Rūku Satsujin

Rūku Satsujin ( 金属 殺人Satsujin Rūku) is a Leaf Village Jonin.

Personality
Rūku is somewhat apathetic, considering it more important to finish a mission then wait for an injured teammate to heal or rescue a captured teammate. However, he is still very loyal, he will even sacrifice himself to defend a companion. When not training or on missions, he is often found watching or feeding birds.

Appearance
Rūku has black hair and dark blue eyes. Instead of wearing a typical headband, he wears a mask with the leaf village symbol on the forehead. His mask is tied on like a normal headband and covers most of his face except for a rectangle surrounding his eyes. His typical attire consists of black pants, a flak jacket, and bandages wrapped around his torso instead of a shirt.

History
As a child, Rūku dreamed of being a great ninja. Unfortunately, his father thought life as a ninja was too dangerous and insisted that Rūku work with him training birds to deliver messages from village to village because he seemed to have a natural talent for training birds. One day, his father was attacked and killed by rogue ninjas. Before he died, his father told him the reason he didn't want him to be a ninja. He said that he was once a ninja and gave it up because Rūku was born and didn't want to die before seeing him grow up. His father then told Rūku that he could be a ninja and to avenge his death.

Abilities
Being a Jonin, Rūku had exceptional skill with ninjutsu. The majority of his techniques revolved around using crows. He had a natural talent with training and communicating with birds.

Shurikenjutsu
Because he specialized in long range combat, he was highly skilled with shurikenjutsu. His favorite strategy was a variation of the Shadow Shuriken Technique where instead of a shuriken traveling in the shadow of another shuriken, it flew in the shadow of a crow that attacks his opponent.

Nature Transformation
While most of his techniques involved crows, he did have some knowledge of nature transformation. The only one he has been seen using is the Fire Release: Ash Pile Burning technique.

Taijutsu
Though he specializes in long range combat, he has some knowledge of close range combat.