Tomoko Hina[Wanderer]

As Hina knew how to walk and talk, she's always been the one to try and look out for the family besides her big older sister, Yoshiko. Her memory was always hazy, even when growing up(though, no one worried much because they thought that it was normal for children to be like that) she was always kind to her mother and father and to her sibling at the time, Yoshiko.

As she reached the tender age of 2, her little brother, Riku Tomoko was brought to the world. Hina wasn't like those little siblings that were ultimately jealous of the new addition into the family, she actually loved Riku, she would always say he was so cute. The family would loved to see their children hanging out with one another, they would never fight, on ocassions they would, but for stupid things. Retsu and Ichinose would never take the kids away from one another, they always loved seeing them play with one another, though sometimes getting on each others nerves, but they guess that it won't be anything new.

As she began to grow, so did her curiosity, making her always go towards her big sister Yoshiko and ask her about aything she saw that day or something that their mother, Retsu was cooking and she would ask her about it. Yoshiko didn't mind her little sister's curiosity, in fact she liked it and would always answer any question that Hina had. It would usually be like a routine: Hina would wake up, her parents feed them all, talk about a few things, let them play, come back home and repeat. It was nothing new.

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A few years has passed and Hina was 5 years old, she's grown but not alot, or so Yoshiko says. Today, they were going to go the small village and pick up some supplies. Hina was ecstatic to go, Yoshiko laughed at Hina's energy. "You ready to go, Hina?" The young girl jumped up and down excitedly, making Yoshiko laugh and pet her head. "Nee-chan, nee-chan!!", the small girl wrapped her small arms around Yoshiko's left leg, making the 10 year old laugh once again. The two are really close, almost to the point of Yoshiko leaves and doesn't come back for awhile, Hina gets sad and wishes her sister would come back quickly, which is why she wanted to go with her to the small village, and Riku was going too!

"What is it, Hina?", Yoshiko asked her little sister, seeing as she wasn't on planning to let go of her for at least a few minutes. 'Do we leave now? Do we, do we?!", two diffrent laughs were heard. One was deep, but it wasn't that "scary deep" voice, the other was a gentle laugh, as if an angel was laughing. Both girls turned around to see their parents, Ichinose and Retsu. "Mommy !!", the young girl let go of her older sister's leg and raced towards her mother, retsu had a smile on her face as she recieved Hina with a hug and a kiss on the forehead. "My little Hina, take care of your sister and your baby brother, allright, dear?" Yoshiko frowned. "I can take care of myself, you know!", yet she laughed.

After the little "meeting", the three children set out towards the small village. They didn't notice dark red eyes staring at them, the mans dark brown hair moving with the wind, obscuring his eyes. "... Ichinose's children...", the young man whispered to himself as he had his hands at his sides. He was very far away for them to see, but because of a certain someone, he was able to see as if he was just a few ways from them.

"Takeshi... I sense something bad will happen, hurry up and follow them, you douche"

A sigh was heard coming from the dark brown haired male. Inside his mind there was two males, one who had dark brown hair with dark red eyes who was staring at what woulc be called his 'opposite'. Both males were wearing the same attire, the attire was a white shirt with a button up vest, over that both wear a dark brown coat with a high collar and golden lacings as decorations that seemed as both men were rich. On both of the males, their arms wear a certain type of glove that go from their elbows and stop over their hands, but don't cover their palms nor fingers. Their bottom attire consited of the same dark brown pants, and black boots.

'Don't you think I know that, Shitake? And behave, you know I dislike those kinds of words'

'For once I am not trying to ruin anything that is or was close to you. Now, do as I say or be prepared for a long, bitch ass spam of screams.'

'... And you think I will listen to you?'

Both males stared at one another. Shitake turned his head away and walked five steps before stopping. 'This is pathetic. You can't even go to Ichinose's and Retsu's children or else you might fear the worse... Bull crap, Takeshi'. Said male gripped the sword that he had sheated, his eyes narrowing at Shitake. 'I'm protecting them, Shitake. Is that so wrong? Like you wanting to meet the Shikyo once again and become allies, just like with Kyouken-sama, you feel as if you owe him?.'

A table was between Shitake and Takeshi, Shitake walked towards the table and slammed his hands on it. 'Don you talk about Kyouken-dono as if you actually respect him!' His eyes glared at Takeshi. Takeshi sighed and ran a hand through his hair. ' Oh, but I do respect him, Shitake. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be alive today, roaming the land'

'... And yet you made a deal with him in order to save your life, but got ME stuck inside YOU. Honestly... I don't know why I help that man.... But nonetheless, he's someone we have to see once again.'

Takeshi nodded. 'Agreed. Now, let us follow the Tomoko children..'

Takeshi concentrated back to the real world. His dark red eyes looked at the three children, then back at the small home that the Tomoko family was in, his eyes darkened, then he followed the children.

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Yoshiko had gotten the supplies that the family needed and was now heading home. Hina, on the other hand was playing with a flower she'd gotten when they were in the village. It was one that is known to only bloom in Kirigakure, and she loved always getting the flower every time she was near Kiri. Hina started happily skipping on the road, with Yoshiko carrying Riku behind them. Hina hummed a tune as she skipped slightly ahead of them. "Don't go too far, Hina!" Yoshiko called out as Hina slowed down abit after hearing her sister's call, she nodded. "Allright, nee-chan!", after getting closer to their home, Yoshiko noticed something

“Nee-chan!” Hina’s voice was filled with terror, making Yoshiko’s heart drop. Had her sister hurt herself? Her purple eyes shone with relief as she saw her little sister run towards her on her short legs, seemingly unhurt. “What’s the matter Hina?” The 5 year old, out of breath from running, pointed her chubby hand upwards, her eyes filled with fear. “Mommy and daddy!” The 10 year old girl looked up, and saw what had caused her sister to run like this. There was a dark smoke in the air, coming from where their house was. Mom! Dad! Are you alright? Trying not to let her fear get out to her siblings, Yoshiko squeezed out a smile. “Don’t worry Hina, I’m sure everything is …” Her words came to a halt as she spotted just ahead of them a few men, men that had ugly looks on their faces. Some of them were covered in blood, but to Yoshiko’s horror then some of them were not injured and yet had blood on them. Who’s blood..? Her legs shook slightly from fear as she took a step backwards, only to emit a yelp as she bumped into someone. Turning on her heel, the 10 year old girl looked up into the most ugly face she had ever seen. And that face was smiling as the man reached his arm out and slapped her, causing her to fall backwards. “What do you think you are doing to my sister!?” Hina ran to the man, her chubby hands frantically beating at his leg as she didn’t reach further up than his knee.

“Hey boss, seems like they had time to breed before you sniffed them up.” Called the man as he snatched Hina from the ground, holding her in the air by the collar of her dress. The other men were now upon them, some looking uninterested while others had dangerous expressions of sadistic thoughts. “L-let my sister go.” Yoshiko’s voice was just a whisper as she stood up, her whole body trembling from fear, her left cheek burning after the slap. “Or what, little girl?” the man grinned as he swung the crying 5 year old around in the air. Yoshiko clung to her little brother, praying that her parents were alive and would come and save them. “You know, she looks a lot like her mother. You think she has the same bloodline perhaps?” The man spoke to someone that stood behind her, causing Yoshiko to turn around and look up into the biggest man she had ever seen in her life.

The boss looked down on her, snorting before a grin stretched across his face. “You have a point there. We best get rid of her so she wont be thinking about revenge for her parents in the future.” “NO NO NO MOMMY, DADDY!” Hina’s voice broke as she started crying. “They are lying, aren’t they nee-chan?” But Yoshiko’s mind didn’t catch anything her sister said, all that was ringing in her head were the words of that man. Revenge? Where are mom and dad? Riku made a small complaining sound as his sister squeezed him too hard to her, that small sound snapping Yoshiko back to reality. With a snarl she lunged at the man in front of her, kicking him hard in the shin which caused him to drop her sister.

Yoshiko grabbed at Hina’s arm and turned on her heel, determined to save them. But she didn’t manage to take but one step before everything turned black. Yoshiko’s left eye fluttered open slowly, her other eye seemed to refuse to open for some reason. The dry dirt on the ground tickled her nose as she came to realize she was lying facedown on the ground. A scream, was it her own? “H-Hina…Riku…” Her head hurt like it was exploding, and to the young girl’s horror she realized that the reason she couldn’t open her right eye was because it was covered in blood. “Seems like she’s tougher than she looks. That blow should've cracked that little skull open.” The boss said it in a laughing tone, causing his companions to laugh also.

At that moment, something seemed to snap inside Yoshiko. She couldn't feel anything but rage, she couldn't hear anything else than the words echoing inside her head that her parents were dead. "H-hey boss...?" One of the men seemed to notice when the young girl stood silently up, her hair covering the side of her face which was almost cut open from the previous blow. Looking up at them, Yoshiko's open eye had turned white as the ground below her feet started freezing. "Give them back.... give them back to me! GIVE ME MY PARENTS BACK!!!" Her voice was like the snarling of a wounded animal before she screamed at the top of her lungs, the ground around the men also starting to freeze before all of the sudden spears of ice sprung up from it all over the place. Through Yoshiko's own screams of horror and panic, she heard the yells of fright and pain as she impaled or injured most of the men with the ice spears. "Let's get out of here!" This time it was the boss's time to yelp in fright as he clutched his right arm which had been injured. "Her mother was nothing like this!" Words he should not have said, as Yoshiko's head slowly turned until she stared at him. "Don't you -ever- talk about my mother, you rodent!" In her hand she felt something heavy, cold starting to form and without even thinking she lunged forward to the wide eyed man in front of her. "Nee-chan no!!" Hina's voice died out in Yoshiko's scream of rage before everything turned black for her again.

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Hina blacked out as well, and the only thing she saw was a man dressed in what would appear fancy attire, staring at the girls and the men. The male's dark red eyes looked at Hina's purple light ones, his mouth was moving, mouthing something, but she couldn't quite catch and aslo, everything turned black for Hina.

As she awoke, she found herself feeling warm, contrary to what she thought what death felt like. "Tch, wake up, girly!", an annoyed voice called her. That made Hina stir in her sleep. When her eyes opened she met with dark red eyes and a calm voice instead of the other more annoyed, impatient voice. "Are you allright, little one? Is anything hurting?", her purple eyes widened and quickly pushed herlef off the man with her little hands and landed on the dirty grounf with and "oompf!" sound. The man's eyes widened ans he tried reaching towards Hina but she started moving her hands in front of her quickly, as if protecting herself from him. "G-Go away! W-Where's nee-chan and otouto-chan?!"

Takeshi looked at Hina with a hurt expression as he turned his head away. Telling a young child that her older sister and her little brother are nowhere to be found is hard, not on him but on her. "Hina... I knew your parents, I was there when you were born, when Yoshiko was born and even when Riku was born. I'm and old friend of your mother and father, Ichinose and Retsu... I'm sorry, but.. Yoshiko, Riku and your parents may be dead..". The young Tomoko's eyes widened then they started filling up with water. Telling that her whole family died must be a great shock to Hina. She was feeling anger, sadness, and she was going into denial.

"No, no, no, no!", she flailed her chubby arms up and down, making Takeshi sweat a little. He wasn't used to taking care of a young girl, he'd been with Ichinose when Hina was a baby and all, but still. Her purple eyes flared up and got darker a little. "They're not gone!THEY ARE NOT GOOOONE!", she started crying, making the immortal male sigh while Shitake laughed inside of him. 'Ahh, this is YOUR problem now, Takeshi', 'H-Hey, Shitake, don't-', it was too late, he had already cut himself from Takeshi and the real world and decided to stay in the mind of Takeshi, and ignore his pleas.

After finally calming Hina down, she became quiet when they started to travel, seeing as she had nowhere to go, she needed to be someone that was close to her family; someone like Takeshi,s o instead of being alone, she went with him. Though, after knowing the awful truth, she's stopped speaking, making it difficult for Takeshi and Hina to communicate. So, Takeshi decided when they were in the next village to buy her a simple notebook, and a pen for her and him to communicate when needed to, or when Hina needed to communicate with other people. Now, Hina is going around the Shinobi world, still believung her older sister is alive, and she'll do anything to find her once again.

Hina moved slightly in her bed as she slept. She kept the light blue blanket that Takeshi had close to her. Said male looked at the young girl, his eyes showing a slight care for her, he chuckled quietly. They both decided to rest in a village that was quite a few ways from Konohagakure. For some reason, Hina wanted to go and check Konoha instead of all the other villages first. Takeshi wondered why she would want to go check on that perticular village. He shrugged as he lay down on the other bed that was beside Hina. It was seperated by a small nightstand that had a little lamp on it.

The room itself was normal. The walls were painted a white color that reminded Takeshi of the snow. Snow... something that Takeshi would always remember. A sigh left his lips as he looked away from the light blue ceiling and looked out the window. It was a full moon tonight. The moon always made Takeshi feel calm, as if nothing ever happened in the first place. 'No...', his eyes glared at the moon, as if trying to not forget something, something important. '... I can never forget that day...' As he looked at the moon, Hina started moving in her bed, making Takeshi look at the young girl. "...Mm...", the young wanderer opened her eyes. She got up, her hands in her lap as she stared at Takeshi with her light purple eyes, she opened her mouth, trying to speak. ..T-Ta...keshi....", Takeshi came to her side. "Hina-hime", Hina looked at Takeshi, her eyes still sleepy yet holding life in them, even though her face was emotionless; like a doll.

She nodded towards him, Takeshi blinked. "Why are you up?", he may have an idea on why she was up, but he decided for her to tell him. Her purple eyes drifted towards the notebook that was on the nightstand, she picked it up and started writting on it. Takeshi waited patiently for her to write what she needed to, when she was done, she turned it over and it said: I had a nightmare about that.. 'day' again. Takeshi's eyes softened at Hina, his hand went to her head and placed his hand on it. "Hina... Everything will be fine. I won't let anything happen to you"

Her eyes narrowed, then they began to water. Takeshi quickly acted and pulled the young girl into a hug. He never liked seeing any of Ichinose's children crying, it made him feel sad as well. He carressed her golden hair that reached to her upper back, since she had it down. "it's allright, little one.... everything will be fine..."

Elemental: This skill gives the user excellent elemental control and a wide variety of uses for the element. Most people with this skill can master an element of their choice and will use it like none other. People with this skill are, Kakuzu, Nidaime Hokage and Asuma.

Tracking/Senses: This skill gives the user a good ability with his senses, being able to track opponents from a distance without them knowing, no matter the ranking the person is most of the time. They have high senses and are able to effectively use their abilities to keep their senses tuned on an opponent. These are your stealth-type characters. The prerequisites for the senses skill is Chakra Control. If you can just track and are not in tune with your senses then there is no prerequisite.

Sensor: This skill gives the user the ability to sense chakra to a more advanced degree than the average ninja. Those with this characteristic have increased chakra awareness and are to be able to feel chakra and sense how strong or weak it is and most notably to determine the source and direction of which the charka is coming from.

Vigorous: Character's with this trait are in excellent physical shape. They are generally slightly stronger, heal faster and are rarely ill.

Light Sleeper: Character's with this trait sleep very lightly, most often even the smallest noise will awaken him or her, making them difficult to sneak up on.

LIAR!: Character's with this trait are well versed in the art of lying. They have had practice lying and their bodies give no noticeable clue when they lie. When one of their lies is discovered they often cover it with another lie. This trait is on even footing with 'The Human Polygraph' meaning their lying skills when confronting someone with the opposite trait are the same as an average liar.

The Human Polygraph: Character's with this trait are able to pierce through a lairs veil by reading habits, quirks or nervous reactions given off by a liar. This trait is on even footing with 'LIAR!' meaning their polygraph skills become average when in a 'LIAR!'s presence.

The Wall: Character's with this trait are very adept at hiding their feelings, keeping them under lock and key. Emotions will not be easily noticed by those who do not know the user very well.

Eidetic memory: Characters with this trait are able to recall memories with extreme accuracy, rarely do they forget information.

Strong Willed: Character's with this trait are often hard to dissuade when they set their mind on something, anyone attempting to convince them to do something else may often find themselves leaving very flustered.