Ninja Gaiden

A broad-shouldered male Senju War Ninja with short dark-brown hair and green eyes that reflect the forest more than the battlefield. He wears reinforced shinobi mesh under a sleeveless vest, with his clan’s spiral insignia carved into a small wooden tag at his neck. His arms are usually scratched from overgrown jutsu.

Excels in support tactics and battlefield control. Thinks before he strikes. Prefers Earth and Water chakra, but blends them into Wood Release naturally. Often mediates between Shirō and Aya. Will fight to the death to protect them, but hides that resolve behind bad jokes and practiced calm.

Takeshi is Tsunade’s cousin—by blood if not by warmth. Where her grief hardened into ice, Takeshi grew like moss over old stone: steady, slow, and quietly defiant of despair. His older brother died in the Second War. His parents say nothing of it. But Takeshi remembers the box. The folded headband. The way the house got quieter every year. He was placed on Team 9 alongside Shirō Uchiha and Aya Hyuuga—two names heavier than his. And yet it is Takeshi who learned to laugh first. His Wood Release came during a rescue drill when he shielded a civilian girl from a collapsing boulder. Now, Tsunade trains him directly—perhaps to redeem her brother’s name… or bury it under his shadow. He doesn’t want to be Hokage. But he wants the Leaf to be worthy of one.