Name: Samejima Naoki (鮫島 尚輝)
Age: 9
Physical description: Female, 128 cm, 26kg, more muscular than most girls of her age. Of Miyako heritage, therefore has dark skin and dark brown eyes, as well as black hair, cropped to mid-neck length regularly. Regular training clothes are the clothes she wore when she went out fishing with her father back when she lived near the ocean, consisting of a dark blue shirt and knee-length shorts.
Mental description: Cheerful disposition. Tries to turn any situation into a joke, at least in her head. Smarter than she lets on. Is fond of strength training in particular, as well as the kokyuu she carries around. Despite her name, she isn't a fan of seafood.
History: Naoki was found by a relatively poor couple, who traveled as nomads along a coastline, in a basket by an old fishing shed stocked full of tools and instructions. Beside her was a kokyuu, a bowed instrument. They ended up settling near that shed, and managed to give the girl a decent upbringing.
This family was caught in a particularly nasty duel amongst shinobi when she was five, but instead of looking at it as a traumatising experience, she looked up at the fighting figures and quietly whispered to her mother, "I want to do that too." Her mother, Kishino, consulted with her husband and he said he would wait and see if this fantasy ever went away. It didn't, rather, it increased to include being a kokyuu player on the side, after witnessing a fellow nomad play and learning she had one with her when her parents found her.
With her height and build at eight, a result of her experience helping her father fish, her parents agreed to make preparations to send her to Sunagakure in hopes that she will carve a better life out for herself. Pulling a few strings with her relative already living in the village, Kishino wished her the best and sent her on her way, with a large tuna in tow.
Age: 9
Physical description: Female, 128 cm, 26kg, more muscular than most girls of her age. Of Miyako heritage, therefore has dark skin and dark brown eyes, as well as black hair, cropped to mid-neck length regularly. Regular training clothes are the clothes she wore when she went out fishing with her father back when she lived near the ocean, consisting of a dark blue shirt and knee-length shorts.
Mental description: Cheerful disposition. Tries to turn any situation into a joke, at least in her head. Smarter than she lets on. Is fond of strength training in particular, as well as the kokyuu she carries around. Despite her name, she isn't a fan of seafood.
History: Naoki was found by a relatively poor couple, who traveled as nomads along a coastline, in a basket by an old fishing shed stocked full of tools and instructions. Beside her was a kokyuu, a bowed instrument. They ended up settling near that shed, and managed to give the girl a decent upbringing.
This family was caught in a particularly nasty duel amongst shinobi when she was five, but instead of looking at it as a traumatising experience, she looked up at the fighting figures and quietly whispered to her mother, "I want to do that too." Her mother, Kishino, consulted with her husband and he said he would wait and see if this fantasy ever went away. It didn't, rather, it increased to include being a kokyuu player on the side, after witnessing a fellow nomad play and learning she had one with her when her parents found her.
With her height and build at eight, a result of her experience helping her father fish, her parents agreed to make preparations to send her to Sunagakure in hopes that she will carve a better life out for herself. Pulling a few strings with her relative already living in the village, Kishino wished her the best and sent her on her way, with a large tuna in tow.
