Kitani's Home.

Alone. She was alone.

As Kitani shot fire blasts at the tree in front of her, in her backyard, she thought of her family, how she had never known her father, she had no siblings, and her mother was dead.

She shot another fire blast at the tree.

She was totally alone, and didn't know how much longer she could survive like this. The money her mother had left behind when she died was dwindling away even more each day. She sighed, as she shot yet another fire blast at the tree in front of her.

The tree was black and scorched, a reminder of what she had been doing for the past 4 years: training, and training, and training. Every day she came back to her back yard and shot fire blasts at this tree, hoping to eventually become a master.

She was still a long way off from that. She sighed, plopping in the grass, and looking up at the sky. I need somebody here with me. I need a friend. She thought, sighing, before standing up again and shooting more fire blasts at the tree.

Eventually she'd have to find something different to train on, as the tree would eventually fall. But for now, the tree was a perfect target. She shot another fire blast at the top of the tree, but it missed, and landed in the grass.

Her eyes widened, and she quickly ran inside, got a couple of bottles of water, and when she came back out, the fire was already blazing furiously. "Eeep!" She poured the water bottles onto the fire, and went back to get a bucket.

She quickly came back out, and splashed the water on the medium sized fire. Finally it went out. She sighed in relief, plopping back onto the grass. She needed to be more careful. She glanced at the tree, that was now even more scorched, and sighed. Well, back to training
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The next morning, she came back out, only to find that the tree had fallen.
"Oh!" She gasped in surprise, as she walked up and circled the fallen tree.

She'd have to find something else to train on. She brushed her hair out of her face, and sighed. She went back inside and got on her dress, and also picked up a few items of food she had, a long with what was left of the money her mother had left her.

She grabbed her backpack, that her mother had bought her before she died, and put it on, and then tied her hair back into a ponytail. "It's time to leave this place for good..." She muttered to herself.

"It brings back too many bad memories, and now that my tree is gone, there is no reason to stay." She muttered, walking out the gate and down the street. "But where should I go?" She muttered.

"I guess I'll try to go where I've been wanting to go all my life."

"Ba Sing Se, in The Earth Kingdom."

"Huh!?" Kitani had only made it as far as the gate as somebody appeared behind her, and asked to stay in her house. "Alright.... I was about to leave anyway." She tilited her head.

"Who might you be?" She asked, suspiciously. "Obviously somebody was after you, but why?" She asked. This guy was rather suspicious. And she didn't like it.

"I'm not afraid to use my fire bending against you if it comes to it." She stated. Even though I'm not very good at it. She thought. She glanced at the tree she had been training on, and sighed.

And here I was about to get away from here. She thought, rolling her eyes. "I'm Kitani by the way." She told him. "So, Who are you?"

"No, It's only me." She replied, sighing. "It's been that way for 4 years." She added. "I guess it'll be good to have somebody else with me, as long as you don't plan to murder me or something." This time she was joking, as she let out a low laugh.

She glanced back at the tree she'd been training on, that was now no more than a stump. I guess I can train on the stump. She thought, before turning back to Kei. "You a bender Kei?" She asked, curiously.

"Just wondering."

"Well, technically you are. Lightning is a form of Firebending." She shrugged. "But whatever." She walked passed him and leaned against the side of the house.

"I surely hope not, for your sake." She replied to his thing about 'Not doing anything weird'. "Do you go around hiding in 13 year old's houses or is this a one time thing?" She glanced at him, a gleam of amusement in her yellow eyes.

"I'm going to assume this is a one time thing." She let out a low laugh. "You know, I was planning on leaving this place and somehow getting to Ba Sing Se, if you want to come with me?" She glanced at him, the gleam of amusement in her eyes becoming a hopeful one.

"It would be better for me to travel with somebody, since I am only 13." She told him, casually taking a map she had permanently stored in her backpack out, and then sticking it back in. "Please?"

"Nah, I got everything before you showed up. Truth be told I was about to leave this place when you appeared." Kitani replied. "I have a bunch of stuff in this Backpack I've had in there ever since I got it last year, and also what I just got before you showed up." She stated. "Well, lets go."

She headed out the gate, and waited for Kei just outside. "How soon do you think we'll reach Ba Sing Se?" She asked, curiously. "I'm hoping to get there as soon as we possibly clan." She stated, leaning against the fence.

"You said you had business in Ba Sing Se, what're you planning on doing there?" She asked another question as Kei caught up to her. She then continued down the street. "I just wanna be there to be there, and to get away from here. This house and this city bring up too many bad memories..." She sighed.

(OOC: Where do we move this to after they leave Kitani's place?)

Kei

"We should be able to cover most of the distance to get to Ba Sing Se by boat, though we will still have to cover a decent amount of land by foot. Overall, the entire travel should only take a couple of weeks. The hardest part will part will probably to find a boat that will take us." Kei followed Kitani out the gate and she asked Kei what business he had in Ba Sing Se. Kei responded, "There is a certain group I've been looking into that exists within Ba Sing Se. I just want to do some research on them." Kei's answer was very brief and showed he didn't want to talk about it." As they began walking, Kitani sighed, ""I just wanna be there to be there, and to get away from here. This house and this city bring up too many bad memories..." "Memories?" Kei asked.

Mood: Serious Condition: Tired

Character Info Link: https://lastairbender.rpg-board.net/t1576-kei-heiwajima#16933

[OOC: We can just keep using this thread if you don't mind, it's not really a big deal.]

"Memories." She repeated herself. "My mother died when I was 9 years old, suddenly, of a heart attack." She sighed. "4 years now I've been alone here, training on that black tree that fell down earlier this morning..." She trailed off.

"Honestly, I was getting tired of it. But I needed to train, I needed to become strong." She shot a fire blast off in a random direction yet. "I wanted to become a master, of course, I'm still far from it." She glanced back at Kei.

"Now that I'm leaving this place, hopefully I'll become more free." She muttered, stopping for a minute before continuing on. "Once I get away from the memories, maybe I won't be so tied to training my firebending." She stated, putting her hands in her pockets.

"In Ba Sing Se, I hope to start a whole new life, and pretend what happened here never happened." She shrugged. "Pretend I've always been in Ba Sing Se... Pretend I never had a mother." She sighed, a tear rolling down her cheek.

Kitani glanced at Kei, and listened. "...Alright." She replied, nodding. "I guess I might as well tell you the rest of the story. I never knew my father, mom said he was killed in a accident, but she never clarified exactly what happened to him."

"I think sometimes she tried to completely avoid the question when I asked her, it always made me extremely suspicious." She shrugged. "But that's all in the past now." She murmured, as she continued walking. "Okay, I've given you my life story, what's yours?"

She glanced back at Kei, a grin appearing on her face. "C'mon, I'm curious." She added, before continuing forward. She casually took a map of the town out of her backpack and glanced at it, and then handed it to Kei.

"Your older than me, you can have the map." She laughed a little, and then continued forward, waiting for Kei to answer her earlier question.