Yayoi

## Introduction

Yayoi was not born. She was created. Yayoi is the result of several experiments conducted by the Shinobi Scientist Date Gozen. Date wanted to create several new Keki Genkai. However in order to do this he needed to understand how genetics worked. As a result he began a series of experience altering DNA and grafting in new codes into developing embryos. Yayoi was one such creation. She was created as a byproduct of experiments toward Date's real goal.

Yayoi grew up a guard for Date's lab. She was raised by Missing Nin who worked with Date, and was trained in the ninja arts by them. Her life in Date's lab was a mixture of good and bad. She was a guard and a part of a experiment to see how long it would take for her to die of natural causes. As a result she was left alone. However she had to live in a lab of a mad shinobi scientist. Danger was a real thing her entire life. That life nearly came to a end when the Uchiha Clan discovered the location of the lab. The lab was burnt to the ground by Hidden Leaf Ninja. This started Yayoi's wondering across the land, and her becoming a mercenary.

## Appearance

Yayoi stands six feet tall and ten inches. She weighs two thousand and six hundred pounds. She has long blonde hair and bright green eyes. Her skin is a healthy peach color on her upper human half. Her lower horse half is covered in black coat. She usually wears thick clothing made from Chakra and plates of treated clay. The clay is modified to absorb the impact and spread it across the plate instead of letting attacks pierce.

## Personality

Yayoi is a fearsome spit fire who is not afraid of expressing herself. At the same time she is afraid of her past and dislikes to talk about it. As a result she usually does not ask others about their past as well. She has a soft spot for old women, and often volunteer her free time ager she finishes training to help out the elderly. At the same time however she has little sympathy toward children seeing most of them as lazy and foolish. This is due to her upbringing and the nature of her birth.

Yayoi hates leaf ninja, and Uchiha most of all. She also dislikes fire jutsus. She is afraid of Camels, she does not know why, and she feels uncomfortable around elephants. She hates the season of spring, and loves carrots.

## Abilities and Powers

### Physical Abilities

* Superhuman Strength
* Enhanced Durability
* Enhanced Endurance
* Superhuman Speed
* Enhanced Agility
* Enhanced Flexibility
* Enhanced Reflexes
* Enhanced Senses
* High Chakra

### Physical Weakness

* Vulnerable to Horse and Human base poisons
* Vulnerable to Horse and Humans diseases
* High Metabolism
* Enhanced Hydration Needs

#### Speed and Agility

Yayoi has been training in the ninja arts since she was a child. Due to her nature she was born walking and talking and as a result she was being trained since then. Speed has always been a priority of her training. She was trained to be fast in her natural form and trained to be fast in her transformation state. In her transformed state she can move faster than the human eye can see and turn on a dime. In her true state she is three times faster, however her agility takes a drop. With four legs instead of two she can't turn on dime like she can in her human state. However she can still do flips, jumps, and move with agility.

### Ninjutsu

* Transformation Jutsu
* Chakra Control Advanced Level
* Earth Armor Jutsu - A jutsu that covers the body in a layer of clay that acts like armor.
* Silk Jutsu - A Jutsu that creates spider silk out of chakra allowing the user to create clothing or objects out of it.
* Road Jutsu - A jutsu that allows the user to harden the ground around them or soften the ground around them
* Bridge Jutsu - A jutsu that creates a earth bridge from one point to another.
* Earth Pillar Jutsu - A jutsu that creates a pillar of earth that shoots out the ground
* Clay Creation Jutsu - A Jutsu that allows the user to create clay from their chakra
* Dust Explosion Jutsu - A jutsu that allows the user to create a massive amount of dust suddenly and violently.
* Earth Clone Jutsu - Creates a clone of oneself made up of Earth
* Replacement Jutsu
* Earth Transformation Jutsu - A jutsu that transforms one type of rock or glass into another type of rock or glass.
* Giga Earth Drill Jutsu - The user shapes their chakra into a lance, or they swirl their chakra around a lance. That chakra is then given the earth element. The chakra then spins around itself or the lance at high speeds forming a drill. That drill is then thrown at a target, or stabbed though them. The earth then drills into target.

## Equipment

Heavy Lance - Made up of wood gilded by steel.

Horse Armor

shuriken 20 Count

Smoke bombs 3 count

Towel

Explosive Tags 5 count

Kunai 2 count

Lock picks

Calligraphy Box - Contains ink, pen, slips of paper, and wax seal.

## Backstory

Yayoi was not born, but created. She was crafted part of experiment Chimera. It was a project of Date Gozen to see if he can create creatures that where half man and half animal. Several embryos where harvested from female civilians and eventually crafted by Date. Yayoi was actually crafted by scratch as Date's previous attempt to alter the DNA in a embryo for the half horse nature failed. Yayoi was not the first successful half breed born, nor was she the last. However she was lucky to be added into the test group to watch for natural lifespan.

Yayoi grew up in Test Group Tengu. The group was named after the legendary and elusive creature from mythology. The group was made up of several sub humans. Two in particular where a Bat Boy named Fuji and Fox girl named Kichiki. Group Tengu where raised and taught to be guards in defense of the research lab. As a result the lab became their home and their charge. Trained by Rouge Ninja Date hired thee group had a diverse set of skills.

Yayoi was unique from other members of Tengu. She was born walking and talking. The horse nature of her body made her more developed at birth than her more human base counter parts. Also due to the efforts by Date to insure intelligence, Yayoi had a much more develop brain than others. As she developed in her tube she could hear the conversation of the Shinobi around her, and came to understand the language. As a result when she was born from her test tube she could already walk, and could speak basic sentences. Due to this, her training started only a month later.

Yayoi was a experiment, not a daughter to Date, or any of his staff. As a result she was put thought grueling test as soon as possible. She was trained in the ninja arts as soon as possible as well. She learned to mold her chakra before the age of one, and was pulling supply loads as well. Yayoi grew up physically strong and emotionally manipulated. She was taught that the Lab was her world, and that Date was a god. He created her on a whim and it was her duty to serve him. As a result she looked up to him like a deity and worked extra hard to please her god.

This went on for several years. Yayoi grew up fast and soon began to help in fighting. She raided villages with the ninja under Date's control and brought back more prisoners to be experimented on. Rumors of a horsewomen began to spread in Land of Rice, but it was always viewed as superstition and genjutsu. Eventually however this came ahead when the group sacked a Caravan from The Land of Fire. It was not their first raid against a Land of Fire caravan, but it would be the groups last. In the caravan there was a Uchiha by the name of Momo, who they captured.

The shock of seeing her family and guards killed caused Momo to awaken her Sharingan. Date cut them out and harvested her other organs for experiment. He then left the base and moved to another headquarters. Two weeks later The Hidden Leaf Ninja attacked. Yayoi joined the rest of Tengu and defended the lab. However they where killed off one by one by the trained Shinobi. Tengu however put up a desperate fight and as a result of their ferocity the Uchiha where forced to fall back regroup, and attack again. Due to this several members of Tengu where able to escape. However many of them where hunted down, and slaughtered. The only survivors of that event Where Kichiki, Fuji, and Yayoi. The three of them had managed to link up and fight off the Uchiha that had hunted them down.

With their home destroyed and their god missing the triad where forced out into a unfamiliar world. Due to their raids and their missions around The Land of Sound they knew enough to simi blend in. The group of three became mercenaries and moved to the Land of Grass. There they searched for any signs of their god and forged a living for themselves taking advantage of the political climate. For three years they fought in battles as mercenaries, hiding their true nature the best they could, and using their ninjutsu skills to earn a living. The group gained a measure of success, and where starting to be known as resourceful. This fame however would come to bite them in the ass.

With the groups search for their god creator and their fame in the Land of Grass members of the Uchiha Clan came to hear about them. It was not long before they realized these where the escaped abominations as their skills in battle mirrored what they knew about the creatures that got away. The Uchiha clan lunched a counter against them, sending Shinobi into the Land of Grass under disguise. Instead of hunting them down and fighting them in the open the Uchiha clan hired the mercenaries thought a proxy. They where ordered to guard a tax collector who was gong to a town in the mountains to perform a inspection. It was a standard escort mission and as a result the group did not think anything about it.

The group followed their benefactor to Phoenix Fall Pass. This was a narrow pass with mountain on the left and right of the path. Because of this it was a hot spot for bandits, and those who did pass had to pass with armed guards. The group had crushed a bandit attack in the morning, and where moving thought the pass at noon. It was during the bandit attack that their benefactor had replaced himself with a shadow clone. As the group moved thought the pass flaming boulders began to rain from the sky. The group of four shinobi attacked killing Fuji with a sneak attack from the shadow clone. Fuji and Yayoi fought like lions against the band of four ninja. However in the battle Fuji was killed, not before taking down the enemy commander however with a suicide bomb. This left Yayoi in dire straights.

Enraged with grief and fear Yayoi fought with everything she had. She became the beast she truly was and managed to defeat her opponents due to her massive size and demon like speed. However as a result of the battle she was critically wounded. She ended up passing out as a result of her wounds and nearly died. However she was saved by a old village women who found the unconscious horse women. In a act of unprecedented kindness the old women used her donkey and dragged Yayoi back to her house and nursed her back to health.

It was in this chapter of Yayoi's life that she began to question everything she knew. Why had their god abandoned her? why where the Uchiha so angry? Why did they hunt her and her friends down? What happens to you once you die?

Questions after questions filled her mind and the old women answered most of them with kindness and patience. She asked her own, and thought Yayoi was reluctant to answer them she eventually gave in and did so. This started a blooming relationship. Yayoi began to stay with the old women, who name was Shimazu Misato. Here in the mountains she continued her training, as it was the only thing she knew in life, and helped the old women with her chores. She assisted the old women with dealing with bandits, and even aided in saving a nearby village from a attack from rouge shinobi. She had made a new life for herself here, and planned to stay. However one day she caught wind of Hidden Leaf Shinobi moving in the valley. Fearing that they had caught up to her again Yaoyoi refused to let Misato get caught up in her problems. She wrote a letter to the old women, and left.

Yaoyoi then began to head to the Land of Heaven. She heard rumors that mercenaries had gathered there. On route there however she was ambushed by another group of Shinobi. However by this time she had come adapt in fighting against her fellow Ninja, nor where they of any real substance. She crushed them, but the fight had revealed her true form. Word eventually got back to the Uchiha clan who then sent a group of assassins. On the path to the Land of Heaven she was attacked again by a group of Uchiha. During this battle she managed to take down their leader, but she received a grievous wound as a result. The apprentice would have finished her off, but they where killed by Tori Sakurai.

Sakurai did not jump into the fight to save the horse creature she saw being attacked by the Uchiha. She had joined the fight because the Uchiha had entered into Tori Clan lands and had not requested passage. They where disrespecting her people and openly carrying on a fight in their country, all without requesting free passage. Needles to say, it was a slap in the face of the Tori clan. As a result of this, Sakurai did not help Yaoyoi. The horse maiden was forced to take care of herself, introducing her to the harsh reality to the Land of Heaven. Undaunted she continued her journey and began to make a name for herself in the land of Heaven as a mercenary of skill. She often tricked people into thinking her true form was a transformation she used to increase her power in battle.