Arata Hayashi

## **Basic Information (continued)**

### **Background Information**

Arata grew up in the Hayashi household, a family reputed for their great skill in codifying books and keeping secrets within ciphers.  They were not reputed for many ninja being procuded from the small family, Arata was an exceptional exception to the rule.

He grew up with his grandfather always stopping by to visit and read him books, sparking the boy's interest to want to start reading books and get into the adventures so he could tell his grandpa the stories he was told growing up, as the old man's sight was going.

When his skill as a ninja was discovered and reccomended he go to the ninja academy, he was against it at first, even as a child, affirming that all he wanted to do was read and write books.  But after much coaxing, Arata was able to be brought to the academy with the promise he could still write a book.

Graduating from the academy Arata had the intention of keeping his dream, writing a book that the world had not seen before, and the first copy would be taken to his grandpa.

Arata wants to join a team now, despite his initial reluctance to become a ninja, and go on grand adventures to get inspiration for what he wants to write.

### **Personality and Behavior**

No one is ever sure what angle he is playing at, Arata is reputed for being extremely hard to read.  He can express times of naivety and carefree attitude toward any situation, and other times cold and callous calculations that he seems to relish in.  Someone who values subterfuge over direct assaults, Arata is regarded by many as a dirty fighter who will exploit loopholes in the rules of monitored combat in order to have the upperhand.

Arata deep down just wants to watch people's reactions to what he does so he can continue to get his inspiration.  This curiosity toward other people has gone as far as him feigning defecting to a band of bandits in order to infiltrate them and subdue them from the inside out.  He has also attacked teammates without warning in the middle of fighting someone else, coming up with any excuse to make the fight believable in order to lower the tension of the enemy.

Outside of combat and in normal situations, Arata likes to chide his friends in a friendly manner, showing them a much nicer side.  Although in his own mischievious manner. He has been known to poke at an Akimichi's weight issues by saying that a shop owner made the comment, just to observe the arguement and get a laugh out of it. Many people think he is no good because of things like this, but for his friends, he enjoys seeing them smiling and will do what he can to bring smiles back to their faces.

All in all, Arata is described as a wildcard of any team with a face that can seem happy no matter how cheerful or sinister his eyes are looking at the situation.

It should be noted that due to the duplicitous nature of Arata's psyche, interrogation techniques and truth-serum chemicals do not work on him.

### Appearance

Arata is a lad with ashy blonde hair that is close to a light brown sometimes as some people report.  His eyes are naturally amber and his skin is fair.

His clothing consists of patterns that mirror each other either from one side to the other or inside and outside.  This is seen in the hood that he wears with white dots on the outside of the hood rim and black dots on the inside right where the white dots are.  He also tends to wear clothing fitting for an undershirt under his hoodie.  He has tactical pants with loops for ninja tool pouches to be belted through.  Open toed tabi normally adorn his feet.

### Motto

What was it you were expecting out of me?

You'll make a great character.

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