My Naruto oc Isato Mizu, drawn by the very talented Rosuke97 on DeviantArt.

Name: Isato Mizu

Age: 19

Height: 5,10

Weight: 220

Backstory: Born on October 12th to Restaraunt owners Asami and Toshio Mizu of the Land of Rain, Isato's life would begin in a moment of sheer panic and terror for the proud new parents. It was an unusually sunny day for the region when a heavily pregnant Asami and her husband were returning from a trip to the nearest village when Asami's water broke three weeks prematurely. With no one around to help them, and with the nearest village being a solid fifteen miles away in any direction, Asami and her husband were forced to deliver the baby on their own on the side of the road. Several excruciating hourse later, Isato Mizu was born to the world, but the plight of the new parents was not over yet, as fate decided to deal yet another complicated blow to the new parents.

After reaching the Village hidden in the Rain, Asami and Isato were checked into the hospital to make sure that both mother and child were safe and healthy. While Asami checked out okay, something was wrong with their newborn, his chakra seemed...stagnant. Doctors and medical nin ran every test they could to try and figure out what was wrong with the child's chakra flow. It was there, but it didn't seem to be flowing like a normal person's should be. It took several weeks of repeat visits before a specialist was called in, and the problem was finally identified. Isato had been born with Sekkai-Kura syndrome, an extremely rare disease that resulted in a calcified chakra surface, while chakra actually continued to flow underneath the hardened surface.

While the disease was not life threatening, it reduced the ability of chakra down to its most basic functions, meaning it flowed enough to where it would not hinder his lifespan, but it made the use of all forms of chakra based attacks impossible for Isato, thus destroying his chances of becoming a ninja. However, this disease also granted a significant boon as a side effect, due to the hardening effects of his calcified chakra flow, the disease greatly increases one physical attribute of the person beyond what most people can achieve, be it strength, speed, stamina etc. Though which trait that would be enhanced would only be found out several years later in Isato's life.

While his parents were somewhat disheartened at the news that their child would not have all the same chances that other children would have, they were still happy that their baby boy would grow up to be healthy, and they were going to do their absolute damndest to make sure that he was as happy as possible, whatever may come.

Isato would spend the first twelve years of his life being educated privately by his parents in their apartment above the noodle shop, it was there that Isato first learned about the shinobi at the age of four, starting with the tales and ancient lore of centuries past involving this ancient breed of elite warriors. Isato became enthralled by their incredible skills in battle, and their ability to use their chakra to perform incredible, nigh unbelievable feats. On the eve of his fifth birthday, the young Isato asked a simple, innocent question.

"Mommy, Daddy, I wanna be a ninja, can I?!" Isato asked, his eyes filled with excitement as his parents tucked him in for bed.

They pulled out one of his favorite storybooks, and began to read. It would be another seven years before he would finally get an answer.


Personality: Despite his rather shady occupation, as well as his tendency to break laws to accomplish his goals, Isato is a surprisingly warm hearted and friendly individual with a strong sense of morality and ethics. He sees many laws as simply rules to tie someone down or keep them oppressed under whatever regime they live under, and takes great pride in breaking whatever law he can to help someone in need. He's also remarkably generous as a result of this, and will not hesitate to give the shirt off his back to anyone who clearly needs it, although this has backfired a number of times as he's fallen victim to scam artists from time to time.

Isato can also be quite easy to rile up, and his anger has gotten him into more trouble with the law than any of his jobs. As a result of this, as well as his occupation, he's wanted in several lands, including The Land of Stone, The Land of Rice Patties, and The Land of Tea just to name a few. More often than not, it's for assaulting a lord, stealing from a royal treasury, or destruction of royal property, usually because he's either witness to or the victim of injustice on behalf of authority figures. Or he Thinks that they just don't deserve their money and that either he, or someone less fortunate, could make better use of it.

Isato also has no qualms about stealing, should he need to, though he makes sure to steal only from people who deserve it. He's stolen everything from gold, clothing, food, water and even bedpans to help himself and others. One time, he even stole a silver toilet that a feudal warlord had made after said warlord forcefully took command of a local silver mine! The toilet is now one of the most valuable items in the area, and half of it sits at Isato's small home in The Land of Waves, the other half was given to the workers at the mine by Isato, who gave it to them in secret after the mine's cowardly, by the book foreman said that all silver claimed by the warlord must be returned to the mine for inspection and then sent for processing.

However, Isato has been shown to have a darker side to him, as well. Whenever someone he cares about is in danger, he has a tendency to resort to more ruthless tactics against his enemies, even going so far as to kidnap the adult son of a crime lord when said crime lord kidnapped his parents when they couldn't pay protection money for their noodle shop.

Abilities: As a side effect of his disease, Isato has remarkable physical strength that isn't dependent on the use of chakra at all, meaning he can use it for as long as his stamina holds out, and can get even stronger the more he trains his body. However, his strength requires him to exert a lot of force and stamina, and if he uses it up too quickly, he is defenseless.By age 16, he has shown to be capable of breaking through solid steel and hurling boulders twice his size and ten times his weight almost 100 yards away, to say nothing of his ability to break the human body.

However, due to his disease, he is completely incapable of using chakra in any kind of physical way. Because of this, Isato tries to avoid combat with ninjas whenever he can, as even a well trained genniin could do serious harm to him if they used any kind of rudimentary form of chakra attack against him. In the few times he was forced to fight a trained ninja, he has been forced to either get up close and personal to keep them on their toes, or stay far enough away where he has enough time to anticipate and dodge an inevitable chakra attack. Even with this tactic, however, his skills against trained ninja are inconsistent.


Ongoing story: One day, while Isato was returning from a trip to visit his parents, he returned home to find a rather strange looking man waiting for him at the door to his small beachside home. His face was concealed partially by a mask, and he wore clothing of a style worn by those of the Hidden Sand village, complete with a heavy cloak, a long katana blade at his hip, and a headband bearing the mark of the Hidden Sand Village. Isato approached the man cautiously, his fists instinctively beginning to curl up into a ball as he approached the man.

The man, who identified himself only by the title of "Kabuto", claimed to represent a wealthy client from the Hidden Sand Village, and that said client was interested in hiring Isato as extra muscle for protection on an escort job in and from the Hidden Leaf Village. The job was simple, rendezvous with a detachment of Leaf and Sand ninja outside of the Leaf Village's treasury to deliver a donation of gold to the village's vault, a token of goodwill on behalf of the Sand Village in honor of the chunin exams, which would be going on at the same time. In exchange, Isato was to help guard a caravan that would be leaving from the Hidden Leaf Village that would be carrying a precious emerald, a donation on behalf of the village, back to the hidden sand village.

While Isato was extremely tired from his journey back from Amegakure, the job certainly paid well, and it was easy enough to pull off, despite the length of the journey. So, after a hardy meal and a day's rest, Isato accepted the job, albeit hesitantly.

After several days of traveling, Isato finally reached the Hidden Leaf Village, he had arrived in town ahead of schedule, so he took the time to grab a meal and wash up before finally rendezvousing with the caravan. While everything seemed to be going as planned, something seemed off. The caravan stood parked in front of a house almost 100 yards to the right of the village treasury, which stood heavily guarded by Leaf Village shinobi on its front steps.

Isato eyed the Leaf shinobi uneasily as he passed by the treasury slowly, there were eight of them, four on the steps and four lookouts on the roof. Immediately, his thieving instincts kicked in, and he turned the other way, not wanting to look like he was casing the place. The Leaf shinobi certainly looked like they were prepared for company, but if that was the case, why did the caravan park so far away from the treasury?, that's something you do when you don't wanna be associated with something or someone. Alarms began ringing in Isato's head as he approached the caravan.

Then, suddenly it all went dark.

Isato woke up and indeterminate amount of time later, his vision was blurry and his mind and body felt drained and groggy. He could only make out that he was in a large circular room, and there were various shadows moving around in forms that resembled human shape. Suddenly, a splash of ice cold water hit his face, removing all grogginess from his mind and body. He saw several sand ninja standing around him and laughing, including one who held a large empty bucket. Isato growled at them through gritted teeth as he tried desperately to move his arms, to no avail.

"I wouldn't do that if i were you." came a voice from behind the men.

The line of ninja opened up in the middle, making way for a spiky green haired man carrying a katana over his shoulder, and baring an evil, sinister grin on his face. Even before he said another word, Isato recognized who it was.

"Kabuto, you bastard!" Isato spat with venom in his voice.

Kabuto merely chuckled and bore a smug grin. "In the flesh." He replied.

Isato once again tried desperately to move his arms, but once again he found himself unable to move.

"Why can't I move, what have you done to me!" He yelled.

Kabuto bent down and reached around Isato's back, producing a dart and showing it to him.

"You can't move because you're paralyzed." He said coldly. "Don't worry, it's only temporary, not that it matters much, you'll be dead soon anyways." He said smugly.

The words rang in Isato's head, causing his heart to beat faster as he stared back at Kabuto vengefully.

"Of course, there was never any exchange between the two villages, it was all a lie to get me along for the ride, wasn't it?" Isato said as he clenched his teeth in frustration.

Kabuto giggled slightly as he stared down with satisfaction at Isato. "Oh, there'll be an exchange, don't you worry about that. We're taking all the money out of the treasury, and replacing it with a little deposit of our own" He said smugly.

Isato peered behind Kabuto, finally seeing his men loading bills, coins, and many types of precious stones into crates.

To be continued...