Marcus was born in a small village, in the Land of Thunder, one of five great nations. His village was very small, and it was surrounded by tall mountains, and large rivers. All people in that village were pour, and most of them had no food, or water. The village was ruled by a fat government official. He kept all food and money for himself, not giving anything to the villagers, and their families. Marcuses parents were pour farmers, who served that fat man, and lived in dirt. Their house was small, and they had enough supplies, just barely to survive.

After some time, the government official who ruled the land decided to make his own personal army, which he will use to kill the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning. But, he knew that nobody from that village was strong enough to become a ninja, or ready to help him. So, he decided to do something else. Knowing how the place was filled with little kids, he decided to take all of them, and raise them as his personal soldiers. For that, he had a couple of older shinobi who worked for him. They were once Jounin Sensei in the Cloud village, but now they were outcasts. Those two would do anything for a good pay, so that would explain why were they working for him. The attack was set up to happen over the night, while everyone was sleeping.

During that night, the young Marcus was somewhat 7 years old, sleeping with his parents. While his gentle blue eyes were closed, an explosion occurred in the near by area, waking up everyone in the village. When his parents heard this, the quickly woke up, dressing up themselves and their child. At the moment, they were only thinking about the safety of their son, not concerning about their lives. Marcus was their priority, so they quickly dressed him up, placing him in his chair so they could tell him something. After a few minutes, the whole family came trough the door of their hose, running towards the forest. As they were running, they could see people being attacked by the forces of the government official, they were everywhere. Knowing that they did not have a chance to escape, the parents of the young Hoshi sent their soon alone into the woods, with the instructions where to go. At that time, they stayed behind, stopping the bad guys to get near their soon. Without taking any seconds to look back, Marcus entered the forest, disappearing out of sight.

After leaving the village, the young boy thought that his parents were dead, killed in the attack. Even so, he still hoped that they were still alive, even though that was not possible. The instructions given to the young boy were about an old house in the mountains, and how to reach it. According to his parents, this was the place where his parents lived with his grandparents, a long time ago. Maybe they were still alive, so he hoped to find them and live there from now on. But, the reality was quite different. After reaching that house, he found the house empty, with nobody there. No food, no water, only clothes and some strange looking swords. According to his parents, Marcuses grandfather used to be a Ninja for the Hidden Mist Village, and those were his swords. That was the moment when he decided to become a ninja as well. But, first he needed to train.

During the time after the death of his parents, the young Marcus was crushed by this tragic. He used to think how his life was quite perfect. But now, he was thinking will he even survive the night. The nights at the land of lightning were so cold and scary. For a young boy like himself, living in a dark and empty house, alone, it was quite frightening. He hopped that all of it was some kind of dream and that he will wake up soon, so he could hug his parents and other people who he knew from the village. But, nothing was happening, he was not waking up.

To survive in this harsh times, the young Marcus had to hunt for food and search the land for water. The soldiers took all food and water from the village, leaving him nothing. He could not rely on anyone except himself, that was a fact which he made his mot at moments like this. Even so, Marcus still hopped to find someone out there, just so he could have someone to talk with. Eventually, he started forgetting how to say some words, even the ability of speech was leaving him. Noticing this, Marcus got an idea how to prevent this. By using a knife which he found in the former house of his parents, the young boy made a dummy out of the woods and clothes which he found. After it was finished, he started talking to it, just so he could remember how to do it.

With that problem solved, the young man only had one more problem to solve. That was, getting food and water supply. At first he thought how he should get food by picking berries and mushrooms from the forest. But then, when he started that, the young boy remembered how some of this plants were dangerous. Some of them were poisonous, so he could not just pick them up and eat them, some other ways had to be found. Eventually, he found a small lake near the area in which he was, somewhat in the valley bellow the mountain. In it he found supplies of water and lots of fish swimming in it. So, now that he solve all of the main problems, training could start.

With his training in progress, the young boy started to grow up. reaching the age of 9. During the time which he spent there, Marcus rebuilt the house of his grandfather and grandmother, fixing everything out side and in side. This included the roof top, which was broken on some places, so rain drops were falling in. After fixing that, he used one of the swords which he found to cut some woods around the hose, making a bad in which he could sleep instead of sleeping on the floor. With that done, he was able to move into the house, staying only in the living room, the only place which could be locked from the inside. The house was quite large, it had two floors, together with a basement. The living room was connected with the door which led outside and with the rest of the house. There were 4 doors leading into it, all of them could be locked, so Marcus used to do that, just in case a wild animal approached the house.

Other than fixing up the house for living in there, Marcus used to practice with the swords three hours per day, gaining some impressive skills in that area. Not only that, he found a couple of letters which his grandfather left behind. Among them, he found an extremely strange scroll. This scroll was painted in green color, together with a brown ribbon around it. To it, a small message was attached. Noticing it, the young Marcus took it off the scroll, and opening it slowly. In it, Marcus found a letter directed to....him. According to the letter, his grandfather found the scroll in the Land of Earth, near Iwagakure no Sato. There, he faced an large sparrow, which allowed him to sign a summoning contract. That contract, it was standing right in front of Marcus. The strange looking scroll, that was it. Surprised by the message, the young boy decided to sign the contract in behalf of his grandfather, so he could continue the legacy.

After opening it and signing it with his blood, Marcus left the house of his grandfather, going towards Kirigakure no Sato. He was now ready to join that village and become a shinobi there, in the memory of his grandfather. As he was leaving the house, Marcus took 3 swords, together with the scroll for the summoning contract.

To reach the Land of Water, the young man had a long way in front of him. Not only that, the path was quite difficult due to the fact that he had to cross the ocean in order to reach the main land. In order to do that he needed money for the boat ticket. But, the young boy did not have any money, he had to earn it somehow. To do that, he had no other options that staling the money from someone. The first person which he came across was an old fat rich guy, who was going around saying how rich he was. Knowing how people like him are ruthless and evil, Marcus decided to rob him. Judging by the fact that he had two guards, it was not supposed to be easy, but the young boy did not have any other choices.

A few hours later, the young boy could be walking trough the streets of the town, eating some kind of fruits. The outcome of the battle seemed to be long decided, with Marcus the winner. With money gained from the rich guy, he was now able to buy a ticket for Kirigakure no Sato. When Marcus reached the only boat which was leaving to Kiri, he simply bought a ticket with the newly gained money, boarding the boat afterwards. There he found a lot of people leaving their home land due to the fight between war lords over power. Sad after hearing out some of their stories, the young boy set on one of the empty spaces, blacking out into a deep slumber.

When he woke up, Marcus found himself in the beautiful land of the water. After getting out of the boat, he left directly towards its capital, the Kirigakure no Sato, where the Mizukage office was. There, he hopped to find someone who could tell him how to get into the Ninja Academy and become a ninja. It took him a while, but he found the village and the ninja academy, all thanks to one person who he found along the way. The man who he met was a Jounin in Kirigakure no Sato, who helped Marcus to get to the village. After that, he reunited the young boy with his parents, who were alive after all. Happy with that outcome, the young boy signed into the academy, hoping that he will make his family proud.

During the first day in the ninja academy, the young boy made a couple of friends, which also shared the same background. They were also from the Land of Lightning, running from the fight of the war lords in that country. Al three of them soon became quite good friends, even ending up in a squad together. This was due to the little help of the Jounin who helped him in his quest. This Jounin also became their sensei, who all three of them learned to like. Later on they found out that he is one of the Seven Swordsman of the Mist. That little information made all three of them proud about their sensei.

After learning everything about each other, the young Genin squad was able to start doing combos like they could read each others mind. The bond between them got so strong that even their sensei could not believe how incredible it was. Even so, with their bonds reaching the highest level of friendship, the young Genins also started to get stronger. Not even a year had passed, and they were already able to perform B-Ranked missions on their own. At occasions like that, their sensei would simply step back from the mission, hiding in the shadow and watching them complete their missions perfectly. At some point tears would flow from his eyes after watching a perfectly completed mission, he was damn proud of them.

In the squad they formed, Marcus was the weapon and ninjutsu expert. Since he was a weaponry user, their sensei was the one who thought him most of his techniques, due to his connection with the seven swordsman of the mist organization. Since he was one of the members, the older Jounin was considered as one of the best Weapon experts in the village, which had a great influence on Marcus. From all the techniques and strategies which he knew, Marcus learned most of it from his sensei, who payed a lot of attention to him. Of course, he did train his other two students, but the young Marcus was his favorite student who he thought everything. As Marcus grew, his sensei was more and more proud of him, since he was becoming an exact copy of his sensei.

Even thought they were one of the strongest Genin teams in the village, Marcus and his squad decided to skip the Chuunin Exam for that year and try out next year. The reason for that was their wish to complete more missions in order to visit more different villages and to meet more different ninjas from other villages, thus gaining more knowledge about their strengths and weaknesses. Respecting their wishes, their sensei supported them and he decided to train them even harder so they may become even stronger. Again, his fullest attention was directed to Marcus, who learned how to master even more weaponry techniques, gaining his own style of weapon usage and his favorite weapon type.

After a year, the day of the Chuunin exams finally arrived, they day which they were waiting for with so much expectation. The location of that Chuunin Exam was in Kirigakure, so the young Squad had the advantage of the area, since they knew the whole advantages and disadvantages of their Land and Village. Due to that, the first two exams, which were field exams, they passed with not so much problems. In that time, only Yuki, the female member of the squad got a small wound. Other than that, they were all fine, ready to continue. In the third round, Yuki fell out in a all out battle against a Genin from Kumogakure, who used Lightning against her Earth Techniques. Eventually, Marcus and his other team mate reached the final fight.

In that battle, the skills of weaponry and ninjutsus clashed with the skills of genjutsus and taijutsu. Till the end, the battle was undecided, favoring Marcus at some point. But, after the other young man activated his bloodline ability, Marcus went all out using his ultimate techniques. In the clash which followed, the battle ended in a tie, with both of them becoming Chuunin. Happy and sad, the young squad made a celebration for the Rank up of two of their member, together with the rank up of their sensei, who just became a ANBU. From that point on, they were destined to each take their separated ways.

After he gained the Rank of Chuunin, Marcus still continued to hang out with his friends form the squad, together with their sensei. Even so, they slowly started to distance and soon enough a gap appeared between them. The girl Yuki, who was the only one of them which failed the exam, she joined a new Genin squad. As for the other boy from the squad, he went on solo missions just as Marcus did. Even when they were assigned to do squad missions with other Chuunin, Marcus never ended up with his former squad friend. As for their sensei, he was so busy with his missions, that they never seemed to have time to spend together. So, the squad slowly started to fall apart. As for Marcus, now he had to train on his own and develop new skills on his own.

Well, since he was used to train only when his sensei was around, this was quite hard for Marcus, who was 20 years old at that point. What ever he tried to train for failed and he was stuck at the same level, with no further development. Eventually, he stopped trying and decided to focus on his missions, just so he could gain more knowledge and experience. He was still young, so there was time to advance. The first few missions which he got were all high ranking ones, from B to A Ranks. All of them were quite hard, since at this point all the tasks Marcus had to do alone, without anyone to help him. Even though it was hard for him to do so, he knew that this was something that needed to be done. Soon, Marcus realized that he was focused too much on working in a team, that he even forgot how to fight on his own.

To change things, the young Marcus decided to visit the sparrow king and train with him. By doing so he hopped to gain at least some new skills. But, the sparrow king was off limits to him, due to the fact that the sparrows though of him as a person who is not worthy to meet him at this point. Disappointed, Marcus decided to leave the mountain of the Dark Blue Sparrows. But, he was stopped by one of the younger sparrows, who was also searching for a partner with who he could train. It seemed that he and Marcus were a perfect match, both were considered to be B-Ranked by their kinds, so it was destiny that matched them up.

Two years later, when Marcus reached the age of 22, he came back to the village after spending time training. After an demonstration of his skills to the Mizukage, he was promoted to A-Rank, becoming a Jounin. At the same time, the sparrow which helped him in his training, he was also an A-Ranked sparrow. With a new friend and a new rank, Marcus entered a new era in his life, which starts now.

Continuing RP Wise....