Inazuma

## Clan Information

A disgraced and banished clan, formerly one of the original clans of the Hidden Leaf Village, the Inazuma Clan are well renown for their use of lightning based jutsu, as well as their impressive espionage skills and existence of a closely guarded clan kekkei genkai. The Inazuma have developed fierce values of independence and almost a fanatical sense of loyalty to their clan and family, leading to a fair amount of xenophobia within the clan's adult population. The clan now resides in a massive fortress built in the mountain range to the northeast of the village near the land of fire's border with the former land of whirlpools, where to most of the world's eyes, the clan keeps to itself, as far from the truth as this really is. It is considered a necessary writ of passage of all Inazuma ninja that they must spend a minimum of 3 years inside at least one foreign nation, spying and learning off of them before they can be considered worthy within the clan to hold any form of power.

## Clan Traits and Features

Though the majority of the clan share the traits of broad shoulders, strong jaws, a mysterious ambiance to them, and sandy blonde/light brown hair, it is not uncommon to have members of the clan with differing traits. Though many Inazuma Shinobi simply decide to not wear forehead protectors or clan symbols to protect the secrecy of the clan's intentions, some have come to carving a symbol of a small mountain with a flat summit, symbolizing their home, and what really matters. It is also customary within the clan to keep somewhere on their person a trophy from every village the ninja has managed to infiltrate. The Inazuma are also known (for obvious reasons) as metalworkers without par.

## Clan History

The clan's origins can be drawn back to ancient metalworkers, builders, and miners living in the southern portion of the land of Fire. Seeing the same opportunity as many other clans as the conflicts began to settle between rivals, the early leaders of the Inazuma clan were quick to join with the Senju and Uchiha in the creation of the Hidden Leaf Village, as Konohagakure continued to thrive throughout the generations, the Inazuma Clan thrived with it, growing increasingly large in numbers and status, hundreds of Inazuma clan shinobi worked their way into the hidden leaf anbu at very young ages, almost all of them going on to deep undercover missions in hostile nations in their younger years, bringing much pride and fame within the hidden leaf. The defining moment that sparked the beginning of the end of the Inazuma's reputation was the Third Shinobi World War. At the time of the war, the middle aged Toroyu Inazuma was the head of the Inazuma clan and held a prominent position inside the hidden leaf anbu. Toroyu found himself in charge of organizing the anbu's war effort against Iwagakure early in the war with Danzo's discression, and decided that the only way to end this war and save as many lives as possible was to lay it all on the line and risk everything for an overwhelming show of force to crush the Iwa will to fight and secure a quick victory.

Toroyu believed that his informant, a beautiful young ninja from Iwagakure who he had fallen in love with during his own undercover days inside the hidden stone was trustworthy, together they formed one of the most ambitious plans every devised during the war, with a force of over 1,000 veteran members of the anbu, Toroyu would personally lead them deep into the heart of Iwa territory while the primary village forces continue to battle near Kannabi Bridge, the anbu would continue to ambush a summit meeting between the Earth Daimyo and the Tsuchikage, killing the kage and hundreds of Iwa's best troops in the ambush, and holding the Earth Damiyo hostage, Iwagakure would be forced to sue for peace on Konoha's terms. Unfortunately these great plans only took them so far, as soon as the force reached the rallying point in a small valley clearing on a rainy day, they were suddenly surrounded by thousands of Stone Village Shinobi. The love of Toroyu's life had betrayed him, and as he and his men fought valiantly but were ultimately overwhelmed by the sheer number of stone ninja, as he watched his men fall one by one, bodies collapsing back into the mud that began forming because of the rain, he collapsed to his knees, tears streaming down his face in a show of utter despair. The sensory ninja that viewed the battle from the safety of Konoha say that Toroyu didn't even form his steel release as the one he trusted more then anyone drove a kunai into his chest. The bodies were never recovered by konoha, though some say the mud at the bottom of that valley remains the color of red clay to this day.

If not for the victory soon after at Kannabi Bridge, Konoha might have been completely crushed by Iwa forces, never before had so many of the hidden leaf's elite special forces been killed in a single day of combat, and for nothing. Though the village could never afford to tell the public about the horrendous defeat, someone would be held responsible, and the responsibility fell upon the Inazuma clan. In what was now seen as a power play by Danzo to remove a rival in Toroyu and his clan, overruled the hokage's decision to forgive the Inazuma for generations of loyalty and service, Danzo united the enraged voices of the families of the non Inazuma ninja casualties that day. In the end the verdict came, though no corporal punishment would be given to anyone, the Inazuma Clan would henseforth be barred from the Hidden Leaf Village. There would be no exceptions for any inside the village, every man, woman, and child was forced to leave, and without telling anyone else in the village population.

At this time, Judo Inazuma, nephew of Toroyu was named his only surviving successor, the young Judo still being only 7 and cursed with a sickly body that plagued him since birth was left in charge of the shamed clan, with the assistance of his uncle's loyal branch family heads, Judo organized the exodus of the Inazuma clan from the hidden leaf. The timing couldn't have been worse off for the Inazuma, almost all the able bodied ninja of the clan were either deep undercover in hostile nations, or were killed in the battle that was soon quietly known as the Battle of the Red Valley. In the eyes of the rest of the hidden leaf village, the Inazuma simply disappeared without a trace one morning, leaving only their empty homes, and a massive pile of konoha forehead protectors lying in the courtyard of the clan's residence, an eerie reminder of all the ninja that simply vanished.

The plan was for the clan to make a mad dash for the land of whirlpools, a land long empty and abandoned by any ninja village to strike out anew, the clan, now comprised of mainly women and children, traveled east across the war torn Land of Fire, fighting off bandits, hostile shinobi raiding parties, and the elements, but before they reached the land of whirlpools, the clan made their way into the southern tip of the mountain range that lead all the way into the land of lightning, the cold and warm sea air from the north and east respectively flowed up into this part of the mountains, dousing the area in thick fog, it was up here in these mountains that Judo happened upon a small cave while surveying ahead of the clan caravan. It was inside this cave that Judo found something that changed him, the plans were immediately changed, the Inazuma would build there new home in these mountains.

Though the work was long and filled with hardships, the Inazuma eventually managed to build a small estate on the flat summit of one of the mountains, with just enough supplies for walls, a courtyard, and a small wall mainly for show. The clan slowly began rebuilding up in their new mountain home. After many years of guiding his people despite his physical weakness, Judo Inazuma lay on his death bed in his late 70s, with his dying breaths, Judo gathered his clan and told them of the hardships their people have faced, and ones they will continue to face as long as their clan exists as a free entity, he explained that what they had gained from their failure was a fresh start to write their own future, and that their bonds as family were the strongest bonds they will ever possess. Finally, as the people payed their respects and said their goodbyes to the dying hero of their people, Judo ushered his eldest son towards him, and whispering into his ear, he told the young Mizo Inazuma of what he saw in that cave all those years ago. Judo died less then a week later, his ashes were used to plant one of the massive trees inside the main complex, carved into its trunk, the words, "strength comes in many forms, and you were the strongest"

Mizo Inazuma was a proud man; loud, boastful, enjoyed his sake, and believed more then anyone that the Inazuma were as tightly knit a clan as any in the ninja world. Mizo implemented many of the traditions that remain engrained in the clan's culture to this day. It was he who began the writ of passage of infiltrating other villages, he bared the outside world from the estate, removed as many traces as he could of the clan's existence, and rapidly expanded The mountain village to almost triple its size, turning the single walled estate into a multi-tier fortress, with a series of outposts and smaller settlements in the mountains. Mizo's reign was a quiet and peaceful one, from the safety and seclusion of the Mountains, the Inazuma clan focused its energy on gathering information and expanding its power and territory high in the mountains, only occasionally dealing with raiding parties from the hidden cloud to the north, which the clan dealt with handedly. By the time Kaizo the Wise inherited Mizo's position, the Clan had become larger then it had ever been in Konoha.

Kaizo continued the rapid expansion of his predecessors, and by the time his children Kuyo and Aniko were born, the clan's holdings were begining to look more and more like a small nation, the clan held the majority of the mountains inside the land of fire and was begining to spread their influence north into the land of Whirlpools, begining to build in and around the ruins of Uzushigakure, their plans unknown. The hardship and acomplishments of the clan has turned the Inazuma into a fiercely loyal and proud people, willing to die for their clan, and more willing to kill for what they believe belong to them.

## Clan Jutsu

Being infiltrators of various clans across the ninja world, the Inazuma Shinobi have a very impressive mixture of chakra natures and abilities as most Inazuma ninja are taught much of their early ninja techniques at the academies of one of the hidden villages, though the majority of the clan's ninja tend to stick primarily to lightning nature as it is the first nature many learn before their writ of passage, being within striking distance from the land of lightning and the hidden cloud village, as well as Water, Wind, and Earth elemental natures, Fire ninjutsu being a pretty rare sight within the Inazuma clan, through this constant mixing of techniques and strategies from villages across the ninja world, the Inazuma main and branch family leaders work tirelessly to use these stolen jutsus and adapting the ninja of the clan to be able to to combat any situation and to never be caught off guard. Besides being extremely proficient in both ninjutsu and taijutsu, the Inazuma also possess some limited genjutsu abilities, though these pertain mostly to disguise, infiltration, and minor manipulation.

## Clan Hiden / Kekkei Genkai

All members of the Inazuma Clan, whether full blooded or half, are born with the Steel Release Kekkei Genkai. The Steel Release is a combined nature transformation kekkei genkai. this technique allows members of the Inazuma clan to manipulate metal objects, sense magnetic forces, and the ability to turn their entire body into solid black metal of unknown origin. While in this state, an Inazuma shinobi can manipulate the shape of their own body to an extent, channel increasingly powerful electric attacks through their own bodies without fear of backlash, near total immunity to lightning, earth wind and taijutsu, and finally if able to concentrate hard enough, can vaguely sense the faint electrical impulses in all human beings, assisting with tracking. It is unknown what elements this nature entails.

Weaknesses: Fire Release, powerful Water Release, Ice Release, Magnet Release unless the Ninja is running a charge through his body which uses chakra, not an effective defense against genjutsu

## Important Clan Members

Toroyu Inazuma(npc): The disgraced clan head (disceased)

Judo Inazuma(npc): Lead the Inazuma to their current home, discovered the clan's now most closely guarded secret (disceased)

Mizo Inazuma(npc): Charismatic and voracious reformer, created the majority of the Inazuma's traditions that assist in making them so loyal (disceased)

Kaizo Inazuma(npc): Stern and quiet, current living leader of the clan, overbearing father, calculating, but absolutely loyal to his clan and family (alive)

Kuyo Inazuma(rpc): Heir to the clan's leadership, Kaizo's first child and the only one personally trained by his father, masks his emotions completely behind dozens of facades of emotions, able to flip on a dime, it is no longer known what personality is truely his as he is so adept at masking it behind others and inventing new ones on the fly, the ultimate infiltration artist (alive)

Aniko Inazuma(rpc): Second child of Kaizo, kind hearted and compassionate, Aniko Inazuma is one of the most proficient genjutsu users in the entire clan, her abilities far surpassing that of many chin in at such a young age of 11 (alive)

Noriko Inazuma(rpc): Heir to one of the now numerous branch families, Noriko is ruthlessly efficient, extremely intelligent, and considered my some to be a well developed sociopath at such a young age, she is bright so much so that she has already begun assisting in experiments within the medical core of the Inazuma clan, her lack of apathy for those other then her clan is hidden behind a bubbly mask of cheerfulness (alive)