Kuro

**Kuro**, formerly known as **Kaoru**, is a playable character from the *Senran Kagura* videogame series. She makes her debut in *Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus*.

## Personality

The voice, body, and attitude of this rebellious do-S are all big. She often goes on rampages, but she falls asleep after she becomes bored. She can always be found munching noisily on sugar cubes. She is very sadistic and rough and also quite perverted and hot-tempered.

As a child, she was very lively and cheery. Sometimes too rebellious to her parents who were religious people while she didn't believe in God. After the incident and her amnesia, she had to become even tougher if she wanted to survive out on the streets with the other members of her rebellion gang. She grew violent, rough, and dominating with time.

## History

Kuro lived as a child in a small village with her parents, who weren't Shinobi. Her parents were poor and hard working village people, who were also very strict and religious, dealing really harsh treatments (like beating Kuro for refusing to pray to God). Kuro still loved them and knew they were good simple people. (In Shinovi Versus, she starts to recall her past better as Kuro manages to remember them when she visits the burned down and later rebuilt village.)

Kuro is actually Fumiko's childhood friend, Kaoru. She met Fumiko when she was still a normal human, in the forest one night. Fumiko and Kuro became best friends, she taught Fumiko how to hunt, raise apples and spend a night without a fire. Fumiko avoided telling Kuro she was a Shinobi. When Eiko found out about their relationship she destroyed Kuro's village in a fire. Wanting to save her parents, Kuro went into the fire despite Fumiko's protest, and Kuro 'died'. Later, it's revealed that she somehow survived and woke up with injuries, but had no memories of her past or of what happened.

She became a follower of a street gang and looked up to the leader, or boss, Lucks. Under a new name, Bear, Kuro lives on the streets with Lucks and the others. Lucks would scavenge around and steal food to give to all his followers. He also worked as a slave, or what he claims as "livestock", in order to get money to pay for food as well. His main dream, which Bear will inherit, is to have a world where everyone is free and equal, no social classes or gaps. He wanted to strip the corrupt politicians and aristocrats of their status in order to purify this world of its filth.

However, a war was going on during the time and the military had come into town with tanks and troops. They came across one of these rebellion groups, aka Lucks' group, and shot all of them dead and saved Bear/Kuro. She passed out and the next thing for her eyes to meet was the gray ceiling of the orphanage.

Shortly after this, she was adopted by Kurokage who offered her a second chance at life. She agreed and he trained her to become a Shinobi, trying to control her newly found powers centered around the manipulation of fire. While doing this, Kurokage gives Bear a new name, "Kuro", and introduces her to sugar.

## Trivia

* She refers to herself using "Ore" (俺), which means "I/me", that is normally used by young adult males, as opposed to "Watashi" (私), which also means "I/me", but is used by both genders alike. Judging by her voice and speech, Kuro can be considered a tomboy.
* She gives nicknames to all her friends by adding "-sy" ("-cchi" in Japanese) to the end of their name, sometimes shortening their actual name in the process (I.E. - Fumiko becomes Fumsy, while Yumi becomes Yumsy.)
* In one of her Shinobi Girls Heart, it is revealed that Kuro does not like shiitake mushrooms.

## Quotes

* *"Knowin' you're not alone can make you this strong huh..."*
* *"There's a limit to how foolish you can be."*
* *"Using force is useless, you know. You're not a person to take me on."*