Kuro

* Normal
* Human
* Battle
* 4-Koma

**Kuro** (紅狼, *Kurō*) is one of the romanceable characters in Ayakashi: Romance Reborn. He belongs to the Twilight Faction.

## Profile

A performer in the wildly successful Lorenzi Circus Troupe, this happy-go-lucky guy can put a smile on anyone’s face with one of his signature hugs. He is a regular at Milk Hall Raccord and good friends with Oji and his neighbor, Ginnojo. For some reason, however, he refuses to tell anyone what kind of Ayakashi he is...

## Appearance

Kuro is a light-skinned young man who has predominantly brown hair with reddish-orange highlights at the ends and golden eyes. His hair can be made long or short with the difference being that his short hair has orange highlights at the ends. His human form is where he mostly uses short hair. His battle form has the addition of green ends on his long hair.

He wears western style clothing as his casual outfit which consists of a brown dress coat which has peak lapel, six buttons, an orange pocket square and the inside has a Moroccan pattern; an orange scarf tied in an over hand style around his neck with a gold necklace over it; a waist coat under the dress coat; a long sleeved white shirt; white pants with a black belt and brown riding boots.

## Personality

Kuro is a young man with an energetic and friendly personality. He makes friends with ease and will do his best to welcome those who are different or misunderstood. He is able to bring smiles to those around him with hugs, laughter and troupe performances.

Kuro has a difficult time sharing details of his true form due to past circumstances. If pushed too far, he will withdraw, change topics and/or act the complete opposite of his usual bright, cheerful self.

## Abilities

**Weapons:**

* **Whip:** He uses a special whip that can vanish wraiths

**Ayakashi abilities and power:**

* **Ayakashi transformation:** He can change his appearance into human, ayakashi and his true form

* **Super Jump:** He can jump to incredible heights aiding his performances as an acrobat as well as comrades in battle.

## Relationships

**Lorenzi Circus Troupe**
The Lorenzi Circus Troupe is one big family for Kuro. He was taken in by their troupe leader and grew to be the cheerful, bright acrobat we know today.

**Ginnojo**
Ginnojo is Kuro's neighbor and best friend. Kuro can be usually seen visiting Kusanagi Books where he stands in for Ginnojo when he needs to run errands. He also loves to eat Gin-Gin's meals and tease him about showing affection to others (especially females). Kuro's nicknames for him are: Gin-Gin or Ginny, but Gin-Gin is the most used.

**Gaku**
Kuro admires and respects Gaku, hoping to be like him in the future. He loves to hug Gaku much to his dismay.

**Oji**
Kuro is a regular customer at Raccord's Milk Hall and frequent GO partner for Oji. Oji enjoys how Kuro can always stay positive and cheerful for most situations.

**Futaba Saotome**
Kuro is friendly and protective of the protagonist and always tries to make her laugh or feel comforted. He loves to share the western customs he's learned about with her which can sometimes cause her to blush with embarrassment.

## Story

Past Life (SPOILERS)

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The young onmyoji instead reaches out to the Ayakashi in an embrace stating that Kuro is not a monster. He questions the ayakashi if he's not lonely all by himself both surprising Kuro. The vision ends and marks what would be the start of their friendship.
Kuro's true Ayakashi form is a Nue - A powerful beast traditionally described as having the head of a monkey, body of tanuki, legs of a tiger and tail of a snake.

Present Life (SPOILERS)

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Kuro's true ayakashi form is the Nue, a powerful creature, who was feared by humans and seen as a bad omen. Most of his kind were wiped out including his parents who were killed when he was a child. His grandmother raised him and told Kuro never to get close to humans since they were dangerous. But one day, unfortunately, the humans still found them. His grandmother told her grandson to run far away before she was killed,
Kuro, now alone with no family or friends, met an onmyoji and asked to be sealed away. He was sealed for 100 years and aged very slowly during that time. The seal would later be broken by a human boy named Hiroyuki, who ends up becoming Kuro's friend.
One day, when Hiroyuki's life was in danger, Kuro shapeshifted into his true form to save him. Once Hiroyuki saw this ayakashi form, he was scared of Kuro, and called him a "monster". Saddened by this change in his friend, Kuro left Hiroyuki's village to avoid further conflict. Not long after that, Hisui led a mass attack on the village by various Ayakashi. Hiroyuki believed this was Kuro's revenge, when in reality Kuro had nothing to do with it.
Kuro would later come across Hiroyuki during his patrols with Futaba. With her help, he helps his friend out one more time once its revealed that Hisui levelled Hiroyuki's village.

## Etymology

* The name **Kuro** means "crimson, deep red" (紅) (**ku**) and "wolf" (狼) (**ro**).

## Trivia

* Kuro likes to hug everyone even though Ginnojo wishes he'd stop hugging random strangers.
* Kuro has a nickname for many of his friends below:
	+ Aoi: "Ao"
	+ Ginnojo: "Gin-Gin" or "Ginny"
	+ Nachi: "Nach-Nach"
	+ Shizuki: "Shizzy"
	+ Toichiro Yuri: "Toto"
	+ Hiroyuki: "Hiro"
	+ Kogare: "Koko"
	+ Kagemaru: "Marshmaru"
	+ Akiyasu: "Akiki"

* Kuro's favorite food is the stewed vegetables that the protagonist makes.
* Kuro's current hobby is learning English with the help of Koga Kitamikado.
* Kuro's favorite book story is "The Beauty and the Beast". He mentions that Futaba Saotome looks like the main character of the book.
* Kuro's past life: has two snake tails, but his modern day form only has one