Old Character Name: Akujin
Old Village/Missing: Sand
OCR Type: Retirement
Last Known Where-abouts: Red Light District
Old IC Rank: Medical Chief
New Character Name: Murakami Tomomi
Preferred Username: Tomomi
New Village/Missing: Missing [Tomoe Country - NPC Country (Self-Created/Owned)]
New BL/CA: Exalted
New Kinjutsu: Revenant
Custom Class:
Main Branch/ANBU/Med-Nin: ANBU-Equivalent
IC Rank: Mercenary
Character Age: 27
Gender: Female
Sex: Female
Character's Physical Description: Tomomi is a rather unimpressive 5 feet 8 inches tall when compared to other individuals that share an oni lineage like herself and weights around 110 to 120 lbs. She has red eyes and silver hair that compliments the silver band that she wears on her right ring-finger that was a heirloom from her mother. Typically, her hair will be tied up when out and about doing her normal everyday activities or training, but there had been occasions where she lets it down and it flows in the wind ever so elegantly. The half-breed also has horns that will sprout out of her head when she becomes angry or reverts to using some her "Gifted" (Revenant) powers. As for attire, she typically is wearing some form of armor when engaging in any form of combat and outside of fighting, she usually is wearing a modified gi. However, she also has worn other clothing choices depending on the situation or occasion that she found herself in.
Character's Mental Description: Tomomi is a cold, distant, and collected individual whom does not show many emotions in her everyday life. This is due to being constantly abused physically and mentally growing up from her elders in the village including her father. Rarely, one will see her giving a smile to someone or even appearing to be happy, but there had been a few times in her life that she truly could say that she was happy. While she appears to be quiet and to herself, she does care deeply about her village and the other half-breeds whom live within that help protect the village alongside her. It is just a struggle for her to truly express her emotions and feelings considering she was seen as nothing more than a tool to be used until she didn't work anymore which then would mean she would be discarded.
Character History:
Death/Retirement Thread: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?p=332144#p332144
Old Profile: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?p=165028#p165028
Old Training: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=46499
Old Dojo: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=442&t=46500
Old Stats: Capped, 786 ASP; after OCR, I start with 336 ASP.
Old OOC Rank: S
Stat Cut: N/A
New Stats: Same as above
Jutsu Mastery Swaps:
Other Refunds: Great Weapon, Blood Rack, Swift and Recovery (I will keep them all)
ASP Items You Own:
Name of any Contract you currently own: Feline
Swapping to New Contract: Yes, Tsukumogami (450 ASP)
RP for New Contract:
Name of any Cursed Seals you currently own: Nada
Name of Kinjutsu you own: Archsage
Still actively roleplaying in any other threads? Not actively; I have one topic but Azusa and I agreed to postpone it until I am ready to return to Kyuji. The link to the thread is here.
Special Usergroups: Battle Moderator
Other Info: The part that is her killing her father, I would like to use it as my app for my first heart and select the +1 accuracy option.
Other Misc Info:
Old Village/Missing: Sand
OCR Type: Retirement
Last Known Where-abouts: Red Light District
Old IC Rank: Medical Chief
New Character Name: Murakami Tomomi
Preferred Username: Tomomi
New Village/Missing: Missing [Tomoe Country - NPC Country (Self-Created/Owned)]
New BL/CA: Exalted
New Kinjutsu: Revenant
Custom Class:
The True Half-Breed Oni of Tomoe Country
HP: (55+lvl) x stamina
CP: (40+lvl) x chakra control
Class Bonus: Kinjutsu Option, +1 Free Basic Strike (Class Point ASP Item)
High: Ranged Accuracy
Average: Evasion(Dodge), Genjutsu Save, Ninjutsu Accuracy, Genjutsu DC
Low: Melee Accuracy
HP: (55+lvl) x stamina
CP: (40+lvl) x chakra control
Class Bonus: Kinjutsu Option, +1 Free Basic Strike (Class Point ASP Item)
High: Ranged Accuracy
Average: Evasion(Dodge), Genjutsu Save, Ninjutsu Accuracy, Genjutsu DC
Low: Melee Accuracy
Main Branch/ANBU/Med-Nin: ANBU-Equivalent
IC Rank: Mercenary
Character Age: 27
Gender: Female
Sex: Female
Character's Physical Description: Tomomi is a rather unimpressive 5 feet 8 inches tall when compared to other individuals that share an oni lineage like herself and weights around 110 to 120 lbs. She has red eyes and silver hair that compliments the silver band that she wears on her right ring-finger that was a heirloom from her mother. Typically, her hair will be tied up when out and about doing her normal everyday activities or training, but there had been occasions where she lets it down and it flows in the wind ever so elegantly. The half-breed also has horns that will sprout out of her head when she becomes angry or reverts to using some her "Gifted" (Revenant) powers. As for attire, she typically is wearing some form of armor when engaging in any form of combat and outside of fighting, she usually is wearing a modified gi. However, she also has worn other clothing choices depending on the situation or occasion that she found herself in.
Character's Mental Description: Tomomi is a cold, distant, and collected individual whom does not show many emotions in her everyday life. This is due to being constantly abused physically and mentally growing up from her elders in the village including her father. Rarely, one will see her giving a smile to someone or even appearing to be happy, but there had been a few times in her life that she truly could say that she was happy. While she appears to be quiet and to herself, she does care deeply about her village and the other half-breeds whom live within that help protect the village alongside her. It is just a struggle for her to truly express her emotions and feelings considering she was seen as nothing more than a tool to be used until she didn't work anymore which then would mean she would be discarded.
Character History:
About 30 years ago in a far-distant area of the world, known simply as Tomoe Country, a half-breed female was born from a beautiful, attractive human mother and a tall, gruesome, hideous oni father. Unfortunately giving birth to a child created by a human and oni typically ended in the death of the mother to allow the offspring a chance to live and grow to protect their home and create their own offspring when the time was right. As expected, the birth of Murakami Tomomi was no exception as her mother would die during delivery and an alternative method of conception had to be performed to ensure that she survived and was not also a casualty of the procedure. However, the death of one meant the loving embrace of the others as people praised and celebrated the birth of a new, healthy half-breed in the small village that they resided; the rest of the country, especially the capital, however likely had various methods regarding a new birth.
Growing up from a newborn to the age of five, Tomomi lived the typical life of a child as she made friends, learned basic skills needed in life, and spent lots of time with her family especially her grandparents who spoiled her rotten and saw no wrong in her. She was after all simply a young kid that knew no wrong nor the evils that fate had in store for her and everyone else. When reflecting on the past, this is one of the most happiest moments in her life as it was a simpler time and she felt loved, supported, and cared for by everyone around her including her father which unfortunately changed as she got older and wiser about the world and could actually stand up for herself and needed no support from anyone.
When Tomomi reached the age of five is when her life began to turn from a fantasy into a dark, abusive reality quickly. As was normal with half-breeds when they were around the age of five to seven, the village had them go through an alternation of their bodies through an invasive surgical jutsu known by the shinobi world by many names, but typically called Earth Grudge Fear. During the procedure, the patient was restrained to an operating table as they had to witness and endure their bodies being ripped literally apart from the inside as their organs, tissues, and bones were removed and replaced with dark fibers. Allegedly, these fibers that replaced their actual body were supposed to make them better able to fight and adapt to the situations that were thrown in front of them as it made them more or less immortal. Unfortunately, many people did not survive the surgery to their body and many that did survive were left mentally broken from the procedure, broken shells of themselves after losing a part of their self.
For the Murakami half-breed, the surgery could only be described as a living Hell to the mind and body. It was on a cold, rainy morning that she had been woken up from her bed by her father and escorted to the medical facility of their village where the procedure would occur that would change her mind and body for the rest of her life. As they entered the facility, she would be met by a kind-looking, tall oni that would escort her to her room and talk to her during their little walk. During it, he ensured her that she had nothing to worry about as this was a standard procedure to ensure that the village continued to strive and survive for the next generation. While he did tell her that the probability of death was insufficient, it did not bring any reassurance to her as stories had been passed around about the torture and mental anguish that everyone that had to take the procedure endured. However being as young as she was, she was more scared and nervous about the procedure than anything else.
When she arrived at the room, she would be handed off to two bullish, disgusting oni doctors that had extra arms and eyes that aggressively dragged her to the operating table and threw her on it as the door behind them would be locked as they needed no distractions during this procedure which was understandable considering this was a matter of life-and-death if things were not handled well. Once the poor half-breed was on the table, she would begin to be restrained with cuffs attached to the table, but she did not simply lay there and take it as she was quite young and petrified by what was likely going to happen to her so she fought and struggled with them. Unfortunately, this would prove to not be a wise decision as they would forcefully hold her down with their extra arms and "accidentally" break some of her bones in the process due to their monstrous strength behind them. To make matters even worse before the operation even would begin, they ensured that she would not try to resist more by breaking more bones in her body which would cause her to scream out in pain and cause tears to begin to stream down her face in agony from this beginning of her torture.
But, this Hell had only began as they would rip her clothing off of her body and begin the actual procedure with a large cut from the neck down to the groin causing blood to spill profusely as Tomomi closed her eyes and simply took it as she could not do anything else in her condition. However, one opening apparently was not good enough as multiple other incisions occurred throughout the body by one of the oni doctors while the other began to tear out organs, tissues, and the bones slowly and carefully to try to prevent the patient from going into shock. As they did this, Tomomi simply kept her head turned away from them as they treated her like an animal that was being butchered more than an actual person as blood seeped through the sheets and onto the floor while she continually bit at her lips and bawled throughout the procedure as they were more or less torturing her as they did everyone else since no anesthetics were used as the receiver had to endure all the pain or die during the process. A few times during the removal process, Tomomi would actually throw up or gasp for air as her body was after all being altered and multiple organs that worked together were being ripped out one by one to be replaced with tendrils eventually.
When all organs were removed, except for the brain, heart, and skin, and the majority of her bones and tissues torn from within, the doctors proceeded to phase two of the operation immediately since they had a small window to finish before the body gave up. Without a moment of hesitation, one of them began to sew the incisions closed with dissolvable sutures, one of the only luxuries of the village, while the other one used Earth Grudge Fear inside of the chest sending tendrils throughout the body and reconstructing organs, tissues, and bones that were truly more flexible and adaptable as the threads acted on their own within. While the jutsu was likely enough to prevent young Tomomi from dying on the operating table, the two oni doctors were extra cautious by transfusing stored blood into her body to ensure that she survived even though she likely would be mentally scarred for her life as the look on her face after they were finished was distant and simply stone-faced likely due to trying to distract herself from the torture that she endured to try to prevent herself from losing all of her sanity and being a broken shell of who she was as many had become before her.
She would be carried off to another room in the medical facility after her operation to recover from her physical alterations which allowed her to relax enough to pass out and let her body naturally heal in its new method that she was far too young to understand. Though, she had no idea what she had in store for her when she awoke as one would believe after a surgery that the patient could heal naturally as long as they needed. However for her, seeing as the half-breeds were born strictly for protecting the village, she was forced to begin a vigorous training program in order to grasp her newly-adopted skills and be a valuable asset to the village. Of course being as young as she was, she could not learn all the techniques that the "Gifted" needed to know and understand to be valuable tools for the protection of the village, but she tried her hardest to understand the knowledge and methods of using her new skills while enduring more torture in the process including arms being broken, her head being slammed into the wall, and some of the more sinister educators using her and the others for their own selfish desire before leaving them on the ground like disposable filth to be utilized for their own pleasures whenever they saw fit.
It was during this time that Tomomi saw many of the other half-breeds committing suicide or murdering one another to get out of this Hell that they had to endure in their own lives. Often, people would beg and plead to her to end their lives when they could not bring themselves to do it and she simply shook her head which prompted many to try to kill her out of frustration which she prevented by simply defending herself and knocking them them out by tapping them hard on their necks. Of course, sometimes, the educators would notice these little skirmishes occurring and simply watch to see if more would be dying today or if they would actually survive; it was quite honestly a sick and twisted game to them. But considering many of them were sick in the head for violating children in multiple ways, it came as no surprise.
For many years, Tomomi would be assaulted, raped, and tortured by her educators as they taught her how to use her tendrils from within her body to fight and often engaging her in spars to force her to utilize her body to the fullest. When she did have to fight, she could hold her own despite being so young and sometimes, she actually managed to cause some fatal blows to the educators which made them pleased to see her becoming a simple tool for the village and losing many of her emotions in the process as she was cold and calculated when it came to fighting. Of course, there were also times where she would be outmatched by her educators based on experience and she would simply have to endure any punishments that came following her defeats which only caused her to become more and more distant from this world around her.
Eventually, the training and education would conclude after roughly two years of being in "Hell" simply because the educators had nothing else to teach her and Tomomi had killed a few of the educators while she was training with them. While it was not intentional in the least as she never would want to harm or kill another, the constant abuse physically and mentally had gotten too much for her as her attacks became more and more aggressive against the educators and their same old tricks to fight her became ineffective as she easily began to break weapons used against her in half and bending limbs to the point of shattering them until the educators admitted defeat. If they did not admit defeat as some tried to do, bones were shattered in her opponents' bodies and some of them unfortunately perished in the process due to the strain that her tendrils put on their bodies in the multitude of ways that they could. It was also during this time that her peers began to avoid her as they feared for their own lives if she was capable of causing injuries to the educators or killing them when they were adults of the village. Basically, she had simply outgrown the trainings and education and they would serve no more purpose to her nor the village if she continued them unless more adults wanted to become injured or risk the chance that a mere peer of hers was harmed in the process. Unsurprisingly, her murders would not land her in any trouble as the village saw this as merely a necessary action that needed to happen to ensure the future of the village was safe.
At the age of seven, Tomomi would return home from the surgery-training of becoming a "Gifted" as the village called those who went through the procedure and survived it. While she had changed mentally, physically and emotionally from the procedure, she still looked forward to seeing her father and her extended family after she was settled and allowed to readjust to her simple, quiet life. Unfortunately for her, none of this would occur as her father's demeanor had shifted since she last saw him and they started almost immediately with more training for her to simply become a powerful tool for the village in the former of the protection and policing of the village with her newly-adapted powers; the half-breeds were typically the police and security of the village as they were able to tap into their adaptations that helped them combat the troubles and sinister plots of the neighboring villages that continually were engaging in combat with them. As for the individuals of the village that were simply an oni or human, they typically worked in the medical side of things as they were far weaker than their half-breed counterparts. However, it was not unheard of for oni or humans to fight alongside the "Gifted" in combat when there were some exceptional fighters or the village desperately needed it.
The trainings for young Tomomi was difficult, vigorous and often times chaotic as her father did not pull his punches at all when sparring with her. Often times, he would leave her brutally bruised or broken in the process of their trainings which her body easily could heal up through the threads "gifted" her through the Earth Grudge Fear. Nevertheless, sustaining all those injuries and bruises (which were significantly stronger due to her father being an oni) still put a strain on the body physically and mentally while draining the energy out of her with each session to try to better prepare her for protecting the village via joining the force as she had no true decision on the matter. As the trainings continued, her father increasingly got more and more barbaric with them and took it upon himself to violate her after she could not stand from some of these sessions both physically and mentally. Often, she was told that she was nothing special and just a tool for the village and him until they grew tired of using her and threw her to the side to pick up a newer, better tool for their disposal.
Yet, she said nothing nor left one tear come from her body throughout the torturous trainings and violations to her from her own father; it was simply because she knew nothing else and trying to stand up to him would likely prove to be the death of her even though she was merely a child. For ten or so years, Tomomi dealt with the abusive nature of her father as he continually trained her to be a tool for the village through various forms of physical combat and prowess. During this time, she learned how to fight with her bare fists, how to wield and use a sword, how to shoot a bow, how to hunt and fight with a lance, and utilize the stereotypical clubs that people knew onis for. It was through this training, although another literal Hell and something no child should have to endure, that prepared her to take the trials needed to become a part of the "police" force of the village which she passed with little to no effort due to utilizing her expertise in weaponry combined with her surgical gifts when she was barely a five year old girl in her village.
After passing these trials and being accepted as part of the force, she would approach her father at their home informing him that she was going to take a trip to another part of the country to get more knowledge of the world around them and to gather intelligence about the other villages that continually clashed with them. Unsurprisingly, he was not pleased with this independent thinking and idea of hers and did try to prevent her from going which prompted his hand to be stabbed through with one of her tendrils causing blood to seep out of it as she simply told him: "You should go to the doctors and nurses to get that patched up, Father." As she finished, she turned and walked out of their home and headed on her adventure for knowledge --- this adventure was actually simply going to a unmarked and unknown location in the forest fifty or so miles away from home to meet with someone that other half-breeds had mentioned was a valuable asset to help them get to where they were today and be stronger than they had been going through their own personal Hells in the village.
Upon arriving to this cabin that resided near a beautiful lake, an elderly woman would surface from the building and knew right away where Tomomi was from as she mentioned that she was another one. This prompted the half-breed to question what she meant by this and the elderly woman would inform her that others from her village had sought her out for guidance, training, and a means to get stronger for themselves as she recalled numerous stories of other half-breeds coming here broken shells of themselves or close to committing suicide due to the torture that they had endured in the village, but left in higher spirits and felt better prepared to handle themselves when they returned to the village. She would tell Tomomi that she could help her do the same if the half-breed was willing to stay for some time and listen to her teachings which had seemingly worked on most individuals that visited her. Considering that Tomomi came here because she had heard of someone that was human willing to help a village filled with onis and half-breeds that many likely saw as evils in the world, she could do nothing but accept.
The training would occur the following day after a hearty dinner and breakfast served by this elderly lady that was absolutely delicious. When they finished the two of them went outside of the cabin and engaged in a spar to show each other what they were capable of doing at this point in time and also to help Tomomi grow from where she currently was to be better, stronger, and wiser when it came to fighting and protecting herself and those that were important to her. Per the request of her opponent, Tomomi used her preferred weapon of choice, being the bow, while the elder woman was not using any weapon which seemed like it put Tomomi at a heavy advantage. However when they fought, Tomomi would learn that there was a lot about this world that she did not know about as the senior would easily deflect the arrows off a barrier causing them to fall to the ground or they would be blown away by a gust of wind or she would alter gravity to cause them to miss too high, too low, or too wide. In other words, she had a big talent that Tomomi lacked significantly and that was knowing how to use Ninjutsu, but more importantly, how to utilize chakra.
Of course, she was always willing to learn (likely due to being tortured if she tried any form of resistance) and would gladly accept the offer of the elderly lady when asked if she wanted to learn how to utilize her own chakra and try to grasp Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. While it was strange to openly accept an offer from someone that one did not know, considering the past that she had endured from people that she knew, it was not that far of a stretch to willing accept an offer from someone who did not seem to want to cause her harm and merely wanted to help her grow as she did others from the village. However, the training was quite rigorous and draining on the body and mind as Tomomi had to continually tap into a source of energy and then maintain it constantly enough so she did not overuse it that she was not aware of before her encounter with this lady. The simplest lessons on chakra manipulation and maintaining would take quite a few months as the seasons passed at least two full cycles before she fully understood and could grasp this energy from within her body without trouble at all.
However as soon as she had a steady grasp of this concept, her senior would not let up as she introduced the basic elements of the world to Tomomi: earth, fire, wind, lightning and water. Each one of them had their advantages and disadvantages as she would be taught, but most individuals in this world only were able to grasp one element masterfully and a select handful would be able to handle two of them; Tomomi unfortunately would not have a natural gift for any of them nor a real grasp of any of them right off the back. This simply required her teacher to work with her relentlessly and endlessly with her day and night until she could grasp at least one of them which would not come for roughly six long and enduring months. When it did however, she would be proficient in the fire-based elements which was not too surprising since the onis from history were known to be associated with fires and the underworld and she was merely no exception to these. But when one element was mastered, Tomomi wanted to learn more and would work with her teacher to accomplish this feat over the next several years as she stayed away from her home as long as she could and tried to learn everything that her teacher was willing to offer to her. Over this time, she would become highly skilled in all the base elements and proficient enough in all the advanced elements known by the elderly woman.
Of course, her elder could have stopped at any point with her teaching if she believed Tomomi would be using her teachings and knowledge for evil. However, she never once stopped as she slowly saw some light go back into the young half-breed's eyes that had been so dull and dark before as she kept teaching her. A simple year or two would turn into a significant amount of time as Tomomi connected with her teacher and they became close allies with one another. As her training with Ninjutsu would end, the elder would teach her the illusionary side of the shinobi world known as Genjutsu which after having a wonderful foundation of chakra control and manipulation would only take a few more years for the half-breed to master the four sensory categories of Genjutsu know to the human world.
When she had learned all the Ninjutsu and Genjutsu known to her teacher, the elder lady would have a sit down with her informing her that she was willing to give Tomomi a seal that was a pact between them that the half-breed had to promise to not use her knowledge and new strength to cause harm to the innocent and try to help the world and her own village from the evils of the world. In exchange for agreeing to this pact, Tomomi would be given a blessing from the woman to the weapon of her choice that would be the guiding light when she had to engage in combat with any necessary evils and protect her from being cursed or corrupted by any evils that plagued the world around her or tried to focus on her. The catch was if Tomomi decided to break the pact at any point, the blessed weapon would crumble into pieces and she would be more susceptible to falling to the evils and curses of the world and potentially having the oni part of her take control and make her as barbaric as the full onis in her village whom enjoyed torture of the physical and psychological variety.
Without a moment of hesitation, Tomomi would accept the agreements and indicate that she wanted the seal to be placed on the back side of her left hand so she had a daily reminder of her time here with this sage-like woman and how much she had grown in the nearly ten years spent here. She also informed her teacher that she wanted the only and only katana that she brought with her to be the blessed weapon as she would never want to use that weapon on someone who was not an evil of this world and did not deserve to have their head decapitated for their actions. Both of these comments brought a smile to the elderly woman's face as she would chant some words in a foreign language to Tomomi before placing her one hand on top of Tomomi's and the other below for support; this allowed the burning sensation from the sealing to occur and eventually left a mark that was red in nature and rather unique like it was personally created between them. Once the sealing was complete, the teacher would take the katana and say a prayer in a foreign tongue again as she placed seals on it granting it the blessing that they discussed before handing it back to Tomomi and simply smiling at her.
A few days later, the twenty-five year old half-breed would leave the nice, quiet cabin near the lake and head back to her village a changed woman and one that was much matured and able to handle herself if her abusive father was still living. While changed significantly in many ways, there was one thing that did not change about her during a decade away from her village and that was that she was still as cold, distant and calculated as she had been before she left as time did not heal all wounds as nightmares still occurred of her being tortured when she was younger by those doctors, those teachers, and her own father that left her in many ways a broken shell of who she could have been. However during her time away, there were a few times that she would smile and genuinely be happy about things in her life; those moments were few and far between unfortunately.
When she did eventually get back home to her village, she went immediately to her home where it did not appear unchanged at all aside from her father not seeming to be around. Unfortunately, that would not last long as a bottle would be thrown as her strong father stood mere feet away from her intoxicated and threatened her that he was going to make up for the time that he lost with her and have her pay tenfold for the injury that he sustained from her tendrils the last time that they saw one another. He would try quite a few times to harm her with a blade in her hand, but she evaded easily and grabbed his head one time and twisted it aggressively as he screamed out in pain for her to stop because it was hurting him which she would, but not before she shoved him away roughly and told him to leave her alone if he wished to continue to live today. Of course, he had been an abuser for a long time in her life and he laughed off her threat before he attempted to strike her again with the blade in his hand to be met with a tendril piercing his chest barely missing his heart as she glared at him and warned him that this was his last chance to walk away from her or she would ensure that he was eliminated from this world and his evil could be removed from her home and help the village begin to heal. Unfortunately for him, he laughed once again as he ensured her that he would harm her even worse than before due to the same trick being pulled as before as he ran towards her again. This was the last time that he laughed at her and commented on torturing her or causing her harm as her tendrils pierced his chest again and impaled his heart which killed him instantly likely. However, Tomomi ensured that her father did not live another day on this world as she ripped his chest open and tore his heart out of him allowing some tendrils in her mouth to wrap around it as it entered through her mouth and went into an open spot in her chest to be reprogrammed as her second heart. She remembered during her torture and abuse by her teachers that being a "Gifted" meant that they had open space within their body to store additional hearts and it was a valuable asset for her to consider especially if she was going to keep her pact with her elderly teacher and help protect the innocent from the evils of the world. It was actually at this moment that Tomomi decided that she would be a vessel that would contain the hearts of the evil and corrupt of this world as much as she could; if they could not be stored inside of her, she simply disposed of them either by burial or consuming them as nourishment depending on the circumstances and situations that occurred around her.
After his death, she disposed of her father's body in the only method that she believed was ideal for a bastard like him which was burning his corpse since he was going to go to the Underworld and rot with the others from this village that believed torturing children was perfectly okay even though it would leave them scattered and broken if they continued to live after everything they endured since most died far before they made it through all the trainings thrown at them. Once her father's corpse was nothing more than ashes, she stared at them in anger and disgust before walking away to speak with her peers and inform them that she had returned from her journey that had taken longer than they all had expected including herself. From there, she would live a rather quiet life alone in her home that had been its own torture chamber for years in her life as she worked hard with her fellow half-breeds guarding and policing their village to the best of their abilities while walking a thin line that could cause a civil war to break out at any point.
On her nightstand in her room after returning home from her extended stay with the elderly lady, she had been sorting through the jewelry box that her mother had when she was alive that contained numerous precious gems like rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. The piece of jewelry however that caught Tomomi's eyes was a silver band adored with an elegant design that was not too over the top and looked rather cute on her finger when she tried it on. It also complimented her hair color and was a nice contrast to her red eyes. However while it looked nice as did so many of the items in her box, it never felt right for the half-breed oni to wear any of it as she did not know her mother and these items were simply not hers to wear as she pleased even though she felt that her mother would have loved to pass them down to her, but alas that was something that simply could not happen given the circumstances surrounding Tomomi’s birth that killed her mother in the process.
However, during one of the days before Tomomi would have her 27th birthday, something rather interesting transpired before she had to go to work for the morning. As she awoke on that day, the jewelry box beside her that was always closed prior to her going to bed was wide open and the band that she liked quite a lot was on her right ring-finger which made her feel somewhat confused, but she shrugged it off as she merely must have accidently left the box open before she slept or opened it while she slept considering that she had been admiring her mother’s gems. Without overthinking it at all, she would simply slip the band from her finger and put it back into the box closing the safekeeper in the process. However, after some time, the box would be open again when Tomomi reentered the room and the same band was on her bed now simply laying. This prompted her to look rather confused as she knew that she had put the piece of jewelry away but shrugged it off again as she must be tired from working so hard since returning home that she wasn’t aware of what she had been doing.
It would be after the third time that this band mysteriously had gotten out of its box that Tomomi was put on guard as she believed that someone was messing around with her. However for her sake, a few moments after reentering the room and looking likely confused, a feminine voice could be heard coming from the band laughing as she spoke to her: ”Dear Tomomi, it has been almost three decades, but we finally are speaking to one another. This is your mother whom died when you were born almost twenty-seven years ago. I may have lost an actual physical form in order for you to join this world, but my spirit was able to go to another entity to watch over you as you grew up which is how I am speaking to you now. I am not limited to this band that you see before you however, but I am limited to inanimate objects like jewelry, weaponry, and everyday house items.”
As this piece of jewelry spoke to her, Tomomi would pinch herself a few times to make sure that she was in her right mind and not hallucinating or her mind was trying to play some trickery on her. When she realized that she was not, she would stare at the band unable to really say anything as her mother would speak again to her: ”I understand that this is likely confusing and sudden since you had been admiring my jewelry for the past few days and I know I should have made my presence known sooner than I did especially when you disposed of your dad which likely deserved everything you did to him as he was not a nice man at all and had been known for abusing children and also abusing me numerous times. But, I needed to find the right moment to approach you since I knew you would be surprised and on-edge as you are displaying right now.” As she was spoken to, Tomomi would have to try to digest all of this that was being thrown at her as she had not known her mother for her entire life and one random day, a band belonging to her mother was speaking to her like she was her mother. It was rather odd and out there to put it mildly, but she was willing to give this development a chance since she took a chance with the elderly lady and it had proved rather fruitful.
"Hello Mother, it has been a long time.." she would begin trying to gather her thoughts as she was feeling a variety of emotions from comfort to sadness to frustration and everything likely in-between. Once she did gather herself, she continued: "I am glad to hear your voice for the first time and happy that we can finally talk to one another as I did not believe that I would be able to do this until I passed myself to the afterlife. My life has been a living Hell to put it mildly mother as I was treated like literal filth to many of the oni of this village and my body and mind were violated. Fortunately as you mentioned, I handled father once I returned from my extended 'journey' of the country by killing him to ensure his evilness could not continue to plague this world. But, I could go on and on about how I was tortured, abused, and treated as nothing more than a tool for the village, but I rather not have our first encounter be a long-winded one-sided conversation."
It would not take long after her daughter's quick response to her and explanation of her life that her mother would respond to her, offering her somewhat of a pact like the elderly lady had done with her in the past. This one however was a rather simpler one than the other as her mother would so elegantly explain: "It breaks my heart to hear my own daughter went through a literal Hell in her life and me being unable to protect and help her like a mother is supposed to do. If I could have, I would have been there for you, Tomomi. But, I know of one thing that I can do now for you since you proved to me that you can handle yourself when you eliminated your father from this world. If you are willing to sign a pact with me and allow me to consume some of your altered blood, I can be worn by you and potentially offer you benefits when you fight like thickening your armor to protect you better or providing healing aid while you focus on fighting and handle your opponents. The choice is yours, my daughter, but I love to be a part of your life if you are willing to have me."
This was all so sudden and quick that Tomomi was not sure what to make of it, but she took a chance with the elderly lady before and it proved beneficial to her. This could be another valuable and happy moment in her life if it proved fruitful and that was a risk that she was willing to take since she was young and could easily handle this band if it backfired by destroying it or removing the part of the body that it was affecting. Thus after a few moments to think it over, Tomomi simply slipped the band onto her right ring-finger and could feel little teeth-like pricks going into her finger drawing blood and signing the pact with her mother, an apparent shape-shifting spirit that could only possess inanimate objects. After she got her fill, the teeth-like pricks would disappear and the band would resume its normal shape with some minor design alterations. But considering it was early in the day and Tomomi had signed a pact with her mother, it was going to be a rather weird day likely. However, she ensured before they would head out to inform her mother to stay quiet when they were around others in exchange for talking to one another in private which her mother happily agreed with; it likely just made her happy that her daughter was willing to give her another shot of being in her life after she had died giving birth to Tomomi.
A few days after forming a pact with her mother's spirit and beginning to wear her mother on her right ring-finger, Tomomi would turn twenty-seven years old and follow the same procedure as she always did for her day. However, today was a special day as it was her birthday and she had been given permission from her peers to go out and scout the area for potential rival villages that were trying to create a stronghold near their village or simply bandits that sometimes loved to appear at the village gates and try to force their way in which typically ended with their arrests or death right there. Of course, most of the protection and policing of the village was under the eyes of fellow half-breeds whom knew that Tomomi likely would venture off to visit the elderly lady at the lake again or investigate other parts of the country if she managed to slip away without any of the oni noticing; she had done it a few times since her return, but would only make it a day trip at best. However, this time was different as Tomomi was not planning on returning for quite awhile as she was planning a larger area of the country with her mother at her side so they could talk and bond after not having this opportunity for almost thirty years; it was also possible that she would venture further to explore other areas of the world as any and all information that she could learn and utilize to better her own village was ideal as there were many changes that the half-breeds wanted for themselves and their families, but they needed time and resources.
Growing up from a newborn to the age of five, Tomomi lived the typical life of a child as she made friends, learned basic skills needed in life, and spent lots of time with her family especially her grandparents who spoiled her rotten and saw no wrong in her. She was after all simply a young kid that knew no wrong nor the evils that fate had in store for her and everyone else. When reflecting on the past, this is one of the most happiest moments in her life as it was a simpler time and she felt loved, supported, and cared for by everyone around her including her father which unfortunately changed as she got older and wiser about the world and could actually stand up for herself and needed no support from anyone.
When Tomomi reached the age of five is when her life began to turn from a fantasy into a dark, abusive reality quickly. As was normal with half-breeds when they were around the age of five to seven, the village had them go through an alternation of their bodies through an invasive surgical jutsu known by the shinobi world by many names, but typically called Earth Grudge Fear. During the procedure, the patient was restrained to an operating table as they had to witness and endure their bodies being ripped literally apart from the inside as their organs, tissues, and bones were removed and replaced with dark fibers. Allegedly, these fibers that replaced their actual body were supposed to make them better able to fight and adapt to the situations that were thrown in front of them as it made them more or less immortal. Unfortunately, many people did not survive the surgery to their body and many that did survive were left mentally broken from the procedure, broken shells of themselves after losing a part of their self.
For the Murakami half-breed, the surgery could only be described as a living Hell to the mind and body. It was on a cold, rainy morning that she had been woken up from her bed by her father and escorted to the medical facility of their village where the procedure would occur that would change her mind and body for the rest of her life. As they entered the facility, she would be met by a kind-looking, tall oni that would escort her to her room and talk to her during their little walk. During it, he ensured her that she had nothing to worry about as this was a standard procedure to ensure that the village continued to strive and survive for the next generation. While he did tell her that the probability of death was insufficient, it did not bring any reassurance to her as stories had been passed around about the torture and mental anguish that everyone that had to take the procedure endured. However being as young as she was, she was more scared and nervous about the procedure than anything else.
When she arrived at the room, she would be handed off to two bullish, disgusting oni doctors that had extra arms and eyes that aggressively dragged her to the operating table and threw her on it as the door behind them would be locked as they needed no distractions during this procedure which was understandable considering this was a matter of life-and-death if things were not handled well. Once the poor half-breed was on the table, she would begin to be restrained with cuffs attached to the table, but she did not simply lay there and take it as she was quite young and petrified by what was likely going to happen to her so she fought and struggled with them. Unfortunately, this would prove to not be a wise decision as they would forcefully hold her down with their extra arms and "accidentally" break some of her bones in the process due to their monstrous strength behind them. To make matters even worse before the operation even would begin, they ensured that she would not try to resist more by breaking more bones in her body which would cause her to scream out in pain and cause tears to begin to stream down her face in agony from this beginning of her torture.
But, this Hell had only began as they would rip her clothing off of her body and begin the actual procedure with a large cut from the neck down to the groin causing blood to spill profusely as Tomomi closed her eyes and simply took it as she could not do anything else in her condition. However, one opening apparently was not good enough as multiple other incisions occurred throughout the body by one of the oni doctors while the other began to tear out organs, tissues, and the bones slowly and carefully to try to prevent the patient from going into shock. As they did this, Tomomi simply kept her head turned away from them as they treated her like an animal that was being butchered more than an actual person as blood seeped through the sheets and onto the floor while she continually bit at her lips and bawled throughout the procedure as they were more or less torturing her as they did everyone else since no anesthetics were used as the receiver had to endure all the pain or die during the process. A few times during the removal process, Tomomi would actually throw up or gasp for air as her body was after all being altered and multiple organs that worked together were being ripped out one by one to be replaced with tendrils eventually.
When all organs were removed, except for the brain, heart, and skin, and the majority of her bones and tissues torn from within, the doctors proceeded to phase two of the operation immediately since they had a small window to finish before the body gave up. Without a moment of hesitation, one of them began to sew the incisions closed with dissolvable sutures, one of the only luxuries of the village, while the other one used Earth Grudge Fear inside of the chest sending tendrils throughout the body and reconstructing organs, tissues, and bones that were truly more flexible and adaptable as the threads acted on their own within. While the jutsu was likely enough to prevent young Tomomi from dying on the operating table, the two oni doctors were extra cautious by transfusing stored blood into her body to ensure that she survived even though she likely would be mentally scarred for her life as the look on her face after they were finished was distant and simply stone-faced likely due to trying to distract herself from the torture that she endured to try to prevent herself from losing all of her sanity and being a broken shell of who she was as many had become before her.
She would be carried off to another room in the medical facility after her operation to recover from her physical alterations which allowed her to relax enough to pass out and let her body naturally heal in its new method that she was far too young to understand. Though, she had no idea what she had in store for her when she awoke as one would believe after a surgery that the patient could heal naturally as long as they needed. However for her, seeing as the half-breeds were born strictly for protecting the village, she was forced to begin a vigorous training program in order to grasp her newly-adopted skills and be a valuable asset to the village. Of course being as young as she was, she could not learn all the techniques that the "Gifted" needed to know and understand to be valuable tools for the protection of the village, but she tried her hardest to understand the knowledge and methods of using her new skills while enduring more torture in the process including arms being broken, her head being slammed into the wall, and some of the more sinister educators using her and the others for their own selfish desire before leaving them on the ground like disposable filth to be utilized for their own pleasures whenever they saw fit.
It was during this time that Tomomi saw many of the other half-breeds committing suicide or murdering one another to get out of this Hell that they had to endure in their own lives. Often, people would beg and plead to her to end their lives when they could not bring themselves to do it and she simply shook her head which prompted many to try to kill her out of frustration which she prevented by simply defending herself and knocking them them out by tapping them hard on their necks. Of course, sometimes, the educators would notice these little skirmishes occurring and simply watch to see if more would be dying today or if they would actually survive; it was quite honestly a sick and twisted game to them. But considering many of them were sick in the head for violating children in multiple ways, it came as no surprise.
For many years, Tomomi would be assaulted, raped, and tortured by her educators as they taught her how to use her tendrils from within her body to fight and often engaging her in spars to force her to utilize her body to the fullest. When she did have to fight, she could hold her own despite being so young and sometimes, she actually managed to cause some fatal blows to the educators which made them pleased to see her becoming a simple tool for the village and losing many of her emotions in the process as she was cold and calculated when it came to fighting. Of course, there were also times where she would be outmatched by her educators based on experience and she would simply have to endure any punishments that came following her defeats which only caused her to become more and more distant from this world around her.
Eventually, the training and education would conclude after roughly two years of being in "Hell" simply because the educators had nothing else to teach her and Tomomi had killed a few of the educators while she was training with them. While it was not intentional in the least as she never would want to harm or kill another, the constant abuse physically and mentally had gotten too much for her as her attacks became more and more aggressive against the educators and their same old tricks to fight her became ineffective as she easily began to break weapons used against her in half and bending limbs to the point of shattering them until the educators admitted defeat. If they did not admit defeat as some tried to do, bones were shattered in her opponents' bodies and some of them unfortunately perished in the process due to the strain that her tendrils put on their bodies in the multitude of ways that they could. It was also during this time that her peers began to avoid her as they feared for their own lives if she was capable of causing injuries to the educators or killing them when they were adults of the village. Basically, she had simply outgrown the trainings and education and they would serve no more purpose to her nor the village if she continued them unless more adults wanted to become injured or risk the chance that a mere peer of hers was harmed in the process. Unsurprisingly, her murders would not land her in any trouble as the village saw this as merely a necessary action that needed to happen to ensure the future of the village was safe.
At the age of seven, Tomomi would return home from the surgery-training of becoming a "Gifted" as the village called those who went through the procedure and survived it. While she had changed mentally, physically and emotionally from the procedure, she still looked forward to seeing her father and her extended family after she was settled and allowed to readjust to her simple, quiet life. Unfortunately for her, none of this would occur as her father's demeanor had shifted since she last saw him and they started almost immediately with more training for her to simply become a powerful tool for the village in the former of the protection and policing of the village with her newly-adapted powers; the half-breeds were typically the police and security of the village as they were able to tap into their adaptations that helped them combat the troubles and sinister plots of the neighboring villages that continually were engaging in combat with them. As for the individuals of the village that were simply an oni or human, they typically worked in the medical side of things as they were far weaker than their half-breed counterparts. However, it was not unheard of for oni or humans to fight alongside the "Gifted" in combat when there were some exceptional fighters or the village desperately needed it.
The trainings for young Tomomi was difficult, vigorous and often times chaotic as her father did not pull his punches at all when sparring with her. Often times, he would leave her brutally bruised or broken in the process of their trainings which her body easily could heal up through the threads "gifted" her through the Earth Grudge Fear. Nevertheless, sustaining all those injuries and bruises (which were significantly stronger due to her father being an oni) still put a strain on the body physically and mentally while draining the energy out of her with each session to try to better prepare her for protecting the village via joining the force as she had no true decision on the matter. As the trainings continued, her father increasingly got more and more barbaric with them and took it upon himself to violate her after she could not stand from some of these sessions both physically and mentally. Often, she was told that she was nothing special and just a tool for the village and him until they grew tired of using her and threw her to the side to pick up a newer, better tool for their disposal.
Yet, she said nothing nor left one tear come from her body throughout the torturous trainings and violations to her from her own father; it was simply because she knew nothing else and trying to stand up to him would likely prove to be the death of her even though she was merely a child. For ten or so years, Tomomi dealt with the abusive nature of her father as he continually trained her to be a tool for the village through various forms of physical combat and prowess. During this time, she learned how to fight with her bare fists, how to wield and use a sword, how to shoot a bow, how to hunt and fight with a lance, and utilize the stereotypical clubs that people knew onis for. It was through this training, although another literal Hell and something no child should have to endure, that prepared her to take the trials needed to become a part of the "police" force of the village which she passed with little to no effort due to utilizing her expertise in weaponry combined with her surgical gifts when she was barely a five year old girl in her village.
After passing these trials and being accepted as part of the force, she would approach her father at their home informing him that she was going to take a trip to another part of the country to get more knowledge of the world around them and to gather intelligence about the other villages that continually clashed with them. Unsurprisingly, he was not pleased with this independent thinking and idea of hers and did try to prevent her from going which prompted his hand to be stabbed through with one of her tendrils causing blood to seep out of it as she simply told him: "You should go to the doctors and nurses to get that patched up, Father." As she finished, she turned and walked out of their home and headed on her adventure for knowledge --- this adventure was actually simply going to a unmarked and unknown location in the forest fifty or so miles away from home to meet with someone that other half-breeds had mentioned was a valuable asset to help them get to where they were today and be stronger than they had been going through their own personal Hells in the village.
Upon arriving to this cabin that resided near a beautiful lake, an elderly woman would surface from the building and knew right away where Tomomi was from as she mentioned that she was another one. This prompted the half-breed to question what she meant by this and the elderly woman would inform her that others from her village had sought her out for guidance, training, and a means to get stronger for themselves as she recalled numerous stories of other half-breeds coming here broken shells of themselves or close to committing suicide due to the torture that they had endured in the village, but left in higher spirits and felt better prepared to handle themselves when they returned to the village. She would tell Tomomi that she could help her do the same if the half-breed was willing to stay for some time and listen to her teachings which had seemingly worked on most individuals that visited her. Considering that Tomomi came here because she had heard of someone that was human willing to help a village filled with onis and half-breeds that many likely saw as evils in the world, she could do nothing but accept.
The training would occur the following day after a hearty dinner and breakfast served by this elderly lady that was absolutely delicious. When they finished the two of them went outside of the cabin and engaged in a spar to show each other what they were capable of doing at this point in time and also to help Tomomi grow from where she currently was to be better, stronger, and wiser when it came to fighting and protecting herself and those that were important to her. Per the request of her opponent, Tomomi used her preferred weapon of choice, being the bow, while the elder woman was not using any weapon which seemed like it put Tomomi at a heavy advantage. However when they fought, Tomomi would learn that there was a lot about this world that she did not know about as the senior would easily deflect the arrows off a barrier causing them to fall to the ground or they would be blown away by a gust of wind or she would alter gravity to cause them to miss too high, too low, or too wide. In other words, she had a big talent that Tomomi lacked significantly and that was knowing how to use Ninjutsu, but more importantly, how to utilize chakra.
Of course, she was always willing to learn (likely due to being tortured if she tried any form of resistance) and would gladly accept the offer of the elderly lady when asked if she wanted to learn how to utilize her own chakra and try to grasp Ninjutsu and Genjutsu. While it was strange to openly accept an offer from someone that one did not know, considering the past that she had endured from people that she knew, it was not that far of a stretch to willing accept an offer from someone who did not seem to want to cause her harm and merely wanted to help her grow as she did others from the village. However, the training was quite rigorous and draining on the body and mind as Tomomi had to continually tap into a source of energy and then maintain it constantly enough so she did not overuse it that she was not aware of before her encounter with this lady. The simplest lessons on chakra manipulation and maintaining would take quite a few months as the seasons passed at least two full cycles before she fully understood and could grasp this energy from within her body without trouble at all.
However as soon as she had a steady grasp of this concept, her senior would not let up as she introduced the basic elements of the world to Tomomi: earth, fire, wind, lightning and water. Each one of them had their advantages and disadvantages as she would be taught, but most individuals in this world only were able to grasp one element masterfully and a select handful would be able to handle two of them; Tomomi unfortunately would not have a natural gift for any of them nor a real grasp of any of them right off the back. This simply required her teacher to work with her relentlessly and endlessly with her day and night until she could grasp at least one of them which would not come for roughly six long and enduring months. When it did however, she would be proficient in the fire-based elements which was not too surprising since the onis from history were known to be associated with fires and the underworld and she was merely no exception to these. But when one element was mastered, Tomomi wanted to learn more and would work with her teacher to accomplish this feat over the next several years as she stayed away from her home as long as she could and tried to learn everything that her teacher was willing to offer to her. Over this time, she would become highly skilled in all the base elements and proficient enough in all the advanced elements known by the elderly woman.
Of course, her elder could have stopped at any point with her teaching if she believed Tomomi would be using her teachings and knowledge for evil. However, she never once stopped as she slowly saw some light go back into the young half-breed's eyes that had been so dull and dark before as she kept teaching her. A simple year or two would turn into a significant amount of time as Tomomi connected with her teacher and they became close allies with one another. As her training with Ninjutsu would end, the elder would teach her the illusionary side of the shinobi world known as Genjutsu which after having a wonderful foundation of chakra control and manipulation would only take a few more years for the half-breed to master the four sensory categories of Genjutsu know to the human world.
When she had learned all the Ninjutsu and Genjutsu known to her teacher, the elder lady would have a sit down with her informing her that she was willing to give Tomomi a seal that was a pact between them that the half-breed had to promise to not use her knowledge and new strength to cause harm to the innocent and try to help the world and her own village from the evils of the world. In exchange for agreeing to this pact, Tomomi would be given a blessing from the woman to the weapon of her choice that would be the guiding light when she had to engage in combat with any necessary evils and protect her from being cursed or corrupted by any evils that plagued the world around her or tried to focus on her. The catch was if Tomomi decided to break the pact at any point, the blessed weapon would crumble into pieces and she would be more susceptible to falling to the evils and curses of the world and potentially having the oni part of her take control and make her as barbaric as the full onis in her village whom enjoyed torture of the physical and psychological variety.
Without a moment of hesitation, Tomomi would accept the agreements and indicate that she wanted the seal to be placed on the back side of her left hand so she had a daily reminder of her time here with this sage-like woman and how much she had grown in the nearly ten years spent here. She also informed her teacher that she wanted the only and only katana that she brought with her to be the blessed weapon as she would never want to use that weapon on someone who was not an evil of this world and did not deserve to have their head decapitated for their actions. Both of these comments brought a smile to the elderly woman's face as she would chant some words in a foreign language to Tomomi before placing her one hand on top of Tomomi's and the other below for support; this allowed the burning sensation from the sealing to occur and eventually left a mark that was red in nature and rather unique like it was personally created between them. Once the sealing was complete, the teacher would take the katana and say a prayer in a foreign tongue again as she placed seals on it granting it the blessing that they discussed before handing it back to Tomomi and simply smiling at her.
A few days later, the twenty-five year old half-breed would leave the nice, quiet cabin near the lake and head back to her village a changed woman and one that was much matured and able to handle herself if her abusive father was still living. While changed significantly in many ways, there was one thing that did not change about her during a decade away from her village and that was that she was still as cold, distant and calculated as she had been before she left as time did not heal all wounds as nightmares still occurred of her being tortured when she was younger by those doctors, those teachers, and her own father that left her in many ways a broken shell of who she could have been. However during her time away, there were a few times that she would smile and genuinely be happy about things in her life; those moments were few and far between unfortunately.
When she did eventually get back home to her village, she went immediately to her home where it did not appear unchanged at all aside from her father not seeming to be around. Unfortunately, that would not last long as a bottle would be thrown as her strong father stood mere feet away from her intoxicated and threatened her that he was going to make up for the time that he lost with her and have her pay tenfold for the injury that he sustained from her tendrils the last time that they saw one another. He would try quite a few times to harm her with a blade in her hand, but she evaded easily and grabbed his head one time and twisted it aggressively as he screamed out in pain for her to stop because it was hurting him which she would, but not before she shoved him away roughly and told him to leave her alone if he wished to continue to live today. Of course, he had been an abuser for a long time in her life and he laughed off her threat before he attempted to strike her again with the blade in his hand to be met with a tendril piercing his chest barely missing his heart as she glared at him and warned him that this was his last chance to walk away from her or she would ensure that he was eliminated from this world and his evil could be removed from her home and help the village begin to heal. Unfortunately for him, he laughed once again as he ensured her that he would harm her even worse than before due to the same trick being pulled as before as he ran towards her again. This was the last time that he laughed at her and commented on torturing her or causing her harm as her tendrils pierced his chest again and impaled his heart which killed him instantly likely. However, Tomomi ensured that her father did not live another day on this world as she ripped his chest open and tore his heart out of him allowing some tendrils in her mouth to wrap around it as it entered through her mouth and went into an open spot in her chest to be reprogrammed as her second heart. She remembered during her torture and abuse by her teachers that being a "Gifted" meant that they had open space within their body to store additional hearts and it was a valuable asset for her to consider especially if she was going to keep her pact with her elderly teacher and help protect the innocent from the evils of the world. It was actually at this moment that Tomomi decided that she would be a vessel that would contain the hearts of the evil and corrupt of this world as much as she could; if they could not be stored inside of her, she simply disposed of them either by burial or consuming them as nourishment depending on the circumstances and situations that occurred around her.
After his death, she disposed of her father's body in the only method that she believed was ideal for a bastard like him which was burning his corpse since he was going to go to the Underworld and rot with the others from this village that believed torturing children was perfectly okay even though it would leave them scattered and broken if they continued to live after everything they endured since most died far before they made it through all the trainings thrown at them. Once her father's corpse was nothing more than ashes, she stared at them in anger and disgust before walking away to speak with her peers and inform them that she had returned from her journey that had taken longer than they all had expected including herself. From there, she would live a rather quiet life alone in her home that had been its own torture chamber for years in her life as she worked hard with her fellow half-breeds guarding and policing their village to the best of their abilities while walking a thin line that could cause a civil war to break out at any point.
On her nightstand in her room after returning home from her extended stay with the elderly lady, she had been sorting through the jewelry box that her mother had when she was alive that contained numerous precious gems like rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. The piece of jewelry however that caught Tomomi's eyes was a silver band adored with an elegant design that was not too over the top and looked rather cute on her finger when she tried it on. It also complimented her hair color and was a nice contrast to her red eyes. However while it looked nice as did so many of the items in her box, it never felt right for the half-breed oni to wear any of it as she did not know her mother and these items were simply not hers to wear as she pleased even though she felt that her mother would have loved to pass them down to her, but alas that was something that simply could not happen given the circumstances surrounding Tomomi’s birth that killed her mother in the process.
However, during one of the days before Tomomi would have her 27th birthday, something rather interesting transpired before she had to go to work for the morning. As she awoke on that day, the jewelry box beside her that was always closed prior to her going to bed was wide open and the band that she liked quite a lot was on her right ring-finger which made her feel somewhat confused, but she shrugged it off as she merely must have accidently left the box open before she slept or opened it while she slept considering that she had been admiring her mother’s gems. Without overthinking it at all, she would simply slip the band from her finger and put it back into the box closing the safekeeper in the process. However, after some time, the box would be open again when Tomomi reentered the room and the same band was on her bed now simply laying. This prompted her to look rather confused as she knew that she had put the piece of jewelry away but shrugged it off again as she must be tired from working so hard since returning home that she wasn’t aware of what she had been doing.
It would be after the third time that this band mysteriously had gotten out of its box that Tomomi was put on guard as she believed that someone was messing around with her. However for her sake, a few moments after reentering the room and looking likely confused, a feminine voice could be heard coming from the band laughing as she spoke to her: ”Dear Tomomi, it has been almost three decades, but we finally are speaking to one another. This is your mother whom died when you were born almost twenty-seven years ago. I may have lost an actual physical form in order for you to join this world, but my spirit was able to go to another entity to watch over you as you grew up which is how I am speaking to you now. I am not limited to this band that you see before you however, but I am limited to inanimate objects like jewelry, weaponry, and everyday house items.”
As this piece of jewelry spoke to her, Tomomi would pinch herself a few times to make sure that she was in her right mind and not hallucinating or her mind was trying to play some trickery on her. When she realized that she was not, she would stare at the band unable to really say anything as her mother would speak again to her: ”I understand that this is likely confusing and sudden since you had been admiring my jewelry for the past few days and I know I should have made my presence known sooner than I did especially when you disposed of your dad which likely deserved everything you did to him as he was not a nice man at all and had been known for abusing children and also abusing me numerous times. But, I needed to find the right moment to approach you since I knew you would be surprised and on-edge as you are displaying right now.” As she was spoken to, Tomomi would have to try to digest all of this that was being thrown at her as she had not known her mother for her entire life and one random day, a band belonging to her mother was speaking to her like she was her mother. It was rather odd and out there to put it mildly, but she was willing to give this development a chance since she took a chance with the elderly lady and it had proved rather fruitful.
"Hello Mother, it has been a long time.." she would begin trying to gather her thoughts as she was feeling a variety of emotions from comfort to sadness to frustration and everything likely in-between. Once she did gather herself, she continued: "I am glad to hear your voice for the first time and happy that we can finally talk to one another as I did not believe that I would be able to do this until I passed myself to the afterlife. My life has been a living Hell to put it mildly mother as I was treated like literal filth to many of the oni of this village and my body and mind were violated. Fortunately as you mentioned, I handled father once I returned from my extended 'journey' of the country by killing him to ensure his evilness could not continue to plague this world. But, I could go on and on about how I was tortured, abused, and treated as nothing more than a tool for the village, but I rather not have our first encounter be a long-winded one-sided conversation."
It would not take long after her daughter's quick response to her and explanation of her life that her mother would respond to her, offering her somewhat of a pact like the elderly lady had done with her in the past. This one however was a rather simpler one than the other as her mother would so elegantly explain: "It breaks my heart to hear my own daughter went through a literal Hell in her life and me being unable to protect and help her like a mother is supposed to do. If I could have, I would have been there for you, Tomomi. But, I know of one thing that I can do now for you since you proved to me that you can handle yourself when you eliminated your father from this world. If you are willing to sign a pact with me and allow me to consume some of your altered blood, I can be worn by you and potentially offer you benefits when you fight like thickening your armor to protect you better or providing healing aid while you focus on fighting and handle your opponents. The choice is yours, my daughter, but I love to be a part of your life if you are willing to have me."
This was all so sudden and quick that Tomomi was not sure what to make of it, but she took a chance with the elderly lady before and it proved beneficial to her. This could be another valuable and happy moment in her life if it proved fruitful and that was a risk that she was willing to take since she was young and could easily handle this band if it backfired by destroying it or removing the part of the body that it was affecting. Thus after a few moments to think it over, Tomomi simply slipped the band onto her right ring-finger and could feel little teeth-like pricks going into her finger drawing blood and signing the pact with her mother, an apparent shape-shifting spirit that could only possess inanimate objects. After she got her fill, the teeth-like pricks would disappear and the band would resume its normal shape with some minor design alterations. But considering it was early in the day and Tomomi had signed a pact with her mother, it was going to be a rather weird day likely. However, she ensured before they would head out to inform her mother to stay quiet when they were around others in exchange for talking to one another in private which her mother happily agreed with; it likely just made her happy that her daughter was willing to give her another shot of being in her life after she had died giving birth to Tomomi.
A few days after forming a pact with her mother's spirit and beginning to wear her mother on her right ring-finger, Tomomi would turn twenty-seven years old and follow the same procedure as she always did for her day. However, today was a special day as it was her birthday and she had been given permission from her peers to go out and scout the area for potential rival villages that were trying to create a stronghold near their village or simply bandits that sometimes loved to appear at the village gates and try to force their way in which typically ended with their arrests or death right there. Of course, most of the protection and policing of the village was under the eyes of fellow half-breeds whom knew that Tomomi likely would venture off to visit the elderly lady at the lake again or investigate other parts of the country if she managed to slip away without any of the oni noticing; she had done it a few times since her return, but would only make it a day trip at best. However, this time was different as Tomomi was not planning on returning for quite awhile as she was planning a larger area of the country with her mother at her side so they could talk and bond after not having this opportunity for almost thirty years; it was also possible that she would venture further to explore other areas of the world as any and all information that she could learn and utilize to better her own village was ideal as there were many changes that the half-breeds wanted for themselves and their families, but they needed time and resources.
Death/Retirement Thread: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?p=332144#p332144
Old Profile: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?p=165028#p165028
Old Training: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=46499
Old Dojo: https://www.ninpocho.com/viewtopic.php?f=442&t=46500
Old Stats: Capped, 786 ASP; after OCR, I start with 336 ASP.
Old OOC Rank: S
Stat Cut: N/A
New Stats: Same as above
Jutsu Mastery Swaps:
- I am swapping Archsage table to Revenant. They are both the same amount for yen/ASP so there is no net change. All techniques that can be mastered are mastered.
- I also will swap Medical for ANBU meaning I will have all ANBU jutsu and all Medical Jutsu up to C-rank. I will buy the remaining during my first training.
- I will list my jutsu in separate posts below as I will not be able to fit them all into one post due to the character limit.
Other Refunds: Great Weapon, Blood Rack, Swift and Recovery (I will keep them all)
ASP Items You Own:
- Ability Card - Transfers
- Class Point Card - Transfers
- Extra RP Slot (Own 4) - Transfers
- Item Hoarder Card - Does not transfer
- Advanced Element Card (Own 21) - Transfers
Name of any Contract you currently own: Feline
Swapping to New Contract: Yes, Tsukumogami (450 ASP)
RP for New Contract:
On her nightstand in her room after returning home from her extended stay with the elderly lady, she had been sorting through the jewelry box that her mother had when she was alive that contained numerous precious gems like rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. The piece of jewelry however that caught Tomomi's eyes was a silver band adored with an elegant design that was not too over the top and looked rather cute on her finger when she tried it on. It also complimented her hair color and was a nice contrast to her red eyes. However while it looked nice as did so many of the items in her box, it never felt right for the half-breed oni to wear any of it as she did not know her mother and these items were simply not hers to wear as she pleased even though she felt that her mother would have loved to pass them down to her, but alas that was something that simply could not happen given the circumstances surrounding Tomomi’s birth that killed her mother in the process.
However, during one of the days before Tomomi would have her 27th birthday, something rather interesting transpired before she had to go to work for the morning. As she awoke on that day, the jewelry box beside her that was always closed prior to her going to bed was wide open and the band that she liked quite a lot was on her right ring-finger which made her feel somewhat confused, but she shrugged it off as she merely must have accidently left the box open before she slept or opened it while she slept considering that she had been admiring her mother’s gems. Without overthinking it at all, she would simply slip the band from her finger and put it back into the box closing the safekeeper in the process. However, after some time, the box would be open again when Tomomi reentered the room and the same band was on her bed now simply laying. This prompted her to look rather confused as she knew that she had put the piece of jewelry away but shrugged it off again as she must be tired from working so hard since returning home that she wasn’t aware of what she had been doing.
It would be after the third time that this band mysteriously had gotten out of its box that Tomomi was put on guard as she believed that someone was messing around with her. However for her sake, a few moments after reentering the room and looking likely confused, a feminine voice could be heard coming from the band laughing as she spoke to her: ”Dear Tomomi, it has been almost three decades, but we finally are speaking to one another. This is your mother whom died when you were born almost twenty-seven years ago. I may have lost an actual physical form in order for you to join this world, but my spirit was able to go to another entity to watch over you as you grew up which is how I am speaking to you now. I am not limited to this band that you see before you however, but I am limited to inanimate objects like jewelry, weaponry, and everyday house items.”
As this piece of jewelry spoke to her, Tomomi would pinch herself a few times to make sure that she was in her right mind and not hallucinating or her mind was trying to play some trickery on her. When she realized that she was not, she would stare at the band unable to really say anything as her mother would speak again to her: ”I understand that this is likely confusing and sudden since you had been admiring my jewelry for the past few days and I know I should have made my presence known sooner than I did especially when you disposed of your dad which likely deserved everything you did to him as he was not a nice man at all and had been known for abusing children and also abusing me numerous times. But, I needed to find the right moment to approach you since I knew you would be surprised and on-edge as you are displaying right now.” As she was spoken to, Tomomi would have to try to digest all of this that was being thrown at her as she had not known her mother for her entire life and one random day, a band belonging to her mother was speaking to her like she was her mother. It was rather odd and out there to put it mildly, but she was willing to give this development a chance since she took a chance with the elderly lady and it had proved rather fruitful.
"Hello Mother, it has been a long time.." she would begin trying to gather her thoughts as she was feeling a variety of emotions from comfort to sadness to frustration and everything likely in-between. Once she did gather herself, she continued: "I am glad to hear your voice for the first time and happy that we can finally talk to one another as I did not believe that I would be able to do this until I passed myself to the afterlife. My life has been a living Hell to put it mildly mother as I was treated like literal filth to many of the oni of this village and my body and mind were violated. Fortunately as you mentioned, I handled father once I returned from my extended 'journey' of the country by killing him to ensure his evilness could not continue to plague this world. But, I could go on and on about how I was tortured, abused, and treated as nothing more than a tool for the village, but I rather not have our first encounter be a long-winded one-sided conversation."
It would not take long after her daughter's quick response to her and explanation of her life that her mother would respond to her, offering her somewhat of a pact like the elderly lady had done with her in the past. This one however was a rather simpler one than the other as her mother would so elegantly explain: "It breaks my heart to hear my own daughter went through a literal Hell in her life and me being unable to protect and help her like a mother is supposed to do. If I could have, I would have been there for you, Tomomi. But, I know of one thing that I can do now for you since you proved to me that you can handle yourself when you eliminated your father from this world. If you are willing to sign a pact with me and allow me to consume some of your altered blood, I can be worn by you and potentially offer you benefits when you fight like thickening your armor to protect you better or providing healing aid while you focus on fighting and handle your opponents. The choice is yours, my daughter, but I love to be a part of your life if you are willing to have me."
This was all so sudden and quick that Tomomi was not sure what to make of it, but she took a chance with the elderly lady before and it proved beneficial to her. This could be another valuable and happy moment in her life if it proved fruitful and that was a risk that she was willing to take since she was young and could easily handle this band if it backfired by destroying it or removing the part of the body that it was affecting. Thus after a few moments to think it over, Tomomi simply slipped the band onto her right ring-finger and could feel little teeth-like pricks going into her finger drawing blood and signing the pact with her mother, an apparent shape-shifting spirit that could only possess inanimate objects. After she got her fill, the teeth-like pricks would disappear and the band would resume its normal shape with some minor design alterations. But considering it was early in the day and Tomomi had signed a pact with her mother, it was going to be a rather weird day likely. However, she ensured before they would head out to inform her mother to stay quiet when they were around others in exchange for talking to one another in private which her mother happily agreed with; it likely just made her happy that her daughter was willing to give her another shot of being in her life after she had died giving birth to Tomomi.
However, during one of the days before Tomomi would have her 27th birthday, something rather interesting transpired before she had to go to work for the morning. As she awoke on that day, the jewelry box beside her that was always closed prior to her going to bed was wide open and the band that she liked quite a lot was on her right ring-finger which made her feel somewhat confused, but she shrugged it off as she merely must have accidently left the box open before she slept or opened it while she slept considering that she had been admiring her mother’s gems. Without overthinking it at all, she would simply slip the band from her finger and put it back into the box closing the safekeeper in the process. However, after some time, the box would be open again when Tomomi reentered the room and the same band was on her bed now simply laying. This prompted her to look rather confused as she knew that she had put the piece of jewelry away but shrugged it off again as she must be tired from working so hard since returning home that she wasn’t aware of what she had been doing.
It would be after the third time that this band mysteriously had gotten out of its box that Tomomi was put on guard as she believed that someone was messing around with her. However for her sake, a few moments after reentering the room and looking likely confused, a feminine voice could be heard coming from the band laughing as she spoke to her: ”Dear Tomomi, it has been almost three decades, but we finally are speaking to one another. This is your mother whom died when you were born almost twenty-seven years ago. I may have lost an actual physical form in order for you to join this world, but my spirit was able to go to another entity to watch over you as you grew up which is how I am speaking to you now. I am not limited to this band that you see before you however, but I am limited to inanimate objects like jewelry, weaponry, and everyday house items.”
As this piece of jewelry spoke to her, Tomomi would pinch herself a few times to make sure that she was in her right mind and not hallucinating or her mind was trying to play some trickery on her. When she realized that she was not, she would stare at the band unable to really say anything as her mother would speak again to her: ”I understand that this is likely confusing and sudden since you had been admiring my jewelry for the past few days and I know I should have made my presence known sooner than I did especially when you disposed of your dad which likely deserved everything you did to him as he was not a nice man at all and had been known for abusing children and also abusing me numerous times. But, I needed to find the right moment to approach you since I knew you would be surprised and on-edge as you are displaying right now.” As she was spoken to, Tomomi would have to try to digest all of this that was being thrown at her as she had not known her mother for her entire life and one random day, a band belonging to her mother was speaking to her like she was her mother. It was rather odd and out there to put it mildly, but she was willing to give this development a chance since she took a chance with the elderly lady and it had proved rather fruitful.
"Hello Mother, it has been a long time.." she would begin trying to gather her thoughts as she was feeling a variety of emotions from comfort to sadness to frustration and everything likely in-between. Once she did gather herself, she continued: "I am glad to hear your voice for the first time and happy that we can finally talk to one another as I did not believe that I would be able to do this until I passed myself to the afterlife. My life has been a living Hell to put it mildly mother as I was treated like literal filth to many of the oni of this village and my body and mind were violated. Fortunately as you mentioned, I handled father once I returned from my extended 'journey' of the country by killing him to ensure his evilness could not continue to plague this world. But, I could go on and on about how I was tortured, abused, and treated as nothing more than a tool for the village, but I rather not have our first encounter be a long-winded one-sided conversation."
It would not take long after her daughter's quick response to her and explanation of her life that her mother would respond to her, offering her somewhat of a pact like the elderly lady had done with her in the past. This one however was a rather simpler one than the other as her mother would so elegantly explain: "It breaks my heart to hear my own daughter went through a literal Hell in her life and me being unable to protect and help her like a mother is supposed to do. If I could have, I would have been there for you, Tomomi. But, I know of one thing that I can do now for you since you proved to me that you can handle yourself when you eliminated your father from this world. If you are willing to sign a pact with me and allow me to consume some of your altered blood, I can be worn by you and potentially offer you benefits when you fight like thickening your armor to protect you better or providing healing aid while you focus on fighting and handle your opponents. The choice is yours, my daughter, but I love to be a part of your life if you are willing to have me."
This was all so sudden and quick that Tomomi was not sure what to make of it, but she took a chance with the elderly lady before and it proved beneficial to her. This could be another valuable and happy moment in her life if it proved fruitful and that was a risk that she was willing to take since she was young and could easily handle this band if it backfired by destroying it or removing the part of the body that it was affecting. Thus after a few moments to think it over, Tomomi simply slipped the band onto her right ring-finger and could feel little teeth-like pricks going into her finger drawing blood and signing the pact with her mother, an apparent shape-shifting spirit that could only possess inanimate objects. After she got her fill, the teeth-like pricks would disappear and the band would resume its normal shape with some minor design alterations. But considering it was early in the day and Tomomi had signed a pact with her mother, it was going to be a rather weird day likely. However, she ensured before they would head out to inform her mother to stay quiet when they were around others in exchange for talking to one another in private which her mother happily agreed with; it likely just made her happy that her daughter was willing to give her another shot of being in her life after she had died giving birth to Tomomi.
Name of Kinjutsu you own: Archsage
Still actively roleplaying in any other threads? Not actively; I have one topic but Azusa and I agreed to postpone it until I am ready to return to Kyuji. The link to the thread is here.
Special Usergroups: Battle Moderator
Other Info: The part that is her killing her father, I would like to use it as my app for my first heart and select the +1 accuracy option.
Other Misc Info:
- I would like to keep Lady Yanshi (NPC).
- I will make Kyuji a NPC.
- I would like to keep Sand channel access as a visitor if possible.
- I will transferring ownership of Aikayume Hinoka back to Azusa as it was originally her NPC and I was using her for plot purposes during the World Martial Arts Tournament in Tea Country.
