Izumi

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Academy Instructor and Training Partner

Izumi first meets Kiyoshi after Iruka invites her to coach an Academy taijutsu class. She initially slows her attacks to make their paths easy to study, then increases her speed when Kiyoshi asks her to stop holding back. His reactions and steady defense surprise her, and she offers to train with him again 20 21.

Kiyoshi recognizes her as someone he remembers dying in the original story’s Uchiha massacre and resolves to save her. Izumi overhears his promise, “You won’t die this time,” and later asks what he meant by “this time.” He refuses to explain. Their practice sessions nevertheless continue through winter, including the day of the heaviest snowfall 21 34 42.

Evacuation and Staged Death

Before the massacre, Izumi helps Kiyoshi settle women, children, and young people at a hidden location on the slope. Shortly before the attack, a crow delivers a warning that someone has asked to meet her that night; the message does not identify the person or their reason 52 57.

Kiyoshi guards the alley outside her home, distracts Obito, and escapes with a Random Teleportation Card. When he returns, Itachi is attacking Izumi with Tsukuyomi. A Substitute Doll in her chest pouch absorbs the blow and crumbles, leaving her apparently lifeless. Itachi checks her neck and eyelids, declares her dead, and leaves 58 59.

Izumi wakes two hours later. After learning that everyone believes she is dead, she asks Kiyoshi not to reveal her survival. He hides her in a woodshed and keeps watch. She later moves to the mountain settlement, where Shisui establishes the cover story that Izumi does not exist outside the hollow 59 63.

Grief and Recovery

At the settlement, Izumi helps with firewood, cooking preparations, and shop work. Although she initially smiles and readily accepts her concealed status, she later stops humming, loses her usual smile, becomes visibly pale, and struggles to sleep 63 68.

She slips past the cemetery watchmen to visit the graves at night. Seeing Itachi kneeling there brings her suppressed fear and grief to the surface, triggering her three-tomoe Sharingan and bloody tears. Kiyoshi catches her after she faints, rinses her eyes, and covers her with his robe. Itachi watches but does not approach her 68.

Life on the Slope

Izumi trains under Shisui while living publicly as a helper rather than a surviving Uchiha. She later asks Kiyoshi to teach her characters, clan history, clan rules, and the boundaries of the Clan Grounds because there is no place for her in the reopened clan school. By the second year of their lessons, she can read the Clan History independently and fills its margins with questions 78 86 88.

Her concealed life also makes her an observer of unfamiliar activity around the clan perimeter. She reports suspicious footprints and later records strangers asking about boats on the route across the sea. Despite accepting secrecy immediately after her rescue, she eventually asks Kiyoshi how much longer she must remain dead on the roster; he cannot yet give her an answer 86 88 96.

She continues exchanging notebooks and news with Kiyoshi during his later missions and exams. She tells him when the Land of Snow trade route will open, asks for a copy of the exam finals bracket, and questions him about Neji’s eyes 117 153 159.

Appearance

Izumi has black hair tied in a low ponytail, bright eyes, and a warm smile. At their first meeting, she is half a head taller than Kiyoshi and appears two or three years older than him; this is an impression rather than a stated age 20.

• Training clothes: A fitted black outfit when she first instructs the Academy class 20.
• Clan clothing: Wears Uchiha attire outside training 21 34.
• Hidden-settlement clothing: Later wears a helper’s clothes, along with cloth around her forehead or hands during practice 78 80 81.
• Sharingan: Three tomoe are visible during her post-massacre training, though their movement is initially uneven 78.

Personality

Izumi is friendly, encouraging, and gently teasing. She jokes about Kiyoshi’s short answers, praises specific improvements in his form, and adapts her instruction to his ability. When he refuses to disclose his training location, she expresses disappointment without forcing the issue 20 21 31 32.

She remains diligent after the massacre, working at the settlement even while struggling with grief and insomnia. Her gratitude toward Kiyoshi is explicit, but she also develops a more direct approach to her needs: she requests lessons, accepts medicine without her usual thanks or apologies, and asks when her official death can end 63 68 86 96.

Her determination extends beyond combat. When her eyes cannot keep pace with everything she wants to learn, she chooses to study clan history first and memorize what she cannot comfortably read 88.

Abilities & Skills

Taijutsu

Izumi uses clean, steady, textbook movements and can adjust her pace for instruction 20 31.

• Slows attacks so students can study their trajectories, then increases their speed to test their reactions 20.
• Uses evasive footwork, aerial repositioning, and knife-hand strikes during sparring 31.
• Corners Kiyoshi twice in a three-round session; he only narrowly draws the remaining round 31.
• Identifies the difference between good fundamentals and insufficient actual combat experience 31.

Sharingan

Her Sharingan reaches three tomoe after the massacre, but controlling it remains physically demanding 68 78 88.

• Practices keeping the tomoe turning smoothly, blinking and readjusting when they catch 78.
• Requires frequent rests during later training; her routine becomes three steps of practice followed by one step of rest 88.
• Experiences bloody tears and collapse during the cemetery awakening 68.
• Continues to find three-tomoe use strenuous even as her other studies advance 88.

Genjutsu

Izumi can use a brief genjutsu during sparring 96.

• Attempts it against Kiyoshi, but he holds his ground and resists its effect 96.
• No named genjutsu technique is provided for her 96.

Ninja Tools and Weapon Training

Izumi practices shuriken throwing and receives wooden-spear instruction from Shisui 42 78.

• Improves her shuriken accuracy over winter, landing two throws out of three 42.
• Continues training in heavy snowfall despite the cold 42.
• Practices slow opening and recovery movements with a wooden spear while controlling her Sharingan 78.
• Repeatedly retrieves and throws shuriken, adjusting her elbow position after a miss 86.

Observation and Record-Keeping

Izumi monitors the clan perimeter and maintains written records alongside her lessons 86 88 96.

• Notices unfamiliar footprints and alerts Kiyoshi to a stranger’s visit to the slope 86.
• Becomes the first to spot unfamiliar tracks around the Clan Grounds 88.
• Records that no unfamiliar tracks appeared throughout winter and separately notes inquiries about the overseas boat route 96.
• Learns to read clan history independently and produces copied notebooks 88 153.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Substitute Doll — consumed: Carried in a cloth pouch against her chest; absorbs Itachi’s Tsukuyomi attack and crumbles, enabling her staged death 59.
• Wooden spear: Used in Shisui’s training; later shown with its tip wrapped in cloth 78 80.
• Shuriken: Used for target practice. She lends one to Kiyoshi when she notices his newly awakened Sharingan 81 86.
• Kunai: Carried during her early Academy sparring sessions 21.
• Clan-history textbook: Supplied by Kiyoshi for reading and character-copying lessons 86.
• Copybooks and notebooks: Used for study, copied material, perimeter observations, and messages to Kiyoshi 96 117 129 153.

Relationships

• Kiyoshi Uchiha — Initially her junior and sparring partner; later her rescuer and academic teacher. She vows to remember his help for the rest of her life, while he continues protecting her concealed identity and supporting her recovery 20 32 59 63 86.
• Shisui Uchiha — Combat instructor and protector of her cover story. He teaches her weapon handling and arranges for her to live as a helper at the hidden settlement 63 78 80.
• Itachi Uchiha — Identified by Kiyoshi as Itachi’s love interest in the original story. In this timeline, Itachi attacks her with Tsukuyomi and believes she is dead; their cemetery encounter brings her suppressed trauma to the surface 20 59 68.
• Sasuke Uchiha — Fellow clansman whose training she observes, counting each shuriken he lands 80.
• Iruka — Invites her back to the Ninja Academy as a guest taijutsu instructor 20 31.

Notable Quotes

“Dead people don’t collect wages. I’ll do some extra work to pay for my meals.” 63

“I’ll remember how you saved my life for as long as I live.” 63

“There are more things I want to learn than my eyes can keep up with.” 88