Clan: Shinda-Inu clan

Kekkei Genkai: (Shinda inu no ningyō mah-ih 死んだ犬の人形舞) Dance of the Dead Dog.

Elements: N/A

Specialization: Kugutsu / Seijutsu / Ama-Seijutsu

Location: Konoha / Kirigakure / Iwagakure

Parent Clan: Inuzuka Clan

Clan History:

"Welcome dear reader,

To you and only you, I grant you the secrets of all I have learned as a Noble ninja of the land of Fire, from the techniques of the clan members I had once been honored to call my brothers, to my tale of defection, my sins, and above all, my tale..."

Since ancient times, the Inuzuka clan were a clan famed for the bond that their members had with their dogs. Such a bond was as strong as family itself, in some cases even stronger, and it was the love for and duty to both dog and human that gave the Inuzuka the strength to power through any problem that came their way.

However, such bonds were not always omnipotent.

Throughout history, there were Inuzuka who had lost their companions in combat, and had been driven either mad with grief, or self-exiled out of guilt. The clan welcomed them back with open arms if ever they felt the desire to return, but most Inuzuka who had lost their companions were too broken to consider such a possibility anything more than a far-off dream.

Until one day.

Inuzuka were meant to live with their dogs. Inuzuka weren’t meant to be parted from them. Together, man and dog were supposed to explore the world, to triumph over any obstacle in their way and share a romance so different yet nonetheless as strong as they did with their spouse.

Yoshiko Inuzuka was one such girl, who felt that her love for her dog should transcend all, even life or death. It was with this thought in mind that she treaded the boundaries of life or death, breaking into the Inuzuka Graveyard one dark night and digging up the rotting, decaying remains of her canine partner, Takuji.

It had meant to be nothing more than love that brought her so far. She just wanted to see her dog one last time, to have the goodbye that they should have had before he was stabbed through the chest by a Suna puppet. How ironic that the cause of his death would bring him back from the grave, with Yoshiko spending months of her life researching the desecrating art of human puppetry with the ultimate goal of reviving her dog in mind.

Takuji would remember her. He would remember her.

Puppetry was a delicate art. Human puppetry, more so. Any rot or decay reduced the chances of making it work, and Takuji had been halfway through being nothing but ghost white bone when she had finished her research and defiled his grave, bringing the remains of his corpse back into her room.

Her first attempt was a success, but not for long. She didn’t know how she felt, with a dog whose lower half was nothing but bone, held together by medical chakra and puppet strings, with no emotion. The tongue rife with holes lapped at her cheeks but without the vigour they had in life. His fur, buzzing with flies, wasn’t as fresh as she remembered.

But he was here. Takuji was here, bounding alongside her, not dead.

She couldn’t wait. She didn’t wait. She woke her parents and introduced the sight of Takuji, half-dead but half-alive, and was exiled from the clan for her detestable experiments.

Not everyone loathed her, though.

Word spread like wildfire that an Inuzuka had used barbaric arts to transcend the boundaries of life or death, bringing her canine companion back to her side, and regardless of the implications, Inuzuka from all over began swarming into Konoha, demanding to learn from her to overcome their grief.

And she taught them.

She taught them very readily, making sure that they all learned the art of human puppetry. But it wasn’t to be.

Most Inuzuka who returned couldn’t find their dogs. Most Inuzuka’s partners were already back to dust. And, in their rage, they ran amok. The Inuzuka clan, tasked with the responsibility of cleaning up this mess, forcefully exiled everyone, from both the clan and the village.

Yoshiko stayed, though. No, she was far too important, and the few Inuzuka who managed to revive their clan stuck by her. The Inuzuka couldn’t force her out. They couldn’t kick her and Takuji out of the home they shared.

Their children, however, couldn’t bear it. They began off with canines, but had the option of reviving them from the dead any time they fell in battle, and because they too practised this desecrating art, were shunned by the Inuzuka. Unable to take the hate, some of them fled the village.

They eventually found refuge in Iwa and Kiri, their loathsome arts having been strongly rejected by the Chikamatsu of Suna for them to settle there, while Kumogakure’s clans, foolishly honorbound, had turned them away at the gates.

But that didn’t matter. They found a place to live with their lovely, living canine friends, who they had brought back from the grave. There was nothing else they needed.



Kekkei Genkai Description:

Basic:
Members of the Shinda-Inu clan have had the unfortunate curse of having their ninken fall in the line of duty, refusing to allow their grief and the loss of their companions hold them back from the line of duty, the clan members practice the forbidden art of Ama-Seijutsu... that is converting the once organic bodies of their nin-ken into the cold mechanical bodies of living puppets, allowing their former ninken to survive and serve them long after they have passed away from the living world. But Ama-Seijutsu does not end there... A Specialization in its own right, using what little life remains in their deceased nin-ken, Ama-Seijutsu techniques use the ninjas bond combined with an advanced and deranged form of the transformation technique to take on temporary attributes of their companions much like the Inuzuka, but replicating the hidden weapons which lay within their Ama-Seijutsu puppets. Additionally, much like common Seijutsu techniques, Ama-Seijutsu allows the user to, at any point, pay the activation cost of any jutsu a second time to either replicate a technique used by their puppet, or have their puppet replicate a technique of their own from their location to create powerful combination techniques.

Each member of the Shinda-Inu clan begins with a single free Ama-Seijutsu puppet of D rank with two D rank Augmentations. This puppet can be upgraded a single rank at the cost of 1000 Ryo and a completed thread with a 2500 word count, in which their companion is ultimately upgraded. (the upgrade does not include any equipped augmentations.) Ama-Seijutsu puppets can be upgraded until they reach SS rank.

Make:
Ama-Seijutsu Puppets of the Shinda-Inu clan are unique creatures, made from reinforced wood carved from the iron trees in konohas' forests, and benefit from the trace elements of yang-chakra which forged the ancient forests. This Yang chakra makes the puppets, at times, seem oddly alive in that shadows of their old personalities seem to reflect through their actions at times, but also, the iron wood simultaneously making them exceedingly tough. These ghosts of the past are haunting to behold for many ninja, although now they're little more than silent and deadly weapons. With a skilled user at the command, Ama Seijutsu puppets can completely replace and even enhance the abilities which are grounded in the very nature of the Inuzuka... no longer bound by their living restrictions, but instead the physical characteristics and stats of their wielders. Each puppet moves at speeds and reacts in the same manner a puppet would due to the chakra leash jutsu used by the clan to control them, and is able to withstand a single jutsu of equal rank to themselves, breaking their hard outer shell and making them, and their cores, vulnerable to attack, while another technique of equal rank will often shatter the puppet. (Support Ama-Seijutsu puppets, while rare, do exist, their armour much weaker can only withstand 2 techniques of 1 rank lower.)

Augmentations:
Ama Seijutsu puppets have a potent means to attack and defend themselves, in the form of augmentations  known by those who use Kugutsu and practice the largely forbidden art of human puppetry. Each Ama-Seijutsu Puppet is able to be equipped with 2 augmentations of equal rank, 4 of 1 rank lower etc combined with the claws and teeth which were naturally present on their living selves. These augmentations can be anything from additional armour reinforcement, senbon/ firework launchers, buzz-saws, hidden blades, senbon fur and even chakra cannons and do not have any effect on the puppets chakra count. (Support Ama-Seijutsu puppets cannot take 'offensive' augmentations.)

Chakra System:
To make matters worse, each of the Canine's have their chakra system stored within a small core where the animal's heart would have been which connects to synthetic channels which run through their bodies. This core gives the Canine's access to a chakra reserve separate from the user, allowing the Ama-Seijutsu puppets to have jutsu built into them. An Ama-Seijutsu puppet is able to have one technique of equal rank, and a single technique of each rank below it to a max of S rank. (An A rank Ama-Seijutsu Puppet can 'know' 1 A rank technique, 1 B rank, 1 C rank, etc.) Though, a technique of any rank, can be substituted for 2 techniques of one rank lower. (an A rank puppets 1 B rank Jutsu, can be instead replaced with an additional 2 C rank jutsu etc.) As normal with other pets, these techniques do not cost Ryo, require only 1/2 the normal word-count to Imbue / train and do not count towards your Jutsu limits.

Shindu Puppet Chakra per Rank:

• D rank: 25 Chakra
  
• C Rank: 35 Chakra
  
• B Rank: 45 Chakra
  
• A Rank: 55 Chakra
  
• S Rank: 65 Chakra
  
• SS Rank: 75 Chakra
  

(Support Ama-Seijutsu puppets, have +25 chakra to their chakra pools.)

Drawbacks:

• Ama-Seijutsu: In order to Use Ama-Seijutsu techniques, as well as the puppets themselves, the user requires to know both Seijutsu and Kugutsu of the required rank. Ama-Seijutsu techniqies are considered Seijutsu and Kugutsu.
  
  
• Ama-Seijutsu Specialists: Members of the Shinda-Inu clan focus primarily in the use of their morbid companions, and their skill with their clan techniques, as such, they must take the hesitant element special characteristic which cannot be balanced by an additional positive SC. Additionally, each clan member can only use 1 Ama-Seijutsu pet actively in each thread, though more than one can be owned by the ninja.
  
  
• Impact Vulnerable: Being far more solid and having less give than living pets, the Ama-Seijutsu Puppets of the Shinda Inu clan are naturally weak to Doton techniques, taking only a single technique of the required rank to destroy them in most cases rather than two.
  
  
• Kinjutsu Users: The art of creating Ama-Seijutsu puppets, is considered by many to be a repulsive art, and in some cases, even a forbidden kinjutsu. As such, all item purchases cost an additional 10% ryo.
  

Kekkei Genkai Jutsu:

Ama-Seijutsu:

Ama-Seijutsu Transformation:

Faux Fang Over Fang:

Beast Fusion: