Naofumi Akagi

Naofumi Akagi (赤城尚文, Akagi Naofumi) is the Third Hokage (三代目火影, Sandaime Hokage, literally meaning: Third Fire Shadow) and prior Squad 2 sensei of Konohagakure. After being taken from her small village in the Land of Fire by one of her older sisters, Kimiko Akagi (赤城公子, Akagi Kimiko), Naofumi is left in Konoha at the front gates to be taken in to the orphanage. After finding herself unprepared for the harsh world that is the orphanage and past of her family, Naofumi is brought to become a kunoichi for the Leaf Village. As she ages, she learns more of her family and decides to try and suppress her past, in turn accepting a black cloth to cover her eyes, which she describes to be “cursed”. Even so, she continues to try and help return Konoha back to its original state after the Great Shinobi War. She never intended to continue being a shinobi, but once she was assigned to be Squad 2’s sensei, she convinces herself to stay within the forces. However, that job does not last long as the previous stand-in Hokage, Hanako Senju (千手花子, Senju Hanako) is in need to be replaced. Naofumi is selected, and in the end, accepts.

Background
Naofumi is the fourth and second to youngest child of the Akagi family. Her family was poor and often scrounging for food and money. They would sell their children to other people for them to do farm work or take care of animals when they could, however, most of the children would pass before any money could be made. Yoshirou Akagi (赤城義郎, Akagi Yoshirou) was very abusive to both his wife, Hitomi Akagi (赤城ひとみ, Akagi Hitomi) and all of his children. Although Naofumi was not old enough to remember nor understand why he did so, she received letters later in life by her presumed dead sister. In those letters, they spoke about what her father did and why he did so, as well as the curse of the Akagi family.

Naofumi’s family was supposedly cursed for unknown reasons, however, from what Kimiko described in her letters, during Yoshirou’s drunk rants, he would speak about how the men of the family used to be the selfless type. However, the rest of the family was selfish and because of that, the roles were reversed and the men of the family would become the ones to cause everyone else to suffer. However, they would only ever have one son, but the curse still applied to any daughters birthed.

Yoshirou, fearing his son would destroy him, as well as any of his daughters who would possibly birth a grandson, did his best to stop that. To stop it, he poisoned the first three children, one of which was a boy while the other two were girls. Kimiko, the fourth born, was smart enough to understand that eating anything he gave her was not worth the risk. In the end, she starved herself and stole food from the townsfolk when she could. By the time Naofumi was three years old, she was taken by Kimiko and the two escaped their father’s grasps. However, they left before Junko was born.

Kimiko travelled through the land of fire and towards Konoha, however, her intention was not to stay with Naofumi. She planned to try and throw off their father if he were to ever chase them down, so she left Naofumi in Konoha where she knew she would be protected, but Kimiko would end up running farther away. Her whereabouts are currently unknown and she is presumed to be dead as there have been no sightings of her. Before she left, Kimiko would write multiple letters that were to be sent every couple of years once Naofumi was 10. There are supposedly 20 letters in total, yet only 7 have been sent and 4 found.

Naofumi, once found, was put into the orphanage and was raised there until she was 6, in which she was enrolled in the academy and meant to be brought up as a shinobi. Being a civilian with no real background, she struggled amongst other clan children and those who were able to be trained by their parents.

Before she could even enter the academy, Naofumi was pulled into the Tailed Beast War. Although she was not a part of any major chaos that occurred, she did see many people, both shinobi and civilians, died at the hands of the Mist and Cloud. It, as much as she would like to say it didn’t, affected her greatly and the thought of being a shinobi and causing someone so much pain completely changed her view of them. Even though she attended and graduated from the academy, she constantly questioned whether or not she wanted to do this. Eventually, by the time she was assigned her genin team, wanted to retire and become a civilian. When consulting her jonin sensei, he tried to convince her to go meet with a Yamanaka, who at the time was working with many traumatized people. In the end, she went against his words and continued her life as a shinobi.

Naofumi would enter the chunin exams at 14, and although her team worked well together, she was only well rounded in ninjutsu, so she struggled a little on the written exam. Naofumi would still pass. At this point in time, Naofumi would understand that the life of a shinobi is bound to be full of death, so she would accept it, but with the problem that her mental state would continue to fracture under her undiagnosed trauma and major depression.

At age 18, she was promoted to Jonin and assigned a genin team, which consisted of Kaito Uchiha (内葉怪盗 Uchiha, Kaito), Ketsuki Akuma (阿久間ケツキ, Akuma Ketsuki), and Haruko Hyuga (日向晴子, Hyuga Haruko). However, Haruko was transferred out of the squad and is now currently supposed to be replaced by Matsui Noriyasu (松範康, Noriyasu Matsui). Naofumi would only get to teach the boys for around 3 weeks before being offered and promoted to Hokage.

Personality
Naofumi is an often very friendly person and with the outward appearance of a child, she pretends to be childish and happy. However, Naofumi is a very mentally unstable person and affected by depression. She has shown signs of self-harm and suicidal thoughts, though it is not confirmed whether or not she has attempted to act on said thoughts. She only really lets it on to those who she is close to, but denies it actually affects her and jokes about it. When she is around those who she doesn’t know or is not close to, she is bubbly, bright, and energetic. In order to present herself like this, she acts childish which is benefitted by her naturally childish interests and likes. Even so, she can become serious and sometimes angry when something triggers her, but it’s very rare.

Ninjutsu
Naofumi's ninjutsu is about on par as is her chakra control, and with the combination of the two, she has an excellent skill with ninjutsu and wastes little chakra.