I don't know about the Akatsuki paper-nin but Nobegami is fairly closely based off the capabilities of The Paper with a couple of limitations: he can't control paper he's not touching (although paper touching paper he's touching is fair game) so the paper arrow thing and the like from the TV series wouldn't work; and it's a mite more tiring (the whole dependant on chakra thing). He's not exactly brimming with chakra either so an extended battle isn't his thing - he prefers to hold back and then strike only decisively (assassinating opponents not fighting them). And if paper doesn't work, he does have the shadow techniques and some knowledge of jutsu of most elemental types (mostly earth and wind since they do less damage to paper). If he's working with someone he might fall into the standard Nara role of pinning a target for someone else to kill.
I did write a snippet from the Sand-Sound Invasion for him which I may have posted before:
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
I did write a snippet from the Sand-Sound Invasion for him which I may have posted before:
Quote:D for Drakensis
Ukiya Kenji laughed as he spat a mouthful of flames into another house. It had been seven years since he'd left Konoha, only a few steps ahead of the ANBU. It was very, very good to get back and pay back the Hunter-nins who'd hounded him until he'd hooked up with Orochimaru.
He was a chunin of the Sound now and his squad were tracking devestation through the village who'd rejected him. Thinking of that - he frowned. Ichiro, on watch on the rooftops for any Leaf-nin who might have gotten a counter-attack together. Goro, smashing his way through the other side of the shopping district. But Shiro, who should be backing him up, was out of sight.
"Goro," he snapped. "Where's your partner?"
The burly ex-Stone ninja looked around and shrugged. "He was here a minute ago," he said after a moment's cognition. Kenji wasn't one to assume that size was linked to stupidity, but Goro's case was a compelling arguement.
"Well go find him!" Kenji snapped. "And if he's found any civilians kick his ass for having fun without inviting us."
Goro nodded pondrously and leapt up onto sign, hopping back along the street, looking from side to side for the missing Sound-nin. It wasn't the first time Shiro had demonstrated an unreliable side but if he'd run off in the middle of this mission, he'd face a steeper punishment than anything Kenji was empowered to hand out.
Kenji reached the end of the street he saw the errant genin bound up along the roofline, heading for Ichiro. Just great. Now they'd have to fetch Goro - this command stuff was for the birds. His whining was interupted by ripping sound from the roof and he looked up in time to see Ichiro's torso bounce down the roof and to the ground. A moment later the sound-nin's legs bounced down the other side of the roof.
"What the hell!" he shouted, then paled as a blood-sodden halisen floated down from the sky.
"Ukiya Kenji," came low voice from behind him and the Sound-nin chunin spun to see Nara Nobegami rip away the Sound-nin poncho he'd disguised himself with, revealing his usual maroon and grey garb. "Went missing-nin two years out of the Academy after being charged with several petty thefts. C-rank... although only because they didn't want to invent a D-rank for missing-nin just for you."
"Nara Nobegami," Kenji spat at the Leaf-nin. "The Origami Genin - you only passed the chunin Exam last year. I've been a chunin for four years now."
Nobegami turned the sheaf of paper in his hand into another halisen with a snap of his wrist and a rush of chakra. "Really? And your buddies, they were supposed to be genin?"
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.