Kiku

*"..."* -*Kiku*

**Kiku** (菊, chrysanthemum) is a missing-"nin" from a Ninja Temple in the war torn lands near Kusagakure and a substitute member of the Akatsuki sub-organization Yaksha. While classified as a Medical-nin from her use of Ninjutsu she is actually a Ninja Monk.

## ***History***

### **Background**

Kiku was born in a Ninja Temple built near the village hidden in the grass and which took the name of the Grass Temple. This temple was established and dedicated to the mastery of forbidden jutsu and would conduct many experiments to try to reduce the cost of certain jutsu or alternatively to change their cost to something more manageable. Kiku was born in this temple to one of the heads and she was instantly found to possess a nearly miraculous control over her chakra which granted her incredible precision of chakra manipulation even as a toddler.

Seizing this opportunity to fast forward their research the monks of the temple taught Kiku how to use healing jutsu after teaching her the Yin seal which allowed her to store immense amounts of chakra. She naturally excelled in both aspects but Kiku was a curious child and would sneak mid alone practice to spy on the other monks and would sneak at night to read information about their Chakra Strenght and Chakra Flow use.

This was not really a problem to the monks so long as she kept up the generation of her Yin seal which she achieved eventually after a few years of continuous chakra drain. However once the yin seal was completed Kiku was stripped of all her freedom and the temple's research into forbidden jutsu was incredibly accelerated as they began to fully dive into using forbidden jutsu that would warp them physically as a cost since they now had a healing prodigy to undo the damage.

Of course Kiku could heal this mutation and reverse it but the healing jutsus and jutsus to assist healing that the monks taught Kiku while incredibly powerful were all *also forbidden jutsu* because they were "laced" with a yin-release modification which transferred the pain of the ailing patient to the healer as such Kiku was forced to not only witness people horribly disfigure themselves constantly all the time but also experience all the pain herself while healing them.

Kiku's mind was of course warped from this and one day got tired of it and instead of healing her fellow temple members diagnosed them all with being insane and decided to dole out the best medicine she could, a special blend of poison that would force them to experience a slow, paralyzingly agonizing death that would take mere minutes to set in but would potentially last days in their minds to fully resolve.

When Kusagakure ninjas paid a visit to the temple they found it empty and all the ninja monks dead as well as perfectly preserved like mummies. Kiku only left single note left behind that explained that she killed them all for their mental sickness deeming them incurable.

## ***Abilities***

### **Taijutsu**

Kiku's Taijutsu is mostly self taught from observing her fellow monks and practicing by her lonesome, but after infiltrating a genin academy once she managed to acquire a proper theoretical and practical foundation of taijutsu which she's built slowly overtime with physical conditioning. Far from a master of Taijutsu, Kiku is something of an unorthodox brawler with no defined style which makes use of her natural acrobatic talent to make it work.

### **Ninjutsu**

#### **Medical Ninjutsu**

Kiku is an avid user of Medical Ninjutsu being capable of healing most common injuries rather quickly and has enough knowledge of herbs and poisons to generate antidotes to a lot of poisons.

* **Shōsen Jutsu** (掌仙術, *Mystical Palm Technique*): An all purpose medical jutsu tthat can be used to heal wounds in a general and unspecialized fashion, while this jutsu is much slower than others designed for healing specific illnesses and injuries its versatility and wide range of healing makes it ideal in combat where ninjas will generally be suffering from multiple types of damage rather than just one. Kiku's special version of this technique is faster than usual but it also makes Kiku suffer all the pain her patient is experiencing.
* **Yō to Sui Ton: Genshi Kongō** (陽と水遁・原始混合 *Yang & Water Release: Primordial Mix*): A type of medical ninjutsu distinct from a fusion of Yang and Water that generates a sphere of water with an abundance of amino acids and other organic molecules inside of it which can be controlled with chakra. With Kiku's incredibly precise chakra control she is able to use this jutsu to move the chemicals and thus generate natural compounds that heal or counteract illness such as anti-bodies, antidotes, and etc., quickly in this watery medium after having discovered the solution to some medical problem.

##### ***Fūinjutsu***

Kiku was force taught from a very young age how to use a very special seal due to her prodigious chakra control, this was the first jutsu she was ever taught and she is actually unable to cast jutsu without relying on it in some capacity.

* **Byakugō no In** (百豪の印­, *Strength of a Hundred Seal*): Also known as **Yin Seal** is a special Seal capable of storing potentially infinite amounts of chakra in a small point in the user's body, in Kiku's specific case it's in her right eye above the **Heal Gate**. The chakra stored in the Yin Seal can accessed with the use of special release techniques but the seal continuously absorbs and stores a portion of the user's chakra continuously cutting down the total amount of chakra the user can use normally.
	+ **Infūin: Kai** (陰封印・解­, *Yin Seal: Release*): This technique causes the seal to open and release some of the stored chakra into the user's body continuously up to their chakra resistance cap, allowing them to use techniques which require a lot of chakra expenditure in quick succession.
		- **Infūin: Chokusetsu Yō** (陰封印・直接 用­, *Yin seal: Direct Use*): A specialized version of **Yin Seal: Release** that releases chakra not continuously but instead provides a specific amount instantaneously, this value is a 1:100 release per chakra unit used to perform the technique allowing for a greater degree of precision of how much chakra to release from the seal to be used instantaneously.

#### **Nintaijutsu**

As a monk Kiku was taught how to use her Chakra to complement her Taijutsu:

* **Chakra Flow**: A basic technique where Kiku flows her chakra through an object to make it stronger and sharper to complement her use of it, she normally does this to her tanto to make it as sharp as a scalpel for medical use.
* **Chakra Enhanced Strenght**: A technique that requires immense chakra control where one will store chakra into a body part and release it with pinpoint timing alongside a strike to generate a tremendous amount of kinetic energy capable of destroying small structures and even weak opponents in a single strike.

#### **Summoning Jutsu**

Kiku is able to perform the summoning jutsu, knowing a special variation useful for the summoning of sea creatures.

* **Suiton - Kuchiyose no Jutsu: Umi usagi** (水遁・口寄せの術・海バニー, *Water Release - Summoning Jutsu: Sea Rabbit*) A special Summoning Technique that summons a Sea Rabbit Sea Slug and envelops it in a layer of water so it's able to survive and act on land without the risk of dying from being unable to breathe or act. She always summons a part of or multiple parts of a much more massive and powerful Sea Rabbit known as **Toto** (*兎時, Rabbit Time*), these smaller bodies of Toto can combine into a bigger body or themselves split apart into even smaller bodies which all share the same consciousness, chakra and even effects. Notably because Kiku was taught a forbidden version of this jutsu all the pain that would be inflicted on Toto is instead transferred to Kiku.

## ***Equipment***

### **Ninja Tools**

Notably Kiku does not carry ninja tools due to being a Ninja Monk rather than a ninja, she carries only an incredibly sharp tanto for medical use.

## ***Trivia***

* This character is portrayed by Ansel from Arknights.