H O N O K A
H O N O K A

Mimoto
Mimoto

Shigoto
Shigoto

Joretsu
Joretsu

G A I D E N
G A I D E N

_Monogatari
The result of a reckless and passionate dalliance between a Haruno mother and Uchiha father, Kasumi grew up under the shadow of the looming Konoha Civil War. In the face of that disaster, her father was rarely able to visit her mother and the little girl born out of wedlock, but when he could, he indulged his child's burgeoning brightness eagerly. Sadly, in the waning days of the civil war, he would be one of those to perish, and Kasumi's mother would choose to keep the nature of her daughter's birth a secret, fearing prejudice or reprisal from various interests.

It was this environment tinged with a persistent, subtle undercurrent of fear that would eventually drive Kasumi to begin to seek security and relief in the arms of power. She grew to internalize the fear of death or worse, always worried that she might end up as her father had... as her distant relatives in the Uchiha had. She couldn't help but wonder: if a prized noble clan like the Uchiha could be nearly purged and disregarded for opposing Konoha's party line, then what would that mean for her, a bastard child without even the lessened support of a Shinobi Clan behind her?

With that in mind, Kasumi was quick to pursue the life of a shinobi, even from an age too young to enter the Academy, and her mother was more than happy to aid in sating her voracious hunger for power. In hindsight, she might have considered her unusual focus and maturity to be abnormal, but she would know later that it was the development of her Inner helping her along. Thus bolstered, she pursued arts of chakra cultivation with both the fervor of desperation and what she would come to recognize as a genuine thirst and love for knowledge in every form she could afford to invest.

There was a certain... lean to her knowledge, however, especially once she had graduated to Genin and found the proof of her father's blood awakening in the stress of life-or-death fieldwork. She felt drawn to arts of protection, of survival. The arts of healing and fuinjutsu drew her eyes like moths to a flame and stoked the hunger inside her to new heights with every improvement she made in their pursuit. At one point, she even considered the Medic Corps something of a dream job. A stable, well-paying backline role where she didn't have to risk her neck and could keep training privately? Yes, please!

Unfortunately, that passion would die an ignoble death, much like many other things, when Pein's invasion rolled around. Kasumi, age 11 at the time, was one of those lucky enough to avoid being obliterated outright. Unfortunately, survival was only the beginning of a grueling nightmare, where she got an extended first-hand look at the horrors of an all-out war. The devastation was immense, and it seemed that -even in the aftermath- the tide of bodies just kept coming. As one of those precious few medics still in any shape to treat the wounded, Kasumi found herself practically relegated to little more than a machine, healing day in and out for weeks, surrounded by the stench of blood, shit and chemicals. Every hour of every day, she had burned into her memory (sometimes even with permanence with her Sharingan) visions of suffering and agony, and her hunger to never languish similarly rose to even greater heights.

By the time Konoha was able to return to anything even approaching normal operations again and she was released from her obligations, Kasumi was well and truly burnt out on healing. She returned to ruins and an empty household, her mother having perished in the initial assault where she had not. Kasumi was left alone, burning with resentment and self-loathing, wondering was even the point of all her knowledge in healing if she couldn't have saved the person she cared about most. From then on, in many ways, she found she almost even despised the practice of healing outright, grimacing internally at the thought of treating one more person. While she could take some solace in the generous wartime bonus she'd received for her service, it did very little to rectify how she now considered her once dream-job a perpetual ticking time bomb. Yet, worse still, she could only feel resigned to the fact that, as much as she hated it, healing was still an objectively safer profession than making a living as a regular shinobi.

Trapped by her own common sense and survival instinct, Kasumi resigned herself to her original game plan. Yet, in this time of crushed idealism, she came to find herself drawn to a revitalized passion for Fuinjutsu. Anything, she thought, to take her mind off the drudgery of healing. She now threw herself even harder into the practice and began to find her eyes opened to the shocking potential it held. The thirst to learn... The hunger to experiment... She found them both fanned to new heights, height tall enough even to push her into tentatively getting back into field work again, both to get away from healing and to have the opportunity to test all the wonderful ideas she now had.

In the meanwhile, as she always had before, Kasumi strove to fly largely under the radar. She craved neither fame, nor notoriety. Instead, she strove for quiet success where she could and did not pursue promotion opportunities ambitiously, perfectly content to remain a Genin until it no longer looked reasonable. If she had her way, she would remain largely unremarkable in the grand scheme of things, just one Haruno amongst the growing many flowing into the Medic Corps. Sure, her bedside manner might need some work, but none can truly doubt her skills, right? Not as a technical veteran of the Pein War.

Unfortunately, despite this desire, the very same leniency granted to her by that veteran status would end up backing her into a corner. Having been drafted into Konoha's Medical Corps full-time for the duration of the Pein War, it would later be acknowledged that in an official sense, her overall education had been hampered by state actions. As such, she was provided an exception and extension upon the usual graduation period for a Genin, inside which she was expected to make use of this "generous" opportunity upon a greater stage. Thus, despite attention being the last thing she desired, Kasumi was pressured into competing in the Multinational Chūnin exams, where she would necessarily be forced to provide a strong showing to survive against foreign elites, earning her both national attention and candidacy for Konoha 12 Honoka Program.

S E I K A K U
S E I K A K U

_Kokorononaka
Kasumi can be sometimes described as possessing the bedside demeanor of a nurse on a smoke break. Not that she smokes; it's "bad for you", after all, and she likes to think of herself as a forward thinker. She is sardonic, owns a sharp tongue and is more than happy to snark about how she decides who lives or dies (so don't piss her off). Generally speaking, as a medic, she resents her patients and has little patience for those disinclined to obey her instructions in her capacity as their attending physician, seeing her ability and willingness to heal others as a privilege not to be taken for granted (lest she remind others with inaction)("They're ninja, right? Are they dying right now? Well, they can probably handle a little pain. My chakra's precious, you know.").

Kasumi values her personal survival and prosperity above all else. Neither comradery nor Konoha come into things except as a second thought at best. Having seen Konoha's willingness to treat their people like garbage several times over and at least partially blaming them for denying her the chance to have saved her mother's life, Kasumi holds very little true loyalty to them. Despite this, her self-interest and relative lack of ambition mean she's the sort to get comfortable in one place instead of making a serious effort to make it elsewhere. To that end, she is content to use Konoha and her comrades as one giant conglomeration of meat shields, availing herself of the Great Village's resources, prosperity and "brand recognition" in the meantime. Despite her occasional griping, Kasumi is largely content to leave the status quo be, so long as it doesn't overtly inconvenience her personally, and she spends her time eagerly focused on personal cultivation and the exploration of the wonders of chakra. Despite her acerbic nature (particularly in regard to healing), Kasumi is truly passionate about self-improvement and the exploration of chakra's secrets, and she holds an especially particular place in her heart for Fuinjutsu, her fascination with and usage of it being some of the only times her prickly exterior shows a glimpse of genuine excitement and happiness.

Likes: "Private... shit, I have to answer? Well, peace and fuckin' quiet for one. Also privacy." Glares.
Dislikes: "Nosey little shits, but I'm sure I don't need to tell you that, right? I guess your face too."
Fears: "This conversation wasting more of my time. Are we done here? I've got a shift in ten."

Kirainamono
Kirainamono

Sukinamono
Sukinamono

Mokutekiwa
Mokutekiwa

K A S U M I
K A S U M I

Zokusei
Zokusei

Fukajutsu
Fukajutsu

Keijutsu
Keijutsu

_Hadena
Kawarimi • Kasumi utilizes this jutsu in a manner predicated on an understanding of its fundamental nature, successfully discarding the otherwise seemingly arbitrary limitation of usage only in response to a harmful attack and transforming it through mastery into a technique comparable to the Amenotejikara, allowing her to swap herself with just about any object or person near her. Her mastery of Kawarimi surpasses even the illusion of mere speed and steps into outright teleportation.

_Taijutsu
Fourth Taijutsu Form – Kakuran: Silent Fist
Disturbance is preferred by acrobatically agile Shinobi for a fast-paced combat, it's also the most exhausting that combines ferocity and grace, it rapidly and relentlessly bombards with precision, at various angles and locations, the Hyūga, Kiri & Kumo Shinobi has a strong preference for this Style. Within the range of this style's variants, the Silent Fist is a fighting style focused around rendering the user's movements completely silent by cloaking themselves in chakra. In doing so, the user renders their movements virtually unpredictable, especially if combined with a manner of obscuring the enemy's sight.

_Bukijutsu
Fūinjutsu • Weaving them in wherever possible, Kasumi makes aggressive use of sealing arrays in many facets of combat, both in terms of preemptive preparations and seals she crafts on the spot as needed. Her capacity to create seals out of pure chakra even allows her to mark her enemies with troublesome arrays with a touch or leave hazards in her wake. This methodology is often punctuated by the enthusiastic utilization of storage and explosive seals to create a form of kayakujutsu. Of course, to complement this fighting style, she also makes quite notable use of shurikenjutsu, a practice that is greatly enhanced in and of itself by loading projectiles with various seals.

K E N G E K I
K E N G E K I

Ninjabag
Ninjabag

All Chūnin and beyond are provided with the opportunity to be equipped with stylized Fūinjutsu tattoos on certain parts of their bodies to summon weapons and equipment, rather than bring conventional bags; this has no chakra cost of note.
Chūnin Arsenal Inside Raiken

Kasumi's Arsenal Inside Raiken

Kasumi's Core Fuinjutsu Tattoos

K A T A G I
K A T A G I

• Chakra Based Arrays: Kasumi displays enough mastery of Fuinjutsu that, combined with her high chakra control, she is able to use pure chakra alone to cast Fuinjutsu, allowing her to create and apply seals to objects and people with just a touch, rather than needing to spend precious time crafting them with ink.

• Sealing Coder: Kasumi is a proficient purveyor of Fuinjutsu enough so that she is able to recognize the underlying math and patterns in the works of others and translate it into her own formula, through which she is capable of studying, manipulating, dismantling or even repairing sealing formula other than her own. Were she so inclined, she could further make a passable attempt at hacking Chakratech; though she lacks the proficiency of a specialist in that particular realm.

• Single-Seal Jutsu: Thanks to her Inner, Kasumi is able to offload the majority of the chakra molding process to her other half when casting jutsu, allowing her to cast the vast majority of jutsu with a single hand-seal, sometimes less, given that a number of her jutsu were developed from the ground-up to forgo them.

K A R Y O K U
K A R Y O K U

Bloodline
Bloodline

Hijutsu
Hijutsu

_{(While Kasumi is capable of the nature transformation for these infamous black flames due to observing Uchiha with her own Sharingan, she has yet to cultivate the pursuit of the style in any meaningful capacity... partially out of concern that it would be a dead giveaway as to her heritage.)}

Jinjutsu
Jinjutsu

Outside Medical Ninjutsu, Kasumi primarily specializes in her true passion, Fūinjutsu, an art in which she can perhaps be considered on the verge of becoming a genuine master, despite her age. Not only does she easily grasp the formulas of others, but she has gone beyond simply using preexisting arrays, developing her own modifications to existing Fūinjutsu, along with creating entirely new ones.