Kasumi Hayashi

Kasumi Hayashi (林かすみ, Hayashi Kasumi) is a A-rank missing-nin from Konohagakure, who now resides in the organization known as the Akatsuki. Kasumi is mainly a ninjutsu fighter, and a user of her family's Kekkei Genkai, Shikkekon.

Background
Kasumi was born in Yukigakure located in the Land of Snow. She is the daughter of Satou Hayashi and Kana Hayashi. She also had a twin sister; Kayono. Kasumi and her family lived peacefully until she was 4. At that time, Kayono dissapeared in a heavy snowstorm. Their parents searched for her for a year, but were unsucessful. They then decided it was best to leave Yuki and move to Konoha, to prevent losing Kasumi too. It is still to this day unknown to Kasumi if Kayono is alive or not.

Kasumi, once in Konoha, befriends Midori Kuma and Hiroshi Yamada, who become her teammates later on. Kasumi was a bright student, unlike Midori, who didn't seem to care much for studies. Kasumi tried to be nice and help her friend, but it ended up taking time away from her to learn, bringing her grade down too a little. Kasumi did have a problem with charka control, though. During the final at the Academy, she made an extra clone by mistake, using too much chakra instead of too little. In the end, she did graduate. Her Sensei Was Tatsuo Kuma, Midori's uncle.

Team 6 (Team Tatsuo)
During the team's first year, the three started to form a close bond, and treated eachother like family. Midori always teased Hiroshi that he was a pussy and needed to get stronger, and also taught Kasumi how to be tougher, giving Kasumi more of a tomboy personality. Kasumi encouraged them to never give up hope, something she was taught by her mother, and brightened up situations when they were bad. Hiroshi, being the only boy of the team (sensei's don't count right now), fought hard and gave it his best to protect them, even though Midori argued she never needed it. Kasumi met Naruto at the ramen shop, and paid for his ramen with her allowence. Midori seconds later pulled her away and told her to stay away from him, because of being the nine-tails host. Kasumi never saw what was so wrong about Naruto, and felt bad for him. And she did believe in him when he said he was going to be Hokage one day.



Kasumi was told at 12 (a year since graduating) that she should consider becoming a medical-nin. Kasumi isn't pleased at this (She believed being a medic-nin was a sign of a weak ninja) and goes to her father for help. She asked him to teach her what he did (Ice Ninjutsu), and he agreed, and started her off with mastering her chakra nature, water. Kasumi worked hard, and was ready for wind jutsu at 14 (2 yrs. later). That was also the time her sensei, Tatsuo sensei, signed up her team for the chunin exams. In the first round, her team was one of the first to recieve both scrolls. This was also the time Kasumi unlocked her Kekkei Genkai, the Shikkekon (湿気可能性, Moisture release) and kills another ninja by accident. During the final parts of the exam, Kasumi battles her rival since graduation, Shotaro Aomori. She is almost beaten, since Shotaro uses her biggest weakness, Ligthing nature, but while down, she shoots a large amount of pressurized air at him, slamming him into the wall, and he spit blood. The fight was decided as Kasumi's, and she earned Chunin rank along with Hiroshi and Midori.

Kasumi's last night in Konoha
At 15, Konoha was what seemed to be attacked (by ice users). After thinking of quite a few possibilites, the blame was pinned on Kasumi, since it was known she could be a potential threat since the Chunin Exams. She still had problems controlling her Kekkei Genkai, especially when her emotions went wild. Still, to limit all suspitions of treason, they sent her parents to either kill their daughter, or they'd kill all three of them. So they cornered Kasumi in their house, but intended for her to kill them, which she did. She screamed, there was a bright flash, and they were dead.

Kasumi was freaked out and in shock, but eventually got out. She remembered a scroll her father told her about, that was only supossed to be used when a Hayashi's powers got out of control. Emergencies only. She considered this a huge emergency, ran to grab the scoll, and left the village. She stopped far enough into the forest, and used the seal (Innocence Curse) on herself. She then gained Katsuki, who killed a few ninjas chasing them, and turned into a missing-nin, constantly planning to destroy Konoha for that day.

White Demon
Kasumi spent 3 years as a missing-nin, gaining up to A-rank. She was called the White Demon, for her ice and white eyes (Shikkekon) and for Katsuki's constant killing sprees. Kasumi would only let Katsuki kill, or hunt, at night, though. She learned to combine her wind and water chakra natures within a year or so (about 16). Katsuki spent her time developing more jutsus, and later on teaching them to Kasumi. Still, Kasumi has only half the number of jutsus Katsuki does. At 17, Kasumi meets Hidan for the first time. Hidan seems to gain an odd intrest in her and shows up where she does most of the time. She at first tries to ignore and ditch him, but later on shows a liking towards him. That is, until he turns her in. She feels betrayed and shows it, screaming that she hates him and should've never trusted him. Her hood is kept up, and she uses her Shikkekon to hide her real eye color.

She breaks out about a month later, turning 18 during the time, and contiues on her way with her plan. She is interrupted by Hidan a second time. He tries to convince her that Kakuzu made him do it for the money and that he cares about her, but she doesn't believe him, and ends up fighting him. Here she finally finds out he's immortal, and in the end gets knocked out unconcious. To prevent Kasumi dissapearing again, Hidan takes her with him, but to a place away from the others, not the hideout. He comes by continuously, but Kasumi couldn't seem to care less about him anymore.

Eventually the rest of the Akatsuki find out, due to Hidan's odd absences, and see Kasumi for the first time. She's unsure how to react to the random 7 guys or so, but once she sees Itachi, she isn't pleased. The guys decide to take her back to the hideout, unsure of what to do with her. Tobi gives her a piggy-back ride there, and she acts warm-heartedly towars him. Leader (Pein ) decides to have her fight one of them. if she won, she could go, if she lost, she'd have to join. Gaining a ice release user wasn't a bad idea to him if she did loose. She had to battle Itachi, lost, and had to join.

The Akatsuki
Kasumi feels akward in the Akatsuki at first, but relaxes quicker than you'd expect thank to Tobi, who soon becomes her best friend. Deidara thought she was just another Tobi at first, but she proves herself differently during training. He doesn't appreciate when she freezes his clay, but she prefers his art over Sasori's. Sasori and her don't interact much, but they are not enemies.