Uzumaki Kamina
Information
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Clan: Uzumaki
Nationality: Hi no Kuni
Village Residence: Konohagakure no Sato
Shinobi Rank: Gennin
Speciality: --
Appearance
Height: 6'1
Weight: 170 lbs.
Hair: Blood Orange
Eyes: Blood Orange
Clothing: Kamina prefers loose fitting clothing that will catch in the breeze. He fondly appreciates using his free flowing clothing in optical illusions, usually through dance. He prefers his clothing bright and filled with exotic patterns. Kamina often wears several scores of jewelry, ranging from gold bracelets to studden and handing earrings adorned with precious stones.
Personality
Kamina is far from obnoxious about it, but he holds an innate belief that he is better than others to a degree. There is a deep seated stolen royalty inside of him that refuses to be humbled. He hides his anxiety well and displays it in high functioning outlets like organization and constant growth. His insomnia sometimes gets the better of him, often falling asleep, feigning sleep or just being cranky because he hasn’t slept.
He isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty, nor does he hold tight to the virtues of pacifists. Kamina will easily tell it how he sees it, to hell with all that bullshit nonsense of fake smiles. His parents taught him well, but with their loss and his sister’s increased need, Kamina’s strongest ties are only to himself, his sister and his nephew. He tolerates his village and sees it as convenient protection, but he longs for a place of true home--one that he builds himself.
Biography
Uzumaki Kamina was the firstborn to Uzumaki Izrahi and Uzumaki Sakura, followed only by his sister Nysa six years later. This particular sect of the Uzumaki family was a proud, but reserved one. They kept a careful lineage of their direct line to when their ancestors were high aristocrats on the island of Uzushio no Kuni. They never stopped thinking themselves as royalty but Izrahi hammered deep into Kamina the importance of humility and respect to all fellow man. Kamina was about four when he stole his Akimichi neighbor’s lunchtime cookie with the degree that he deserved the snack more. Izrahi sharply began the ongoing mantra that would haunt Kaimina all his life, “Clothes and crowns mean fuck all when you’re eating shit with pigs.” Afterwards, Kamina was forced to bake his neighbor a whole batch of chocolate chip cookies. The young boy never did like cookies after that.
Izrahi carried with him the ghosts of Uzushiogakure no Sato and always believed that to be his home despite several generations never setting foot on its sands. Sakura on the other hand saw the island as her grandparent, while Konohagakure was her parent. Both were faithful Jounin to the Leaf, so much so that they forewent having another child for six years. That and Kamina was known to cause a hair of trouble.
Kamina’s outbursts quickly fell short after the birth of Nysa. With another child in their family, he couldn’t afford to get away with all of his shenanigans. He was worried that all his trouble would mean his parents would choose her over him and while he quickly mostly cleaned up his act, that anxiety would not shake him. So much so that he began a stint of insomnia, which would follow him for the rest of his days in some form or another. Eventually when he joined the academy, he flunked out from either falling asleep or being unable to concentrate. Izrahi gave Kamina an ultimatum to either attend another year and pick up his grades or apprentice for work. Kamina chose to apprentice at Ichiraku’s Ramen Shop. It went okay until his graduating class stopped by and antagonized him both over being a failure and being an Uzumaki that of course had to have a fetish for ramen. To his parent’s dismay, Kamina quit after a few weeks. A few weeks later, Kumogakaure invaded and threw everything into a tizzy.
After having a bunch of odd jobs, all while flaming his passion for cooking, Kamina eventually rejoined Ichiraku’s with great zeal and determination. A year later he became a manager of one of their locations. His parents joined the Resistance in secret, training Nysa while Kamina gave the cover to avoid the NCIA radar. Kamina thought this was something they could maintain for decades, never believing the Resistance could or should move against the Empire. When they did, during Chouzou’s Charge his mother Sakura gave her life for the cause. Izrahi swore she gave her life for the Bortherhood’s escape. Kamina could never be certain. It was the shatterpoint for their family.
They had dealt with the loss in separate ways. Izrahi looked towards the Ninshu path, Kamina dove into chemistry, swearing it would be the breakthrough he needed to create the next trademark dish. Nysa wanted to bright light and life back into the cold world, which ended up with her getting knocked up at fifteen. Her boyfriend made several trips around the house and while he seemed a well mannered boy, when Nysa was sure she was pregnant he quickly befell fear. Threats to her and the baby, mockery of the family honor and finally a flight to Hotarunoshi. Izrahi took to his trade one last time and followed his trail. If he found anything more of the boy’s identity, it would never see the light of day. He returned with blood soaked hands.
The day Kamina knew the world was just was the day he watched his father’s execution. At the age of twenty, he had earned the right to watch his father die. He found this conviction not in the idiom “an eye for an eye”, but for the clear-cut presence his father held up until his death. There was no regret in Izrahi’s eyes, no vindication, and no condemnation. He had accepted his death and succeeded his life. The world was just because there were ends without regret.
Kamina used his position at Ichiraku to afford a loft apartment for himself, Nysa and baby Izanagi. In his eyes, he was charged to take care of his sister and nephew and did so without objection. The world was a messy place, but one day he vowed to make a safe place for his sister where they would govern themselves. He took back his mantle, using the insomniac nights for studying the shinobi arts. Kamina’s chakra was far behind, but his physical fortitude quickly built itself and his venture into zen meditation to cope with his insomnia would surely help in that venture. He was the oldest in his class by a decade, but he did not accept anything less than graduation. He had made some of his younger peers feel awkward and they made him feel abashed too and hell, it was a little insulting that his Chuunin proctor was seven years younger but somehow he made it through and became a Gennin.
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