| Gakuto Hara | |
| 原ガクト Hara Gakuto | |
| Debut | |
| Appears In | Closed RP |
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| Japanese | JAPANESE VOICE ACTOR NAME |
| English | ENGLISH VOICE ACTOR NAME |
| Personal | |
| Birthdate |  August 29
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| Gender |  Male
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| Age | Part I: 00 Part II: 00 |
| Height | Part I: 00 cm Part II: 00 cm |
| Weight | Part I: 00 kg Part II: 00 kg |
| Blood type | B+ |
| Kekkei Genkai | KEKKEI GENKAI HERE |
| Classification | Poison Specialist Missing-nin |
| Occupation | Chemist |
| Affiliation |  Ochawari Teahouse
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| Team | Team Anbā |
| Clan |  Fujiwara Clan Iwahara Family
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| Rank | |
| Ninja Rank | Chūnin |
| Ninja Registration | 039842 |
| Academy Grad. Age | ACADEMY GRADUATION AGE HERE |
| Chūnin Prom. Age | CHUNIN PROMO AGE HERE |
Nature Type
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Jutsu
Acid Cocoon | |
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Gakuto Hara (原ガクト, Hara Gakuto) is a rogue ninja operating out of the Ochawari Teahouse. Over the course of his life, he has used his family's secret techniques to transform himself into a human gu. He shows great proficiency with genjutsu and poisons, but avoids close combat fights due to his dangerously toxic blood.
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Background[]
The first two years of Gakuto’s life were spent in the care of the elderly couple who oversaw his delivery. His mother Mitsuari had arrived to the village heavily pregnant and afflicted with an unknown poison. Although she could barely speak through her fever, she carried a note beseeching whoever found her to raise her child as “a person of learning and virtue” (学徳の人, gakutoku no hito). Because the couple had a limited education, the husband had struggled to read the note aloud; this resulted in the wife mistaking the letter’s message to be “raising the child, Gakuto-kun.”
After a long period of recovery, Gakuto's mother began a circuitous journey back to their clan's territory. During this period, Mitsuari coached him through the process of mithridatism. He payed close attention to his "cooking lessons," wherein all plants and forage-able items were categorized into "edible," "poisonous," "medical," or "other." In addition to slowly inoculating himself, Gakuto learned to distrust any meal he hadn't prepared on his own.
Personality[]
Gakuto's bluntness and tendency to "cut to the quick" paints him as a rather flippant person. As a natural result, he tends to bring out the worst in people; during their first meeting he managed to crack the "stone face" of Tsūran Hone, famous for his stoicism.
Gakuto has an extremely conflict-avoidant personality, seeming to ignore major problems until they go away while at the same time obsessing over minor inconveniences as a way to exert self-control. Several people have referred to him as especially heartless due to his apparent lack of reaction to rage or grief, particularly after Anbā's death in Part II.
Gakuto's youth has left him socially confused, and he often questions the nature of his relationships with others. He takes cues from very mild cases of annoyance or disappointment, and as a result he tends to be kind of a pushover to keep himself in others' good graces. He hates to initiate "milestones" in his relationships and expresses anxiety about possibly committing a social faux-pas. Despite his flaws, he is an empathetic person who often faces difficulty when he is expected to be emotionally vulnerable or sincere.
Appearance[]
Gakuto's predominant features are his wedge-shaped nose and pupilless red eyes. His choppy hair is bleached almost sand-coloured, and it is sometimes tied back to frame either side of his round, "babyish" face. As a child, his hair was ash brown and worn in a long lion cut; after the events of Part I, he keeps it at chin or shoulder-length. He tends to use his hair as a mode of personal expression far more than his clothes, which resulted in several major cut-and-dye changes from the ages of fourteen to nineteen. Gakuto also inherited two dark marks on the right side of his face and the Fujiwara's round "boar's eyes." He is described as broad-shouldered and stocky.
Gakuto is always outfitted with armour, under (and sometimes within) which he hides chemical ingredients—the danger his blood poses when exposed to others is minimized by covering his back, chest, outer arms, and legs in durable mail that he secures with a leather shoulder-piece. He normally only wears the full set on missions, and sticks with arm guards for casual-wear. He carries a light jacket but rarely actually wears it, although he once used it to distract Itachi Uchiha in a fight. The jacket, like his armour, has several zippers and pockets in which he stores packets, poisons, and ingredients.
His off-duty clothes are a similar style. Gakuto seems to prefer an athleisure-inspired wardrobe and prioritizes breathability, maximum coverage, and certain fabrics over style. He favours red and pale green colours, but his beloved off-duty sneakers are an unfashionable off-beige.
Abilities[]
Gakuto is fairly adaptable in a fight and is known for his ability to find and exploit flaws in enemies' ninjutsu that help to strengthen his own ninjutsu. He initially used earth jutsu for his main attacks, but later discovered an affinity for fire release techniques that he used to build up his attack and defence. He has a high resistance to genjutsu and is a practiced hand at recognizing and dispelling illusions; he often baits opponents into making the first move by disorienting or disguising terrain.
Gakuto's taijutsu is passable, but it's by far his weakest skill. The risks of exposure to his blood make it very dangerous for him to be a close-combat fighter; he relies far more on his speed and agility to outpace opponents and stay out of range. His skills are best applied to high damage stealth roles, and he prefers to leave the heavy lifting to combat squads or the designated first point of contact.
He struggled as a registered ninja because lacked the necessary discipline for ninjutsu and displayed an inability to master more flashy techniques. His exchange program with Konoha and his contract with the Rhino Boss has expanded Gakuto's skill set to the point where he feels comfortable utilizing his background in poisons, although he refuses to fight using his blood unless he's certain it won't be a danger to his comrades.
Poisons[]
Poisons are Gakuto's strongest skill. He excels in the creation and neutralization of ingestible and food-borne poisons, and possesses the necessary skills to slowly saturate his body with poison without negatively impacting his own health. Gakuto also has a comprehensive knowledge of herbalism and chemistry; he can identify plants by leaf and flower structure as well as the individual parts of plants and their exact uses.
Gakuto is highly competent in both medicines and poisons, and apparently has some skill with healing; however, his knowledge was rooted in practical and pharmaceutical fields instead of in iryō-ninjutsu. He has enough medical skill to stall or counteract unique poisons created by other shinobi. His candy-like "medicine balls" are ranked among the highest quality fast-acting medicines for active shinobi, as they have minimal risks (or negative side effects) and a generally pleasant taste.
Kinjutsu[]
The Iwahara family's kinjutsu allows Gakuto to produce an extremely toxic and inexhaustible poison from his blood, which he uses as a base for many of the poisons and ninjutsu techniques he’s picked up over the years.
Gakuto has heavily altered his biology by absorbing and infusing his body with highly concentrated poison. He has been able to saturate his body with undetectable poison that has completely merged with his own cell structures, including those of his blood and internal organs all the way down to the very tips of his fingernails.
In Part I, Gakuto's body is infused with about 57 kilograms (76 kilograms in Part II) worth of poison, which far exceeds the median lethal dose for the average person. Depending on the size of the opponent he engages, he is sometimes capable of using his saliva to melt organic material.
Endocrine System[]
Gakuto has the fine chakra control necessary to consciously manipulate his endocrine system, a chemical messenger system consisting of the regulation of hormones to distant target organs. This system allows him to halt the production of certain hormones to eliminate things like scent, which makes him more difficult to track.
He can also induce short-term catalysis of the production of hormones, particularly erythropoietin (EPO), which promotes formation of red blood cells by the bone marrow. Although this increases the overall toxicity of his blood (and therefore makes close combat with him more dangerous), EPO is exclusively produced in the kidneys and excessive catalysis will cause painful kidney failure.
Other Skills[]
Summoning[]
Gakuto has made contact with an armoured rhinoceros summons. In addition to providing aid in battle, his summons instruct him in the use of fire release techniques and applications for medicines in combat. The Fire Release: Pharaoh's Serpent is mostly unique to Gakuto's family, as it requires the use of his blood's special properties for proper execution; however, the technique itself is kept secret by the Rhino Boss.
It's possible that the rhinos were actually the Iwahara family's personal summons - Gakuto often takes this into consideration when theorizing on their origins. Under the tutelage of the Rhino Boss, Gakuto has mellowed out somewhat and no longer seems reluctant to use his "underhanded" techniques.
Bukijutsu[]
Gakuto is reasonably skilled in the use of ninja weapons, especially long-range tools. Prior to Part I, Gakuto used only a select few tools (mostly tags and bombs). His essential training begins midway between Parts I and II, where he begins training with his mentor's gift, a set of hollow knives. Gakuto mentions having had to hunt for game, which could refer to proficiency with a throwing spear or bow, or to a familiarity with traps.
Gakuto typically exhibits a higher level of paranoia than his less seasoned year mates, and he has engineered custom explosive tags altered to expel airborne chemicals, including a neurotoxin and a paralytic.
Relationships[]
Mitsuari Iwahara[]
Mitsuari is something of a mythic figure to Gakuto. Early in life, Yeot projected his idealized memory of his precious person onto Gakuto, leading him to believe that his mother was a zealous martyr of Jashin. Once Gakuto grew older, he discovered through fragments of her original letter and her few remaining contacts that she had never intended to allow him to live the life of a shinobi, let alone a Jashinist. It was her most ardent wish that he grow up never having to understand suffering.
Anbā Kohaku[]
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Lián[]
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Suzuki Endō[]
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Part I[]
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Part II[]
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Notes[]
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Trivia[]
- The names of Naruto characters are almost always objects or concepts (as opposed to recognized names). "Gakuto" comes from the characters "楽人"; the literal reading is "musician," but it can also be read as a colloquialism for a carefree person. Alternative spellings include “学徒” (gakuto), meaning student or follower; and “学徳” (gakutoku), meaning “learning and virtue.”
- “Hara” simply means “field,” “plain,” or “wilderness.” He’s taken on this diminutive of his adoptive surname, Iwahara (巌原, meaning “rock, crag” and “field, plain”), to hide his affiliation with his birth family.
- Sweetbread (シビレ, Shibire) is the alias he earned from the toxicology department. Gakuto largely works with ingestible substances; most of his poisons enter his opponent's soft tissue to cause major organ failure, and he particularly targets the liver, lungs, and stomach—in animals, dishes cooked from these organs are referred to as "sweetbreads."
- Gakuto loves fast food and considers it one of his "guilty pleasures."
- Gakuto's favourite word is “nakayado” (中宿), meaning “inn where one rests on the way.”
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