Name: Inuzuka Hanone
Nickname: Fang of the Dog Clan
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Village: Konohagakure
Village Rank: Genin
Skill Rank: D
Height: 5'7
Weight: 102lbs
Hair color: brown
Eye Color: brown
Looks Image:
Looks Description:
Hanone is an average shinobi. She stands a bit on the taller side for her age and also a bit on the skinnier side, though not sickly or stick-ly thin. Athletically thin. Her appearance should make it clear where she comes from, other than the forehead protector she wears proudly on her forehead.
Her hair, first of all, has a little of the wild untamed mess that's found in the Inuzuka clan. It reaches down to the middle of her back although she keeps it tied up when she's training. She doesn't like it to be down and in her way when she's working, and having the hair up helps to limit background noise so she can hear a bit better. Her eyes have a wild look to them. They're dark brown, always calculating and moving. When she smiles, everyone can see her sharp fangs. If those facts don't make her clan heritage clear, then the red fang markings on her cheeks should place her to anyone who sees her face. She wears no makeup, mainly because she doesn't like the stuff or find any use in it - she's not looking to court anyone and would probably chase anyone away who tried to do so toward her.
Hanone wears a deep red tank top that has fishnet between the straps over her upper chest and long fishnet sleeves. The tank top ends just above her waist, and there's an inch of more fishnet that shows at the bottom of the shirt. Over that she wears a brown hooded jacket with 3/4 sleeves. The jacket is a lighter jacket, not at all to defend against freezing temperatures. It has black fur rimming along the hood, neck, and cuffs. The bottom of the jacket ends early enough that the fishnet on the bottom of her tank top shows, as well as the fishnet on her forearms being exposed because of the 3/4 sleeves. Over her hands are a pair of fingerless gloves that have protective plates on them, similar to forehead protectors.
On her legs are a pair of tight shorts that reach to a few inches above the knees. A kunai pouch is easily accessible from her right hip, and a shuriken pouch from the opposite backside. She has a pair of black ninja shoes she wears over her feet, open at the toes and the heel.
Personality Description: Hanone lives up to her name. She's known for her very serious streak in most situations, impatience for idiocy, and seriousness in training and strength in battle. The only thing she knows now is that she wants to become one of the strongest ninja ever to make her parents proud of her, not matter how much she despises the two people. However much she hates them though, she loves them almost equally - though it's never really shown. She has a deep love for her parents that comes from an Inuzuka's loyalty - she has that, just like a loyal dog does. She raised them, therefore she's loyal to them for that, but it's still a strange love she has for them as well - like a true love/hate relationship. She could never really tell if they were just using hard love to get her to work harder. Either way, their criticism and negativity strives her to move forward and push herself harder.
Hanone is certainly a hard worker. Give her a task and she'll complete it to the fullest of her ability - and even sometimes even if she technically 'shouldn't' or 'can't'. Especially if it's a challenging task - something that will most definitely change her view on how to do things or improve her skills one way or another. She doesn't want to be pulled down by anyone.
The only living being Hanone truly trusts is Kuroi, so she certainly has the capacity to love others, she just doesn't want to in 9.9/10 situations. If anyone wants to work hard enough or give her reason enough (such as, say, saving her life) to let them in, they'll have one of the most loyal friends to possibly have. Hanone also generally feels the same about her village - she would die to protect it, along with Kuroi and the few people she calls her friends.
The one thing that Hanone really hates is when someone calls her a coward. She feels like that implies weakness, and she never wants to be seen as one. That's why she would always hate it when someone dared her to do something - while she hated being forced into it, she also didn't want to be called a coward or chicken. Even with that said, she's always loved the idea of challenges, and also a reason the girl hates to step down from a fight.
Likes: meat, training, Kuroi, Konoha, dares, challenges
Dislikes: being wet, laziness, idiocy, dares
Catch Phrases: "I'm no coward!" "I'll never back down from a fight!"
Nindo: I will become stronger, and I'll never back away from a fight! For my friends, my village, and my family!
Element Affinity: -
Sub Element Affinity: N/A
History:
Hanone was a usual girl from the Inuzuka Clan - wild, unruly, and more daring than many other kids her age. The only thing was that she was more so than even an Inuzuka. She was always challenging others to things - anything, even if she didn't know about it. When she was younger and didn't win a game, she'd pout and get mad. Most kids never wanted to play with her for that - she was always too serious and always wanted to win, and if she didn't then it was just wrong in some way.
At home, her parents were demanding of her - they always wanted her to do better, even if she came out at top at school, on the playground, whatever. They never really welcomed her home or congratulated her on any successes, even when she went to the Ninja Academy.
Because of her outward attitude toward others, though, the Clan leader would not allow her a dog companion until she treated others better when she came of age to receive one. The young Inuzuka went on rants from that, regularly getting in shouting matches with her parents, other clan members, and people generally avoided her. Hanone seemed to always be scratching for a fight when she was young, and no one liked it.
Other members of the clan tried to comfort and speak with her, but she never listened or really even cared. All that she truly wanted was to make her parents proud, and the harder she tried, the more she hated them for only ever criticizing her.
A year into studying at the academy, Hanone considered leaving the village. She didn't know where she'd go, but she would regularly go to the village gates and look out them during the day. The guards watched her closely of course, so she never truly got the chance to make a break for it. It was a few months later even that she'd found a female wolf wandering inside the gates with something hanging from its mouth. It looked unruly, messy - like something had been chasing it. Even so, Hanone knew how dangerous a wild animal could be. It only examined her, and left a heap of black fluff at her feet, then left. Hanone had waited, and the thing turned out to be alive - a wolf that she was somehow gifted with.
The following months, Hanone's attitude toward others did not necessarily get better, but it became more neutral. She wasn't always looking for a fight or for some way to better herself. She trained all the time outside of class to strengthen her skills, but she now had something that required her attention. Fearing the little thing would be taken from her, she hid the little wolf she came to name Kuroi for her black fur. She raised the pup and brought it to full health away from home near the training grounds. It became loyal to her, and eventually followed her home. More fighting insued with her parents, and she left again. The fighting had brought the attention of half the clan, who now knew she'd been raising a wolf.
That was the most fighting and crying she'd ever done when the little wolf was almost taken from her. She had bonded with it over the months, and it with her. Many of the other members took pity on her and suggested to their leader they let her keep the little wolf. Although it was unusual, the leader allowed it. With her own companion, Hanone felt like she was truly one of the Inuzuka Clan, and she continued to train hard and extra. Her attitude never fully improved, and she never really made true friends, but she did eventually graduate from the academy and become a Genin. Her parents showed up for the graduation, but they still wouldn't congratulate her on the feat.
RP Sample:
Hanone wasn't sure what she was doing out here. Training, she'd guessed. She'd left home quite a while ago and somehow it seemed.. strange. Different. A usual different, though. Like no one else in the world mattered. Hanone knew her body, her unfortunate limits, and went off of those. She and Kuroi knew each other in training as well as anyone could.
One thing on her mind was that she wanted to find out where her companion came from. She doubted it was a mistake that she wasn't allowed to have any companion, then a while later Kuroi was practically dropped into her lap. However, Hanone doubted the Inuzuka leader had made some sort of pact with a wild animal. It must've been overwhelmed with the amount of cubs in its litter, so it left it with someone else? Or maybe the mother was being chased and didn't want her pup to be harmed?
She could've left her there to die - certainly a little wolf cub that hardly had her eyes even open couldn't defend herself. Or maybe someone else would have found her. Either way, Kuroi was hers now.
The two were hunting - not to kill, only for fun. The animals here didn't know them, and back home they weren't afraid. Hanone wanted animals that would run for their lives because those were the hardest ones to corner - ones that would do almost anything to save themselves. They'd found the trail of a young stag and had been following it for about a mile before finding it grazing. In a meadow there was little cover, but at least the tall grass would mostly conceal Kuroi, so she went around to the other side of the meadow. If it bolted, it would go in Hanone's direction. She stayed up high in a tree, standing still and waiting, listening. She could hear Kuroi move through the grass even though she couldn't see her, and the crunching of the grasses between the deers grinding teeth almost sounded like the stag was chewing right next to her.
Silent accuracy in tracking, then cornering the target. That's what they were excellent at. A frown found its way to Hanone's mouth. Soon she would be required to add three more to her pack.
Kuroi
