Name: Koji Hasegawa
Species: Human
Class/whatever: Ninja
Occupation: Hunter
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 130lb

Appearance: Japanese/European ancestery. Dark eyes, straight black hair, but with some definite European characteristics.

Story: Born into the Hasegawa clan in feudal Japan. Raised by two loving parents with 1 older sister and 1 younger brother, Koji has been trained to fight since before he can remember.

more to come...

The Hasegawa clan wasn't the biggest clan in the country, but it was by no means small. They had a reputation for being the best and most reliable. They also had a reputation for holding a secret, and for guarding it without mercy. They were the clan you just didn't want to tick off.

Koji's earliest memories are of standing on his fathers shoulders, holding his hands and trying to keep his balance, and his father letting go of first one, then the other hand. He didn't realize at the time that it was training, or any of those other exercises for that matter, but they continued without fail, or without pause. His life was that of a warriors, but was not limited to it. His parents made sure he was well schooled in several languages, reading and writting them, as well as mathematics, history, music, art, and philosophy.

At age 15 he first began his work. Bullies, muggers, rapists, kidnappers, extortionists, murders, he went after them all. He has taken down entire gangs of thugs single-handedly, faced the mightiest warlords, and gone toe-to-toe with the fiercest samurai.

At 21 he was taught the secret of the clan. He spent a year with his parents in 'secret' training (secret even from his siblings). After that he knew he had to go, but at the same time he realized he wanted to leave as well.

For the last 5 years he has travelled, trained, and studied. Tibet, India, and Persia he saw, his coming always expected by certain holy men wherever he went. Now finally to Europe he has come, to face his destiny.

Skills/Powers:

Koji's greatest power is his chi. He has unsurpassed mental discipline and can focus his chi to do extraordinary things. His mind is his most formidable weapon.

His combat training is extensive.He has been trained in just about every weapon imaginable, but is most partial to the shuko, claws worn on the hands which jut down from the palm, mainly used for climbing. He is also very adept at constructing traps. Unarmed combat, climbing, and most of all stealth, he has mastered.

Thanks to his secret training, Koji has superhuman speed, strength, reflexes, and endurance. While in India he learned the technique of cooling his own body temperature to that of his surroundings. While in this state he can only move slowly, but he has learned to make the change quite rapidly, taking only a couple of seconds to cool down or heat back up.

Koji is also a master of disguise and espionage, often posing as a common traveller or townsfolk to gather information, or to lure in his enemies. He is also well versed in administration, running the 'business end' of things, making sure he and whatever size force he had with him were fairly paid, as well as fed and sheltered.