Sakaki Yuna

**Sakaki Yuna**, is the traumatised girl who tries to redeem herself by becoming the bassist for the band **Artemis**. Formerly the leader of a band called **Night Fall**, the group disbanded after Yuna is believed to have abandoned the other members during their planned debut by joining a Japan-wide band competition, which shattered the entire members' hope for their long-awaited Japan-wide debut.

After that incident, her two friends and bandmates, **Hitomi Nakayoshi** and **Chiyoye Kagura**, disappeared.

**Tamami Sanada** was a junior under Yuna, and she reached out to Yuna during her most difficult times, as she had done so before.

## Background

Yuna formed Night Fall with her childhood friends : **Yagane Kuroda**, **Masaki Miyamoto**, Chiyoye Kagura and Hitomi Nakayoshi to establish their long-life dream : to become a popular band known throughout the world, starting from Japan. Their band was formed starting from their middle school, 2nd grade.

During their in-between first year and second year holiday, they decided to join a Japan-wide competition since they have quite a popularity in **Kotō Prefecture**.

However, on the day of the competition, Yuna disappeared. Her friends were worried sick, however Kagura blamed Yuna for disappearing right on that day. Hitomi joined in the blame game and eventually Yuna insisted that she didn't remember anything. The two consistently forces Yuna to admit the truth, but she didn't know anything. After Masaki asked them to stop, Masaki took Yuna back home and Yagane asked them what's wrong with the two. Hitomi then cried while Kagura clenched her fists and bit her lip.

Several days later, Masaki saves Yuna from a hit-and-run attempt, but was struck herself and was put in a comatose state. This plunges Yuna and the rest of her friends into despair. Yagane talked to the school staff for a "break", Yuna refused to go to school and shivers in her bed all day, believed that she is at fault, while Hitomi and Kagura quit enrolling at YamiTsume and mysteriously vanished together.

Torn and broken, she was frequently visited by her junior, Tamami. Despite her constant rejection, she tried to help her the best way she can. She eventually let her help her, including where she requested Yuna to join **Fuyu**'s audition to recruit new members for their band....

## Appearance

Before Night Fall's disbandment, Yuna has long brown hair that reaches to her back slightly and a very beautiful smile. Her eyes are always colourful and shining, and she is always dressed in beautiful outfits.

After Night Fall's disbandment, Yuna destroyed some of her beautiful outfits in rage and left her hair to grow out until it reaches her legs. Her eyes are no longer colourful, and has turned gloomy. The once beautiful outfit has turned dirty and ragged.

## Personality

Before Night Fall's disbandment, she was a bright girl who loves music more than any other musicians. She loved her friends as they are her remaining family. She loves music because music is one of the remaining joys she had in life. She forgave everyone who wronged her and is kind to everyone she met. She is also really beautiful too. But alas, tragedy struck....

After Night Fall's disbandment, she turned from a bright girl into a broken girl who is no longer able to find a reason to continue her life. She was continuously haunted by what happened with her friends and her guilt continued to cripple her entire being even more. She destroyed her bass because she deems herself unworthy to enjoy music. She stopped coming to school, until Tamami managed to convince her to go to school again.

She becomes very insecure and paranoid when anyone even slightly mentions Night Fall. Fuyu continues to mention it to convince her to accept her fate and move on.

As a result of her breakdown, her emotions gets all over the place. When she's sad, she gets extremely sad. When she's angry, she throws an outburst of rage. However, she's currently unable to make any positive emotions.

## History

### Winter Princess's Dance Storyline

Yuna and Tamami happened to meet the members of the Music Club. When she saw Bestisia's guitar, she trembled in fear and apologized. She then ran away until she is caught by **Tetsu'un**. She faints because she's too exhausted.

On the Audition Day, Tamami and Yuna came to the Music Club so that Yuna could audition for the club. Fuyu and the others disagree with Tamami's decision, saying she's forcing her friend, but Tamami suggests that it's for her own good.

After learning of Masaki's death, Yuna stormed out into the heavy rain outside and cries her eyes out. After hearing Tamami's voice calling out to her, she regrets her actions and faints. After the rain subsided, she was saved by Fuyu and the others. When Tamami told her to not do that again, she had a vision of Masaki asking her not to throw her life away. This slowly re-awakens Yuna's broken will, prompting her to try to rise again.

Yuna later invites Fuyu to visit **Kiyoyasu Riverbank** together. When Fuyu gets there, she sees Yuna sitting alone. After Fuyu talked about how she has changed after meeting Bestisia and the others, and how Fuyu considers Yuna a friend, Hitomi shows up behind them. Hitomi immediately apologizes for her mistakes, and Yuna almost immediately forgives her.

Kagura later arrives, and told Yuna and Fuyu that she murdered Masaki herself. Kagura then proceeds to mock Hitomi and Masaki, which prompts a fistfight between Yuna and Kagura. The two stopped to talk for a while. However, Yuna used a trick to confirm Kagura's lies. Kagura constantly curses Yuna and tells her to shut up, until **Shizuka** appears to take Kagura and Hitomi back. Yuna tried to save them, but Shizuka pushes her away.

Yuna and Fuyu later reported this incident to the Principal, who is distraught after knowing about what happened. They later confirmed that Shizuka comes from **Drasil Elite Academy**, YamiTsume's rival.

Several days later, Ayaka joins Yuna when she goes home and the two talked about Ayaka's friends. After Ayaka told her that she'll cherish her like she cherishes her friends, Yuna kept a blank expression. Ayaka then asked her to smile, which she then tried, but she couldn't do, she ended up making weird faces instead. Yuna asks Ayaka if she wanted to eat ramen at another city, which she agrees.

Yuna then talked to Ayaka about how deep down, she wants to return to whom she used to be, but it'll be difficult and it needs a long time for her to let it go. Yuna joins the meeting of the members of the Music Club to discuss about the name of the band.

Yuna joins Bestisia and **Gareth** to class 1-B to save Tamami from Mizuki's assault. Yuna and **Sakura** immediately ran towards Tamami when Bestisia and **Genrai** kicked the door down. Yuna tells Sakura to quickly take Tamami to the Nurse's Office.After disputes between Mizuki and Miezu, Mizuki ran away. After they left, Yuna, who is more concerned about Tamami's condition than the sisters, tells Bestisia to check on Tamami. The duty later falls to Fuyu to make the sisters make peace with each other.

After the sisters reconciled, Yuna then finally discovered that Tamami has been learning the keyboard and she has learned to play in a professional manner. When Tamaki and King paid them a visit, they told Yuna and the others that they can start an official live show. Later, Principal Tadatsune heard of the news and congratulated them, before giving them a music sheet left by **Entropy**, former students from YamiTsume High. Artemis then decided that they will hold a live show in several days.

Before the live show, Entropy visits Artemis in the dressing room to get to know the ones who will continue their legacy in YamiTsume. After the show, Artemis talked some more with Entropy. **Eliza**, one of the members of Entropy, warned them about Drasil's suspicious activities, and told them to be careful. After Entropy left, the five girls formed a circle and they swore an oath to fulfill their promises to people they deem important in their lives. In Yuna's case, it's her friends from Night Fall.

## Interactions

* Fuyu Hime
* Bestisia Lorraine
* Tamami Sanada
* Ayaka Saito
* Chosuke Ryuzaki
* Zanto Kageyama
* Jinya Zenkouji
* Izayoi Okumura
* Fumino Shirokage
* Priscilla Fleurd
* Izumi Saika
* Sayaka Tanimura

## Trivia

* Yuna sometimes sings in some songs made or covered by Artemis, sometimes with Fuyu or the others.
* She planned to quit coming to school forever, until Tamami stopped her and asked her to reconsider.
* The tragedy caused her so much guilt and pain to her that she can't stop crying, and she was bed-ridden for several weeks. Tamami was there to help her, fortunately.