veiled.
It was natural.
-17 SD "And so it is."
The birth of his second child, a girl, would prompt the now- 21 year old to work harder. He had a family now. He had been made more well known through the very simple insignia mask he wore: the purple bolt - the killer.
The years of killing had taken a toll to the man's psyche, who no longer felt as he did before. Realising the true nature of being a Shinobi sometimes meant doing things that required necessity. Although no Sourei himself, Mushō knew their code of practise. "the end justifies the means" and felt it resonate. His career was booming as far as he could see: with an incredible mission time and completion rate.
The businesses didn't stop: a noodle bar to a tanner, a postal service. Mushō was busy: when he wasn't on missions, he was barely sleeping. Hallucinating, hearing things - spending barely any time with his family. Even though he was doing everything in effort of them it had come at a price.
He was given the rank of Jōnin by recommendation of his Captain and told to take a break, for the sake of his mind. Even today, his most treasured memories came from this time.
He was able to hold his two children at the same time in either arm: see his daughter walk and spend time with his loved one. She too, had seemed distant. When it came to talk about it, it was because her love for Mushō had faded: he was no longer the same. While she had kept loyal: Mushō was no longer the person he was. The end of those treasured memories came when he took time for himself: alone and in one of Kirigakure's temples. There was no killing: no working and plenty of sleeping.
His small time in that temple had amounted to so much: tempering his mind much more than he had had before. Everything he had done until this point was for them. It didn't matter who had to die: that was his goal.
The second strike to Kirigakure was that the end of his stay was interrupted by a Sourei: they were willing to welcome the man to his rightful place with the Sourei. Mushō was unwilling to accept there and then. But again, after speaking with his wife, decided it would be best that the children were raised alongside them, and his wife had someone to confide with.
Mushō did not trust them at all, and felt their reasons were nefarious. They did eventually reveal their reasons to the man: for they sought pride and honour from him. He: a Sourei: with an impeccable mission record for what was public and well regarded for his use of the bloodline, was also running businesses on the side. The making of a made man.
-14 SDMushō in his time from the Sourei only sought one thing: true power over his bloodline abilities. For so long he had been ignored - under a proper tutor, the skills that he
could've had years ago sprung to light. The damage had already been done: he would not be able to reach the peak. But he was still on top of his game.
There were other reasons as well. His businesses, for all the time they'd been open for years ahead could serve another purpose. Mushō could make even more money: they slowly introduced their thoughts and the doctrine that he already believed.
He knew it to be behaviour of their unbecoming, but it served his purpose. The money was needed too, and so they became avenues for more money through illegal means.
The noodle bar was a front for money laundering. The tanner for the making of illegal goods, and the postal services for the delivery of illegal goods. All roads led to one and for a time they would remain his joy.
But he would still continue with his missions. All the while his third child had been born, a final boy, Mushō reigned in the field. Mushō began to withdraw from the world as his mind narrowed.
- 12 SDThere was little that Mushō hadn't done. He had made a fine hunter-nin for the past five years. He had been granted the title of Jōnin after many years being in the field: all mediocrity had been stricken from his name and he was known as a true Sourei of the clan. Things between he and his wife were never particularly great around this time. His first son was seven years old and no better for it, in the academy and learning while Mushō was barely around. Mushō could scarcely believe that his wife wasn't cheating on him given how little he was around, and for what she had said was like marrying a ghost.
But he had his businesses and had always worked them for her. Such disinterest grew into apathy as he turned to do what he wanted to do. The taste of doing well in his businesses meant that he could expand, and even while maintaining status as a Shinobi he long before he had thought joined hands with some other connections in the Sourei family. It still had managed to been twelve years since the end of the last Shinobi war and frankly there were other more important things to worry about now.
With no particular affiliation to other people, during the Kumo-Shimo conflict, Mushō even hires out himself with no known affiliation to the aid of whoever had the coin. He made more connections in the three months it spanned, spending it almost entirely away from his work and 'out in the field'. His time with his family is almost nil.
-9 SDMushō
- between 14-10 SD begins to withdraw from the world because of his work.
-7 SD going Nukenin when his businesses are found out about. A-rank Nukenin.
His entry into the Bingo book was A-rank, though not much information had initially been given by it, it was his stellar and hidden record of his tenure as a Hunter-Nin that caught up to him. He posed significant threat and although assessments had been made to his ability and knowledge of his Kekkai Genkai was obvious: his exact skillset had not surfaced. Just that he was good at killing.
But it was also a bit of a new life from him, because he was the hunted rather than the hunter, and that came with new challenges and opportunity to evolve. Where he knew the tricks of the trade it mitigated any initial contact with Hunter nins, he found himself on the rocks numerous times while being hunted by a cell of six Shinobi. There was no fighting that and Mushō accepted the skill of his colleagues. So he went on the run. It was not difficult to forge the work and make it look as though he was moving east on one of the rare voyages: but it did not last very long when that the lead was quickly expunged and that in fact he was moving to an outer isle of Mizu no Kuni and trying to flee the country.
It was unusual but Mushō began to adapt to the new way of life with never staying one place for too long, doubling back on his old routes, utilising the skill of his bloodline to evade the hunter-nin.
-6 SDHis ascension to S-rank in the Bingo books was something astonishing. It had not been his intention. A year of running, making it almost impossible to physically leave the country with the high level of security and the cell following him; they were growing ever desperate and managed to find the rare skill of Sensory: and with that, the hunt grew ever closer.
Mushō on the other hand had finally managed to get all of his pieces in a row that he could fake himself into a new life, disappear from the isles and let the hunter-nin chase his tails. He had not anticipated the new addition of a Sensory ninja, and found himself cornered in a harbour. The problem that the hunter-nin had, was that they found themselves underestimating the man. He had been on the run for long enough that he had made himself look to be the coward: in which, to him, didn't matter.
What happened was that in the very public spectacle, he dismantled the group methodologically - taking out the sensory ninja, making another kill one of their own with use of his Kekkai Genkai and co-ordination and then quite quickly ending the remaining four. Mushō was last seen wiping the blood from his hands with a cloth before disappearing using his bloodline.
He left the isles within the day and finally managed to make entry to Kaminari no Kuni. But being an S-rank in the bingo books also meant that his information was past on: he was extremely dangerous. So even though he had fled: the trail of Hunter nin was still there. Although far more infrequent than before, with so much more space to roam: he was free.
But all he had managed to do was make a single step in his idea, and that required preparation.
-4-1 SD Civil war and Sanbi attack, and tries to atone mildly by helping out the unthought-of people.
It did not surprise Mushō that even if war had been over for but a few years that it would bring about chaos in other ways. It did surprise Mushō that it came about from Kirigakure. It had always been bloodthirsty in its ways, but apparently new management meant that forces were turned against each other. With a slight of concern for his family, he did return to Mizu no Kuni yet again in keeping appearances, he was still a well known Shinobi.
During the civil war Mushō only returned to help the sick and elderly and those in need, never stopping those rendering the violence but always helping. In one way, apathy was another form of participation by his non-participation. Until it found that a base of sorts could be founded from an area, in which for a time, Mushō was able to operate from for about a year. In deciding this was his truth, decimated any and all people threatening his 'area'. In the chaos and pandemonium caused by the civil war, he was just another face and name. He would not be known.
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+4 SD resurfacing
