Kamen Hokage

Kamen Hokage
Kamen being Casual. Artwork by Cinnie.
A.K.A.	Hokage Kaou
Age	25
Voice Actor	Shigeru Nakahara
Relatives	Kurei, Father. Neon, Mother. Hanabishi Recca, Uncle.
Series	Flame of Recca
Player

Name: Hokage Kamen/Hokage Kaou
Age: 25
Sex: Male.
B-Day: November 13th.
Place of Birth: Kyoto.
Parents: Kurei, Neon.

• Nationality: Japanese.
• Speciality: Music.
• Hobbies: Music, Archery, Chess.
• Likes: Soft music. Fire.
• Dislikes: Suffering, injustice, people hurting what he holds dear.
• Favorite Food: Sushi.
• Least Favorite Food: Junk Food.
• Favorite Music: Flute, violin, Piano.
• Favorite Sport: Archery.
• Most Valuable Possession: Father's Mask.
• Level of Education: Master's in History and Economics. Lifelong Ninjutsu Training.

Physical Stats

Height: 6'2"
Weight: 215 lbs.
Eyes: Blue.
Hair: Black, dyed with red tips.
Special: Always wears a mask, not for any other reason than he can. Also, has very compassionate, caring eyes.

Personality

Kamen is a sweet, caring, compassionate young man, who has an overwhelming desire to make himself loved by everyone. Unfortunately, he's also terrified of people who love him being hurt.. or worse, to have them stop loving him. As such, he tends to act cold towards those he's closest to, to keep them at arm's length, if not outright mean. To people he respects or likes, he's a fairly civil, somewhat charming young man with the... unusual... quirk of choosing to wear a mask and gloves most of the time. He enjoys discussing music and philosophy a lot, and tends to be fairly polite. To people he doesn't like or disrespects, he'll tell them to leave him alone or pay for it, if not outright take his conversation partner and leave. If they push it, he's likely to threaten or actually coerce them into leaving.
Kamen has little to no concept of right and wrong. To him, there's 'Do' and 'Don't Do', which was raised into him by his mother and father, as well as his various bodyguards and guardians. He has an overprotected only child outlook going, and, as everything to him was scared into him by his father, he has little qualms about doing something if someone can't stop him, either by fear or physical punishment.
Kamen also has a chemical imbalance, and his fear of being alone and unloved stems from this. He'll do anything to be loved by someone, even to the point (if needs be) of making them love him. However, because of his caretaker nature, he'll not let them get too close, for fear of hurting them if the 'axe comes down' so to speak.

Background

Kamen is the only child of Kurei and Neon, conceived and born after the battle with SODOM was over. Despite his other social misgivings and shortcomings, Kurei was.. well.. extatic to have a child. A new life to care for. A new life to protect with every fiber of his being, and this time, he wouldn't fail. Kurei ordered all of his followers to protect, adore and serve his child until he grew old enough to be worthy or unworthy of their respect, as Kurei would never force his loyal friends to do something they didn't want to, but protecting a child was not out of their characters. Kurei and Neon decided to name their child 'Kamen', meaning 'Mask', in hopes that around their infant son, they could finally shed theirs. It didn't work out quite this way. Because of the way Kurei was raised, he still believed that hiding yor emotions and true feelings was the only way to keep yourself and your loved ones safe. And Neon was still obsessed with having people love her. Thier child was no exception. His real name, on all legal papers, however, was Hokage Kaou.

Kamen was, in a sense, a very privileged child. Protected day and night from assassins and dangers real and imagined by his father's loyal guardians, Kamen was a little isolated from the rest of the world, but didn't mind, because he never lacked in companionship. Whether Joker and Raiha's humour or quiet meditation with Jisho's spirit, Kamen was never alone, even when away from his parents. Both his parents cared for him very much and did their best to raise their child well, or as well as they could with their principles. This is where Kurenai and Raiha came in, to educated Kamen in other aspects of life than growing up strong and being loved.

Kamen was also taught early on what his parents considered to be the most important things in life. Neon explained in details to her child how being alone and unloved is a fate worse than death, how one must make sure as they go through life to have someone to love them and love back, whether physically, filialy or otherwise, and that if one isn't loved, their life will be a horrible, terrible thing. From Kurei, he learned the harsh life, that whatever you loved, if you did not protect it completely, you had to keep away from you at all costs, to not let people know how you feel, otherwise everything you love and that loves you back is doomed to die because of it. That hiding your emotions is the only way to go, and that to be strong you have to be able to cast aside everything in a heartbeat. This had a...major affect on the child's mental stability, as he shared the genetic defect of his father's chemical imbalance, which made his rationalizations of right and wrong... odd. Most of his morality he got from Raiha and Kurenai, through Kurei's words, which gave him a kinder aspect than one might think, but still raised by the words of an unjustly killed young woman and a consummate, if comedic, warrior. Joker taught him to make bad jokes, and keep people guessing. Jisho's simple presence taught him quiet fortitude in the face of adversity.

From a very young age, Kamen was raised and trained to carry out his grandmother's goal, albeit with Kurei's stance on it. He was to be the heir of the Hokage Ninja clan, but since Kurei had turned his back on that name and let his brother have it, Kamen was raied to be the clan leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha. Kurei himself had not be trained as a ninja, and simply had memories of a childhood in a ninja clan, and as such sought out modern day masters of ninjutsu to train his son to create a clan out of the Ura Hokage Uruha. Kurei and Raiha handled the training of Kamen in the ways of the warrior, and this was the only time Kurei allowed himself and others to actually harm his child.. all in the ways of training, never more, never less. Kurei's drive to see a strong son was tempered by his unending kindness and tender nature, which made for the perfect balance. Raiha was already a master warrior, and knew what to do to make Kamen strong. The mix of styles of Raiha's finesse and Kurei's overwhelming power made Kamen into a versatile and powerful fighter.

As Kamen grew, his father acquired a Tekkou and started to train him in the use of his flame. Unlike his father and uncle, he did not have a mystical animal, so using and mastering his flame was not especially hard. It manifested naturally, under the guidance of his father, in the shape of a bat. Furthermore, he discovered his flame could be used for protection or attack, for immobilisation and murder, for every imaginable contrast that tools gives you.. and so, he changed his focus towards learning how to use his flame as a ninja, and ended up learning on his own, with a natural ability, how to use chains and the mankiri gusari (Chain Sickle Ninja Weapon). He was very pleased with this, as this made him not only a stronger ninja, but a worthy heir to be an Ura Hokage Uruha Flame Master.

His mother, not wanting her son to grow up into nothing but a killing machine, tried her best to educate him as a proper Japanese nobleman, teaching him the arts of music and litterature. She herself wasn't especially fond of litterature, but she was a fairly intelligent woman, and a master musician, which apprently, Kamen had inherited. However, while he had a much higher talent for music than he had for even fighting, but claimed this was not something he wanted to focus on. He was, of course, lying, since he was terrified of displeasing his father, and wanted very hard to bring the name of Ura Hokage Uruha as a feared and respected ninja clan, moreso than even the Hokage were in their heyday. However, in his spare time, all the boy could do was listen to music and copy it to the best of his ability, or even sometimes compose on the spot. He did not let his father know this, as he had to become the Leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha.

To become the leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha, however, Kamen had to become stronger than his flame. To accomplish this, Kurei put a simple test on Kamen. For him to become the next leader, he had to best Jishou in personal combat, without the use of his flame. After preparing for a month and a week, Kurei finally took on the flame giant in his father. It took everything in him to actually make it, but after a pitched battle, Kamen managed to beat Jishou, and was acknowledged as the Leader of the Ura Hokage Uruha.

Kurei's inherited and taken money from Mori Kouran assured Kamen an education. He has the best high school education from private tutors, a strong buisness acumen learned from the best accountants in the Kongoji Masamune Zaibatsu, and the other rudiments of culture and humanity that can be learned in books and with practice. All he needed was practical skill. Kamen learned from his father of his uncle, and that his uncle also had a daughter. Intrigued at the concept of meeting his 'sibling', Kamen, when he turned 20, asked his father if he could leave the lands. He didn't say it was for this, but seeing the transparent nature of his family, Kurei accepted knowing full well why. However, he made his son promise to try to find other ninjas worthy of joining the Ura Hokage Uruha, which was an excuse for him to let his son go out in the world. Mori Kouran was dead, and all his other enemies were gone, so he had little reason to fear for his son. It was time to let go.

Skills

-Ninjutsu: Amazing
-Taijutsu: Excellent
--Known Styles: Kempo, Capoeira, Jiujitsu
-Ninja Weapons: Very Good
--Throwing Weapons: Very Good
--Chains: Excellent.
-Leadership: Excellent.
-Music: Amazing. Master Level composer and performer, just rarely does so.

Special Abilities

-Utsusemi no Jutsu: The fabled ninja substitution technique. Kamen learned this from an early age, the ability to substitue yourself with a log, or any other available item, to trick an opponent's attack. He has become very good at this.

-Multiple Bodies Technique: Kurei's technique learned from the Master Genjuro. Kamen learned this technique from his father, in which he makes 6 duplicates of himself, and his flames, to move around at high speed and confuse the opponent. He usually masks his aura as best he can and moves around rapidly during this technique, making it harder for his opponents to spot him. These copies are fully physical, as he learned the advanced version of the technique.

Powers

Kamen's primary power is the fact that he is an Hokage Flame Master, like Hotaru, his cousin. His father was born with a cursed purple flame, and he has inherited this aspect of the power, as the Hokage Flame is hereditary from parent to child. This flame is spiritual in nature, and burns unnaturally hot, to the point where most normal fires can't compare to it. This flame grants him the following abilities:

• Superior Physical and Spiritual Capabilities. Able to harm demons and the like due to his flame, and move/hit at their level.
  
• Superhuman resistance to fire and heat. Kamen will burn much, much slower than he should. However, he is not immune to flame, not even his own, The advantage to this is that other mystical flame or flame-like attacks burn him much slower than they should, so a magical fireball will not hurt much.
  
• His Flame's form is that of a giant vampire bat. He can alter it's size, but for the most part, Kamen usually keeps it at a 3-4 feet length to be intimidating, or a smaller, foot length to keep on his arm and shoulder. In contrast to his father's Kurenai's angel wings, Kamen somtimes makes the bat grow it's wings out of his back as an intimidation factor. He CAN use them to slow his descent or help in a jump, but these are mostly meant for show.
  
• His Flame's power is the 'Mastery Form'. Kamen can make his flame take the shape of any weapon, armour, shield, or other inanimate object, of which he's trained intensively to use, then wield and use the flame as a solid manifestation of that object, except with total control over it, as the flame is part of his body. However, he can only make one 'type' of weapon or object at a time, so he can only make a sword, or pair of swords, or a volley of kunai, or a set of armour. He cannot make two items at once (Not a shield and sword), and he cannot make multiple copies of the same item if he can't wield them (I.E., he can't make two claymore swords, but twin nunchaku or sai would work.) The exceptions to this rule are below.
  
• He's mastered three techniques with his flame:
  
  • Rain of Death: Making a bow of fire, he can shoot an arrow, which will multiply into many arrows of fire as they head for their target, covering a wider area, and hitting harder. He can apply this technique to kunai or shuriken.
    
  • Multiple Kunai: Kamen can throw as many Kunai as he wants with his flame, each will hit as a normal weapon would, but burn as well. He can also make as many copies as he wants, they will not vanish when he reforms another unless he wills it. This also applies to shuriken, but he rarely does this.
    
  • Chains of Passion: Kamen can cover himself in chains and chain sickles, as these are his primary weapons. He can fire a dozen or so of these at a time, and unlike the other weapons, these can come out of any part of his body. He spent a lot of his time learning to master this, and this is the maximum manifestation of his power.
    
• He can only control his flame while wearing a Tekkou. These are a set of rings on his fingers. If he removes these at any time, his flame will grow out of control and consume him, slowly but surely, unless it is replaced.
  

Unique Items

Hokage Tekkou: Kamen's rings, which were made by Kagerou, to contain the power of Kamen's flame. If his rings are removed he can't control his flame, though he needs to summon it to lose control of it.
Tear Gem Earring: Kamen received a teargem earring from Yukihana, which allows him to contain his otherwise volatile personality and endure his crippling fear of emotional attachement.

Items of Note

Kamen's Mask: Kamen's mask is lined with sword-breaking headguards and impact-absorbant foam, as well as an IR lens to see lasers, which he needs to lower over his eye. It's made of a ceramic/titanium lining, and is borderline bulletproof to small caliber fire.

Kamen's Trench Coat: Lined with kevlar and with steel plates over the chest and upper back, with reinforced bulletproof plastics over the shoulders and upper chest, and with titanium steel koute arm guards inside the sleeves. The inner pockets are lined with spare weapons, such as kunai, shuriken and small chains, each held in place to prevent noise.

Kamen's Armour: Long sleeved personal body armour, with hard plastic over the chest and abs, linked together with kevlar, to resist impact and knife slashes. His gloves have hard steel back hands, hidden inside the leather, and powdered leather into knuckle pouches. his pants, modified Special Ops black pants, have armoured plates along the thighs to prevent hits to the major arteries, knee and shoulder pads, and steel plates over his shins and the back of his legs, and steel plated toes and ankles to prevent being hamstringed. The soles are made of malleable, hard rubber, to diminish noise impact, and three steel bars to block slashing attacks with his feet.

Weaknesses

He cannot control his flame without his Tekkou.
Kamen has a chemical imbalance and his upbringing has left him dangerous terrified of love and intimacy (though not sex). However, this is mitigated to an incredible degree by Yukihana's teargem. Love makes him uncomfortable and a little worried, but he can process the sensations now.