Yasu, Chikami (Konoha Genin) Done!

"Living a life of duty is what being a shinobi is all about. But what about wonder and fantasical things?"



Name: Yasu, Chikami (Pronounced: Ya-suu Chee-kah-me)
(Meaning: Beautiful Wisdom Flower of Peace)
Nickname: Chi, Chi-chan, Mi-Mi
(More hurtfully referred to as 'Squirt', 'Brat', 'Freak' etc.)
Age: 11
Birthday: February 15th
Gender: Female
Village: Konohagakure no Sato
Village Rank: Genin
Skill Rank: D




Height: 139.70cm | 4ft 7in
Weight: 75lbs | 39kg
Hair color: Indigo/ Dark purple
Eye Color: Her eyes are a strange mixture of purples and blues. The outer rim of her iris is deep indigo, and further inwards the spectrum of colour lightens to a violet hue. Overall, they can appear to be blue or purple depending on the light and the way it shines on her irises.
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Looks Description: As pictured rather clearly by the images depicting Chikami's appearance, she is a very slender, petite young girl. It is difficult to discern whether she has been malnourished or it is indeed her build type. Her skin is milky white in colour, and is prone to burning in overexposure to the sun. She tends to stay indoors, or at least in the shade, for that very reason. Her limbs are very slender, but match her tiny frame and thus make her appear to be in proportion to the rest of her body. She lacks any real muscle definition, as visible to the naked human eye, and has a very meek overall appearance. Her eyes are large and wide, with big irises; something which makes her appear possibly younger than her eleven years. She has a delicate, slightly rounded face which makes her seem even more child-like. Her dark purple hair is kept in an unruly bobbed style, with the bangs being longer than the back of her hair. They sweep forward to the sides of her face, and often if she dips her head down, they will hide her face completely. Across her forehead, she has an unevenly cut set of bangs, which aid in hiding her when she is embarrassed or upset.

It is not very hard to see why she was bullied and harrassed so much while growing up, because of her weak appearance and particularly child-like visage. That, and the way the orphanage matrons cut her hair do not help her in any way.

As far as clothing is concerned, she tends to wear basic attire that hangs off her frame due to the fact that they are ill-fitting for her. Typical attire for her while she attended the Academy was a school uniform-esque outfit; either a long-sleeved or short-sleeved white blouse, over which she would be given a sleeveless pullover to wear, a pleated skirt of varying colour, white knee socks and battered brown leather shoes.

Now that she has graudated as a Genin from the Academy, and thus has moved out of the orphanage into her own apartment, she has started to dress a little bit more like a ninja. But not entirely. She tends to wear a shapeless dark brown shift dress, with frills patterning the hem, under which she will wear a pair of pale blue spandex shorts for decency purposes. On her feet, she wears clunky brown combat boots tied with mismatched laces (black in one boot, and bright blue in the other). Because her shift dress is sleeveless, she wears a weak netted shirt typical to ninja underneath, with full sleeves. The short sleeves of her dress are embellished with ties of multi-coloured rags, taken from some of her very first dolls' clothing for memento's sake. Around her waist, she wears a dark blue utility belt common to ninja; filled with her projectile weaponry and random repair-kits for her favourite 'friend', the marionette she carries around with her everywhere. Speaking of this same marionette, she keeps it safe in a larger pocket secured at her left hip. Her Konoha headband is secured around her forehead when she is on duty; the metal plate barely visible under her mess of bangs.

When she is off-duty and relaxing (by herself, with her favourite books and the marionette), she wears a much more intricate shift dress with a large collar. Its sleeves are long and crisp white, the same colour of the large collar. A yellow ribbon tie is secured underneath the collar, just peeking out enough to be seen. The main body of the dress is a dark pink/ light red colour (depending on personal feelings on the matter), and its cut means that it falls to her mid-thighs. With this dress, she wears knee-high black socks and a pair of brown flats.

Quirky is the word one might use to describe her dress sense.



Personality Description: Growing up, Chikami always knew that she was different. Children of her age would much rather spend time outdoors to play with one another; mostly to imitate being ninja, always bragging about how they would be the best and that their names would be imprinted in history so that they could leave the orphanage behind. In spite of the orphanage matrons treating her badly, due to her naturally shy and quiet nature, she seemed to enjoy her time there a lot more than the other kids. Most of her days were filled with reading whatever books she could get her hands on, and as she grew older, she would steal away to the library to spend hours and hours on end losing herself in another world. Because she is so well-read, it goes without saying that she is a rather intelligent girl. Her vocabulary is highly advanced for her young age, and she often strikes upon life-encroaching questions; always challenging her existence and the life of shinobi as a whole. She never cared for being a ninja. The idea scared her, and it didn't make her happy in the slightest. She would much rather have become a civilian, trained in an office or something that meant she could deal with books, writing and papers. Becoming a hero wasn't her dream; her dream was to settle down into a normal life and live as a normal human being with wonder in her life. She didn't relish the idea of being laid to an early grave. This showed in her persona, rather obviously, as she went through her time in the Academy.

Because she was so strange in her ideals, hobbies and numerous odd quirks, she was often shunned as a child in the orphanage and in the Academy. Other children would bully and pick on her due to her differences; ridiculing the fact that she would rather read and study than go out and fight with the rest. She has a very healthy fear/ borderline phobia of conflict due to her background in the orphanage, and will always take any beatings or ridiculing without fighting back. She knew that by falling on the ground after being hit, chances were the other kids would not kick her while she was down. She would never bite back after getting a verbal assault from other children; she learnt that long ago. Oftentimes, she was bullied for her 'unhealthy obsession' with reading, and the fact that she still played with dolls. Even after her dolls in the orphanage were burnt/ disfigured thanks to the other children, she was picked on for playing with a marionette that she bought with scraps of money she found. It was mainly due to the fact that she treated the small puppet much like a human being, and took care of it more than most adults would take care of their children.

She has strange fascinations with dolls and stuffed animals, liking to choose rather ugly or odd-looking ones to have as her 'friends'. Inaminate objects quickly became her only friends, aside from one person, while she was growing up and even now that she has become a Genin. Not many people go out of their way to talk to her or even interact with her in the slightest because of how quiet she is, and how she seems to just blend into the shadows. If she isn't blending in, she has done something strange and is being picked on for it.

Reading has broadened her imagination so much that she often makes fantasy worlds for herself and her toys to live in, usually writing them down and speaking softly aloud to herself for the reinactments of this fake world. This would be the main thing that she was bullied for; as most would call her childish and weird for wanting to live in other worlds, and being so involved in each and every one she made. She is very often scared of making eye contact, because when she was growing up this was seen as confrontational. As such, she keeps her gaze directed downwards when talking to people, and she mumbles a lot. When she is worried, anxious or scared, her voice fluctates a lot in pitch and makes it almost impossible to understand. These things, and all her other odd quirks that seperated her from the others, made her prime bullying material and a very easy target for pranks, the butt of jokes and the like. While in the Academy, the mischeivous children would always target her to pull pranks on. As such, she would often find that she was being soaked with water, splattered with paint, having her things taken and hidden, and whatever else they came up with to victimise her.

Most of the time, however, she kept herself near enough invisible by remaining near the top of her graduating class due to her sheer prowess in written works and tests. Physical works made her seem pathetic, and she would be laughed at while she was practising in classes, but when she was working from books, she was widely ignored. She wasn't at the class prodigy level, and that suited her fine. No attention was good attention, she thought.

When she is comfortable with a person, she is a lot chattier and in general, very happy. She takes pride in her strangeness when it suits her, but most of the time tries to hide herself. It is a strange combination; she shows her weird tendencies and quirks outwardly with her dress sense, and yet is very shy about the whole plethora of strange things overall. When she is having particularly bad days, she thinks that she is a strange freak and wishes that she can be different, but deep down on the inside, she wishes that more people could accept her just for the way she is. She also believes that anything is possible, just like in her favourite fantasy novels, and has a very driving sense of having dreams and goals. 'Shoot for the moon, and even if you miss, you'll have landed among the stars' is a very apt way of describing how she feels about aiming big.

Underneath her very childish exterior, Chikami is already a woman grown. She understands great complexities; like the human mind, emotions and everything else that comes with it. She takes pride in her knowledge of the Ninja Arts (all of them, even if she is particularly bad with most), and in amongst her fantasy reading, she will be found reading numerous scrolls of information about how to improve with shinobi work. Sometimes, she has issues seperating her dreams from fantasy, and that is when she can confuse people. She will start stating fantastical facts as though she believes they are true, because in whatever world she has made, they are true. While she is people-smart in theory, she has very little practise dealing with people in positive ways like general conversation. As such, she can get very flustered and panicked very easily when trying to make friends, and begin blurting out facts that she finds fascinating in order to try and break the ice. It is to be noted, therefore, that people who wish to become close to her will have to be very patient and try making their way past her walls, plus understanding and accepting her strange ways.

It goes without saying that she is a cowardly individual. With a childhood filled with bad experiences of conflict and the consequences, she has grown very weary of it and will try to avoid it by all means necessary. The thought of fighting a ninja in the field scares her, and she tries to get out of any mission that might involve her heading off against anything that isn't a borderline tame animal or a training dummy. Naive, perhaps, but understandable considering the way in which she was 'conditioned' while developing as a young woman. While she may not deal with a crisis very well, she can put aside her strange quirks and think very logically for the benefit of friends or her squad. Those that recognise this ability of hers would probably call her a genius in the making, due to her fast comprehension of threats and how best to neutralise them. Her effective planning in a methodical manner is a hidden ability that she has yet to learn, but has shown glimpses of during numerous written examinations during the Academy.

Ideally, she would not want anyone to suffer in any way like she did. It saddens her greatly to see anyone being ridiculed, picked on, pushed around and so forth, because she can truly empathise with the feeling of hopelessness that comes from it. She wishes to some day be able to be brave and strong enough to stand up for those like she used to be, and to aid in healing injuries that people may obtain in battle. She likes the idea of being a healer; of being a supportive fighter to help those that matter to her.

Encased and heavily retained inside her many-layered persona, is a very fierce and potentially deadly temper. It remains to be seen how she reacts when triggers are set off, but it nearly surfaced when she was a child and the other children ripped apart her old dolls. At the time, she unleashed unconcentrated pulses of chakra at her foes while sobbing and screaming, but that was only half of her true potential for rage and killer instinct. After all, what was harmed were mere dolls; very precious dolls, but dolls nonetheless. She has the ability to truly become attached to people like she becomes attached to her dolls and other creations, like Ken-Ken the marionette. And chances are, her temper will flare even worse when those precious people are threatened. This is the main trigger, with other triggers that remain to be seen.

She is a very avid hoarder; as one who has entered her apartment will soon see. She values memories, of the good sort, and will collect anything that she associates with a nice memory. It can be anything from a pair of chopsticks from her favourite restaurant, chip packets from favoured chips, receipts from a nice grocery store, and most of all postcards of many locations around the shinobi world. She loves the sights that they offer, and the greart monuments of other lands, and wishes to visit them all someday. And thus, she collects them as a reminder to herself that she must make true on her promise. She collects many things, and will continue doing so in her own strange ways.

In short, it is to be said that Chikami is her own person; however strange and odd she might be. Perhaps one day, someone will make her see that she is who she is and she is perfectly normal in her own weird way.
Likes:
+ Reading (Any kind of genre; her favourite is fantasy)
+ Ken-Ken, her toy marionette
+ Soft fragrances and perfumes
+ Skirts and dresses
+ Sturdy shoes
+ Stormy nights
+ Springtime
Dislikes:
- Bullies
- Hurtful words/ behaviours
- Seeing and experiencing pain
- Summertime
- Early mornings
- Overpowering scents
- Being ridiculed
Catch Phrases:
"We are all unique, every one of us. Is it that hard to accept for you, for this world?!"
"Try as I might, I can never find enough books..."
"Living life as if it were a fantasy has never hurt me!"
"Creativity is the key; with it I shall prevail!"
Nindo:
"To help create a world in which no-one feels afraid to be who they are... to have their choices nurtured, and their dreams far from the impossible... that is my nindo; my ninja way!"



Element Affinity: N/A (Not yet found)
Sub Element Affinity: N/A (Not yet found)



History:
The Prologue: A Mysterious Baby
Due to the high mortality rate of shinobi, there will be events in which the parents of a baby or young child die. Thus, that child will need care until they can look after themselves. This is where the Konohagakure Orphanage comes into play. The building is run-down, however, and their funding is lower than ever around the time that a strange parcel lands on their doorstep.

The orphanage matrons awoke to the sound of a sobbing baby, but what surprised them was the fact that it wasn't from within their walls. It was from outside. Bleary-eyed and confused, the three of them made their way out front to find out what all of the ruckus was about. On the small concrete ledge just beneath their doorway, they saw a pink and white wrapped bundle of swaddling clothes. Inside the bundle was a very small baby, barely visible in amongst the mountain of cloth. They took the baby in their arms and started to look through the blankets in which the child had been wrapped. They found a strange note that had been written in a hasty, yet rather beautiful, scrawl which detailed in short what the baby's name was and the fact that the parents could not take care of her in the way they wished. As such, they wanted the orphanage to raise their child for them and not fail where they did.

Of course, the matrons were astonished, but took the child nonetheless. How could they leave it when there was such a plea asking them to look after her? The name left for her was Yasu Chikami. The surname was one that none of them recognised, and probably that of a low descent if that was the case. So it made sense to them why the baby had been brought here if the family were poor and unable to care for the child. They brought the child inside and started to get her accustomed to her new home.

The First Arc: Early Life
It was very plain to see for the three orphanage matrons from an early stage that Chikami would become very different to all of the other children. She was one of the only children to actually pay attention in the scarcely offered orphanage classes to teach them how to read and write, and soon took it upon herself to get better. The number of times they had to scold the girl for writing on her wall for practise was soon lost on them. The girl was rather quiet, and while she had learnt how to speak at an early age, she mostly kept to herself. If ever she wanted to play with other children, it was to play make-believe. But all the other children wanted to do was play Ninja, which she seemed to despise.

The children started to resent her due to her strange nature and ways, and thus started to either shun her or go out of their way to push her around. Because the matrons always had so many children to deal with, this behaviour mostly went un-noticed by them. They too were quite strict and harsh with the girl, because otherwise she would refuse to learn anything, it seemed. She was always daydreaming and in her own little world, so most things seemed to pass her by. One of the only ways to get her attention was to yell at her until she cried.

Whereas punishment for the other children was to attend the reading and writing classes, punishment for Chikami was to go outside and play. The matrons soon tired of her strange ways; especially since she managed to rile up the other boisterous kids into bullying her due to her uniqueness, and they started to ignore her. She was capable of looking after herself, they soon found, and allowed her to do her own thing. Instead of rebelling in a normal fashion to get attention, she revelled in the fact that they would ignore her. It meant that she could sneak out to the library and read for hours on end if she so wished, and she could escape from the orphanage every once in a while. Needless to say, she didn't have many friends at the place where she grew up. Especially not after a group of children destroyed her favourite dolls which had been left with her blankets when she was found as a baby. Of all the nasty, horrible children, there was one who seemed to genuinely care about her.

He seemed to step in whenever the bullying became too extreme, and he would yell and shout at the bullies to stop pushing her around. She was thankful for this boy's help, and the two of them started to become quite close friends. He seemed to respect her need for privacy and her love of reading, and even humoured her when she wanted to teach him how to read and write properly too. While they never interacted much, it was undeniable that the two of them were close in their own way.

The Second Arc: A Reluctant Ninja
As per the orphanage rules, every child under their care would have to join the Academy at the required age so that they be trained to become ninja. While this was the ideal for most children, if not all of them, it was pure hell and horror for Chikami. Fighting wasn't something that she liked, let alone something that she wanted to make her profession for life. She did not have a choice in the matter, however, and started attending classes at the age of six alongside the rest of children her age or a year older. She was the youngest, except for a couple of children in her class, and had a hard time due to this at first even when she was trying to be normal and fit in with the rest of the children. When she started to show her true colours, especially in the fighting and physical classes that they were graded in, the bullying and ridicule started all over again.

It was only down to her intense intellectual prowess and sharp mind that she was able to stay in the higher portion of her class. The rest of her scores were rather abismal, aside from Ninjutsu practises in which she was around average. Her Academy teacher continued to pull her aside and tell her of the skills in which she would excel, one of which being Fuuinjutsu, with the other being Medical Ninjutsu, but she was never overly ambitious in trying to better herself. She just wanted to keep her head in the fascinating ninja textbooks she was given to study from. Before long, the kids in the Academy had stopped being so stand-offish to her, because she started to blend in with the crowd. She wasn't a prodigy worth noting, and she wasn't at the bottom of the class either. Her sensei at the time was astonished that her written work could be so good to keep her in the higher quarter of the classes, and would tell her on numerous occasions. She never thought much of it, however, because she enjoyed what she was being taught.

At age ten, she was submitted for the graduation exams and failed on her first time, due to her lack of the Taijutsu skill that they were asking for. The second time around, when she was eleven and the test was given, it was a Ninjutsu skill for Transformation, and this time she managed to pass with quite a good grade. The written exam was never a worry for her to pass; she managed to get the second highest grade in her class, with the only one surpassing her being the prodigy of her graduating class.

The Third Arc: Genin Days
Chikami was registered as an official kunoichi of Konohagakure, and was thus given an apartment under the ninja housing scheme; thus keeping her out of the orphanage's hair. Despite maturing into a fully fledged ninja, she still keeps a lot of her insecurities in herself and is desperately searching for the assurance she needs to truly flower and bloom into the stunning flower she deserves to be.
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