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Inobi Yamanaka/Ushinawa Hana

Second name meaning: "Lost Flowers"

Nickname: "Bush Thistle Princess" (common among family friends)/ "Inobi the Shinobi" (a teasing nickname made by her younger peers)/ "Lazy Sword" (her referred title among the samurai)

Age: 8-9 (Orig. Ser.)/ 11-12 (Shippuden)/ 15 (The Last)/ 27 (Boruto)

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Sexual orientation: Closet lesbian

Birthday: May 13

Life Story: Inobi Yamanaka, considered to be among one of the prettiest bush clovers covered in thorns and thistle of the Yamanaka clan. She was born four years after her cousin, Ino Yamanaka, meaning that she was already placed in the shadow of her family. While growing up she was often talked about in the third person by just about anyone who cared: Would she grow up to be as pretty as her mother or Ino? Could she be another prodigy like her uncle, Inoichi? Could she...? Would she...? When will she...?

You get the picture.

This led her to retreat into herself for a couple years and not really put much effort at all into fine tuning her chakra. It was almost like dealing with a shell of a person, she was just barely there. In time the people who put the up on such a high pedestal began to just accept her as just another sub-par member of the family, and it was like a breath of fresh air.

Inobi would often sneak into the Akimichi compound to do some rough and tumble kind of training, focusing particularly on wrestling. Chōza Akimichi was considered a personal mentor of sorts for her, and taught the young Yamanaka how to focus her chakra into large, devastating attacks.

When she was too sore to strongarm with the Akimichi men, she found solace in working on swordsmanship from the special jounin, Hayate Gekkō. This particular bond of teacher and student was no more than a random occurrence next to a riverbank. Inobi had walked in on Hayate's downtime exercises, and the jounin just didn't have the heart to make her leave.

When not training, Inobi could often be found playing ninja with the boys of the village, like Konohamaru for instance. In their younger days, the two could barely stand the sight of the other. Konohamaru believed that Inobi was a selfish jerk, and would often berate into her ears. On the flip side, the young Yamanaka had a dislike for Konohamaru because she thought of him as a loud mouth. As a result of this tension, the two always fought. However, it wasn't until they joined the academy that Konohamaru and his gang found out that Inobi was a girl, and it was well into Shippuden that Konohamaru actually saw Inobi as a girl.

Once becoming a genin, Inobi was regrettably forced to wear some form of proper mission attire. With age came a noticable difference in her outward appearance, such as the appearance of more feminine facial features and a more slender build. This built a severe kind of awkwardness between her and the other kids she used to play with when they were younger. This all came to a head when one of the boys confessed his feelings to her and, in a fit, she grabbed him by his collar and held him up off the ground. After that point, she seemed to almost instantly cut all the ties she had to her old group of friends. The boys wouldn't hang out with her out of fear, and the girls, while secretly admiring her strength, kept their distance to protect their social status.

From then on, Inobi then became known as a sort of drifter inside the village. Most times she would hang out with the older kids, like Ino and her team, since they were family. Inobi wouldn't admit it, but the fact was that she was lonely, and just wanted things to go back to the way they were.

Eventually, when Inobi got older, and Mai had left the village for Dōro, the young Yamanaka decided to leave the village as well. It was during a mission to the Land of Fangs, where a group of rogue ninja attacked her squad near one of the nation's many waterfalls. It was then that she enacted her plan, faking her death at the hands of a well placed kunai, and taking a tumble down one of the largest waterfalls. Of course, this was all planned, as there was a secret cave hidden behind the falls that allowed her to escape the sharp rocks at the bottom.