Kai, Takizawa
Sept 10, 2012 23:45:10 GMT -7
Post by Kai, Takizawa on Sept 10, 2012 23:45:10 GMT -7
Name: Kai, Takizawa
Bloodlimit: none
Height: 6' 5" ft
Weight: 210 lbs
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Alignment: Good, Lawful
Birth Country: Fire
Village: Takigakure
Special:
Ninjutsu Specialist
Taijutsu Specialist
Genjutsu Non-Specialist
Clan Non-Specialist
Releases/Stances:
Suiton no Jutsu (Water Release Skill)
Rank: C Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Water. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Water Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---
Raiton no Jutsu (Lightning Release Skill)
Rank: "C Rank"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Lightning. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Lightning Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---
Battojutsu Stance
Rank: E Rank
Effect: Allows the use of Battojutsu forms
Special: None
Drawbacks: None
Description: The practitioner moves into a bow stance, their main hand gripping the hilt of the sword and their offhand resting half way down the sheath; they stand slightly crouched, able to easily move to a kneeling of standing position for their forms.
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn.
Techniques
Enegashi [Battojutsu] (Receive, Parry and Cut)
Rank: C Rank
Effect: Parry a moderate (C Rank) strike from the left then attack that opponent.
Special: None
Drawbacks: The defense made is not very strong - enough to deflect a weak attack
Description: Commencing from a kneeling position, the practitioner draws to parry an weak attack from the left then strikes as part of sheathing.
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to
Flying Shock
Rank: C Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: If the charged weapon touches the opponent's skin, they receive a potent electric shock in addition to any damage the weapon may make on it's own. When used, this jutsu gives one charge, and one charge only.
Special: Half-Ram.
Drawback: None.
Description: Gives any metal weapon an electric charge. The weapon must be held when the jutsu is activated. The required handseals only uses one hand, so the other hand holds the weapon. The weapon itself undergoes no visible change, the opponent would have no idea about it unless they witnessed the technique being used.
Limit: Lightning Release needed.
Thunder Clap Technique
Rank: C Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The jutsu will stun and immobilize a person by sending an electrical current through the air. The people affected would be immobilized for one turn.
Special: Handseals required
Drawback: Allies are also affected the jutsu.
Description: The user makes a series of hand seals and stops on the last one, charging electricity into their hands. The users spreads his hands out wide and claps them together. An invisible electric current is sent out, radiating outward from the user. It will stun and immobilize anyone in a 3 meter radius, long enough for the user to attack or escape.
Limit: Must know Lightning Release
Quick Strike Training (D, C, B)
Rank: C Rank
Effect: D Rank - Improves strike speed and power marginally; C Rank - Improves strike speed and power slightly; B Rank - Improves strike speed and power moderately.
Special: None
Drawbacks: Cannot learn Reflex Training.
Description: The practitioner is put through a series of rigorous repetitive movements to improve their ability to strike effectively with their sword. As they develop their training, their speed and power slowly increase.
Restriction: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn.
Sanpo-zuki (Three Direction Thrust)
Rank: C Rank
Effect: Three moderate (C Rank) strikes to up to three opponents, front, left and right
Special: None
Drawbacks: None
Description: Commencing from a standing position, the practitioner draws and quickly thrusts at three opponents ahead of him
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn; must have Quick Strike (C Rank) or Reflex Training (C Rank)
Weapons
Primary Weapon: Katana (Noir)
Sword, Longsword (Overview)
Rank: "C Rank"
Type: Main, Piercing/Slashing, Sword
Effect: Swords that slash hack, dice and anything else within this genre that reaches a certain length.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Sword with a blade between 3 feet to 4. These weapons range from any types of blades such as the long Sword, the Falchion, Katana, Tachi, Jian, Rapier, the Scimitr, the Shinai, and Waster. Any of these weapons or any weapon that fits within the length is considered as a long sword.
Limit: These types of weapons may be capable of being bought inside any Weapon Shop
Cost: 4,000 Ryo
Upon leaving the village Taki's brother bestowed to him the Katana his father wielded in battle. The Katana's name is Noir but nobody knows why it is named Noir or if it has any special abilities. The Katana itself has been passed down for over 7 generations with the handle being replaced several times and the blade being chipped and in some places crooked. Although used and tattered the blade still remains useful and can still cut like any other standard Katana.
Secondary Items:
Tactical Vest Type 2 (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Tailor, Slot Holder, Holds 15 Slots (12 for Items of Scroll Length), Vest
Effect: A Tactical Vest is an item of personal armor that helps absorb the impact from projectiles and shrapnel from explosions, and is worn on the torso.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The interior of both front panels have map pockets. On the left side holds 3 utility pouches 2 slots each that is 8 inches in length able to hold anything with the same length as scrolls. Above that are 2 smaller pouches that are 1/2 a slot each able to hold smaller items. On the right side is another 2 slots that are able to hold something of the same length as a scroll with 2 pouches that hold 1/2 worth of slot each for smaller items. The back has 3 large slots to carry an item of the same length of a scroll. May be attached to a belt to add more slot components.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Tailor Shop.
Cost: 5,500 Ryo
Two years ago Taki's brother was killed in a covert operation that the village would not disclose to his family. His body was carried back and his brother's clothes and personal belongings were given to the family. Today Taki wears the vest in a spiritual manner believing that his brother will protect him. The vest itself is blue and has pockets for holding equipment, but the vest has also seen better days. Holes and tears cover the vest, specifically one hole in the back where his brother was stabbed, showing that the previous owner was a veteran shinobi.
5X Smoke Grenades (5 slots)
20X Kunai (10 slots)
Kunai (Overview)
Rank: "C" Rank
Type: Secondary, 2 per Slot, Piercing/Slashing, Knife
Effect: A digging tool, a bit like a trowel. The blade was soft iron and unsharpened because the edges were used to smash plaster and wood, to dig holes and to pry. Also used as a knife.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The kunai is conventionally wrought in ranges from 6 to 8 inches, with the average at 7 inches. The kunai was used by common folk as multi-purpose gardening tools and by workers of stone and masonry. The kunai is not a knife, but something more akin to a crowbar. The blade was soft iron and unsharpened because the edges were used to smash plaster and wood, to dig holes and to pry. Normally only the tip would have been sharpened. The uses to which a kunai was put would have destroyed any heat-treated and sharpened tool like a knife. There could be multiple kinds of kunais such as handless ones, or even double sided kunais as long as they are within the same length.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Weapon Shop.
Cost: 1,000 Ryo per Slot, or 500 Ryo Each
Grenade: Smoke
Rank: "C"
Type: Secondary, 1 per Slot, Explosive, Grenade
Effect: A Grenade that gives off thick smoke when it explodes; used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position.
Special: ---
Drawback: May harm the user if not thrown right.
Description: Smoke grenades are used as ground-to-ground or ground-to-air signaling devices, target or landing zone marking devices, and screening devices for unit movement. The body is a sheet-steel cylinder with emission holes in the top and bottom. These allow the smoke to be released when the grenade is ignited. Two main types exist, colored smoke (for signaling) and screening smoke. It fills an area radius of 15 meters with thick smoke. The smoke may come in different colors if the user wishes. Different color smoke could be used for information value if need. It takes 6 seconds before it explodes.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Weapon Shop.
Non-Weapon Items
None
Character Depth
Personality:
Taki is a very naive person and will believe most things he hears. He believes them not because he is incompetent, but because he wants to believe that everyone has something good in them, no matter how bad. This sometimes gets him into bad situations and ultimately ends up in him attempting to avoid conflict. Taki's overall personality could be considered as free spirited and or playful.
Although naive and childish when among friends and family Taki can become serious when the situation calls for it, meaning that if he's on a mission he will retain his free spirited nature, but knows that the mission comes first. Although mocked all of his life for believing almost everything he's told, Taki will accept the insults and pokes of fun, unless it comes to his friends. Because he tends to avoid conflict if his friends are being poked at or teased he will do something to grab the attention of the aggressor so that all of their insults and harassment are pointed at him. He can best be described as a punching bag that wants to take the hits for you. Taki also has somewhat of an inferiority complex due to the expectations and goals he set for himself (derived from his father and brother's reputations)
Although calm and collected most of the time he has a subtle weakness for pretty girls. Because of his living situation (see history) he has very little if not, no experience with the opposite sex. Taki tends to have "word vomit" when speaking with an attractive young lady. This makes for sometimes awkward and down right creepy situations.
Becuase Taki was raised by his widowed mother he has excellent manners and is very polite to others. His mother instilled in him a sense of justice and order that he holds to the highest beliefs. But being raised by his mother has made him somewhat soft and emotional.
Appearance:
Taki is a tall and well built boy. His biceps and forearms are very well built along with his calves from all the work in the fields he's had to endure. Taki's skin color is somewhat tan (a littler brown than the one on the crayon box) and tends to lighten as the seasons change. Taki's ears and small and somewhat disproportional to his body. His face itself is your average rectangle with a stern chin. His eyes are dark brown and are usually perceived to be black when you're not looking at him up close. He keeps a thick eyebrow above each eye (not Rock Lee thick) and the shape of his eyes are small and oval. Taki has no facial hair or freckles. But Taki does however have a scar under his left eye running half the length pupil. Other than this he has no tattoos or piercings of any sort.
Taki's hair is short and black and somewhat seems to grow forward. Taki doesn't fashion his hair to any sort as he usually cuts it before it can become fashionable. His jet black hair is the same color every one of the males in his family has. In addition he does not have any piercings anywhere on his body (extremely scared of needles)
Taki's visible gear consists of his Katana, which is slung across his back when not on a mission, and blue tattered vest from his brother. Taki's bottom garments consist of khaki colored shinobi shorts with no pockets. Kai's ankles and lower legs are wrapped in bandages and encased in standard shinobi sandals. Taki's arms are also covered in bandages from the hands to the lower forearms (protection when wielding his blade.)
Because of his conservative attitude and humble upbringings Taki is not generally interested in the latest fashions, if anything he looks for efficiency and quality over color and style. That being said he never color coordinates. During his down time away from missions Taki can usually be found wearing an older short-sleeved brown leather jacket over a plain color t-shirt (the color of his under shirt usually gives clues to how he's feeling today. White being neutral.) Taki also sports khaki colored loose shorts with cargo pockets when off duty. Usually when he gets home his pockets are full of junk he sees and picks up off the street in hopes of fetching a price or just playing around with. Just like when Taki is on a mission his feet are also wrapped in bandages when he is off duty. The only real difference is that Taki will switch from standard issue Shinobi sandals to more traditional Geta (which he made for himself.) His pair of Geta sandals are somewhat dirty and faded after the many years he's used them. Upon leaving his mother she gave him another pair of clean Geta but he still prefers to wear his own Geta with the brown leather strap that he made himself.
Background:
Taki comes from the Kai family. A family with a cursed history in his village. Taki's history starts well before he was born. Taki's father was a well respected and well known Jonin from the Hidden Waterfall, his specialty was his blade work (which has been past down for over 100 years) and ninjutsu-taijutsu fused jutsu. Although talented and well known the cause of his death is unknown and kept from his family. The only thing that Taki and his family know of his death is that it was in a mission protecting the village's highest secrets. Two months after his father passed away Taki was born and the family moved to a small house far from the village. Taki's brother, Sousuke, was an ANBU soldier for the Hidden Waterfall and was often mentioned after his father because of the striking similarities in their work.
At an early age Sousuke and Taki began training to become shinobi under their new deceased master, Kouzuki. They specialized in the ancient art of swordsmanship and focused heavily on the art of the quick-draw. Kouzuki saw great talent in Taki but believed that taking his brother Sousuke with him to train in a far away land was the best choice for Taki's mother. Taking both sons from their mother would have been too much for her to bear and there was no guarantee that they would come back safely.
Taki stayed with his mother while his older brother left to train with Kouzuki to become a master swordsman. Because of where they lived his mother rarely went to the village and they supported themselves with Taki doing most of the farming and animal care, thus he was excluded from many things that teenagers his age had. Especially exposure to the opposite sex. Almost 6 years passed before Sousuke would come back to his family, by that time Taki had grown to the age of 16 and was already committed to farming and sustaining himself and his mother. Sousuke told them all that he was able to tell them, from missions in the fire country, to missions into the snow territory and working with specialists shinobi. The night before Sousuke was going to leave for his Class S mission he gave Taki their father's sword, Noir. Sousuke said that it was against the ANBU code to carry something personal like the sword that could be traced back to his country. Sousuke gave it to Taki insisting it was only a loan and that he would one day return to retrieve it. That day never came.
Because of his brother and father's reputation he feels as if he must live up to the family name and become the next man behind the sword. Soon after his brother's death the village paid out Sousuke's entire savings out to his mother. Now able to support herself without Taki's farming, Taki's mother sent him off to fulfill his dreams of living up to his brother and father's name. Taki set off at the age of 16 to train with his former master Kouzuki to master the ways of his father's and brother's blade. After learning everything he could in two years time Taki set off on an adventure that would live up to the Kai's reputation.
Bloodlimit: none
Height: 6' 5" ft
Weight: 210 lbs
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Alignment: Good, Lawful
Birth Country: Fire
Village: Takigakure
Special:
Ninjutsu Specialist
Taijutsu Specialist
Genjutsu Non-Specialist
Clan Non-Specialist
Releases/Stances:
Suiton no Jutsu (Water Release Skill)
Rank: C Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Water. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Water Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---
Raiton no Jutsu (Lightning Release Skill)
Rank: "C Rank"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Lightning. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Lightning Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: ---
Battojutsu Stance
Rank: E Rank
Effect: Allows the use of Battojutsu forms
Special: None
Drawbacks: None
Description: The practitioner moves into a bow stance, their main hand gripping the hilt of the sword and their offhand resting half way down the sheath; they stand slightly crouched, able to easily move to a kneeling of standing position for their forms.
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn.
Techniques
Enegashi [Battojutsu] (Receive, Parry and Cut)
Rank: C Rank
Effect: Parry a moderate (C Rank) strike from the left then attack that opponent.
Special: None
Drawbacks: The defense made is not very strong - enough to deflect a weak attack
Description: Commencing from a kneeling position, the practitioner draws to parry an weak attack from the left then strikes as part of sheathing.
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to
Flying Shock
Rank: C Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: If the charged weapon touches the opponent's skin, they receive a potent electric shock in addition to any damage the weapon may make on it's own. When used, this jutsu gives one charge, and one charge only.
Special: Half-Ram.
Drawback: None.
Description: Gives any metal weapon an electric charge. The weapon must be held when the jutsu is activated. The required handseals only uses one hand, so the other hand holds the weapon. The weapon itself undergoes no visible change, the opponent would have no idea about it unless they witnessed the technique being used.
Limit: Lightning Release needed.
Thunder Clap Technique
Rank: C Rank
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: The jutsu will stun and immobilize a person by sending an electrical current through the air. The people affected would be immobilized for one turn.
Special: Handseals required
Drawback: Allies are also affected the jutsu.
Description: The user makes a series of hand seals and stops on the last one, charging electricity into their hands. The users spreads his hands out wide and claps them together. An invisible electric current is sent out, radiating outward from the user. It will stun and immobilize anyone in a 3 meter radius, long enough for the user to attack or escape.
Limit: Must know Lightning Release
Quick Strike Training (D, C, B)
Rank: C Rank
Effect: D Rank - Improves strike speed and power marginally; C Rank - Improves strike speed and power slightly; B Rank - Improves strike speed and power moderately.
Special: None
Drawbacks: Cannot learn Reflex Training.
Description: The practitioner is put through a series of rigorous repetitive movements to improve their ability to strike effectively with their sword. As they develop their training, their speed and power slowly increase.
Restriction: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn.
Sanpo-zuki (Three Direction Thrust)
Rank: C Rank
Effect: Three moderate (C Rank) strikes to up to three opponents, front, left and right
Special: None
Drawbacks: None
Description: Commencing from a standing position, the practitioner draws and quickly thrusts at three opponents ahead of him
Restrictions: Must have a Senpai/Sensei of a Kenjutsu Dojo to learn; must have Quick Strike (C Rank) or Reflex Training (C Rank)
Weapons
Primary Weapon: Katana (Noir)
Sword, Longsword (Overview)
Rank: "C Rank"
Type: Main, Piercing/Slashing, Sword
Effect: Swords that slash hack, dice and anything else within this genre that reaches a certain length.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Sword with a blade between 3 feet to 4. These weapons range from any types of blades such as the long Sword, the Falchion, Katana, Tachi, Jian, Rapier, the Scimitr, the Shinai, and Waster. Any of these weapons or any weapon that fits within the length is considered as a long sword.
Limit: These types of weapons may be capable of being bought inside any Weapon Shop
Cost: 4,000 Ryo
Upon leaving the village Taki's brother bestowed to him the Katana his father wielded in battle. The Katana's name is Noir but nobody knows why it is named Noir or if it has any special abilities. The Katana itself has been passed down for over 7 generations with the handle being replaced several times and the blade being chipped and in some places crooked. Although used and tattered the blade still remains useful and can still cut like any other standard Katana.
Secondary Items:
Tactical Vest Type 2 (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Tailor, Slot Holder, Holds 15 Slots (12 for Items of Scroll Length), Vest
Effect: A Tactical Vest is an item of personal armor that helps absorb the impact from projectiles and shrapnel from explosions, and is worn on the torso.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The interior of both front panels have map pockets. On the left side holds 3 utility pouches 2 slots each that is 8 inches in length able to hold anything with the same length as scrolls. Above that are 2 smaller pouches that are 1/2 a slot each able to hold smaller items. On the right side is another 2 slots that are able to hold something of the same length as a scroll with 2 pouches that hold 1/2 worth of slot each for smaller items. The back has 3 large slots to carry an item of the same length of a scroll. May be attached to a belt to add more slot components.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Tailor Shop.
Cost: 5,500 Ryo
Two years ago Taki's brother was killed in a covert operation that the village would not disclose to his family. His body was carried back and his brother's clothes and personal belongings were given to the family. Today Taki wears the vest in a spiritual manner believing that his brother will protect him. The vest itself is blue and has pockets for holding equipment, but the vest has also seen better days. Holes and tears cover the vest, specifically one hole in the back where his brother was stabbed, showing that the previous owner was a veteran shinobi.
5X Smoke Grenades (5 slots)
20X Kunai (10 slots)
Kunai (Overview)
Rank: "C" Rank
Type: Secondary, 2 per Slot, Piercing/Slashing, Knife
Effect: A digging tool, a bit like a trowel. The blade was soft iron and unsharpened because the edges were used to smash plaster and wood, to dig holes and to pry. Also used as a knife.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The kunai is conventionally wrought in ranges from 6 to 8 inches, with the average at 7 inches. The kunai was used by common folk as multi-purpose gardening tools and by workers of stone and masonry. The kunai is not a knife, but something more akin to a crowbar. The blade was soft iron and unsharpened because the edges were used to smash plaster and wood, to dig holes and to pry. Normally only the tip would have been sharpened. The uses to which a kunai was put would have destroyed any heat-treated and sharpened tool like a knife. There could be multiple kinds of kunais such as handless ones, or even double sided kunais as long as they are within the same length.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Weapon Shop.
Cost: 1,000 Ryo per Slot, or 500 Ryo Each
Grenade: Smoke
Rank: "C"
Type: Secondary, 1 per Slot, Explosive, Grenade
Effect: A Grenade that gives off thick smoke when it explodes; used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position.
Special: ---
Drawback: May harm the user if not thrown right.
Description: Smoke grenades are used as ground-to-ground or ground-to-air signaling devices, target or landing zone marking devices, and screening devices for unit movement. The body is a sheet-steel cylinder with emission holes in the top and bottom. These allow the smoke to be released when the grenade is ignited. Two main types exist, colored smoke (for signaling) and screening smoke. It fills an area radius of 15 meters with thick smoke. The smoke may come in different colors if the user wishes. Different color smoke could be used for information value if need. It takes 6 seconds before it explodes.
Limit: These types of items may be capable of being bought inside any Weapon Shop.
Non-Weapon Items
None
Character Depth
Personality:
Taki is a very naive person and will believe most things he hears. He believes them not because he is incompetent, but because he wants to believe that everyone has something good in them, no matter how bad. This sometimes gets him into bad situations and ultimately ends up in him attempting to avoid conflict. Taki's overall personality could be considered as free spirited and or playful.
Although naive and childish when among friends and family Taki can become serious when the situation calls for it, meaning that if he's on a mission he will retain his free spirited nature, but knows that the mission comes first. Although mocked all of his life for believing almost everything he's told, Taki will accept the insults and pokes of fun, unless it comes to his friends. Because he tends to avoid conflict if his friends are being poked at or teased he will do something to grab the attention of the aggressor so that all of their insults and harassment are pointed at him. He can best be described as a punching bag that wants to take the hits for you. Taki also has somewhat of an inferiority complex due to the expectations and goals he set for himself (derived from his father and brother's reputations)
Although calm and collected most of the time he has a subtle weakness for pretty girls. Because of his living situation (see history) he has very little if not, no experience with the opposite sex. Taki tends to have "word vomit" when speaking with an attractive young lady. This makes for sometimes awkward and down right creepy situations.
Becuase Taki was raised by his widowed mother he has excellent manners and is very polite to others. His mother instilled in him a sense of justice and order that he holds to the highest beliefs. But being raised by his mother has made him somewhat soft and emotional.
Appearance:
Taki is a tall and well built boy. His biceps and forearms are very well built along with his calves from all the work in the fields he's had to endure. Taki's skin color is somewhat tan (a littler brown than the one on the crayon box) and tends to lighten as the seasons change. Taki's ears and small and somewhat disproportional to his body. His face itself is your average rectangle with a stern chin. His eyes are dark brown and are usually perceived to be black when you're not looking at him up close. He keeps a thick eyebrow above each eye (not Rock Lee thick) and the shape of his eyes are small and oval. Taki has no facial hair or freckles. But Taki does however have a scar under his left eye running half the length pupil. Other than this he has no tattoos or piercings of any sort.
Taki's hair is short and black and somewhat seems to grow forward. Taki doesn't fashion his hair to any sort as he usually cuts it before it can become fashionable. His jet black hair is the same color every one of the males in his family has. In addition he does not have any piercings anywhere on his body (extremely scared of needles)
Taki's visible gear consists of his Katana, which is slung across his back when not on a mission, and blue tattered vest from his brother. Taki's bottom garments consist of khaki colored shinobi shorts with no pockets. Kai's ankles and lower legs are wrapped in bandages and encased in standard shinobi sandals. Taki's arms are also covered in bandages from the hands to the lower forearms (protection when wielding his blade.)
Because of his conservative attitude and humble upbringings Taki is not generally interested in the latest fashions, if anything he looks for efficiency and quality over color and style. That being said he never color coordinates. During his down time away from missions Taki can usually be found wearing an older short-sleeved brown leather jacket over a plain color t-shirt (the color of his under shirt usually gives clues to how he's feeling today. White being neutral.) Taki also sports khaki colored loose shorts with cargo pockets when off duty. Usually when he gets home his pockets are full of junk he sees and picks up off the street in hopes of fetching a price or just playing around with. Just like when Taki is on a mission his feet are also wrapped in bandages when he is off duty. The only real difference is that Taki will switch from standard issue Shinobi sandals to more traditional Geta (which he made for himself.) His pair of Geta sandals are somewhat dirty and faded after the many years he's used them. Upon leaving his mother she gave him another pair of clean Geta but he still prefers to wear his own Geta with the brown leather strap that he made himself.
Background:
Taki comes from the Kai family. A family with a cursed history in his village. Taki's history starts well before he was born. Taki's father was a well respected and well known Jonin from the Hidden Waterfall, his specialty was his blade work (which has been past down for over 100 years) and ninjutsu-taijutsu fused jutsu. Although talented and well known the cause of his death is unknown and kept from his family. The only thing that Taki and his family know of his death is that it was in a mission protecting the village's highest secrets. Two months after his father passed away Taki was born and the family moved to a small house far from the village. Taki's brother, Sousuke, was an ANBU soldier for the Hidden Waterfall and was often mentioned after his father because of the striking similarities in their work.
At an early age Sousuke and Taki began training to become shinobi under their new deceased master, Kouzuki. They specialized in the ancient art of swordsmanship and focused heavily on the art of the quick-draw. Kouzuki saw great talent in Taki but believed that taking his brother Sousuke with him to train in a far away land was the best choice for Taki's mother. Taking both sons from their mother would have been too much for her to bear and there was no guarantee that they would come back safely.
Taki stayed with his mother while his older brother left to train with Kouzuki to become a master swordsman. Because of where they lived his mother rarely went to the village and they supported themselves with Taki doing most of the farming and animal care, thus he was excluded from many things that teenagers his age had. Especially exposure to the opposite sex. Almost 6 years passed before Sousuke would come back to his family, by that time Taki had grown to the age of 16 and was already committed to farming and sustaining himself and his mother. Sousuke told them all that he was able to tell them, from missions in the fire country, to missions into the snow territory and working with specialists shinobi. The night before Sousuke was going to leave for his Class S mission he gave Taki their father's sword, Noir. Sousuke said that it was against the ANBU code to carry something personal like the sword that could be traced back to his country. Sousuke gave it to Taki insisting it was only a loan and that he would one day return to retrieve it. That day never came.
Because of his brother and father's reputation he feels as if he must live up to the family name and become the next man behind the sword. Soon after his brother's death the village paid out Sousuke's entire savings out to his mother. Now able to support herself without Taki's farming, Taki's mother sent him off to fulfill his dreams of living up to his brother and father's name. Taki set off at the age of 16 to train with his former master Kouzuki to master the ways of his father's and brother's blade. After learning everything he could in two years time Taki set off on an adventure that would live up to the Kai's reputation.