fallen_kotetsu's Journal

11:07pm: Immediately after When Push Comes To Shove and a couple of days before Mission Blow Things Up

Oh fuck. I'm sick.

And I think I'm going to throw up.

Dammit.

9:39pm: [Private]

I hate him. I hate him so fucking much, I actually want to kill things. Or break them.

He actually said I was like. That I was. Fuck - I hadn't thought about about him for so long - it's been what, three years? Three years and I haven't thought about him and then he actually had the gall to... to...

Dammit, my head hurts, and I don't know who the hell lugged me back and I'm not thinking about it.

It just was a fish. What's with everyone?

I'm glad that Ginta didn't see that. That would have been... It would have been bad. Or anyone else.

And Green Devil's just bobbing around in his tank, looking green and happy about things. Must be fun to be a fish.

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Hey, Ryuichi? Or hell, if not Ryuichi, Hayate? Someone? I want to beat things, who wants to spar?

12:25am: Seriously, they never said anything like that during ANBU orientation. I didn't know we could refuse missions, dammit! I'm so cross now. Well, I would be, but I went down to the market place, and it wasn't snowing and someone - some sad genin team, I bet - had shovelled the roads and roofs so it was nice and clear to walk.

And then there were these colourful little fish. I mean, seriously colourful. Like green and yellow, and blue and red and everything.

The guy said they were fighting fish. Little guys like that, all males cause the girl fish are ugly. Just. Wow.

I got one. And then it died cause apparently fish don't fight back against senbon.

But the other one I got after that was green and pretty and tore the red one I got in Ryuichi's name to bits.

I shall name it Green Devil.

Edit: This is what he looks like!

10:27pm: My arm hurts. It itches right under the stupid bandages - nothing cracked, it's all just flesh that got hit, deflected by the collar bone, the medic said.

It itches and it hurts and I can't do my jutsu with it because the medic said I have to come in for a check up in a week and they'd know if I'd used it. And then I'd end up with a damn whole body cast.

[Private]

Are they joking or what? I can't tell, dammit, not when they have that look on their faces. All serious and annoyed.

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[private to Ryuichi]

That spar was fucking fantastic and if it weren't for that hatchet which is-not-mine, I'd totally go for another round. Least we didn't tear up the room... too much.

I think one of my paycheck's going to rebuffing the floor. Bah.

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In other bad news, I've run out of food in the fridge.

Now I can't get food, cause if I do go back to Moriki's, he'd nail me to his anvil. And I don't wanna go out and eat.

But I guess I might have to.

Stupid arm.

7:03pm: Wow, there was this really cool guy I met, the other night, while conducting a raid on the kitchen, 0330 hours. Didn't think anyone'd be there, but you know, some people get the munchies at odd hours and all that.

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and he was hot. In a scruffy way, and if you liked them big and tall and tattooed.

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But shit, his tattoos. They're like, totally hot shit, you know? all twisting colours and like just. Woah. When you think of Gangers, this is exactly who you wanted to look like, and wanted as the gang-leader, you know? And he was like, new.

And his name's something Ryouma.

Can you believe I didn't tell him my name? Shit. That was somewhat embarrassing - Angry-Chef man came charging through, nearly cleaved me in half - pity about that pot roast I forgot to take. But hey. He's from Canal Street Man. You gotta have respect for that.

Man, small world, ANBU is. Never thought to meet a Canal street ganger.

12:26pm: Ko's profile
Character Name: Hagane Kotetsu
Age: 17
Birthday: 21 July
Registration Number: 012050
Rank outside ANBU: Chuunin
Affiliated with which ANBU branch: Hunters

Physical Appearance: Short (167.5 cm), he's between stocky and slender, with fairly slender hands, his fingertips scarred from wire. His hair refuses to behave, and he keeps it semi-long so it sticks out like a deranged mop on acid. He thinks it's cool. Dark hairs and dark slanted eyes that narrow menacingly when he's angry, annoyed or paranoid, but they're really quite attractive if he could figure out how to flirt properly, instead of being all tongue-tied. He also has a piercing in his left ear lobe and in his navel.


Usual Clothing: He wears his chuunin uniform when he's not in ANBU. Otherwise, he dresses in tees and jeans, most times with a thin pale-coloured button-up over a nice bright coloured shirt with geometric patterns, usually bright green - he has heaps of them in his tiny wardrobe. He wears a bandage over his nose - he claims it's really because it looks cool, but it also doubles as an impromptu face mask since it is of a much thicker weave than usual bandages.



ANBU Mask: Monkey. Red and blue circles around the eyes, with red outlining the face.


Living Situation: In the HQ. He was told that he had the option of moving in or writing a 300 page report on why he wasn't going to. In triplicate. He chose to move in. He moved out of his brother-in-law's and absolutely refused to let his niece and nephew see it because it was too small to contemplate letting six year olds run around in there.

Ninja skills: Good all rounder at the chuunin level, with a specialisation in traps – honed by pranking his jounin sensei nearly to death – and a preference for taijutsu and hand-to-hand with weapons built on a giant scale. His brother-in-law makes them for him as a joke.



Service Record: Made genin at 13, chuunin at 15. Recruited into ANBU very recently based on his sensei’s recommendation.


Personality Traits: Messy where it doesn’t count, like his wardrobe and his cooking – his brother-in-law despairs of him, and he’s nearly given himself food poisoning just because he was too lazy to keep everything where they should be – but meticulous with his trap-kits and armour. Mischevious, rarely serious, he gets annoyed when people mistake him for a kid. He loves pranks, and working with his hands – it’s how he ended up specialising in traps. He loves taking things apart, and building other random gadgets. Loves his niece and nephew, and while his nephew is only 5 years younger than he is, he loves his six-year-old niece more and is always willing to baby sit her and play kunai tag with her. He’s not exactly boastful, but he’s very much aware of what other people think of him, even though he tries to pretend he isn't. He’s quick to anger, and appears to lack a social filter between brain and mouth. He’s always pushing people, and hates to be patronised, and is prone to overreact when he thinks percieves condescension. Arrogance pisses him off, even though he himself isn’t the most modest of persons around. Ambition wise, he’s already where he wants to be, since ANBU is the epitome of the perfect shinobi - spooks in the shadows.Overall, he’s a very cheerful person, irrepressible and foul-mouthed. People tend to take either an instant liking or disliking to him.


Relationships: His current surviving immediate family is his brother-in-law Kobayashi Moriki and Moriki’s two children. His half-sister took him in at age five when his parents, their father and his mother, died within months of each other; she later died giving birth to the niece when Kotetsu was eleven. Relationship-wise, he’s only gone to first base with one of his genin team-mates. They broke up two weeks after and they haven’t talked to each other ever since. He’s homosexual – and would tell you that it was a manly thing to be. He and his jounin sensei share a mutual hate for each other; his sensei’d said that only ANBU and death would get Kotetsu permanently out of his hair.

Personal History: Kotetsu’s parents were ninja. His half-sister was ninja. Ergo, he became ninja. It just never crossed his mind to be otherwise. He’s been in ANBU just over two weeks, and already he’s pissed people off.

Kotetsu’s technically an orphan as his parents are both dead, but he’s never been without a parental figure. His mother, Hagane Sadako, was Hagane Ichiro’s second wife – he had Fuuko at seventeen, and lost his first wife when his daughter was ten. Ichiro married Sadako and had Kotetsu when Fuuko was fifteen. Fuuko later married a weapon’s smith from Grass – one Kobayashi Moriki, whom she’d enticed away from his native village by impressing him with her storage scroll skills. To hear Moriki tell of it, he’d said he’d never leave unless his entire forge went with him at once. Fuuko returned two months later with a scroll that sealed EVERYTHING in his forge into a single roll of parchment. They married when Fuuko was nineteen and Kotetsu four. A year later, Sadako and Ichiro both died within months of each other, Ichiro from illness and Sadako on a mission. They both were alive to see Fuuko’s son Tensai, however. Fuuko took in Kotetsu when his parents died; she basically brought him up. Six years later she died in childbirth.

Kotetsu was already nearing graduation at the time, so decided to help his brother-in-law bring up his niece and nephew. His niece couldn’t pronounce her older brother’s name correctly, and constantly called him ‘Ten-ten’ to his eternal annoyance. Kotetsu nicknamed her Tenten and it has stuck ever since. Her brother has shown no inclination to follow in Fuuko's footsteps, but she has been dogging Kotetsu everywhere she was allowed to go. Kotetsu gave her his first set of dulled kunai, and taught her how to hold and throw them.

Kotetsu was recruited into ANBU on his jounin-sensei’s recommendation. It had been a life-long ambition of Kotetsu’s as soon as he’d heard about ANBU, he was amiable to the way his sensei got rid of him. He is now a Hunters field operative, and still learning the ropes around HQ and ANBU itself.

Special Notes: Kotetsu’d take some time to settle into the strict pace of life ANBU demands of its operatives; he’s fun-loving, and his personality can easily grate against other character’s.