Name: Clan Prodigy
Rank: C
Type: Skill Based
Prerequisites: Must belong to a clan
Training: A 600 word training is required to gain this special characteristic.
Restrictions: -
Description: A trait given to ninja who possess an innate talent for the manipulation of clan based techniques and has trained thoroughly to improve their skill. Their power over the the clans abilities has become so considerable that the ninja is now considered a young prodigy by the clan elders. Because of this, the user's clan based attacks cost 20% (rounded up) less chakra to perform, as well as an increased power and size.
Special Effect: Possessors of this Special Characteristic can also grant their own spin to their clan techniques, setting them apart and identifying them as Prodigys. Given the diversity of clans and clan abilities, such distinguishing marks are left to the user's imagination. This effect is purely aesthetic.

Name: Street Smarts
Rank: C
Type: Social Based
Prerequisites: -
Training: A 600 word training is required to gain this special characteristic.
Restrictions: -
Description: Being raised in a era of battle and war the ninja has sometimes faced instances where they must gain natural street smarts in order to survive in various situations. Those with this characteristic gains a natural ability of self-preservation which allows them to survive in nearly any society or community by any means necessary. They can hustle Ryo quicker than one could imagine and can hold their own in times of struggle. Ninja with street smarts tend to have a heightened sense of intuition, honor, and fear in their respective communities.

Akira is the second and youngest son of former-Anbu captain Fugaku Hinamori, and his wife Mikoto and the first Fugaku's children to be born after his and Mikoto's retirement from the Shinobi life. Mikoto named him after her father, a deceased Anbu captain with exceptional skills, in hopes that he would grow up to be a great ninja like his name's sake. During his early childhood, Akira greatly admired his older brother Shinji, wanting to be more like him. The two of them would spend their time playing ninja, but that ended when Shinji graduated from the Academy and became an shinobi. Even though Shinji would often be too busy to hang out with Akira, the later would enjoy what little quality time they could have together. When Akira was five years-old, he decided that he wanted to become a shinobi like his now-14 year-old brother and Kawuro Hinamori, Shinji's closest friend. Despite his love for his older brother, Akira gew up in Shinji's shadow, who was an acknowledged prodigy viewed by the village of Konoha as a genius, and whose work would further strengthen the bonds between the village and the clan. Akira's father in particular took an active interest in Shinji, thereby neglecting Akira. Shinji, on the other hand, was rather ambivalent and full of oddly conflicting undercurrents, acknowledging Akira by taking interest in his progress as a ninja and spending time playing with him when even their father did not. It was at the age of seven that Akira started to train under a jonin-rank Shinji Hinamori.

At the age of eight, Akira was enrolled into the Shinobi Academy. Even in the Academy, Akira was still unable to escape Shinji's shadow. Despite consistently scoring at the top of every class, Akira failed to receive any recognition from his father beyond comparing his success to his older brother. Shinji acknowledged the rivalry that Akira felt by telling him: "We are brothers. I am the wall you must climb over, so you and I will continue to exist together." When Akira was at age eight, the relationship between Shinji and his father deteriorated after Shinji was questioned by other members of the Hinamori clan regarding the apparent suicide of his best friend, Kawuro. As Shinji's behavior became increasingly bizarre, Akira's father began spending more time with Akira, and began teaching him the Hinamori clan's kekkei genkai; the Akumachi (Devil Blood). When Akira first tried to perform the technique, he was left with failure. His father said that Shinji was able to do it on his first try at Akira's age, which disappointed him. Later, with one week of training, Akira performed the technique in front of his father, proving himself a prodigy as well in his own right and finally receiving his father's individual recognition rather than comparison to Shinji. Akira's father told him that he could now proudly wear the clan's emblem on his back. Following this, Akira also received a stern warning not to follow in Shinji's footsteps any further, surprising him as before, he was told to be like him; and his father showing he was proud of Akira for the first time the same way as he used to with Shinji.

On one fateful night, Shinji slew Fugaku and Mikoto, sparing only Akira, saying that he was not even worth killing. In addition, Shinji told him, "You've always wanted to surpass me. That's why I'm going to let you live… if you wish to kill me, then hate me, despise me… and by all means flee, cling to your wretched life." Shinji also revealed to Akira where he could find his old training materials before knocking Akira out and leaving the village for good. Akira woke up the next morning in the Konohagakure Hospital, dazed and confused. After coming to, he ran back home and found police and Anbu at his home. Akira ran away, going to where Shinji used to train. Finding himself at a dojo, Akira began training at his arrival. He now knew that he was going to be an amazing shinobi and that he would one day surpass and slaughter Shinji, no matter what it took.

After graduating from the Shinobi Academy and finding his drive in life, Akira began training like never before. He would train day after day, mainly until the point of exhaustion. Because of him not having any parents or anyone to take care of him anymore, Akira lived by his own rules and expectations. He still lived in his deceased parent's home, but knew that now that all he ever cared about was gone, it was not truly "home". Akira also put in an application to the team registration section of the Hokage Mansion, waiting to officially become a ninja and start down his path to destroy his older brother.