Otome Ichimaru

**Ichimaru Otome** (*Kanji*: **市丸*,*** *乙女*; *English*: **Urban Circle**, **Second Woman**) is a Genin of Amegakure and a member of the Ichimaru Clan.

She is also the sister of Ichimaru Teppei and a cousin of Ichimaru Asōgi, Ichimaru Kaki, and Ichimaru Uemon.

## ***Abilities and Equipment***

### *Needle Sealing*

Due to a bizarre birth defect Otome is unable to perform hand seals as her tenketsu cannot be controlled and are essentially closed, due to this Otome uses a special method of weaving technique known as **Shin** (**針印**, Needle Sealing) where she uses an especially narrow Senbon to manually force tenketsu to open.

This method requires considerable knowledge and memorization of clusters of tenketsu on the arm and hand and cannot be used effectively in combat as such Otome is unable to cast jutsu mid combat, instead she uses Needle Sealing to prepare sealing jutsu ahead of time and imbue her chakra into objects instead, notably her umbrella.

### *Fuinjutsu & Shurikenjutsu*

Otome is knowledgeable with Fuinjutsu from a purely practical perspective, using the paper on her Oil Paper Umbrella as a medium for her fuinjutsu where she stores an unknown number of Senbon within.

Notably the specific Fuinjutsu Otome uses was designed by Amegakure nin to be integrated with the other mechanisms within the Umbrella allowing the user to use Senbon Shower with the Senbon stored within the paper that makes up the umbrella. Through diligence in acquiring, manufacturing and sealing thousands of Senbon Otome's Senbon Shower lasts much longer than your average umbrella.

She is also capable of making use of variations of the Senbon Shower technique to effectively reproduce Shurikenjutsu techniques with mechanical assistance by exploiting the mechanisms in the umbrella to add power to the senbon throw while she focuses entirely on the aiming aspects of Shurikenjutsu.

### *Taijutsu & Bukijutsu*

Otome is quite adept at Taijutsu; more specifically, Otome is adept at the use of Taijutsu in complement with the use of her umbrella making her also a practitioner of Bukijutsu. Otome is incredibly fast due to her taijutsu training, much faster than your average chuunin in fact and is also considerably stronger and more resilient than a supermajority of genin.

Otome's prowess in Taijutsu isn't only from the fact that because she cannot weave ninjutsu or genjutsu she instead focuses all that time into Taijutsu it's also because Otome is knowledgeable in the use of Acupuncture to recover faster and more efficiently from training and is even capable of using Acupuncture principles mid combat with her senbon to enhance her chakra flow and abilities.

### *Oil Paper Umbrella: Hanabachi*

**Hanabachi** (花蜂, *Flower Bee*) is Otome's specially crafted Oil Paper Umbrella, it was originally a standard issue umbrella as is customary used in Amegakure by ninja who lack chakra control but through diligence, ingenuity and a bit of theft Otome has managed to make it a formidable weapon which not only complements her fighting style but allows her to compete with ninja who can use Ninjutsu much more easily.

The paper which composes the crown of the umbrella is the paper which is typically used for paper ninjutsu and has been specially treated with fuinjutsu methods to contain a large number of senbon which can be summoned on contact by Otome or loaded automatically into firing mechanisms. These firing mechanism are capable of shooting the senbon either through the end tip or the ends of the "ribs", allowing it to be used for both a Senbon shower and to shoot them in a gun like fashion.

Furthermore by slowly and continuously imbuing her chakra into the umbrella over many years Hanabachi has been made much more resilient and can be used defensively to deflects projectiles, blades and other such things. It's also equipped with a number of bladed edges allowing it to be used as a thrusting or bludgeoning weapon, however due to being so incredibly light it ends up losing on power.