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Description
Name; Kirino Tanaka
Age; Part I = 12-13 Part II = 16
Birthday; December 9th
Gender; Female
Blood Type; AB
Zodiac; Sagittarius
Height; Relatively short. Part I = 4'8" Part II = 4'11"
Weight; 106
Sexuality; Bi-sexual. When she allowed herself to have feelings, she found herself finding attraction to both sexes. Although she won't admit it, she has more of a preference for females.
Hair; A light silver color. Her hair failed to produce pigments in her hair when she was at a young age. Originally, at birth, her hair was a raven black, but stopped the pigmentation when she was two. After it grew out, she cut off the remaining black hair and let it grow out as it is now. Since then, she hasn't cut any of her hair which is why her hair now reaches to her waist. Kirino usually has it tied up.
Eyes; A unique red color. The detail of this is unknown.
Home; Getsugakure. Although she is usually mistaken from being Tsukigakure.
Team; She had left the team she was previously with at the age of 14. She figured she didn't want to burden them anymore so she left, only to realize that her team never bothered for her anyway when she had considered coming back.
Rank; Part I = Genin Part II = Chuunin
Chakra Element; Water and Lightning
Family; Kirino still has a living mother, a living father, a younger sister, and a deceased baby brother. The brother died of illness when the mother had given birth.
Personality; Kirino generally is a soft-spoken person, not usually seen in conversation. She is usually quiet. Not because of shyness, but because she chooses not to speak. At first glance, she may seem intimidating with her expressions, but people are usually thrown off by her height. She gets easily flustered when people say something about her height. She'll avert her gaze from the person she would be conversating with, and proceed to ignore them for a good while. Kirino doesn't trust easily on instinct, and her guard will generally always be up when meeting a stranger. Once Kirino is warmed up to a person, she'll be a little more friendly, but will be a little socially awkward due to the fact she doesn't have much contact with people, thus not really having much social skills. Kirino usually avoids having anything more than friendly feelings for people, refusing to allow herself develop crushes or anything of the sort. When on a mission with people, she becomes paranoid and worryful over her comrades, although she doesn't show it. She usually is willing to sacrifice herself in means of battle.
When Kirino does speak, she's completely blunt and honest, and avoids beating around the bush as much as she can. She doesn't like to lie, since its not in her nature. If she thinks lowly of you, she'll tell you if asked.
Life Story; Kirino was born in the village of Getsugakure. Her clan is quite small, and not very well known. They really have no reason to be well known. Her mother was a former medical ninja, advanced in medical ninjutsu. While her father was very advanced in Kenjutsu, training Kirino in the ways of weapons. However, she didn't really find an interest in this, and went to train under her mother in medical ninjutsu, but didn't find much of an interest in that either. Her mother began training her in poisons and such, and Kirino found this highly useful. This sparked an interest with her, and as a result, she continued to research poisons and whatnot.
Kirino grew up normally, not having much happening in her village due to it being generally peaceful. When her mother had taught her everything in poisons, her father began to train her in general ninjutsu. Kirino had adopted water type chakra from her mother, and very little lightning type from her father. Although having both, Kirino usually works with water.
Kirino graduated the academy at the age of 10, and once she had graduated, she left her family behind with no warning, and departed to go to Konoha. She still bears her Getsugakure headband even while living in Konoha. She lives normally in Konoha, rarely conversating with people around her age, but more with the older people around the village.
Powers ; Storm Release Bullets - Her father passed her a family weapon at the age of 10, when Kirino had told him she planned on entering the Chuunin exams when she would turn 13. The weapon that he had given her resembles a gun, but her father had placed a seal inside of it so that it was practically useless to one who did not know how to use it. In order to use it, Kirino had to teach herself to combine her water and lightning type chakras into Storm Release, and from there, she channeled her chakra into the gun into the form of bullets, and uses that for short-range and long-range battles. However, this causes her to lose chakra quickly due to using double the amount. Once she is low, the gun becomes useless to her and she won't be able to channel her chakra until recovered and healthy again.

Poison Immunity - Due to the exposure over the years of her childhood, she developed a resistance to poisons and has a wide range of venoms and poisons that she uses on her enemies. Also, she has a wide range of antidotes that she keeps handy in the event that she accidentally poisons one of her comrades. She hides senbon in her sleeves as well as very small vials of poisons.

Summoning Jutsu - Kirino has the ability to summon a large albino tiger. She rarely uses him for combat. Kirino generally uses him to escape or transport her comrades to safety. Her tiger's name is Byakko, and is male. He speaks general human dialect. Also, against Kirino's will, he will sometimes engage in combat when he knows Kirino is too weak to fight. His claws are able to retract out longer and injure enemies. He's also able to breathe out fire, but in small amounts at a time.

Variety of weapons - Kirino keeps her gun in a holster on her right thigh, but it's usually hidden by the flaps on her shorts. In addition, Kirino has several weapon seals sewn in on the inside of her right sleeve, allowing her to a wide array of needles, senbon, kunai, and shuriken, as well as a single red-handled katana. While on her left sleeve has seals for her antidotes and poisons.

Weaknesses ; No Resistance to Genjutsu - Kirino was never ever exposed to any genjutsus in her life, therefore she is completely vulnerable when under one.

Paranoia - When Kirino is on a mission with comrades, she goes over the top to protect them, and it usually ends up with her getting hurt. She's completely insane to protect her comrades, and will do just about anything, unreasonable or not. When her comrades are gone and after she defeats her enemy, she will usually be injured, and will end up hyperventilating right after the battle and pass out, causing her to be vulnerable until someone gets her.

Stubbornness - Kirino is completely stubborn. If you tell her to do something that's against her wishes, she will refuse to do it.

Easily Flustered - If you mention anything about her height, she becomes easily flustered and embarrassed, making her suspectible to attacks. While in battle, she becomes outraged and is completely reckless, thus easy to hit.

Stats
Strength ; 8
Constitution ; 18
Stamina ; 16
Agility ; 15
Dexterity ; 16
Intelligence ; 15
Wisdom ; 15
Charisma ; 5
Comeliness ; 11
Ninjutsu ; 4/5
Genjutsu ; 0/5
Taijutsu ; 3/5

Relationships
Being the socially awkward and quiet type Kirino is, she's hardly made any relationships with anybody. There are, however, several she's befriended.

Sasuke ; When she was younger, around the age of 5-6, Kirino and her family had visited the village strictly for business and on a mission. Kirino strayed away from her family, growing bored, and wandered around the village on her own. There, she crossed paths with Sasuke in the woods. Kirino was softspoken and hardly spoke to the boy, but Sasuke chatted with her quite a bit, talking about his brother and how he wanted to be just like him and impress his dad. Kirino found this quite adorable, and opened up slightly to the boy until Itachi had found Sasuke and taken him home. When Kirino returned to the village nearly 4 years later, Sasuke was different than how she had met him previously. He had gone colder and was more mature, and this sparked Kirino's interest. She spoke to him once more, much to Sakura's and Ino's dislike. However, she wasn't really interested in Sasuke as a relationship, strictly as good friends. The two trained together often, pushing each other to their limits. When Sasuke left the village, Kirino was not really all that amazed, and felt indifferent about his departure. From there, she would cross paths with the raven-haired every now and then, but the two would share no more than a few words and go on with their life plans.
STRICTLY FRIENDS.

Hinata ; Her infatuation with Naruto drove her up the wall of insanity. Kirino could not stand seeing Hinata standing on the sidelines and just watching Naruto from afar. This drove her crazy, and she began to talk to the shy girl in attempts to push her to go for something that she wanted. Of course, much to Kirino's distaste, this terribly failed as Hinata became flustered INSANELY easily whenever Kirino would suggest for her to just go up to him and talk to him. Kirino thought Hinata was a strange girl but took a liking to her due to her kindness and innocence. When Kirino had first arrived at the village when she was 10, no one really paid any mind to her due to her being simply a child, but Hinata had come up to her and helped her around the village. Kirino saw her several times after that but never really said anything until she saw Hinata looking upon Naruto with infatuation, and then seeing her do absolutely nothing about it made Kirino go insane. From that instant, Kirino would always lightly push Hinata into talking to Naruto, or at least build her confidence up.
STRICTLY FRIENDS.

Neji ; Due to her being friends with Hinata, Kirino would often drop by and visit the Hyuuga residence from time to time, seeing as how she had no where else to go really. She would see Neji every now and then and would talk to him slightly about different training methods and about the Hyuuga's fighting style, as well as their Byakugan. The two never really went onto other topics rather than that, but there was one time where the two had a conversation about their pasts and what they planned to do in the future. There, the two became slightly closer, but never went any farther past friendship. Kirino had a very slight crush on him that instantly faded away within the matter of a day. She's never really had feelings for anyone since then. Nothing happened, she just found it rather pointless.
STRICTLY FRIENDS.

Sakura ; Despite the two strongly disliking each other in Part I, they went on and became better friends in Part II. Kirino found Sakura's obsession heavily annoying in the beginning when she had first come to the village, and found her fighting skills rather useless. But as time went on and Naruto had left the village to train, Kirino stayed back and found herself in a situation where herself and Sakura had to train together for a short period of time. Of course, the two strongly disliked the idea of it, but when the two sparred, Kirino found that Sakura had become more mature and was slightly different than her younger counterpart. Seeing Sakura's strength made Kirino respect her a little, and vice versa. The two had mutual respect for one another, and although they didn't talk that much, they were relatively good friends from there on, often coming to each other for advice they were unsure about it. Sakura came to her more often than Kirino went to her, seeing as how Kirino did not like getting help from others.
STRICTLY FRIENDS.

Irie ; Previously, Kirino's original team consisted of Irie and Ahiko. Kirino always found Irie annoying. Her bubbly and upbeat personality annoyed Kirino to bits, but Kirino always dealt with it seeing as how they were on the same team. However, whenever her and Ahiko were hanging out, Irie would always poke her nosy self in, and annoy Kirino even more. Kirino finds Irie highly irritating, and tends to try to avoid her at almost all costs. As time went on however, Irie had saved Ahiko from being killed when they were younger, and Kirino always found herself in debt to Irie, thus building up slight respect for her...she still thinks she's annoying though. Irie, however, paid little mind to Kirino, as she was always off in her own little world and socializing with the rest of the village in ways more than one. Irie cared a little less when Kirino left the group, but felt a little remorse in the girl's departure.
STRICTLY FRIENDS.

Ahiko ; With Ahiko's highly flirtatious personality, Kirino also found her annoying, but yet intriguing at the same time. Ahiko is the main reason as to why Kirino is generally confused with her sexuality, due to her finding attraction in Ahiko. Kirino forced herself to show little emotion as possible when around Ahiko, but tends to flirt back unknowingly, which tempts Ahiko even more into teasing the small one. Kirino highly respects Ahiko, and would risk anything to keep her safe, including her own life. She adores Ahiko, and has more than friendly feelings for her, more than she's willing to admit. Kirino would absolutely never admit that she's felt any more than friendly feelings to Ahiko, but it is generally blatantly obvious that the silver-haired female has feelings for Ahiko. She admires Ahiko's strong personality (Andalsoherendearingbody) and quick manipulation. Ahiko usually keeps Irie in check and silences her, which pleases Kirino.
Love interest.