Hozuki X

**Hozuki X** (*Romaji*: **Hōzuki** **Ekkusu**; *Kana and Kanji*: **鬼灯**, **エックス**) is a mercenary ninja from the Land of Woods and the son of both a male missing-nin from Kirigakure and a female missing-nin from Kumogakure.

## ***Abilities and Equipment***

### *Equipment*

#### **Suizen Sekigiri**

The **Suizen Sekigiri** (*Kanji*: **水然石切り**; *English*: **Water-like Stone-Cutter**) is X's weapon-of-choice.

It's a katana-shaped Supervibrato Lightning Release Sword; as such, it exhibits a Chakra Blade which is specialized towards conducting Lightning Release chakra.

Notably, because of its composition, an electrical vibration-inducing Chakra Flow of Lightning Release chakra is more effective at sharpening its blade than it is at sharpening a supermajority of other blades.

### *Genjutsu*

#### **Storm Release: Nightmare of Thunder and Lightning**

The **Storm Release**: **Nightmare of Thunder and Lightning** (Romaji: **Ranton**: **Raidenno Akumu**; Kanji: **嵐遁・雷電の悪夢**) is an application of the **Storm Release**: **Senbon Technique**.

It begins with the implantation of a Storm Release Senbon into an individual's body. After a Storm Release Senbon has been implanted into an individual's body, the Storm Release Senbon will expend its Lightning Release chakra as a means of conducting into and throughout the individual's Chakra Pathway System and then expend its Water Release as a means of directing and or disrupting the flow of chakra within the individual's nervous system. By doing so, the Storm Release Senbon entraps the individual within a dream-like and paralytic illusion and thereby imprison the individual within a nightmare of sorts.

### *Kekkei Genkai*

#### **Storm Release**

X is a descendant of a jinchūriki of Gyūki. As a result, when X combines the Lightning Release and Water Release, X produces the Storm Release.

### *Kenjutsu*

#### **Teppōmizu**

The **Teppōmizu** (*Kanji*: **鉄砲水**; *English*: **Flash Flood**) consists of flowing an amount of Water Release chakra into the blade of one's sword and then manipulating the Water Release chakra into flowing in the direction of one's swings. It augments both haste of one's swings with the Water Release chakra's force and the power of one's swings with the Water Release chakra's weight.

Notably, the more Water Release chakra that one infuses into the blade of one's sword, the faster and stronger that one's swings will become. As such, the more chakra that one has at one's disposal, the more effective that one's Teppōmizu can be.

### *Ninjutsu*

#### **Elemental Affinities**

##### Lightning Release

X exhibits a secondary affinity for the Lightning Release.

##### Storm Release

X is a descendant of a jinchūriki of Gyūki. As a result, when X combines the Lightning Release and Water Release, X produces the Storm Release.

##### Water Release

X exhibits a primary affinity for the Water Release.

#### **Nature Transformation**

##### Hydrification Technique

The **Hydrification Technique** (*Romaji*: **Suika no Jutsu**; *Kanji*: **水化の術**) is the hiden of the Hōzuki Clan.

It allows a Hōzuki to liquify either a part or the whole of his or her body into water, and it allows the Hōzuki to do without compromising his or her body's homeostasis or integrity.

##### Lightning Release: Comet's Tail

The **Lightning Release**: **Comet's Tail** (*Romaji*: **Raiton**: **Suisei Noo**; *Kanji*: **雷遁・彗星の尾**) is an activated application of the Hydrification Technique.

It charges a Hōzuki's body water with electricity and then suspends droplets of the Hōzuki's body water into the air and behind the Hōzuki. Subsequently, the Hōzuki will be able to accelerate his- or herself — and even **FLY** — by inducing an electromagnetic repulsion between his or her negatively charged body water and the negatively charged body water that he or she is suspending in the air behind him or her.

##### Storm Release: Porcupine Technique

The **Storm Release**: **Porcupine Technique** (Romaji: **Ranton**: **Yamaarashi no Jutsu**; Kanji: **嵐遁・山荒の術**) converts Storm Release chakra from energy into matter in order to craft a number of **Storm Release Senbon** (*Romaji*: **Ranton Senbon**; *Kanji*: **受信千本**) and then launches a volley of the Storm Release Senbon at a target with electromagnetic propulsion.

The size of the Storm Release Senbon can range from macroscopic to microscopic; as such, the Storm Release Senbon may or may not be perceptible to physiological sensors. In addition, because the Storm Release Senbon are composed of as much Lightning Release chakra as Water Release chakra, the Storm Release Senbon can be induced into augmenting their sharpness with vibration. And because the Storm Release Senbon are composed of as much Water Release chakra as Lightning Release chakra, the Storm Release Senbon can be maneuvered even while they are in midflight.

Notably, after or even before they have impacted against or impaled an entity, the Storm Release Senbon can be decomposed into Lightning Release Chakra and Water Release chakra and then the Lightning Release chakra can boil the Water Release chakra in order to detonate the Water Release chakra into a large and powerful explosion!

##### Storm Release: Senbon Technique

The **Storm Release**: **Senbon Technique** (*Romaji*: **Ranton**: **Senbon no Jutsu**; *Kanji*: **嵐遁・千本の術**) converts Storm Release chakra from energy into matter in order to craft **Storm Release Senbon** (*Romaji*: **Ranton Senbon**; *Kanji*: **受信千本**).

The size of the Storm Release Senbon can range from macroscopic to microscopic; as such, the Storm Release Senbon may or may not be perceptible to physiological sensors. In addition, because the Storm Release Senbon are composed of as much Lightning Release chakra as Water Release chakra, the Storm Release Senbon can be induced into augmenting their sharpness with vibration. And because the Storm Release Senbon are composed of as much Water Release chakra as Lightning Release chakra, the Storm Release Senbon can be maneuvered even while they are in midflight.

Notably, after or even before they have impacted against or impaled an entity, the Storm Release Senbon can be decomposed into Lightning Release Chakra and Water Release chakra and then the Lightning Release chakra can boil the Water Release chakra in order to detonate the Water Release chakra into a large and powerful explosion!

##### Water Release: Filtration Technique

The **Water Release**: **Filtration Technique** (*Romaji*: **Suiton**: **Roka no Jutsu**; *Kanji*: **水遁・濾過の術**) is a passive application of the Hydrification Technique.

By endowing a form of selective permeability onto a Hōzuki's body water, it can and does filter chakra out of any entity that enters the Hōzuki. As such; because it allows lights, scents, and sounds to enter the Hōzuki's body without allowing any chakra to enter the Hōzuki's body alongside those lights, scents, and sounds; it will endow the Hōzuki with an immunity — or at least a resistance to — genjutsu which operates through chakra-based hypnosis.

##### Water Release: Mirror-like Mist

The **Water Release**: **Mirror-like Mist** (*Romaji*: **Suiton**: **Kyōzengiri**; *Kanji*: **水遁・鏡然霧**) is an activated application of the Hydrification Technique.

It liquifies the surface of a Hōzuki's body into an aerosol of water droplets and then uses the aerosol of water droplets to refract light. By doing so; it allows a Hōzuki to cast an optical illusion, reflect light-based genjutsu and ninjutsu, and veil his- or herself in an optical illusion!

## ***Trivia***

* X's theme is The Melody of Logic Must be Played Truthfully.