Yuna Hinata

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Yuna Hinata** (Japanese: **日向 友奈** *Hinata Yūna*) is the coach of Senbonzakura High`s volleyball club. She is also an alumnus and former player on the team, playing as a libero. It is unknown what year she married Keishin Ukai, but it is known that she is 36, looking to be much younger than her appearance. When she married Keishin she took on his name becoming **Yuna Ukai** (Japanese: **烏養 友奈** *Ukai Yūna*). She is the mother of four children, in order of birth; Lesley Ukai, Veronica Ukai, Mason Ukai, and Kiku Ukai.

## Appearance

Yuna inherited her parental grandmother and maternal grandmother`s genes of white hair and dark-blue eyes. She has one piercing on both of her eyes, and her white hair is cut short, with her bangs on the front of her hair curving over to the left side of her face. She has been told by various people in her family that she resembles her parental and maternal grandmothers. In her youth, Yuna had brown eyes that darkened in dark-blue. Underneath her eye to the far right side of her face, she has a singular freckle.

## Personality

Yuna is a prudent, stoic and blunt individual who is rarely afraid to speak her mind, a trait she would pass onto her four children. Yuna is shown to be a loving mother, as she was enraged when their teacher didn`t interfere when they were getting bullied, later suing their school and pulling her children. Keishin states that his wife is troublesome but a caring woman all the same. She is shown to be quite strict as a mother, as she was very upset to hear him get involved in any trouble at school and sharply tells him to give his uncle, Mordred a proper greeting. She is not above physically disciplining her son. She is also shown to have just the same relationship with her husband as Mordred Ukai and Luna Ukai, her parents-in-law, had, with Keshin becoming "whipped" by Yuna just like Mordred was by Luna. She is very annoyed with her husband when he yells at his students, openly smacking him with a hard-back textbook much to the open amusement of her parents-in-law. Keshin her husband greatly fears her wrath, along with Mordred Ukai her father-in-law with Luna her mother-in-law and Ikkei Ukai being amused when she disciplines her husband to respect his elders and not teach their children useless skills. She also becomes annoyed when he yells too much, more often than not tossing him out of the house and locking the door so that he can`t come back in until he apologizes for yelling too much.

## Plot

### **Karasuno High Formation Arc**

Ukai makes several background appearances in the beginning as a cranky clerk at Sakanoshita Store, who is often being told off by his "scary" and "crappy" excuse for a wife. He later receives calls from Takeda, who persistently requests that he becomes the new coach for Karasuno Boys' Volleyball Team. Yuna later sits him down and tells him to consider it before making him his favorite food to cheer him up. When Takeda confronts him at the store, Ukai asks if it's just the "Ukai" name that Takeda wants and after Takeda confirms it, Ukai seems to think over it. Despite that, he rejects Takeda anyway, claiming that he doesn't want to babysit high school boys. He later reveals that he doesn't want to go back to Karasuno because of the nostalgia it invokes in him, but he's eventually convinced when Takeda reveals that he wants Ukai to coach for the upcoming practice match against Nekoma. Ukai then schedules a practice match against the Karasuno Neighbourhood Association to test the players' skills and figure out their weaknesses. Yuna as part as the Karasunoo Neighbourhood Association joins them, helping out the team as their libero.

## Relationships

### **Senbonzakura High**

* **Volleyball Team (Mixed-Gender)**:

She was the trusted coach of the Volleyball Team, wise and gentle while also maintaining a firm and stern edge to her personality. Due to her double-faced personality, her team both feared and respected her abilities as a player and ever more as a coach. When she retired from the position, all of the members of the mixed-gender volleyball team threw her a party to congratulate her on a happy retirement.

### **Family**

* **Keishin Ukai**:

Her much beloved husband, the two share a some-what antagonist-like nature due to their constant inter-fighting. However, they care deeply for each other and are extremely bad at confessing their true feelings to each other.

* **Ikkei Ukai**:

Due to Ikkei being her old tutor and the one who taught her how to play Volleyball, the two are very close and often express their displeasure at Keishin`s disrespect through hitting him with volleyballs. He respects her skills as a former volleyball player and retired coach, even admitting as such.