How Yukiko changes in the book Blood Ninja

Authors Note: This is my Character Analysis piece for LA. Look for how i explained the events that made Yukiko change. 

Yukiko was a great person almost throughout the book  Blood Ninja. She was a great person to be around. When she was an infant a man saved her and her twin sister, Heiko, from under a wooden stair case. The man’s name is Shusaku. He is helping Taro kill Lord Oda, who is trying to become shogun of Japan,  and Taro is a son of one of Japan’s lords: The son of Lord Tokugawa’s son. Lord Oda and Lord Tokugawa are enemies. When they were at a ninja base, where people train as ninjas, Yukiko and Hiro often challenge each other in wrestling and sword fighting. Yukiko won almost all of the times.

On the way to kill Lord Oda at his castle, Heiko, who is Yukiko’s sister, gets her head cut off by a samurai named Kenji Kira, the top samurai and leader of all of the samurai for Lord Oda to save Taro, Shusaku, Hiro, and Yukiko. When Taro, Shusaku, Hiro and Yukiko got to the castle, Yukiko and Taro went in one of the prison towers to complete their mission, kill a prisoner in one of the cells. When they got to the cell, they opened up the door and it was a girl in the cell. The girl was Lord Oda’s daughter. Taro and the girl met once when Taro, Hiro, and Shusaku saved her from some soldiers.

Unknowing of how they met, Yukiko turns wicked. She wants revenge on Taro, Taro’s mother, and she also wants to kill Kenji Kira because he killed Yukiko’s sister. Yukiko knows she will suffer, but she will do whatever it takes to kill Taro, his mother, and Kenji Kira. She turns to Lord Oda’s side. The girl and taro escape, but Lord Oda is just trading a daughter, for a new daughter.

Yukiko is just like Mr. Hastings in the book Warrior Heir. Mr. Hastings was training Jack, a wizard that got implanted with a warrior stone, to fight and defend himself against wizards and other warriors. After Mr. Hasting healed Jack with magic from a magic spell he captured Jack and forced him to play in games. The games he wasn’t trying to play in. A game where two warriors where trying to fight to the death. Hastings wanted to do it to get revenge on the games. So Yukiko and Mr. Hastings are similar in some ways, mainly to get revenge.