Pendo - Konoha's White Shark

Name : Pendo Koroshima
Age : 25
Gender : Male
Appearance : Avatar
Pendo is a shady and quick figure, but very strong. His arms are muscular but only about four inches thick. He wears a sleek gray hooded robe over his entire body, only exposing his face and part of his hair, because he almost always wears his hood over his head. Underneath the robe is a set of very thin and light-weight armor that covers his entire body, except his hands, head, and feet. The armor is strong enough to deflect basic weaponry such as a basic kunai, shuriken, or katana. The robe is also fire proof, as is the army as well.

He tries to keep his few pair of clothes in good condition. He has pure blue eyes because of his clan, and his hair is a silver-like color, and he weighs only 165 lbs and stands at a height of 5'7". On his sides, inside his robe, are small weapon pouches where he keeps his common shuriken, kunai, ninja wire, and explosive tags. Across his back also lays his ice katana, his sacred weapon. It lies diagonally within a sheath where he can unsheathe it swiftly, and without hesitation.
Personality : Pendo is a stealthy figure and moves with great swiftness and agility. He is incredibly fast as well as strong, and enjoys training his speed and strength. Being a Jounin he is very powerful, and he mainly focuses on Ninjutsu and Kenjutsu. Pendo seems a little harsh at first but after a while, he becomes a great leader and comrade. He very honorable and respectful, respecting the Hokage and most other kages. Despite this he will obey whatever the Hokage tells him to do unless he feels that it will bring harm to the village. He hold virtues very highly, those being one of the very first things he teaches his students.

Loyal, honorable, trustworthy, reliable; all of these describe Pendo. On another hand he is also very generous and will sometimes give stuff to those who need it, even if his pockets aren't very deep at the moment. He is also very intelligent and thinks out strategies before the battle even commences, looking at his surroundings and thinking of a way he could use them to his advantage. Pendo is also a very protective person, and will protect the village and it's citizens to the point of death.
Village : Konoha
Rank : Jounin
Character's History : It was a cold winter night in the Hidden Leaf Village, all was silent, and all was peaceful. Not for long though, for a scream filled the area with a piercing cry. The source of this noise came from a home not to far from the Konohagakure Medical Hospital. "Hold on!" Tatsu Koroshima, Pendo's father, told his wife soothingly. "We'll get you to the hospital!" he picked her up gently, and ran out the door towards the Medical Building as fast as he could. He then body flickered into the room in front of the receptionist. "My wife is giving birth help us!" he shouted, as another piercing scream echoed through the building. The receptionist seemed to hesitate with fear before pressing a small button on the desk and a beep was heard. "A baby is coming!" she shouted, frantically as medical ninja came in with cot, placing the woman on it, and rolled her through the emergency doors. Tatsu followed his wife Nibu as the medical ninjas rolled her away. He prayed silently to himself as they prepared to remove the baby by applying anesthetics and soothing the mother.

"We're losing her!" a medical ninja shouted, now becoming nervous as a drop of sweat swelled up and dropped from his forehead. "We can only save one and kill the other!" another shouted, looking towards Tatsu. "Save...Nib..." he began, but his wife gripped his hand with strength. "Save...our son..." she told him, her eyes watering as she let out another piercing cry. "I-I Ca-a-an't..." he told her, beginning to cry as well. "Save...him" she told him, now demanding before her grip grew weak and she screamed once more, now gripping the blanket. "We need an answer now!" the medical ninja shouted. "Save...the child..." Tatsu told them, forcing out the last two words like raw meat. "Save...Pendo..." he repeated as he crouched down taking his wife's hand as he caressed it gently. "Please. Take care of Pen..." she tried to say but it was too late. Her eyes sat emotionless and her face expressionless. She was now dead and the cries of a baby filled the room as the medical ninja wrapped it in a blanket and handed it to Tatsu.

He looked at the baby with loving eyes as it cried. He began to softly rub the baby's head as it stopped crying and looked back at it's father with curious eyes. "I love you..." he said, looking towards his wife as tears streamed down his face. He didn't care about anyone else's shinobi way. He would cry if he wanted to, and he needed to. He walked out of the hospital back home and placed the baby in the crib they had bought in advance. After covering up the baby and giving him a warm bottle of milk Tatsu went upstairs to his room where he lay sprayed out on the bed ready to be overcome by sleep. That day had been the worst day of his life. He lost his wife. But not only that, although he has lost a life he had also received a new one. 'His name is...Pendo Nibu Koroshima...' he thought, drifting off into the empty void of sleep. He knew that he had long days ahead of him and a bigger job. He was now a single father and he would probably have to live in an apartment unless he was able to go on more missions.

"Da-da?" Pendo said, adorably. "That's right..." Tatsu told him lovingly as he picked up his infant son in his arms and cradled him gently. "I'm Da-da." he told his son, as he tickled his exposed belly. Pendo was only one and a half years old and wore only a diaper as he lay in his father's arms. "Ma-ma in hee-aaven?" Roxas asked, his eyes goggling as he looked past his fathers gentle and encouraging face to the pattern of the roof. "Yes. Mama in heaven." he reassured his son as he carried him outside. Many of Tatsu's friends passed by as they waved at Pendo. Some stopped to hold him or play with him, or even introduce him to their pets or own children. Pendo seemed to never be interested in any of it though. He would normally pay attention to everything around people, like nature, the sky, and everything that wasn't man made. He loved nature and the sweet scents of flowers and the colors of the different petals that were like sugar for his eyes. Although he yet to knew what any of this meant he was a pretty smart baby.

At the age of two he began to develop a liking for fruit. He loved how fruit could be eaten without drink because of how much moisture was in it. He especially loved cherries, tomatoes, and sometimes he could eat parts of watermelon if it wasn't too rough or hard. He was still interested in God and Heaven and about his mother and constantly asked his dead what his mother was doing. The same reply came every time "She's watching over us from heaven. She's with Jesus." Pendo loved to learn and mostly enjoyed his father reading him stories about past ninjas and sometimes even make believe books of ninjas that never even really existed. He loved the stories a lot none the less. He always asked his dad if he was ever a ninja and Tatsu felt a low wave of despair as he answered. "I gave that up a while ago." Tatsu told his sun. "Why?" Pendo asked, in that broken tone that only babys had. "Because I wanted to spend more time with you." Tatsu said, picking up his son and tossing him into the air before catching him skillfully in his arms. This always made Roxas giggle because he enjoyed the thrill of flying.

When he was three years old he began to dream of becoming a ninja. "Daddy, I'm going to be the best ninja that ever lived! I'll even beat the Hokage himself!" Pendo shouted, as he jumped around punching pillows. "No one will stand a chance against me!" and with that he kicked the pillow into the air and punched it into the wall. "I won't let anything happen to my little ninja..." Tatsu said, as he came up behind Pendo and tickled him. Pendo was subdued as he fell to the floor laughing as he was tickled nearly to death. Pendo loved playing ninja and loved to dream. His father wanted to do anything he could to help his son achieve his dream of becoming the most powerful ninja ever, although Tatsu doubted it was possible but he believed in his son and began to train him at the young age of 6.

"Dad! I've finally got it!" Pendo shouted, as he leapt into the air and spun in a complete three-sixty rotation tossing kunai and shurikens as he swirled. Every kunai and shuriken hit their bulls-eye except for two or three that hit a couple of inches off. He was now seven and very skilled with kunai and shuriken and that sort of basic weaponry. He enjoyed training with his dad and that was one of their favorite things that they did together. As Roxas trained harder and harder each day he finally completely mastered the move at the age of 8 when he first began to gain his abilities, his Kekei Genkai. He was able to make his movements precise and complete the thrust and angle with such effectiveness that it was hard to miss.

Now nine years old Tatsu enrolled Pendo in the academy. Pendo was the only Koroshima in his class and at time he felt left out among the others. Pendo loved learning new jutsus such as the academy jutsus and when he had mastered them all, which was easy for him, he graduated from the academy and finally became a Genin at the age of nine. He loved being a Genin and wore his headband as soon as he received it. His father was so proud of his son and his accomplishment and took him out to celebrate at Ichiraku's ramen shop. They ordered the usually and had a good time as they ate and talked about the future to come and how Pendo wanted to one day become the Hokage.

Pendo began to spend a lot of time on missions but still spent some time with his dad and some of his friends when he wasn't working hard to help out his dad. He wanted to make everything perfect and make it where they could move back into their old house. Someone was currently living it it but they planned on buying it back so Pendo was saving up. His dad was saving as well from selling ninja gear. He sold shurikens, kunai, scrolls, ninja wear, and other items that were essential to a normal ninja in Konohagakure. His best seller were senbons and they were a personal favorite of Roxas as well. His father always told him it wasn't the strength or size of something but the skill of the user using the item. He taught his son that honor and virtues were the most important part of life and to not dabble in money and riches but love and good always conquered evil and hatred. Pendo always loved to hear what his father had to say and wanted to teach the same to his son when he grew up.

Pendo was now eleven and the Chuunin Exams were coming up. He wanted so badly to win and finally be promoted to a Chuunin in his turn. It wouldn't be just' another step to achieving his goal, it would be a large step, an important step. Anything but 'just' a step. He signed up and registered as soon as the stands opened up. The line was pretty long but Pendo was a very patient person and finally registered. He felt excited and couldn't wait. His anticipation was rushing through his veins with every passing day as the week ended and it was close to the first exams. He spent the last three days training as hard as he possibly could before the first test began. The first one was a written test, he had read many books on the material and has passed with a breeze. After all it wasn't that hard.

The second portion of the Chuunin exams was what he had been waiting for. The fighting. He faced off against a Hyuuga and easily defeated him and won the match, and moved on to the next portion. After defeating a regular clanless ninja in that portion after a vigorous battle, he was finally moving on to the finals. They would determine who became a Chuunin and who wouldn't. He was kind of nervous but he shook it off after remembering his past matches that flew by like a breeze. They hadn't even been hard and he doubted that this one would be any more difficult. When the day came he found out that he would be facing off against a powerful Uchiha. After intense training Pendo had nearly mastered his kekei genkai abilities, and had even made his own jutsus. The match started off with his opponent winning but Pendo came back easily and defeated his opponent, winning the Chuunin Exams and becoming a Chuunin.

He ran home to tell his father about what had happened and his father was so proud of him. Roxas loved being a Chuunin, now instead of the boring old D rank missions he was now going on C and B rank missions. There was a lot more action and adventure and he loved practicing and training with his dad. They would even spar from time to time, his father defeating him most of the times but Pendo winning occasionally. Pendo couldn't believe his life. It was utterly perfect in itself. He was a success as a ninja so far and hoped that his success continued. His dream remained the same, he wanted to become Hokage and be the greatest ninja who ever lived and maybe even make Konoha more powerful. It was possible but doubtful. He still dreamed such dreams of these concepts though even though no one believed any of it could ever happen except his father. His father always believed in him.

After a very difficult A rank mission that had been bestowed upon Pendo's agenda, Pendo was promoted to highly respected and wanted rank of Jounin. All of the Jounin except for a couple were out of the village and those couple were busy so Pendo was the only one left. He was the strongest Chuunin and was sent with two other Chuunin on the mission. It was a mission to retrieve information from Sunagakure and it went by smoothly and after bringing the information back to their village Pendo was promoted to Jounin and not soon after that, he aquired his first team of Genin. He was now twenty-four and extremely skilled in Ninjutsu and Kenjutsu. His father, not soon after, died by the hand of a missing ninja while out for a walk through the forest. Pendo had offered to escort him but his father insisted that he went out alone, but he never returned.

RP Sample : Pendo kept his senses on high alert, not allowing anything to escape his detection. He needs to stay on guard, even before the match started. It was time that Suna knew Konoha's power, and the fact that this Jounin in front of him that she was better than him made him slighlty angry. He didn not believe he was better than her, because he knew very little about her, except for the research he had done consisting of her clan, elements, and specialties. Unfortunately that was all he was able to find out about his opponent, and if he could have, he would have tried to find out more. He on the other hand kept his information secret, because even if she had done research on him, which he highly doubted, then she would have found nearly nothing except his basic elements: Water and Wind and his name. His clan wasn't very well known, and no one in Suna had ever heard of it so he was safe from her already knowing his kekei genkai.

He needed to think and act, act with intelligence and fluency. He couldn't just act without thinking, that would be deemed reckless, and recklessness caused death. He watched as she refused to shake his hand, he made no gesture or comment, but simply pulling back his hand, placing it back in his pocket where it had been before. He liked to analyze and decipher his opponent's movements before normally starting the real battle, but unfortunately for him his opponent showed at least a bit of decent intelligence. Not only had she refused to shake his hand, which was smart on her parts, despite the fact that he had nothing planned, but she also seemed to be aware of her surroundings as well. That would make the match only slightly more difficult, but it would be simple to defeat her like all of the other ninja's he had so easily defeated before. He doubted that this half-wit from Suna could even compare to his skill and competence.

He caught the slightest flicker of movement, that most would not have seen, the kind of movement that was made before a leap. He had seen it multiple times from his opponents, and she obviously didn't know that an aerial strike was not very smart against a competent ninja, because when in the air it is nearly impossible to change direction making it easier for your opponent to strike. Unless she somehow were able to avoid, this match could possibly end as quickly as it started. He now knew that she would jump, but where? From the direction her ankles were now, it seemed she would try to jump over him. He also now knew that she was reckless, and did not completely and thoroughly think through her moves before acting. He was gaining a lot of information from her movements alone, and he could now use this information to his advantage. He smiled slightly, as she tried to jump over him, a crude but understandable mistake.

With a swift motion almost un-persceptable, he snatched a kunai he had been preserving from within his pocket, and once again with incredible speed and swiftness, he bended backwards and slashed upwards at her stomach. The strike would simply cut her stomach, but do nothing fatal or severe. It was a simple trick to show her what he was capable of. She was already in the air, and above him, so there were very few ways that she could possibly ever avoid the kunai was sliced at her stomach at such speed that he didn't even think she had noticed his movement; After all, she was probably busy with her own strategy.