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| - Atsumu was born in the wind dominant branch of the Yaseimei Clan, a clan that was a member of the Fang tribe. His nuclear family was a middle of the road family among the clan. They had no produced anyone exceptionally powerful in the past, though his father had made it to full hunter status prior to his birth. His mother was a trophy bride, taken from the ruins of a clan that had dared to raid the fang. As such he was of fairly good stock, and expected to be a solid, albeit uninspiring, member of the clan. For a while even, they seemed to be right. Early on in his training, Atsumu simply wasn't interested in all the lessons that he was given. He was punished repeatedly for his failures, but he was simply too stubborn to accept the instructions of his elders. Around the time he was six he got an attitude change however. His father, knowing how rebellious his child was, took him on a hunting trip. Normally children never got to go, but his father realized he needed a sense of what was coming, if he was ever to succeed. He took him to see the hunting, the animals running, the forest breezing, and all of the sights he was going to see in his life. Out of all the things he had been told, Atsumu got to see at least part of his future. It was a part that motivated him to feel the freedom of running through the trees, through the brush below, and the feeling that you truly made a difference with what you brought back. With new motivation in hand, he threw himself at his training, quickly catching up to his more studious peers. While he was the last person in his age group to actually learn the clan's hiden, if you count from the time he actually tried to the time he achieved it, he learned it far faster than any of them. This was not something that went unnoticed by the clan. He was marked as someone to be watched in the future, as he had potential. His ninjutsu training fared worse than his transformation technique training, even with his new found motivation. While he managed to learn the basics of both his proficient elements, to the point he learned the streams of each of his natures, wind and water, he was unable to learn farther into the ninjutsu branches until much later. As a novice hunter, he did excellently compared to his peers, achieving his first solo animal kill on his very first hunt, though it wasn't a high class kill, being merely an adolescent bladetusk boar. But it was still a kill he could be proud of, as it was usually 3-4 trips before they achieved a kill at all, let alone a solo kill. The animal had nearly gutted him when he first saw it, as it had slipped out of a tree crook and fell in front of him. The hurt animal had charged, but he used wind release stream plus his own physical traits to jump out of the way in time. He then used the Quillboar form to fill it full of needles, securing a good kill. He fell several more animals as a novice hunter before managing to do a partial transformation in the presence of hunting a pack of Adders. He didn't have time to do a full transformation, so he willed his arm to be full of quills from his favorite form, which allowed him to flechette a pair of adders who were threatening another hunter, marking his advancement to full hunter status. He spent six to seven years as a full hunter, tending to go out with the hunting parties all seasons of the year, as their clan was fully capable of moving in all seasons, assuming they had a proper form to do so. These trips were excuses to free himself from the static-ness of the village itself and the surrounding areas. How far they ranged varied from period to period. During the summer, they ranged much farther than normal because most clans couldn't move in the oppressive heat, the water requirements being too much for the average human to lug about with them in times when they couldn't be sure they'd find enough water to keep up with what they need. However his clan had virtually every water source in a two hundred mile radius mapped out, as they had occupied this area for a long time, and repeat hunting trips had made them knowledgeable about the terrain. During this time, he not only worked upon increasing the number of transformations that he was capable of, but also the rate he could do a partial transformation and even how to integrate different partial transformations together for greater effect. This practice was refined for years, combining more and more transformations layered on top of each other, eventually creating something completely new. A animal form that was completely unique to him. He had ascended to join the ranks of the Elite Hunters, the head members of the entire clan. At the time, there were merely ten Elite Hunters, with him being the youngest by a decade at the age of twenty. Each had their own unique form, and all were masters of the clan's techniques. Of these forms, Atsumu ranked only in the middle for strongest, something that was very important for them, as they were constantly being refined and enhanced, so they held monthly bouts to test the order among them, a rite of passage. That Atsumu ranked so high from the beginning was considered downright insane, and the elders took quick notice. He was marked to be a leader one day. The head of all the hunters took him on as his eventual replacement, and taught him of the clan's secrets. This included the jutsu the clan's techniques were based off of, as well as several forms of extremely uncommon and incredibly rare beasts. As an elite hunter he was placed in charge of hunting expeditions in charge of securing, and even more than a few raiding parties, a task he proved fair for. His form gave the clan a significant advantage in a raid because his air cannon was capable of smashing through most defenses with east. After another several years with the clan, Atsumu was put into an arranged marriage with another Elite Hunter, the granddaughter of the head of the clan. It was a political marriage designed to help strengthen the unity of the clan. It would wed the person slated to lead the clan next and the person who would eventually lead all the hunters. It is a relationship that has turned out so far, but only time will tell.
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