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Name: Shirokawa Naomi
Age: 23 (Born on 25th October)
Occupation: Jounin (Graduated as a Chuunin at 14 and as a Jounin at 20. Is currently training to be accepted into ANBU)
Village: Amekagure

Appearance:
- Eyes: Deep blue green and almond shaped with a slight upward slant and very heavy lashes
- Hair: Brilliant blue, very thick and tied in a loose ponytail at the base of her neck, with a long fringe swept to the left side of her face and tucked behind her ear
- Height: 5'11"
- Build: Naomi is tall, but also quite solidly build. She has quite a thick waist and thighs compared to most girls she knows (A fact which she is very self conscious about) though she's by no means fat.
- Skin: Pale
- Clothing: A Chinese tunic with a low square cut neck in blue with white trim, the loose sleeves hanging down to her wrists and partially covering the fingerless leather gloves and forearm guards underneath. The tunic goes down to about five centimetres (two inches) above then knee, but is split at the sides right up to her hips, and a white cloth is bound tightly around her waist to stop it from flapping around (And to make her waist seem skinnier). Due to being incredibly sneaky, this sash has a few very useful things woven into it, such as a length of garroting wire. Under that she wears tight fitting knee length pants, the standard open toed shoes and a small pouch where she keeps her kunai/shuriken/other useful things with sharp edges (As all good kunoichi do) against her outer left right thigh.
- Voice: Naomi can be loud when she wants to. Very loud. Her voice is a very clear, very resonant alto.
- Other: Naomi wears a go-en (Five yen) coin around her neck on a length of black ribbon, because go-en are supposed to bring good fortune. It was a present from a boy she knew when she was seven years old, though she's mostly forgotten about him.

Personality:
Naomi is, by and large, a very happy-go-lucky person and makes an attempt to get along with most people. She has a dim view of rules and being told what to do without being given a very good reason for it, stemming from a life with her very disciplined family. She's determined, impatient, quick to anger and quicker to laugh. One of Naomi's quirks that is unusual for a shinobi is her reluctance to kill. Oh, if she's told to assassinate someone by her village she'll do it, but killing someone who doesn't need to die is completely against her values. She overcomes this by becoming fiendishly good at incapacitating most of her foes instead, something which makes her useful for recovery missions.

History:
Naomi was born to the Shirokawa clan in the Rain country, an ancient and obcenely rich clan with close ties to the Daimyo of the land. While the clan has an impressive lineage, it has never traditionally been a ninja clan, posessing no Kekkei Genkai and with very few if any notable ninja to their name, something which they desperately desired. Naomi's father - Mokoto - showed promise, and thus was the prize of the clan. He was an extraordinary student of Ninjutsu techniques, having surprising chakra levels considering his family and his dedication to learning the ninja art. The man became a jounin at 21, however never achieved the status of ANBU or any particular notability. He married Naomi's mother - a medic-nin named Mokuyama Tomomi - and eventually Naomi was born.

Naomi was, from very early childhood, trained by her family in all kinds of disciplines. Her mother and father tutored her in the ninja arts as well as sending her to the Academy of Amegakure no Kuni. Along with this, she was subjected to the incredibly strict traditions of the Shirokawa house. She learned the history of her clan, her duty to be loyal to her family above all else and a host of other things common among powerful families. Despite all of this being drilled into her, Naomi found how much importance her family placed on... well, what and who her family was somewhat strange. Shortly after she had completed her Chuunin Exam, the patriarch of her family - her great uncle - decided something; that she was going to be married off to a powerful ninja clan. It was an entirely pride based move, her husband's family would gain access to the influence and enormous amounts of money the Shirokawa clan posessed and in return they would gain a link to the ninja world - possibly even a heir in posession of the other line's kekkei genkai. A match made in heaven for everyone except the fifteen year old herself, who point blank refused. Her parents sided with her (Huzzah for no daddy issues!), and the argument very nearly broke the family in two, however her great uncle was eventually coerced into waiting until she was an adult to arrange her life, and if she had proved herself as a great ninja in her own right by then, well there'd really be no need to marry her off at all. So Naomi continued her training and became a very competent if slightly odd Jounin, one of Amegakure's best - though considering it's a relatively minor village this isn't as impressive as, say, Sunagakure or Konohagakure.

Techniques:
Naomi trains with a bo staff, and has been for the last eleven years. So, not surprisingly, she's good at hitting people with lengths of wood.
All elementary jutsu (henge no jutsu, bunshin no jutsu etc.)
Water prison jutsu
Water dragon blast
Water clone technique
Water slicing blade

She can occasionally summon some of the children of the River Otter King, but has never been able to summon the King himself.