Kaede Hisakawa

**Kaede Hisakawa** is a minor supporting character from *Yu-Gi-Oh! RED.* She is a Ra Yellow student who is childhood friends with Saki Yamaguchi. As of *Osiris Blues*, Kaede has developed oracle powers.

## Design

### Appearance

Kaede is of average height and slightly chubby. She has a round face and fair skin with freckles. Her hair is blond, with sideswept bangs and falling just past her shoulders, slightly upturned at the ends. She wears the normal Ra Yellow uniform with the white collared shirt and the yellow skirt, along with tall black socks and short brown boots.

In her third-year, Kaede has only grown a little bit. She now wears the Ra Yellow third-years uniform, with the long yellow jacket. She has cut her hair into a short pixie cut.

### Personality

Kaede is a bit of a tease, quick to make jokes about everything. However, she has trouble knowing when she's gone too far, and often says things that hurt people. Kaede has a huge inferiority complex, and has often felt like she was left behind in the shadow of her much more talented friend Saki. This led her to occasionally say hurtful things in the guise of jokes as a way to compensate for feeling less than, and having difficulties being truly supportive.

After Saki stood up to her, Kaede re-examined herself and realized how awful she had been. Still caring deeply for her friend, Kaede decided to do what it took to better herself. She still overcompensates for her perceived slights against others, tending not to go to people for help when she thinks she can handle it herself, rather than bothering anyone or putting anyone else at risk. Kaede has become rather anxious about trying to be a better friend, and sometimes clams up about her own feelings to avoid causing more pain than she feels she already has.

### Abilities

During *Osiris Blues*, Kaede developed oracle abilities. Kaede experiences prophetic dreams, seeing detailed images of other people and events that are likely happen up to a day or two into the future. Her dreams tend to be related to issues she's particularly worried about, giving her knowledge ahead of time of things that might threaten her or her friends.

### Etymology

Kaede's given name is written in hiragana, which has no particular meaning. Her surname is written 久河, from 久 *(long time, old story)* and 河 *(river).*

## Biography

### History

Kaede met Saki when they were in elementary school, and quickly became friends with her. Kaede was a bit more popular than Saki, and after seeing her playing by herself, became determined to befriend her. She enjoyed feeling as though she was important to the shy Saki by being her only friend, but sometimes struggled with feelings of inadequacy in comparison to Saki's excellent grades and doing well in almost all other activities.

### The Secret of Red

In the pilot, Kaede is introduced as Saki's childhood friend, who teases her after she is enrolled in Osiris Red, the lowest ranking dorm. Kaede is enrolled in the Ra Yellow dorm, parting from Saki before the opening ceremonies.

### Red Days

Kaede arrived at Duel Academia along with Saki, where they were informed of their new dorms. Kaede was shocked to find that she had been placed in a higher graded dorm than Saki, and ended up teasing her about it. After they parted to their respective dorms, they saw very little of each other until a few months later, when Kaede insisted on getting a tour of the Osiris dorm. Saki became annoyed with Kaede's snarky comments, and they got into a fight. Upset that their status quo balance had been shifted, Kaede tried to find dirt on the Osiris dorm, in particular on Judai Yuki, the Osiris Dorm teacher, in order to prove to Saki that she was right. She broke into Judai's room at Osiris and discovered his Supreme King armor, getting into another fight with Saki when she was confronted. She ran off afterward and avoided Saki. Before the graduation duel, Kaede realized that she'd been the one in the wrong, and was too upset by the idea of losing her best friend to simply forget about it. She met with Saki before the duel and apologized, asking her to win, and to prove that Osiris was always a good dorm. After graduating from first-year, Saki promised to tell Kaede everything about Osiris.

### Osiris Blues

Now knowing the truth about the Osiris Dorm, Kaede was determined to be a better friend to Saki, visiting the dorm often and befriending several of the other students, joining Saki's Osiris group. After the mid-term duels, Kaede was confronted by Kylie Harbison who demanded to know the truth about Osiris. Kaede refused to let anything on, but warned Saki about Kylie's interest in Osiris. Kaede then began to experience prophetic dreams about Kylie receiving strange messages from an unknown person, and walking into the Abandoned Dorm. Worried about her intentions, Kaede went to confront her, and was the first student to be kidnapped in a bubble dimension by Kylie and Armityle's spells, with her existence being temporarily wiped from the memories of everyone outside of Osiris. Kaede was rescued from the other dimension after Saki destroyed the spell with her alchemical sword, and rejoined the Osiris students once again.

## Relationships

### Saki Yamaguchi

Saki is Kaede's childhood friend. Their relationship hasn't always been the healthiest, as Kaede was secretly jealous of Saki's seemingly effortlessly good grades, and also felt self-important for being her shy friend's best friend. After a breakdown of their normal dynamic, Kaede realized how terrible a friend she had been, and how much she really cared about Saki and wanted to be friends with her. She decided to do better, and that she would do whatever she could to protect Saki's secret. Kaede still feels guilty for the ways she has treated Saki, and considers Saki to be a much better person than she is.

### Fumino Hattori

Fumino is Kaede's roommate. They aren't particularly close, as Fumino's self-important nature and her dismissal of the Osiris students reminds Kaede too much of her own previous self, and it upsets her.

## Deck

Kaede has never been seen to use cards or to duel within the narrative, but she is said to use a Shaddoll deck.