Woot for kunoichi.
In response to Krystal posting her team, I present:
AMEGAKURE TEAM 16.
Ask River.
Mizumi is the oldest of the group, but she most certainly doesn't act it. She's relatively quiet, but she's really, really, REALLY random. When she becomes obsessive over something, she obsesses over it for a long time and refuses to shut up. She sings more than anyone else in the group, much to the dismay of the rest of her team, with an emphasis on her amazing ability to make a musical number out of *anything*. Mizumi is also, luckily, very good at making up really convincing bullcrap and using it to get out of any situation; her team refers to this penchant jokingly as "Bullshit no Jutsu".
She isn't too short or too tall, and she at first wears her dark brown hair really long and obscuring her eye with her hitai-ate as a cap, but later cuts it somewhat shorter and wears her hitai-ate on her head in a Sakura-esque fashion. Mizumi has an affinity for light blue, orange, and turquoise. Her eyes are kind of a dull green, and she will be the first to admit that she isn't very pretty at all.
In regards to fighting style, Mizumi's strength doesn't really lie in her actual attacks as much as in her ability to just...keep...fighting. The Idogan in her right eye gives her incredible endurance for every level it's activated. She doesn't have a definitive fighting style until she reaches the Chûnin exams, at which point she discovers the merits of tying two kunai onto a string and using them in battle. Later, she combines this attack with chakra transfer and strengthens the kunai with chakra, allowing them to block chakra attacks. (Luckily, she's never fought a Hyuuga; she'd get the snot beaten out of her.) Her taijutsu skills are fair, and her skills at genjutsu are below average. Ninjutsu is her forte. She's exceedingly good at memorizing hand seals and performing them quickly.
Mizumi ends up getting blinded at about age twenty-something, and Mizukage at age 27. She dies in her late 30s.
Hana is by far the one with the least issues. This is kind of amusing, seeing as Hana has a temper that rivals her cell leader's. She is smart, logical, calculating, and has a piss-off-o-meter a mile wide including everything from murder to someone whistling and chewing gum at the same time. Fortunately, Hana's homicidal tendencies tend to lie dormant unless she is presented with a) someone who is a complete asshole, or b) the task of cooking. She cannot cook, as she will invariably become infuriated with the food and throw something at it. Her friends often berate her about this, reminding her that "Cooking does not involve shuriken".
Her hair is a tad longer than Mizumi's and straighter, and a couple shades lighter. She wears glasses sometimes. As a Chûnin, she adopted wearing an Uchiha Doom Collar for a bit, but then abandoned it in favor of a blue hooded sweatshirt bearing the wonderful "Z?" (Question Sleep) logo. Hana's headband is positioned somewhat Zabuza-esquely on her head, slanted, with the Rain logo on her forehead instead of on the side.
She has a very large supply of chakra, and taps into it occasionally to get the energy boost she needs for her weapons. Her fighting style is beneficial to the mostly weaponless rest of the team; Hana is a weapons master of Tenten's caliber. She has shuriken, kunai, and what have you hidden *everywhere* on her person. Who knows what she's got under her hoodie. Her homocidal tendencies combined with her extensive knowledge of how to use weapons to cause extreme pain and massive blood loss make Hana a force to be reckoned with.
Eventually, Hana becomes renowned as an incredible Jounin. She really hates ANBU for what it's done to the rest of her team.
I'm going to come right out and say it: Kariko is the poster child for "issues". She was the outcast daughter for most of her life, always overlooked in favor of her little brother Ikea, who she ended up killing. Kariko was born into a family of shamen, and although she wasn't expected to hold up the family name, she did so very well. However, despite her occasional lapses into insanity and her family issues, Kariko is generally a very sweet girl. She has a problem with sugar: It's like crack for her. She is always either on a sugar high, or asleep from sugar crash. Combine this with the fact that she's a daydreamer, and you have the spaciest kunoichi ever to graduate as genin.
Kariko has dark skin, and will proudly introduce herself as "the only black ninja in a span of five countries". She wears glasses like Hana, but wears them more frequently and needs them more. Her trademark look is purple with fishnet, and she always has her silver prayer beads on her somewhere. Her hair's pulled back into a ponytail, high or low doesn't matter, and her face has a look on it that seems to be a cross between Luna Lovegood and Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga. Her Rain hitai-ate adorns her arm.
She fights like a shaman, pure and simple. Kariko owns a set of silver prayer beads, and she can do everything under the sun with them, from strangling people to sealing spirits to summoning minor gods. You'll have to ask Cree for the full list. Her attacks are mostly chakra-based, and she's really quite peaceable for a shinobi. Kariko is somewhat famous for her spaciness in regards to battle--she tends to not notice (OH OOPS I MEANT NOT TO NOTICE. SWEET JESUS ON A STICK. THE WORLD IS CRASHING AROUND MY HEAD BECAUSE I SPLIT A FREAKIN' INFINITIVE. NOOOOO.) when she's been hurt (either that or she doesn't care), and go on fighting anyway.
Kariko becomes an ANBU captain, but has lapses of insanity all her life.
AMEGAKURE TEAM 16.
Ask River.
Mizumi is the oldest of the group, but she most certainly doesn't act it. She's relatively quiet, but she's really, really, REALLY random. When she becomes obsessive over something, she obsesses over it for a long time and refuses to shut up. She sings more than anyone else in the group, much to the dismay of the rest of her team, with an emphasis on her amazing ability to make a musical number out of *anything*. Mizumi is also, luckily, very good at making up really convincing bullcrap and using it to get out of any situation; her team refers to this penchant jokingly as "Bullshit no Jutsu".
She isn't too short or too tall, and she at first wears her dark brown hair really long and obscuring her eye with her hitai-ate as a cap, but later cuts it somewhat shorter and wears her hitai-ate on her head in a Sakura-esque fashion. Mizumi has an affinity for light blue, orange, and turquoise. Her eyes are kind of a dull green, and she will be the first to admit that she isn't very pretty at all.
In regards to fighting style, Mizumi's strength doesn't really lie in her actual attacks as much as in her ability to just...keep...fighting. The Idogan in her right eye gives her incredible endurance for every level it's activated. She doesn't have a definitive fighting style until she reaches the Chûnin exams, at which point she discovers the merits of tying two kunai onto a string and using them in battle. Later, she combines this attack with chakra transfer and strengthens the kunai with chakra, allowing them to block chakra attacks. (Luckily, she's never fought a Hyuuga; she'd get the snot beaten out of her.) Her taijutsu skills are fair, and her skills at genjutsu are below average. Ninjutsu is her forte. She's exceedingly good at memorizing hand seals and performing them quickly.
Mizumi ends up getting blinded at about age twenty-something, and Mizukage at age 27. She dies in her late 30s.
Hana is by far the one with the least issues. This is kind of amusing, seeing as Hana has a temper that rivals her cell leader's. She is smart, logical, calculating, and has a piss-off-o-meter a mile wide including everything from murder to someone whistling and chewing gum at the same time. Fortunately, Hana's homicidal tendencies tend to lie dormant unless she is presented with a) someone who is a complete asshole, or b) the task of cooking. She cannot cook, as she will invariably become infuriated with the food and throw something at it. Her friends often berate her about this, reminding her that "Cooking does not involve shuriken".
Her hair is a tad longer than Mizumi's and straighter, and a couple shades lighter. She wears glasses sometimes. As a Chûnin, she adopted wearing an Uchiha Doom Collar for a bit, but then abandoned it in favor of a blue hooded sweatshirt bearing the wonderful "Z?" (Question Sleep) logo. Hana's headband is positioned somewhat Zabuza-esquely on her head, slanted, with the Rain logo on her forehead instead of on the side.
She has a very large supply of chakra, and taps into it occasionally to get the energy boost she needs for her weapons. Her fighting style is beneficial to the mostly weaponless rest of the team; Hana is a weapons master of Tenten's caliber. She has shuriken, kunai, and what have you hidden *everywhere* on her person. Who knows what she's got under her hoodie. Her homocidal tendencies combined with her extensive knowledge of how to use weapons to cause extreme pain and massive blood loss make Hana a force to be reckoned with.
Eventually, Hana becomes renowned as an incredible Jounin. She really hates ANBU for what it's done to the rest of her team.
I'm going to come right out and say it: Kariko is the poster child for "issues". She was the outcast daughter for most of her life, always overlooked in favor of her little brother Ikea, who she ended up killing. Kariko was born into a family of shamen, and although she wasn't expected to hold up the family name, she did so very well. However, despite her occasional lapses into insanity and her family issues, Kariko is generally a very sweet girl. She has a problem with sugar: It's like crack for her. She is always either on a sugar high, or asleep from sugar crash. Combine this with the fact that she's a daydreamer, and you have the spaciest kunoichi ever to graduate as genin.
Kariko has dark skin, and will proudly introduce herself as "the only black ninja in a span of five countries". She wears glasses like Hana, but wears them more frequently and needs them more. Her trademark look is purple with fishnet, and she always has her silver prayer beads on her somewhere. Her hair's pulled back into a ponytail, high or low doesn't matter, and her face has a look on it that seems to be a cross between Luna Lovegood and Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga. Her Rain hitai-ate adorns her arm.
She fights like a shaman, pure and simple. Kariko owns a set of silver prayer beads, and she can do everything under the sun with them, from strangling people to sealing spirits to summoning minor gods. You'll have to ask Cree for the full list. Her attacks are mostly chakra-based, and she's really quite peaceable for a shinobi. Kariko is somewhat famous for her spaciness in regards to battle--she tends to not notice (OH OOPS I MEANT NOT TO NOTICE. SWEET JESUS ON A STICK. THE WORLD IS CRASHING AROUND MY HEAD BECAUSE I SPLIT A FREAKIN' INFINITIVE. NOOOOO.) when she's been hurt (either that or she doesn't care), and go on fighting anyway.
Kariko becomes an ANBU captain, but has lapses of insanity all her life.