Ichiro Ran

About the Character

Ichiro was born in the Hidden Village of Konoha - her parents both died when she was very young (in the events surrounding the battle against the Nine-Tail Fox, though the details are unclear). Orochimaru defeated the fox by sealing it inside of the infant Ran, making her into a Jinchuuriki. Many people of the village can not help but either blaming Ran for what happened and/or being affected by the ominous aura of the caged demon fox, so the girl grew up shunned by almost everyone - alone and, in time, embittered. Since she barely has gotten any decent tutoring in the ninja arts, she has been the very worst student in each of her classes - compensating slightly by her inherited genius for tactics, which by and large hasn´t helped her - most see it only as a penchant for cheating and proof of her bad character!

In a dark inversion of the first episode of the vanilla Naruto series, she failed her Genin exam, but was tricked into an "alternate" one by Iruka Umino - ie. nicking the secret scroll of Forbidden Techniques from the Hokage´s secret chamber! Too desperate to suspect foul play, Ran did so - in the process incapacitating Orochimaru through the use of the dirty tricks of her Sexy No Jutsu - and only too late learned that Iruka wanted the scroll for the secret resistance set on breaking Orochimaru´s reign! This was not before, though, Ran managed to uncover some of teh scroll´s secret for herself, learning a partial version of Death God Summon!

The arrival of Haku changed Iruka´s plan - instead, he settled for trying to kill Ran (her being the vessel of an evil power and all). Ran barely managed to activate her newfound power, but [[Haku]´s immense mastery of the Yin Ice Sword Style of Jutsu proved way too powerful for Iruka to resist.

Somewhat unsuspectedly, this actually served as Ran´s Genin test - and she was recruited into a new, special team under the Hokage himself...

Game stats

For complete stats, see Ran´s character sheet.

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