Tsubaki Kurogane

Tsubaki Kurogane (鉄ツバキ, Kurogane Tsubaki ) is a young samurai from the Land of Iron and Mifune's most recent disciple. She is currently an exchange-student in Konohagakure , serving as a member of genin squad, Team 15 .

## Personality [ ]

Very mature for her age, Tsubaki is a very driven young girl. Disciplined and committed to the task at hand, Tsubaki had adapted a no-nonsense mentality. She has a strong commitment to the traditions and ancient ways of samurai and likewise to honour her teacher's wishes, taking great pride in being one and is open about that. At the same time, this driven nature has led her to be somewhat arrogant and distant to others. While overall very respectful in the way she talks to her superiors, she can be rather condescending to all others. Viewing the shinobi of the modern and peaceful era as sloppy and lacking of commitment, she openly considers her reassignment as a member of a shinobi team as temporary and purely an obligation. However, upon seeing how committed her new team was to protecting the each other, Tsubaki began to respect what Konohagakure has to offer in soldiers. During her time in Konoha, while still proud of the Land of Iron's commitment to tradition, she came to admit it also constrained the country, making it harder to progress.

Despite her normal attitude, Tsubaki is not without some childlike traits. Having committed herself so much to her training, she is fascinated by the more modern cuisines of the world, showing a special enjoyment for fries. At the same time, wanting to maintain her poise, Tsubaki prefers to keep her enjoyment of such things secret. Also, she is shown to be rather competitive. While proud of her high individual skills compared to the genin she works with, she hates the idea of losing, even in a team-effort. Likewise, while openly proud as a samurai, she is eager to prove her might in comparison to shinobi during official competitions. Her goal is to rise through the ranks and help her country grow.

## Appearance [ ]

Tsubaki is a young girl of short stature. She has large pink eyes and thick eyebrows. She is fair-skinned with straight brown hair reaching her lower back with cropped bangs, apart from chin-length strands that frame the sides of her face. She keeps her hair in a high-ponytail secured by a headpiece with two purple flower-like beads. She dresses in a traditional samurai attire, consisting of a white robe with purple lining on the colour and sleeves, a turtle-neck undershirt, shin-length purple pants, black legging and socks, and straw-sandals. She also wears black arm guards that cover her forearms.

Secured regularly at her hip is a katana with a black cloth hilt, and scabbard with the hilt shaped like two opposite-pointing arrows. While travelling, she wears a traditional umbrella-shaped bamboo hat and a purple cloak.

## Abilities [ ]

Trained personally by the general of the Land of Iron, Tsubaki is a very skilled warrior. Despite her young age, she was easily able to defeat two wanted criminals in the Bingo Books. Konoha leadership considers Tsubaki's skill in comparison to a shinobi to be chūnin-level.

#### Physical Powers [ ]

Tsubaki is an expertly trained swordswoman, able to use prices and powerful strikes to pentrate most defenses. She skilled in various styles and tactics of swordsmanship and likwise able to defend herself with just the scabbard of her katana. With her actual blade, she excels at quickdraw techniques, able to take down opponents before they can realise it. When wielding her drawn sword and her scabbard in the opposite hand, she can fight in the ambidextrious nature of dual-blade combat. For group enemies, she can channel her chakra into it, able to produce a powerful tornado to repel all around her. She excels in various misdirection tactics to create openings against her opponent. She is also very agile, skilfully able to jump from rooftop to rooftop.

In addition, Tsubaki is highly trained in hand-to-hand combat, able to move with seamless fluidy to strike with powerful kicks and punches, letting her without warning switch between them and sword attacks.

### Kenjutsu [ ]

#### Flash [ ]

#### Iaidō [ ]

#### Mifune Style: First Strike - Blaze [ ]

#### Samurai Sabre Technique [ ]

#### Secret Sword: Snowstorm Beheading [ ]

## Arc [ ]

### New Era Arc [ ]

## Trivia [ ]

Kenjutsu Mean to Sword Art