Kaho Mizuki

**Kaho Mizuki** (観月 歌帆, *Mizuki Kaho*) is a shrine maiden and the daughter of the priest at the Tsukimine Shrine where she lives.

She first appears as Sakura Kinomoto’s math teacher. For a time she takes over as the regular teacher of Sakura’s class, temporarily replacing Yoshiyuki Terada.

Initially she was introduced as mysterious and enigmatic who appeared to know more than what she was letting on and with an uncertain agenda. It later turns out that she plays an important role in the "Final Judgement" concerning Sakura. Kaho is in possession of the Moon Bell: a mystical artifact, until it serves its purpose in the Final Judgement. The bell gives Sakura a second chance to beat the guardian Yue during the judgement.

## Description

### Appearance

Kaho is a very beautiful milky white-skinned woman that many characters often comment admiringly on her beauty with long reddish-brown hair that is parted down at the center with the left side having a slight lift and crimson eyes.

In the garb of a shrine maiden, she ties her hair back in a ponytail by using a white ribbon that runs down her back. wears a white kimono, a red hakama (long, divided trousers), white socks and a pair of wooden sandals.

### Personality

Kaho is a kind, warm, serene and mature woman who is also patient, polite, calm level headed and effortlessly elegant. In her earlier appearances she came across as mysterious and enigmatic – although genuinely cheerful and kind, and seemingly harboring some unknown motivation – fueling Syaoran Li’s initial skepticism and mistrust of her.

She is keenly perceptive and extraordinarily wise - seeing through the group’s antics and providing necessary, although usually subtle, help with a particular situation. Normally, she is content to act as an observer and leave Sakura Kinomoto and Syaoran to own their means. However, when they come up against a particular tricky Clow Card they are unable to overcome she will – subtly – intervene. Whether it’s the Maze or Lock cards her interventions have been extraordinarily helpful.

Her kindness and generosity are demonstrated when she hands over a bag of chestnuts to Sakura and Yukito Tsukishiro as a token of her appreciation when they volunteered to help her to clean up the shrine grounds. After Meiling Li and Sakura unfairly lost their chance to get some charms they’d had their hearts set on, she retrieved some and personally gave them one each, much to the two girls delight.

She strongly believes in the workings of Fate and Destiny, remarking that there is no such thing as mere chance in the world, but only inevitability and predestines.

Kaho is excellent at archery, once entering a competition against Yukito. She narrowly lost to him only after losing her concentration due to sensing Kero’s presence nearby.

She has difficulty remembering street names.

## Powers and Abilities

Though Kaho had never been seen to directly use any forms of magic throughout the series, it was still hinted that her magical potential is exceptionally strong: Cerberus remarked upon meeting her face to face that he felt *"magic of tremendous power...especially that of the moon"* from her, and she herself confirmed that she was a practitioner of *"the powers of the moon"*. In fact, as she sent out moon-oriented signals to conceal Yue's form as Yukito, Kero originally believed that she was Yue in disguise.

Examples of powers Kaho was shown to possess were:

* **Shamanism:** Kaho had the ability to perceive and communicate with the spiritual world, as shown by how she knew that the cherry blossom tree at the Tsukimine Shrine was a bridges between their communities and the spiritual world.
* **Spirit & Aura Reading:** Kaho had the ability to see, read, and sense the souls and auras of others. Hence, during her and Toua's first meeting, she realized that he possessed true supernatural powers, and later on, during an archery tournament between her and Yukito, she lost due to detecting Kero's presence.
* **Supernatural Concealment:** Kaho had the ability to hide and conceal herself from other practitioners of magic, as shown by how she was able to sneak up behind Sakura and Syaoran undetected, with neither noticing until she made herself known.
* **Evasion:** Kaho had the ability to evade or dodge things, as shown by how she was the only on (besides Sakura and Syaoran) who avoided being frozen by the Freeze card.
* **Magic Immunity:** Kaho had the ability to be unaffected by magic, as shown by how she was not in the least fazed by the powers of the Sleep Card - she remained awake and standing even as everyone else around her fell asleep. This is particularly significant, as Touya (who possessed some latent yet powerful magic himself), still fell asleep instantly upon being exposed to the Sleep Card's spell.
* **Ability Negation:** Kaho had the ability to nullify the powers of others, as shown by how she was able to pierce through the Return card's protections (which would normally render any detection impossible). This is also particularly significant, as the only other person shown to be able to achieve this feat was Clow Reed.
* **Extrasensory Perception:** Just like her former lover Touya, Kaho has the ability to acquire information by means independent of any known senses or previous experience, as shown by how she accurately predicted future phenomenon to some extent, though she remained enigmatic about the precise details at the same level as a clairvoyant.
* **Knowledge of the Clow Cards:** Kaho was shown to be knowledgeable – or at least have some degree of knowledge – concerning the Clow Cards and their abilities, as shown by how she successfully guessed the Lock Card's weakness and subtly directed Sakura to overcome it.

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**Clow Reed's Bell**: This mystical bell has been passed down through Kaho’s family for generations and was originally left by Clow Reed. Its purpose was to enable Sakura another chance should she fail in in the Final Judgement.

With it Kaho gave Sakura another go to defeat Yue during the Final Judgement and claim rightful ownership over the Clow Cards. After it had allowed Sakura another attempt, it faded into nothingness, its purpose served.

Its possessor own great magical abilities are required to effectively use it. With it, Kaho was able to effortlessly break down the walls of The Maze card and fend off the attacks of the The Firey card.

## Etymology

* The name **Kaho** means "song, poetry" (歌) (**ka**) and "sail" (帆) (**ho**).
* Kaho's surname **Mizuki** means "moon viewing/moon-viewing" (観月).

## Trivia

* Kaho's favorite flower **Evening Primrose** (月見草, *Tsukimisou*) shares the first Kanji 月 (Tsuki) of Tsukimine Shrine's name.
* During Sakura Kinomoto's Final Judgement, Kaho said that the fact that Yukito Tsukishiro, being Yue, had moved to Tomoeda, was not a coincidence because "*There is no coincidence in this world - there is only inevitability*". This phrase is Yuuko Ichihara's signature.