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Karasu Hatake
Karasu - The Tyrant Pup
Karasu Hatake
"He sang before he spoke..."
The Player Character of Ninja Ninja Tactics Karasu was born the slightly older twin to Kakashi Hatake and is as insanely talented as his brother. He sang before he said his first words and has had a passion for kenjutsu for an extremely long time, he even hears a Bladesong that no one else except his equally prodigious younger sister has been able to hear. He is currently the youngest shinobi to ever become a genin, chunin and tokubetsu-jonin, won the junior's kenjutsu tournament and placed 8th in the seniors. He holds his family, friends and girlfriends very close to his heart and strives to become stronger to protect them from the many dangers of the world he has borne witness to at such a young age and aims to be Sword Saint someday.—Haruna Hatake
- Absurd Cutting Power: Karasu is able to enhance his swords with wind and lightning chakra allowing them to cut supernaturally well.
- An Ice Person: Thanks to an ultracrit Karasu became a progenitor of the Hyoton when he exerted his chakra heavily while training for the chunin exams. He has recently brought the special ice chakra to it's full strength which has numerous incredibly powerful jutsu and abilities he can now train. Oh and it's also stronger than anything the Yuki are known to be able to do.
- Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: Karasu has on multiple occasions done this thanks to amazing rolls allowing him to learn jutsu or techniques simply by observing their users and comes back with them better trained. In some cases he has created never before discovered levels of the jutsu.
- Audible Sharpness: Karasu hears something known as the Bladesong during combat which allows him to listen to the rhythm of combat as it occurs. The only other character in the series that can do this is Shiroko his younger sister.
- Badass Bookworm: Questers have taken the opportunity to have Karasu read extremely often to the point that they are struggling to find new books for him to read now.
- Beneath Notice: Karasu's most powerful genjutsu, The Forgotten Song, forces those who view him to consider him as an entirely harmless individual who is of absolutely no concern to them...even while he is killing their group down to the last man.
- Black Swords Are Better: He recently acquired the Black Jian he has coveted since he was young which is noted for being indestructible and being able to channel any and all chakra.
- Chick Magnet: Karasu is developing into one and is currently in a mutual harem-style relationship with five girls.
- Dual Wielding: Karasu has mastered this skill and he is now literally better with two swords than with one. He didn't become worse with a single sword, which is what he used the first time when fighting in the Kenjutsu tournament and won it's junior division while placing well in the adults, but he is simply even better now than he was then by just have two swords.
- Evil Twin: A running gag has characters trying to determine whether Karasu or Kakashi are the evil twin.
- Gentle Giant: One of Karasu's main summons is an ultra-summon tier dog summon named Clifford. Yes based off of that Clifford and nearly as gentle though he is fully trained war hound.
- Harem-Powered: Invoked and also inverted, once Karasu has gotten close enough to someone in his relationship with them they gain benefits from being exposed to his White Chakra for so long and so does he.
- Healing Factor: Karasu brought the Mystic Palm to a new level and figured out how to internalize it's effects allowing him to heal much faster than a normal person. He later teaches Sachi this.
- Lightning Bruiser: Karasu is one of the fastest characters in the series, has a dozen ways he can kill a given person and has several abilties he uses for defense. And he's only going to get stronger, faster and tougher.
- Magic Music: Karasu can do almost anything with his music. Have a whole tent full of injured in need of healing? Music.You want a storm? Music. Need to banish a soul fragment of what is essentially a dark god? Music.
- Magnetic Hero: Karasu is one of the most charming individuals you will ever meet and he knows it. He and Kushina use this to their advantage by having him present for negotiations and interrogations whenever possible, turning what could be a hostile environment into a festive luau and convincing several captured enemy ninja to switch their allegiance to Konoha.
- Master of All: What Karasu is shaping up to be. Whether it be his perfect control, his now bijuu tier chakra reserves, his huge library of jutsu, phenomenal stealth skills, top-tier CQC skills or anything else he's at worst skilled in it. Justified by the amount of training he does and that he is a natural born genius.
- Master Swordsman: Karasu has mastered the Hawkbat and Sakura One Strike sword styles and has brought almost every single other sword style he knows as far as he can while being limited by his bodies age. At the age of 9 he placed 8th in the adult Kenjutsu tournament and won the juniors tournament.
- More Dakka: The Exploding Ice Javelin jutsu is basically this in a nutshell. When initially learned the user can only send a single ice javelin but once mastered they can create 100. And yes the name is correct, each and every single one explodes.
- Musical Assassin: Thanks to his Forbidden Song genjutsu Karasu can walk around humming and most people simply cannot notice him. When used in the field it's like your friends are just falling over dead from the perspective of it's victims.
- Nice Guy: Karasu is this to most every person he meets, he even has a stat for it.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Karasu has yet to hit puberty and is starting to edge into kage level in several of his skills and abilities. Thanks to gravity seals and the amount of training he does he's much stronger than anyone ever expects.
- The Power of Rock: Karasu is a fantastic musician, but Karasu's last rendition of the Song of Israfel
is so overwhelmingly beautiful that it enters the realm of the supernatural, shattering the privacy barrier meant to contain it, summoning Karasu's angelic wings, and banishing a fragment of Jashin from a woman on the brink of succumbing. Even Black Zetsu has absolutely no idea how what he did was even possible. - Sibling Seniority Squabble: This but reversed, the twins like to argue that the other is older so that they don't have to be clan heir.
- Stealth Expert: Karasu is arguably the stealthiest ninja in all of Konoha. He even managed to sneak up and disarm Mu, the greatest sensor in the Elemental Nations.
- Training Montage: Because of the way omake points and extended training turns work questers tend to have Karasu do these often. Over the course of 2-4 weeks, aka 1-2 turns in the quest, Karasu can go from not knowing a skill or jutsu to being one of it's greatest masters or even inventing new levels of it.
- Twin Telepathy: Kakashi and Karasu regularly talk via gesture and grunts that no one else in the series is able to follow.
- He gets smaller versions by abusing his large chakra reserves and Shadow Clone training.
- We Do the Impossible: Karasu has become something of Konoha's go-to ninja when it comes to vital suicide missions because he manages to pull them off every single time. Naturally, Sakumo is not at all pleased when he hears about the incredibly dangerous tasks his son has had to pull off and gives Kushina and the division commander a thorough dressing down.
- Zerg Rush: Because of Karasu's absolutely massive chakra reserves and his liberal usage of shadow and water clones he's capable of summoning up well over a thousand clones to do this in battle.
Kushina Uzumaki
Kushina - The Red Tide Army
Kushina is the sensei of Sachi, Akami and Karasu team six. She begins the series as an aspiring and newly promoted jonin and as time has gone on she's become one of Konoha's few S-rank ninja for her nearly unparalleled skills in ninjutsu, fuinjutsu and kenjutsu. She has a steady relationship with Minato but because of how the kyuubi was sealed within her and how the Uzumaki were very accepting of open relationships she has multitudes of female lovers and/or girlfriends as well. She aspires to bring the Uzumaki back into preeminence and to become Hokage one day.- Action Girl: Kushina is absolutely this, she fights the biggest bad guys for Team Six, has been the key to almost every battle's success she's been in and has almost always had a solution when a problem stares her down.
- Healing Factor: Kushina as the host to the Kyuubi has this to a greater degree than almost anyone else in the series. She later fights Illidan who has a stronger one thanks to his seals but she figured out how to strip him of them by the time of their second encounter. During the third he only survived because of his healing factor and the rules of the kenjutsu tournament saying she couldn't attack him while out of bounds.
- Hot Teacher: As Karasu has gotten older he's started to realize that Kushina is this.
- I Shall Taunt You: A tactic Kushina pulls out against the third Raikage during the battle of Uzushiogakure. He falls for it and gets a face full of some of Illidian's most potent poisons as a result.
- Master Swordsman: Kushina has mastered her peoples Uzumaki Rising Tide Blade along with the Hawkbat style. She placed extremely well in the Kenjutsu tournament showing that she is one of the worlds greatest swordswomen.
- Making a Splash: Kushina is one of the most powerful water ninjutsu users in the world. From her water clone army to her Tsunami and Waterspout jutsu that she uses very liberally in battle and her Burst Pressure sword technique that is enhanced by her battle-skirt of water blades she's likely only rivaled by Gengetsu, the Kage of the Land of Water.
- Stab the Sky: When Kushina fought Illidan at the kenjutsu tournament she did this to launch her Burst Pressure technique at him while he was in the air.
- Techno Babble: When Kushina gets really into talking about fuinjutsu this is how she starts to seem to anyone not on her level.
- The Prankster: Kushina reveled in the opportunity to prank her squad and call it 'training'.
- Training Montage: Because Kushina got a trio of geniuses for her squad she's had to do these privately to stay ahead. She liberally uses her much larger chakra reserves to have her clones train far more than is seen on screen and as a result she's improved in huge strides from a regular jonin tier ninja to an S-rank legitimate Hokage candidate.
- Zerg Rush: Kushina is literally an army by herself by creating huge amounts of shadow clones that then summon up huge amounts of water clones. It's known as The Red Tide.
Akami Uchiha
Akami - Accelerator Akami
Akami is a teammate to Karasu and Sachi on Team Six heralded as a genius among the Uchiha clan because she awoke and developed her Sharingan extremely quickly. She specializes in speed techniques like the shunshin and fire jutsu though she has refined her chakra control to be on par with Karasu's and Sachi's and her reserves are on par with jonin while being a ten-year old, she is also a Hawk clan summoner. She has had a crush on Karasu for a long time and dreams to become the strongest kunoichi.- Action Girl: As someone that is heralded as a genius and is taught by Kushina Akami excels at combat and thinking on her feet.
- Magical Eye: She has the Sharingan one of the most powerful bloodline limits in the world. Akami's especially is a mutated variant thanks to all the White Chakra exposure she's had giving her much enhanced telescopic vision, the ability to rebound genjutsu, a massively reduced chakra cost to keep it active and much reduced negative effects should she reach the Mangekyo stage.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Akami like the rest of Karasu's friends was given gravity training seals by him when very young making her deceptively strong as a result of the extra training they provide.
- She is ten-years old and has chakra reserves on par with jonin adults.
- Playing with Fire: Most of Akami's jutsu tend to be fire jutsu.
- Pyromaniac: Most Uchiha love fire and fire jutsu in general and Akami is no exception.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: As an Uchiha with the Sharingan staring into Akami's eyes can be dangerous as she can lay a powerful genjutsu on you just by looking at you. This gets played up a bit later when Karasu is put under a powerful Sharingan torture genjutsu by accident and causes him to flinch when looking into her eyes for a while.
- This trope is all but called out later when a book is found written by Tobirama Senju the Second Hokage who talks about how dangerous the Uchiha's eyes are.
- Speed Blitz: Akami utilizes speed techniques liberally when fighting and because she has the Sharingan she is one of the very few characters able to do so while retaining her senses.
Sachi Senju
Sachi - Sachi of the Waterways
Sachi is seen as the hope of the Senju clan as their numbers have been whittled down greatly leaving them with only their elderly members remaining save for her. Her parents are dead and her only friend until she met Karasu was Shizune the niece of her aunt Tsunade's deceased fiance. She specializes in water and earth ninjutsu along with medical jutsu and chakra control, this in addition to her being a badger summoner and a natural chakra sensor gives her a plethora of skills and abilities. She met Karasu in the academy and became friends with him thanks her seeing him treat Gai nicely when he was being made fun of and he also helped her find enjoyment in the chakra control exercise her clan gave her.- Action Girl: Sachi is considered an extremely talented shinobi and is taught by Kushina Uzumaki, while she is the teams best medic she has on multiple occasions saved their lives.
- Combat Medic: Sachi has a lot of experience in healing people on the battlefield thanks to the 3rd war. She once put Orihime's eye back inside her eye socket while Karasu and Akami were fighting off the Kiri anbu that were trying to steal it and all she left was a small hard to notice scar.
- Healing Factor: Thanks to Sachi internalizing the Mystic Palm jutsu she heals a good deal faster than normal people.
- Healing Hands: Basically the Mystic Palm jutsu in a nutshell.
- Making a Splash: Sachi primarily uses water jutsu because her sensei is a water jutsu specialist and she idolizes the skills of her uncle Tobirama the second Hokage. This doesn't handicap her, in fact she's earned a reputation for it from Kiri, the village that specializes in water jutsu.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Sachi like the rest of Karasu's friends was given gravity training seals by him when very young making her deceptively strong as a result of the extra training they provide.
- She is ten-years old and has chakra reserves on par with jonin adults.
Team Minato
Minato Namikaze
Minato - The Yellow Flash
Minato is the boyfriend of Kushina and leader of Team seven. He was a noted prodigy even back in the academy and has recently entered into the ranks of S-rank ninja alongside Kushina with his completed Hirashin letting him wipe out an army by himself. Minato was supportive when Kushina was allowed to take on her own genin squad and initially apprenticed only Kakashi until Obito and Rin graduated early the next year to form his team. He has had difficulties in managing his team mostly because Obito and Kakashi do not get along well, he is working on this though. He aims to become Hokage but with Kushina, Orochimaru and Sakumo as his competition his chances are looking bleak. For almost all of the 3rd war he has been stationed under Sakumo on his front learning from him along the way.- Child Prodigy: Minato is a noted genius that has had a meteoric rise without the need of any bloodline abilities like most of his competition in and out of village has.
- Ditzy Genius: Minato is this a little bit when it comes to teaching his team. He got used to Kakashi just picked stuff up so easily that when he got Obito and Rin he neglected teaching them as thoroughly as he should have. He's been called out on this though and has been working to fix his mistake.
- Energy Ball: He recently completed the Rasengan which is this at a short range.
- Pretty Boy: Kushina comments quite often that he is basically this.
- Speed Blitz: Minato's main strategy is to teleport to you, stab you or shove a rasengan into you, and then call it a day because very few people are able to get back up from that.
- Teleport Spam: With his completion of the Hirashin Minato now does this liberally in combat and has become an S-rank nin as a result. What's terrifying is that he is still improving the Hirashin in other ways.
Kakashi Hatake
Kakashi
Kakashi is the twin of Karasu and fellow child prodigy, he is far more stoic than Karasu but certainly more well adjusted than he was in canon thanks to him having a living breathing family. His natural learning pace is roughly on par with Karasu's though he specializes in different areas from the elements of his jutsu to prioritizing stealth over kenjutsu. He likes speed techniques and lightning jutsu though he is also good at earth and fire jutsu as well. He is currently a chunin.- Evil Twin: A running joke has people trying to figure out if Kakashi or Karasu is the evil twin.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: Kakashi doesn't have the massive reserves of his brother but his chakra is still
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: Kakashi is starting to shape up to be this thanks to him spending so much time on the Iwa front which involves lots of traumatizing traps and explosions.
- Sibling Seniority Squabble: This but reversed, the twins like to argue that the other is older so that they don't have to be clan heir.
- Twin Telepathy: Kakashi and Karasu regularly talk via gestures and grunts that no one else in the series is able to decipher.
- Unwanted Harem: Kakashi is beginning to develop one much to his chagrin.
Rin Nohara
Rin
Rin is a Konoha chunin that currently is on team seven with Kakashi and Obito. She graduated early in an attempt to catch up to Karasu, Kakashi, Sachi and Akami who had graduated earlier than even the rest of their classmates. Rin feels that she is falling behind the rest of her graduating class and also that her team is drifting apart so she has recently been working to fix these issues by having talks with her sensei Minato about their team's issues. He has helped her increase her training but she's also been studying rigorously to improve her abilities on her own and to eventually create her own jutsu. She has had a crush on Kakashi for a long time but also developed one on Karasu too when she realized she had mistaken them for each other one day but had still been infatuated with him.- Bad Ass Normal: Rin as one of the few from her class of early graduates without a bloodline or special clan techniques is starting to shape up to be this thanks to her intense training and studying.
- Playing with Fire: Now that Rin is the Two-Tails Jinchuriki she have an extremely high potential with Scorch release jutsu.
- Twin Threesome Fantasy: Rin has had some of these ever since she's realized that she has a crush on both Kakashi and Karasu.
Obito Uchiha
Obito
Obito is one of Karasu and Kakashi's first friends and a team member for the latter. He aims to become a great ninja some day and thanks to Karasu's influence is far more skilled than he was in canon and actually awakens his Sharingan years earlier.- Magical Eye: He has the Sharingan one of the most powerful bloodline limits in the world.
- Playing with Fire: Obito is an Uchiha so one of the first jutsu he learned was the Grand Fireball.
- Pyromaniac: Not as pronounced as some other Uchiha but he still loves fire more than most.
- The Call Put Me on Hold: Obito seemed to be this to the Uchiha at first, all the kids in his age group had developed the Sharingan extremely young except for him. Eventually after spending some more time around Karasu he finally awakened it.
- This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Obito has had a moment or two of this where his numerous pranking skills have helped him devise traps or craft pepper bombs to debilitate enemies. Notably he managed to keep the rhino boss summons attention with pepper bombs in it's eyes during the final battle against Iwa.
Konoha Ninja
The Hatake
The Hatake are one of the founding clans of Konoha that have been greatly reduced in numbers thanks to the previous two Great Ninja Wars. They have a secret bloodline limit simply known as 'White Chakra' which helps them develop faster when repeatedly training their skills like kenjutsu or ninjutsu. They were at one point at war with the Furinji clan though that ended when Konoha formed and nearly wiped them out. They hold the dog summoning contract.
Sakumo
The patriarch and clan head of the Hatake Sakumo is one of Konoha's S-rank ninja, a war-front commander, the Fourth Hokage and the main character's father. He is a master swordsman of his clans sword style and at wind jutsu as well, his skills are to the point that his reputation is on the same level as the sanin. Sakumo has noted that he suffers from depression though he puts in a lot of time to talk to a therapist understanding that he needs help. He hopes to institutionalize a mental healthcare system for the ninja of Konoha as he has seen what war can do to a person's mind.- Blow You Away: Sakumo is quite likely the most powerful wind ninjutsu user in Konoha and incorporates several of them into his fighting style.
- Chick Magnet: Sakumo is noted to be very handsome.
- Papa Wolf: He is known as the White Fang of Konoha and is a dog summoner, he embodies this in much more than the metaphorical sense.
- The Patriarch: Sakumo is this to the Hatake clan which is an old and well respected if small clan. As a front commander he has even more authority and the legend of him carving up Suna in the previous war is still held in high-regard.
- Master Swordsman: Sakumo is this with his clan's kenjutsu style the Hatake Saber Style. He placed in the top 16 in the previous kenjutsu tournament and in the most recent one he placed in the top 4 in the world.
Haruna
The matriarch of the Hatake clan and mother to Karasu Haruna is an ex-anbu who had to take an extended nearly decade long leave when she started to have children with Sakumo. Currently she has had 4, Karasu, Kakashi, Shiroko and Hakuro though they have adopted Yoruichi and Yuki and with Isane becoming Sakumo's mistress and having twins Haruna has two more children she is raising as her own in Nikko and Amaya. She is noted as being an extremely skilled sensor-nin along with being a stealth and seduction specialist. She greatly enjoys music and when Karasu started singing with her before he could even talk she was elated. The Uchiha
One of Konoha's founding clans the Uchiha are exceptionally prideful of their skills, pedigree and Sharingan. They are typically fire natured and control Konoha's military police, they are also in possession of the cat, crow and hawk summoning contracts making them a vital part of the Summons messaging network.
The Senju
One of Konoha's founding clans the Senju are noted healers and earth and water ninjutsu users. They were on the decline and had nearly gone extinct save for the elders of the clan and Sachi whose birth was nearly a miracle. Thanks to a poorly planned night out on the town Hachiman Senju ended up fathering a new generation of Senju children that along with Tsunade returning brings them a new hope for clan's continued existence.
The Aburame
The Aburame clan are noted ninja insect users that specialize in the Kikaichu, a chakra draining bug that swarms in the thousands and make their nests inside the bodies of Aburame clan members. Thanks to Shito Aburame leading a front in the north very well and the development of their clan combination S-rank Plague jutsu they have made great strides during the 3rd ninja war.
The Uzumaki
Initially this clan in Konoha consisted of only Kushina after the fall of Uzushio but thanks to Karasu's hardwork (and very deep pockets) multiple clan members have been found and brought to live in Konoha in safety. They are noted for their incredible vitality, chakra reserves, fuinjutsu and kenjutsu skills and for several other more esoteric abilities as well as their bright red hair.
The Hyuga
One of Konoha's most powerful clans the Hyuga take pride in their bloodline the Byakugan and their impressive taijutsu skills. There is a main house and branch house within the Hyuga where the branch house members get branded with a curse seal meant to prevent their Byakugan eyes from being stolen but is also used to keep the branch house under the control of the main house.
The Akimichi
The Akimichi are a clan that admires food very deeply, so much so that their entire style of combat revolves around eating what they consider 'proper'. They utilize the fat in their body for various size changing jutsu to devastating effect. More importantly though they have given birth to some of the greatest cooks the Elemental Nations have ever seen and basically hold a monopoly on Konoha's cooking industry from top down.
The Nara
The Nara clan are a clan of geniuses that routinely do their best to avoid any work. Their intellect is their greatest weapon followed by their shadow manipulation jutsu which have a good number of utility and offensive capabilties. Most Nara are the thinkers of Konoha for military planning and strategy, they also have a love for board games.
The Yamanaka
The mentalists of Konoha the Yamanaka clan specialize in psychology and mind related jutsu that vary from controlling one's mind to seeing through it. The Yamanaka are a wary clan to foreign ninja for this ability which has them believe whole heartedly that they abuse it for more sinister means, for the majority this is false but there are noted outliers in the quest. They are the closest things to psychologists in Ninja Ninja Tactics and Sakumo is pushing for this side of them to be more accepted by the general ninja population of Konoha.
The Inuzuka
Konoha's second dog-related clan instead of dog summoners the Inuzuka raise and breed dogs to be their companions through life and war. They have an incredibly keen sense of smell, are noted for having wild personalities and are mostly taijutsu and tracking specialists.
The Kurama
A clan of genjutsu users the Kurama clan have no relation to the nine-tailed fox. They rarely manifest a bloodline that blurs the line between illusion and reality though it comes at the cost of it's user's sanity. They are not that powerful of a clan when compared to larger ones and have been trying for marriages with the Uchiha for some time now to little success.
The Sarutobi
Little is know about the Sarutobi clan short of it's current head being the Third Hokage and that he has a few daughters and a son with his wife.
Hiruzen
Third and longest reigning Hokage of Konohagakure Hiruzen is revered as the second God of Shinobi and as The Professor for his incredible wealth of knowledge and skills. He has fought in every war Konoha has been a part of and was one of the original founding shinobi of the village, thanks to all this his heart yearns for peace and prosperity like his teacher Hashirama Senju once also did. Some like Danzo see this as foolishness, others in the village love him for his kind and successful ways and others yet like Sakumo have begun to wonder at some of the flaws in his philosophy towards peace.—- Master of All: Hiruzen is this to a T. He may not be the absolute best in a given skill but he tends to be in the top-ten of all skills.
- Old Master: Hiruzen is basically this to all ninja that know him personally and on friendly terms. He is one of three people to exist to be called the 'God of Shinobi' with the other two being basicaly demi-gods.
- Retired Badass: With Hiruzen passing on the Hokage seat to Sakumo he is now this and spends his days with his family and teaching at the academy.
Asuma
Son of Hiruzen Asuma has had extremely little interaction with Karasu to the point that Karasu struggles to remember his name. It's a joke among fans that everyone in-universe constantly forgets he exists.—- The Generic Guy: He is basically this for NNT. He exists but has been talked to all of one or two times.
Non-major clan ninja
Not all ninja are from major clans, many are from smaller clans or from the civilian population but are born with exceptional affinity for chakra manipulation (for a civilian). They are usually generalist ninja as they rarely have access to more specialized and powerful jutsu and techniques than what Konoha is able to provide and even that was at least somewhat hampered by some of Konoha's clans during the founding. Some do manage to rise up and become formidable forces in their own right though.
