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Name: Uchiha Sasuke
Age: / DOB: 15 / July 23rd
Gender: Male
Height: / Weight: 170cm (5'7") / 69kg (152lbs)
Occupation: Shinobi
Rank: Officially Genin, but is at the very *least* Jounin level
Country/ Village: Field / Otogakure

Physical Traits: Sasuke has long-ish blue-black hair that sticks up in tufts in the back. Tall and lanky, he does have noticeable muscles from all the training that he's suffered through under Orochimaru. His eyes are coal-black except when using his Sharingan, and they've gotten much colder, much harder over the past few years.

Orochimaru removed the barrier seal Kakashi had put around the Heaven Seal. Also, Sasuke bears the same Summoning tattoo as Orochimaru on his left forearm.

Outfit: He has some pride as he refuses to don the "purple pretzel outfit", citing that if Kabuto doesn't have to wear it, why should he? He also is still proud of his family name, despite what his brother (and he himself) has done. His shirt is dark in color with the red and white fan emblazoned on the back, one short sleeve and one long. He favors dark pants now instead of shorts, and has a metal bracer over his right forearm while his left arm is covered by the long sleeve. His battered hitai-ate sports the Sound sigil.

Inventory: Besides the usual inventory carried by all shinobi (kunai/shuriken/senbon/exploding tags), Sasuke keeps plenty of metal wires on his person, and is partial to fuuma shuriken.

Ninjutsu: He has mastered all the fire jutsu of his clan, and has learned innumerable from Orochimaru and copied the same amount from the plethora of shinobi within Hidden Sound, and on the missions Orochimaru allowed him to go on. He signed the contract to be able to summon snakes, and is capable of summoning Manda himself. He also has the Chidori that Kakashi taught him. [As I think of jutsu, it will be run past the other mods before being added to the list.]

Taijutsu: He has the shishi rendon as well as what he copied from Lee back during his first Chuunin exam, and has copied and learned more since. [As I think of jutsu, it will be run past the other mods before being added to the list.]

Genjutsu: He can perform high-level genjutsu (Kurenai's level at least), including kage bunshin. [As I think of jutsu, it will be run past the other mods before being added to the list.]

Bloodline Ability: Sharingan

Jutsu Reference: [To be filled as I think of more.]

Chakra Abilities: Incredible amount of power, excellent control, perfect molding. Orochimaru's taught him how not to waste his chakra.

Skills: Stealth, tracking, concentration, focus, analysis, and tactics are the things he is best at.

Personality: Cold, aloof, intent. He keeps people at a distance, and uses Orochimaru as Orochimaru uses him. He has a tendency to get hot-headed when it comes to his brother, but he's making strides in ridding himself of that emotional weakness.

Interests: Learning as many jutsu as one possibly can, killing his brother, restarting his clan.

Family: Uchiha Itachi (older brother).

Friends/Affiliates: Student of Orochimaru.

History: From birth, Sasuke was always in his brother Itachi's shadow. He yearned for both his brother's affection and his father's attention. He would hound Itachi, trying to get his aniki to train with him and teach him moves, but Itachi was always busy with matters of his own, usually dealing with ANBU. Only after Shisui's death and the falling out between Itachi and their father Fuguki did Sasuke begin receiving any tangible attention from Fuguki. He taught Sasuke the goukakyuu no jutsu, and after several days of practice Sasuke was finally able to succeed at it.

Not to long after that, Sasuke came home from the Academy only to find his entire family and clan slaughtered. He arrived home just in time to see his parents breathe their last. Their murderer Itachi stood over them, eyes flat and dead before he used the Mangekyou Sharingan's Tsukiyomi technique to show Sasuke just how the clan died. Needless to say, the seven-year-old's mind didn't handle it very well.

He kept himself distant from his classmates, focusing purely on his studies and techniques. It put him at the top of his class but all he cared about was becoming strong enough to one day kill his brother. He was teamed with Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi upon graduation and looked upon his fellow Genin as bothersome burdens. In time, he began looking to Naruto as a kind of friend, going so far as to protect him from Haku's needles at risk of his own life. During the Chuunin exam he also went to lengths to protect Sakura from disguised!Orochimaru, which eventually put him in the position to be Sealed.

After the Chuunin exam, and the mind-affecting fever caused by the Heaven Seal, Sasuke's hatred of Itachi and feelings of weakness began eating at him despite his growth. When the two brothers met again during Itachi's mission to acquire the Kyuubi, Itachi used the Tsukiyomi on him again. Tsunade healed him when she returned, and Sasuke's rage and hatred all but consumed him, save for a tenuous link to his teammates and sensei. The Sound Four approached him them, and told him of Orochimaru's offer. Sasuke decided to accept and left with them. Sakura waylaid him temporarily, but he wasn't going to let anyone stop him. Not her, and not Naruto a day and a half later at the Valley of the End.

For the past two years, Sasuke has been training hard. He's been learning and copying jutsu like mad. He's also been training physically, which is amplified by the Seal-given strength, even when he's not actively using the seal. He is wicked fast on his feet, faster than Lee with his weights off and while not quite as fast as Lee with the Gates open, give a few more years and he'll get there. Orochimaru's taught him many things, and has had him train with the second level of the curse seal so it isn't as much a strain to use. Sasuke knows Orochimaru's holding back on some things and really isn't all that concerned. Kabuto, also, has taught him some medical jutsu, also holding some back. Sasuke doesn't get along with Kabuto and knows Kabuto only leaves him alone because Orochimaru favors Sasuke.

Name: Hyuuga Neji
Age: / DOB: 16 / July 3rd
Gender: Male
Height: / Weight: 5'11" / 148lbs
Occupation: Shinobi
Rank: Jounin
Country/ Village: Fire / Konoha

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Physical Traits: Neji's distinguishing features are his long black hair that reaches his waist when unbound, and his white eyes that have no visible pupil unless he is using Byakugan. His skin is pale and covered with the fine white lines of scars accumulated primarily from the fight with Kidoumaru and from the A- and S-ranked missions he's done. On his left side just below the shoulder joint and on the right side over his liver are two circle-scars from where he was impaled on the Otonin's arrows.

Aside from that, his other most distinguishing feature is the raised skin of the curse seal on his forehead, always kept covered by either his hitai-ate or a black scarf.

Outfit: Occasionally Neji wears the standard Jounin outfit, but he prefers his own entailing of a khaki long-sleeved shirt and long pants, with a black kilt tied about the waist. His hair he keeps in a low ponytail, though unlike while he was a Genin, he allows a few locks to be free.

Inventory: He has the standard assortment, though he carries more senbon than one normally would though not nearly as many as Tenten. He also has developed a taste for using the bola, so he always has at least one on him.

Ninjutsu: Kawarimi no jutsu, poof-away no jutsu (does that even have a name?), Katon: Goukakyuu no jutsu (since that's a move not exclusive to the Uchiha, just the most well-known).

Taijutsu: His primary style is the Hyuuga clan's Jyuuken, though he does know the taijutsu style Lee and Gai use. He just is in no way as good as they are (he refuses to wear the weights).

Special moves: Sixty-four Hands of Hakke, One-hundred-twenty-eight hands of Hakke, Kaiten.

Genjutsu: Henge no jutsu, illusion-cancel, and can construct some of the more simpler of the complex illusion jutsu.

Bloodline Ability: Byakugan

Jutsu Reference: The Sixty-four delivers a total of 126 tenketsu strikes, and One-twenty-eight a total of 254. (Neji's only 107 strikes from closing all 361tenketsu in the human body. He's working on such a move.)

Byakugan: Depending on the seals used in conjunction, it can be used for distance magnification, penetration of otherwise solid objects (the exception being certain kinds of seals that block chakra), 359-degree vision, microscopic magnification, ability to see the inner coil system, incredible insight into the workings of the mind, and in Neji's case the ability to see the actual tenketsu themselves. This is NOT an ability common to Hyuuga; the visibility and manipulation of the tenketsu themselves is either learned through YEARS of strenuous training, or something that one is born with, but that is an extremely rare occurrence. Also, Neji is capable of near-telepathy when Byakugan is being used and he is in natural line-of-sight with the eyes of whomever he wishes to communicate. (Meaning, he can't use distance magnification to use this ability.) This is also something he employs when interrogating someone when he wishes to be certain that he gets the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, no matter how much pain it causes the inflictee in Neji's pursuit of information.

Chakra porcupine: Neji brings his hands up so that his wrists cross in front of his face. When he flings his arms out, he releases thin spikes of chakra from the tenketsu of his back, his scalp, his arms and the fingertips of his splayed hands. Developed to combat a hailstorm of kage bunshin, these spikes have a maximum length of 3 meters and will inflict a significant amount of pain to a regular body. This jutsu cannot close tenketsu, but it can attack the inner coil system.

Chakra whip: Literally, a seal-generated whip of chakra that starts from the wrist so he can grasp the 'handle' in his hand. Its maximum length is about five meters. It not only responds to hand/arm movements, but literally to Neji's will. This jutsu causes the same damage as a regular whip; no damage to the inner coil system.

Chakra Abilities: As a Hyuuga he has been taught near-perfect control of his chakra. It is his own determination and self-training that has allowed him to gain that perfection. He wastes no chakra when performing a jutsu; meaning he knows how much each jutsu needs and makes sure that jutsu only uses that much chakra.

Also, while he can't self-heal (having never been taught) he does use chakra to stop bleeding, and for physical support if, say, the nerves/tendons in a limb were cut so that he would have moment where without the support he would have none.

Skills: Neji is a natural leader, excelling in situation assessment, strategy, and quick adaptation. He has taught himself to lip-read so that he can more accurately gather information when using Byakugan to see in places he could not physically go. Even without Byakugan he is exceptionally insightful as to what another person's thoughts and motives are. He has good mediator skills and for the most part an excellent diplomat, in that he weasels out what the other is thinking while only showing what he wants the other to perceive. Wordplay and dissembling are as natural as breathing as subtlety and nuance are at the very core of Hyuuga life. He is also peerless (if one discounts Morino Ibiki) in finding holes in otherwise sound arguments and documentation. This, and his intensive training into the arts of torture and interrogation has made him a force to be feared outside the clan.

Personality: Neji is cold, dry and condescending in tone of voice, and alternates between being cruelly blunt and slyly shadow-tongued. He harbors a hatred against the main family that was only slightly stemmed when he learned the truth of his father's death when he was thirteen. He tolerates Hinata, to an extent, and despises Hanabi. Hiashi-sama Neji respects (barely) as the head of the clan, and as his teacher into the finer points of the Sixty-four and Kaiten. He does not suffer fools gladly and cares little if his cutting tongue offends or infuriates when pushed beyond his patience. A son of aristocracy he is proud and haughty even as his forced subservience to the main family demeans him in his eyes. However, Neji does actually feel, though the only ones to really see his...less-stony side, as he doesn't exactly emote unless he's pissed, are his teammates, whom he would fight fiercely to protect. He trusts Lee and Tenten as he trusts no other.

Interests: Training, training, Tenten (though just try and get him to admit it), training, learning everything he can about torture and interrogation (both how to do it and how to survive it), training, making sure Lee can never defeat him in a fight, training, looking out for the honor of the clan (though not necessarily the honor of the main family), training, making ANBU as soon as he can, and did I mention training? He also likes meditating, listening to birdsong, swimming, and brushing his hair (it's quite relaxing, and his life is high-stress). His other dislikes include the intellectually stunted, anything concerning Lightning Country, excessive noise, and emotional people.

Family: Neji's related to the whole of the Hyuuga clan, but his close-kin include his uncle, Hiashi-sama, and his cousins Hinata (age 15) and Hanabi (age 10).

Friends/Affiliates: Though a Jounin, Neji has preferred to stay with his team consisting of Rock Lee, Tenten, and Maito Gai. Uzumaki Naruto is also considered a friend.

History: Neji had a fairly normal life early on. Loved by his parents he began his Jyuuken training at a young age, owing to the custom of the Hyuuga clan and because his own incredible strength began manifesting itself early on. Neji was not marked with the branch family's curse seal until Hinata's third birthday, at which point Neji was four. No one is sure of why such a length of time passed between birth and branding (as to receive the seal is a painful experience), though a rumor unknown to Neji suggests that if Hinata's frail health eventually ended up killing her, Neji would be adopted to the main family as Hiashi-sama's heir. [ooc note: this is something I thought of myself]

It was not being branded that taught Neji to hate the main family, not was it solely Hizashi's own prejudices. Rather, his hatred was borne from the agony Hizashi suffered when Neji observed Hiashi-sama use the seal. This was solidified when he saw his father killed in Hiashi-sama's place, to appease the Raikage and stop a war between Lightning and Fire before it could start. His mother died of grief not long after Hizashi's death, and Neji threw himself into his training because of his desperation to prove that he, a brancher, could surpass those born of the main family. Emotionally, he closed himself off from all so that he would never again feel the pain felt when he lost the person he loved most.

Nine years later at the Chuunin exam Neji proved just how strong of ability and mind he was by figuring out the clan's two most powerful moves, which were not taught to the branch family. These moves were the Kaiten and Sixty-four. During the fight it was revealed just how potent the hatred in Neji was as he explained to Naruto about the "Hyuuga clan's destiny of hatred".

Neji lost the fight, but not before Naruto gave Neji something to think about: that for all of Neji's fatalism when it came to destiny and fate, Neji was nevertheless trying to fight and make his own destiny. Neji's never forgotten these words.

After the fight, Hiashi-sama came to see Neji, bringing with him a scroll written by Hizashi himself that explained that his death wasn't ordered--Hizashi volunteered. Like Neji now, Hizashi then was trying to escape his fate. This along for Naruto helped stabilize Neji emotionally, though it didn't do a whole lot to decrease his hatred.

Neji's sharp brain and keen intuition and observation skills made him a natural when it came to interrogating people. Add in the pupil-less white eyes and name of the Hyuuga clan and it's enough to make most anyone nervous, and that's before Neji even says a word. He's not adverse to using pain and fear to get what he wants from another, preferring to wound emotionally/mentally before moving to physical pain. This sort of thing brought him to the attention of the higher-ups in Konoha's Torture and Interrogation department. He was interviewed several times before being asked to apprentice in the department. He learned fast and is continuing to do so, focusing mostly on techniques to use in the field though he enjoys learning the kinds of things he can do with the equipment located in the rooms in the many floors belowground. Neji hopes to one day study under Morino Ibiki himself, in addition to making ANBU.