Haruka

**Haruka Kikuchi**, married to Katsumi, is the father of Kat and Ana. He's known as the Ninja of the Wind due to his wind reading and being just as swift and agile as a gust of wind would be. He's one of the highest ranking ninjas of the Iga Clan along with his wife Katsumi. Despite being busy with being a hard working ninja, Haruka still makes time to take care of his twin daughters and be in their lives.

## Background

Haruka was born in the Iga Clan Village as his parents were ninjas of the clan itself. When he hit the age of 5, Haruka decided to leave home to go and train in isolation. He spent his entire childhood and entered adulthood training in isolation as a lone ninja. When he was 19 years old, he encountered Katsumi and accepted her dual in seeing who was the stronger ninja. However, Haruka ended up losing due to getting distracted by Katsumi's beauty as they fought. Being bitter with the loss, he was approached by Katsumi about becoming partners in ninja missions. Though bitter, Haruka ended up accepting due to how much Katsumi captured his heart with her beautiful nature. The two spent about 1-2 years partnering up for every ninja mission they did and within those years, they strengthened their bond together. Eventually, Haruka gathered a bouquet of Katsumi's favorite flowers and proposed to her to become her husband to which she said yes.

After getting married, the couple settled down for a few days to live together before going back to missions. Haruka was somewhat taken aback by Katsumi's hospitality in the house due to how much most of her personality he's seen was during missions and while they were outside were mainly her being diligent and serious as a ninja. He never knew much on Katsumi's ladylike side of her. It was the first for Haruka as he took some time to adjust around Katsumi's indoor personality but he often would tell her that she didn't need to be so hospitable around him since they were husband and wife after all. He felt that the hospitality was a little too formal between them but he respected Katsumi due to how much she did a lot for him in the house. Eventually, Katsumi decided to tone down on the formality between them and acted like herself as she would be around Haruka. During their married years, Haruka often would go out and find flowers to gift to Katsumi. He'd always thought long and hard on what sort of flowers to give to her as flowers are his way of conveying his love in a different way to Katsumi. Everytime Haruka gave flowers to Katsumi, she felt the love he gave to her from the flowers.

Eventually the two went back to missions for a couple more years before Katsumi revealed to be expecting a child one day to Haruka when they were having another break. During their mission days, the couple had actually talked about wanting to make a family as Katsumi felt confident on wanting a child and being a mother to which Haruka supported her and promised her that he would do whatever he could to help her in any way he can when the time came. When the time had finally come, the couple were surprised with twin daughters after Katsumi endured a lot of pain. Being shocked with having twin daughters, Haruka didn't doubt for a second as he embraced both Kat and Ana welcoming them both into the family while praising Katsumi for her endurance as well as feeling sorry for his wife about the pain she had to deal with. From that day on, Haruka did everything he could while looking after Katsumi as she recovered and taking care of his newly born twins. His instincts as a father took over as he made sure both twins were growing up well and healthy just like how his instincts as a worried husband would also come into play as Haruka often got Katsumi to rest as much as she could so she wouldn't overwork herself. Haruka also spent nights staying up to keep Ana from crying all night as he didn't want Katsumi or Kat waking up from her crying. As the twins grew up, Haruka had to keep a close eye on them due to how much they (mainly Kat) would often try to cause mischief on him and Katsumi. Eventually time went by as Haruka and Katsumi soon taught the two on ninjutsu to which the twins both learned rather quickly at their young age. One day however, Haruka ends up finding out about the twins leaving home to follow his path of training that he did when he was younger. Haruka felt lots of shame upon finding out and apologized to Katsumi heavily due to the fact the twins had decided to follow his training path. Katsumi however told Haruka not to blame it on himself as the two went off to find the twins. They were lucky enough to find the two in Diamond City though upon seeing how much the twins have grown, they decided to step back to let them both have their chance of living on their own as ninjas. Haruka however often felt pretty upset inside due to how much he didn't want to separate from his twins but he knew he could always check in on them from time to time with Katsumi. As of now, Haruka now often times will live with the twins on his and Katsumi's breaks in between missions so that the entire family can have bond together over time and the couple can watch their twins grow up well as ninjas.

## General Information

### Physical Appearance

Haruka is a tall adult with a rather slender build but is quite muscular in the abdominal area under his usual ninja attire. He has orange hair like Ana's that reaches just past his shoulders to which he likes to tie down when he's out on missions but he ties it up when he's at home. He has brown eyes like the twins and he often is seen wearing his light blue ninja outfit when he's outside. However when inside, he often wore traditional Japanese clothes.

### Personality

Haruka is generally serious in nature as he's always focused in reading the wind's patterns in the air for any sort of threat. He's really focused in his missions as well as protecting the people he loves and respects. However he's quite playful around his two daughters and even around Katsumi when they have some peace together. Before the twins were born, Haruka often would flirt around with Katsumi during their times alone, even during missions, while they were starting out as a couple. The flirting toned down as the two became parents later on. Haruka is also quite fond of animals as he loves to take care of the twins pets. Don and Shuriken are most fond of Haruka. While taking care of his daughters, Haruka is very caring to both of them and tolerates whenever Kat hits his face due to not wanting to take a nap as he's also very patient. He was also pretty ashamed that he may have been the reason for Kat and Ana leaving the house to go on their own training path but also relieved upon finding them that they were able to take care of themselves. Haruka very much loves Katsumi from the very day they met, he never strayed from her side and he always expresses his love to her by gifting her flowers he finds while out on missions.

### Strengths, Weaknesses, Powers, Abilities

Haruka excels in showing his strength and agility, as he is very speedy as the wind. His stealth as a ninja also allows him to sneak up against any foe to take them out. With his speed and stealth, he's able to knock enemies out fast, and his speed almost is so fast that he sometimes can disappear at the blink of the eye almost granting him the slight ability to teleport with his speed. Haruka's also gained the ability to do ninja cloning as a way to distract the enemy. He also is very well skilled in using weapons to his disposal, his favorite use of weapons being shurikens and kunai as well as swords. With lots of knowledge on Ninjutsu, Haruka can deal any blow to an enemy at a speedy pace, however if he gets trapped or stuck to the point of being unable to move, he is not really able to do much if his limbs can't free itself. Another weakness is highly intoxicating and overly powerful scents as Haruka's nose is a bit on the sensitive side and he's more used to the subtle floral scents he is used to around the house, due to that he tends to stop in his tracks and try to clear his head from the scents giving him a headache.

## Relationships

### Katsumi

Katsumi is Haruka's beloved wife and fellow high ranked ninja. The day that the two met, they had a ninja duel to see who was stronger. Ultimately, Haruka lost the duel due to seeing how much beauty Katsumi had while she fought him. Even though he was bitter from losing the duel, he didn't let the bitterness get in the way for the love he had for her upon the two partnering up. They always teamed up for missions and eventually both of them hit the highest of ninja ranks, which also led to Haruka one day proposing to Katsumi with a bouquet of her favorite flowers asking for them to be husband and wife from then on. Accepting the proposal happily, the two decided to have a break from missions after getting married and tackling a few more missions as a newly wed couple. Katsumi often would get up early before Haruka and prepared breakfast for him during the first few months of them living together and Haruka would always give her a hug while she made breakfast from behind due to how much he appreciates her waking up early to make food. During their newly wed life, Haruka often would flirt with Katsumi in between breaks of his work outs as he always compliments her beauty and her kind heart. Even after Kat and Ana were born into the world, Haruka continued to support his wife in anyway he could just so she wouldn't overwork her body after having the twins.

### Kat & Ana

Kat and Ana are Haruka's twin daughters to whom he both loves equally and dearly. When Haruka first heard that Katsumi was expecting, he was overjoyed at the idea of a child. However when the time came, he was shocked at Katsumi bearing twins at first but quickly adored his babies as he knew that Katsumi endured a lot to bear both children into the world and thought of both twins being a big blessing. Though the twins both had different personalities, Haruka took care of both of them well in their newborn and infant years just so Katsumi wouldn't strain herself with motherhood during the early days. Haruka was often carrying Kat on his back while holding Ana in one of his arms as he did his usual tasks around the house much to Katsumi's worry on Haruka overworking himself. During the night, Haruka was always the one calming Ana down due to her crying in the middle of the calm night, and he would always try to calm her down the best he can just so Katsumi nor Kat would wake up. Due to the twins being young back then, Haruka would often lock up his and Katsumi's extra weapons in the weapon room for their safety, however Kat somehow managed to break into the weapons room to cause some dangerous mischief which would give Haruka and Katsumi both heart attacks seeing Kat holding a weapon at her young years. Haruka later on taught the twins on being ninjas at a pretty young age due to the two (mainly Kat) constantly causing mischief with breaking into the weapons room and the two were pretty quick to learn. However, upon finding out the twins had left the house to train on their own, Haruka felt as if it was his fault due to having done the same stunt back when he was a child and apologized heavily to Katsumi about it all. Though due to Katsumi reassuring him that it's not his fault, Haruka was relieved after finding the twins had settled safely in Diamond City but he often had moments of regret of thinking he still was responsible for the twins following the same training path he did.

## Trivia

* Haruka is 29 years old currently. He was 24 years old when the twins were born, and 22 when he married Katsumi.
* Haruka was around the twins age when he left his own home from the Iga Clan village to train on his own which is why he often felt like it was his fault for having the twins follow his training path when he never intended the two of them to actually follow it.
* Haruka's favorite animals are any type of bird and predatory bird. It's also why Shuriken and Don like him so much.
* Due to Ana's constant crying in the night when she was an infant, Haruka sorta became semi nocturnal as he was pretty used to staying up for long hours making sure Ana was okay. Even after the twins went to live in Diamond City, Katsumi often tried to get Haruka to sleep but he wasn't as easy to get to sleep due to how used to he was with staying up which made Katsumi worry about his health with the lack of rest.
* Haruka often gets sick pretty easily if there's any pollutants in the air when he reads the wind. He can't read the wind well if the wind is carrying pollutants.
* Him and Katsumi often live with the Twins in Diamond City on their breaks from ninja missions to further their family bond. Haruka usually is the one that takes care of the pets while the twins head out to work and kindergarten.