Ayumi Azai

**Azai Ayumi,** otherwise referred to by a small accumulated following as a **Gate of Hell**, is considered to be a wildcard of the Shinobi World and a current member of the international terrorist organization known as Hakumei. Like all members of the Hakumei, Ayumi possesses the power of the Rinnegan, manifesting in her as power over the Naraka Path. As a result, Ayumi has gained power to harness the energy and interplay between life and death.

## Powers and Abilities

#### Chakra Prowess and Reserves

In a sense, it could b

   e said that the power that Ayumi harnesses and draws upon to power her unique techniques and fighting style should perhaps not even be regarded as chakra at all; due to the unique method for producing and kneading her own supply of energy fundamentally distinct from chakra as a source of power. While Ayumi does have her own reserves of chakra; chakra that is itself copious and potent if measured by any standard, instead Ayumi with her own natural ingenuity has determined her own personal mechanism.

As a member of Hakumei and possessing the power of the fabled Rinnegan's Naraka Path, Ayumi has demonstrated the ability to seemingly utilize her chakra to bridge the gap between her own chakra circulatory pathways and Hell itself through her power over its King; and from there siphon the spiritual energies of those condemned to suffering and damnation for all eternity and combine that with her own extremely abundant supply of physical energy, producing a unique, unprecedented mix of physical and external spiritual energy referred to those that encounter her as **Nether**, a monstrous and unsettling offshoot of chakra considered to be entirely unique to her.

As a result, Ayumi is unique in comparison to virtually every shinobi across the world; having garnered comparisons to Sages in her base state due to her use of Nether. Seemingly not possessing chakra; or atleast not in the traditional sense, Ayumi is virtually invisible to sensors even when standing right near them; and similarly possesses an astounding resistance to abilities revolving arounding the manipulation of one's chakra flow or sealing one's chakra circulatory pathways; her entire body seemingly working and acting as a conduit for her Nether. An energy that claims it's origins from the agony of those within the pits of Hell, Ayumi has demonstrated the ability to utilize this unqiue energy as a substitute for techniques requiring chakra; serving as exceptionally potent reserves of chakra that seemingly tinge, corrupt, and empower whatever techniques she places it into in a deep-violet haze; leading to her gaining the epithet of **Gate of Hell** for seemingly bringing about abominations of techniques into the earth.

However, using such an energy has it's price: as overeliance on such a dark and mysterious power stemming from the domains of the King of Hell himself was never meant to be harnessed and utilized by mortal minds, threatening to slowly mix and coalesce with Ayumi's own spiritual energy. In doing so, the spiritual energy of the haunted and damned degrades her mental constitution, sending her ever closer to insanity. However, due to her liberal use of the power taken from the King of Hell; Ayumi has crossed a mental treshold, a line of no return; her mind and normal state of sanity already lost to the abyssal violet haze. Through Nether, Ayumi has demonstrated the ability to bind vestiges of her sane mental state from her own personal Yin energy to her current mental state; allowing her to maintain several facets of higher-level thinking not traditionally found in the insane; making her considerably more dangerous than just being a mad woman. The presence of Nether in her body also appears to slowly and radically alter her bodily structure with increased use; though her control of Nether has enabled her to seemingly recall and transition between states as she deems fit.