Tamura

Tamura as a Konoha-nin

**Tamura** (田村)is a Konohagakure-born ninja who defected to Iwagakure and eventually became known as the ninja who began the Shinobi Revolution. After allying with Shie Hassaikai to perpetrate the Konoha Crush, Tamura abandoned Konoha and started a successful rebellion in Iwagakure against the occupying Leaf-nin. Afterwards, the people of Iwa made him the Tsuchikage, the first one in the village's two decades of slavery.

## Personality

Tamura is known to be a natural leader with unparalleled charisma among his peers. He possesses a silver tongue able to stir loyalty to death in his followers and a form of rhetoric that makes him seem like a close friend or a peer. Tamura also possesses a strong tactical intellect and a strong ability to stay calm under pressure. He is a relentless worker who stops at nothing to achieve his goals and lead his cause to victory.

In person, Tamura is a highly outgoing person. He has a cheeky sense of humor and likes to tease. He is energetic and tends to be the life of the party so to speak, and he dislikes silence. His friendly disposition draws people to him. Furthermore, he is a highly empathetic and compassionate person, keen on other's feelings and always willing to help.

Tamura is a prideful person who likes honor. He prefers fair and just fighting, but honor is secondary to his goals and he'll gladly throw dirt in an enemy's face if he has to. However, equal to his cause is his pride, which he becomes very unforgiving in order to defend. In general, Tamura will never forget wrongdoings inflicted upon him. As a result of being under Masako's heel for much of his life, his hurt pride has spawned a strong animosity for the girl though her intent was pure.

## Appearance

Tamura is a slightly tan, fairly tall man with green eyes. He has thin blonde hair worn short and messy in a manner reminiscent of canon Minato Namikaze, but his hair is more of a blatant yellow. Physically, he is well-toned and somewhat strongly built. Apparently, he has a nice ass. As a Konoha-nin, he wore a green jacket with pants tucked into knee-high athletic wrap and shinobi sandals. Both his jacket and pants sported a camouflage pattern and so did his forehead protector headband, which was tied back into two long tails. Under his jacket, he wore a white gi shirt. He tended to bandage up his hands and forearms and often wore a falconers glove. Occasionally, he wore a standard flak jacket as well.

However, as Wolf, he wore a red sneaking suit which featured built in padding like the flak-jacket. Over this sneaking suit, he wore a red cloak which was initially a stolen Shinonome cloak. This was eventually replaced with a standard one. He also wore a sleek, ANBU-styled mask depicting a Wolf, hence the nickname. As the Tsuchikage, he also wore the Tsuchikage kasa. He clips his old forehead protector with a crossed-out Konoha plate to his belt, and wears a red Iwa headband in its stead.

## Relationships

### Kenjiro Honda

Kenjiro and Tamura served together in the Suicide Corps of the first Stone and Leaf, and they both trained under Yuusei Urahara. They developed a friendly rivalry though it was one-sided in Tamura's favor, who referred to his rival as 'squirt'. After the Konoha Crush, Kenjiro despised Tamura for a time until coming to understand his motives, and afterwards returned home with the revolution on his mind.

### Fumiko Akimochi

Tamura met Fumiko during the last months he spent as a Konoha-nin. After her intervention against him, she hurt his pride by grabbing him with a sand claw, causing his view of her to become seriously negative. At one point, he referred to her derogatorily as an 'aristocrat'.

### Masako

Masako loves Tamura dearly, but views him as a little brother and belittles him inadvertently with her motherly tendencies and lacking concept of boundaries. Over the years, his inferiority to her and inability to fend her off made him develop a strong animosity for his adoptive sister. When he met her again as Wolf, he relished in his position as the stronger one by savagely beating her unconscious.

## Abilities

From a young age, Tamura seemed to boast above-average prowess in the ninja arts. Tamura possesses the Kekkai Genkai Explosion Release as well as a natural affinity for Earth Release. Furthermore, he possesses Lightning and Fire Release. He is one of the Seven Spirals and as such is a proficient user of the Rasengan. He was the first of the Spirals to combine it with a Kekkai Genkai and created the Explosion Release variant Rasenshuryudan and a Planetary Rasengan type called Imperial Rasenshuryudan.

After years of brutal taijutsu practice, Tamura also boasts immense endurance, speed, and strength. Tamura's full-power blows are comparable to the power behind a medical-nin's Chakra Enhanced Strength. He also boasts an enormous arsenal of jutsu and is considered to be Sannin+ in overall ability. In battle, Tamura wields a pair of chakra blades, with which he boasts incredible proficiency.

### Jutsu

* Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique
* Earth Release: Earth Mausoleum Dumpling
* Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique
* Earth Release: Hiding in Rock Technique
* Earth Release: Shadow Clone Technique
* Earth Release: Subterranean Voyage
* Earth Release: Underground Projection Fish Technique
* Earth Release: Yaburu Rasengan
* Explosion Release: Exploding Palm
* Explosion Release: Imperial Rasenshuryudan
* Explosion Release: Landmine Fist
* Explosion Release: Rasenshuryudan
* Fire Release: Dragon Fire Technique
* Fire Release: Flame Bullet Jutsu
* Fire Release: Flying Grenade Jutsu
* Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique
* Lightning Ball
* Lightning Release: Lightning Bullet Jutsu
* Lightning Release: Lightning Whip Jutsu
* Lightning Release: Shadow Clone Technique
* Lightning Release: Thunderbolt
* Rasengan
* Shadow Clone Technique
* Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique
* Vanishing Rasengan

## Trivia

* Tamura is named after the Heian-era Shogun Sakanoue no Tamuramaro. The kanji in his name, when literally translate, roughly translate to 'rice paddy village'.
* His favorite color is green.
* Tamura is an avid carnivore and loves meaty foods.
* He is known for having an unusually nasty spinning back kick.
* His sneaking suit is based off of the sneaking suits from the Metal Gear franchise by Hideo Kojima.