Nobu Hyūga

日向延 Hyūga Nobu

**Nobu Hyūga** (日向延, *Hyūga Nobu*) is a Jōnin ranked shinobi of Iwagakure's Hyūga Clan. Born into the Branch Family, Nobu is destined to serve the Main Branch all the way until his death. Because of his failure to master the Gentle Fist, Nobu was banned from taking the Chūnin Exams until he had managed to learn another skill to the elders' satisfaction, which turned out to be Genjutsu.

After reaching the finals unscathed in the Chūnin Exams I the disgraced Hyūga proved his resolve by forcibly unlocking the First Gate of Opening through a clever but reckless application of Genjutsu: Sunflower, causing him to seriously injure himself and end up in the hospital but regain the trust and faith of his clan in the process.

## Appearance

Nobu is a young man of average height with black hair and fair skin, unlike most of the Hyūga Clan Nobu's hair is cut short for the sake of comfort and appearance. Before his promotion to Chunin Nobu tended to wear a sleeveless black vest with white trim to enable freer movement of his hands and wore simple white breeches underneath.

After becoming a Chuunin Nobu tends to wear a Felt Jacket which he keeps stocked with all kinds of strange paraphernalia such as dried sunflower petals to enhance the effect of his genjutsu or medical supplies to help him excel at Medical Ninjutsu.

Because he specialized in Genjutsu alone for several years and the fact that the Gentle Fist does not rely on strength, Nobu's build, while athletic is nonetheless relatively slight to this day having little in the way of the muscles that one would expect from a martial artist.

## Personality

Nobu is an unusual young man who can at best be summed up as something of a paradox, being at once highly pessimistic but also very idealistic. His pessimism shines through for the most part with him being convinced of his own inferiority to most opponents even when he has a definitive advantage, as when his preconceptions are revealed to be mistaken he has a tendency of explaining it away as either a fluke or some stroke of luck rather than attribute it to his own success, as shown during his battle with Akira Hōzuki where he assumed that he only won because Akira held back.

The young Hyūga is defined by his strangely optimistic view about the depth of his connection to others, most notably to Shimizu Matsumura who he idolizes to the point of delusion, frequently inventing long-winded and highly unlikely excuses for all of his negative traits and outright refusing to think anything bad about him at all. Nobu's reasons for doing so is that Shimizu stood by him and trained him even when his own clan had largely abandoned him, causing Nobu to focus all of his attentions on his teacher and assign him all of the traits that the idealized teacher would possess in his mind.

## Abilities and Powers

Despite how Nobu and the rest of his clan largely consider him a failure, he has nonetheless proven himself to be a remarkable shinobi who not only managed to make it all the way to the finals of the Chūnin Exams but do so without even suffering a single injury, a feat that not even Amari Uchiha could boast.

### Chakra and Physical Prowess

**High Chakra Reserves**: Average is the best way to describe Nobu's Chakra reserves, although it is not bad by any means it lacks the kind of exceptional quality often seen among members of ruling clans. Although it is more than sufficient to perform a variety of different Ninjutsu and Genjutsu it lends him quite poorly to battles of attrition which was the main reason for his one-sided defeat at the hands of Amari Uchiha during the events of Chūnin Exams I. After learning how to use the Gentle Fist his ability to fight even with his comparatively low amounts of chakra has markedly improved.

**Skillful Chakra Control**: Chakra Control was one of the biggest sources of pride for Nobu while he was a Genin, as he excelled at it, helped in large part by the unique trait of his clan that enables them to channel and release chakra from every part of their Tenketsu. As a Chūnin, however, Nobu's chakra control is much less remarkable, even ordinary, although it enables Nobu to skillfully perform lower-level Genjutsu and Ninjutsu at C-Rank or lower with only a single hand seal and has used this to his advantage in the past by cleverly performing the Hell Viewing Technique while bashfully rustling his hair in response to Akira's compliment.

**Enhanced Durability**: While his physical strength is only average, Nobu's durability has seen marked improvements from his time as a Genin due to the recovery process he went through after forcibly awakening the First Gate of Opening by inhaling his own Genjutsu.

**Basic Strength**: As a Hyūga and Genjutsu user, Nobu has never had any real cause to do strength training and it remains the same as that of any ordinary individual who engages in regular exercise.

**Extraordinary Perception**: Because of his mastery of the Byakugan, Nobu possesses extraordinary perceptive ability and is practically immune to the effects of being flanked.

**Staggering Speed**: Nobu's speed is easily among his best qualities and during the events of the past Chūnin Exams this was best demonstrated by his ability to make it all the way to the finals unscathed; even being fast enough to avoid a fearsome kick from the likes of Jazz Lee, which surprised the other boy enough to reduce him to tears. Although he is naturally quite fast on his own, Nobu also possesses a significant amount of skill with the Body Flicker Technique which enhances his already impressive mobility even further.

### Genjutsu

Unlike most Genin and definitely in stark contrast to the rest of his clan, Nobu is a Genjutsu Specialist of impressive ability, capable of incapacitating his little brother with a simple touch and much more impressively prove capable of independently developing several unique techniques of impressive function. His use of these has become more or less non-existent however following his actual training in the proper forms of the Gentle Fist upon which these were based.

Like most trained Genjutsu Experts, Nobu's particular chakra lends itself most efficiently towards scent-based techniques and that lead to the creation of Genjutsu: Sunflower; which produces a distinct odour when cast that if inhaled instantly places his foe under an illusion of his design. Although it is capable of doing a significant amount of damage on an opponents psyche on its own, it is most powerful when used in tandem with Nobu's other techniques, most commonly either his Gentle Fist or as demonstrated against Jazz Lee, Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death.

Nobu is currently experiencing and discovering new ways to mix his ability to create tangible form out of Yin Release to gradually develop his skills in the art of Genjutsu.

### Byakugan

Nobu possesses the Byakugan, which manifested sometime before his graduation from the academy. Granting him a near 360° field of x-ray and telescopic vision, and the ability to see the chakra pathway system. Nobu displays significant skill in its use being able to maintain it for extended periods even while straining his Chakra to the utmost. Nobu's experience shines through with how much its range of vision has developed since he first attained it, as his Byakugan can see at a range of one kilometre.

## Triva

* Nobu was created on August 21th, 2020.
* Nobu has completed 1 official mission in total: 1 D-rank, 0 C-rank, 0 B-rank, 0 A-rank, 0 S-rank.

## References

1. ↑ Chūnin Exams I: No opponent succeeded in harming Nobu prior to the finals.
2. ↑ Entry 1: Its noted that his Chakra is more or less average.
3. ↑ Chūnin Exams I: Because of Amari's mastery of the Sharingan Nobu's options were otherwise very limited.
4. ↑ Entry 1: His exemplary Chakra Control for his rank is mentioned.
5. ↑ Chūnin Exams I: No opponent succeeded in harming Nobu prior to the finals.
6. ↑ Chūnin Exams I: Nobu swiftly ducks and avoids one of Jazz's kicks, causing his opponent to start crying.
7. ↑ Entry 2: This is proven when he manages to incapacitate his little brother by ensnaring him with a Genjutsu that he placed merely by touching him.
8. ↑ Gentle Illusions: Nobu has developed at least Gentle Illusion: Empty Fist and Gentle Illusion: Shadow Trigram on his lonesome.
9. ↑ Chūnin Exams I: As Jazz Lee inhaled the scent produced by Nobu's genjutsu he is entrapped by unnaturally thick sunflowers and his consciousness is then crushed by the follow-up execution of Tree-Binding Death.
10. ↑ Entry 1: Nobu manages to maintain his Byakugan while trying to cast Tree Binding Death upon his father.
11. ↑ Overqualified Catfinder: The scope of Nobu's Byakugan is revealed, for good or ill.