Momika

Location: Getsugakure, Land Of The Moon (Will Of Fire)
Scenario: Multiplayer
Rank: D

Perks: Attractive, Cool
Chakra Nature: Fire

Basics

Stealth 3
Subterfuge 3
Body Flicker 1
Weapon Art 2 (Tessenjutsu)
Chakra Flow 1
Genjutsu Reversal 1
Special Skill 2 (Fan Dance)

Advanced

Illusory Arts 1
Shadow Clone 1
Advanced Taijutsu 1

Hidden

Element Illusion 1

Items

Makibishi
Kunai
Shuriken
Steel Wire
Smoke Bombs
Flash Bombs
Poison
Storage Sealing Scrolls

The Person

Momika is one of the newest and likely the eldest entry in Getsugakure's academy. She tries to be a cheerful big sister type to the other students, if only so she can boss them around and avoid doing too much work. The cheerfulness does come easily to her, as she's naturally optimistic, and it's the sense of responsibility and reliability that she has to go out of her way to embody.

Although she prides herself on being resourceful and adaptable, in reality, she's just spineless and gives up easily. She taught herself a shinobi's techniques, but not a shinobi's mindset, so while she has no compunctions about stealing, cheating, lying, begging, flattering, and being generally underhanded to achieve victory, she will also value her survival over the village's, running away or falling in line if someone more powerful pressures her.

On top of being cowardly and self-centered, she is extremely frugal and obscenely greedy. A good way to build rapport with her is by simply gifting her things, and a good way to make her avoid you is by demanding anything. Her landlord can attest to that, as they have not seen each other since the first payment. Still, beyond the golden rule of spoiling her to death, she can get along with just about anyone. She can bounce off extroverted people and bring introverts out of their shells. She can listen and obey the smart people and lead those dumber than her into victory for herself. The only people she struggles with are those of the unstable and psychopathic sort, because her survival instincts will direct her to avoid them altogether.

She is secretive about her past, but only because she's still figuring out the tale she wants to spin. Preferably, it will be something that paints her as a princess from a destroyed noble family, so she can explain her presence in the academy as a result of her parents sheltering her, then trick someone from a clan into marrying her and live the easy life after graduation.

In combat, she favors a pair of war fans which she reinforces into deadly blades and stalwart shields with her chakra. By ebbing and flowing with dance-like movements, she fans the flames of her elemental jutsu, drastically augmenting them as if using the Wind Style, and even replicating similar techniques from the Scorch Style such as heat mirage illusions.

The Story

Less than two decades ago, Kumo orchestrated another kidnapping attempt against one of Konoha's clans. Although the compound's watchmen sensed the ambush and alerted their higher-ups, neither were capable of stopping the assault. The Kumo shinobi left with two young prodigies from the clan in their clutches.

Or so it seemed. The abductors actually held regular servants who worked in the compound, devoid of any Bloodline Limit or even the ability to mold chakra. A complex transformation jutsu had been imbued in these victims, tricking the Kumo shinobi into leaving after it became clear the clan could not be capture them by force or hold until reinforcements. Certainly, those people were doomed once their abductors discovered them, but it was a negligible setback compared to one of Konoha's Bloodlines falling to one of its greatest rivals.

However, Kumo did not dispose of those civilians. They weren't equipped to make the trek back to Konoha through the Land Of Frost, and they certainly didn't have the funds to hire an escort. And even if they were in condition to return to their village, they didn't have any valuable information to return with. The two young "immigrants" were turned into cheap labor for Kumo, and over time, found themselves leaning on each other for support and a friendly face who understood the other's plight.

Several months later, Momika was born to a life of struggle. Her parents didn't even live in the village proper, unable to afford a home and instead camping in the mountains. They did their best to always put food on her plate, but when work was scarce, they had to resort to less honest means. Throughout her infancy, the other children mocked her as the beggar's daughter, but she quickly learned how to use that as an advantage, walking along with her father at his lowest points, and garnering more pity donations from the adults. Eventually, she learned how to support her family in better and worse ways, pick-pocketing people at the market or catching fish by one of Kumo's many rivers.

Sometimes, she would take time off her beggar duties to watch the shinobi children, burning with envy. After all, what child didn't yearn to walk on walls, talk to animals, shapeshift, or make clones do their work and reap the benefits? The fact their families were also the wealthiest in the village didn't help her discontent.

Soon, Momika decided she would put those negative emotions to good use, and resolved to teach herself jutsu. She would spy on people who could mold chakra and see how they did it. She would work for the market's caravans and listen to their stories. She would trade those same stories with the elder fishermen who had commissioned shinobi in the past. And she would become good enough at sneaking around to reach the least protected sections of a library, unwinding scrolls and consolidating her knowledge.

It worked. With taijutsu, she could easily find physical work, delivering parcels around the village, hunting for pelts in the woods, exterminating pests in shops. With genjutsu, she could pick-pocket a wide variety of targets in all sorts of locations. With ninjutsu, she could do everything aforementioned from the comfort of her camp, her clones acting as proxies.

... she might have gotten too cocky when she stole from one of Kumo's clans, but it was a mark she had her sights on for a long time. One of the children who made fun of her in the past, and one of the few who had caught her when she spied their jutsu and bullied her for it. When she found herself a perfect chance for payback, there was no option in her mind but to take it. And when they broke the illusion and found the real her in the mountains, she surprised even herself by beating them back instead of fleeing like the coward she admittedly was.

When the incident reached the relevant authorities, Momika was given two options. Normally, Kumo would punish her with the worst possible fate, putting her through their academy program, and turning her into a shinobi who would not receive any payment for her missions. However, she was way too old for their academy program by now, and none of the available Jonin wanted to take a half-assed pupil like her, so she would be relegated to a life of service under the clan she had robbed, and the genin she hated. That, or a life in prison.

After signing the contract and going home to gather what little belongings she had, she shared a tearful goodbye with her parents and promptly fled the village, her destination the Land of Fire. No one chased her, because she just wasn't worth the effort.

However, during her travels, a mysterious letter was sent to her hotel room in Shimogakure. An invitation from the Land of the Moon to finish her education... or start it, depending on how you looked at it. The seal looked legitimate, and checking with the Shimokage's office, it seemed these invites had been sent to shinobi all over the world.

It was downright terrifying that someone powerful out there knew of her existence, situation, and exact location, but she had zero prospects beyond a faint hope Konoha would accept her, so after a rather treacherous journey through the Land of Whirpools, she found herself in Getsugakure as its oldest academy student... (probably).