If there was one thing Suki hated in this world it was injustice. Nao, a boy in her village, loved to pick on those weaker than him, and every day she watched them take it and do nothing. He's too strong, they cried, we can't tell anyone because we'll only seem weaker.
Nao was eleven years old, big and mean but not very bright. Adults scolded him constantly but he never learned his lesson, his parents were just about at their wit's end.
One day, Suki's brother Alph came home with a black eye and a bloody nose. Nao had beaten him up for some silly personal slight, he cried as their mother cleaned him and bandaged his wounds, and Suki could take no more.
It's time for someone to put him in his place. Nao was four years older than her but she didn't care. Even if she lost, at least she would have finally done something.
The next morning, she set out with a determined look in her eyes, found Nao in the village square and confronted him. When he turned around, she gave him a kick right where it hurt the most and sent him sprawling to the ground, coughing and gasping as tears ran down his face.
"You crazy witch!" he shouted. "Someone help me, this girl's gone psycho and she just tried to kill me!" But even the adults who rushed to break them up seemed secretly impressed. It's as if the spirit of Avatar Kyoshi posessed her, Suki would overhear people saying for days afterward, and as she looked up at the impressive statue of the former Avatar she knew instantly what she wanted to do with her life.
A month after she turned eight, she left home to begin her training as the youngest Kyoshi Warrior to date.