Kusa Clan

## Overview

The Kusa Clan (草一族, Kusa Ichizoku) is a clan, presumably outside Kirigakure. All members born into this clan possess the Dokutenkyo, a kekkei genkai, that grants the bodies with the ability to convert harmful substances consumed into a unique liquid; this also grants the user the innate feeling of how the finished product effects the body.

## **Background**

### **Origin**

The Kusa Clan's origin started with a woman, a princess of a distant country that lived in a massive crater made by a meteorite. The country itself are enveloped with conflict and poverty as a warlord sought its riches and princess for himself. The Kusa Princess had enough of the conflict and had consumed one of the exotic herbs, that was growing from the material of a meteorite whose existence was only preserved by her and the Royal Family, as an attempt to assassinate the warlord by being around her. Unexpected to her, while her body had taken the life of the warlord and its armies around her, it did not claim her life as it took residency in her body instead.

Over time, the people started to revere her as the **Goddess of Poison**, establishing a religion with her at its core. However, not everyone embraced the idea of the Princess being divine, and sadly, she was assassinated at the order of a village head. This tragedy deeply affected her followers, and in their denial, they resorted to a disturbing ritual of consuming her body, causing numerous deaths. Miraculously, one person survived this gruesome process and passed on the toxic legacy of the Kusa Princess to countless descendants.

## **Abilities**

### **Dokutenkyo**

**Dokutenkyo** (毒 有毒, "Poison Authority.") is the Kusa Clan's Kekkei Genkai which allows its wielder to effortlessly produce unique toxin within their bodies. This is done by consuming and blending the harmful chemicals from plants or herbs within one's body and produce a unique toxin that spreads throughout the chakra pathway, circulatory system and even more. This enables the wielder to have the ability to use toxin in unique ways; it is easier for the wielders to generate and control toxin-based techniques. The user are capable of producing a poisonous mist that can be expelled from the lungs, or even produce a poisonous blood that can makes someone ill and sick in the similar fashion as how one reacts to a snake's toxin.

Because of this ability, the members end up producing a unique type of chakra called **Poison Chakra** (毒チャクラ , 'Doku Chakura') which is difficult to absorb because it usually causes one to experience countless side effects (headaches, nausea, vomiting, or even paralysis.). According to a elder, the members can be born with varied tolerance of poison and/or toxicity as there can be people who could only tolerate up to a certain level; because of this child birth can be difficult as the infants usually succumbed to their mother's poison.

### **Hyōkagan**

   **Hyōkagan** (評価眼, "*Appraisal Eye*", English TV; "*Rating Eye*") is a rare mutation of the Kusa Clan that appears in discriminating numbers of members. According to the elder, it only manifests after a certain level of toxicity is met as it causes the substances consumed to flood the brain with the user in a unbearable agony. The survivors is blessed with the ability to perceive the amount of body toxicity, in a similar fashion as the Sharingan in perceiving chakra, within the bodies of others.

## **Trivia**

* The Kusa Clan is rumored to be hailed from Kusagakure which shares the same name with it. This appears to be untrue, on account of Yudoku's words.
* The Kusa Clan's Kekkei Genkai appears to be difficult to understand as the clan themselves couldn't explain it either.
* In the perception of a Sensor one could describe a Kusa clansman's chakra to be venomous, deadly and even hard to look at as it is grim-like appearance.