Emilia Yaku

**"Welcome to my Wiki Article!"**

* Anime
* Manga
* Timeskip

## Character Information

### **Also Known As**

Emmy (by Nekoma)Lia (by Morisuke)

kittylia (by Twitch)

### **Age**

15-16 (High School 1st year)16-17 (High School 2nd year) (2012)

23 (Nov 2018)

25 (Jan 2021)

## Background Information

### **Family**

Unnamed MotherUnnamed Father

Unnamed Stepfather

Morisuke Yaku (cousin)

Two unnamed younger cousins

### **Goal**

Make friends and try to make a name for herself in the music industry.

### **Likes**

Video GamesMusic

Cats

Volleyball

### **Dislikes**

Closed spacesCrowds

Spiders

Seafood

## Professional Status

### **Occupation**

University StudentIdol

Pro-Gamer

YouTuber

Twitch Streamer

## Image gallery

**Emilia Yaku** (Japanese: 夜久 エミリア *Yaku Emiria*) was previously a manager of the Nekoma High volleyball club, and is Morisuke Yaku's cousin.

As of November 2018, she is married to Kenma Kozume and has changed her name to **Emilia Kozume**. She currently is a university student working as an Idol, professional gamer, YouTuber and Twitch Streamer.

## Appearance

Emilia is a girl of short height with long brown hair that she styles loose with small pigtails at the sides and green eyes with visible long lashes.

She is most commonly described as an extremely attractive, albeit "exotic" girl who would often garner a lot of attention from both male and female students; including other school teams. Due to her firm stare, Nekoma High is generally known as the team with the cold manager.

Prior to her first appearance, she is seen wearing a white t-shirt with grey shorts. Afterwards, she is most commonly seen to wear the Nekoma volleyball club's uniform from then on. Outside of club activities, Emilia is seen wearing an alternate version of the Nekoma High uniform, missing the blue blazer during summer. Along with it, she wears red tassel earrings her father gifted her.

Post-time skip, she keeps her hair long, wears eyeliner and constantly walks in high heels. She also wears round glasses whenever she isn't on stage.

## Personality

Emilia is known for her shy and bubbly personality as she is seen to be passionate about her position as the club's manager and helping the other members improve their skills.

She is also shown to care a lot about the team members in the volleyball club. Since they didn't have a manager before, she tried her best to make their training and practice matches as carefree as she could, even going as far as cheering for them during their first game. Surprisingly enough, she's known to be very shy when it comes to first impressions, strangers and overall public speaking, but manages to come through for them.

After befriending Kenma and Tetsuroo, she begins to open herself up a lot more and is seen smiling and talking more often. Kenma invited her to his Twitch stream to play Minecraft once, and she gained popularity online because of that, causing her to be weary of people recognizing her in public.

## Background

Emilia was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico to a broken family. Her mother had her after a one night stand, and not wanting Emilia in her life, she gave the custody to her father, whom was very loving and caring. However, her father passed away when she was twelve, and moved to live with her mother and her boyfriend in California. They didn't care for her, leaving her alone in the apartment while they went partying or shopping.

Her mother's boyfriend was rich, so they'd host parties as well in their home, making Emilia stay in her room all the time. In order to get away from her family, she contacted her cousin, Morisuke Yaku, and he realized that there was a scholarship available for the high school he attended in Tokyo. In a month, she was able to apply for it, gaining the scholarship to study in Japan until her third year.

Emilia brought it up to her mother, whom realized this was a great way to keep the unwanted child out of her life, and granted her wish. There were, even so, certain conditions: she would get a set allowance every month, as her mother would pay for the rent of the place she'd live in. The brunette rapidly agreed, and left for Japan, making her late enrollment at Nekoma High School. Thanks to her cousin's Japanese lessons, she managed to catch up quickly in her classes.

## Plot

### First Year

#### Nekoma High Team Formation Arc

##### Entering Nekoma

Emilia is introduced to the Nekoma High Volleyball Team by Morisuke at their gym, with all the members staring at her in awe. The first and second years were all happy and exited to have a manager, however, the third years were skeptical, asking their coach, Naoi, why they had suddenly gotten a manager after all this time. This caused Emilia to look sadly at Morisuke, whom got mad at his seniors. He explained that she was a transfer student on a scholarship, and it required her to be part of a club. She then spoke shyly of how much she liked volleyball and was looking forward to helping the team during their practices and matches. The third years apologized, saying that they didn't mean it like that and were happy she was joining them. Kenma realizes that she's in his class, and it slightly draws his attention. Naoi tells them that she'll be helping around and getting to know them first, telling them to be nice.

During the first two days, Emilia helped around filling up their water bottles, picking up stray balls, taking notes and helping them clean up, but hardly ever spoke to anyone, except her cousin Morisuke. One night after practice, she bumped into some third years, and Kenma noticed a keychain fell from her bag. He picked it up, and gave it to her to her the next morning during home room, finding out that she liked to play videogames as much as him. They got closer during that first week, with Kuroo joining in on them when they'd take the bus together.

##### Kenma vs Yamamoto

After the first week of school, tryouts for the volleyball team closed, with only certain first years making the team, and being allowed in. Kenma, Yamamoto and Fukunaga were the only ones to make the team, and Kuroo told Emilia to get close to them, since they were all the same age. Wanting to feel part of the team, she started to go on runs with the club, often staying by the end a little further from Kenma. Yamamoto would pass by her a lot, and she'd tell him not to strain himself. When they had to lift weights, Emilia had to take notes of how many reps they did and how many kilograms they were lifting, often giving Kenma advice.

Yamamoto was getting annoyed by Kenma for being good despite his lack of passion and enthusiasm, and by Emilia as well for her lack of social skills and failure to hype up the team. After their first practice match, Kenma and Yamamoto started fighting due to a clash of ideals, so Emilia went to break them off. Kai and Yaku were standing off to the side, and warned her to let them yell for a while, until Yamamoto took Kenma by the collar. She went on to try and separate them, only for him to yell at her as well for being a terrible manager, grabbing her collar and pushing her to the floor. Kenma yelled at him not to touch her, and Fukunaga splashed water on them to keep the fight from escalating.

Emilia ran off to the club room, passing by Kuroo whom was able to witness half of it. Yaku went chasing after her, catching up to her when she was exiting the club room. He asked if she was okay, only for her to dismiss him, saying she just wants to go home. After asking her a second time, she starts crying and speaks to him in Spanish, telling him that Yamamoto was right, and she was being a terrible manager. He talked her out of leaving the club, and walked her home. The next school day, Emilia walked with Kuroo and Kenma to school, and they asked if she was okay, only for her to slightly frown and say that she was unsure of how to confront Yamamoto.

Kuroo tells her that he'll speak with him, since he's the captain, but Emilia says to only do so if the situation gets out of hand. At the school gates, Yaku notices the bruise on her thigh, asking if it was caused by Yamamoto, but she shrugged him off, speeding to class. That afternoon, practice started normally, with Kai saying that there was a slight tension due to Yamamoto and Emilia, whom was running around, trying to help as much as she could. She was taking what Yamamoto said very seriously, and this bothered Kenma, causing him to momentarily speak to Yamamoto.

After the practice, Yamamoto caught Emilia before she left the school, apologizing to her, having realized all the things she did to help them. Emilia accepted his apology and smiled at him, causing him to get flustered. Yamamoto told her to call him "Tora" as a sign of friendship, and she nods, calling him "Tora-kun". She then joins the team whenever they jog, often being a little behind Kenma.

#### First Volleyball Tournament Arc

##### First Day Matches

The International High School Tournament started soon after she joined the club, and the first part of the tournament was to select the representative for the Tokyo prefecture. The morning of their first match, Emilia got a call from coach Naoi, telling her that he couldn't go to the match today, having a family emergency. He put her in charge of the team during the event, and told her that a teacher at the school would give her the club's money for the subscription and bus fines. Emilia's anxiety and stress went up, pacing around her room, trying to find Kuroo's phone number, until she realized she didn't have it. Deciding to do it all by herself, she left her apartment with the team's first aid bag on her shoulder.

Arriving at the school, the team was all rounded up outside in the school's courtyard, waiting for their coach. A teacher called out to Emilia, giving her the club's money and leaving inside the building. Making her way to where the tall boys of the club were all talking, she tried catching their attention, but it was no use, since she wasn't very loud. Yamamoto noticed, yelling, "Listen up, our manager is here!" She thanked him, and proceeded to explain the situation to the team. They were all uneasy, specially the third years, but they decided to go anyways, knowing that they'd only get one last chance. Emilia led the group down to the bus stop, making sure all their gear was being carried along with them.

She signed up the team in the tournament while they did the favor to take them all inside, and Emilia later took the team to their warm up spot, looking over the program for the game. Since the team had made it to Nationals the past year, they were skipped to the third level, meaning they had to go against the winning team of the current match. Emilia was running up and down, keeping track of what they had brought, as well as filling their water bottles and taking out their towels. She was murmuring to herself in Spanish as she did so, with some of the first years finding it cute.

When the match before them ended, Kuroo, the captain, pumped them all up with a chant as Emilia pushed the cart to lead them inside the court. Upon looking at their opponents, she realized that it was Ubugawa High School, one of the schools allied under Fukurodani. Emilia knew of them, as well as having a sort of understanding that the Nekoma team had participated in summer camps along with them. She was approached by Yosuke Akita, Ubugawa's coach, asking about their coach. Emilia introduced herself to him and explained their situation, but smiled, saying that they'd win anyway.

As always, she helped them warm up, sending the balls for the wing spikers to hit in order to intimidate their opponent. Then, they had a brief meeting before the match started. Emilia mentioned that she wasn't a great replacement for coach Naoi, but that if they ever needed a time out, to signal her for it. She proceeded to say that they had all worked hard, and that they will win all the matched thanks to the power in their team. Emilia shook hands with Akita, whom smiled at her, saying she was brave.

The match started, and she noticed the team was playing as great as ever, managing to win their first set fairly easily. Emilia ran up to them to give them their water bottles and towels, telling them that they're doing great. However, everything went sour when the third year setter got injured half way through the second set. Emilia called the time out, and all the team members began to argue with each other over who was going to be replacing him. Once again, the short brunette tried to get their attention, with Yamamoto yelling for her once again. She stated that as the team's manager, she has watched over each member carefully and has notes on them and their tendencies, as well as their stats, with Kuroo chiming in that she indeed knows who will be replacing the injured setter, since she has been watching them all this time.

Emilia decides that Kenma will be replacing him, with the brunet complaining slightly, but she furrowed her brow and stated he replace him, and that it was final. The match resumes, and Kenma is working great with the third year team. The ace was having problems hitting Kenma's sets, and by Emilia's observations, it was only him, and it was getting to his head. During a time out, he lashed out at Kenma, causing Emilia to switch him up with Yamamoto. The third year thought that it wasn't fair, and glared at her during the remainder of the match, but she didn't care. Winning the third set, they managed to win the match, and the boys all ran towards Emilia, picking her up. Kuroo placed her on his shoulders, jumping around, and she nervously laughed, trying not to fall.

The next match was against Shinzen High School, and while they waited, Emilia handed everyone their snacks, but the third year ace snapped at her, pinning her against a wall and yelling at her. He was 6'1, making her very scared of him, as he wouldn't stop yelling and rambling at her. The rest of the tall players were trying to push him off her, but to no avail. The ace fisted her shirt, throwing her onto the ground aside him. Kenma instinctively jumped in front of her, and was about to be punched, but Fukunaga brought a security guard who got the ace out of there. Emilia was crying and hyperventilating at this point, so Kenma and Yaku led her to sit on a bench while Kuroo went to the security office to speak with their angry member.

When the captain came back, he said to Emilia that the ace wouldn't be playing today, and they had to do something. So, she took the quick decision to have Yamamoto replace him from the beginning, and seeing that the setter was still injured, Kenma would also keep playing as well. She wiped away her tears and led the team to their next match, which was against Shinzen High School. As well, the opposing team's coach was surprised when Emilia went to shake his hand, but she shrugged it off. This next match went by really fast, with Nekoma winning the match two sets in a row. Emilia jumped and hugged Kenma, who was the closest one to her once they won, and went over to thank the opposing team for the match.

As what Kuroo said to her, whenever they won a match, they went over to eat Takoyaki, and so they went over to a food stall and ate together. Since Emilia didn't eat seafood, she ate some Karaage instead. Naoi called her a bit later, asking about the matches, and he let out a sigh of relief when she told him that they had won their matches. He asked to see them back at the school, and so they took the bus back to meet him at the gym. Kuroo and Yaku told him what the ace had done, and after the meeting was over, Naoi went to speak with him. Emilia walked to her home with Kenma and Kuroo, laughing a little as she said "Guess I can't stay off the ground haha". However, both boys found it a bit sad, knowing that her fall probably left a mark, and remembering how hard she cried when it happened.

##### Final Day Matches

The weather was getting warmer, so Emilia wore her red shorts instead of her long tracksuit pants, heading out to the school to leave for the last day of matches. She joined Kenma and Kuroo at the bus stop, and later at the school, she did her whole routine, getting the things in their own bus and checking that everyone had their things. The ace had been suspended from club activities, so he wasn't here, and the setter was still injured, so he'd be sitting with the students that were going to see the matches.

When she was reaching over to fetch the team's banner in a high shelf in the gym, Kenma, Yamamoto and Fukunaga noticed the large bruise on her thigh, feeling bad for her. They helped her get the banner down, and got it in the bus for her, while Kenma told Naoi and Kuroo about her bruise. Once they got to the gymnasium and the match started, everyone was pumped. Emilia had come up with the lineup yesterday on the spot, and it was working amazingly, with the team winning the first two sets. They moved on to the hallway to rest and wait for the next match, and Emilia handed everyone sandwiches she had made for them. Everyone was pretty stressed, since whomever won this next match would go on to compete in the Inter-High, so Emilia tried to cheer them up.

As the next match came up, they managed to win against them after three sets, and Kai picked her up this time and jumped with her on his shoulders. "Kai-senpai I'm going to fall, please don't jump!" They later helped her down and got to the awards ceremony, where she noticed that Tokyo had three representatives. Kuroo had explained to her that, since Tokyo was a very big prefecture, they usually had two teams representing them, plus since Tokyo was hosting the event, they got a sort of "bonus", thus having three teams representing them. The current teams in the lineup were Itachiyama Institute, Fukurodani High School and now, Nekoma High School. Yaku smiled while mentioning that she was the manager of a powerhouse team, and Emilia blushed in embarrassment, not knowing that they were one.

After the ceremony, Kuroo introduces her to Fukurodani's ace, Bokuto Kotaro, a first year setter named Akaashi Keiji, and the newest team's manager, named Hada Ume. While the others spoke, Emilia befriended Ume, who happened to be a very clumsy girl with a chirpy attitude. As per tradition, Emilia then went to accompany the team to eat Takoyaki while she ate something else, finding it very pleasing how close the team was.

#### Family Problems Arc

##### Dropping The Bus

The Inter-High was over after they lost against an ultimate team on the first round, so now the second years and the first years were practicing for the next National High School Volleyball Tournament. The ace that had lashed out at Emilia no longer spoke to her or came to practice anymore, like the other third years, so it wasn't super awkward during their practices, but the problem now was that Emilia had been arriving late to practice and class. This marked the fifth day in a row that she was late, meaning that, since she was on a scholarship and needed to be in the club, that coach Naoi was going to put her on a sort of probation, meaning that if she was late again, she'd be kicked out of the team.

When he told Emilia this, Kenma noticed that the color on her face drained, but she nodded in understanding and went along to do her duties. Then, the next few days, Emilia went back to ride the bus on time with Kenma and Kuroo, but the setter thought something was a bit off. Fukunaga, whom was in the same class as her and Kenma, told them that she was oddly only eating apple slices for lunch, and the only reason Kenma didn't know this was because he would leave to buy his food in the cafeteria.

A few days later, Emilia arrived just on time for practice, and the team started a jog. She was really slow, so she often would run on par with Kenma, but today he found it very different. She was behind him, running slower for some reason, so Kenma would glance back at her to check up on her, and she seamed tired but refused to stop. Then, he suddenly hears a thud, turning around to see Emilia had passed out on the floor. Kenma knelt down beside her, trying to shake her awake, but to no avail. Thankfully, they were so behind that the team was catching up on the next lap, led by Yamamoto. Kai managed to pick her up and get her to the infirmary, and Yaku stayed behind with her. After the nurse couldn't find anything wrong, she was taken to the hospital, where they told Yaku that she was dehydrated, had low potassium, low blood pressure and several other vitamins, meaning that she was either starving herself, or following a very restricted diet.

Once she woke up, thanks to an I.V., she was met with a sleeping Kenma to her right, and Yaku speaking with Kuroo outside the room. She was confused as to where she was, as well as why her arm was hurting, and her moving around caused Kenma to wake up. He told her that she scared him half to death, and that she was in the hospital for starvation and dehydration. Upon hearing those words, she sighed, saying she was trying to not get this far. Yaku and Kuroo came inside the room and heard her story.

Her mother had cut her monthly allowance, which she used to buy groceries and take the bus. Having to choose between taking the bus or buying groceries, she decided to stop taking the bus, but this caused her to be late to class due to the crowd and the distance, and being an absence away from her scholarship being taken away, so she decided to cut back on groceries by skipping breakfast and eating just fruit for lunch. Yaku was extremely mad at her mother for doing that, walking out of the room to call his parents in order to do something.

Emilia was crying by now, and a nurse had come in to change her I.V, so she was also a bit sleepy. Kuroo said that she should've told the school or coach Naoi, but she didn't want to inconvenience anyone. The hospital stay went on for three days, with the team visiting on the second day, giving her a gift basket and some plushies. Yaku's family took her home, with his mother telling her that she gave an earful to her mom, resolving the money issue.

## Quotes

* *"My home is wherever I am. My place of origin is irrelevant."* (To Kenma, Kuroo and Morisuke)

## Trivia

* Pre-time skip concern: Whether to take the bus or eat dinner.
* Post-time skip concern: Should she stream art or play videogames.
* Emilia is initially shy around strangers, but is very extroverted around her friends.
* Favorite food: Guanimes
* She is an only child.
* Her birthday falls on the memorial of the Ponce Massacre, where people 20 are killed, and hundreds are left injured.
* Her star sign is Aries.
* She has a small appetite.
* Emilia dyed both Yamamoto's and Kenma's hairs blond.
* She gets sick easily because of the drastic weather changes in Japan.
* Her gamertag is 'kittylia'.
* **Nomenclature:**
	+ Emilia (エミリア) - *Rival*
	+ Yaku (夜久) - *Long Ago Night*