takeshi Yamamoto

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Age: 15, 25 (future self)
Gender: Male
Date of birth: April 24
Nationality: Japanese
Known relatives: Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (father)
School: Namimori Junior High
Grade: 1st year, 2nd year (later in the series)
Vongola Ring: Ring of Rain

Yamamoto was born in Japan and is 177 cm tall, weighing 63 kg. He is a Taurus with the bloodtype O. His future dream is to become a professional baseball player and he goes to Namimori's batting field everyday. His favorite food is sushi and his favorite drink is milk. His favorite instrument is the taiko, a Japanese drum.

Addressed as 'Yamamoto' by almost everyone in the series, this baseballer-turned-mafia has a warm and friendly personality and is rarely seen not smiling.

However, in the anime, he is very naive to the point of believing that Reborn's weapons are advanced kid's toys and that the mafia business is one big cops-and-robbers game.

In the manga, Yamamoto got injured during baseball practice and was about to commit suicide by jumping off the school building. Tsuna, feeling guilty for telling him to keep practicing, convinced Yamamoto to keep on living. In gratitude, Yamamoto joins Tsuna's mafia family.

Yamamoto is regarded by various Reborn characters, especially Tsuna, as being reliable and almost never fails to deliver. A prominent example is how he won the turnaround match for Tsuna's family in the Varia arc against Superbi Squalo in a sword fight which no one thought he could win.

Yamamoto is the type of character that can make friends with everyone, and if not friendship, at least respect. Characters like Hibari Kyoya have been shown to have interest in Yamamoto's battles and Squalo has also shown interest in his development. He is willing to sacrifice things important to him to save his friends, shown in the Kokuyo arc.

Despite his easygoing personality, Yamamoto has shown that he has hidden talent as an assassin. In fact, Reborn clearly sees Yamamoto's potential and often mentions to Tsuna that Yamamoto is a natural born killer. His fast reflexes and strong body from sport gives him a natural advantage and he is shown to be able to dodge cannon fire and wayward fireworks. Yamamoto also has the ability to learn extremely rapidly, committing to memory all 8 forms of the Shigure Souen Style despite being shown only once. He also manages to develop a new form of the style in a life or death situation. In the future arc, Yamamoto also manages to light the flame on his ring on his first try. Of all of Tsuna's family Reborn seems to have a special interest in Yamamoto, helping him train initially, giving him the baseball bat that can turn into a katana, making special notes on his progress and eventually becoming his 'home tutor' in the Future arc.

Yamamoto's portrayal in the story is that of a stereotypical Japanese teenager; his name 'Takeshi', and surname 'Yamamoto' are both common Japanese names, his looks are quite ordinary for a Japanese teenager, he is a big fan of baseball (a popular sport in Japan), his family owns a sushi store and later in the story, he uses a katana (a Japanese sword).

In the future arc, he is shown to have learned everything about the mafia and seems to be okay with it. Though he still acts like he is still clueless most of the time.

Takeshi is a star athlete at his school and believes that is almost everything that defines him. After being convinced otherwise by Tsuna, they become friends. His family owns a sushi restaurant called "Takesushi", which is also his house.

Takeshi is a very warm and accepting person, and as such, he makes friends very easily and is respected by nearly everyone. He likes almost everybody in the series.

Takeshi uses a bat that Reborn gives him. The bat turns into a katana when swung faster than 300km/h, though he initially did not have much skill in using it.

In the future, Takeshi shows a great level of mastery with the sword and the power of the Vongola rings. Even though the main rings were destroyed, he was still able to use the special boxes and their unique powers. When his past self arrives he starts using a box that releases a swallow covered in dying will flame. The swallow is capable of making heavy rain and attacking opponents.

He also borrowed an attack of Squalo's called Attacco Di Squalo (Shark Attack) which when hit by his blade causes a moment of Paralysis because it is fused with his Rain Tranquility flame. It then dulls the paralyzed person's body. Takeshi has stated that he practices with his sword every day and if even 0.01g chips off his sword he would sense it.

After coming up short in his first fight against Squalo, and then being told that he would just get in the way by Reborn, he asked his father for kendo lessons. What he did not know was that his father is an incredibly skilled swordsman who uses his sword to kill. His father specializes in the Shigure Souen Style. After completing his kendo training, his father gave him a shinai that could transform into a katana only when wielded by the Shigure Souen Style. It has a special name, the Shigure Kintoki.

The Shigure Souen Style is a notoriously deadly sword style that is only passed down to worthy successors. Each 'form' of the style is only shown once to the student - if the student is worthy to succeed, he only needs to see it once to remember how to use it from then on. It originally only had one form that was passed down through generations of successors with each successor creating and adding their own forms resulting in many branches of Shigure Souen Style. However, as new forms were created the weaker branches deteriorate and others disappear as there is no worthy successor. Hence this style can be called as the perfect, flawless style.

The Shigure Souen Style taught to Yamamoto consist of 8 forms; four defensive, four offensive. Coincidentally, the Shigure Souen Style's eight forms all have rain in their names, further establishing Yamamoto's right as the holder of the Ring of Rain.

Yamamoto has further created at least three new forms, forms 9, 10 and 11.

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