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Kura Tanaka (田中 蔵 Tanaka Kura) is a Kunoichi working under Orochimaru as one of his living test subjects and loyal followers.

| General info |



Full name
 田中, 蔵  Tanaka, Kura
Gender Female
Age
 Part I 49
 Part II 52
Date of birth 25th September (Libra)
Classification
Missing ninja (S-ranked)
Occupation  
 Kunoichi
Affiliation    
 Konohagakure no Sato (until age 35)
 Otogakure no Sato
Family
 mother | Tanaka, Ina (稲)
 father | Tanaka, Akeno (アケノ)
 grandmother | Tanaka, Yone (米)
 grandfather | Tanaka, Kōki (幸喜)
 sibling(s) | -
 husband | -

The Tanaka-Family ( 田中) formerly was a family of peasants who were famous for their good-quality products (crops). The familiy had shrunken over time until only few members were left, the young woman Ina Tanaka among them. Living in Konoha, Ina met a young man called Akeno. They fell in love, married and had a child, their daughter Kura. Akeno was a skilled ninja who believed in the Will of Fire whereas Ina had never even visited the Ninja academy.
Common haircolors for members of the family are different shades of blonde.


| Appearance |


Weight: 49 kg
Height: 1,67 m
Features: Scars and wounds on her arms and belly from experimenting. 
- Kura is a voluptuous woman with pale skin, green eyes and long brown hair. She constantly wears red lipstick and nail polish.
- Experiments on a slower cell-aging process make Kura appear younger than she is. Her body still ages.
In addition, Kura has scars all over her body that she hides underneath her clothing.
- Kura's main outfit is a white garment with wide sleeves that reaches to the ground. It has a cut on the right side up to her hips to make running easier for her. She wears a black shirt underneath which is seen at the front where the garment falls loosely over her shoulders and then is tied around her waist. She wears a red prayer chain with this outfit.
- Kura's laboratory outfit consists of two parts: The upper part, a dark red kimono top, and the white apron-like lab coat underneath. It is tied at the back with a small loop and has two pockets for surgical instruments.




| Personal info |



Character traits
+ attentive, studious, perfectionistic, self-sufficient, imaginative, quick witted, eloquent, strong-willed, passionate, a profound thinker
- sardistic, stubborn, sharp tongued, secretive, spiteful, ruthless

Personality
Most noticable about Kura is her lack of morals. Kura had been traumatized by the experience of death during war but became obsessed with it as soon as she began her work under Orochimaru, now seeing death as "a form of art" and slaughtering as one of her favorite things to do. Along with putting other peoples' lives to risk if Orochimaru wishes so, Kura does not hesitate risking her own life either which implies strong loyality to him.
Despite her obsessive devotion towards Orochimaru, Kura has shown only slight signs of jealousy when one of Orochimaru's subordinates received more attention than her which could be a result of her strong self-consciousness. She believes in her importance for Orochimaru since she is concerned with important tasks from him.


While basing a lot of her opinions on what Orochimaru's are, Kura still manages to keep her own points of view on plenty topics. She is very independent with her way of thinking and working and does not need constant attention from Orochimaru. They rarely work together.

Along with her high intelligence level, Kura posessess a logical way of thinking and acting. She is a strategist and does not act without carefully thinking everything through. Hence why she survived the Second Shinobi World War as the only member of her team.

She, however, was not able to become entirely emotionless over the years. She, in fact, can be considered a sensitive and overemotional woman. She usually does not show any sign of emotional excitement since she is very in tune with displaying and hiding her emotions. However,
she quickly compromises herself in front of Orochimaru or when someone adresses her sore points. She fights hard to keep her emotions in check but silently suffers from them.
Orochimaru has refered to her as naive in regard to her feelings.

One trait that is of great advantage to herself is her stubborn attitude. She represents her own opinions, regardless of what another person thinks. This often results in problems with proper communication.
When interacting with people, Kura generally has high demands on her interlocutors; she is a friend of good manners and can not stand it if someone lacks them.

Despite her somber spirit, Kura has displayed a degree of affection since she used to be a gentle and lovable woman in past. In some moments, her cold fassade peels away and she shows appreciation for the small details of life.


likes
interesting experiences, rain & snow, tea, the sight of blood
dislikes unreliability, glaring daylight, heat, perverts
hobbies
experimenting on human bodies, torturing, calligraphy
favorite food
she enjoys meals with a naturally rich flavour, varying from spicy to mild
favorite animal(s)  snakes of any kind




| Background story |


   - Having grown up in Konoha as an onlychild, Kura herself said she had a wonderful childhood.
She was a cheerful child, intelligent though not too confident and even clumsy at times. With her generous and extroverted nature, Kura was usually the one to approach others.
  -When she met Orochimaru for the first, she had no intention of following or keeping an eye on him. However, her curiosity about him grew unintentionally.

   - The Second Shinobi World War began when Kura was at the age of 22. Being much of a logical thinker, Kura made it out alive unlike her two teammates Aiji and Tori. During war she realized that she lacked the will to put her own life at risk for the Leaf Village and its inhabitants. The Will of Fire was slowly dying for her.
  - Having been badly injured during war, Kura has spent a few days at the hospital and went home having some time without fulfilling missions afterwards.
She felt quite unsettled after war and became emotionally distant towards the people in her surroundings, not being sure about her future in the village.

  - Kura's thoughts went back to Orochimaru who some rumours were ciculating about. Due to extensive reasearch activities, the kunoichi found out about Orochimaru's evil intentions and the experimenting on people from the village. Kura, in fact, found it fascinating how Orochimaru started walking a forbidden path in order to work ambitiously towards his aim. It seemed that his real self had dwelled inside of him for all the years and finally broke out. Kura decided to work towards an opportunity to help Orochimaru since she already had some basic medical knowledge.
  - She bought tons of books and studied Orochimaru's work in detail, spying him out in disguise a bit. She then performed experiments to a
small extent and on her very own body. After some time had passed, a change on her body cells could be realized. So she finally broke into Orochimaru's laboratory and showed her results. She had found out in what way the human cell could be forced to age at a slower rate which was a great achievement for Orochimaru's experiments so he accepted to work with her. Her poison inventories and proper medical knowledge were great tools for Orochimaru's work as well.
   - At the age of 37, Orochimaru left the village while Kura stayed there a little longer, waiting and collecting further useful information until Orochimaru joined the Akatsuki.

 
   - During Orochimaru's time at the Akatsuki, Kura dwelled in a hideout and continued experimenting. 

   - 5 years later, Orochimaru found the Hidden Sound Village.
After stressy times of recruiting underlings and building hideouts, everything calmed down again and Kura felt home in the new Village.

   - Kura was not a part of Orochimaru's plans during the Konoha Chunin Exams. She, however, went to the Hidden Leaf in disguise in order to collect useful information from civilians in onsen and shops. She introduced herself as Kaori.

   - After Orochimaru was absorbed by Sasuke, Kura did not speak a single word for days. After some time of thinking quietly, she regained her courage and faith in Orochimaru. His way of thinking and seeing the world had
influenced her and she was certain he was not dead. He was immortal which meant it was impossible for him to die. She began working on a technique to bring him back to life. This technique won't get a chance to be used in the series later, though.

   - During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kura stayed at some hideouts and saved as much prisoners and experiments as she could,
also in order to invent a new technique for herself.


|| I will add more as the manga continues ||





 | Ninja Information |


Current affiliation Otogakure no Sato (音隠れの里)
Rank: Jounin
Academy graduation age 8
Chūnin promotion age 9
Jonin promotion age unknown

- As an intelligent woman with extensive medical knowledge, Kura is concerned with important experiments from Orochimaru.
- She is well experienced with poison and venom, seen when she is fighting with poisoned weapons such as senbon. She has got summoning patches for them on each wrist. Her body has developed an immunity against the poison and venom she fights with.
- Moreover, she is capable of using paralyzing genjutsu techniques because of her huge amount of chakra and good chakra control.
- Kura is a great fighter from distance but lacks Taijutsu skills. She generally avoids fights except for when they promise to be an exciting experience. When she fights, she looks forward to actually kill her enemy because this satisfies her the most.

Chakra Element Fire Release, Wind Release
kekkei genkai none
weapon(s) Senbon, Hari

Ninjutsu: 4/5
Taijutsu: 3/5
Genjutsu: 4/5
Intelligence: 5/5
Strengh: 3,5/5
Speed: 4.5/5
Stamina: 5/5
Hand Seals: 4/5

 Total: 33/ 40

|| jutsus will follow soon ||
 





Additional Information

 forbidden experiments

- When Kura had started to work with Orochimaru in his hidden laboratory in Konoha, she was already familiar with the human circulatory system and  human anatomy. Probably because she was experienced with needles (senbon/ hari) and how to throw them in order to kill an opponent in a short amount of time. She, however, had a hard time with getting used to the cruel experiments on human bodies. These procedures are the reason for her slightly odd behaviour.
- When working, Orochimaru and Kura are usually seperated.
- Due to plenty experiments on her very own body, Kura's cells have started aging slower, almost stopped.
Her body has got the age of 32 years instead of 52. The experiments on her body cells are still ongoing.
- The permanent intake of toxins for developing a stable immunity towards poison has harmed Kura's body and inner organs to an unknown extent. She has several wounds on her arms which are covered by her clothing.


Orochimaru and Kura

Out Of Eden by Kura-Kairai

- While it is well-known that there is no room for a woman by Orochimaru’s side, Kura Tanaka, nevertheless, enjoys a reputation of being „the possible one“:
Most people see her as a dolled up woman who only wants Orochimaru’s attention.  According to some people, both are „the perfect match“ because of their similarities. 

- Orochimaru is disgusted by weakness and Kura is far from flawless since her loving feelings reveal her deficits.
At the same time she is a woman above average. S
he is striving for perfection with either her intelligence and strenght or her beauty and this is quite fascinating to Orochimaru. He, however, sees Kura as a useful human test subject only. He merely cares about his own satisfaction and takes as much advantage of Kura’s loyality as possible. He also enjoys teasing her sometimes e.g. by caressing her cheek because he is amused by her abandonment and finds it rediculous.

- Kura has learned to live with the unrequited feelings she has for Orochimaru. Being concerned with such important work and having the privilege to work with him makes her utterly happy. In fact, Kura seems to enjoy not being loved back because of the natural human desire to own something you can not obtain. ("Since a human always desires what he can not make his own, my desire for Orochimaru surely won't ever disappear.")

- Both still get a long with each other very well (when working or talking etc.) because they have spent a long time of their lives together and have shared values. 



 Quotes


- "Death is a form of art."
-
"All I ever wanted was to archieve perfection."
- "Since a human always desires what he can not make his own, my desire for Orochimaru surely won't ever disappear."
(about Orochimaru)
- "Unlike you, I had no bad memories and thoughts about this place and its inhabitants." - to Orochimaru
(about Konoha)



 Trivia

- "田中" means "middle of a rice field"; "蔵" means "barn"
- Considering Kura's affectionate behaviour around Orochimaru it is certain that she has loving feelings for him. However, she has never made a confession about it.
- the Latin word cūra literally means "care, charge"
- her Seiyuu is Yuriko Yamaguchi (speaking with deep voice)
- it is said that Kura has a real high IQ
- it could be possible that the huge 'hebi' (snake) sign over Orochimaru's bed was painted by Kura
- Jiraiya and Kura used to be childhood friends which happened due to an accident. Kura naively misunderstood one of Jiraiya's attempts to flirt.
|| English is not my native language, I apologize for wrong use of vocabularies, grammatical errors and typing errors ||

Surprise surprise! Here it is, Kura's written profile. Within the last few days I got a sudden urge to finish it.  Actually I didn't even want to write an English version, only a German one.  If you want to know anything specific about her, please tell let me know and I'll add it. For some additional information and questions, go to my Tumblr Blog for Kura
- Special thanks to Orangenbluete who had helped me a lot with Kura's characterdesign, and to Hebi-no-Majo
who made the sketch for the preview image. And to everyone who helped and answered questions regarding this character <3

-:new:EDIT: Added the information about Orochimaru and Kura



Orochimaru (Naruto Universe) © Masashi Kishimoto
Kura Tanaka © me
© 2014 - 2024 Kura-Kairai
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ColourfulThoughts's avatar
Well, this must be one of the most elaborate OC profile's I've ever read, almost like you're talking about a canon character! I can easily see Kura fitting in the Narutoverse and imagine how she would interact with the characters. Also, it's refreshing to see a villain OC, working at Orochimaru's side no less, and that you've also kept him in character as he sees her as means of manipulation, not a love interest (because let's face it, we're talking about Orochimaru here)

As for the art itself, I've just spent quite a bit of time going through your gallery, because your drawings of both Kuro, Orochimaru (btoh canon and AU), her wardrobe, and scenery, are all fantastic! You, my friend, have got real talent! It's interesting, in physical appearance, Kuro reminds me of my own OC (long brown hair, poison green eyes, pale skin), except the age is different. They also share that they're both Orochimaru's living test subjects, though my own OCs does not do it willingly.

Have you tried writing anything more for your character? If you have any stories, I'd love to read them. :) By the way, your English is excellent! I'm also a non-native speaker, so it's impressive how eloquently you've written this.