1 Darkness Is A Silent and Cruel Thing [ Solo | Training | Flashback ] Mon Nov 10, 2014 3:22 pm
Tei
D-rank
[This is a flashback thread, and as such please do not roll for intervention as someone can't die in the past.]
Some time ago, before the current day, there used to be what seemed to be an almost glow to the world in Tei’s eyes. A healthy glow. This glow was a certain happiness in the world that she cherished, and would have protected to the end of time, once. Laughter. Kindness. Devotion. Love. These were important things to her at one time. It was this glow of the world that Tei admired once upon a time, and she used this as her motivation for her duties as a medical shinobi. She wasn’t one that was fond of seeing the bad things of life for the most part. She was once a glass half full sort of person. She held her friends close, and the people who would do her harm even closer, living by the belief that kindness could destroy the darkness in lives.
Of course though, the glow wasn’t something that lasted in Tei’s life as the darkness began to encroach on even on Tei’s glass-half-full life. It was slow and methodical, like color dye being dropped in a glass of water, slowly spreading and affecting everything it touched. The precise moment that the glow she saw in the world began to dull, Tei wouldn’t be able to say but it was some time nearly five to seven years ago to the current time. Darkness has a nasty habit of sneaking up on someone unawares as they see more and more cruelty in the world. But, the moment that tipped her over the edge and made the glow disappear was the sudden reveal and awareness to a cruelty that happened to her when she was just a child. A cruelty that was a truth to pain she received as a child, but the truth was too much, and as darkness commonly does with individuals, with Tei, it started with pain that was closely followed by hate, disdain and anger marching side by side.
This pain, not that she knew until she was much older and her father told her the secrets of her life, started when she was five years old. It was a twisted and cruel twist of fate that met them and caused the pain that made Tei’s happy outlook on life spiral out of control and into the darkness where she settled to become such a cruel and dark minded individual. This twist of fate started with an Iwagakure kuinoichi named Tsubaki, a woman tasked with the job of going after a Jugo man, named Shouta, and his followers that were causing trouble for the village. By doing so she faked a relationship with him, and Tei was conceived on the night that she attempted to kill him.
The woman Tsubaki of course did not succeed, and it wound up with both of their lives changing directions in ways that the both would have never thought possible as both of them escaped the fate of death – at least for some time longer. Shouta, who had been an enemy of Iwagakure for so long became an allied shinobi of the village and grew to have a stable family was tasked with going after a missing-nin to reconcile his misdoings. This missing-nin just happened to be Tsubaki, Tei’s mother. Of course, these changes weren’t immediate. Tsubaki first had to find out that she was pregnant with her daughter and decide that given the volatile nature of the bloodline that her daughter was likely to receive, to leave the village before she was born. She did, of course and for the first five years of Tei’s life they lived happily in a little Jugo village.
The young Jugo named Tei was a bubbly spoiled little girl of the time. She had two older brothers, Taichi and Shun, who were eleven and seventeen by the time that Tei was five. Taichi and Shun had been adopted by her mother because they were orphans. There parents had been some of the Jugo who had been going against Iwagakure under the orders of Shouta and Tsubaki had felt guilty for their parents being taken away from them. Of course, this wasn’t something that was so terrible, really. It didn’t keep her from loving the two boys as if they were her own, and the family became very tight knit, even if she was a busy single mother of three children, and these three children got along splendidly. They loved each other very much and took care of each other. They would do anything for each other despite the cost it would have.
Now, because this village was mostly a Jugo village, there were some dark natures to it, as there are in all Jugo’s lives because of their Kekkei Genkai. Their abilities are volatile, after all, but over all, they did their best to maintain what any other village would have, a normal life for the citizens. There were farmers, and shops, and joyous laughter spilled out into the streets almost daily unless something drastic happened. Usually it was just like any other village and there were fail safes in place just in case one of the members of the village went Berserk. It was kind, and almost everyone in the village had good relationships with everyone else. Of course there were the gossips, and the rare dislike of other people in the village, but for the most part everyone tried to get along. And it was this village that Tei’s early childhood took place in.
The childhood home that Tei had was a simple one. It wasn’t that it was simple in the manner that they didn’t have happiness in their home. They were an extremely happy family. There were three bedrooms, one for their mother, one for the two boys, and the third for Tei as she was the only little girl of the family and didn’t want to share a room with her older brothers – she was spoiled. Then there two bathrooms, and a simple living room that merged into a kitchen. Laundry was something that had to be done out of the home as they didn’t have the machines for it in their home. It wasn’t bad though. Chores and things were shared between all the members of the family –though Tei was spoiled by her brothers and didn’t have to do much. Because she was so much younger than them, they wanted to protect her and give her a pain free life.
They would have too, if the pain that they hadn’t been able to stop hadn’t come rushing at them to destroy the joy in their lives and create a darkness in the life of Tei that she’d only come to realize when she was much older.
WC: 1148
Senjutsu C->B: [1148/7000]
Senjutsu C->B: [1148/7000]