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My name's Mifune, a Samurai.
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There's not much that can cross me that can't be cut down.

Basic Information
Name:Mifune
Nickname: Blond Samurai, Bodyguard, Sword Saint
Gender: Male
Age: 31
Clan:

Looks:Mifune has very light colored hair, sometimes appearing blond and other times appearing a sand color. His eyes change from brown to blue occasionally, usually with the weather, appearing blue on calm days and turning brown during more overcast situations. He has a very lean, but muscular build and is approximately six feet (180 cm) tall. He weighs about 130 pounds (roughly 59 kg). He is often seen in either dark dress pants and a light colored dress shirt, or blue jeans and a white sweatshirt with OSAMURAI emblazoned on it. He almost always keeps a reed in his mouth.

Personality:Mifune is a strong, stoic type of person, who does not speak much. He dislikes senseless fighting, and the archaic ways of the world - he sees himself as a protector of the weak, especially children, reflected by the fact that can not bring himself to harm a child save for dire instances. He is not above killing at all, but would rather not, as shown by the fact that in several of his previous encounters he gives the opponent the chance to admit defeat and flee, often with the promise that they will never bother his ward again.

Village Info.
Village of Birth:Mifune was born on a small, unnamed island.
Village of Alliance: Joint Alliance

Rank//Chakra Info.
Ninja Rank: Sannin
Specialty:
Kenjutsu and Taijutsu Mastery: Mifune has been through much, and is a powerful warrior. His talent with a blade is top notch, and the physical training that he undertook and continues to this day, has given him incredible reaction time, even with the weights still on his arms and legs. He specializes in his own Infinite-One Style.

Handseal training: Mifune was shown by Keotsu how to form handseals with a sword in hand, allowing him to use jutsu while holding a sword.
Elements:Katon, Fuuton, Raiton, Doton, and Suiton.
Your ninjutsu:
Katon ~ Masted
Fuuton ~ Mastered
Raiton ~ Mastered
Doton ~ Mastered
Suiton ~ Mastered
Ninjutsu ~ Mastered
Jutsu list Taijutsu ~ Mastered
Genjutsu ~ Mastered


Background Info.
History:
Mifune was born on a quiet island in the Eastern Sea, where he spent the first fifteen years of his life. Like all Nations, this small island's shinobi force utilized the way of chakra, but believing in the ways of old, taught the ancient and stealthy art of assassination as well.

Even before chakra and Ninjutsu were introduced on this island, it acted as a battlefield. Resting upon a large deposit of valuable metals and gems, the Silent Shinobi of the Eastern Shore and the Powerful Samurai of the Western Shore warred for generations over the rights to the valuable stones. The constant fighting segregated the island into to distinct factions for hundreds of years.

This segregation lasted until the Third Great Shinobi World War. When the war erupted, several of the Nations where strained for resources, and so they turned to our tiny island for the riches it sat upon. Through the strife and warring of the Five Great Shinobi Nations, this island came into prosperity and peace.

Mifune's parents came from opposite sides of the island; his father a shinobi and his mother a samurai. Despite the past between their fractions, they were a happy family. During his time as a child and attendance at the island's Shinobi Academy, his parents tutored him in the old ways of war: his father worked with him relentlessly to give Mifune incredible agility, stealth, and reflexes, even by shinobi standards, using the method the ancient assassins master to be one with the shadows. His mother, noticing Mifune's talent and interest in the ways of sword at an early age taught him the Bushido, and took pride at her son's determination and discipline as he grew more experienced with a blade in his hands.

With powerful training embed into his being, a clash of the more modern way of Ninjutsu and the ancient shadow arts, coupled with the strength and discipline of a samurai through training that rivaled that of the Land of Iron's, Mifune left the island shortly after turning sixteen to see the world, though a falling out with his father was also responsible.

After traveling to the main continent, Mifune worked for the next seven years, forming a name for himself as a powerful sword-for-hire. Through the occasional letter written to home, he remained intact with his family and repaired his relationship with his father.

After a dark time that Mifune simply refers to cryptically as "then", Mifune went into a dark depression only worsened by his sudden poverty. The only things he had to his name were the sword on his hip and the shirt on his back.

During one particularity bleak night when a heavy storm ravaged the town he happened to be staying in at that time, a warlord of an underground organization recognized Mifune and offered to employ him for his skills. So, for the next four years, Mifune worked as the organization's personal bodyguard and assassin.

His time as a body guard for this overlord was when Mifune became renowned for his skills. Throughout the years, it was not uncommon for some hotshot shinobi or swordsman to track him down and challenge him, though they almost always ended in Mifune's victory. One strange thing, though, was that a man sought out Mifune, not to fight, but to teach him. He had heard the stories, and found great promise in Mifune. The man taught Mifune to utilize his body to the limit, training him with weights and a type of sensory deprivation where he would make Mifune go long periods of time with all but one of senses cut off, so that they would be heightened. By doing this to all of his senses, he raised their base level, making him more aware to things.

Following the man's training, Mifune created his own sword style, and made the Infinite-One style his own.

The payment for his job was substantial indeed and it quickly pulled him out of poverty - so much so that he started sending a few thousand ryo back to his parents. Not being a lavish man, he didn't spend much of his money on pleasantries, but on basic provisions for living, as well as materials to maintain his various katana, many of which he procured from the corpses of his targets, rather than leaving the blades to rust.

One assassination mission, though, would forever change Mifune's life. A noble family had paid a rival organization to take out the gang that Mifune worked for. Mifune had strict orders to infiltrate the families premise, kill anyone he came across, and then finally assassinate the heiress of the family, to not only destroy the family but to cut off a portion of the rival gang's funds through this family.

After a quiet slaughter of the guards, Mifune made his way into the heiress's room, where he was shocked.

Coming into the room of the heiress, Mifune discovered her fast asleep - a small child, not a young woman like he had expected. Mifune had never once raised his blade against a child, and he could not bring himself to do so now. He knew that if he refused to kill her that the gang would simply try to kill Mifune himself, and then come and take care of the young heiress. Mifune chose to take the young child to protect her.

Quietly, Mifune hoped that by saving this child that some of his sins would be forgiven, and that some day, when the child realized why Mifune was protecting her, she too would forgive him for his crimes.

As he expected, the organization was not pleased with the bodyguard's betrayal, and so they sent a massive force to exterminate the samurai. Three-hundred shinobi came to dispose of the renegade and the heiress.

Mifune fought his hardest over the course of four grueling weeks, defeating all whom where sent to take him down.

When blood and rain finally ran together, the battle won, Mifune collapsed from exhaustion, body batter and mind shattered.

He awoke later, in the dimly lit den of some stranger's house. Angela - the heiress - was asleep on a couch nearby. As he sat up, Mifune felt the tight pull of bandages across his skin. Someone had taken him in.

Shortly after waking, a man came in and saw Mifune in his conscious state. He explained how the man was traveling back home after some diplomatic business and found the young girl crying over Mifune's unmoving body in a ring of bloodied corpses - he assumed the worst, until he felt a pulse in Mifune's neck.

They talked through the night, getting to know one another. The man commended Mifune on his actions concerning the heiress and suggested that he come back to his home country where they could find some solace, even if only temporarily.

Mifune agreed, and once he was well enough to be about, traveled with the man to the Land of Iron.

Having formed a friendship with the man, and as a way of repaying his hospitality and kindness, Mifune took up arms and volunteered to help the Land of Iron in any way he could - the like-named General of the Land of Iron often visited Mifune to converse and to entertain the small heiress. Mifune trained with the like-named General after a sort amount of time, the General feeling that he could trust Mifune to not betray their secrets. So, alongside the General, Mifune trained amongst the Samurai, increasing his prowess with a blade and heightening his senses as well.

As spring set upon the Land of Iron, giving the place with a harsh-name a beautiful appearance, Mifune decided that he would like to take a small journey, having finished his training. The General reminded his new-found friend that the Land of Iron would welcome him back with open arms, and that he would always have a home there among his fellow Samurai.

Angela refused to stay behind in the Land of Iron, insisting on coming with her "Mifune-kun". After much arguing, Angela finally won and convinced Mifune to let her come with her. Deciding that he was long overdue for a personal visit to his parents, Mifune began his journey outside the Land of Iron.

As he traveled towards the ocean, Mifune came across a young man by the name of Keotsu. The boys clothes where stained with blood, and he held a troubled look in his eyes.

Keotsu lifted his gleaming sword - though his eyes and clothes suggested otherwise, his posture and the way he held his blade betrayed no signs of fatigue.

Instructing Angela to hid, Mifune launched his case of katana into the air, having hundreds of blades come raining down upon the field. This odd move caught Keotsu off guard, but he never took his eyes off of Mifune.

Mifune had yet to raise his blade against a child again since those fateful battles years ago - this boy looked confused, but dangerous - the way his movements where place, the looseness in his muscles that seemed like they could harden like that of a tigers...he was no novice in battle.

They clashed - and, as expected, the boy was a talented swordsman. Mifune questioned him as to why he was fighting him, but the boy only replied with short sentences about looking for something; his body and all it's skill was present, but something was clouding his mind.

The intense clash lasted from noon of their encounter till noon of the following day - both men finally collapsed from exhaustion.

Laying in the sodden earth, as the rain fell above, the boy spoke, not in the hazy voice he had been speaking in, but the clear tone that Mifune could tell truly belonged to the boy - he apologized for his actions, claiming that he had not quite been himself lately.

Mifune silently acknowledged the boys troubles; he complemented him on his blade work - the boy responded in kind, claiming that he had full memory of their battle, and that his Infinite-One style was truly amazing.

Angela - frightened and with the fear that she had been abandoned - burst into tears when her protector returned to her, apologizing for leaving her for such a long time. Keotsu seemed to be quite good with children - and feeling guilty for the trouble he had inadvertently caused - as he played with Angela and quickly had the child to her normal bubbly self.

Mifune offered one of his trademark seaweed candies to Keotsu - a simple gesture that broke the ice. The two swordsman conversed as they waited for the storm outside to pass. In the end, Mifune and Keotsu decided to pair up and travel together.

Weeks passed and Keotsu informed Mifune that he would need to separate from him, but would love to rendezvous in three weeks time in the Land of Iron. Mifune agreed - they were quite close to the ocean, and that would give him time to spend a few weeks at his parent's house. Mifune's visit would surely be welcomed - especially as they had aged since he had last seen the physically more than thirteen years ago.

As Mifune purchased tickets for a ferry to his home island (having still retained an incredibly large amount of funds from his time as a bodyguard, followed by pay from his occasional hiring), he was approached by a man with green hair and three swords.

Mifune sensed a level of skill that far surpassed his own. The man simply asked if he was "Mifune the Bodyguard". Confirming that he was indeed, the man told Mifune of how he was once again in possession of one of his most powerful creations, it's owner having disappeared mysteriously. He was looking for a new owner for the blade, and thought that Mifune would be a suitable wielder - he produced a scimitar. It was a blade Mifune has heard of - the fabled ‡Shine-Tsu-Hiko - God of Wind‡.

After explaining the dangers that owning the blade would bring to him, Mifune agreed to take the blade - though it would bring him trouble, he would be able to face it alone and without endangering Angela - and the blade would be a trusty tool if ever came a time when a little help was needed.

Then, without another word, the Sword Master was on his way.

Following his excursion to his home - in which he found his parents in good health, having started a small farm- Mifune began his way back to the Land of Iron, where he regrouped with Keotsu. The boy seem changed in someway, as if he had faced some great trial in the three weeks they had been gone - a necklace he wore was some kind of treasure, and was linked to the events that had transpired; when Mifune questioned him, Keotsu simply asked that Mifune leave it be, and that he would tell him in due time. Mifune agreed, as Keotsu too had made a covenant with him not to question him about the dark event in Mifune's past, and that he too, would tell him in due time.

Though little else is known about Mifune's past, what is known is that a boy who wielded a Kusarigama and black Katana searched for Mifune - Mifune was responsible for the extermination of his clan, the "Star" clan - a clan whose hands where soaked with innocent blood, and whose name was synonymous with demons.

He harbored no ill will towards Mifune about his clan's extermination, having only been a child at the time and claiming that "they paid for their sins." However, he also said that he would "surpass God," and by killing Mifune he would start on that road.

Their first encounter resulted in Mifune's defeat, the boy's weapon created a clone when he had not been expecting it, and the boy landed a surprise blow. The boy - sparred him as Angela appeared, begging the boy not to harm Mifune further. He could not bring himself to take the life of another in front of a child's eyes.

The second time they encountered their fight was short - the boy was cocky, and Mifune made quick work of him, claiming that his arrogance was his down fall, while the boy spouted words of how Mifune was the one acting arrogant, talking down to a "God" as such.

Their third and final encounter, however, was the most interesting. The boy had walked down the same Path of the Demon as his clan had, and he once again crossed paths with Mifune. He tried to convince the boy to leave the path, and return to the Path of the Warrior, but he would hear no such thing. A bloody battle ensued - Mifune was fatally stricken, haven chosen to strike the boy in his right arm rather than decapitating the child - as Mifuen lay dying on the ground, he thanked the Samurai. He was free of the path of the Demon, but he would not walk the path of the Warrior - he would walk his own path, and become a "Warrior God."

It was by the grace of the gods that Mifune survived. A young girl appeared, who revealed herself to be a traveling companion of the boy whom had just fought Mifune. She was a skilled Medical Ninja, and repaired his wounds to the best of her abilities before transporting Mifune to a hospital.

While recovering, Mifune realized that he had taken up arms against a child, and that in their third encounter he was fully prepared to kill him, if he stayed on the path of the Demon. He was glad he had stayed his blade, and it was one fight with a child that he was glad had occurred.

Mifune still travels with Keotsu, but the two have made the Land of Iron their home - Mifune's journey for his unknown destination was not quite finished, but he would continue to protect and watch over the Heiress Angela until he could no longer.

Until his sins where forgiven, until his penance had been made, he still had a road to walk on before he could chase his other dream.

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You own me a weapons battle or spar. Also I like this bio and the hand seals with sword in your is something only a true swordsman like you and Cali can do.
Thanks for the compliment. ^_^
awesome bio. though I'm guessing your other one has your travels with me in training? xD its k if u dont have me in it keotsu xd
xd Sorry Akiza. See my post in my Keotsu bio. ^_^ Thank you, though.
i like the picture xd
xd I do. I was tempted to use an awesome cosplay picture of him I found, but figured that'd be pushing really weird. o.o"

^_^ xd And thank you Caliburn.
 
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