Heike Detsune

-Food: Dinuguan
-Animal: Mink
-Colour: Green
-Past-time: Making jewellery
-Thing: A jeweled amulet. Encrusted with pearls and diamonds overlaid with platinum and Philippine emeralds
-Saying: If its cheap, you don?t value it.

-Food: Pinapaitan
-Animal: Cow
-Colour: Orange
-Past-time: Killing people using external implements
-Thing: Dirt

-Name: Doku no tanto (Poison Daggers)
-Type: Two daggers 1ft long. Each of them have jeweled pommels and hilts. Intricate antique designs stretch on the upper part of each blade. The blade itself has pores that contain poisons with a paralytic effect.
-Attacks:
Poison thrust-
Detsune stabs her opponent and somersaults back. The poison of the daggers insure that the part stabbed will be paralyzed for 5 minutes

Twin arc-
Detsune throws the daggers in two directions making an arc on both sides.

Dead run-
Detsune runs with her fists clenching her daggers. The speed heats up the daggers until the air flares around the blade. Then she slashes sinking white-hot blades into the unlucky persons chest.

Doku no Gei-
Detsune poisons an enemy. Can be used on many instances, sometimes even during battles.

Rage Attack-
Detsune lunges, stabbing the opponent in the heart with one blade and cutting his/her throat with the other.

Hayai Hebi (Speedy Serpent)-
A variation of the poison thrust. Detsune lunges below and rises up as she slices the opponent's arms with her daggers. After that she deals three to four blows to the face with her knees while in midair and finishes off with a backflip.

Flaming arcs-
A combination of the Dead run and the Twin arc. After the blades start flaring, Heike does a twin arc making two fireballs. Detsune does not use this very often because it does serious damage to the daggers.

Sakura Fubuki (Cherry Blossom Storm)-
A move she learned from Sanru. Detsune jumps to a Sakura tree and stabs it with her daggers. The chemical reaction will make the attachment of the Sakura petals to the tree very flimsy. After that, she uses her daggers like fans to divert wind currents. If done correctly, the opponent will be engulfed in Sakura and sometimes even be knocked unconscious. This move can only be used when the wind blows strong in one direction.

-Age: 22
-Height: 5?4
-Weight: 110 lbs
-Hair Colour: Black
-Eye Colour: Green
Description:
Her clothes consist of the ordinary Japanese kimono with the various undergarments. The outer robe is green silk while the inner is red satin. In the middle, a firm tapestry-like cloth wraps her. The cloth has many designs and it depicts the history of her lost clan, the Heike. Underneath the outer kimono and outside the inner one are the two leather sheathes for her two daggers. She has many other variations of this. On her neck is a family heirloom jeweled to the point of absurdity.

She is very social though she keeps mostly to herself. She has little, if none, grip on her emotions except in public. She abhors disrespect and gossip.

Heike Detsune was born on an unnamed island in the Philippines. When she was 5, she found out about her Japanese heritage and went to Japan accompanied by her mother. Upon their arrival, they were set upon brigands who slaughtered her mother and made free with her virtue. Being left to die, Detsune cried and cried until an assassin about to murder a high ranking official named Miretsu Hagahara, saw her three days later weak and dehydrated. The sight of that small girl melted the hard heart of the assassin. He took her and cared for her in the Gei no Doku school. That assassin whose name was Sanru was her best friend until he was murdered twelve years after Detsune was found by the man Sanru was supposed to murder that night he found Detsune. Seeing that the dojo reminded her of so many memories, she left the school and was never seen again-until 3 years later, she appeared in Tokyo taking a hand in politics. She would take revenge on this man in his own game.

**Additional Information:

• Detsune?s ancestors were of the mythical Heike clan destroyed by the Genji. They fled to the Philippines and made incestuous marriage to keep the blood pure. The practice was discontinued two generations before Detsune was born making her 1/2 Japanese, 1/4 Filipino and 1/4 Spanish.
• Detsune is very wealthy, having a lavish house in Shinjuku and a group of spies which keep her advised.
• She is an avid politician stirring up scandal against Miretsu Hagahara. No one knows that the scandals are of her devising though.
• During spring and summer, she is out in the countryside recruiting people to aid in her scandalous projects. During autumn and winter, she returns to Tokyo ostensibly to take her place in Politics.
• Detsune is a sworn Catholic. She will never renounce her faith but she doesn't announce it in fear of being outcast. She keeps a locked cabinet which has an altar in it and she secretly opens it and prays in front of it every Sunday.
• Detsune's mother tounge is the Tagalog language. When she shorts, she uses that language. Japanese was only spoken in her family and her playmates were all Filipinos/Spaniards.

*Writing Sample*:

The dojo was damaged. It was still standing but hardly habitable. The attack that came the night before was dreadful, and Detsune was still weeping over the dead body of her friend Sanru, remembering what happened and trying to think of "what ifs". During that night, Detsune was valiantly trying to keep out the attackers, who were just as valiantly trying to get in. When she failed, she simply melted into the shadows, trying to look for Sanru. When she saw him dead, she simply could not move.

"Detsune! Into my room! Now!" Detsune swivelled her head back into reality. It was the master. She thought she would finally get the punishment she deserved. She started to walk to the remains of his abode noticing in passing that the place was only slightly dameaged. "Sensei, I am sorry for failing you. I accept full responsibility." she said, sounding slightly bored.

"Enough of that Detsune! I have decided to give you an assignment."

"An assignment? Who will it be?"

"The usual. Miretsu Hagahara. This dojo has opposed him for much longer than you can remember. You were a victim of him - twice."

"You dont need to remind me. But Sanru himself couldn't kill him and Hagahara's guards get better each time he tries."

"Your skills are second only to Sanru's. That means that you are the best here. but I wont need your skills as an assassin. I will need your political skill. I remember you explaining technicalities to visitors on how to evade the punishment of the anti-sword edict. This dojo will fall, Detsune, and I want you to leave to carry on the legacy of the Doku no Gei."

"You want me to leave you? But what if Hagahara attacks again? You will need every man you have to defend this place!"

"That's the point. We can't."

"If that is true, then where will I go?"

"Where else? Tokyo. Here are your instructions: Fight Hagahara in his own game. Do not let anyone find out that this is under my orders, not even to your fellow assassins. Take the treasure of your family that we recovered and also the treasure of the entire dojo. They are under this house. Once you get to Tokyo look up a man named Shukou; he will help you set up shop there. Now outfit that carraige behind me with the treasures of the dojo while no one is looking this way." The master's voice was unbending. Detsune quickly took out the treasures and put them in the carraige. She examined it more closely. It was a western carraige more than large enough for the treasures she was loading. She found a driver and asked him to drive her carraige. She fled the city of Nagoya going towards Tokyo. The scenery around her was beautiful, and she smiled. As the carraige rode into the sunset, Detsune's heart was like lead. Sanru was gone and she was forced to leave her home, the only home she had after her mother died. She sighed and began to try to figure out how to get rid of the incipient boredom.