| abstract | - The Koizumi clan can trace its lineage back hundreds of years to the daughter of the Sage of Six Paths, a mysterious woman named Chiasa. Not much is known about her except for her meeting with Kameyo Koizumi, the original inheritor and first of the Koizumi clan. It is said that Chiasa was deeply depressed due to the death of her father and the feuds of her brothers. Some say she had the foresight to see the long blood-soaked history of the clans that would arise from her brothers, others say she was disturbed by the way her brother’s fought but, for whatever unclear reason, she decided to end her life to send a message to them both and the future generations. Before she died, she sought out a child to pass the gift her father bestowed upon her into another, never having any children of her own. It was said she walked from one end of the world to another, searching a decade for the child who understood perfect balance and harmony. She happened upon an orphan who had recently lost her parents meditating in a field. Upon further inquiry, she learned that the young woman was trying to achieve spiritual and physical balance so she could move on and continue to support her remaining family without being grief stricken. Chiasa decided that despite the young woman who she had found was not a child anymore, she was the appropriate choice. Chiasa asked for her name, in which the young woman responded with ‘Kameyo Koizumi’. Chiasa then took her by the shoulders and transferred her power and spirit into the woman, a story that has become the legend of how the Koizumi clan began. Kameyo became the first Koizumi and then went searching through the land for people to share her power with. One by one she built up the Koizumi clan until it rivaled that of even the Senju and Uchiha a hundred years later. Chiasa bestowed Kameyo with a special gift because by fusing her spirit with the young woman’s in the way that she did, she caused a rift in Kameyo’s chakra. From that moment on, Kameyo would never truly die. On the moment of her impending doom, her soul would cast itself from her body and inhabit another, so long as it was a fellow Koizumi; because the clan was created from her blood, her DNA lives on in every Koizumi which is what establishes the connection. Throughout the Warring States Era, the Koizumi really established a name for themselves. Because of the usefulness of their Kekki Genkai, the Koizumi Blood Release, they were often hired to protect borders from invading Shinobi. While the Uchiha and Senju were used in direct combat, the Koizumi were used like medical ninja to keep whatever shinobi the particular state hired alive and civilians safe. During this time period, the Koizumi made a permanent commitment to the Uchiha and sided with them in the conflict, refusing contracts to protect Senju shinobi. It is thought to have happened because of Kameyo’s feelings for the Uchiha leader, but that rumour has never been confirmed. It was during this time that Kameyo was born into her sixth life, taking over the infant daughter of Kenji Koizumi, the newly elected leader of the clan. When Kenji learned of her true identity from the sages of the clan, he grew enraged to learn that his true daughter had died before she had even gotten the chance to live. Kenji had decided that the Koizumi were living wrong throughout the hundreds of years they had been alive and that they needed to return to the idea of balance and harmony. He proposed a peace between the Koizumi and Senju, promising to be both loyal to them and the Uchiha. This caused a split right down the middle of the clan that still exists modernly, one side loyal to Uchiha and the other Senju. Throughout her childhood, Kameyo grew up thinking her father Kenji loved her brothers more than her and that he disliked her because she was his eldest child and a girl. She met Madara Uchiha when she was young and instantly fell of him because of his bravery and courage. A romance blossomed and when she grew into her years of young adulthood, he asked for her hand in marriage. On the day of her seventeenth birthday she had planned to tell her father of his offering only to learn that he had offered her hand in a marriage to a Senju, in hopes to prove his faithfulness to try and stay balanced between both clans. Kameyo secretly suspected it was because he didn’t want her to become clan leader. When she approached Madara about the problem, her linked the pieces of the mystery together and he told her that her father’s animosity must have come from the fact that she must be the original Koizumi. He suggested that her father felt challenged in his authority and that he would stop at nothing to push Kameyo out of his path. Madara then began to suggest a plot to take her away from her father’s grip, a plot to make her change hosts. After, they would perform a hostile takeover and kill her father, removing him from power and burning their ties with the Senju. Kameyo’s father, Kenji, learned of the plot and then demanded the Sages of the clan to put a curse on her selected vessel that would stop her from ever recovering her memories of her past lives. They carried out his orders hesitantly and when Kameyo attempted to take over the body of the young woman, she indeed forgot everything. In her father’s control, the clan’s numbers began to plummet due to inside-fighting. Koizumi killing other Koizumi and Uchiha cursing the ones who they felt were no longer loyal with the three forbidden curse jutsu: Loyalty, Love, and Obedience.
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