Ay, hello everyone! In case ye don't know me, I'm Jin Kaze Tsukai, the wind master. Rena destroyed me first attempt at a chapter, but second time's the charm, no? On with me chapter.

I was born 5th oldest of 11 children. Aye, 11. Me parents weren't exactly cautious, and when me oldest brother was 13, Mum was twice his age, and Dad was a year younger than Mum. Anyway, bein 5th oldest out of 11 was pretty hard. Mum and Dad favored me eldest siblings, and I had to look out fer me younger siblings. When I was 3, and there were only 8 of us kids, Mum and Dad started doing room checks to see if our rooms were spotless. Mine never was, so I set of little tornadoes in me older siblings' rooms to make theirs worse than mine.

When I was 4, me parents discovered me power over wind, and they sent me off to the shinobi school 'cause they were afraid I'd hurt me younger siblings (Mum was expectin again at the time). I learned how to fly without crashin into trees in the first week (didn't really learn much other than that), and I met an electricity shinobi named Klessi. She was 14 years me elder but all the same she was me friend. When she graduated, she gave me her pet turtle, Speedy. It was an honor to be given the turtle, that's a fact, because it was a tradition called the passin of the turtle. Klessi had inherited Speedy when she had been 12, then she passed it to me. I was the youngest ever to inherit the turtle, and Speedy stayed out of commission for the next 14 years. Anyways, I've always hated rules and people bossin me around and takin the credit for what I learn: if ye know me, ye know that. So I frequently skipped me classes and went flyin through the forests surrounding the school. Somebody always came and caught me, though. Bunch of fun-spoilin drips. Anyway, once when I was 5 I was flyin through the woods when I heard a dog snarlin. It sounded like it was rarin to attack somethin so I flew to where I hear the dog, and sure nough I saw a big dog gettin ready to attack a little boy, who looked like he'd been on the road a while. I floated there a while, thinking of what to do. The boy tripped, and the dog was goin in fer the kill. I had to do somethin!

"Aaaeaaa!" I yelled, swoopin out of the air. The dog looked up, and as I dove towards it I could see the foam drippin off its jowls. The boy started tryin to run away, but I scooped him up before the dog could get him, carryin him up high in the air.

He told me to put him down, and started strugglin in my grip.

"Ye sure? That dog's a rabid lass." I said.

"Saiisha's a good dog..." The boy said softly.

"Aye, I bet she was." A pause. "I'm Jin. What's your name?"

"I'm Touya."

"Well, tis a pleasure to meet ye, Touya." I swooped back down toward the ground, making a rude noise toward the dog and flyin back toward the shinobi school. It started barkin and chasin me, nippin at me heels. Touya whimpered and clung to the criss-crossed cloth straps across me chest. I did a half-turn in midair so I was lyin on me back. I spun back around so that I was facin the ground again, as we came closer to the school. Sure enough, a bunch of guards were waitin to bring me back to class.

"Comin through!" I yelled, flyin over the guards' heads and landing behind them. I set Touya down and held him close, waitin to see what the dog'd do. Sure nough, it came a-barrelin outta them trees fast as it could, thirsty for blood. Touya clung to me tighter. Everythin seemed to be a bit of a slow-mo for a moment, as one of the guards flipped a throwin star right between the dog's eyes. It yelped and fell over, dead. Touya broke away from me and ran to the dog who had been tryin to kill him a few moments ago. He clung to that dog like he'd never let go, cryin and sobbin and makin a fuss. I flew over to him and put a hand on his shoulder.

"She's in a better place now, Touya."

"Really?"

"Oh aye. And I bet if ye listen hard enough ye can hear her barkin for ye." Touya looked off into the distance.

"You're right! I can hear her!" I offered my hand to Touya, and hoisted him to his feet.

"I bet she wouldn't want ye to be so sad, would she Touya?" Touya shook his head.

"Well then don't be!" I laughed. "Come on, ye can stay with me fer a while." I took Touya's hand and together we walked onto the school grounds. When I graduated, I passed Speedy onta Touya, then when he graduated, the two of us didn't know where to go. We hired ourselves out as mercenaries, and were found by three other shinobi graduates, Risho, Gama, and Bakken. I neva liked Bakken much, the big oaf. The five of us trained in darkness to avoid the shinobi manhunt goin on.

Those weren't happy times. All of us, used to the light, were cranky and irritable, pickin fights with each other. We joined the Dark Tournament in order to get an island of our own where we could live and train in peace, without worryin about bein killed. That's the ideal that Bakken and Gama died fer. Even though we lost, the manhunt's over, so we can rejoice in the light again.

We don't need our own island anymore; we've got everything we need.

-Jin Kaze Tsukai