Sparrow { Kiri Genin | Done }

There are girls blessed with good looks, and though she’d probably never admit to it, Sparrow is one of them. Though she has never met her father, people normally tell her that she bears a striking semblance to him. Indeed, Sparrow looks nothing like her mother. She doesn’t have her mother’s thick blonde hair nor does she have her mother’s pasty freckle covered skin. In fact, the only thing she shares with her mother is the same crooked smile and the fact that they both have features that can easily identify them as being female.

Her description, when plainly written down on an identification card will simply tell you that Sparrow’s hair is brown. What it will not tell you is that her hair is cut into uneven layers, the longest of which falls past her shoulders in unsymmetrical wisps. Her shorter layers messily frame her face, and her bangs cover up her eyebrows. Sparrow usually ties up her hair into a high side-ponytail on the left side of her head with locks of hair tucked behind her ear. It will not tell you that Sparrow usually ties her hair up with a thin blue ribbon, and it definitely won’t mention the number of fly-away strands that sit atop her head.

The identification card may state that her eyes are hazel or even brown, yet people who know Sparrow can see that her eyes are neither of the two colors. Sparrow is blessed with rare brown eyes that have developed into a more golden color, especially when she looks up to the light. Her upturned eyes are a little bigger than normal and are framed with thick dark lashes, giving her a more innocent appeal. However, the expressions her face usually belong to that of a more mature person. Her eyebrows are thin and hidden beneath her bangs and are raised when Sparrow speculates. Sparrow’s small saddle-shaped nose scrunches up whenever she smells something awful. On the other hand, her thin and pinkish lips usually grow into a crooked smile whenever she is happy. Hidden beneath her lips is a set of straight pearly white teeth with slightly longer incisors. Sparrow’s ears are pierced, though the piercing holes appear to be healing due to her lack of accessorizing. Sparrow’s fingernails are usually trimmed and covered with clear nail varnish.

Sparrow’s olive complexion has toned over the years of her training. Her body has also built up on muscle and her frame has become more athletic. Despite being petite, Sparrow’s limbs are long and agile. Her nimble frame allows her to look less delicate and more powerful, despite lacking the build to look extremely intimidating. Sparrow is completely comfortable with being female despite her lack of feminine appeal. Although she is pretty, Sparrow isn’t the type of person who is normally concerned with her appearance. The scars that turn up on random parts of her body are usually covered up with bandages, however, when shown, she doesn’t show much care about what people think of her. She would rather be thought of as a strong capable woman than a girl who is easy on the eyes. Sparrow often smells like sunlight and sweat, however on those days where she decides to dress up a bit, her perfume of choice is smoky pineapple. Her favorite kinds of smells are citrusy. Her voice is deep and mellow, as though it belongs to an older woman or a mother. Also, she speaks at room volume and is loud enough to be heard, she knows how to whisper or shout depending on the situation.  

Sparrow’s choice of clothing is anything she is comfortable in and allows room for movement. She doesn’t like clothes that are too tight or make her feel as though she’s bound and restricted. Because of this, she often wears hakama or skirts. She’s also seen in dojo and traditional Japanese attires. It’s also common for people to see her walk around with protective armor on. On rare occasions, Sparrow may wear clothing that appears to be more casual, such as normal t-shirts and even sweaters.

Sparrow’s personality is pretty dissonant. She is an egocentric person who doesn’t like complements as she feels as though they are strongly created to make her feel better about herself and lower her guard. She is domineering despite coming off as soft-spoken. She is envious of things other people have achieved, and despite being calm in composure, she can be very erratic. People who know her well tend to believe she’s simple being a fickle child.

Upon one’s first glance at Sparrow, one may be able to notice that she’s an active person. Sparrow is athletic, and in order to maintain her lifestyle, she has to exercise and move around. She isn’t the type to be leisurely, and due to this she is often very restless. She is also very adventurous and enjoys being on missions and situations where she believes she can grow as a person and as a ninja. Because of this, she had to adapt to the fact that she needs to be alert most of the time. She is a courageous person and isn’t the type to back down when she senses danger. She is gallant and will play the hero given the opportunity to. Sparrow is dutiful and very responsible. She is the type to get her tasks done before anything else and is a strong believer of work before play.

She is observant about people and her surroundings. Due to this she sometimes becomes paranoid of the people and the things around her. Sometimes, Sparrow can even be neurotic. She is known to be cautious and will think twice before drinking something given to her.

She is a competitive person. People can say that Sparrow is stubborn when it comes to competition. She is calculating.

Being a ninja, it is important for Sparrow to become adaptable in all the situations she’s in. Because of this, she shapes herself according to her surroundings and makes decisions based on what she she feels is right. She is a very intuitive person and relies on her gut and instinct to make her decisions. For the most part, Sparrow considers herself to be a calm and clear-headed person. She tries as much as possible to not make decisions based on emotions alone, but allows thought to overcome gut feeling when she needs to. She is incisive and is a rational thinker.  

Sparrow is a confident person, though at times people may mistake her confidence with arrogance. She is simply an ambitious person. There are times where she ends up becoming haughty however. She considers herself to be a very modest person and will honestly shrug off compliments with the intent of flattery. Despite being skilful and artful she is still very humble.She is very precise about her goals in life. She is scholarly and is characterized by her willingness to learn. Sparrow is witty at times. However, she is usually unsatisfied with her own achievements and is usually a very complacent person. She is normally discontent about her placement in life.  

She is cooperative when she believes she needs to work with other people. In fact, when working with other people she is a natural leader and will take charge of the situation. She is loyal to her country and to her allies, but that doesn’t mean she can’t see when someone is in the wrong. Sparrow is not blinded by her friendships. For the most part, she is a very independent and stolid person and prefers working alone. Sparrow is self-sufficient and doesn’t like relying on others. However, she is protective of the people she cares about. Though she doesn’t mind working for people, it’s likely she will be influenced by the pressure of others. Sparrow is incorruptible, and isn’t likely to be swayed away by people who bribe her. When it comes to judgements, Sparrow is subjective and can make very critical comments.

Sparrow is well-mannered and comes from a cultured background. Because of this she has developed into a courteous and urbane person and can be said to be very polite sometimes. She is decent when it comes to appearances and appears to be very dignified. Despite all this, Sparrow doesn’t consider herself to be dishonest, in fact, she is quite the opposite. Sparrow is an earnest person and believes in justice. She is fair and isn’t the type to hit below the belt.

People say that Sparrow may have OCD due to the fact that she’s very clean and orderly. She believes her ability to be neat and organized helps her in composing herself and her thoughts. She doesn’t like mistakes and doesn’t like it when things feel out of place. She is pedantic.  However, though she is like this with her personal items and belongings, she isn’t the type to overstep boundaries and will not impose herself on other people’s space. For the most part, Sparrow considers herself to be tolerant of other people, but will not back down if they invade her own privacy. People tend to consider Sparrow to be cute, but she doesn’t see herself as that.

However, Sparrow is abrasive and is unknowingly apathetic. Despite her tolerance for other people’s beliefs, she is very narrow-minded. She tends to be cynical.

Sparrow enjoys reflecting on herself when she needs to. She is a deep person and believes that there may be more to life than what there actually is. Sparrow likes to think about her own actions and how it may influence her day. She is self-critical and admits to her mistakes. However, people may say that she is a bit too ascetic. She pegs herself to be simple in terms of what she wants and how she wishes to live. People can say that Sparrow is a very serious person and speaks to people formally until they get close. She is farsighted and often thinks about the future. Despite always thinking about the future, Sparrow is still very patient and is very much sane. She is a big-thinker and is stern and sometimes comes off as cold. Sometimes, she thinks too much she ends up becoming very gloomy and grim. She is considered to be mawkish and moody yet still holds a phlegmatic demeanour.

Sparrow is a practical person and buys things based off of how much use she can get out of them. She is realistic when it comes to money. She is very frugal with her own cash and will not spend for pleasure unless she needed to. When it comes to caring for people she can be very maternal.

Sparrow is a droll person. People tend to say she is the very definition of idiosyncrasy as she can be really strange sometimes. She tends to talk to herself when she is reflecting. Like her voice, she has a very mellow personality. In this sense, one can argue that Sparrow is very pure at heart, despite the corruptions of the ninja world. She is an escapist in the sense that she tends to linger onto her thoughts too much and from there she almost loses her realistic senses. Her thoughts often grow into unpleasant ones and she becomes very fatalistic. People tend to think she’s bizzare.

Despite being a ninja and raised in a dojo, Sparrow isn’t religious. Despite her formal personality, Sparrow’s sense of humor can be said to be very sarcastic as well as it is witty. She is unfathomable to most people. Despite being as serious as she is, she still has moments of unpredictability. Sparrow is demanding and has high standards of herself and other people. She can be very destructive when she doesn’t like the way things are looking. Though she’d rather not be, there are times where she can be very devious especially when she wants to change the outcome of something.

When it comes to the battlefield, Sparrow considers the option to bring her foes into agonizing situations. She is power-hungry and is guilty of being arbitrary. She is brutal on the battlefield and often thinks of taking it to the extremes. She is very insensitive especially when it comes to her opponents. She is also very irritable when she doesn’t hit her targets but tries to maintain a calm composure. Her callousness can be observed in the way she seeks out vengeance. She considers herself a selfish sadist and can be very scornful of people. She is the type to be vindictive and wilful. She is meddlesome when it comes to battle.

Fears: Failure, Commitment
Education: Ninja Academy, Homeschooled
Personal Goals: Become the world’s greatest archer, Get into Kirigakure Politics, Become a Blacksmith
Guilty Pleasures: Eating Strawberry Shortcake
Pet Peeves: Dishonest People
Talents: Crafting
Sleeping Habits: Early to bed, early to rise.
Unhealthy Eating Habits:  Tends to eat too much carbs
Vices: Social Drinking

The Yumiya clan, a clan known for its prestige and archery, was traditional in all its ways. Tsubame was the only daughter of the clan leader at that time, her older brother was next in line. As tradition follows, Tsubame was arranged to be married to another person from a prestigious house within the the community. Kago was the only child of his family. He was smart, handsome, and very wealthy. In a sense, he was most girls’ idea of perfection.

Tsubame was not like most girls in her family as she wished to run wild and stay free. For a long time, she claimed her independence, refusing her mother and father as they tried pushing her to marry Kago. On the other hand, Kago was in love with the idea of marrying the only daughter of the head of the family. Not only that, he was in love with how beautiful Tsubame was. The beautiful Tsubame held traits and characteristics that were uncommon to most people in the clan. Her light features made her stand out and because of this, she was kept inside without archery training.  Tsubame was furious at how he objectified her. She had dreams of her own and she refused to be a caged bird.

On a cold winter’s night, she vanished into thin air.

Three years later, the arrangement with Kago’s family was off and Tsubame was proclaimed dead.

Suzume was born a healthy baby to a beautiful Tsubame and a man she just can’t recall. She spent most of her early childhood in a tattered cottage inside a town located somewhere beyond the outskirts of Kirigakure. Suzume never had many friends and she always felt as though her mother was very paranoid. Vague memories of her father involve him holding her hand as they went to the Sunday Market to buy fish.

When she turned five, her father was killed in front of her by bandits looking for a place to hide in. Her mother, with her limited knowledge of shinobi skills, managed to escape with her daughter. In order to shelter her child mentally, she went home and pleaded for her parents to give them a better life. She promised to do anything, even if it meant marrying Kago. Because she had already broken a few clan rules, they decided that marrying Kago would be too much of a privilege. In order to punish her yet spare her daughter, they decided to erase all of Suzume’s memories of her father and living an lower class life.

In order to punish Tsubame, they decided that Suzume will become what her mother is not: obedient. Suzume was sent to live with a different family as soon as she turned nine. Certain rights were removed from her as well, such as never being allowed to be part of the top rank on the hierarchy. Though she became extremely obedient and reserved, Suzume also became very power hungry.

She went through the basic ninja academy as well as trained at home once she was able to. She was determined to be the best that she could be, simply because there was a lot more she was striving for.

She later took on the name Sparrow in order to relieve herself of semblance from her mother.

The day was hotter than Naiya would ever want a day to be. For somebody who actually really liked cold weather; the places she stayed in weren't very chilly at all. In fact, Lightning country wasn't the coolest place in the world, she'd admit. If she had to relocate, she was definitely moving to an ice covered country where she could lay around in the snow all day and nobody would be there to stop her. That was Naiya's ideal destination. If she was ever to leave this town in search of the family she lost, she'd look for them there first, end up getting lost herself, and never wanting to be found. Naiya got up from her small, twin sized bed and looked out of the window. She was still draped in her small white sleeveless nightgown. Her dark blue haired flowed down her waist in long thin bunches. It was certainly time to do some exploring. There was no time for a girl to sit at home and wait for things to happen to her.

She stretched and headed towards her bathroom to take a shower. The place Naiya stayed in wasn't much. It certainly wasn't the cozy home she used to have; but the absence of other inhabitants made it that much cosier. There were no bad memories to look back at in this home; there was only the sight of crispy dry paint peeling off the cemented walls. Her floors were wooden and a little squeaky and the tiles in her bathroom definitely needed to be changed. Naiya sighed grabbing her usual choice of apparel from her closet as she dried off. She slipped on her jumpsuit, her gloves, shoes, and topped it all with her favourite red scarf. She looked over in the mirror and grimaced. No matter how much she aged, she always resembled her mother in some way. It was hard to even think of herself as 'pretty' ( which, by the way, most people did think of her as ). But when she looked at the reflection all she could see was the spitting image of her mother. She tied her dark blue hair up in a large messy spiky bun that rested on the centre of her head. A shiny forehead protector soon acting as a hairband completed her image.

Now she was ready for an adventure of her own. Having lived in Kumogakure for all her life; she practically knew the village by heart. She knew the ladies that snickered in the background when she'd pass by them, but would cowardly shut up when she'd turn to look at them. She knew the men who'd work hard doing their normal civilian lives. She knew the children who'd play on the streets then stick her tongue out at her when she'd scream at them and tell them that it was dangerous. She also knew the resident stalker of the whole village — Unmei, and her other crazy boring stalker team mate —Raiden. She met a whole bunch of people who inhabited this place. Some of them absolutely retarded, and some, were tolerable. If there were that many idiots who came dwelled in the village, there were probably millions more outside. Naiya sighed.

She realised she was already standing in the main entrance of the whole place. There was no time to turn around now. It was time to go exploring outside the village and run into wildlife that probably couldn't be contained. Perhaps she'd learn new things while she was at it. Hopefully, nobody else was out here venturing like she was. She'd hate to run into anything that caused her even more pain. Naiya, as you could probably tell, didn't like to socialise much. Perhaps it was a bit of a guard that she'd keep up since everything she held dear to her either left or died. Being only fifteen, it was a lot to take in. She couldn't imagine a worse life. Heck, being dead sounded like a better plan. But no, she had a goal to live by. If she could only meet her brother and her father again…

Moving through the forest, Naiya saw what she wanted to see. Birds, plants, all kinds of things that existed in this ecosystem. Nothing seemed out of place except for a strange animal covered in dirt. Naiya grimaced and yelped. "What the hell is this weird thing?" She said aloud, wondering if the strange new creature could hear her. "What the heck are you?" It seemed to be harvesting plants. What a weird, furry creature.