Kisho was born to a single mother in an ultra*traditional neighbourhood of Kobe, Japan on Sept 12, 1980. He was the elder half of a set of fraternal twins who had never known their father. A friendly [but very shy and perhaps slightly 'odd'] child, Kisho displayed brief flashes of paranormal ability, even from a young age: shadows danced at his whim or explosive bouts of temper. As he grew slightly older, small items began to 'disappear', only to show up in often the oddest of places, sometime later. His sister also showed an affinity for 'odd' behaviour, though her abilities ran more towards healing and soothing pacifism. The peace of their neighbourhood was regularly shattered, as the Fujimiya twins grew into adolescence, several blocks [including and surrounding their own] contested territory in a Syndicate turf war. In March of 1997, their lives were altered forever. Refusing to give up their home and the family store located beneath, Kisho and Ayoki's grandparents had unintentionally marked them all for 'expedient removal'. On their way home from school, Kisho felt something terribly 'off', wrong. Racing ahead of his sister, he yanked open the door to the shop, just moments before a bomb set near the stove in back detonated. His own Hedge magic saved his life, and the life of Ayoki. But there was nothing to be done for their mother and grandparents. Kisho was thrown across the street and through the window of a shop found there. Ayoki was pelted with a shutter. Both teens spent several months thereafter, recovering from their wounds in a hospital in Kyoto. But the image of his family writhing in flaming agony had been imprinted forever onto his mind's eye.
Sullen and withdrawn, Kisho regained consciousness two months later, and eventually his health. Ayoki, however, remained in a coma. Swearing vengeance upon the part[ies] responsible, the young Asian listened when a foreign woman came to him, offering a means to that end. She called herself 'Mau', and she spoke to him of an organization who dealt with the sorts of things he'd experienced, and so very much more. 'Descrimen' was a 'policing agency', of a sort, though no government would openly acknowledge their existance, nor admit to giving them sanction or help. Descrimen took in people like him: displaced, angry, hurt, severely wronged. It gave them training and a purpose: to put an end to those who would feed off the suffering and pain of humanity, those who were too far beyond the reach of the law and standardized Justice. Even if that meant stealing, bribery, lying and utimately... killing. Kisho excelled at his training, driven and hardened by his terrible experience and difficult life. But, one team after another seemed like a bad fit for the young vigilante. He was too hot*headed, too violent, too cold. And his teammates seemed to drop like flies, around him. Finally 'Chartreaux', his shadowey benefactor and one of those higher up in Descrimen, tossed up his hands in frustration and did the only thing he could do, was willing to do. He built a team up around the boy, once called 'Rook', now to be known as 'Abyssinian'. To the team of budding assassins he added Balinese, aka Reece Davis, once a translator and aid to British ambassadors; Bombay, aka Myo Ryuuen, an apparent orphan from China and computer whiz [suspected to be an un*Awakened VA or tech*oriented Euthanatos by their superiors]; and Siberian, aka Eric Savin, once a promising Russian athlete, since brought low by scandal and intrigue.
Less than a year after the formation of 'Inalbeo Cr�x', Kisho uncovered thready leads as to the identity of his and Ayoki's father. Despite warnings from Mau and Chartreaux to leave well enough alone, he took his vacation time and began to track said leads. Taken to Tibet by them, his questions stirred suspicion with the touchy and paranoid Chinese government, and an agent was sent to win his confidence and see what he knew. The girl dispatched to carry out such a mission insinuated herself into his life, winning Kisho over to the point where he asked her to marry him and professed his willingness to leave everything and everyone behind, in the pursuit of a better life for her. Still, he seemed not to be there under false pretenses. The investigation was kicked up by several notches. Kisho and Thekchen Thomkay were arrested under suspicion of attempted treason and plans to incite a revolution. For over a month, the young assassin, now only just going on 20, was beaten, abused and brutally tortured. Still, he could give the soldiers and the guards of Drapchi prison nothing. He clung to his claims of simply looking for the father he had never known, and he kept his involvement in Descrimen firmly and stalwartly to himself. Despite overwhelming pain, humiliation, psychological pressure and constant fear, he even weathered the 'execution' of his fiancee at the hands of prison guards, and managed to survive long enough for Chartreaux to track him down and negotiate for his release. Blind, physically broken and once again withdrawn, he was thrown before the gates of the nearest British consulate with his scant belongings and essentially left by the Chinese for dead. Few survived Drapchi prison, even those who were released. Again, he was nursed by Descrimen back to health, his eyesight restored by their Healers, then he was subjected to intensive debriefing. When returned to his cellmates, IC found him to be far colder and more distant than ever before. But he never lacked for efficiency. If anything, he was more precise and effecient than ever. He'd apparently taken his first sensei's advice, and simply shoved all emotion and personal interaction away, finding them too cumbersome to deal with, given the life he now led.	Ending humanity's suffering, administering what he would later come to know as 'The Good Death' became his all, his every waking moment. It consumed him as effectively as the rage and pain which had burned inside of him for so long. He began to excel at his studies and the use of his hedge paths. He was nigh on a preternatural force to encounter on the field of battle, a force with which to be quickly and thoroughly reckoned... and an unnerving one, at that. Having been paired most often with Myo, their youngest, for the better part of three years, things changed when a new mission brought them to Necropolis. Still working on a previous side*project, Myo and Eric were left behind for a time, and Kisho and Reece were paired together. At first, it seemed like the defining trigger of World War III. Or perhaps the Apocalypse. But, somehow, things began to change. Reece began working through the scant, slender cracks in Kisho's armour. And Kisho slowly came to realize he'd encountered the impossible... the chance he might once again be falling in love. Several months and many, *many* broken bones and nasty bruises have now found the two essentially married, though it's a fact they keep guarded from even their own teammates. Reece has already been used against the Euthanatos once. In fact, it was witnessing what he believed to be Balinese's death in an effort to break him that brought on his Awakening, violently and spectacularly, early Thanksgiving morning of 2003. Having faced sadistic vampires, insane fae, infernal carnies, pissy garou, bizarre & twisted revenants and his own literal, physical death more times than he cares to count, Ki is still trying to muddle his way through his newfound powers and the means by which to survive in this most supernatural of all cities, without breaking again.

It is uncertain how much the higher*ups of Descrimen know about their agent's Awakening. Mau has sworn to keep it and his relationship with Balinese a secret, though their cabal [Juujikei no howaito] and most of Infinity Chantry already know. But how much can a Handler for a secret organization be trusted, anyway? And then there's Sphinx to wonder about. An older agent of Descrimen, he's recently approached Abyssinian and revealed himself to likewise be a member of the Chakravanti. Though the Orphan Rep, Elfstone, has been there since the beginning for him, he's not been able to provide the new mage with Tradition*specific information. That's where Sphinx has come in, filling in the blanks for Ki, a bit at a time. Unbeknownst to the talented, young Knight of Radamanthys, however, he's also eyeing him up and prepping him for possible induction into the Golden Chalice, should Kisho accept the invitation and pass the faction's rigorous initiation.