Kumiko Saitou

Kumiko Saitou (斎藤 久美子, Saitou Kumiko) is a former shrine maiden (Miko) turned kunoichi, claiming allegiance to Otogakure by serving as both a shaman and Intel gatherer.

Background
Raised secluded from most other individuals, Kumiko's early childhood was bent on a focus towards studying and conditioning purity, the most important quality her elders could see fit for a young shrine maiden. Training involved various forms of practice, both physical and mental, with a focus on communing with the kami as well as departed spirits. For years, she practiced sealing and purification rituals, alongside learning melodies, intonations, and dances that were used to prepare her mind and body for communicating with the deceased. During this training, a properly completed dance, song, or rite would allow her to become a vessel for which a spirit could possess her and speak through her, and much additional time was devoted to learning to control this possession state. Ultimately, her conditioning was in order for her to reach the kami, and after seven years of dedicated study, she was pronounced a fully-fledged Miko.

However, during the first year of her training, Kumiko underwent a particularly ill encounter with a vengeful spirit she was attempting to purify. When prompted to recite the intonations she had only just begun to memorize, she found she could not summon the words, and her dance alone was not enough to quell the rage of the spirit. She tried to beg assistance from one of the shrine elders, but could not do so. The words were forming in her mind but would not leave her mouth. Her task ended in a miserable failure, stinging to her core, and it gave her another swift kick in the teeth when, upon trying to explain herself, she found she still could not speak. Being only 13 at the time, her mentors chalked it up to fear and little else. As time went on, her voice did little to return, and she spent the rest of her training mute.

Seeking help from her kami, Kumiko was instructed to take up a mentor who would help not only with her studies of rite but with study of ninjutsu as well She believed that the kami was trying to guide her down a path that would restore her ability to speak by simultaneously waking new latent abilities. In relative secrecy, Kumiko began to hone her talents. It was only after completing her years of training at the shrine that she revealed her ability to perform ninjutsu, but the shock that came to her peers was to be short-lived. Fearing that she would not be understood - and fearing her unmastered Boil Release kekkei genkai - Kumiko fled the shrine, abandoning herself to a life of wandering until an accidental meeting with Kabuto Yakushi, who surmised he could use her abilities for Orochimaru's gain.

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