Hinako Ninomiya (AST)

Hinako Ninomiya is Kasumi’s assistant instructor.

## Appearance

Either looks likes a young child or a twenty-something woman. She has long dark hair in either form and clothes which fit both a child and an adult. When in her adult form, these clothes hardly conceal her protrusive feminine body-parts. Her eyes are dark green and as a woman she has a seductive type voice.

## Personality

Just like her canon counterpart Hinako's personality changes depending on her form. In her child form, she acts mostly like a small child would - she talks in a high-pitched voice, has child-like needs and wants, and acts very childish and immature, although she still somehow manages to take her job as disciplinarian and teacher seriously while in this form. In her Adult form, Hinako acts like a refined adult woman, and is mroe effective in her teaching methods. She can be gentle, but as an adult may also seem to have more of a cruel/mean streak about her because of her accelerated mind.

## Biography

A teacher hired by the vice principle for the purpose of providine Kasumi support as one of the instructors for the special class. This status causes a bit of a surprise when she shows up as a young girl, to the point where Kasumi believed it was some elaborate prank.

Her reputation, however, is justified when she uses her ability to absorb Ukyo's battle aura when she attacked Kasumi as the two were getting to know each other, rendering her incapable of fighting back. After absorbing it, she instantly grows into a voluptuous young woman and is then capable of firing it back at opponents as a large ball of energy. She reverts to her child form upon doing so.

Hinako explained to Kasumi about how as a child she was very sickly. An old man cured her by manipulating her pressure points, changing her metabolism so she could absorb the auras of other people to increase her health. This altered metabolism made her default form age very slowly, making her true age that of her adult form.

Hinako and Kasumi quickly hit it off. Her older self was much more worldly than Kasumi. For the first time she had a female friend she felt comfortable talking to. It was just too bad she spent so little time in her adult form. Still, her younger form was so bright and cheerful that Kasumi could not help but smile at her joy in life.

When Kasumi was trapped in her cursed form by Cologne she was forced to inform the other teachers what was going on. Hinako welcomed her with open arms she even called Kasumi big brother as she was so happy to finally meet someone like her. The two went off to eat ice cream where they were attacked by Kuno who demanded to know the whereabouts of Kasumi-chan. he was promptly drained by Hinako. Not wanting her to interfere Kasumi got Hinako to agree to stay clear of her fight with Ukyo.

When Hiro seeing how depressed Kasumi had become after being unable to bet the phoenix pill offered to take him and Hinako to a ski lodge to take his mind off of things. Cologne appeared, feeling something amiss. Dr. Tofu also soon arrived and explained he had brought Frost to the mountains. Shampoo and Cologne both recognized the name, although Dr. Tofu was surprised they had not known she was in Nerima. They quickly explained that Frost was likely a danger to Kasumi and everyone split up to find Kasumi before Frost could.

She and Akane were able to find Kasumi just after she was attacked by Frost. Kasumi was completely disoriented to the point of thinking he was back in India. Furious Akane confronted Frost and tried to explain Kasumi’s curse only for Frost to think she was enchanted when she called Kasumi her sister. Frost was about to force Akane aside when she was stopped by Hinako who told her and Ryoga to get Kasumi away. Unfortunately as a mage Hinako could drain her battle aura as the clash of energy actually ended up weakening her. She was forced to suspend her attempt at draining Frost, and collapse into the snow, coughing and weak. Only able to watch as Frost regained her strength and run after the distant trio of Kaneda, Ryoga, and Akane, too weak to even call out a challenge.

Hinako was starting to become depressed due to her condition. Not only was it hard for her to be taken seriously, she couldn’t get a drivers license, make it through a single date, and her students repeatedly called her 'that little girl' behind her back. Hiro attempted to cheer her up by suggesting she find a more permanent source of energy. Never having though about using a source besides human Hinako was filled with a new piece of hope.

Hinako finds some Siamese fighting fish with inexhaustible chi which she uses to maintain her adult form on the same day that Principle Kuno returned. Like Kasumi Hinako was blackmailed by the principle to help him implement his new rules. He had her watch over Shampoo who he had kidnapped. Unfortunately the fish combined with waiting around doing nothing  put her incredibly on edge. Kocho was forced to do his best to keep her calm so she didn’t attack him. Right when it seemed that she had reached her breaking point Takeshi, Minako and Usagi showed up so she went after them.

Telling Usagi and Minako to run Takeshi attempted to hold the crazed Hinako off, only to be immediately blasted by the Happo-Tsurisen-Gaeshi. Since Hinako could only target one at a time the three scattered. Unfortunately Hinako went after Usagi who dove for the ground, just barely dodging her attack. She recovered in time to see a second blast, but dodged slower this time and was sent tumbling into a batch of bushes.

She then turned her aim on Minako, who jumped out of the way of the first attack, but while still airborne had no way of dodging the second. Takeshi managed to catch her before she hit the ground to absorb the extra impact. He then tossed her clear of Hinako’s next blast which he wasn’t able to dodge. With them dealt with she went after Usagi again.

Forced to avoid blast after blast from her instructor, Usagi lamented the fact that she couldn’t transform into Sailor Moon. As fatigue started to overcome her she was rescued by Takeshi using his remaining strength to send the instructor sprawling with a blizzard of paper birds. Hinako was about to finish him off when Usagi returned the favor and pelting Hinako with a clump of dirt. Pulling out a fifty yen coin Hinako attempted to drain her. Usagi had enough sense to turn and run. Knowing she couldn’t fight the teacher she hides until the others got there, warning them about how crazy Hinako had become.

Kasumi would successfully outmaneuver Ms. Hinako and take away the fish tank, and once she used up the remaining energy she switched sides and joined Kasumi. When Kasumi and Shampoo were kidnapped and held captive at Hotel La Bac Hinako was one of the people called to help. Unfortunately she ended up being unable to. It turned out the building was protected by an anti magic field that also affected chi. Since Hinako naturally has very little stamina without her augmented aura, its disruption left her greatly weakened. Later at the hospital, Hinako falls in love with Soun Tendo, due to the kindly way he treated her while she was in her young girl form.

Later Hinako visited Kasumi at the San Cheng Huang to both check up on her after hearing about the rescue operation for Lemon. After she told Kasumi to take all the time she needed to rest assuring her that she handle things she asked her permission to pursue Soun. Kasumi was left stunned but despite her reluctance gave it. However she did caution her friend that she didn’t speak for her sisters.