Gaku

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* Human
* Battle
* 4-Koma

**Gaku** (楽久) is one of the romanceable characters in Ayakashi: Romance Reborn. He belongs to the Twilight Faction.

## Profile

This Tsukumo-gami drum lives with his older twin brother, Yura, in an abandoned shrine hidden deep in the mountains. A machinist by trade, this genius craftsman is known throughout the Capital by his pseudonym “Mr. Kakyu.” He dreams of the day he can hear his brother’s flute again...

## Appearance

He has a silver hair, purple eyes. When he changed into his adult form is described as a pretty adult and he have a long hair tied up.

In his ayakashi form, he is wearing a sleeveless blouse with drawing almost visible with a pink rope tied like a lasso, a blue light sleeveless blouse with pink shores under it, a pink rope tied up in his arm, little gloves, short pants that reach the knees and a large boot.

## Personality

Gaku is rough and serious with the people, but sometimes good, and friendly with some people. In some chapters he speaks very rude but he's trying to say that he is worried.

Gaku is completely different with his big brother Yura. His personality is friendly, affectionate, because he loves his borther a lot.

## Biography

**Spoiler alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

Yura and Gaku were born 1000 years ago, they played many songs but one day, a curse affected the twins. Yura can only play one note that is the "Song of Death", this song can kill anyone who listens to it. Then the twins met an Onmyoji, Futaba, that promised them to break the curse, but the onmyoji died in a battle while saving the capital. After that, Gaku started searching for another way to break the curse and he had hope that Futaba will be reborn and break the curse.

## Abilities

**Ayakashi abilities and power:**

* **Ayakashi transformation:** He can change his appearance into a human and an ayakashi or switch his appearence of an adult and a kid.
* **Magic Music:**Tsukumo-gami's music is not for humans according to Yura. Their music is magical. His instrument is a drum.
	+ **Song of Awekening:** This song can save the soul that is lost in the neverworld.

## Relationships

**Yura**
Yura is his big brother, Gaku is very sweet with him. When he comes back from work or going outside, he always brings Yura sweets.

He is trying to find a way to break Yura's curse so Yura can play music again.

**Futaba Saotome**
He is blunt with her but he helps her with Onmyoji art and other situations anyway. Gaku wants Futaba to recover her past memory to break the curse Yura suffers. On occasion, it can seems that Gaku can be sweet to her but he expresses their bond in a somewhat different way than with Yura.

**Spoiler alert! Major spoilers beyond this point.**

In Glittering Summer Vow, Gaku and Futaba went to a firefly forest. When they found it, he seemed to see the Futaba of the past and he tell her that he saw firefly with Yura and her in the past. In this moment, it can be noticed that he had a good relation with the past Futaba.

According to Yura, in her past life, Futaba and Gaku were close.

**Kuro**
Even if it is not shown, he accommodates Kuro a lot, he promised him to keep the secret of Kuro's true form to himself. He avoids Kuro's hugs though and it annoys him when Kuro wants to hug others.

Possibly in the past they both had a different relationship because the Kuro of the past is different from the Kuro of the present - he was a much more aggressive Ayakashi than he is now.

**Toichiro Yuri**
Toichiro and Gaku cannot stand each other but they have to work together because Futaba needs both of them. Gaku dislikes his selfish personality and he doesn't trust him because suspects that his past self was the murderer of their master.

Both argue a lot because one of them often says something that bothers the other and their constant banter requires a lot of Futaba's patience.

### **Other**

**Hisui**
Gaku already knows Hisui, he know that she is a dangerous enemy.

## Etymology

* The name **Gaku** means "easy, ease, comfort, music" (楽) (**ga**) and "long time" (久) (**ku**).

## Trivia

* Gaku's favorite food is cake with Wasabi.
* Gaku's hobby and working with machines