• Full Name: Yumi, ren'ai Itoshii 弓熱情的な愛


• Nickname: Kitty.


• Race: Neko Jin.


• Gender: Female.


• Blood type: O negative.


• Orientation: Bi-Sexual.


• Age: Twenty four.


• Birth date: November 14_th


• Star sign: Scorpio


• Theme Song: «Click here»

• Name meaning: Her name roughly translates to "short bow archery, playful love, and beloved " Which was given to her by her father, who strived for her to succeed in the work of a bow, in which was pushed aside when her master came into play and took her away from her parents.

•Occupation: Currently a mercenary, at her age and what she's been through in her life, she takes a certain level of passion into her fighting and really enjoys it a lot.

• Companion or Pet: Yumi has a small feline by the name of Tarra that follows her every where she goes, though most times she cannot be seen when she is in battle. Her body is thin and her fur is quite soft. Yumi will protect this cat with her life and Tarra goes where ever she goes no matter what, Tarra has white fur which is rare in her breed and is rather friendly to those whom she sees no danger. Like Yumi has taught her, when she goes into battle. She tells her to go and hide somewhere or find some healing herbs and bandages to aid her for after the battle.

• Height: 5'1

• Weight and body structure: 113 Lbs, she has a nearly perfect hourglass figure. She is small and lean but her hips are a little too closed in to finish the perfection of her body. She has perfect ambidextrous hands but with a single flaw, she can't cut her nails without a rugged rock to file them, because of her very thick nails which also follow in the genes of the cat.


• Tattoos, Piercings or Scars: Essentially she had a large piercing in the tip of her right ear, but after running from her master, she removed the bell, leaving a small hole in the Neko Jin ear that never closed up. She also has a large scar on her left knee from a hard blow that she took in a battle. The birthmark on her right shoulder blade that looks more as if it were a claw wound is what signifies Yumi and all others of her first curse, mostly distinguished by her cat ears and tail, but the mark more or less is an insignia saying to all those that know of dark sources that there is no lifting this curse or curing it because those who are born with this curse, are to hold in upon their shoulders forever more.


• Hair Length and color: Straight down to her shoulders and a pony tail that reaches her knees. It's a dark crimson red with multiple shades of blond streaks. The pony tail is always worn and only shows how long her hair truly is when the bow like ribbon that she wears is cut off.


• In class Clothing: She wears her uniform shirt with the bland color of white. She always has the long sleeves rolled up it's often very snug to her body. Her skirt is a black blue checkered skirt that hangs slightly above her knees. she's always trying to pull it down though. Yumi also wears one of the boy's ties, simply because of the fact that she is often discriminated against and is often mistaken for a tomboy. Trying to imitate the boys in the school not only made her more popular but gave her the chance of getting back into a relationship. Not that she'd want one anytime soon... but maybe... she might just reluctantly fall in love.


• Clothing or Armour: She wears a pair of three-quarter black leather jeans, they are of course split across the half legs to make it easy to move around in. Though looking slightly tight they are unbelievable comfortable and dense. With a hole that her tail fit through so that she doesn't have to rip one or put it over her pants. She loves to have her tail active and well moved as well. The pants have a belt attached to them that had a few links to it that she could equip some pouches or a sheathe to, she has a few attachments to the bottom legs, they are a set of belts, linked together in a cross formation. They look rather complex but are rather easy to strap together and onto the pants. They cover the rest of her legs and the heavy military boots that she has. She wears bandages over her chest to serve as better than a bra, it allows her to run much faster when needed. She has a tight looking black shirt that fits just over her chest, from above the shirt was a V line collar that just fit past her head. The sleeves are quite long and often fold over her hands which cover her fingers and the ring that she wears as a memory of her first love. It fits right along the edge of her belt line and she liked that. She has a small web shirt over top of that, the lines are red as the shirt itself is black. The web shirt itself is made of titanium wire flexed and stained red, she doesn't wear these clothes to look good, that's just an added bonus, she wears them because they where comfortable and they protect her a lot more then anything else would that wasn't straight up Royal Armor.

• Personality: Yumi is very quirky and upbeat, but she's also very shy. A lot of the times, she'll have a bad ass, rebellious attitude as well. She has always stuck up for what she believed in. Trying to run from her master many times has made her slightly depressed on the matter of her current situation.


• Detailed Personality: Intense, Powerful, Determined, Tenacious, Preserving, Emotional, Sensitive, Calm but Seething, Reserved, Withdrawn, Secretive, Deep, Profound, Passionate, Loyal, Devotional, Ambitious, Extreme, Willful, Fanatic, Magnetic, Deeply Resentful, Brooding, Potentially Destructive


• Likes: She loves pocky and other sweets, she absolutely loves to be pet, it's one of her favorite feelings and nothing matches up to it in her eyes, her favorite spots to be pet are around the ears, rubbing the ears, the tip of her tail, under her chin and anywhere in the top of her head, though the doesn't like to be patted, on the top of the head with a few light pats. Most animals don't find that pleasant at all and neither does she.


• Musical Likes: Yumi likes all kinds of rock, from metal to oldies. in her modern form, you'll find a black Zune on her at all times, always listening to something from System of a down, to Kamelot, to even Led Zeppelin, she knows most history of the oldies and loves everything but the beetles, they're just not her thing.


• Habits: Yumi is often playing with her tail, she likes to bite her lip when nervous and she is almost always caught appeasing to a bad habit of hers, rubbing her own ears. Yumi will sometimes smoke on occasion to gather her composure or relieve some stress, by the crushing and splitting the tobacco leaves that she collects and rolling them between a much thinner kind of leaf that was pressed between two rocks or other such heavy items over a process of two weeks, thereby thinning them greatly and making them easy to manipulate as such. A small powder made of tree sap to make the leaf stick and lighting it in the nightly fire to serve as a cigarette.


• Dislikes: She hates when people are rude to her, it drives her insane inside and it just makes her walk off most of the time. She dislikes when other people are taken advantage of, because she herself was that way once too. Most of all she hates people who give up on a fight just because their scared to fight.

• Weapons: She carries a blade that's more or less… priceless. This was a large Katana that is known as The Grinning Aoe Blade, the story behind the name was that there were rumors of a demon lurking who took the form of a grinning woman carrying a child. Late one night, Nakajima Kuridayu was startled by the appearance of this demon. Instinctively, he drew his sword and instantly swung at the phantom, beheading it, at which time the demon disappeared. The next day, Nakajima returned to view the scene in the daylight - and found two stone statues without their heads! The phantom never appeared again, and the sword that had cut through stone was thereafter named "Nikkari Aoe" The Grinning Aoe Blade. It has a lovely handle, sharpened folded steel blade with blood groove. Handmade and hand tempered. Blade is decorated with hand engraved Fudo horimono, a traditional blade carving from the Edo period. Genuine rayskin handle with black silk cord wrap. Blackened copper tsuba depicting Kami, or guardian warriors. Relief decoration in copper, silver and gold. Wood scabbard with red lacquered finish. Protective maroon cloth pouch. This Katana was a family heirloom given to the Itoshii family eons ago. The blade was an ancestral katana which was preserved in a light cloth for ages and kept as the most honorable gift to the Itoshii family. She studies the art of alchemy as well, carrying several different stones and vials of lesser known magic from within the small pouches that reside along her waist line. She's quite profound in the use of alchemy and is rather creative with how she fights. The Grinning Aoe has an inscription of it's name on the side side of the blade near the hilt. The inscription reads の刃をにやにや笑うこと



• Trained in: Yumi was trained in two different martial arts. At the young age of eleven Yumi started sneaking out of her masters house and going around the back of a dojo that taught both Kenjutsu and Aikido. She began watching the lessons and pulling off tree branches from the trees in the dojo's garden. All up until one day that her sensei had caught her watching in the window and performing the same movements that he did with a surprising amount of grace, but by the time that he had looked over. The other students which were all boys had caught sight of her, but didn't make advancements towards her just yet. After her sensei had shooed her out of the dojo, she was curled up beside the gates crying… All I wanted to do was learn… She had thought. Suddenly the other students surrounded her with shunai which are weapons meant for Kenjutsu training and began picking on her while the others that were without the weapons threw rocks at her. She had run all the way to the market before her sensei saw that the boys were beating her and leaving her very hurt both emotionally and physically, with bruises and tears streaming down her face. She dropped in front of her sensei asking for forgiveness while the boys slowly caught up to her.

They were stopped when her sensei stepped in front of her guarding her just as a knight would, protecting her from all beatings as he disarmed the children without hurting them by using Aikido. Then after breaking all the shunai but the one he held in his hand, he thereby banished all of the students for going against the very basics of teachings in Aikido and Kenjutsu and offered a hand to help Yumi up. This was the first act of kindness towards her that she had seen. Very delighted to have been acted that way, she didn't say a word but simply took his hand and pulled herself up. That was when that famous toothy grin of hers emerged for the first time and the sensei kindly asked. "Would you like to privately learn in my dojo? I saw the grace of the movements that you were performing and for a girl your age.. I'm quite impressed." By hearing that Yumi was delighted to a point that she had never been before and she speedily accepted the sensei’s kind offer.

After learning for six years until she was seventeen. Yumi was given her final lesson and that was to fight her sensei and win. She used both the teachings of Aikido and Kenjutsu to successfully fuse the two together and create a form of swordplay that neither hurt the opponent nor get hurt yourself. After fighting for two hours Yumi was wiped and could hardly stand at that point. But somehow she managed to regain her energy in a final burst of an attack that threw her Katana against her sensei’s katana and broke it in two. Then after training in Kenjutsu 剣術, and Aikido 合気道 to the fullest extent. Yumi was set out by her sensei whom thought he had nothing else to teach her which was by far a lie, she set back to her masters house and then began reading his forbidden books from deep down in his cellars, learning alchemy as if she were going to the greatest of academies, by the time she had just finished the last book, Yumi had already started mixing several different types of remedies and poisons which both proved useful in her first journey where she found her first love. When she had finished the last book in his library the house had been torn down and her master had already been killed. Yumi read the last book only because she needed some time to think before she set foot out into the world and began searching for the mercenaries that had killed her master. She still carry's the book among her few items that she travels with.

• powers: Due to Yumi's partially emotional weak mind, she has been able to be triggered... allowing herself to not only think more clearly but act with more grace and speed as well, not to mention strength because of her masters slavery. Though no appearance changes can be seen apart from her eyes. They become crystal clear when she is in her triggered form. Yumi has been known to douse her very small needles into a powder that she mixes through alchemy and soaking them in oil soon after wards, drying them over a period of two days. Allowing many different affects such as temporary paralysis and loss of motor skills, another affect is the fact that it can make the opponent blind for three seconds alone. A slight hit across the cheek is enough for Yumi to trigger this affect. She is considered very dangerous because of this form of herself. Without knowledge of her triggers she could both die in the battle field or go absolutely berserk in the middle of a friendly tea session. With or without this knowledge, Yumi is both a kind and caring girl... who might... just might find the strength to love again.


• Weaknesses: Her main weakness is being pet in battle, unless she is triggered. Then there’s no way you can get to her to even pet her. There is also another weakness that she has, she's very easily manipulated due to her cat like instincts. If you manage to get her to trust you.. There's no way you can break that trust and she'll basically do anything you want her to. The other weakness is her left leg, previously injured in battle, if you hit her left knee she'll be on the floor in seconds. The main reason her leg is so weak is because it was nearly torn completely off during a battle while she was attempting to use her Aikido teachings, trying not to get hurt in the process. She often has great pains in her leg after running for a long amount of time. Yumi is also very scared of trains, the loud sounds and turbulence of the train makes her very unfond of them and often throws her off balance if she even moves out of her seat at all. She hates them and would rather travel by foot then anything on wheels.

• Heritage or Ethnicity: Japanese/Filipina Her ancestry of Neko Jin blood line started during the feudal era in the late 1780's when her ancestor, also by the name of Yumi Itoshii, had been traveling through the world in search of a cure for her dying father. At one point this woman was in an empty town, with no one in the town besides her, she decided to take refuge deep within the catacombs of a castle deep within the town. The castle had many secretive passages as well as the place she saught refuge in. Being not too far away from a ritual sanctuary of a long lost lineage of Neo-paganism. This lineage had a dark secret to hide from all others, all who traveled to this town would either just pass through out of knowledge of what would befall them in this town or would avoid it entirely. Yumi unknowingly went into this town and into the castle of this town. When she reached the doors they creaked and slammed open at her very presence. Slowly walking inside, Yumi felt no fear whatsoever. That was most likely what brought her her dark fate. Slowly but surely she walked down the halls in search of a guest room, she went into another room, it seemed to be a dungeon of sorts but she didn't take note of this. She walked in and went deeper and deeper, not body's no skeletons, no cobwebs, this wasn't your average dungeon, this dungeon was filled with blood paintings on the walls and marble floors. It was spotless. Completely clean. She finally reached another door after around an hour of mindless walking. She slowly opened the double doors out of her curiosity and walked into the room. Looking around, the room was completely pitch black and seemingly empty. The further she walked the more lit up the room would become. Until the last candle was lit, she stood in front of an old book. She reached out to touch the book but under her was a pentagram with many indistinguishable patterns and runes. She believed them to be zodiac runes but she was very wrong. She took on small step forward and the pentagram lit up like fire! After attempting to escape the doors closed down on her and she went to slam against them, but to no avail, her legs wouldn't move. No matter how hard she tried to run.. She couldn't find herself to move at all now. The petrified girl stood in front of the pentagram that was growing in size, until it reached across the entire floor and brought sucked her in, chains from four of the runes off of each side came and entangled her. Screaming and struggling to break free, one by one each of the nine Wicca stepped out from the darkness, covered in black garb with a different book in each of their hands, they began chanting something that was unspeakable.. It was as if it was their own language. Yumi couldn't understand any of what they were saying. Each and every rune in the pentagram lit up just as the pentagram itself did. Reaching it's limit, the pentagram shattered and everything around Yumi went black again. For what seemed to be an eternity she stood there, waiting for herself to wake back up again. Each of the runes that she saw started to appear in the darkness. Each lighting up again and then shattering, Yumi started to see herself growing fur on each of her arms. Horror struck the girl as her body began to cover itself in fur. Then after each of the runes broke she woke back up again, only to find that none of what she had seen was a dream. No one would believe her, no one would come close to her anymore.. Or so she thought. The fur covered woman was let back out into the free world a freak. With every sense of a cat.. She could barely talk. She couldn't work or become a geisha because of the fur that covered her body, luckily for this poor woman, a boy stumbled across her and fell in love with her at almost an instant, later allowing the spread of her genes, they slowly slid away from the gene pyramid and the children of the Itoshii bloodline grew less and less like animals, all until Yumi was born, she is the last of the Itoshii clan and is the least like a cat but somehow still has the senses, tail, feline shredding teeth and ears of the lesser known Itoshii clan. Little is known to Yumi about her heritage. She still hunts for answers from time to time but over all.. She's just given up on that.

• Romantic Background: Her romantic background so far hasn't been the luckiest of romance, due to her bodily features that include that of an animal, or cat. She was discriminated against at a young age and sometimes truly thinks that she is a freak, though knowing of her family bloodline and the origins of them. No one could accept her as being considered a Neko Jin, being a Neko Jin by birth, it was hard for her to adapt in the world, and to this day she still doesn't have many rights. At the very start of her journey when she was seventeen, she met a kind caring man who vowed to protect her until the end, that in itself was the truth. She was with him for a good year or so.. until at one point, the both of them were going through extreme amounts of stress. A day after that she had reached her birthday and because the both of them were under so much stress.. He had forgotten all about it. Later that night they got into a ballistic fight and she ended up telling him it was her birthday.. He'd went under a small amount of depression.. But two days after she had told him that.. They were both on the brink of death and the man had died, jumping straight in front of a fatal blow towards Yumi.. That was her first trigger.. The first time that she had ever changed from her normal form to her unthinking instinctive form. Due to this she is still a virgin and not many men would even so much as take a second glance at her, even though she is very beautiful with a wonderful personality. She has since then not been able to get back into a relationship because of the fear of time repeating itself over again. Though whenever she sees someone in the same position as Len was.. She finds a subconscious goal to almost have to protect that person.. No matter who it is.


•History: Once long ago there was a young boy who had fallen in love with another woman. But the boy was a slave and the woman was a Neko Jin. She was the one of the Itoshii clan while the other was not. There were a lot of problems that had arisen from their love. But none the less, that never stopped them, all but from a single greedy man by the name of Cornelius who served as the boys slaver. This man had saved the boy's life more than once. The boy offered him anything in return, and the Cornelius had asked for his wife. The Father had declined Cornelius of his obviously selfish intention and he had had gone to kill both him and Yumi's mother, Yumi's mother of course, had told this young man that she would give anything to be with him. Cornelius himself had gone to cleave her but the boy had taken the blades hit. He'd been injured badly, but not killed. Instead of the evil glutinous Cornelius asking for either of their lives, he had noticed Yumi in her mother's hands. He grinned selfishly and greedily propositioned... "For the sparing... of both or your lives.. I'm going to take something equally precious.. your little Daughter.." He said with a slightly insane sounding laugh. There after, he pried Yumi out of the her mother's hands. Her mother being completely helpless from his intentions and the Father was too weak to even stand. Neither of them could do anything against this. The glutinous Cornelius had treated her nicely all up until she came of the age to serve. He then had put a collar around her neck and took her into slavery. From then on he had been working her like a pathetic little animal, and Yumi grew to resent him.

As she turned to an age where she would be most curious.. She began following her master around everywhere he went, but surprisingly didn't gain any of his selfish traits besides the instant gratification that she so desires now. He allowed her to follow him wherever he went all up until one night when it was around the time for her real parents execution. She tried to follow him out the door as he strapped on his armor from the days when he was a royal guard, but she was stopped by his large hand. His face was covered by his hand from her point of view and she couldn't see the grief he was going through at that time. This man was nothing more then a debt collector.. He had never sent out assassins or hired debt collectors but instead.. He went and collected what he was owed on his own. It was a grueling job but until he had to kill Yumi's parents.. He found it rather amusing. That night was the only night that he took great pain in having to drop someone. This night he had slowly been eating himself inside... Though Yumi knew nothing of her parents. It still greatly hurt him to have to do such a thing, and he wouldn't have been able to support Yumi as well without the money that her parents owed him. He departed the house with a grim look on his face, but with Yumi's curiosity. She followed him easily without his detection. When he arrived outside of the family's small hut and knocked on the door to ask for the money. The father answered but as soon as he saw his grimace face he slammed the door shut and it knocked Cornelius back. He quickly got up and smashed into the door. It seemed as if the door was hacked to bits just by his slamming his broad shoulder into the large solid wood door. A peace came off of the door, flying towards Yumi. She screamed and ducked with her butt in the air. Cornelius payed no attention to the scream he had heard and came plowing into the house as her mother cowered away from the house, she slipped past Cornelius and started running in Yumi's direction. Yumi was just then recovering from dodging the piece of sharp plywood that came flying towards her and looked up at her mother running at her with no idea of who she was. She went and picked up Yumi, holding her as close as she could. For as much as Yumi screamed and squirmed, it was no wonder Cornelius had noticed the two over in the bushes. Her mother just curled up with Yumi in her arms as she tried to get away from her. " What has he done to you my child? You don't even know your own mother when you see her?" The young woman asked frightfully. It seemed that her mother was very wise and just by her saying that.. Yumi calmed straight down, looking back up at her mother and sniffling. She jumped straight back into her arms as she said that and curled up with her on the ground. As Cornelius and her father fought. A large call and a shearing sound could be heard as her mother cringed and jumped out, dropping Yumi and ran off. It is said that a cat will protect her litter with great hostility, but if the predator is too much of an adversary, the mother cat will give up to save her own life. Yumi didn't follow as she was far too scared at this point. No scream was heard from her mother as Cornelius came chasing after her into the forest. It seemed that her mother had endured so much pain that she could withstand even death without a single word. Then Cornelius came out of the forest with tears streaming down his face, showing no emotion at all. He looked at Yumi, and for the first time which didn't change any time soon. He was actually mean to her. "I Warned you not to follow me girl!" He shouted as he lifted his broad sword towards her, but Yumi had already been triggered. At that moment, something came over Yumi. An instinct to live. She slowly lifted a finger to his blade and slid it across the tip of the blade, then she stood up and gave Cornelius a look of hatred. Sliding to the side and using what small Aikido she knew at the time to disarm him with her now peculiar strength, afterward using his weight against him and throwing him down, back slamming onto the broad sword and shattering it. Then she stood over top of him as he cower and said "You will regret this girl... If you kill me you'll soon die afterwards! You see that collar of yours? It is like a contract, only you don't have a choice to sign. It's a legal binding procedure that allows any one person to own another. As long as they are of the Itoshii clan." The master said. This wasn't the first time that this had been done, as a matter of fact there was a legal binding royal law towards the Itoshii clan, and that lead towards many rape's within the clan and many unwanted children, carrying on the clan. Yumi stepped off and started walking again. " I loved you daddy...." She thought, obviously referring towards Cornelius mainly because she hadn't known of her parents at all.

Yumi in her time of learning had been taught a lot about how to fight, and to use Alchemy as well. She soon found that when she doused needles into A powder of an herb that grew near the mansion, that they had the unusual affect of paralyzing anyone for a certain length of time. From when her master had punished her from fighting him off with her peculiar strength, he made her do impossible things for her small body size from construction to carrying large eighty gallon barrels of water. Soon enough her strength grew to the point where she could lift nearly unmovable objects with one hand. This gave her the innate instinct to protect herself if the time were ever to come. Finally when she turned seventeen, she had fought him off yet again and ran away from the house, but soon from afar in the very forest she resides in now from time to time. She caught smell of smoke, her basic instinct of curiosity brought her back into the town, only to realize that her former master's mansion was aflame. She caught glimpse of the appearances of the men that set the house aflame and killed her master. The words he said to her were none other then "Yumi my sweet... I have fallen in love with you from the second I saw you in your mothers arms. My selfish acts have brought you much grief... But I did it for the better, knowing what this... this Katana would bring you. I held you as my own as a young child.. But as you came to age of adolescence. My love for you has grown. I apologize for my treating you like a piece of meat all these years... But the punishment... The excuse for the punishment towards you... Was to help you in your life... Without that uncanny strength of yours... You will surely fall... For the girl... no... woman that I in fact love.. I wish nothing better for you... But to live your life... I hand you this Katana in my last strive for life... And I give you your freedom." And with that, Yumi had taken the katana from the dying master she had mistaken all those years. She gave her poor master a proper burial and set off to hunt the mercenaries that killed him in a blind rage.

She soon met her goal and hunted them down like a pack of animals... only to realize that this rage that she had... Wasn't that of her own. It was a foreign rage that she didn't want. For some time she decided to lay her Katana to rest and found a small cottage and lived in there for a while. But this left her with loneliness in life, so she set off on another journey, protecting those she could with the Katana she had vowed to lay to rest. Meeting some very... Interesting… people along the way as well. To this day, Yumi still fights to protect others out of her own subconscious will to protect those of the weak.