Aburame Sozoshi

"The fly on the wall."

### Appearance

Sozoshi tends to be rather unremarkable. His eyes an average brown, hair an average mildly unkempt black. The only remarkable sight on him are the scars and scratches running up his left arm. Though with his skin tone and how varied they are in their states of healed, they tend to be hard to notice. Sozoshi also tends to wear casual clothes, black jeans and a white shirt, both made of a very breathable and light material, his hands wrapped in bandages just to avoid damage. The boy doesn't even seem all that fit for a shinobi, only boasting enough muscle mass to perform his Kenjutsu and no more.

### Personality

Sozoshi often attempts to go by unnoticed by mimicking the basic enthusiasm of others, but his eyes always holds a hidden angered sadness. If allowed to not be in attention, he'd spend conversations just watching or listening to the people talk, quietly figuring out what to emulate. He has taken on a stance to adopt often, of just his eyes closed and head tilted forward a small degree, as if just listening or almost asleep.

### Abilities

Perhaps surprising as to how he became a shinobi, Sozoshi is incapable of most arts. Besides the basic pure chakra based movement, such as climbing on surfaces or walking on water, his only claimed skill is with the blade. His long blade, that he often uses one handed, isn't even utilised in an offensive manner, sticking to a personal style he had to develop alone. If the situation requires, he may release black clouds of miniscule insects to defend himself, though his proficiency in this is under contention. Despite the lack of danger an opponent faces however, do not be careless. Every fight he takes, his opponents tend to come out on the brink of defeat.

### Background

Sozoshi grew up with a pretty normal life in the swamp lands of Hive country. Except the development of a phobia that made his homeland a living Hell of terrors. The town elder had assessed the boy and determined that, despite being older than the usual ritual age, he had too much potential control of his chakra to let him go to waste. So the boy was thrown in a lightless room filled with the chakra eating insects known as Kikaichu and told to form a bond with them. His screams were ignored for days. The ritual would be an off-putting prospect for a normal kid, but Sozoshi unfortunately held a fear of insects prior. The whole ordeal would leave the boy with a crippling phobia of the little terrors, and a whole colony of them burrowed in him. To this day, his brother and childhood friends still don't know how he managed to form the bond needed and likely never will as he refuses to speak of it beyond any demand.

Despite the problems of seeing terrors living everywhere around him, and worse of all in him, Sozoshi would pass through his early years a relatively normal kid. His father would teach him the basics of how to hold a sword, though the man wasn't skilled himself and instilled in the boy the habit of wielding long blades single-handed. The elder would teach him the basics of their Kekkei Genkai and chakra control, but was unable to provide examples for the boy lest he tune out in fear. Both aiming to develop him into a ninja to send off to the great village Konohagakure to perhaps finally have a notable member to show off their clan.

#### Shinobi days

Once in the village, Sozoshi attended the academy there and graduated not long after, the elder of his home having put in word of his prior training. The boy aimed to make friends quickly, finding himself a group and attending class often to learn. However the group would end up dispersing naturally, the only one left being Hyugo who promised he'd train them in Kenjutsu. Eventually he'd find another to call a friend as the Nara kid Nakigitsune asked to crash in his apartment for some time, developing a friendship with the survivor of the great war with Suna.

The two would even luckily be paired up on the day of the Rogue attacks, standing first-hand to witness the giant of chakra made armour smash through the wall and crush the academy in one swoop. Although despite their direct assignment being that Uchiha and him crashing in right before them, they'd end up useless as the giant bounded past and got immediately dispatched with a clump of explosives to the face and the combined focus of the great Hokage Katsuo and Sen's sand control. They'd then just be led to run around the village always late to a situation. When called to retrieve Sen, Sozoshi would merely be useful by utilising his bugs to eat at the chakra barrier in their way, making it easier for the Uzumaki to break in, while Nakigitsune would use his shadows to break the ambushing Uchiha's ankles.

#### Post Rogue attack

Something happened to the boy that day, despite completely avoiding any real danger. Once back in the village, he would have entered a coma and been left on a bench by the one medic who tried to awaken him. Luckily some random citizen noticed him abandoned there and took him to the make-shift medical tents where some nurses could look over him to make sure he didn't die before emerging two weeks later. He was no longer the extroverted friendly boy he entered the village as, instead a sad introvert spending most him time alone on a roof.

For some reason though, he'd be called in by the Special Jounin Linlin, directly being the first asked to join the squad she was taking over. And despite the problems between her and his only friend, Sozoshi would accept, becoming a member of the new Team 10. Time would go by and the squad would recruit the soon-to-be accused murderer of his friend, Kei, and lose him to eternal labour for his crimes as Hokage Katsuo entered in the trial with a verdict already in mind. This would mark a point where Sozoshi would become openly anti-social, losing his only friend who had survived the great war, one of the only in his class, to a simple training accident. Coupled with a realisation he'd been harbouring and working through his his squad lead Linlin, he was left in a negative state. He would rarely show his usual mimicked enthusiasm and would spend many days at a time hidden at home.