Sakusa Kageyama

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Information

### **Also Known As**

The Annoying Blocker (by Nekoma High)
Annoying Older Brother (by Miwa, Tobio and Rintarō)
The Swiss Cheese Killer (by Kazuyo)
Worthless Son (by Rin and Suna Kageyama)
The Godly Swift Libero (by Rintarō Suna)
Sensei, Senpai (by Rintarō Suna)

## Background Information

### **Dislikes**

Pens
Swiss cheese

## Professional Status

### **Teams**

Kochō High (former; graduate)
Queen`s Court University (former; graduate)

### **Position**

Outside Hitter (Former)
Libero (#1 in Professional V. League 1; replaced by Motoya Komori)

## Image gallery

**Sakusa Komori Kageyama** (Japanese: **影山 (かげやま)  古森 (こもり)  佐久早 (さくさ)** , *Kageyama Komori Sakusa*) was the eldest quadruplet brother of Tobio Kageyama and older fraternal quadruplet brother of Miwa Kageyama, Rintarō Kageyama, Sora Kageyama and Himari Kageyama. He was the eldest grandchild and first-born maternal grandson of Kazuyo Kageyama and his late wife (Sakusa`s later maternal grandmother): Akari Kageyama (née Hirabayashi). His paternal grandparents were Akifumi Fukuhara and Aimi Fukuhara (née Hasegawa) and his parents are Suna Kageyama and Rin Kageyama (née Fukuhara). Before his death, he was a player for the Black Shadows; a professional volleyball team in Divison 1 of Japan's V.League, serving as their starting libero and the #1 Professional libero in the whole of Japan. A graduate of the prestigious private high school: Kochō High and the prestigious college known as Queen`s Court University, he was a volleyball player of the highest caliber. Unfortunately while driving his younger siblings and three of his cousins home from a movie after one of the V. League`s first games of the season, they were involved in a traffic accident with Sakusa briefly surving in the hospital before dying; his younger siblings were severely injured and traumatized by the experience so much, with Miwa instantly quitting the sport directly after the car accident which caused the death of Sakusa. The death of Sakusa severely hampered Tobio`s communication skills, his self-confidence and caused him extremely anxiety, to the point where he developed a severe aversion and phobia to cars. It can be said that the death of Sakusa is directly correlated with the period where Tobio, first became known as the "King of the Court", as he was scared of making friends in fear that they would die in a similar manner or even just like Sakusa. He is the main character of the *Jackson* fanfiction series, which describes his life before the birth of his younger siblings, the story of Vada and her ultimate death, and the subsequent events that followed with the birth of his younger siblings.

## Appearance

    His physical characteristics are said to be a perfect copy of Tobio, just older, as he has more gentler, wiser, dark blue-colored eyes and hair of an **extremely** dark raven-black shade. His towering and often anxiety-inducing height and impressively sharp glare, is something that he passed down to Tobio and Rintarō. His lean and muscular build is something that contributed to his volleyball skills, while his

intimidating aura and seemly almost permanent scowl on his face served to help ward off any males going after his younger siblings or even his own girlfriend. His hair was cropped short, with a fringe that hang just above his eyes. His typical attire consist of a black jersey and matching black shorts. The jersey has a mixture of colors near the top of the uniform; with teal fading into a gray and then back to black again and has white lettering on either side of the black jersey. The shorts additionally have a solid teal-colored streak running down either side. At away games he used the alternate kit of their uniform consisting of: alternate black shorts with white lettering on the right side of his shorts and a white jersey with teal and white detailing. He also wore black shoes with teal detailing, regardless of what uniform kit he used. When not in his practice clothes or in his volleyball uniform, he was shown wearing a red jacket with a white t-shirt underneath, brown shorts, red and white shoes and a red hat with the words "Kageyama" sewed on the front of it.

## Personality

Sakusa, having been mentally and physically abused by his parents, nor having grown up under their influence, combined with the fact that he grew up in a household that lacked affection, was very cautious, brooding and serious (such as when he scolded Tobio for not paying more attention to getting good grades in school or when he was distrustful towards Luka Harper, a new friend of his younger fraternal twin sister, Miwa). Due to living in such a harsh and cold-natured household and being looked down upon by his parents, Sakusa lacked the arrogance and pride of many professional athletes like Atsumu Miya or Kōrai Hoshiumi and was a rather gentle-natured and quiet person that disliked when his teammates fought in front of him. Examples include breaking up fights between any of his teammates, serving as the 'middle man' to any of their antics and scolding them when they got too out of hand. Sakusa is clearly fearful of his parents, as he flinched away when they attempted to hug him as part of an apology. He also appeared to show severe signs of post-traumatic stress as a result of the abuse he faced, as he was depicted as being incredibly respectful to everyone, fearing somebody retaliating against him. Sakusa was a serious and determined volleyball player, having worked extremely hard to get to where he was before his ultimate death, having not possessed the genius-level abilities that Tobio had in volleyball.

Unlike his parents, he was often depicted as being very polite and well-mannered towards both his upperclassmen (while still in school and even in college) and his much, older teammates (when part of the Black Shadows). He holds little interest in the business of others, unless it affects the team as a whole; even when interacting with his fellow teammates, he still could not let go of the traumatic events he had been through, and always had a saddened and uncomfortable look on his face at such events. Even in the last stretches of his life, he was often rather melancholy and often was in despair, as noted by his late girlfriend Jasper. Only when he was on the verge of his deathbed, did he display a far more happier nature and even openly congratulated all of his younger siblings for working to accomplish their dreams and living their best life like he never could.

Like his younger siblings and cousins, he had an obsession with food, getting overly excited at the prospect of traveling around the world (one of his life-long dreams) to experience and taste cuisine from all over the world. He especially loved onigiri, often preparing the lunches of his younger siblings, something that Tobio and Miwa took up after his death, making them lunches especially catered to their likes and avoiding the foods that they disliked. Similarly, he all made sure to include a specially-made treat for them, their favorite drink (something that was low-sodium yet healthy for Tobio), chopsticks and a list of their missing homework (if they had any outstanding work). He was rather kind and understanding towards members of his family in many ways his parents were not; in a way, he actually acted as a father towards his family with his girlfriend acting as the mother towards his family.

According to his younger siblings, Sakusa was a terrible singer to the point where he could even break glass simply by singing on high enough octave. In the words of Tobio, "his voice was wearing on my ears to the point where I thought that he would actually make me go deaf, not a fun experience all things considered", and several of his fellow professional volleyball teammates described his singing as "grating," "something straight of the underworld of Greek mythology," and simply "horrifying".

## Biography

### Background

Sakusa had no elder siblings growing up, instead he had an older cousin, an immigrant from the Federal Republic of Germany named Vada, whom he played with and they even planned to marry each other upon growing up due to pressure from their respective parents. Unfortunately, Vada died while traveling back to Germany (her homeland) and the ship on which she traveled from Germany to Japan was wrecked on several large rocks, being completely and utterly destroyed. Sakusa was utterly devastated at the news of her death and her necklace which was recovered from the site of the ship`s crash would be constantly worn by Sakusa until the time of his death during Tobio`s middle school years. His parents were largely unsympathetic towards the news of Vada and her family`s deaths. As a result, he grew resentful towards his parents and often disrespected them, seeing their actions as spitting on the deaths of Vada and her family whom he saw as innocent people condemned to die tragically.

### *Jackson*

#### Unstoppable Saga

Sakusa first appears during a practice match Kitagawa Daiichi Junior High has before their match against Kagura. After the first practice match, Sakusa is roped into a series of antics by the team`s resident hot-heads, Kagura and Komi, with their disapproving captain and vice-captain scolding them afterwards by harshly kicking them all in the back for misbehaving. Sakusa appears exasperated at being kicked in the back by his captain and vice-captain, complaining that he didn`t have anything to do with them, earning him Kagura and Isabella`s disapproval and the taunting glances of his fellow teammates.

As part of their celebratory meal that night, the team was treated to several platters of Häagen-Dazs as a reward for winning the practice match against the other team; Sakusa bantering with Komi over the ethics of scientifically-engineering chickens to speak the human language, with their captains eventually growing tired of the discussion and dismissing them all to bed. At some point, Sakusa is woken up in the middle of the night by thumping noises, discovering one of his opponents trying to break down the doors of the inn in which they were staying.

When seeing Honda and Akimasa talking, Sakusa and Akinobu both get surprised at the two already having known each other before they even scheduled the match. Shortly after, both of them rejoice at being let off easily for their afternoon training, as their captains had vehemently promised to make them run through countless suicides for several stunts that they had pulled several days ago, as part of a prank.

## Plot

### **Tokyo Expedition Arc**

Sakusa is first mentioned during the barbeque by Kuroo when he is describing the three top V. League 1 liberos of the country to Hinata and Lev.

### **Spring High Preliminary Arc**

He is once again mentioned by his first name [only] when Tobio is shown having a face-time call with several of his other siblings (half, step, and otherwise), when Rintarō asks him when he [Tobio] was going to visit Sakusa`s grave. Tobio replies that he would need time off and that he was busy preparing for a tournament in the volleyball club.

### **Tokyo Nationals Arc**

#### **Preparation for Nationals**

The relatives of many of Sakusa`s teammates were invited to the All-Japan Youth training camp; even Rintarō and Tobio (his prickly younger brothers) were invited.

### **Skills**

* **Flexible Body**:
* **Serving:**
* **Receiving:**
* **Jump Serve:**

## Relationships

### **Kochō High**

* **Kagura Yamamoto**: Sakusa was extremely well-acquainted with Yamamoto and addressessed him as "Kagura-kun". The two of them were childhood friends and were part of the "resident hot-heads" of the team.

### **Relatives**

* **Suna Kageyama**: "Father"
* **Rin Kageyama**: "Mother"
* **Kazuyo Kageyama**: Maternal Grandfather
* **Akari Kageyama**: Maternal Grandmother
* **Akifumi Fukuhara**: Paternal Grandfather
* **Aimi Fukuhara**: Paternal Grandmother
* **Tobio Kageyama**: Youngest Sibling/Brother
* **Miwa Kageyama**: Younger Fraternal Twin Sister
* **Rintarō Kageyama**: Younger Fraternal Twin Brother
* **Sora Kageyama**: Younger Fraternal Twin Brother
* **Himari Kageyama**: Younger Fraternal Twin Sister
* **Mirai Oota**: 1st Cousin
* **Vada Meyer**: Sixth Cousin/Former Fiancée (deceased)

### **Friends**

* **Alice Schmidt**: Childhood Friend/Possible Fiancée
* **Alix Schmidt**: Childhood Friend/Personal Secretary/Possible Fiancée
* **Mirai Takanashi**: Classmate/Student Council President/Student Class Representative

## Quotes

* *"I cannot believe the nerve of those guys! How could they mess up this living room in that small sliver of time! I was only gone for two minutes and it already looks like a tornado swept through here! Dammit...what am I going to tell my parents...*" (To Alice Schmidt)
* *"Are you joking?"* (To himself)
* *"**No.**"* (To Suna Kageyama and Rin Kageyama)
* *"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Ah, Shakespeare quotes bring such joy to my rotten heart or what`s left of it at least. The thing I love the most in this world? Well, for me, it`s you and my relatives that actually pay positive attention to me but you are the person that I want to spend the rest of my life with. For you are the apple of my eye, my other half in this world. So please, let`s wait until we are older to get married."* (To Vada Meyer)
* *"Spare me the garbage please."* (To Mirai Takanashi)
* *"I have a niece now? You sure were busy Mirai congratulations!"* (To Mirai Oota)
* *"Every time I think about talking with our parents abut anything, my chest decides to tighten subconsciously. I`ve decided that it is better this way. They don`t like us so we should ignore them. They never bothered to even make an effort to reconnect with us, so we have to fend for ourselves now."* (To his younger siblings)
* *"I`m so sorry! I wish I could protect you from the world a little younger yet I`m lying here dying! Forgive your pitiful older brother..I`m so sorry..."* (To his younger siblings on his deathbed)

## Trivia

* Favorite Food: Chuupet, also known as jelly fruit sticks
* Current Concern: His siblings are going to be left living in the world without his love and support for them and they have been left traumatized by the car accident which caused him to be fatally injured.
* He is the person whom left the most lasting impression on Tobio; due to this he can be connected to the beginning of Tobio`s communication problems with his teammates in his last volleyball match of his senior year during Middle School before his graduation.
* His other younger siblings were affected by his influence and grew up with communication problems, except Miwa who became a hairdresser and was the "stable one" among all of the Kageyama siblings.
	+ Rintarō was left so utterly devastated by Sakusa`s death that he contemplated suicide countless times before Miwa practically begged him not to. Rin would stiffen and an uncomfortable look would cross his face every time he heard the name of the ace of Itachiyama Institute who was also named Sakusa or the libero who was named Motoya Komori. These problems eventually progressed to the point where he experienced such a severe relapse that he had be rushed to the hospital.
	+ Sora instead of contemplating suicide countless times like Rintarō had or attempting to kill herself like Himari had tried to do, shoved his feelings deep down and grew into an emotionless, apathetic, robotic-like person who barely-if-ever flinched at physical provocation and was labeled a "monster" for never openly showing his emotions in public.
	+ Himari as mentioned above, Himari attempted to kill herself several times never succeeding ever and instead unintentionally causing the seemly emotionless Sora to grow even more sorrowful inside.
* Sakusa is "cited" to be the reason for all of his younger siblings breaking off their relationships with their biological parents, as he instead encouraged them to find other people to be their "parents".
* He was the very person who taught Suna how to rotate his entire upper torso while spiking, thus it can be assumed that he left a large impression on Suna and thus served as his "hero". He is also believed to have mentored Suna in the blocking techniques, serving, digging, and receiving techniques in volleyball in cause he decided to become a Professional V. League 1. Player. It is heavily implied by Rintarō Kageyama, Suna`s namesake when he heard of his death, that Suna was extremely taken back and openly expressed disbelief at the death of his mentor. It is quite heavily implied that Suna`s deadpan personality is due to the death of his mentor; the one person who believed in him at that time in his life.
	+ In the *Jackson* fanfiction series, which tells part of Suna`s story, Suna is shown having a mental breakdown upon learning of Sakusa`s death and ends up in the hospital after his breakdown; this causes a stir throughout the school and after being discharged from the hospital Suna decides that it would be better if he acted as if he was a deadpan and quiet person, enabling him to blend in with the rest of his volleyball teammates. This continued even when he entered High School; a large majority of his teammates never noticed that he was repressing his true emotions and putting on a façade, yet Kita and Aran noticed, even following him when he met with the Kageyama siblings to visit Sakusa`s grave, where he broke down in tears.
		- He was the only person (besides his other younger siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and numerous cousins) among the Kageyama Family`s immediate members who actually encouraged his protégé: Rintarō Suna to pursue the object of his affections: his own younger fraternal quadruplet brother, Rintarō. The two eventually got together after much fenagling on Sakusa`s part and Suna eventually convinced Rintarō whom he nicknamed "Rin" to come to Inarizaki High with him, after Suna got scouted for the boys` volleyball team. Rin reluctantly agreed and became the manager of the volleyball club.