Asura

"There's so much of my own life I can't explain. I've survived countless brushes with death, and it all started with on the day i was found by my foster father. If I'm guilty of anything, it's that I've inherited an eccentric curiosity for the unexplained."

- Asura


 * "Only with strength can one endure suffering and torment." - Shadow Rage

Asura  (阿修羅, Ashura; literally "Scene of Carnage") is originally a kunoichi from Sunagakure and a Jōnin-Rank ninja. She was a member of the current generation of the Twelve Guardian Ninja and a spy for Otogakure. She is an infamous criminal shinobi known throughout the ninja world for her cruelty and madness. She is referred to as The Fighting Demon ( 戦闘鬼, Sentō oni) due to her status as a shinobi hunter and also for her love of battle. Although she is known as the counterpart of Reiko Himegami a member of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, the exact nature of their relationship is unknown or even if they are related to one another. Asura is a missing-nin from Sunagakure, and is an international criminal. Due to her status as a criminal shinobi she has taken the alias of Yuriko Kurohime (百合子黒姫, Kurohime Yuriko) a former member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja.

She wields a long spear weapon called Jikkai (十戒; Literally meaning "The Ten Commandments"), a weapon of great power. She is one of the most dynamic major antagonists. As she was directly responsible for the disappearances of several ninja’s from all over the five great shinobi nations, which in turn made the five kages meet with one another at the kage summit in the land of iron. She was indirectly responsible for the incident with the fake bijuu in the kage summit and the ensuing chaos that spread across the ninja world. She is currently affiliated with the the infamous criminal organization the Akatsuki and is currently one of their spy and top warrior. She has gained another two monikers after joining the Akatsuki, she is currently referred to by many as the Witch of the Akatsuki (の魔女暁, No majo akatsuki) and is also known as the Night Queen (夜の女王, Yoru no joō).

Appearance
Asura is very similar in appearance to her counter part Reiko Himegami. She is a tall beautiful young girl with long red hair and brown eyes. She is a woman in her twenties and many people find her to be very attractive. Unlike her counter part she has a different hair style, while Reiko keeps her hair open and flowing, Asura on the other hand keep part of her long hair tied up in a small ponytail with bangs that cover the left side of her face. She is seen wearing for most of the time armor gauntlet on her arms that covers from her hands up to the elbow. She is also seen wearing black legging and over it wears similar armor that extends up to her knees. She wears a long crimson scarf around her neck and seems to wear chainmail bikini leaving a sizable cleavage. Around her waist she wears a dark colored belt. This is her most well known clothing which she usually wears while carrying out her duties as a shinobi hunter.

Like her counter part Asura doesn’t usually wear the same clothes but it’s not because of fashion but rather due to the fact she needs to keep her identity as a criminal secret and thus never really wears the same outfit except for her battle armor. She like her counter part frequently wears somewhat revealing clothing that is either dark in color or consisting of leather, sometimes both. She will also sometimes wear a regular shinobi uniform with a jonin vest, this is so that she can blend in without drawing too much attention to her self.

As a member of the akatsuki she wears the black Akatsuki robe over her standard clothing and her Akatsuki ring is on her left middle finger, the kanji on her ring means North (北 hoku). She wears dark green nail polish.

Personality
"Every man has a weakness, Ryoji, no matter how superhuman or powerful he may be. I've embraced my destiny. Now embrace yours. Together we could forge a new future. And if you don't join me I’ll make sure everyone you love will suffer at my hands. Do you know what's the secret of living happily ever after is? Power. Money and power. See, once you have those things you can secure anything else and keep it that way."

- Asura to Ryoji

Asura is completely different from her counter part Reiko. She is best described as a psychopath, a being who feels no remorse for her actions and has no empathy towards other. She is brutal, sadistic and enjoys killing others with a smile. Lacking in conscience and empathy, she takes what she want and does as she please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse She does not have any sense of honor and is a compulsive liar, usually lying to her comrades and even closets allies. She is also sexually aggressive using men like her plaything. Despite her destructive behavior she has the ability to naturally blend in with others without raising anyone’s suspicions.

She will use her natural charisma and charms to manipulate others according to her will and will even use sex as a weapon to gain the advantage she needs. Because she is insincere and superficially charming, she can excellently mimic the emotions of normal human beings; and can use this to blend in, undetected, in a variety of surroundings. She will also use intimidation and violence against other people and inspire fear into them. She will beat a man within an inch of his life just for annoying her or for not following her orders. Because she lacks a sense of guilt or remorse for any harm she may have caused to others, she will instead rationalize her behavior, blaming it on someone else (ex, her superiors), or denying it outright. Due to the fact that Asura lack empathy towards others in general, this results in tactlessness, insensitivity, and contemptuousness behavior. All of this false representation allows her to make a good, likable first impression on other who doesn’t really understand her true dark nature. Asura has a superficial charm about her, enabled by a willingness to say anything without concern for accuracy or truth.

In battle she is absolutely ruthless, she is cunning and manipulative and will use any means necessary to bring down her opponent, even if she has to trick her opponent or use mind games to intimidate or humiliate them. She is arrogant, disrespectful and usually belittles or taunts her opponents in battle. She has a battle style similar to a berserker, ignoring injuries and overpowering her enemies with great strength and force. This makes her very unpredictable and hard to figure out as she fights with no restrictions or with no sympathy, thus making her a truly fearsome combatant.

She also possesses another side to her personality which she usually uses to blend into society or when she is carrying out her duties as a member of the twelve ninja guardian. As Yuriko Kurohime she is polite, soft-spoken, kind and serious person with a passion for carrying out her duties as a guardian member. This is just a façade she uses to draw away people attention from her true manipulative and destructive nature, she hates any form of authority and will usually follow a leader whom she finds competent and up to her standards like the current Fire Diamyo. Despite the fact that Shirou Uchiha saved her life, brought her back to the sound village and also trained her for many years, she hates him with utter contempt, and is planning to kill him one day in order to take his sharingan eyes for herself and become the next leader of Otogakure. She seems to hate all members of the Uchiha clan and thinks of them as nothing but a pathetic washed up clan who has long since lost their place in the world, though she is interested in acquiring a sharingan for herself.

She also seems to easily get bored if there is nothing to do around, as such she goes around the world or neighboring shinobi nations to fight against and kill the strongest of shinobi she can find. She also works as a shinobi hunter from time to time just for the sake of a challenge or finding a true opponent, this may also be a form of stimulation for her. She is in every way an opposite to her righteous counter part Reiko Himegami, she can be best described as a demon with zero empathy and no remorse.

Due to her arrogant and manipulative attitude, she looks down upon most of the male members of the Akatsuki and even claims that she is stronger then all of them. She seems to have a better relationship with another female member besides herself in the group Odayakana Nami, respecting her for her reserved and calm nature in contrast to her own ruthless and violent nature. Her reasons for joining the Akatsuki was out of boredom as she had nothing much to do during the time of her recruitment. Before she was recruited into the group she killed the person who had her current ring position thus proving her strength and determination to their cause.

History
Where she was born or how she came to be is unknown, anything before the age of 5 is all but a forgotten memory for her. Asura was found in the deserts near the village hidden in the sand, by a young medical nin of Sunagakure named Kaito. Finding the lost child almost near the brink of death, he took her back to the sand village, cared for her and later adopted her as his own daughter. Kaito raised young Asura as his own daughter and taught her medical jutsu when she got older. Though living a normal childhood life, Asura was far from normal; from a young age she had show anti social behavior and had tendencies to get into fights with her fellow young shinobi. Despite studying to become a shinobi she was bored most of the time and wished she could get away from the village and travel the world.

She graduated from the ninja academy at the age of 7 and participated in the chunin exams a year later, which she passed along with her two fellow genin. From the age of 8 till the age of 11 she continued to develop her ninja abilities as well as her skills in medical ninjutsu, though she was not really interested in medical ninjutsu she only trained in the said skill area due to her foster fathers wishes. For several years she continued to go on missions with her chunin team and when she was the age of 12 she was made the youngest jonin ever in the village due to her great battle skills and abilities.

Something happened to her after she was made a jonin, through her first year as a young jonin she started to commit crimes, killing several sand and fellow ninja jonin’s in cold blood. She was able to get away with it for almost an entire year without raising much suspicion and continued with her jonin duties, it wasn’t until an old friend and teammate found out the truth about her actions that she was finally discovered, her friend tried to reason with her but it was already to late, she wanted to kill her friend and both of them fought against one another but in the end she was unable to bring her self to kill him. Several of the high ranking jonin and several hunters nin were made aware of the fact that she was responsible for the murders that occurred through out the year and the elders of the village issued an arrest and execution orders for her. Before leaving the sand village for good she made her way back to her old home and decided to see her foster father Kaito before leaving, Kaito was distraught about what his step daughter had done and why she didn’t come to him for help. Asura explained that she was very grateful to him for taking care of her all these years but there was a deep darkness inside her heart and even he wouldn’t have been able to understand, with that she parted from her former home, Kaito tried to stop her but was unable to himself as she had used a sleeping gas on him and he fell unconscious. She later escaped the Hidden Sand Village and a bounty was issued on her head, she changed the name she was given by Kaito, she now went under the identity of Asura a demon shinobi and made her way to the land of earth. At the age of 14 she came to Iwagakure and posed as a young chunin during her stay there, the reason she came to Iwagakure was to steal several forbidden earth related jutsu that Iwagakure was known to posses and also steal important information about Iwagakure so that she could later sell them to other neighboring shinobi countries. After two years of staying in Iwagakure and blending in with the populace of the hidden stone village, she was finally found out by the jonin of the hidden stone village that she was a criminal and rouge ninja from the land of wind, she later after killing several jonin ninja left the stone village.

For the next two years she continued to travel the world killing anyone that got in her way and challenging several ninja to battle killing them off afterwards, she later made her way to the hidden sound village where she was recruited by its young and new leader Shirou Uchiha, seeing great potential in the young Asura, he took her as one of his students and trained her for the next several years, teaching her several high level jutsu as well as expanding her abilities and medical ninja skills. She was taught several forbidden jutsu that Shirou had come into possession off and taught her military tactics and battle strategies. She was also made leader of his personal four man squad and the sound village mercenary unit called the Sound Four, with whom she continued to work for several years and went on various ninja hunting and killing missions. At one point in time she was given the special seal that Shirou provides with to people whom he trusts and considered the best among the thousands, it was the Curse Seal of Heaven, it allowed the user greater strength and power but it also made her vulnerable to Shirou’s influence, knowing that Shirou is using the curse seal to control her she started to hate him and one day planed to kill him once she got stronger and take his sharingan eyes for herself. During her time with Shirou and the sound village she made a great name of herself known through out the land as the fighting demon Asura, her abilities and skills continued to grow and she gained control over the curse seal of heaven that was given to her.

Asura was made aware that Shirou Uchiha was responsible for the death of the previous fire Diamyo, it was due to the partnership he had formed with Tsurai Tsuitou, the assassination of the previous fire diamyo helped tsurai clam the position of daimyo and total control of the land of fire, thus the chains of events that led to the attack of the fake tail beasts on the kage summit and the leaf village began. Shirou was given several of the fake tailed beast by Tsurai and in exchange he gave his best warrior to Tsurai as a sign of trust and confidence, though Shirou had an ulterior motive, he had actually planted Asura to spy on the new fire Diamyo and act as a spy for the hidden sound village, to keep track of the diamyo’s activities. Asura knowing that she was being used once again as a pawn in his games decided to do her own thing and she sided with Tsurai at the moment though Shirou was unaware of the fact that she had become a double agent acting as a spy and liaison between Tsurai and Shirou. Tsurai impressed with her loyalty and skills placed her within the ranks of the twelve guardian ninja, a team of highly skilled shinobi that were instructed with the protection and service of the fire lord of the country which was Tsurai at the current time. Before officially joining the 12 ninja, under the direct orders from the fire diamyo she killed 2 members of the 12 ninja guardian; this was in order to prove her skills to the fire lord. She was also responsible for the disappearances of several ninja’s from all over the five great shinobi nations this was so that the fire diamyo Tsurai would be able to inject the chakra from the Bijuu into these Missing Ninja and create his own personal Mini-Bijuu Clones which are miniature physical versions of the 9 Bijuu which created these monstrosity's he calls his False Tailed Beasts. She was indirectly responsible for the incident at the kage summit and the ensuing chaos that spread across the ninja world.

After the incident with the fake tailed beasts, Asura dissapeared from the ninja world going into hiding for a while, in order to recover from the wounds she received during her battle with her counterpart Reiko Himegami. Several months later she was approached by a mysterious young man calling himself Koi Shūrai, he came to her with the intention of asking her to join him and reform the once legendary group called the Akatsuki, Koi's intention with the group is to plunge the world into utter chaos and bring forth the Eternal Night by crushing all hope and ruling with an iron fist. After hearing of his plans for the new Akatsuki she agreed, with the condition that she could wreak as much havoc as possible, to which Koi agreed. Thus she was recruited as a member of the criminal organization the Akatsuki. She was originally partnered with Ryu Uchiha but due to their intense hatred of one another as well as their problems of working as a team, the partnership did not last for long, they only worked together on five missions and quite surprisingly all five missions were successful, though despite their difference they were at one time regarded as one of the if not the strongest team akatsuki had to offer. Her current partner within the group is Bakuha Hakoda.

Abilities
"You think you can defeat me by striking with power alone "Shinsaku"? How foolish. ...no perhaps our basic understanding of the word “power” is much different. Shall I teach you the meaning of what "true power" really is. Then maybe you might understand that the difference between us is like heaven and earth."

- Asura to Shinsaku

Asura is one of the strongest kunoichi’s in the current ninja world. She is considered the best at what she does which is fighting and is noted to have been born with an exceptionally powerful chakra. She is an expert at hand to hand combat as well as an expert weapon user, known for the use of her long spear the Ten Commandments. She has also experience in medical ninjutsu due to the training she had received during her younger years from her foster father Kaito. Known through out the ninja world as a shinobi hunter, she has killed many high level shinobi and in addition to that she has killed 50 jonin’s just for the fun of it. She is an expert at taijutsu and has also learned a few sealing techniques during the time she spent with her former master Shirou Uchiha. She has also trained herself to be resistant to genjutsu attacks and is now capable of resisting the effects of a sharingan to a certain degree. She display great cunning and manipulative nature in battle but prefers to attack head on without much strategy due to her not fearing death and her total disregard for her safety, as such she fights more like a berserker which make her unpredictable and makes it very hard for an opponent to figure out her attack patterns. Asura is also a particularly skilled chakra-sensing ninja, which means she is able to sense the chakra of people around her and detect the presence of others, this is one of the reason why she is know for her great skills as a hunter-nin.

Nature Transformation
Asura’s signature nature affinity is earth, she has shown great control and mastery over earth related jutsu’s and is able to use various high level earth release techniques. She can use the Earth Clone Technique to create a clone made of mud which she uses to distract or confuse opponents. With the Earth Release: Tearing Earth Turning Palm she can split the surrounding ground around an enemy to crush and burry the enemy underneath the earth. One of her favourite earth jutsu is the Earth Release: Wheel of Fortune which she uses to summons a large amount of rock form a giant canyon to be used for setting up other jutsu. She has also created the Earth Release Golem technique which she uses to create giant or small golem like creatures made of earth and mud to battle for her; she can create two giant golems and 7 small golems at any given time, that is her limit for the moment since the golem are movable creature they require a bit amount of chakra. The only weakness these earth creatures have is that they are weak against lightning techniques.

The most dangerous and forbidden earth release technique she knows is the Earth Release Resurrection Technique: Corpse Soil, this is the jutsu which she stole from Iwagakure during her time staying there. This is her only forbidden technique at her disposal and it allows her to summon a large number of slain zombies like being seemingly continuously, but with none of their rationality, physical prowess, or technique at their disposal. They are fairly easy to destroy and will immediately turn to dust once destroyed.

She is also good with water release techniques and mainly uses it along with earth release techniques, to create rivers of mud to seemingly carry the enemy away. With Water Release: Violent Bubble Wave she is able to spit out a large amount of bubbles. The ground covered by the bubbles looses its friction; this allows her to considerably limit the opponent's movements. Her most used and favorite water technique is the Water Release: Water Whip, she creates a whip made of water that can wrap around an opponent.

She is also know for her use of fire release techniques, but unlike regular users of the fire release she mainly uses it with her long spear weapon the Ten Commandments. She uses chakra flow to encase her spear with fire chakra to increase its destructive power; she has also created several weapon based fire release techniques using the Ten Commandments. Her fire technique is the Fire Release: Explosion which allows her to create a fire explosion around the point that the spear hits. Her second technique Fire Release: Flame Thrower allows her to shoot out fire from the tip of her spear; she is able to move the spear thus using it like a flamethrower. Her final technique is the Fire Release: Geyser with which by stabbing her spear into the ground pillars of flames will rush out from the ground, this allows her to hit multiple opponents at one time

Physical Prowess and Chakra
From a young age Asura has been noted by many including her foster father Kaito to have been born with an exceptionally large and powerful chakra. This large chakra allows her with limited stamina and strength, and also allows her to fight against a shinobi a little bit longer than usual, though she does get tired like a regular shonobi with extended time in battle. She has show great control of her chakra not wasting much of it when using a technique, and allows her to use a jutsu to their maximum efficiency without wasting much of her chakra.

Aside from her chakra she has show great physical prowess, this may be attributed to her chakra control. She is an expert at hand to hand combat and prefers direct physical combat, with which she has shown to be very proficient and dangerous. She is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat, as she is capable of fighting against several armed opponents with just her bare hands and was capable of taking down an opponent much larger in size than herself with a single strong punch. Due to her feminine figure she is able to move gracefully and dodge physical attacks at close range, it also allows her with great agility and flexibility with which she can confuse or even overwhelm an opponent.

Chakra Sensing Skill
Asura having been born with a unique chakra signature has also allowed her to become a sensor type ninja, this may also be attributed to her fine chakra control. She is capable of detecting the presence of other people through their chakra. Her chakra sensing skills allows her to detect targets from a great distance, as well as differentiate the characters by their chakra signature alone. She is able to sense the chakra of others even from extended distances. Such an example is being able to tell exactly who is among a crowd of people. Asura is good enough to tell if her targets are lying based on any fluctuations or changes of their chakra signature. Her skills at chakra sensing may also be due to the fact that she may have simply been born a bit more sensitive, than a regular shinobi and has trained most of her life in order to refine this aspect of her ability. Usually she needs to close her eyes and go into a concentrated state of mind when using her chakra sensing abilities, but one disadvantage of her ability is that she is unable to use her sensing skills to sense the chakra of animals the reason for this is unknown. It is because of these sensing skills that has allowed her to become an excellent shinobi hunter and thus gained her reputation as a skilled assassin.

Cursed Seal of Heaven
During her time as a student of Otogakure’s leader Shirou Uchiha she was bestowed the curse seal of heaven upon her as a sign of trust. Seeing her potential as a shinobi shirou attempted to control her with the curse seal but due to her will and strong chakra she was able to resist the effects of the curse seal and not fall completely under Shirou influence.

Like most users of the curse seal they have accesses to two stages of the curse seal stage 1 and 2. She was able to master stage 1 with help of her former sound four team members but it took her a while and hard work to gain certain amount of control over the second stage of the curse seal. After gaining control of the second stage she is able to accesses it without much problem except it makes her battle hungry and dangerous. The second level of the Cursed Seal changes Asura's appearance greatly, her body and skin gets covered in black skin like scales which seems to act as some sort of armor, black pupils, yellow irises and black sclera., lengthened gray her hair without losing much of its style, blue venom lipstick seemed to appear on her lips, and seems to give her the ability to shoot out several spike like extensions from her body. In this form, her physical attributes increases and also her techniques are also enhanced by the Cursed Seal's dark chakra. After training for several years she gained complete control and mastery over the Cursed Seal, but needed to transform or activate the form in order to access its power. Asura also extended the amount of time she could stay in the Cursed Seal Level Two form but prolonged use of this form exhausts her body and needs half a day to recover from the full effects of the second form. She will only use this form when dealing with a much more powerful opponent than her self or in a life or death situation, as she does not like to use this form too often.

Relationships
Despite her villianous status as a criminal shinobi, she has forged several unique relationships with various people from around the ninja world.

Kaito
While she was still living in the sand village, she was brought up by a sand medical nin by the name of Kaito, he found the baby Asura on the outskirts of the Sand Village near the desert. He raised the the girl for many years before she left the village to pursue her own goals. Though Kaito was not her real father, she respected him nonetheless and was quite sad during their departure. After many years she came back to the sand village to meet him one more time before joining the criminal organization the Akatsuki, Kaito tried to stop her from leaving but he was unable to do so.

Takashi Kosuda
One of her childhood friends and classmates while she was still living in the sand village, he was one of the few people Asura really cared about and has even stated that if she was capable of loving someone, then Takashi would be the person she would have loved. She was also on the same chunin team with him and had participated on several ninja missions. A year after becoming a Jonin Asura went on a killing spree killing several sand village ninja, Takashi was one of the first few people to find out about this and even confronted her. The two fought against each other but Asura came out as the victor, after their battle she said her goodbyes to him and left.

Shirou Uchiha
Shirou Uchiha was her former master and mentor, he trained Asura for a long time and took her as one of his apprentices and personal bodyguards, their relationship was one of student and master, Asura inherited a lot of his philosophies and out look on life, because of her loyalty and dedication to his cause she was bestowed the greatest honor a sound ninja could have gained according to Shirou at the time, he gave her the curse seal of heaven, a curse mark that allowed her to access a much greater power. But what she did not know that the curse mark had the potential to kill bearer of the mark and if the mark did not kill her then it made her more vulnerable to Shirou's influence. After learning the truth about what her master had done to her, how he tried to control her like a puppet she vowed to one day make him pay for his transgression and betrayal. She was eventually able to fulfill her wish by killing her former master shirou and taking his sharingan eyes for herself.

Reiko Himegami
Both Asura and Reiko look exactly alike, but their relation to one another is currently unknown at this point, the first time the two met was on the battle field during the invasion of Kirigakure by Otogakure forces, the two fought against one another in an epic battle that almost took both their lives but the battle ended in a draw. Due to their opposite natures and conflicting ideals they don't seen eye to eye but despite that Asura seems to have a loathing respect for her good counter part, she has vowed that one day they will finish their fight.

Odayakana Nami
Asura was originally the one who was sent to recruit Nami into the Akatsuki, she is one of the few people that Asura has take a liking too within the Akatsuki since she is very similar to Asura in terms of circumstances and how cruel fate has been to them. She seems to have a better relationship with Nami, respecting her for her reserved and calm nature in contrast to her own ruthless and destructive nature.

Ryu Uchiha
Asura's former partner within the Akatsuki, for some reason from the moment they were partnered together as a team both of them had an instant dislike for one another and have difficulty properly functioning as a team, but despite their differences they have on a few occasions worked together as a duo, they were once regarded as one of the strongest team within the Akatsuki.

Behind the Scenes
thumb|right|200px|Asuras battle theme, "Getting Away With Murder" by Papa Roach. She is meant to replace my original villian character Shirou Uchiha, I am quite proud of her because she is such a complex and unique individual, she has know nothing but death and destruction for most of her adult life, she is still trying to find her purspose in the shinobi world and where she stands in the midst of all this chaos.

This character Asura is one of my best creation yet in NFF, I am truly happy about how the character came to be, a lot of time and work was put into the development of this character. This character also shows the improvement of my character making skills, since I have gained much experience from my time in Naruto Fanon wikia, and several people have take a liking to her due to her unique and destructive personality. Asura is based on Erza Knightwalker from the manga series Fairly Tail, she is also meant to be an antithesis to another character of mine Reiko Himegami, she is everything that Reiko is not ; I used Erza as a base model for my character because she is one of my favorite characters in Fairy Tail.

Trivia

 * Her appearance is based on Erza Knightwalker from the anime/manga series Fairy Tail.
 * Her theme song is Stricken By Disturbed and her battle theme is Getting Away With Murder by Papa Roach.
 * Asura's favourite words are "massacre" (虐殺, Gyakusatsu) and "destruction" (破壊, Hakai).
 * According to the Naruto databook:
 * Asura's hobbies are playing mind games with people, and shinobi hunting or recruting.
 * Asura wishes to fight against Reiko Himegami, Ryu Uchiha, and Ryoji Sogetsu.
 * Asura's favorite foods are prawn, chicken and sake, while her least favorite food is Sushi.
 * Asura has completed 800 official missions in total: 200 D-rank, 200 C-rank, 200 B-rank, 150 A-rank, 50 S-rank.
 * Asura is the third female ninja character created by me and is also my third villian character.
 * Asura is the counterpart of Reiko Himegami.
 * She was originally a member of the Twelve Guardian Ninja.
 * Asura is meant to be an antithesis to Reiko, as such she is the complete opposite of Reiko in terms of personalty, ideas and overall goals.
 * The current relationship or connection between Asura and Reiko is unknown at the moment, but details regarding Asura's true origins may be revealed as the story progresses, so for now they are counterparts to one another.
 * Asura is currently a member of the infamous criminal organization the Akatsuki.