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1. What Tool are you wishing to obtain?  (鮫肌; Literally meaning "Shark Skin") 2. What is your reasoning for obtaining Samehada? Brought up in a discussion on the main chat with a few of the others, at first the proposition that Shima Date utilizing Samehada would be a bit of an odd choice, until I got to thinking that the aspects of the sentient great sword would couple greatly with the factors that come into play with my own characters. A hidden synergy I had not yet seen.

My desire to obtain the Samehada is to see the weapon being wielded by an individual who will push the story along, and use it as comrade, and face down the challenges that oppose them. Very familiar with the way Kisame and Samehada regarded one another. I wish to see this emotional bond reconnected, instead of letting the sword fall into play as a political booster for yet another Seven Swordsmen.

With Shima Date, I believe I can reinstate this bond between sentient blade and soulful comrade. As well as giving way to one of the most skilled and unique swordsmen known throughout the regions, without affiliation to the Mist or Iron. A symbiotic duo that transcends the formality of normal kenjutsu.

3. How will your character use this weapon in an unique way? Shima Date, at first will let the creature have bonded closely before seeking to utilize it in a combat orientation. Through their bond, Shima's relation with the Hiroigui, her bloodright to naturally absorb the chakra of the world around them through consumption will become amplified through the use of Sameheda. Their shared chakra absorption will allow them to consume a large slew of techniques harmlessly. The Hiroigui and Samehada's role as natural chakra mutations further let their relationship transcend, the two becoming one as a whole, and letting her use features of the creature's ability without having to take on a full transformation.

Despite simple absorption benefits and the fusion, Shima will be to actively give shape to Samehada at will, giving it the ability to take shape beyond that of a mere sword, infusing it with some of the chakra she has stored to prolong these states of shape shifting. Through eachother, the two will be able to engage foes in unpredictable manners, biological weaponry used to it's finest.

In addition, the form of sensory will give Shima the ability to track large sources of chakra, aiding her goal of unifying the down the line, though this is not my primary concern, merely a small boon. 4 How did your character obtain the Samehada? During the the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War after Madara's defeat, Killer Bee returned to Kumogakure to help the reconstruction of his village. During this time, the use of Samehada was as a mere keepsake due to his relation with the sentient. A sword during war times, and right then, reconstruction was the current issue, placing his thoughts on aiding the village, Killer Bee.

It was during this reconstruction, that the Ten Tailed Energy lead to catastrophic natural disasters, striking at Killer Bee's hearth, nearly killing him and his wife. The attack left the area in a rumbling turmoil of earth, lightning, and flame, sending Killer Bee bounding, a tumble of limbs; nearly killing the sentient blade in the same disaster. The blade sent off the mountain slopes, sliding through broken earth, into the gaping maw of the howling currents of the raging rivers beneath the village.

It was only due to the energy that it had consumed from the Ten Tails natural disasters, and the residual life force flowing through the rivers that Samehada ever made it through the event. Floating through the currents, the blade sank into an underwater cave where it sought rest, to regenerate and heal from it's wounds and pain.

Alone, lost, Samehada became forgotten as the Land of Lightning above only grew closer to demise.

With so many natural disasters, and the dangerous energy of the Tailed Beast energy corrupting the nation for years to come, Samehada laid dormant. Numerous searching parties, from single individuals, from Kumo, even the Mist sought the blade to once again renew their power as it stood for the symbol.

But the place in which it lay was too deep, hidden under earth and water, where it would have been left without hope of seeing the light of day again, that Shima Date would go searching in these very rivers and lost caverns, searching for beasts of power, to consume and aid her down the line. For but a moment in the dark abyss beneath the currents, she dove, feeling the hum of a creature's heartbeat, resonating through a spiritual connection. Sadness and fear.

Shima sought the creature, able to hold her breath indefinitely through the means of her Hiroigui's aquatic array, her eyes peered into the dark waters, picking up what light she could, and seeing how the current flowed into the earth's crevice, a watery cave. Searching for this silent cry, Shima thought for a moment that what she had could have been anything, doubting herself as she felt the silence despite her sensory.

Taking steps deeper inward, she found the blade, curled into a corner, an aura of pain exuding from it, feeling it had been trapped, distrustful of any and all that try to come near it. Testing her grounds, Shima walked close enough, and waited, sitting down in front of it. As time went by, Shima knew she had the patience and reserves to commune with the creature, believing that she had been lead her to heal the sentient shark spirit.

After several days, Shima had earned enough of it's trust to get close enough to form physical contact, and proceeded to speak with the creature in ways it would understand. Promising to heal the injuries it had sustained spiritually, emotionally. Hesitant and still yet afraid, Samehada allowed the girl to initiate their relationship.

Shima Date felt the creature's pain, felt it's heart ache from being forgotten, from losing it's previous master. She shared in it's suffering, and has from hence, began to heal the pains it had sustained. This moment also became one of the stepping stones in Shima's journey to enlightenment, acknowledging that the only way to truly heal the world, was to bond with it.

Hexnyx (talk) 20:20, April 2, 2014 (UTC) 