Itsuki Jurou

  Itsuki Jurou (じゅろういつき, Jurou Itsuki) is a Visored and a former Shinigami of the Gotei 13, exiled from the Soul Society due to his Hollowfication. Itsuki was once of the Seventh Division and yearns to return to his duties as a Shinigami. Itsuki is the main character of Steven-Kun and all of his stories are centered around him. Itsuki currently resides in the World of the Living, taking up Hollow hunting as a 'profession' or better yet a hobby.

Throughout his travels within the World of the Living, Itsuki gathered together a rag-tag group of spirtually powered humans, rouge Shinigami, Quincy, and other spiritual beings and gathered together in a traveling party. Together this group, with Itsuki as the unofficial leader, journeys throughout the World of the Living slaying Hollows that cross their paths and ultimately trying to find their true purposes.

Appearance
Itsuki is very old and is well pass the life expectancy of a regular human due to the fact that he is a spiritual being, not a regular human. His age ranges well over two hundred years and although his looks should be ancient, being of Shinigami decent he still retains the appearance of a young man. Itsuki is fairly tall, standing at a height of five foot ten inches and has a fairly lean and fit body build as well. During his days as a Shinigami in the Gotei 13, like most Shinigami he bore the traditional attire but since he was exiled he has lost his regular black kimono and now sports an all black outfit which consists of black pants and a black shirt with no sleeves. Itsuki has short, spiky, black hair and onyx black colored eyes along with tanned skin.

Personality
Itsuki is noted as a rather calm person by those that know he rather well. It takes a lot to make Itsuki laugh or cry, for example a very funny prank would make Itsuki laugh whilst a corny joke would only make Itsuki scoff at the person telling the joke for wasting his time likewise Itsuki hasn't been known to cry unless he has loss someone close to him. As well as being calm, Itsuki is shown to rather relaxed and even sometimes lazy as well, whenever he's not going into battle, a common hobby of Itsuki's is to sit and watch the world around him.

Itsuki is a big lover of nature and believes that if somebody is to live within the world, they should take care of the world they reside as then they would have no place to call home. Back in the Soul Society, Itsuki would commonly be seen making attempts to keep things clean around his home, this also leads to a common believe that Itsuki is big on neatness as well.

Itsuki also appears to be rather intelligent, as a young boy living in the Rukongai, Itsuki would always spend his spare time brushing up on his books and studying as he was told by his father that if he studied, he could one day grow up and get out of the slums in which he called home. Although Itsuki has been betrayed a lot in his life time, he still has been known to trust people but not as easily as he use to.

Itsuki is known to show loyalty over anything, once Itsuki pledges his alligence to a cause he will still remain favored to that cause for as long as he is needed. A primary example of Itsuki's loyalty would be that of the Gotei 13, even though Itsuki was exiled by the Gotei 13 and kicked out of the Soul Society, he claims he still has love for the organization that showed him the door, this also leads to an easy belief that Itsuki is big on forgiveness.

Despite being a man that is ultimately at peace with himself, Itsuki has his insecurities as well. Itsuki can just as easily build up hatred and resentment just as easily as he can peace, if something goes against what Itsuki stands for, he will not hesitate to see that the 'problem' at hand is destroyed.

Childhood
Itsuki's childhood before joining the Gotei 13 was said to be a rather depressing and sad childhood full of wrong which resulted in Itsuki attempting to do right as he grew older. Itsuki was born into the slums known as District 100 of the Rukongai, the name of where he was raised itself tells the story of Itsuki's hard life. He lived alone with his father, his mother having died while giving birth to him. Itsuki's father was extremely poor and whatever he did to try and make money seemed to never work, Itsuki spent most of his childhood attempting to work and try and survive and help his father who often slipped in out of mental depressions. Being a young child with no mother, Itsuki found it very hard to cope with many other things as well and in turn learn to appreciate things much better, in the very few spare time he had Itsuki tried to find ways to better what was around him even though it seemed near impossible that it could be done. All around Itsukai was pure mayhem and destruction, the district of the Rukongai he called home was full of thieves, killers, and all other different kinds of criminals and if Itsuki didn't find a way out he would be subject to end up scum in a slum like they were. Young Itsuki gradually began to educate himself by finding various books to read, he also became rather 'street smart' and learned the ways of the ghetto in which he lived. Eventually Itsuki would however make a discovery about himself that he would change his terrible life forever. Itsuki discovered that he was different from the other kids around him, he had a much stronger spiritual presence within him and therefore, by a mysterious man was turned to the Soul Society.

Academy Days
When Itsuki first approached the Shino Academy, attempting to become a student, the odds seemed to be well against him. When Itsuki first looked at the other students entering the academy, it appeared that at first he was well outmatched in terms of skill as well as Spiritual Energy. Itsuki however, only just decided to become a Shinigami out of the clear blue and of course had much training ahead of him if he wanted to become a strong Shinigami. However upon taking the entrance exam, young Itsuki was able to prove that he had Spiritual Energy and thus was allowed to enter the Shino Academy. Itsuki's days in the academy were long and incredibly hard, it was during this time that the young boy claims he essentially made the transition into manhood as he had to adjust how he lived his life. Itsuki became more calm than he was before and attained a more mature attitude towards things, although he was innately surrounded with difficultly in controling his spiritual power he was able to master the power he had at hand eventually graduated from the Shino Academy, excelling primarily in Hakuda and Kido.

Days in the Gotei 13
Itsuki's days in the Gotei 13 were rather sucessful to say the least, he joined the Seventh Division and quickly found himslef accepted into the ranks. Itsuki was well respected amongst his division for his adept hand to hand combat as well as he good use of Kido and rose to become a seated officer within his squad, however what seat he held is currently unknown. In his early days within the Gotei 13, Itsuki began to interact even more with Denkou Arashi, his Zanpaktou and began to awaken more and more powers with his Zanpaktou. It was believed that Itsuki at one point spent more time with his Zanpaktou than he did with his squad and the others within the Soul Society, training and becoming stronger so that he would be of more use during battle. From time to time, when he was allowed to, Itsuki went back to the Rukongai to visit his father who remained to be a motivating factor within his life. Things were going good for Itsuki in the Soul Society, however still the changes in his life were yet to be over.

Hollowfication and Banishment from the Soul Society
The changes in the life of Itsuki were yet to be over. Itsuki had something else to conquer: Hollowfication. Itsuki's Hollowfication wasn't at will but at the end, he had to suffer for what had been bestowed upon him. It isn't exactly well known how Itsuki went through his Hollowfication as Itsuki perfers not to talk about it, what he did say about his Hollowfication was that it was the most mentally painful thing he had suffered through in his entire life. After completing his Hollowfication, Itsuki attained a Hollow Mask and began to utilize his newfound powers. Soon, not long after he gained Hollowfication, he was sought out, captured, and brought to trail in which it was decided that he would ultimately be banished from the Soul Society.

Equipment
Itsuki's Tanto: A common Japanese knife or dagger, Itsuki carries one on him and uses it as a supplementary weapon in combat. Itsuki doesn't enjoy using his Zanpaktou in close-range combat, he often will substitute the weapon with this small dagger and use it to inflict small wounds on his opponent. Itsuki also uses the weapon for field work as the blade is good enough for cutting through various materials.

Powers & Abilites
Expert Swordsmanship Specialist: During his time as a Shinigami in the Gotei 13, Itsuki spent most of his time attempting to work on his swordsmanship, thinking that swordsmanship was a key concept of being a Shinigami. Itsuki isn't an complete master at swordsmanship as he perfers to different variety attacks in combat but nows enough to hold his own in battle. Itsuki attempts to wield his sword in a rather fast manner and specializes in a form that specializes in him being able to withdraw his sword and pull it out quickly to unleash fast and surprising slashes upon his opponent.

Kidō Master: During his time in the Shino Academy, Itsuki began to utilize many different types of Kido under his belt. Itsuki studied with many different Kido spells and is known to be a master of using the spells, primarily Itsuki specializes with using Bakudo or defensive Kido as he believes that the best offense is a good defense. Itsuki uses Bakudo to commonly defend himself in combat and primarily realizes on his Zanpaktou and Hakudo skills on the offensive end of combat as well.

Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Something that Itsuki emphasized on greatly was his ability to use his hands in combat and is a common user of many different styles of fighting. During his time as a young Shinigami, Itsuki normally studied human martial arts within the World of the Living and utilized many of these tactics into his hand to hand combat fighting. Itsuki claims to be of a blackbelt level in Japanese martial arts, however it is exactly unknown if this is true or not but it does appear that Itsuki has knowledge of this style of martial arts as normally he can be seen performing a a variety of different kicks while in a close-range on foes.

Quotes

 * "If a man doesn't protect his home then he will have nothing to protect at all."
 * "Prepare yourself...there is gonna be total anarchy in a full minutes."