Yamiji Ayumi

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**Ayumi Yamiji** (Japanese: 闇路 歩 – *Yamiji Ayumi*) was previously a second year in Fukurōdani Academy and the student council president. She's setter in JNWVT.

As of 2018 she's married to Keiji Akaashi and has changed her name to **Ayumi Akaashi** (Japanese: 赤葦 歩 - *Akaashi Ayumi*) works as a lawyer and still continues on playing in the JNWVT and is now V. League Division 1 player.

## Appearance

Yamiji is a little over average height girl. She has periwinkle purple, a little over shoulder length hair that is most of the time on a simple high ponytail. Her eyes are blush pink but when the heat rises over 20 °C her eyes starts to turn into crimson red. It’s a reason for her to use dark sunglasses even inside. Yamiji rarely smiles and most of the time seems to have zero emotions.

She either wears her school uniform that consists of skirt, baby blue knit, white shirt, gray jacket, black socks and a blue bow. Normally, outside of school, she wears blush pink jeans, white buttoned blouse and black shoes. During winter or autumn she has black-and-white checkered long jacket. Her volleyball uniform is same as everyone else's but with number 4 on it. Her shoes are black with blood red accents.

## Personality

Ayumi is a girl with few emotions. She rarely smiles or laughs and keeps herself composed literally all the time. She's pretty serious with everything and doesn't take important things lightly, nor unimportant things either. She's class president as well as student council president and makes sure every work is done in time.

Ayumi is really insecure about her looks. She's not really fond of the color of her hair but the thing she hates most are her eyes. However, it's easy to make her blush if one comments her "being beautiful". She's antisocial and hardly talks with anyone. If she does, it's usually forced conversation or she actually know the person she's talking to. It's hard to get under her skin and make fun of her, but her little sister masters that. She's cold to others without really noticing it and has received nickname "Ice-Queen of Fukurodani" or just "Ice-Queen".

She has crackhead moments but they usually happen if she's with Neko, especially on the beach or if the whole team goes crazy. She's able to laugh and make jokes.

She has great ideas as of how to improve things around the school campus. She's able to make teachers to listen to her when she's giving a presentation stating facts and reasons why some things might work and why they wouldn't work.

## Background

Ayumi is granddaughter of Fukurodani Academy volleyball team's coach Yamiji. Her grandfather introduced her to volleyball which she got really into. Ayumi was kicked out of her first real volleyball team in middle school due to her teammates and opponents being scared of her. She's really good setter and her setter dump is invincible and the opponents realize it the moment ball bounces on the floor the second time. She met Chiyoko and Kaedé the day she was kicked out of the team and was about quit volleyball for good. Both girls convinced Ayumi to continue and join their team, which needed players.

Ayumi has a complicated life back at home. Her sister is her biggest bully in her life as she knows her personally. Amano, Ayumi's younger sister, was somehow able to make nearly everyone in her middle school go against her and bring her insecurities to the surface.

## Relationships

### Chiyoko Udai & Kaedé Achikita

She first met both of the girls when she was strolling around Tokyo after being kicked out of her middle school volleyball team. They were the first people to give her a little courage to believe in herself. She holds deep respect towards both of the girls. Chiyoko and Kaedé invited her to their team and she soon found herself enjoying the new people around her. Despite being from different schools Ayumi calls them both sempai's. Especially if they happen to meet during school hours. She and Chiyoko share a lot of tips during practice, over different and new techniques and setting styles. They often switch in the middle of game.

### Rikona Otaki

Rikona and Ayumi make the perfect attack duo. They have a silent way of communicating and then attacking on the opponents' blind spot. This silent communication formed after Rikona had lost her voice and had trouble communicating with others. Some of the fans call their communication telepathy or eye game, but it's most likely their mutual understanding on each others' placing and timing during the games.

### Ne Kobayashi

Neko is probably Ayumi's best friend. They are from rival schools but since they both live in Tokyo, they meet often. They became good friends since the first time they ever met. Ayumi can best relax around Neko and Neko has mentioned Ayumi to be one of the best jokers in the team. They go strolling around the area near their houses or take a train to the main city.

### Keji Akaashi

Ayumi has had a major crush on Keiji ever since their first year. They are both classmates and got to know each other when they were seatmates on the first year. Ayumi get easily blushed when she's near him. Despite feeling her face get red, she's super oblivious of what's going on. Ayumi is also very oblivious about Keiji's feelings towards her. Ayumi didn't fell in love with Keiji's looks but rather with his personality, which she finds amusing and interesting. Both share a couple of interests and have several small talks before classes. After coach Yamiji dragged Ayumi into the gym the two had gotten closer. With the help of Konoha, Bokuto and Selena, they eventually got together after very very awkward confessions. Their relationship is super awkward in the beginning since Ayumi is super shy to even held hands. Eventually Ayumi starts to relax when she realizes she can actually be herself and Keiji is not going anywhere no matter what. After graduating from high school they enroll to the same college and move to live together. In their relationship Ayumi will most likely for ever be the shy one. Later on they get married and have a daughter, Kasumi.

### Selena Kageyama

Ayumi met Selena first time at the beginning of her second year in Fukurodani Academy. They are both members of the student council, Ayumi being the student council president and Selena vice-president. Due to this reason they spent time together working with whatever is needed. Selena is one of those few rare people who has ever seen Ayumi smile. Ayumi is half aware of Konoha, Selena and Bokuto's plan getting her and Keiji together since Bokuto is not very good at keeping quiet. Ayumi might look cold towards Selena, but the reason is her compliments towards Ayumi. They have warm friendship and talk a lot during student council activities. The first time Selena told Ayumi that she's beautiful, she froze completely and stared at her with shocked expression.

### Amano Yamiji

Ayumi has a really bad relationship with her younger sister. Amano gets away from most of the things she does and blames it to her older sister. Their parents don't believe her in these cases knowing Ayumi is way too calm and collected to do any of the things Amano says she does. However their parents aren't sure how to get Amano stop bullying her sister. After Amano heard she was kicked out of Ayumi's first volleyball team, she found another reason to make Ayumi's life miserable. Despite of being blood related, Amano is Ayumi's biggest bully making her suffer from many different things. Even if they are in different schools Amano somehow can turn everyone against Ayumi, which is one of the main reasons Ayumi is cold towards others. Amano makes fun of Ayumi's appearance, mostly of her eyes and hair and even if Ayumi is the older one, she feels helpless at these situations knowing Amano won't stop no matter what.

## Trivia

* Favorite food: Taiyaki
* Current concern: My very light pink eyes change into bright red color during the hottest days in summer."
* She turns very much into a crackhead when she's together with Neko.
* Her younger sister, Amano, makes fun of her eyes and makes Ayumi believe she's "unwanted demonic monster".
* Ayumi has a habit of hiding her face whenever she's smiling.
* She's noted to be very beautiful, despite her ice glares. She, however, thinks this is some delusional thinking.
* Ayumi is terrible at giving compliments back.
	+ She turns into a stuttering mess and turns cold shoulder to others to avoid embarrassing herself.

* Ayumi wears dark sunglasses when she's around people. She takes them off when she's alone or with people she's comfortable with.
	+ Also takes them off during games when she has to see better.
	+ Some students in her school as well as teachers has asked her whether she's blind or not.

* Nomenclature:
	+ Ayumi (歩) - history; stroll
	+ Yamiji (闇路) - dark road, (owl that can see in dark)