| abstract | - Namiko is the first son of Masao and Ayaka Shizuka. Masao Shizuka was a young doctor that assisted med-nin during the Third Shinobi War. When he was in service at Konoha he met Ayaka that assisted as a volunteer the wounded. They fell in love and get married. Masao started to work at the Konoha Hospital while Ayaka took care of their first child Namiko. When he was five they had another child, a little girl named Chiyoko. After other two years Masao went sick and died. At that point Ayaka had to take care of her children all alone and she started to work as a waitress in a Tea House to maintain them. Namiko and Chiyoko had to take care of each other while the mother was at work all day and they grew independent and hard working. They both wanted to became doctors but at the same time they wanted to protect better people so they decided to became med-nin. Namiko graduated from the academy when he was twelve years old and he was assigned to Team Seventeen along with Shin Kasumi and Ami Kanari. Namiko and Shin never spoke before being in the team together because Namiko was a very reserved and shy person always with the nose in books or training med techniques while Shin was always showing off with Taijutsu and Ninjutsu. Once in Team Seventeen the members did not have an easy time since Ryukaku-sensei was a very decided and demanding person and because of his previous experience in the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force he used psychological “torture” on his students to force them to do better. With time in Team Seventeen Namiko started to notice that Shin cared about him and always protected him during missions. For Shin it was normal to act like this and in fact Ami fell in love with him for this reason. Namiko noticed that the attention of the girl for the friend bothered him and he realized that he was also in love with Shin. Of course he felt he could not tell him the truth because they were both males and that Shin was not interested. Namiko discovered that Ryukaku-sensei's wife, Saiko, that was a nurse, and once worked with his father at the Konoha hospital. Between the two of them a strong relationship was born and he considered Saiko as a second Sensei. After different missions of Team Seventeen Ami was injured and she decided to leave the Team leaving a vacant place. At that point a mysterious ninja that didn’t go to the Academy with them joined the team. Her name was Mirai Reini. In no time Mirai and Namiko became really good friends since they shared the same ambition of always improving. Mirai and Shin were always competitive about everything while with Namiko she “lived in symbiosis”. One day Mirai asked Namiko if he was in love with Shin and he finally shared that feeling with someone. Mirai became his confident and their friendship became even stronger. Team Seventeen had a good group combination with Mirai and Shin protecting Namiko and him healing and supporting them, and in the end Ryukaku-sensei spurring to do better. Namiko is the only person Mirai spoke to about her past from the death of her mother and brother to her missions in the ANBU squad and the love she felt for Itachi. She knew he could trust him of never revealing it to anyone.
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