Sanada Hoshimaru

Sanada Hoshimaru is the lieutenant of the 5th Division of the Gotei 13. He serves under Kenjiro Saito.

Appearance
Sanada Hoshimaru is a black-haired, black-eyed boy. He wears standar shinigami robes and carries his lieutenant badge around his weist. His zanpakuto sheath is black and it's hilt is blue.

Personality
Sanada is a polite young man. He is silent and prefers to keep to himself. Unlike his captain, Sanada is very hard working and is usually left to do the paper work by Kenjiro.

History
Sanada comes from the slums. He grew up by himself and was always forced to look after himself. One day as he was running from a merchant that he had stolen from Sanada bumped in to Kenjiro Saito, a boy of noble birth. They soon became very close friends. Kenjiro got Sanada inrolled in Shinigami Academy and they both joined Division 5. Through out the ages Sanada rose through the ranks and Kenjiro finally gave him the title of lieutenant.

Powers & Abilities
Zanjutsu: Sanada as a swordsman is the best of his division, better even then Kenjiro.

Shunpo: Sanada can use shunpo.

Kido: Sanada can only use the basic Kido spells.

Zanpakutō
Museitsuin (The Silent Twin): Museitsuin is a kodachi with a black hilt and a grayish blade.

Shikai: It's release command is "Silence him".

Shikai Special Ability:  In shikai Sanada's sword disintegrates and reforms as two twin, curved blades. One of the swords is white, with a sky blue light radiating from it's blade and the other is black with a purple light radiating from it's blade. The black blade contains a poisonous substance that paralyzes it's target with one cut. The white blade contains a poisonous substance that grants his opponent a silent and quick death. Bankai: Sanada has yet to learn bankai
 * Hyoushu Katen (Binding curtain): This is the special ability of Sanada's black blade. It creates a purple Getsuga Tensho-like slash. Despite it's appearance Hyoushu Katen isn't a cutting attack. It is actually a poisonous reitsu attack which goes through his opponent and cuts the flow of reitsu, paralyzing the target.
 * Uta no Kakkou (Song of the Fallen): This is the special ability of Sanada's white blade. He creates a sky blue reitsu orb on the tip of the sword. He points his sword at the target and the orb flies towards the enemy at great speeds. Upon impact the enemy completely disintegrates. The draw back to this ability is that it takes to long to charge so it can only be used in a tag battle.

Trivia

 * Sanada Hoshimaru is the best swordsman in his squad.
 * His favorite food is sushi.
 * Sanada's shikai abilites are similiar to Kenjiro's abilities in that they are both based around poison. The reason for this is that they grew up together and they were very close friends.