Sergio Noboru

**Sergio Noboru** (セルジオ昇船) is a shinobi of the Leaf village, although he hasn't always been. In Sergio's relatively minimal exposure to the shinobi world, he was propositioned by a star Jonin of the Leaf to pursue what was a dream to him at the time. The day he left the village was the day he was actually propositioned by his mentor, Kenichi, who put him through even more rigorous training for the potential he saw in him.

## **Background**

Sergio was a simple farm boy, raised by a simple farmer, as far as he knew, that was to be the rest of his life, working the rice fields with the rest of the community he lived in, consisting of no more than a hundred-- if 80. He had brief experience with actual shinobi, individuals that he looked up to whenever they came through. For whatever reason, his father always made attempts to dissuade him away from them, but he always took private time to himself in order to train and do what they do. But not having gone through the academy, or having proper teaching, he was just doing so aimlessly. Until he was one day offered admission into the ranks as a shinobi by a curious star Jonin of the Leaf, and his current mentor, Kenichi. Under his study, and undergoing his rigorous training regiments, Sergio was able to successfully become part of the shinobi ranks, without going through the academy.

## **Personality**

     Sergio in the past was something of an odd individual. He could even come off as a bit of an airhead in certain situations. But he was always spirited, and hardworking. He's also an extremely honest and kind person, but with a neutral presence, neither meek or dominant and assertive, unless the situation was to call for it. He always had a strong sense of curiosity about certain things that would cause him to ask a ton of question. However, after some time with Kenichi, studying not just under him, but studying his sensei as well, he had begun to become a lot more to himself, staying within his own head, and being more analytical about things. Over the course of his career, gaining new experiences, and witnessing new things about the world, both good and bad, it was clear he began to mature. And although he still hasn't found out what it meant to be a shinobi, his nindō way, he still has a strong sense of responsibility, and willingness to find out for himself that keeps him going forward to find just what that is.

 In comparison to the way he was before, however, he has become a lot more cunning, although, he still has the fault of being honest to a fault. Even to his own enemies. Often treating them with deep respect. But this is due in part to his view that every new enemy that he is faced with is a new learning experience for him to develop and become a stronger person. At the same time, unlike most who have been in the field for a long time and have become used to the risks and undesired things that come with it, Sergio refuses to kill his enemies. During the Insidious Allies arc, whenever he had an encounter to engage in combat, he had always opted to take it easy and pull his punches as not to permanently injure or kill his enemies.

## **Appearance**

    Even upon becoming a chuunin, Sergio had opted not to wear the standard flak, unless on certain occasions where it was required in the field. That is why even now, some people may easily mistake him for a genin, mostly in his early career upon becoming a newly ranked chuunin after the exams. Overall, he's about taller than the average male his age, as of currently, standing at 5'10" and still growing. He has developed impressive, well-sculpted and highly defined musculature from the vigorous training exercises that he has undergone. Fair skinned, and short, unkempt brown hair that he likes to cut from time to time to keep out of the way. His eyes are a remarkable walnut brown, and even at a glimpse from afar, there's no mistaking the definite masculine cues that make up his visage.

He normally likes to wear his white dōgi with a black transparent mesh shirt underneath. The sleeves of his dōgi top are torn and frayed. However, that is how it was made. On the back of it, in bold black Kanji, reads 'World's Strongest', as Sergio is someone that greatly values and respects strength to a certain extent. But more times than not, he has the top to his dōgi down loosely. And rather than the traditional belt that people traditionally wear with the style of clothing he has, he wears a loosely draping red cloth, elastic at the waist like a sash, but open in the front, and. Not much else can be said, other than he doesn't wear sandals the way some shinobi typically do, but cotton sole slippers that you'd see on most kung fu masters, and shin wraps that come up just below the knee, his baggy, relatively loose harem-style pants are tucked into. Lastly, he has wrist wraps on under the weighted armored vambraces he normally wears, metallic plates all linked together, cherry red and with a gold trim around each. All in all, his choice of attire causes onlookers to assume he's going to a training session, perhaps at a dojo.

## **Abilities**

Sergio is a fine shinobi with a well-developed set of skills honed and drawn out by various mentors. The way he fights as of currently leans towards a style of nintaijutsu, and a little knowledge, but no use of genjutsu. Of all the engagements and struggles he has been through thus far, he has displayed an abnormal amount of endurance and stamina, however. There has been no known time as of currently to where he has been tired, or run low on stamina. Telling of his amazing endurance and chakra pool, compared to most other shinobi, leaving him capable of being liberal with the techniques he uses and the way he chooses to fight with enemy combatants. His prowess really showed through during the bell test he had with against Tenji, with his allies. Formulating a plan, and going head to head with a taijutsu master such as Tenji in order to retrieve the bells, something the group had trouble doing for hours.

#### **Taijutsu**

    While Sergio is fairly adept in his use of chakra, he has exhibited more of an inclination towards taijutsu, shown in the way he conducts his training sessions, as well as the way he confronts his adversaries in battle. He has shown what some would consider remarkable. Not only was he able to quickly adapt, and pick up techniques, holding his own against masters of taijutsu while rapidly improving, it was second nature for him to combine ninjutsu and taijutsu together to make use of it in the most lethal ways. Possessing the Shinshitaidō techniques, which enhances the body, creating an explosive force at the point of each impact he makes with the body is utterly overwhelming and destroys his opponents' bodies with every hit. He also possesses a martial art known as spirit hand, taught to him by Kenichi, rather than the traditional strong fist. Spirit hand is a hidēn martial art which combines chakra enhancement body techniques similar to Shinshitaidō, and chakra flow similar to the principles of gentle fist and chakra scalpel techniques. However, it does not target the tenketsu, but vital points such as organs with surgical precision of chakra blasts. The sheer force taking down opponents from inside and out. Even just trying to block or defend from a strike raises the risk of shattering the bones of his opponent. A whole list of techniques similar to, but in some cases surpassing the cherry blossom impact. However, the use of his technique has two different modes, rather than just destroy, it also disables the opponent with certain strikes by temporarily paralyzing them in some way.

While Sergio has a fine level of expertise garnered in nintaijutsu, his base taijutsu is nothing to laugh at either. As Sergio has displayed the ability of immense strength, even without enhancing his body with chakra. Able to punch a fully grown man weighing over 200 pounds several tens of meters away with a well-placed punch and knock the wind out of him. Also exerting the power in order to create small impact craters or shattering boulders with raw strength alone, or uproot trees with ease to use them as weapons via swinging them or throwing them through the air like javelins. Such results are likely the immense training given to him by his mentor, as well as the heavy wrist guard weights that he wears almost all the time, even while in a serious battle, only removing them if he requires the necessary speed to counter efficiently.

#### **Chakra and Ninjutsu Prowess**

As was pointed out earlier, there has not been a known instance as of currently where Sergio has been seen to become fatigued, likely due to a great amount of chakra he possesses. It is clear it could be magnitudes greater than the average shinobi, as during a session of training with Kenichi, when asked to release his flow of chakra, doing so released a volatile gust with it that blew across the plains they were on, similar to that of what a jinchuriki releases when accessing their respective tailed beast's chakra. While Sachin and Kenichi scratched their heads trying to figure out the nature of his chakra, Kenichi was hesitant to share his inference, while Sachin had gone ahead to compare the nature of it to senjutsu, with the way it easily infuses into and enhances anything he infuses it into, including his own body.

While Sergio has mainly focused on cultivating his taijutsu skills, under the tutelage of Kenichi, he has also realized a great prowess with ninjutsu hidden within him, whereas he had never taken too much of an interest in it before. Kenichi had put him through an intense chakra starvation training method with the risk of death, in preparation for the chuunin exams. A method which boasts results of the chakra control and precision of those who undergo it surpassing the Hyuuga clan and medical ninja prodigy combined. While Sergio does not have a large arsenal of ninjutsu, he makes up for the lack of in the way he utilizes his chakra, and that is through nintaijutsu. However, there is one technique in his repertoire worth mentioning. That is the chakra gun technique, which takes the principles of the rasengan, requiring the same level of chakra control, and the highest level of shape transformation, and taking it to a new level to release an energetic blast wave of chakra, either in the form of a beam, or bullet sphere that utterly destroys whatever materials it comes into contact with.

Unknown to most, pre, and post chuunin exams, as well as traveling around and training with his new companions, Sergio has displayed an uncanny ability to tap into his knowledge of superior chakra control to learn different nature transformations at an accelerated rate. While he doesn't have a long list of jutsu to display such talent, he makes up for it with the nature transformations he has been able to apply to his chakra gun technique, those being the lightning and wind nature. It is likely he'll be looking to create a fire variant soon to add to his list.

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## **History**

#### **Early Life**

Sergio was brought up within a small rural village, otherwise known as Shirayako. It was nothing spectacular, a place that was easy to pass by and miss entirely, except that it was one of the Leaf's secondary sources of rice production. Harboring a community of no more than 100 rice farmers, Sergio was one of them. His past was really fairly simple, he just knew his place in the world at the time, and yet he felt out of place. He was felt that there was something of significance not just about him, but about his family line. However, even till this day, Sergio knows nothing about his own heritage. His father has always been secretive about his past and mostly hush about his mother or what might've happened to her. Whenever the subject is brought up, his father always utilizes dismissive tactics to deflect anything Sergio has to say about it.

He and his father has always had a pretty stellar relationship, not the closest. His father was always supportive of him, aside from when it came to his desire to become a shinobi. If Sergio had to pin anything on his father's lack of willingness to speak of his mother, Sergio would often-times pin it on something to do with shinobi in general. But this never stopped Sergio. If anything, it pushed him more to pursue his goal of becoming one.

While he and his father were not the closest, there were always villagers, elders, and friends, that he would look to for counsel. When he went off to train, on his own they would typically cover for him and pick up the extra work. Especially his childhood friend, who had moved on to Iwagakure just in his early teen years. She apparently was originally from there, and like him, sharing the same interest of becoming a shinobi went to go and do just that.

#### **Thrown A Line**

It didn't take much for him to get noticed. After a while of his little escapades sneaking away from the rice fields to train in private near a river he found after wandering a few times, he had the feeling that there was another presence which was near his own. Sure enough, after his father had caught on to what he was doing, he still went regardless, and that time, he was approached by his known mentor, Kenichi Sarutobi, jonin of the Leaf.

They quickly conversed, and Kenichi introduced himself and made an offer to Sergio. This came as a surprise to him, and without hesitation, he accepted it and knew nothing was going to stop him-- except for one thing. When he went home after his training that day, he thought a while on how he was going to present the news to his father. He steeled himself and did just that. The two had a falling out over it, and Sergio let his father know that he had to go through with it no matter what. That night, he did, leaving his old life behind to begin the one he fantasized about since he was a child.

He informed no one other than the villagers closest to him. Packed what he could, and abruptly left without another word. However, when he got there, he didn't register just then. First, he had to meet with Kenichi again. And the two spent months on the training grounds each day, honing his skills, and trying to draw out Sergio's potential. At the time, the nature of his abilities was quite unusual. But regardless, the two of them pushed through and did a fair bit of studying. Where Sergio had to prepare for a specialized exam in order to become an official genin and be considered registered as an official shinobi of the Leaf.

Once that was out of the way, and dozens of training sessions and missions with just the two of them, Kenichi had an idea on Sergio's peculiar abilities. But he wanted to make no assumptions and took him to see Sachin Senju, a powerful Jonin recently out of retirement to evaluate him. However, Kenichi had an important task to complete. Leaving Sergio in the hands of his own mentor, Kenichi left. Whereas, Sergio and Sachin had set out to undertake a new and important journey in the process of his further instruction.

#### **Cloak & Swords - Insidious Allies**

Sergio perhaps didn't play the most important role in the Cloak and Swords arc. However, this point in time is a vivid experience for him and a very crucial turning point in his development. For all his training he had undergone with Kenichi, this assignment was a true test of his abilities, and a time of great discovery. He could clearly see what he had lacked, and after seeing his superiors at work first hand, he could roughly see where he could be.

At the start, he and Sachin were tasked by Jakaro himself with a special request from Kirigakure to do recon and intel gathering on the covert workings of high profiled VIPs, that their own homeland shinobi could never pin anything on, or else risk war with the Land of Iron, despite the fact they knew their 'allies' were up to no good. The moment Sergio and Sachin had stepped onto Kiri platforms of their train stations, it appeared that the individuals they had a short bout with were indeed samurai from the Land of Iron. Each fought fiercely, at least to Sergio. With every engagement, he could clearly tell his shortcomings and what he needed to work on.

After some time, spent in Kiri, and on edge from their first attack was when Sergio and Sachin had met the first of their allies, who would take on the task along with them. The most notable from Sergio's perspective being Tenji. Another star jonin of the Leaf, who like his other two mentors had given him new insights about his training and abilities to develop. Other fellow genin like Sergio happened to be on the job, so during downtime, the superiors would conduct training sessions with every last one of them, in order to ensure each was prepared for what was to come or what could come.

However, despite efforts in training, when it came time to confront the enemy, Sergio still found himself lacking, and unable to match up to the strength of the enemies. And ended up having to be protected by the jonin CO, Tenji, at the time, as well as go and seek the back up of Kenichi and Sachin to take care of the threat. This left Sergio feeling disappointed with himself, and pushed him to train harder than ever before after a somewhat successful mission.