Sakura Hinata

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Sakura Hinata** (Japanese: **日向 桜** *Hinata Sakura*), currently known as **Sai Hinata** (Japanese: **日向 サイ** *Hinata Sai*) is the main protagonist of the *Melodies of the Broken* series by Ash Witherspoon. Sakura is known as one of the most skilled volleyball prodigies with her name being known to most major volleyball teams and even known overseas and internationally. After losing her first and only official volleyball match in middle school against Tobio Kageyama, the "King of the Court", she enrolled in Karasuno High alongside her twin brother Shōyō. Unfortunate for them, as Kageyama had also chosen to come to Karasuno. For the majority of the series, Sakura was a first-year student at Karasuno and one of the volleyball team`s wing spikers. After the third-years retired, Sakura became the vice-captain of the team. After graduating from high school, she traveled to Germany to study at their best college before graduating a mere two years after going there due to her incredible academic talent. Upon returning to Japan, she became a member of the MSBY Black Jackals, a Division 1 team in the V-League.

She is the twin sister of Shōyō Hinata and the older sister of Natsu Hinata, as well as Tobio Kageyama`s girlfriend and later-on his wife.

## Appearance

Sakura is a beautiful, and petite girl who is the very opposite of her twin brother in terms of her appearance. She dresses in the girls` uniform outside of school consisting of a white and red shirt with a red tie and a red skirt, and wears two navy blue hair pins on the left side of her hair. She is the shortest person on the team, aside from Nishinoya with both of them standing at a mere 159.3 cm (now at 160.5 cm as of chapter 207). Despite her short stature, she has a slight muscular build and is noted for having a flat chest, which helps because she is playing with boys. She has short, shoulder-length light chocolate-brown hair and piercing deep-green eyes. Her relatively thin build and short stature often lead her to be mistaken for a junior high (or in some cases even grade school) student. Sakura typically dresses in the Karasuno school uniform with a black jacket and black pants. In the first episode, she wore the school uniform with a black jacket and black pants.

During matches, Sakura wears her volleyball uniform—a black jersey and corresponding shorts with white and orange stripes on the sides. On the back of his jersey is his position number 16 (coincidentally, the same number that was worn by the Snarky Penguin) and her school's name written in kanji. On the court, she wears kneepads and white volleyball shoes with red stripes.

## Personality

Sakura has a sarcastic, humorless, and stern personality. She is not easily excited and can be very quiet, a trait shared by Kiyoko and countless other people. For the most part, Sakura is a person who is generally seen running after Hinata and scolding him for something, as seen in the first episode where she scolded him for blocking Kitagawa Daiichi`s ways. Unlike most vice-captains, she is a far more violent person usually slapping Hinata or pulling on his ear when scolding him, making her seem like Hajime Iwaizumi`s version #2 as noted by other teams. Despite that, she is a very stable and focused player who is very good at spiking past skilled blockers and is capable of setting the ball if needed to. She is very observant and is capable of deciphering signals for combo moves quite easily, which makes her an asset to the team.

Unlike her twin brother and boyfriend, Sakura is tied with Tsukishima for first-place and as such earned a place on the Student Council. She balances her work on the Student Council with her school-work, home-work, chores, and going out with friends.