Zenjō Kaguya

## Name

かぐや禅譲 *(Kaguya Zenjō)*

Zenjō of the White Sand (白砂の禅譲, *Hakusha no Zenjō*)
White Ox (白牛, *Shiroushi*)

## Jutsu

* Bone Ash
* Dance of the Camellia
* Dance of the Clematis: Flower
* Dance of the Clematis: Vine
* Dance of the Larch
* Dance of the Seedling Fern
* Desert Suspension
* Sand Waterfall Funeral
* Summoning Technique (Horses)
* Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets
* Third Eye

**Zenjō Kaguya** (かぐや禅譲, *Kaguya Zenjō*) is the current clan leader of the Kaguya clan. He is considered a terror in the shinobi world, raiding settlements with his nomadic clan. He eventually comes to be known as **Zenjō of the White Sand** (白砂の禅譲, *Hakusha no Zenjō*), using his Shikotsumyaku ability in such a refined form to emulate the abilities of Rasa, a man that he had killed in one of his many raids. His killing of the Kazekage also got Zenjō labelled as a S-rank criminal. Fear from his rampaging raids and his iconic bovine-like mask has also caused Zenjō to be feared as the **White Ox** (白牛, *Shiroushi*).

## Appearance

Zenjō is a tall, emposing man. He often wears a long sleeve jacket with black lining that starts at his high collar and curving down to his right hip. He also wears a black sash, white hakama, and black gloves. His true appearance is unknown as he often wears a bovine-like skull mask to cover his face, doing so as to provoke fear in the hearts of those he and his clansmen raid against. What has been seen is white hair from the back of his mask.

## Abilities

### Shikotsumyaku

Among his clan, Zenjō is considered to be the greatest user of the Shikotsumyaku, the clan's famous kekkei genkai. With it, Zenjō has the ability to manipulate his skeletal structure to create various means of offense and defense. One duch item is projecting the bones of his fingertips out as powerful projectile, able to pentetrate armor and leave painful wounds as his main means of long-ranged attacks. Zenjō can pull a bone from his body to act as a sword. With it, he often lunges at foes in an unpredictable manner to riddle them with wounds, though he may also perform a rapid slash with it as well. Zenjō can also perform the Dance of the Larch to have bones burst forth from all over his body. This technique acts as a powerful defense, with the strong bones skewering those foolish enough to attack him. Zenjō may also move and attack with these bones, leaving several wounds from one attack with them. In a two part dance, Zenjō can make a copy of his spine to use as a flexible whip, using it as a long-renaged attack and wrapping around foes with its spikes to latch on and hold them in place. The second part is forming a great lance around his arm to skewer his foes with the attack, leaving them morbidly wounded from the sheer size of the wound. In his greatest display, Zenjō can create a forest of bones that skewers all caught within it. With his mastery of the ability, Zenjō is able to move through his constructs to ensure the damage he had brought. It is with this technique Zenjō has brought to ruins several villages.

Outside of his clans traditional techniques, Zenjō is also famed for the creation of Bone Ash. It is with this tehcnique that Zenjō controls fine particles of his bone to recreate the abilties of Gaara, one of his foes in life that Zenjō had eventually killed. With this, Zenjō can create a cloud on which he can fly and observe the ground below. He can also surround his target in Bone Ash and crush them to death in a slow, agonizing attack. However, Zenjō may make the attack faster if he knows he is dealing with a particularly powerful target as to end the conflcit faster. Lastly, Zenjō can create a Third Eye with which he can watch events from afar. At first, Zenjō had to close one of his eyes to use it, but over time has mastered the technique to such an extent as to be able to make several eyes connected to his optic nerves. This gives Zenjō the ability to know what is happening on the battlefield at all times, making the shinobi difficult to hit and difficult to escape from.

## Trivia

* Zenjō's name refers to the Chinese idea of an emperor abdicating the throne for a more virtuous successor (禅譲).
* Zenjō is a variant of a character created by his author's friend. His permission was granted prior to the creation of the character.
* Zenjō shares his birthday with the creator of his original self, a trait the original version of the character also shares.