| abstract | - Marami hails from the powerful Natoro Clan, the driving force behind the founding of Kemonogakure and one of the most powerful clans in the Land of Beasts. Marami was considered strange from birth by the Natoro, he was born on the extra day of what the Natoro called a "leap year" during the brief moment known as the "Greatest Eclipse" of a Solar Eclipse. Both of these were taken as omens by the Natoro, a child had been born under a crimson moon on the extra day of the leap year. Marami was given a wide berth by those outside his immediate family, and even his parents were uneasy in his presence. Marami grew in this hostile environment, seeing people shrink away from him when he turned a corner or when his gaze settled in their direction. The only companionship he that he found was in the many animals and insects within the village, using the clan's Kekkei Genkai in order to conversate with the animals who held no ill-feelings towards him. During his youth he received the same education as every other child, but the shinobi responsible for his instruction refused to speak directly to him and as such his abilities did not flourish as the others did, due to his lack of guidance from experienced nin. Marami began soliciting aid from the animals and insects around him, steadily learning from what they witnessed as he pieced snippets of techniques and lessons together. In a cruel twist of irony, the clan's kekkei genkai was the only area in which he excelled, as he was able to rapidly establish mental links with the animals without the animals themselves initiating or taking the long periods of time required to build a strong bond. Marami used this to his advantage, listening in on the conversations of shinobi and their companions in order to learn what he could. In this manner he began to progress, his abilities steadily improving as he gained the knowledge of the shinobi around him. Marami was the only Natoro to graduate without having an "animal of preference" or any animal companion himself, at age 14 he was the oldest Natoro in history to have not learned to use the clan hiden. He resumed his eavesdropping on those around him, this time targeting the young receiving training on how to employ the clan hiden. As he studied the snippets of information he obtained between sessions, he came to the conclusion that he would seek an animal like no other in the Land of Beasts, the mighty Chimera. The Chimera is a creature as rare as it is dangerous, composed of up to five different animals it is an unpredictable threat as each Chimera within the Land of Beasts is different from the next. Marami began to sneak from the village each day at nightfall, searching anywhere he could before returning just before dawn. He quickly discovered that his presence in the village was not missed and due to this he began leaving from his first waking hour and returning once he neared the point of collapse from both training and searching for the Chimera. Marami spent the next four years in this manner, searching wherever he could for the powerful beast. He found a Chimera on the night of a lunar eclipse, standing proud under the light of a crimson moon. Marami then spent the next four months convincing the Chimera to become his "animal of preference" and traveling companion, nearly being killed by the beast on multiple occasions. Having finally managed to prove himself to the beast through his resilience, he gained its trust and from then on the Chimera was his traveling companion. The strangeness and rarity of Marami's beast only deepened the hostility the village harbored against him, it seemed that he was openly shunned everywhere he turned, and it wasn't long before the village began to talk of driving him out all together. Marami caught wind of these rumors through the animals and insects around the village, and he began to be more attentive to his surroundings, refusing to let even the most minute of details escape his gaze. It was on a night similar to the night of his birth that the villagers made the push to remove him permanently from their lands, roughly a forty full-fledged Beastmasters and Jounin storming into his house and dragging him out while the Chimera slept before restraining him and beating him as a group. It was then that the enraged Chimera stormed from the house, gravely injuring many of the shinobi who had Marami lying blooded on the edge of consciousness and standing guard over his limp form. Marami forced himself to stand, using the Chimera to support himself as he limped from the village never to be seen within its walls again. After nearly 19 years of silent misery Marami was driven away from the source of his pain by those who he had striven to earn a place with, and he silently vowed to exact 19 years of pain upon every member of the village as he limped into the moonless night. Over the course of the next five years Marami honed his skills in seclusion, having nothing to do with the main shinobi world as he grew in strength. He learned the way he always did, from the animals and insects around him and due to this he had access to knowledge that very few could ever think of gaining. He trained under hawks and eagles to hone his swordsmanship, learning that they'd often observed swordsmen training while scanning fields for prey. His taijutsu was tested by wolves who had lurked in the shadows as many a nin sharpened their skills in taijutsu. He learned the fine points of strategy from natural masters such as panthers and antlions, studying their natural behaviors in order to form advanced tactics. What he learned from nature was the teachings of many nin who had no intention to tell anyone of their techniques, who had no want to train Marami in their arts, yet nature's eyes see all and as such he had access to the teachings of hundreds of unsuspecting nin. In addition to the teachings of the beings around him, he began crafting his own techniques and refining the Hiden of the Natoro Clan as he planned to some day cause their downfall with their own closely guarded secrets. During his period of seclusion Marami was located by the Akatsuki, scouted for his unique talents and the hatred he already harbored. Marami willingly joined the ranks of the Akatsuki, seeing this as his opportunity to both push his limits further and to move towards exacting his revenge against the Natoro.
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