The Moon and The Stars (shin-ah x reader)

{stars}

When I was younger, around 7 or 8 years old, on every cloudless night I remember I would always go outside and look up into the sky before my mother would bring me inside to go to bed. I remember constantly wondering how many stars there were in the sky and if they could speak soft little whispers to the moon.

On multiple occasions my mother loved to tell me that I would always point to the night sky and try to count the countless stars before I would allow her to take me inside, but I don't recall ever doing that. 

On some special nights though, my father would sneak me out of the house without mother knowing and would help me try to count the stars. It never did work but he would always tell me "Just because you didn't get it right the first time doesn't mean you'll never get it my little star."

Little star is what he used to call me.

Sadly, 10 years have passed since those peaceful nights stopped occurring and I'm now 17 years old living by myself in a small run down hut doing everything I can to take care of myself. When I was 11 my mother and father passed away during a fire clan raid trying to protect me, but the soldiers never showed any mercy towards either of them.

There's nothing I hate more than the fire clan. The anger that is sealed away inside me grows everyday that I can't make a change or avenge my parents.

I don't have any siblings to keep me company either so I'm always by myself sitting in my old hut doing nothing but twiddling my thumbs. I've always been by myself besides being with my parents, so I'm used to it.

Since that awful day of the raid and my parents death, I've been traveling to and from the wind tribe training with their soldiers to get stronger. When I first arrived there and pleaded to train with them they pitied me, seeing as I was a weak young girl, but none the less they allowed me to train with them 5 days a week.

As long as I followed their rules and didn't cause any trouble to anyone or anything in their village they would allow me to stay and spar with them. 

6 years have passed and i'm still showing up to their training grounds to practice, though now instead of being one of the weakest there I'm one of the strongest fighters they have. 

~at the wind tribe~

"Good morning {y/n} here to train again?" a small women holding a basket of clothes by the creek asks me as I walk through the wind tribe's gate.

"Of course" I wave and reply smiling. 

Seeing as I've been traveling to and from the tribe for so long I'm always greeted with such warm welcomes as I walk through their town to get to the training grounds. Being here since I was 11, the tribes 1st general treats me as the granddaughter he's never had. He also introduced me to Hak since he was only a year older than me and thankfully we've been close friends ever since. 

I like to think of everyone in the wind tribe as my second family since the death of my parents left me with no one until now.

Although I'm at the wind tribe quite often, I never see Hak since he's normally at the kingdom watching over princess Yona and making sure she's safe. I've never officially met her but she seems like a sweet and innocent girl. 

Arriving at their training grounds I set my bag full of my belongings on the ground and remove the light brown vest I had on setting it on my bag. Getting ready to spar I start to roll my hands in circular motions and stretch until I hear some commotion behind me. 

"Oh look it's the marvelous {y/n} here to brag about her being the strongest again" Tae-woon comments as he walks up to me.

Tae-woon and I have had a close friendship ever since I started showing up to the wind tribe to train. Practically growing up together, we've been inseparable ever since. Him and Hak have been the closest people to me recently.