Hiruma Tsuneko

Hiruma Tsuneko was a Crab Clan samurai. Tsuneko was known as a bizarre woman who bathed when she remembered to and always spoke her mind.

During the Siege of Kyuden Hiruma, Tsuneko was rescued from death by the spirit of Hida Sukune. A group of Tsunkeko's Nezumi allies saw this, misinterpreted Sukune's glowing aura and bestowed the name A-wat'Itchr'foo-s'stch'ch, or Sun's-Chosen-Daughter-Warrior upon Tsuneko. Tsuneko had been injured far enough away from Kyuden Hiruma that the rats took her to their warren to recuperate. Knowing that the Crab would assume Tsuneko dead, she decided to use the opportunity to study the Nezumi until 1133, when she returned to her family. Tsuneko was given free reign to come and go as she pleased, as no human since Hiruma Kazuma had ever been on such good terms with the Ratlings.

Tsuneko was accompanying a break-away group of Crippled Bone Tribe nezumi in 1157 when the group encountered a squad of Hiruma who had just laid claim to an abandoned warren. As the nezumi desired the warren for themselves, a conflict seemed inevitable. Tsuneko, however, was able to keep the situation from escalating and worked out an agreement where the newly-named Blue Fur Warren would be shared by the Crab and Nezumi. Tsuneko was made ruler of the warren, but decided not to share the news of its arrangement with any other tribes, lest any become offended.