Kagemaru Kageyama

Kagemaru Kageyama (カゲヤマ カゲマル, Kageyama Kagemaru) is a shinobi from Soragakure.

Backstory
During his childhood, Kagemaru sometimes played with children his age. He, however, didn't like spending time in the Academy and used to even skip class, normally alongside Yoru, Ren Minamoto and Haruki Aichi. After discovering he had some of the lowest grades in his class, mostly due to skipping, Kagemaru's father called him and offered himself to train with him. Kagemaru however replied he was too tired and didn't want to train.

Trying a new approach, Kagemaru's father decided to study about ninja techniques with him, and this time Kagemaru accepted. Kagemaru's father then noticed that while his son hated practical activities, he loved the ones such as reading and writing.

Over the years, Kagemaru acquired lots of intellect due to the many books he read.

Personality
Kagemaru is normally a cool and aloof person that highly prefers doing calm activities such as reading and meditating than missions. For that reason, many people thought he would not be suitable to be a ninja, but his parents insisted on keeping him at the Academy, believing that he would end up finding his way. That resulted in him obtaining the lowest scores in all physical activities but the highest ones in the rest.

Kagemaru is also very rational, valuing facts over opinions. Because of that, many of his childhood friends distanced themselves from him, finding him to have grown boring, but Kagemaru didn't care. He's also shown to have a kinder, softer side, as he approached Katsumi Minamoto and became his friend when nobody would do.

In the past, his personality would get in the way of his friendships very often, which is shown when he tells Katsumi to give up in his fight against Natsu Mayonaka, as it was logically impossible for someone like Katsumi to win against a prodigy and he would just get beaten. Left with no choice, Kagemaru could only watch as the fight progressed, still not believing Katsumi could win; after his victory, however, Kagemaru finally understood Katsumi and felt bad for not believing in him. He was relieved to be forgiven by his friend.

Abilities
At first, Kagemaru wasn't interested in shinobi works, so he never made too much effort to try learning ninjutsu, taijutsu or genjutsu. In the Academy, during the times where he was present at the classes, whenever there were fighting exercises, he always surrended before the fight even starting, finding everything boring. However, later, he started giving more attention to his training and stopped running away from everything. In battle, he relies mostly in his intellect and experience in previous fights, being able to create effective strategies involving him and his teammates quickly.

Trivia

 * Kagemaru's hobbies are reading and sleeping.
 * In the past, Kagemaru wished to fight nobody, but he currently wishes to spar with his father, Katsumi Minamoto and Natsu Mayonaka.
 * His favorite food is okonomiyaki.