Shouken Clan

Clan Name: Shouken
Clan Unique Features: None. Any member of the public could be a clan member in disguise.
Clan History:
Born from the midst of the fourth Shinobi war, the Shouken clan was sparked into existence by an experimental cloth roll being created by a certain shinobi. This cloth was made from special silk woven by chakra fed silkworms. The cloth was handed out to few specially selected Suna Shinobi, who then used it in various ways during the war to seal the monstrosities they battled against. This silk cloth was proven to be as strong as steel. During the war, almost all of the prototype cloth was destroyed by combat. The only surviving pieces of the cloth were those that the original shinobi didn’t let go of. He kept them and began to study on how to make the cloth stronger, better- for Sunagakure’s sake. However, to prevent the cloth and its secrets from falling into enemy hands- especially because of the gruesome truth behind how the silk was made.

Over the next one hundred years, the clan thrived as they rose in status within the village, over the first fifty years, within two generations; the clan had members in high ranking positions. The clan was never too large, having four or five members at the most. So, having two or three members in high ranking position meant that over half the clan was influential in the village. They kept the methods of making their silk a secret, hiding the enclosure with their worms deep within their compound. Any attempts to go in and find the secret were met with brutal and lethal force. By the time one hundred years passed from the fourth shinobi war, the clan had risen in prestige to the point where they were one of the corner stones of the village, bringing wealth to the area through the silk trade. The Shouken family practically ran half of the village’s economy.

This continued as the village fell into corruption, with the Shouken clan indulging as well. While they were well respected, the family soon begun to do shady things in the background of the village. They had initially used captive enemies or nearly dying shinobi for their shady production of their legendary silk, but now, any villager could be kidnapped and vanish into their estate.


Clan Members:


Hijutsu Name: Royal Silk
KKG Description:
The Royal Silk of Shouken family is known for its versatility and many uses- with the only limits being the amount of silk one possesses and the user’s imagination or skill. The family’s Hijutsu is based on this special silk. The silk is woven from the cocoons of rare silk worms that were created by the clan’s founder over two hundred years ago. The special worms are held underground, behind various defenses- including several fake entrances into the garden with only one protected path. Entry through the other paths or the protected path without proper procedure would mean death. The method of cultivating these worms and the special silk is kept secret- with lethal consequences for those who try to muscle their way into the compound to figure it out.

They are noticeable due to the glow they possess. This glow comes from their main source of food: chakra. These silk worms are fed shinobi or individuals with high amounts of chakra who don’t necessarily have shinobi training. The silkworms possess a paralyzing agent in their slime that is absorbed through the skin, causing the victims to be unable to move once exposed. They absorb the chakra from these people while they’re alive, draining them until they die, then they burrow into the corpse of their victim and form their cocoons in their skin. Once the worms have formed their cocoons, the body is moved to a special containment chamber. When the butterflies hatch from the cocoons, they keep the ravenous hunger they had as silk worms and devour the corpse they made their cocoons in. The butterflies are then lured into a special garden area that surround the protected entry way with various plants planted that keep them at bay along the path. However, there are also dummy plants to confuse people who enter. Anyone who enters through a dummy passage will find themselves victim to the butterflies. Due to their diet of chakra, the butterflies do not die easily- each butterfly could count as a single shuriken. This garden possesses thousands of butterflies.

After the corpse has been eaten and the butterflies released from the holding cell and into the garden, all that’s left behind of the body are the bones, nails, teeth hair and the remains of the silk cocoons- the last one being used to make the special silk the clan is known for. The silk is known for its steel like resilience and fluid capabilities while being as light as silk. The silk can also be used to channel chakra through the fabric to produce various effects and use it in jutsu. The silk does restrict the user as they cannot wear other armor. This means that aside from forehead protectors, any member of the Shouken clan cannot possess any other armor aside from their Royal Silk garments. The silk armor also allows for a boost of one bonus ability to their armor. This means C rank has 2 abilities, B rank has 2, A rank has 3 and S rank has 4.

The Shouken clan has also developed two special jutsus passed down in order to create and use the royal silk. One of these jutsus is a special stitching jutsu in which the user uses their chakra to create stitches in the silk. This is the only technique that can create Royal Silk garments. Users start with a certain rank based on their shinobi rank, but to advance it, they must upgrade their stitching jutsu through the site’s normal training method for learning new jutsu. All clan members start with the jutsu at C rank, and they must train it up. However, in order to rank up their Silk armor using their stitching jutsu in a thread. The following word counts must be met per rank up:
C / No word count, lowest possible armor rank to start with
B / 1000 Words
A / 1500 Words
S / 2000 Words

The second jutsu is one used to control the fabric. While many see the control of this fabric as fluid as the control of a limb, in reality, control of the fabric is the usage of an advanced seal that can be found in the ways the silk is woven together in itself.  Using fuuinjutsu, the user can unseal and seal the threads themselves to move them in rapid succession. Because of this, one will always find a pattern in how the user uses the fabric. They must use it from the ends of the fabric first and have the effect build up from the edges. They cannot simply make one part of the silk stretch. An example of this is if a person is falling, they can’t simply stretch out one small square from a Royal Silk jacket to catch on a twig and save them. They must activate the seal and manipulate it from an edge of the jacket. As such, while it may look like the fabric moves on its own, the process in which it moves is actually a complicated fuuinjutsu. This jutsu starts at C rank and advances in rank must be bought normally as other jutsu are.

Because of the Shouken special education, clan members start with rank N3 Fuuinjutsu and do not require masters to achieve mastery. However, clan members must include at least a one hundred and fifty word paragraph of their character’s studies as a child in their history, and while they do not require masters to achieve mastery, they are severely limited from the beginning in other fields they may enter. This means that from the beginning, they may only train two other classes and no more. As such, members of the Shouken clan are limited to expertise in three fields, one of them being Fuuinjutsu.

Members also have the option of obtaining the Shouken butterfly summoning contract once it become available through normal means on the site. The butterflies are vicious and do not differentiate between friend or foe, even capable of killing the summoner themselves. The only way to avoid being targeted is to wear Royal Silk armor or be covered by it in some way as the silk is made from their cocoons and they will not attack.

It should also be noted that the clan jutsu must be bought with the user’s starting fund. Both clan jutsus start at C rank, meaning the user must pay 400 Ryo when starting to obtain them. They cannot be bought at a later date unless taught to your character by another clan member. If your character does not know these jutsu upon creation, then they also forfeit the ability to start with the clan’s Royal Silk armor and the Fuuinjutsu boost.

Shouken Royal Silk Armor:

Shouken Stitching Hijutsu:

”Shouken Control Hijutsu”:

Shouken Butterflies: