Villain: Gyoja Tsuchigumo

## **Basic Information (continued)**

### **Background Information**

One of, if not the only, remaining members of the once proud and noble clan, Gyoja Tsuchigumo (formally known as Yuta Tsuchigumo) shares the name with the most well known leader of the clan, En No Gyoja. He himself claims to be a decedent of the man, even going as far to say he is a reincarnation of the man. But Yuta grew up Konohagakure, where he was born to two unknown people from the Tsuchigumo clan. His childhood upbringing was rather normal in fact. He played with other kids, was never extremely poor, and seemed to live a pretty happy and normal life; up until his potential as a shinobi began to blossom. He was easily the strongest kid in the Academy, and past any test with ease. He had intelligence beyond that of most adult shinobi, and a great work ethic that pushed his abilities to new heights. His parents recognized this and became obsessed with the boys potential power, saying he was the one that would bring the Tsuchigumo clan back into power by making another jutsu similar to Fury. They would need a powerful individual in order to bring their clan back to power, and Yuta was the prime candidate. His parents changed his name to Gyoja and began to push the boy to train more, and often. Some days they wouldn't feed him unless he did one hundred push ups. They made him believe that he was destine to lead the clan, that he was the new En No Gyoja, and that he must make Konohagakure pay. He was often beaten and disciplined to do nothing but fight and train. It would be like this as he progressed through Genin, and was a favorite to become Chuunin during the Chuunin exams. Of course, Gyoja had no problem defeating his opponent during the Chuunin exams with his expert use of Earth Release techniques. He was praised by the higher ups in the village, as they began to recognize the potential this boy had. He was even up for the rank of Jounin shortly after the exams, but then something horrible happened. Right before he was to take his Jounin Exams after acquiring Lightning Release, Gyoja came home to find his parents murdered. The higher ups in the village weren't praising him for his potential and power, they feared him for it. The Kage was keeping close tabs on his family, and not before long, ordered them killed, Gyoja included. Gyoja was then ambushed, but he managed to escape. A bounty was placed on his head and he was framed with the murder of his own parents at the age of just 16. He hid within the Land of Fire whilst still honing his skills as a shinobi, eventually developing a kind of Metal Manipulation that allowed him to mold and control metals as long as he made contact with them. It earned him the nickname of Metallic Demon as most opponents would only see the metallic glint he would give off before taking their lives. Originally, Gyoja didn't want to follow his parents plan, he had no interest and saw no gain from it; restoring a basically dead clan back to power was pointless to him, as they would be hunted and this time exterminated due to the powerful jutsu he would be using as leverage. Gyoja had time to think about it, and how corrupt and afraid the Hokage was of such a possibly that he would order the killing of him and his family. The Hokage was a coward in his eyes, and didn't deserve to live or lead. Gyoja began to slowly embrace the idea of him being the new En No Gyoja, the one that would be bring his clan back from the dead before taking over The Land of Fire. With this new mind set, Gyoja decided to flee the Land of Fire completely after staging a daring yet successful mission to steal a scroll containing the Tsuchigumo Style: Forbidden Life Release Technique: Creation of Heaven and Earth, in order to develop a new version of Fury, using the technique as a direct way to power it. Gyoja has traveled across many lands and is now in hiding in The Land of Bears, but not unexpectedly. The Hokage made sure to spread the word of this highly skilled and unstable shinobi that fled the country after killing his family. This made sure to put all the nations on the look out for him, but more specifically The Land of Fire and The Land of Bears as they are the most active in pursuing him. Now at the age of 28, Gyoja continues to work on developing Fury with general success, it's only a matter of time before he's able to level a whole village.

### **Personality and Behavior**

Gyoja isn't bloodthirty evil, but more of a I'll use you to get what I want kind of evil. Granted Gyoja has no problem killing in order to achieve a goal he has set. He is also rather deceptive and manipulative, able to give off a nice guy vibe and make up solid lies off the top of his head in order to trick anyone into what he's saying is true. He could act nice only when more evil intentions drived him. His original personality is rather bland and devoid of life so to speak. He never gave off many emotions, and always does well to hide his true intentions. But at the end of the day, Gyoja is the type of person that does not do anything unless he sees a reason to.

### Appearance

Gyoja is a tall and rather big individual, which is enough to intimidate people as it is. He often wears a metal mask and straw hat. His eyes were all grey and his beige was tan and well toned. He wears a thick metal plate over his chest that protects against weak attacks. He also wears an all black hakama skirt of sorts, with long plated shinobi gloves and regular shinobi sandals. He keeps his hair in a shaved pony tail that runs almost completely down to his lower back.

### Motto

Before attacking/Intimidating Enemy: "There won't be much of you left, after I complete this dance of death..."

When asking opponent his reason for engaging: "What places you before the Metallic Demon?"

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