Faust Arp (Complete)

Summoning (Crows)Faust is the Proud owner of the Crow summoning contract. Anyone who wants to use the crow summonings will have to go through him to get them. He is very adept at using them in very subtle jutsu also known as sub summoning jutsu which takes some one very in tune with their summoning to be able to accomplish.

Elemental: This skill gives the user excellent elemental control and a wide variety of uses for the element. Most people with this skill can master an element of their choice and will use it like none other. People with this skill are, Kakuzu, Nidaime Hokage and Asuma.

Tracking:Faust is amazingly observant. He can notice anything out of the ordinary and is also a profound researcher. Both of these things taken into consideration, he can easily track down anyone after having met them once or twice by learning their habits and applying them to the situation and saying "what would I do if I were them in this situation" and being able to answer it accurately.

Pique Physical Condition Faust has trained his body at an excessive rate to keep himself in the top tier of physical aspects. He has done this mostly to enhance his kenjutsu techniques. He is not overly large or muscular and is best described as toned. Due to being in such great health he is also carries a very high immune system. He has not been sick in over 10 years. As a final note, his speed is also superb to the average shinobis. He can move as fluid as anyone else and match most stroke for stroke.

Strong Willed: Faust possesses an iron clad will and once he sets his mind on something, it is not easy at all to deter him. In order to sway him in the least you would have to prove to him that all hope is lost for his current path, and even then, he may just continue doing his own thing anyway.

Strategist Faust has a ridiculous amount of mind power. He is easily one of the smartest people in the leaf village, especially when it comes to tactics in battle. He has been known to be called the general on top of his title of Flesh Weaver. His IQ has not been actually charted but it is accepted as fact that it is well over 200, making him an official genius. He can think several steps ahead and focuses heavily on combination attacks as well as always, ALWAYS, having a back up plan. He tries to see every angle possible in a situation and is capable of covering them all. This trait alone is what makes him one of the deadliest ninja in the Leaf, and the world.

Earth Grudge Fear Faust is the currently the sole carrier of the Earth Grudge Fear jutsu. This jutsu has embodied him with the Jingou thread which are now just another part of his body just like his heart, his tendons, his skin, or his brain. They reside just beneath the skin and are completely black. They are spongy like material and are pointed at the ends, making them ample for piercing. They can be used in a variety of ways that are best explained through several jutsu, most of which are very low ranked. These threads hold Faust together through stitches because the bulk of jingou in his body has ripped the skin causing gaps in the flesh. They are like the plates of the earth held together by string.

Highly Opinionated Faust is a highly opinionated person. He stands fast to what he believes in and if he feels strongly about something, he will speak out on it and be very hard to move from that position. This can cause people to see him as combative and as his ideals do not usually conform to society's idealistic niceties....this can happen a lot.

Desolate Sadism Faust is somewhat of a sadist. This comes out very rarely though and only in certain occasions. This typically shows when facing an opponent or criminal he deems to be particularly hell worthy and the lowest bits of scum. This will cause him to draw things out and essentially toy with them trying to prolong their suffering. This is also seen as highly unethical and as lack of control.

Vigilante Faust lives by his own set of laws, not the laws set by councils and other people. Though they may coincide at times, some times they do not, and when that occurs, he usually gets reprimanded and his reputation gets tarnished slightly because of it. He will take the law into his own hands, going outside of his orders and becoming judge, jury, prosecutor, and even executioner with out having the proper authority or jurisdiction. He however, is almost always justified with his actions on a moral level.

Faust's history does not start with him. It does not even start with his parents. It starts way back before that time several years ago while Konoha was still relativity young during the reign of the fifth Hokage. It is marked by one of the most historical events of the village, with the birth of a jutsu from the legendary Naruto Uzumaki. This would be the ransenganshuriken. The first person the jutsu was used upon was one Kakuzu of the criminal organization known as Akatsuki. He was also the houser of the Earth Grudge Fear kinjutsu. The powerful jutsu struck down the wicked man and his body was taken back for studying. After intricate investigations, the body was preserved and locked away in the archives, sealing away the EGF jutsu for several years to come.

Several years down the road, a man named Vash became a well known and respected Jounin of the Hidden Leaf Village. He had himself a bride and a happy home along with a child of about five years at the time of the true beginning of our story. This young lad was none other then Faust, the ninja in question. At the age of five, he showed no true aptitude for being a shinobi, which greatly saddened Vash who's only dream was for his son to carry on his legacy. However the kid was spindly and very baby like, anything but warrior material.

Desperate, Vash began to search the archives of Konoha for anything the village had to offer that he could bestow upon Faust and make him an able ninja. In his searches he stumbled upon the records of Kakuzu and information on the arcane jutu he housed. Vash also found that the body was actually stored and still as fresh as a newly deceased corpse. With out needing anymore convincing then the knowledge itself, Vash searched for the bdoy and found it with ease using his expert ninja skills and the info provided by the records.

He stole the body and hid it in a warehouse of his own possession. Being a proficient medical ninja, he was able to preserve the body just as it had been in the archives. He began a through study of the body that lasted several weeks. His lust for power, even though it was not his own, revealed a hidden scroll in the body that was as black as night. It detailed with the use of a poem exactly how one could go about obtaining the ghastly kinjutsu. It seemed that the jutsu created thousands of threads with in the body of the user that were created from the matter of dead organic material. His interest peaked, he sought to test its authenticity.


According to the requirements on the scroll and the resources needed and also provided with in Konoha, there was only two chances of committing the ritual. He needed a test subject first before trying it on his only son, for fear of accidentally killing him. He picked a large rabbit for the test and completed the jutsu the following night. After the jutsu being applied, he immediately killed off the rabbit for two reasons. One he did not know how the rabbit would act if it had worked and so was thinking of the safety of others, and also to study it and make sure it had worked. After a few nights of studying the deceased rabbit, he determined it a success, and decided that it was ok to apply it on his one and only son in hopes of making him into a shinobi to be proud of.

He asked his son only, "Would you like to be a grand shinobi like daddy?," before whisking him away to a fresh cemetery and applying the jutsu to his son. It caused Faust much pain, but he was able to survive it, and that is the story of how he became the ninja he is today with the skills he now possesses.

He trained the boy a year after that, having an extensive knowledge on the powers and learning more about it through his son through several tests of skill and application of typical ninja practices to see just how powerful the threads were. He was not disappointed to find that the experiment had the desired result and the boy quickly became a machine as a warrior, his mind being naturally sharp and with the added bonus of the Jingou tendrils, he became physically adept enough to be considered worthy of a shot at becoming a shinbobi.

He was enrolled in the academy right after this, and direct concern was arisen by the chunin who taught him about his condition. You could plainly see his affliction of sorts due to the several breaks in his flesh making his whole skin look like a series of tectonic plates held together by dark strands. This was brought to the Hokage and several others attention. A full investigation was launched and the records concerning earth grudge fear were resurfaced. They approached the parent and asked what they knew. It didnt take them long before they found out what Vash had done to his son. He was brought up on charges of child endangerment, dishonor under Konoha's shinobi code, and also tampering with government property. He was given a choice between execution and banishment. Of the two he chose execution, willingly, understand the wrong he had done while not fully regretting his decision. Faust never knew of this however, and to this day continues to think that his father died on a mission in the Grass Country.

Shook by his fathers death, but now more focused to honor his fathers name, Faust increased his devotion ten fold in the shinobi way of life and quickly rose to the top of his class. He was recognized as a genius by his teachers both in mind and body as his skill in the ninja arts grew exponentially. With out any difficulty, he passed his graduation from the academy at the early age of six and a half.

Faust was placed in a team with an Aburame medic female named Hibika and a quiet Hyuuga male named Rotusin who also showed promise. All three of them shared Faust's general feelings on the shinobi way and so that made them easily compatible. They all also had relatively high IQ's, with Faust's being the highest. Their Jounin leader was a man named Dageki who was a Hyuuga just like the other male of their team. Together they formed squad 5. The team quickly became the most revered of that generations genin teams and were sent on all the highest ranked missions that a genin team were allowed to be sent upon, including 6 B ranked missions, only one of them ending in failure.

It was no suprise that they were entered into the Chunin exams barely five months after having gradutated, the first ones that appeared at the time. They sailed past the first two exams with ease. Only two teams had made it through. The first was of course squad five and the second being suprisingly enough, a talented group from the land of Grass. The first match was two of the ninja from the Grass country, and the second was Faust against the remaining one from Kusa. The third match was Rotusin vs Habika. The winner of the first match got a free pass straight to the finals. Then was Faust's match.

The battle proved no trouble for him. Oddly, the ninja was an Uchiha who had been born and raised in the Grass country. He had a dream of surpassing the legendary Kakashi Hatake in terms of number of jutsu acquired with the sharingan. This proved to be his downfall in the match. Realizing Faust's unique talents with earth grudge fear based jutsu, he commented on Faust having a nice kekkei genkei. When Faust commented that the abillity was not a kekkei genkei, but a skill he had picked up at the age of five in response, the opponent foolishly activated his sharingan and began to try and copy Faust's jutsu and use them against him. However, due to the complexity of the kinjutsu in his body, Faust's signature techniques were unable to be duplicated through the sharingan. The nin quickly grew frustrated. Noting this, Faust quickly deployed several distractions that would not have normally worked, especially against an Uchiha, and won the battle after killing the arrogant boy by ripping his heart to pieces by invading his body with a few of the tendrils that were in his body.

Moved to the next round, and also having to face one more to get to the last grass nin to be declared the winner, Faust then had to face off against Hibika who had barely beaten Rotusin in the previous round. It was disheartening to have to face a team mate, but neither was willing to show mercy aside from showing care to not take the others life. Hibika quickly opened up using her medical based chakra bug techniques to tear him down via both his bodily functions and chakra network. It was a unique combo that had proved her to be one of the most valuable ninja in all of Konoha. However, Faust, being her team mate, and a bit smarter then she was, was very well prepared for the onslaught and was able to avoid her maneuvers easily.

Then he chose to give her exactly what she wanted. He opened up his knee and elbow joints, extending the limbs using his Jingou infestation. As expected, Hibiki took the opening and aimed her bugs at the four different extensions, placing several chakra consuming beetles in the joints. Only smirking in response as he felt them squirming around in his body, Faust constricted his Jingou threads, causing them to crush the invading bugs, nullifying her attack, to display how useless it was for her to make attempts at beating him. He finished the battle moments later with a few tendrils wrapped around her throat, threatening to crush it if the chunin didnt call the match or she did not withdraw. The chunin wound up having to call it, Hibiki not willing to admit defeat due to her strong will.

Faust had now gained access to the final rounds of the chunin exams third part. His opponent being the final grass shinobi. The battle lasted roughly ten minutes, neither willing to display further their unique abilities. In the end it came down to taijutsu. Faust chose to remain on the deffesnsive, letting the opponent come to him. As soon as the target got close, tendrils came from his finger tips and pierced the boy's chest in five different areas, causing him to collapse on the spot. He wasnt dead but was seriously injured, casuing the match to be over and Faust named the champion of the exams, but he still had to wait to hear whether or not he had made chunin.

It was announced for himself to be named the sole Chunin of that year. The main reason being that he had taken on an Uchiha and won all by himself which in Konoha is considered a great feat. Also for his clear strategy in taking on Hibiki who was a very respected for her age member of a very respected clan. He also managed to take out his last ninja, a very difficult fight, with out killing him, showing that he could manage the task of dispatching a target for questioning, even under hostile conditions.

Thus Faust was named a chunin. From there on he trained continuously. He went on several missions following that, and became well known to all in the village as one of the best in the trade. Before long, at age 10, he had become an ANBU member. In this division he stayed for 8 long years. He trained under a captain who specialized in crow summonings. When the captain died, he passed the scroll of crows onto Faust, his favorite officer, and declared him his replacement, making Faust an ANBU captain at the age of 18. From there he handled only the most top priority cases and became the advisor to the Hokage for 3 years as well as his personal body guard. At the age of 27, he decided it was time to settle down a bit and let someone else take the brute force of the work. He wanted to potentially start a family some where down the road, and figured a Jounin position was more suited for family life then an expert assassins post, though assassin he would always be.

So he has remained in his Jounin spot for a little over a year now, enjoying it throughly. He has taken up a special position still as a part of the barrier squad of Konoha, monitoring the barrier and also jumping in first to intercept any intruders to the village. He is honored as one of the dangerous men in Konoha and also one of the most generous despite his withdrawn personality.

Across the rooftops of Kumo Taizen sprinted, making his normal rounds. He did this about twice a week, just to give himself peace of mind. Rarely did he find anything worth his attention, nothing more then petty criminals these days. Of course, that didnt give him security of mind. He knew how swiftly that could change, and probably would. With the recent destruction of the mist village, his vigilante sense had been notched up one or two pegs, and he took his job even more serious. He could feel it. Something was going to happen soon. And he already had plans to stop it. Several rumors flew in and out of the city like fleas upon rats brining the plague. If even one of these stories was true, his plan could be set into motion he just had to find the right people.

He stopped upon a green tiled roof, a bit off setting to the rest of the village. This was also a slanted roof rather then flat, again, against the village norm. It was one of the most famous sit down places in all of Kumo, The Uncorked Winery. A silly name perhaps, but by far the fanciest of the lot, and easily one of the most relaxing places. He still hadnt finished his rounds today, but no matter, he felt the strong urge to have a glass or two and take it easy for a moment. He leaped from the tall building to the ground, only a single story and a half drop. Nothing major to be certain. However, he had landed with his back facing to the restraunt, and so had to turn around before he could take in the true view of it.

It looked just like a sea shore cottage. As he had noticed before when landing on it, the roof was slanted and tiled, colored green for god knows why. The rest of the building was all covered in an off color, all most beige siding. The front had two windows, both with wooden crosses separating the fixture into four smaller glass panes. To the side of each were green shutters, pointed downward, ample for closing time when looking in was only for thieves looking to ransack the place. Below each was a rectangular flower box filled with dirt and some flower that Taizen suspected to be lilacs. Such things were not his expertise. The boxes were also green and wooden, layered with long rectangular shapes. The normal road before entering it had been altered into a brick layered road, and gardens to each side with fences and grape vines flowering upon both. When he was done taking all of that in, he walked forward and into the wooden frame door and found a site much worth looking at.

All in all it had about six or seven tables, all of them circular. All of them with four wooden fold out chairs and giant oversized, white tablecloths covering them. They all had a single candle, lit, and each table had a different color. There was a a row of candles on each wall at about eye level, which was the main source of light. Where he had just walked in was a podium with a woman behind it, very pretty, raven black hair, not pale nor dark skin, and a very friendly smile.

"Hello sir, we have three tables open today, allow me to show you to your seat."

Taizen said nothing at this point and simply followed her soundlessly across the red carpeted floor with random black dots patterning it across the entire length. She laid a menu upon the far seat at the table with the green candle and pulled out a chair for him. He nodded to her, again, soundlessly and took his seat. It was now he chose to finally let words pass his lips with a very soft and gentle tone, almost charismatic, but not quite, obviously showing no inclination towards swoonging the public, or even a single lovely lady.

"Thank you dear miss, all I will require today will be your oldest, most expensive bottle of wine that has an exquisite taste, along with a customary wine glass for me to drink from. A small plate of three pieces of your finest and freshest bread would also be nice. I dont want it cooked now, I have not the time to wait, simply heat it slightly if you would. That will be all."

It was pointless to play the gentlemen. By now she had surely already noticed his permanently activated sharingan eye, three tomoe in all their glory. It was not long before she left and returned with his requested purchase. After the next half hour had passed, Taizen walked back out into the over casted streets of Kumo, a slight buzz going in his head, though nothing impairing, and the sweetest of tastes on his lips, with of course the repercussion of his money wallet being considerably lighter.

With out notice, or even an inclination that he had moved, he returned to the rooftops and began searching the streets once more. As he neared the eastern quadresect of the village, the part that had a lot of abandoned areas, he began to get a slight feeling in his stomach, though he could not place it. He preened his eyes and searched the depths of each street, till he found the source of his slight queasiness. Hanashi Shikyo. The name alone was enough. He knew she was slightly new to the village, but already he did not like her prescience here, especially in such a place. The shikyo, by legend, were one he was not very fond of. He watched her from the rooftop of a building away as she entered one of the many apartment complexes. He knew for a fact that this is NOT where she lived. Suddenly his interest had been peaked. There were no missions for this area either, he was sure of it. Something was afoot, and he did not like it.