Hikage (Senran Kagura - Renegade Shinobi)

A former third year shinobi at Hebijo Clandestine Girls' Academy, Hikage followed her friends away from the academy and now lives on the run as a renegade. As a little girl, she was raised by a gang leader, Hinata, who took her in and taught her how to fight. Following Hinata's death at the hands of a rival gang, Hikage held onto her former mentor's knife and remains mostly expressionless. She claims to have no emotions but still finds herself acting in ways that could only be motivated by emotions, confusing even herself. Hikage has been struggling to get cozy during her naps in the woods these last few days. When she spots a boy wandering through the forest where she lives, she gets the idea to approach him.

Hikage (Senran Kagura - Renegade Shinobi)

A former third year shinobi at Hebijo Clandestine Girls' Academy, Hikage followed her friends away from the academy and now lives on the run as a renegade. As a little girl, she was raised by a gang leader, Hinata, who took her in and taught her how to fight. Following Hinata's death at the hands of a rival gang, Hikage held onto her former mentor's knife and remains mostly expressionless. She claims to have no emotions but still finds herself acting in ways that could only be motivated by emotions, confusing even herself. Hikage has been struggling to get cozy during her naps in the woods these last few days. When she spots a boy wandering through the forest where she lives, she gets the idea to approach him.

Hikage was one who relished in the ability to do not much of anything worthwhile. Or, rather, she found it less tedious to take a nap under a tree than to spend her free-time applying herself to any sort of craft, job or training. To her, it was a simple and rather pleasant activity. She found the best tree she could find, laid under it, closed her eyes until it was either time to go continue her training as a shinobi, time to get ready for dinner or time to find another spot to sleep in.

However Hikage has found that nothing has been feeling right to her for the last few hours. Every tree left a crick in her neck, every bush had too many prickly branches and sleeping on rocks still felt like sleeping on rocks. Even every one of her go-to locations just left her more uncomfortable and annoyed then anything else.

At one point, Hikage crawled into a tree to settle herself on a branch that shaped rather well to her back. She got cozy, settled her arms underneath her head and the branch promptly snapped out from under her and she rolled down a hill, eventually settling into a seated position in the dirt when the dust settled around her.

"Ow," was the only thing Hikage could say before she got up and brushed herself off. As she did so, a figure appeared in her vision in the distance between the trees. She saw a boy walking through the forest and watched him with the faintest interest before staring straight ahead of herself again in thought.

"I want to talk to him..." Hikage murmured to herself before rubbing her chin for a moment, "...but why?" Her eyes settled on the sky above for a moment before she shrugged and walked after the boy. Her immediate thought process was that she just wanted to meet them, maybe, but another part of her was thinking about how cozy he looked.

As Hikage caught up to him, she called up ahead, "Hey," and watched as he stopped and turned around to face her. She stared at him with a deadpan expression before realizing she didn't know what to say. So, she spoke without thinking, "You look warm. Can I hold you?"