Takehito Nahara

## Summary

Takehito after the timeskip with dyed hair.

Takehito
 Nahara is the current 3rd Seat of the 6th Division. He is a mature and
calm individual. He is a main protagonist for a good majority of the
series until the final arc, the *Soul King arc* where he becomes an antagonist who is part of the organization Shikatsuki. He apparently has the weakest bloodline of all the Shikatsuki.

## Personality

Takehito Nahara is a
responsible, mature and quite well-spoken individual. He is what is to
be said as the perfect depiction of a samurai, despite being a Shinigami
 himself.

He often analyses his
 opponents to quite an obsessive extent, even noting down the rate of
their eyes blinking, eyelids closing and eyelashes flickering. And as a
result, it has come more of a habit of his, and is believed to be
diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive-Disorder because of this analytic
habit to just analyze whoever he is speaking to or is speaking to him.

## Appearance

Takehito Nahara
appears to have shoulder-length, dark blue hair with light blue streaks
trailing through it, bottom to the top. His eyes are also quite sharp
and are dark brown in color. Besides his natural appearance, he wears a
standard Shihakusho but with both a white, button shirt underneath the
torso area of the Shihakusho, and some black pants underneath the leg
section of the Shihakusho.

After the timeskip, he has dyed his hair a dark blonde color. Nobody knows why he did this nor when he did it, but the color of his hair has changed somewhat nonetheless.

## Abilities

**Master Zanjutsu Practitioner:** Takehito's
 Zanjutsu skill is at a masterful level. He switch types of sword attack
 in a blink of an eye, and the angles and the directions he hits are
always precise and have a reason behind each of the hits. His speed with
 a sword is also equally as masterful, and the techniques he displays
are of varying difficulty, some techniques not even the greatest of
Shinigami can ever learn.

**Master Hoho Practitioner:** Much like his Zanjutsu skill, he is a master. He can appear behind his opponent and pierce them in a blink of an eye.

**Master Acrobatic:** Due
 to him honing his flexibility and learning various acrobatics, he can
perform multiple acrobatic moves and techniques that can make him often
seem like a demon without any bones at all. This is mostly due to him
being quite inflexible at the start so he decided to become more
flexible as he considered it a 'vital technique for a samurai'.

Zanpakuto: Makatanaou (Demon Blade King):

**Appearance:** Makatanaou
 has a scabbard that is navy blue with a golden dragon running up it.
Inside the scabbard is the Zanpakuto itself, and, unusually, it has a
pommel. This pommel is a small ring shape and has a wooden plaque
dangling off of it by what seems to be a piece of string. The rest of
the blade has a black hilt which has a purple, papery material wrapped
around it, a eight-point star crossguard with diamond-shaped spikes
lacerating on each of the crossguard points' ends, and the blade itself
is a narrow, standard shape.

**Shikai:** 'Pile
 the corpses, Makatanaou' - Once this Shikai command is chanted, the
blade's wooden plaque at the bottom glows a bright green color before
soon illuminating the entire sword in such a color and then splitting
the sword into eight random swords: two of these swords appear in
Takehito's hand, whereas six of them are scattered over a 1.5 mile
radius.

Shikai ability:
'Yarinaosu Satsu' (Redo Kill): If the eight swords have all been
depleted, Takehito stating 'Yarinaosu Satsu' will replenish the blades.

**Bankai:** ''Tashika
 Jenosaido' (Certain Genocide): Almost like an enhancement of the
Shikai, the Bankai splits the Zanpakuto into the amount of Shikai's
blades, squared. This means that instead of eight, there is now 64
blades.

Bankai Ability:
'Yarinaosu: Jenosaido' (Redo: Genocide): Much like the Shikai ability,
this ability will replenish blades. However, you cannot replenish all
blades; instead, you replenish some of them: you can replenish half of
the squared amount (so for the first time since entering Bankai, you
would be able to replenish 32 blades.) and the percentage of how many
blades you can replenish out of that squared amount increases based on
how many kills you get (for example, if you kill one person that
percentage increases by one percent, allowing for you to replenish 51%
of the squared number.), and the amount of blades replenish-able is a
permanent figure. So, once you reach 100% of that squared number, the
Bankai's amount of blades split is increased by one power (so for
example, the first time reaching 100% of that squared number would allow
 you to replenish 50% of the Shikai's amount of blades cubed).

Bankai Ability:
'Katana Uru' (Sword Acquire): By using this ability, you can double the
amount of blade's in the field. You can only do this once every hour
though.

Bankai Ability:
'Seidai Akuma Kira' (Grand Demon Killer): The Zanpakuto's maximum
amount of blades split at the same time combines together to create a
grand blade capable of slaughtering demons in high of number. The blades
 on the field shine, and are absorbed into one specific blade. The blade
 then grows dramatically, and appears to be four times the size of
Takehito himself. It has a silver scabbard with scattered crimson petals
 designed on it, has a hilt made of diamond, a large, black shiruken as
it's crossguard, and the blade itself is a gigantic crimson crystal that
 has ten different layers, each tougher to break through than the last.
If the opponent manages to break through all nine layers to the last
layer, an extremely slender golden blade is revealed, precise enough to
puncture a blood vessel at the exact point, angle and direction the user
 specifies.

## Quotes

"You
 cannot talk? Very well...it doesn't make a difference. After
all...don't true warriors speak in the tongue of battle?" - Takehito to
Kenji in *A Duel's Creed.*

"Despite being a warrior, despite
being a person I should get along with, despite the life you've lead
that definitely follows the path of a warrior...I really can't get along
 with you after all. You being the head-captain not only disheartens me,
 but definitely a silent few too. This silent few is known as
the...Shikatsuki." - Takehito to Kenji in *Shikatsuki vs. The Soul Society: Part 3.*