(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zDKAHGIXQ74/ST2EPLRLfvI/AAAAAAAABik/oMyM8cZdZOg/s320/cloaked+man.jpg)<br/><br/><br/><strong>Akamatsu Tojiro Takamori (The Ghost of the Leaf)</strong><br/><br/><strong>Age</strong>: 18<br/><strong>Rank</strong>: Chunin.<em>While he is quite powerful he is still young and still learning how to control and use his power without harming himself and his teammates. Akamatsu trains to hold his justu back rather than make it stronger.</em><br/><br/><strong>Affiliation </strong>: Village of the Hidden Leaf<br/><br/><strong>Affliction</strong>: While very powerful in the methods of Genjutsu he has trouble controlling his own chakra and his Genjutsu is always in operation in one way or another, always operating on those around him in a small way even when he is at rest, small illusions, shadows on the wall. He produces an immense amount of chakra but the more he uses the more uncontrolled it gets and there is a chance that he can become lost in his own power. Excessive use will harm him internally.<br/><br/>His forbidden water techniques are almost always used and practiced in secret. Akamatsu knows that they are forbidden. He doesn't understand exactly how he knows that it is wrong to use these jutsus but he knows that they are evil and dangerous.<br/><br/>He has a crippling fear of fire jutsus and as a result his use of fire chakra is almost non existent.<br/><br/><strong>Kekkei Genkai</strong>: Broken. Any blood line based jutsus his family might have had have long since been destroyed or despoiled by Togawa's influence.<br/><br/><strong>Elemental chakra</strong>: Wind (in training), Water, Forbidden Water (weak against fire)<br/><br/><strong>Specialization</strong>:  Wild Genjutsu, Forbidden Water Techniques, infiltration, interrogation<br/><br/><strong>Bio</strong>:<br/><br/>Akamatsu's grandfather Hara was a great water chakra ninja from the Land of Water. While he was very powerful, he specialized in helping other villages develop their lands and coasts. When the first ninja war came, he was not prepared for its ferocity and was taken prisoner by Togawa Heiichiro Kazumasa, the Water Ghost from the Land of Wind.<br/><br/>Togawa was given the task of pacifying the water nation and used his amazing genjutsu powers to decimate all of the water nation's forces nearly single-handedly. Togawa picked the most powerful chakra users from his many battlefields and allowed everyone to think that they had been killed when instead he had used his genjutsu abilities to change their memories making them loyal to him and part of a special family.<br/><br/>It was Togawa's ambition to rise to the top during the war and he used the  medical ninjas he had subverted to breed, influence and in some cases build children who would be particularly adept in certain narrow applications. His ghosts.<br/><br/>Akamatsu's father was one such being, kept captive all his life, he developed a variety of water nature transformations that would become forbidden as soon as they were understood by the Ninja world. Akamatsu's never knew his mother but she too was a controlled loyalist.<br/><br/>Togawa proved so dangerous that several nations dispatched detachments to end his threat and despite his careful planning and powerful shock troops, the Water Ghost could not prevail against the combined might of many nations. True to his nature for planning though, Togawa had sent some of his most promising creations away to be raised abroad with the intention of recalling them. Togawa died in the Battle of Phantoms toward the end of the First Ninja War.<br/><br/>Akamatsu was raised by a burned mountain hermit known only as Mon, in the land of fire knowing nothing of his cursed heritage. The hermit was harsh and cruel drilling him daily in the forbidden techniques of his father, developing his latent abilities at Genjutsu and pushing him as hard as any ninja in training. He finally went too far when, in an attempt to force him to use his Genjutsu with more force Mon ripped open his mind pouring in a life of pain and horror, his knowledge of war and a deep and abiding fear of fire.<br/><br/>Akamatsu's soul rebelled from the core of his being with a counter assault the destroyed Mon but not before some of his chakra channels were burned open. After a lengthy battle he gained control of his chakra, but only just.<br/><br/>He traveled to the nearest ninja village and offered himself to their mercy. One of the instructors took him under his wing. Thus far no connection has been made between Akamatsu and the infamous Water Ghost. Even Akamatsu only knows his face from nightmare dreams.