Heart to Heart //Lo'ak

backstory

This is in Lo'ak's pov btw!

    Ni'awtu is very pretty. I don't think that obviously cause she is like my friend or something. But the whole town thinks so because "she looks just like her mother". She has these big green eyes, big pink lips, long dark hair that she keeps braided and behind her ears. She is tall but not as tall as me (the top of her head reaches my lips)
    Ni'awtu looks almost identical to my mother. They have the same big green eyes, even the same. You would think she is her daughter but she isn't. The only difference is that ni'awtu is more feral. She is fiesty, scary, very independent to the point where nothing holds her back. But she wasn't always like that. She was once like my sister Kiri, a free spirit very adventurous. It all changed when her mother died.
    My mom grew up with Sha'munka (Ni'awtu's mom) they were basically sisters. Everyone thought they were twins because they looked identical but they aren't even in the same blood line. They trained together, fought together (they killed the colonel together), my dad said they were attached at the hip the day he married my mother. They got married around the same time to great warriors and even got pregnant around the same time. My mom was having her second baby (me) when Sha'munka got pregnant with her first child (Ni'awtu). Me and Ni'awtu were born on the exact same day, i was born 3 minuets before. Neteyam, Spider, Kiri, Ni'awtu, and me all grew up together. They basically lived with us but thats sorta because her dad didn't want her because she was a girl or something. I dont know. We never got into it because it was a touchy subject. We would hangout everyday, all day and i had the biggest crush on her. I miss then, when there was no problems and nothing to worry about. About a week after we turned 12 Ni'awtu's mom got really sick. She died about a month later. My mom was absolutely shattered. I don't know if she has ever really been the same since. Neither was Ni'awtu. She moved in with her dad and started training like everyday. I never knew why. She became a great fighter, better than ill ever be, better than anyone i know. She could take down my dad easily, we even attempted it and she won.
    Her dad went missing about 6 months ago. Me and Ni'awtu are both 16 now. Everyone thought he was dead but she said that she knew he ran away. Something about how he had been planning on joining a different clan. I feel bad for her. She went through hell and back and doesn't even seem phased. She went from a loved child to a neglected child. She did everything to be enough for him. She trained everyday and it still wasn't enough. I don't understand how someone could really hate her. She is funny, and kind once she gets around to you. She has scars all over her body, they aren't deep enough to tell but when i look close to her bod i can tell the faint marks. I don't know what they are from. She doesn't open up to us unless it's my mom.
    Since her dad died she moved in with us. My mom treats as her own. When she first came she was really uptight, didn't talk, and left every morning at sunrise to go train by herself in the woods. She has gotten over the not talking. Everyday i can tell a little more of her is coming back. We have gotten so close it feels like i got my best friend back. We now are attached at the hip, i can tell it makes my mom really happy. Well that unless we don't get into trouble. Me and her are the closest out of the sully bunch. Kiri and her get along but kiri is always distant. She gets along with neteyam really well too, at first i thought she liked him but who could like my brother. She still leaves everyday to go train she doesn't let any of us come.