Mikumo Kushinada

is a Jujutsu Master and the Bewitching Fist of Yami's One Shadow, Nine Fists as well as Chikage Kushinada's master and foster mother. She was the one who inspired Senzui, who was impersonating the One Shadow, Saiga Fūrinji to enact the Eternal Sunset.
==Appearance==
Mikumo is rather tall and fair-skinned. Deceptively youthful looking for her advanced age, she appears as a beautiful woman in her late 20's to early 30's. She is slender in frame yet exceptionally voluptuous with long shapely legs, wide hips, round rear, slim waistline, and a considerably well-endowed bosom. She has brown eyes and flowing black hair that reaches her lower back and bangs that hang over her face. Commonly, she is seen wearing a shrine maiden outfit which was consisting of a red hakama and white kimono with white tabi while wearing straw sandals. Her kimono has red lining and eye-like designs at the end of the sleeves, which are loosely banded with red strings to the rest of the kimono. She generally wears rather her kimono rather open, revealing her ample cleavage. She also wears red armguards with red lining and a red "x" on the backhands. Around her neck, she wears large wooden prayer-like beads.
In her youth, her hair was shorter, down to her chin and she was slightly shorter with a comparatively smaller bosom.
==Personality==
Mikumo is one of the most emotionless and serious members of Yami shown. She rarely shows any emotions other than surprise and always keeps a melancholic face. She believes keeping emotions in control is important for battle and that losing one's temper will dull one's skills. With Chikage, whom Mikumo treats very well, more so than any other member of Yomi (aside from Sho), possibly because she's her disciple and seems to treat her as her own daughter. However, her relationship with Chikage at times is not as maternal as it would appear, as Mikumo is more focused on turning Chikage into a ruthless killing machine rather than as a person. After she personally witnessed Chikage crying over having hurt Ukita and Kisara, Mikumo knocked her out and attempted to brainwash her into becoming a ruthless killer because she wanted to "break" her. She was also very angry when Chikage abandoned their plan to help the pride of their masters rather than kill the Shinpaku Alliance, even going as far as to leave fighting the Ryozanpaku masters just to stop her. She seems to be fond of meditating, as she tends to meditate when she has free time.
Her lifestyle seems at times to be a contradiction. While normally appearing to have strong traditional Japanese values, with how she dresses and decorates her room, she is also rather flashy choice in means of transportation, as she has been seen driving in a sports car.
In battle, she is very ruthless, showing little to no mercy even to a fellow Yami member such as Diego Carlo and even attempted to kill him and his disciple Rachel Stanley when they both were defeated and could not fight anymore. However, she does have some honor, agreeing to a 1-on-1 fight with either Sakaki or Shigure. She has a habit of referring to others, regardless how old they are, as brats.
Mikumo also has little to no sense of comradeship, as when Sai Kagero joined the side of Ryozanpaku, she had no qualms in viewing him as a traitor and brutally murdering him just to prove a point.
Despite being one of the most powerful masters in the series, she has no problem using petty tactics such as threatening the Ryozanpaku masters with giving orders to Yami control room to have Shigure executed should they interfere with the plans. This act of hers deeply enraged Cyril Rahman to the point that he launched a devastating attack at Kushinada while criticizing her with the fact that she is willing to use such a dishonorable and cheap tactics to win the war. It should be noted that her behavior drove Cyril Rahman to switch sides and become an ally of Ryozanpaku.
Mikumo holds the belief that empathy is weakness and that the strong do not let their heart be shaken by the weak. She used this to her advantage to make Ethan Stanley fight more ruthlessly against Kenichi to save his sister. However, she acts oddly feminine when she recounts her past adventures with Hayato, chiding him for being "hardly charming", covering half of her face with the sleeve of her hakama, and referring back to the events as "the hot fires blazing between us".
Upon witnessing Agaard, Sougetsu and Cyril ally with Ryozanpaku, Mikumo finally lost her calm emotionless demeanor and reacted in frothing rage. She then chooses to willingly move ahead with the plan solely because they were provoking her.
== Skills ==
Mikumo is undeniably one of the strongest masters of Yami and even the One Shadow Nine Fists. She is able to engage in a battle against both Sakaki and Shigure simultaneously and neither Sakaki nor Shigure were able to land any hits on her. She could easily pin-down Shigure with virtually no effort in a one-on-one fight and finished while sustaining only one cut on her clothes and even then, the attack was only successful because she was momentarily distracted. Also, according to Sho, Mikumo possesses a technique that is very similar to the Ryusei Seikuken. Even against a direct kick of air from Silcardo Jenazad, she expresses completely no change in emotions and lightly commented about Silcardo's short temper. She can kill 11 Jujutsu Masters without needing help, killing them with one move.
*Master Judoka: In a battle against various jujutsu masters in Battle 307, it is shown that all conventional jujutsu styles are founded on the principle of utilizing of 30% raw power and 70% of skills when executing a jujutsu move. However, Mikumo utilizes style use's no raw power at all (0%) and focuses her style entirely on skills (100%), because of this she is able to not only outmaneuver most of her opponents but is able to shift her center of gravity and the gravity of whoever she fights, causing her opponent's to basically throw themselves. Kenichi described her technique as 'Zero gravity'. It's revealed when underwater that she is able to control gravity around her to such as extent that it allows her to float on the water of a swimming pool. She was able to fight against two members of Ryozanpaku by herself and keep them both in check during the battle.
*Impeded Aging: She is far older than she appears, as her mother was thought to have been born more than a century ago and she even called one of her opponents, who was quite old, possibly in his 60's, a "youngster." She was even seen fighting during WW2, making her the oldest member of Yami. Revealed as the founder of the Kushinada Jujitsu style, her remarkable longevity apparently stems from the unique training methods of her family's style. In addition to slowing down, if not halting her aging completely, she retains your youthful health and vitality, performing as though she was still in her chronological prime. According to Akisame, enduring youth probably involves a strict diet that the Kushinada Style follows.
*Immense Speed: She was shown to be able to "run" on the water at rapid speeds with ease. She was shown to be able to simultaneously fight both Sakaki and Shigure at the same time and outmaneuver both of them with her speed alone. She is fast enough to make multiple clones of herself and send each clone to fight multiple opponents in her place. He speed is so great is that she's capable of both dodging without injuring herself in the process whereas none of the masters were capable of landing a blow on her. She was shown to be fast enough to escape Kensei Ma "evil hands".
*Immense Agility: Mikumo has proven to be an incredibly agile and flexible fighter, so much that she is capable of blocking on of Akisame's palm strikes from behind her back without turning around and moving her arms behind her with ease. She was able to easily escape Kensei's grip while simultaneously attacking him and Apachai while neither were able to land a blow on her.
*Immense Sei Ki: Mikumo has shown to have a massive amount of Ki to the point where it took on the shape of a larger version of herself. Her ki was shown to be capable of affecting the weather around her, a feat only previously displayed by Ganosuke Yokiou, and inspired fear within non martial artists despite being far away and not being able to truly sense it. Even Sakaki while facing the giant ki figure questioned whether he was still fighting a human at that point.
==References==
Category:Yami
Category:Satsujinken
Category:Female
Category:Jujutsu Users
Category:Sei
Category:Advanced Grand Master