Takeda, Sho

[MerchantLord]

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Name: Takeda, Sho
Age: 18
Gender:male
Height: 5'11
Birthday: July 12th
Country, Village: A sad outcast in a lonely world. Born in the wind country
Rank: Chunin
Chakra Nature: Based on air, but also has a small elemental affinity in it.

Clan: Adopted Takeda
Kekkei Genkai: none

Jutsu: Sho hosts an assortment of mostly self taught jutsu's along with some taught to him by his master.

Air punisher Jutsu: Sho fires a bullet of air at a target. The strength is directly proportional to the amount of chakra used to create the bullet. It is similiar to the air bullet, except that it is much more focused into it's center, like a drill. Sho can only fire three of these in a battle. (jounin rank)

Shadow Clone Jutsu: A jounin move that was taught to this man by his master. He is only able to create up to three clones at any one time. It creates a seemingly physical version of the user that will dissapear in a puff of smoke when hit with a strong enough attack. The clone retains all information it sees, and will pass it on to it's user when it is dispersed. (jounin rank)

Tokaku release technique: A series of handsigns and incantations to unsheathe his sword, the Tokaku. While the full technique takes an entire 12 minutes, it can be shortened to a mere sixty seconds by doing the first part of the technique at an earlier time.

Money World Jutsu: A simple genjutsu that turns certain objects into gold. Most ninja can sense such an illusion easily. Those who don't must be prepare to be dissapointed. (Chunin Level)



Equipment: Sho carries several weapons that he made himself. Most notable is the sword Tokaku. Most of his ninja tools have been salvaged as battlefeild spoils.

Salvaged kunai, throwing stars.

Home made smoke bombs, and jewelry made with dynamite

Tokaku: Made by his adopted father, The sword Tokaku has several speical properties. Being a long Katana in a simple sheathe, it is much harder to unsheathe than most would suspect. Sho takes a full twelve minutes to unsheathe the thing after over a thousand blinding fast hand seals. The swords properties is it's ability to seal chakra of nearly every variety. It can cut through chakra based substance with ease, and if it lands a killing blow on a target, it will seal the target's chakra and soul into the sword. If the sword makes prolonged contact with a summoned creature, the creature will disperse. The chakra stored up can later be released, but control over such chakra is a different story. It can supposedly seal Biju, but controlling such power is a different story. The chakra will return to the blade at the user's death.

Appearance:Money talks. Money talks big! MONEY talks golden Bracer on sho’s left arm and flowing silk robes made to withstand arrows. Gold Says invincible ninja Flak Jacket, and it does look like it’s invinceable. Silver says beautiful embroidery in his shoes. Money says that he can’t lose, but I think Money has a very big mouth. In fact it has it’s own place in all of Sho’s clothes. Secret pockets and compartments hold enough money to buy pretty much anything

He pretty much looks like a fancy ninja poser. He carries a gold bracer on his arm, and has a robe thing like the Akatsuki, except with no sleeves and it is pure white. He takes this robe off for battle, to reveal a ninja flak jacket, mist style. His eyes are a startling cyan and his cropped short hair is silver


Personality:Sho Takeda is a financial genius. Using supply and demand he sold smithery equipment and then bought out those smitheries he sold stuff too using the money he had just gotten from them. He is extremely polite, but always ends up with people’s wallets. He will give them back if they ask. Most people call him weird because he acts like a… (I have no idea what could possibly be used to compare with him) thing. He would rather skip a fight instead of actually fighting using his so called “charismatic skills”(Which are what usually start the fights.) Sho is a nice person, over all. He will protect comrades, but ends up looking for his own hide in the end. One of the things Sho loves to do is learn, Learn everything.

Sho Takeda has always had an interest in money that edges on borderline maniacal obsession. This is (of course) followed by an obsession with what money does… BUYS THINGS. Sho spends absurd amounts of money on equally absurd things that always end up with him. . . getting caught. He gets mad if anybody ever dares to think that they can even think to insult his Sword, Tokaku. His sword Tokaku only takes second to money in Sho’s life. This is followed closely by (maybe you guessed it) the art of learning new things. Sho loves to learn and he Learns fast, unbelievably fast. The last thing he loves is to help people out who seem nice to him and harm people who seem mean to him. Self Justice to the People

On the other hand, Sho Takeda has a strange Phobia of sand. That’s right! He is afraid of Sand, and dirt, and clay, and mud. Like most people (who are afraid of sand and are hunted by people who want some easy cash) he does not like Bounty hunters. This is followed by those darn pesky mosquito’s. Who likes them? Not Sho! Sho dislikes business type people who only think of themselves. Sho hates people who steal even more. (even though he steals himself)

Living Arrangements: Sho takeda lives out in the wild under the stars, or boiling clouds that rain and thunder in displeasure. He occaisonally gets to stay in somebodies house, but overall, he sleeps outside despite all of his wealth.

History: It began 17 years ago. An aincent swordsmith by the name of Takeda found a lone baby in the sands of the wind country. The child was sunburnt and crying it's eyes out. This man took the boy in, being such a kind soul, who had always wanted his own children, but was barren himself. For the next few years he learned what it meant to have a child. Constant distractions from his work, being kept up all night by endless crying, and worst of all, changing diapers.

He would look back fondly at those days, before his child, whom he named Sho, became such a questioning youth. The lad absorbed everything the Master swordsmith had to offer like a sponge. How metal fit best together, and many other things. The boy actually pushed the limits of Takeda's own knowledge. Questions he had never thought of came out of the boy's mouth, and soon, a new sword was born from the boy's curious spirit. He named it Tokaku for no apparent reason, and it was his life's work. At the age of sixety nine, He had created what he had always dreamed of, a sword that could one day be legendary.

Sho, on the other hand, would never be a master smith. The boy did learn, but he didn't have the inherent spark needed. He was eight when disaster struck his home. A local lord had been asking for Tokaku since he first laid eyes on it, and after repeated offers that had been denied, had sent his own goons to collect on Takeda's dwindling rent. See, Takeda never sold any of his merchandise. Instead, it was given away to those who suited it best. A great concept, but financially impractical. They threatened Takeda's life if they didn't receive the sword. Takeda refused to give up the sword. Takeda was only an old man. These goons were trained to kill. Sho's only father died in front of his horrified eyes.

He escaped with the sword, after a chase that he remembered to the time he died. In the end, the smithy was burning and those goons were trapped inside. It was the end of his peaceful existance, but. . .

It was the begining of a new chapter in his life. Sho had learned that money could be the difference between life and death, and so began to gather it. The local Lord was his first victim. The local lord had his very own smithy, and that was why he had been so envious. Using the amazing equipment that he had salvaged from the fire, he bargained with the lord for each piece, of such high qaulity that each sold for a huge price. With the promise of a much more perfect future, the lord traded every penny he had for this god like equipment. Takeda's equipment was a premium that would make the lord richer than he had ever dreamed. That was his downfall. The second that last penny changed hands, Sho decided to buy out the bankrupt lord. The lord refused, but with nothing to pay his gaurds, his smiths, cooks, and other servants, found that he did indeed desperately need the money. Sho got all of the salvaged equipment back, plus the lord's land, smithy, and home.

It was a cycle he continued several more times, creating money from almost nothing. Such, a rising power couldn't rise unchecked forever. A lord fearing this "merchant Warlord" hired the ever expensive ninja to put a stop once and for all to this threat. The ninja attacked Sho, and expected an easy victory. It wasn't so easy. Sho was thrown off a cliff. He was left for dead, but he wasn't quite dead. He was twelve at that time. Sho had been counting on his childishness to trick the hearts of the fools that only saw a naive child, but his reputation never told of him being a child. In fact, he was ten feet tall in his reputation. No sane man would ever admit to being outwitted by a child. That's is most likely why he was left alive. The ninja laughed when they met a child where they expected a giant. Sho managed to make it back home, only to find that it had been ransacked.

Thankfully, The "Merchant Warlord" As he came to be known, had hidden some of his fabulous wealth. It wasn't much, but it was enough to hire a rogue ninja into his employ. The old ninja thought it was absurd. He was being hired by a child, no less, not to be a gaurd, but to train the child in the art of the ninja. The Merchant Warlord was thought to be dead for three years, as he trained in the art of the ninja much more intensely than almost all other ninja. Every day was another chance to die, learning this new art, but somehow he perservered. He left that small little clearing with the skills of a Genin do to an amazed ex-tutor Rogue ninja.

The name of the Merchant Warlord slowly crept back into existance just as the Akatsuki fell. The same ninja who had been hired years before were hired again to finish the job. This time, they didn't return so easily. When they returned, they were thouroughly beaten by a strange ninja who had been expecting them. They first suspected that this ninja was being payed by the Merchant Warlord, but soon, it was apparent that this rogue ninja was the Merchant Warlord. Sho bore no singular style in the way he fought. It wasn't of the mist, sand, or leaf, but a combination of borrowed jutsu's and fighting styles like most other rogue ninja. After that, stronger and stronger ninja were sent at Sho, who was challenged by each one, and grew stronger with each attempt on his life.

Sho takeda of such humble beginings made a new fortune that grew just as his bounty did the same. Smithies all over were being shut down do to bankruptcy. This continued on for two years, until everybody had had enough. Sho Takeda was striked down in the bingo book as a very dangerous Ronin. He was the lowest of anybody set upon the book, but he had to be taken care of. This merchant warlord's hostile takeovers, and huge amounts of cash was begining to affect the very lifeblood of all the nations, trade. Since that day, not long ago, he has become a national enemy of the state.

It is also rumored that he is looking for some sort of strange chakra for some unknown reason.

(Is this enough? He is supposed a new enemy for people to try their hand against.)

[Bretta [CRiMSON.DEFiANCE]]

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