Kyuu Yakumo

## Kyuu

*"I am leagues different from Yukira-Chan."*

- Kyuu Yakumo

## Biography

Kyuu is a kitsune, Yukira's loyal shikigami, looking after the palace and her duties. A grand youkai in her own right, she is wise and strong, old enough to possess a full set of nine tails and is powerful enough to have her own shikigami.

## Occupation

As Yukira's shikigami and nine-tail as once her right hand woman, Kyuu must do whatever Yukira commands her to do, such as protecting the palace or checking the Great Barrier around The Youkai Realm or problems. Apparently, Kyuu's own shikigami, Kaori. Sometimes she might be sent as a messenger or be entrusted with investigating incidents and in her spare time, Kyuu often calculates various things such as the width of the Sanzu River and she may also be seen in the Human World shopping for tofu and foods.

## Appearance

Kyuu has yellow fox eyes, short blonde hair and nine fox tails and she wears a white dress with purple cuffs and collar, an indigo tabard with a white print, white and blue footwear, and a light pink two-tailed hat with many amulets that hide her fox ears.

## Personality

Kyuu is described as being a gentle youkai who won't start a fight unless provoked and although Kyuu is a shikigami and a nine-tail fox and she sometimes "forgets" her position as a servant and acts of her own volition, such as deciding to attack her enemies or trespasser.

## Backstory

Kyuu was formerly a resident of The Youkai Realm, presumably being one of the many spirits inhabiting it. At one point, disgusted by the beastly ideology that pervaded the place known as Yukira as she was once her right hand woman, but she fled to human world after her Yukira evil rampage and it's unknown when Kyuu met Yukira and became a youkai-possessing shikigami and being her right hand woman for a nine-tail like her.

## Capabilities

Kyuu true identity is that of a shikigami possessing a youkai fox, or youko (妖狐, "mystic fox"). The fox she is possessing is an entirely separate being, but since it never comes to surface, there's no problem in thinking of Kyuu as a nine-tailed fox herself. Because she is a shikigami herself, it's highly unusual that Kyuu has a shikigami of her own. Kyuu body is that of a youkai fox with nine large tails, which is a clear sign of great power and intelligence, as described by Akyuu.

## Powers

### Shikigami

While being a shikigami, she has the privilege of strong youkai of being able to use shikigami. However, perhaps because she does not have the level of power that Yukari Yajima has or perhaps because the power of the youkai turned into a medium wasn't enough, different from Kaori as she has only the level of wisdom of a cat.

### Clear Intellect

Matching up with Yakira, she has super-human intellect, and excels at mathematics as she was somehow able to formulate and prove an equation for figuring out the width of the Sanzu River. Nonetheless, more than inventing new things through her intellect, it seems to be her speciality to process formulated calculations.

### Miscellaneous

As for her other abilities, one of her spellcards shows that she is capable of quickly increasing her physical capabilities, but other than this, nothing more have especially come to light. As a strong youkai, she is probably able to use various other kinds of sorcery, but since she pretty much never performs actions alone it's still unclear. All along, she usually makes appearances as a means for Yukira to attack and so when she flies around she often spins around. Perhaps the way Kaori also spins around is related to this.

## Friendship

**Yukira Yajima - (Her Master/Right Hand Woman)** - Yukira is Kyui Master and her right hand woman. As a shikigami, Kyuu must do whatever Yukira commands, but since Yukira is not busy or no task most of the time, Kyuu has a lot of free time. When Kyuu follows Yukira's will, she can obtain power equal to Yukira level, becoming much stronger than she usually is.

**Kaori - (Her Shikigami Friend)** - Kyuu's shikigami. Since their relationship is the same as Kyuu's relationship with Yukira, one would expect Kaori to follow anything that Kyuu commands, but Kaori is unreliable and it's difficult for Ran to depend on her.

**Kiyomi Yuna** **- (Her Close Friend)** - TBA

**Najiro - (Good Friend)** - TBA

## Trivia

* She is not stronger than Yakira during her evil rampage in the youkai realm when she fought her.

* Kyuu is very good at math, being able to solve complex equations in her head.

* The characters for Yakumo literally mean "eight clouds", and Kyuu "Nine". All of the Yakumo family are named after colors.