Katsu

*"Oh, you're approaching me?"* -*Katsu*

**Katsu** (喝) is an S-Rank missing-nin from Iwagakure member of the Akatsuki and partner of Isago. He joined the criminal organization so he can take revenge on the Jinchiruki.

## ***History***

### **Background**

Katsu is a Jonin from a small clan of ninjas from Iwagakure that are given mouths in their hands that can be used to more easily perform the Iwagakure Kinjutsu, a technique employed mostly by retired ninjas to help in the production of stronger ninja weaponry. While this clan normally used this technique to reinforce their weapons and thus make them better Katsu found that he could use it to infuse elemental chakra into his dead skin and thus make himself harder.

With his armored skin Katsu could dedicate himself entirely to mastering the Doton techniques required of him and master taijutsu second. He found a great synergy between the use of the state mandated **Weight Jutsus**, his skin armor and taijutsu and attempted to create a fighting style around this which caused him to independently discover and re-invent the **Doton: Tairiku Karadan no Jutsu** ­­(土遁・大陸体の術­, *Earth Style: Continental Body Jutsu*) which was a secret passed down in the Oyama Clan.

Wanting to prove his strength and bring glory to his clan he joined the **Jinchuriki Tournament** a tournament held in Iwagakure that the weaker clans's jonin can all compete in for the right of inheriting the 8-Tails and becoming a jinchiruki in service of the village and thus bring glory to their lesser clan instantly. Using his Taijutsu and Doton alone he got to the finals where he finally showed off his weight shifting technique for a decisive victory.

Sadly Katsu never got to become a Jinchiruki because a spectating Oyama spotted the "unique" technique of their clan and ordered the execution of the entire clan for stealing secrets from the Oyama. Katsu denied these accusation but when the 8-tails jinchiruki turned on him and his spectating clan Katsu went on a bloody rampage which resulted in the murder of the former 8-Tail Host and the release of a rampaging 8 tails on Iwagakure.

Making use of the commotion Katsu fled the village and swore revenge not only on Iwagakure and the Oyama but all jinchiruki for being denied the chance of becoming one.

## ***Abilities***

### *Taijutsu*

Katsu is an undisputed Taijutsu master capable of defeating most jonin with taijutsu alone, but his prowess with Taijutsu truly shines when he combines it with the use of his Doton buffs to himself.

### *Ninjutsu*

#### **Earth Release**

Katsu as a Iwagakure ninja is able to use the core 3 Earth Release techniques, he uses them in combat fluidly with his taijutsu to absolutely destroy opponents.

* **Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall**: Katsu notably uses this technique in short bursts and with the use of only one hand, assisted by the mouth in it. The walls he generates tend to be used as obstacles to ram an opponent into or as a means to block powerful and big techniques like a the Tailed Beas Ball.
* **Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique**: Katsu makes ample use of this technique with his taijutsu as a defensive and mobility technique to disorient his foes.
* **Earth Release: Rock Gun Technique**: Katsu is able to use this technique without even performing a handsign and can produce rocks from the mouths in his hands, allowing him to not only dual wield but potentially triple wield this jutsu. His specific use of this technique generates kunais and shuriken shaped rocks which he uses in place of the standard shuriken and kunais after he realized he didn't need anything to kill a tailed beast other than his body.

#### **Earth Style: Weight Jutsus**

Like most Iwagakaure Jonin Katsu is able to **Jūgan no Jutsu** (­­重岩の術, *Boulder Jutsu*) or more commonly and simply as **Weight Jutsus**, but more so than most jonin and even the Oyama Clan, Katsu is an expert at shifting his weight very precisely which allowed him to recreate the Oyama secret technique independently and improve upon it into a greater variation:

* **Doton: Tairiku Karadan no Jutsu** ­­(土遁・大陸体の術­, *Earth Style: Continental Body Jutsu*) [Hidden Jutsu] - A secret advanced jutsu which combines Kajūgan and Keijūgan to make oneself appear to be of usual weight but then instantly and without warning change their weight on the fly. While the same can be achieved by using the other 2 jutsus in succession this technique is distinct in that it only affects the user's body, is much faster than the alternative and due to being a "state" jutsu requires only to be maintained with chakra expenditure.
	+ **Doton: Chikyū Karadan no Jutsu** ­­(土遁・地球体の術­, *Earth Style: Body like Earth Jutsu*) [Hidden Jutsu] - An even more advanced version of **Doton: Tairiku Karadan no Jutsu** which allows one's weight to fluctuate even more precisely and thus one can fluctuate the individual weight of individual sections of the body instead of the entire body at once.

### *Hand Mouths & Iwagakure Kinjutsu*

Katsu is the sole survivor of a clan which implanted mouths into their hands as a way to make the use of the Iwagakure Kinjutsu safer and thus exploitable by a lesser clan. While most people in his clan would use this technique to knead elemental chakra into ninja tools and thus produce more explosive bombs or sharper throwables effectively making a weapon permanently be affected by Chakra Flow, Katsu found that he could "knead" Earth Chakra into the dead cells on his skin and thus reinforce his skin to become as hard as iron before even applying any jutsu to reinforce it. Sadly while this technique is incredibly useful for creating better weapons and armor all things have a cap on how much chakra can be infused into them that cannot be raised further.

Having perfected this technique over the years with not only Earth release but a specific combination of the other elemental natures Katsu's skin is now effectively **invulnerable** to most forms of physical and elemental damage despite the "chakra cap" and can be strengthened further by himself using Earth Release: Earth Spear rendering him effectively impossible to harm by conventional means in this super hardened state. Additionally because there is a cap to how much chakra he can infuse, and if Katsu so desires, he is capable of releasing some of the stored chakra in an explosive fashion alongside a taijutsu strike. He normally does this against tough foes because he knows he can just replenish his "armor" after combat up to its chakra absorption limit.

Because Katsu is also a master of Taijutsu and can use **Doton: Chikyū Karadan no Jutsu** ­­(土遁・地球体の術­, *Earth Style: Body like Earth Jutsu*) to increase the weight of his punches for raw offensive impact and decrease his weight for pure speed Katsu is one of the few ninjas that can defeat a tailed beast absolutely naked if need be.

## ***Trivia***

* This character is portrayed by ??? from UQ Holder.