Kaori Shirabu

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Status

### **Age**

18 (2012)
 21 (Early 2016)
 24 (Nov 2018)
 27 (Aug 2021)

### **Height**

189.5 cm (6' 2.6") (Oct 2012)
 192.7 cm (6' 3.9") (Nov 2018)

### **Number**

1 (Junior High 2nd Year)
 1 (Junior High 3rd Year)
 1 (High School 3rd Year)
 7 (Japan U-19)
 22 (2014 Japan National Team)
 11 (Schweiden Alders)
 1 (2021 Japan National Team)

### **Position**

Opposite Hitter
Ace
Captain

### **School**

Shiratorizawa Academy (3rd Year)

* Pre-timeskip
* Post-timeskip

### **Occupation**

High School Student (3rd Year, Class 3) (Former)

### **Teams**

Shiratorizawa Academy Junior High (Former)
 Shiratorizawa Academy (Former)

### **Teams**

Schweiden Adlers' Female Team (Former)
 Orzel Warszawa
 Japan National Team (2021)

## Background Information

### **Family**

Unnamed Parents
 Kenjirō Shirabu (younger brother)
 Two unnamed younger brothers
 Wakatoshi Ushijima (husband; timeskip)
 Kaede Ushijima (daughter; timeskip)
 Menma Ushijima (son; timeskip)
 Takashi Utsui (father-in-law; timeskip)
 Wakatoshi's Mother (mother-in-law; timeskip)

### **Likes**

Volleyball
 Cooking
 Baking
 Archery
 Creative Writing
 Practicing Swordsmanship

## Image gallery

**Kaori Shirabu** (Japanese: **白布 香里** - *Shirabu Kaori*) was previously a third-year from Shiratorizawa Academy. She played on the girls' volleyball team as the ace and captain. She was the number two ace in Miyagi Prefecture and ranked among the country's top three aces on the female side of the volleyball ball. In addition, she also had several younger brothers, chief among them - Kenjirō Shirabu, who also attended Shiratorizawa Academy alongside Kaori.

After graduating from Shiratorizawa Academy, Kaori became a member of the Schweiden Adlers's Female Volleyball Team, a professional team in the top division of Japan's V-League. She also attended the 2014 World League and 2021 Olympics as a member of Japan's National Team.

She is currently playing for Orzeł Warszawa's Female Volleyball Team, a professional team in Poland, where she lives in a shared apartment with Wakatoshi Ushijima, her husband. Due to having married Wakatoshi, she changed her name to **Kaori Ushijima** (Japanese: **牛島 香里** - *Ushijima Kaori*).

## Appearance

Kaori has sandy-coloured hair that's parted unevenly into two sides, brown eyes and an petite, semi-muscular build. For a female student of her size, she is one of the tallest members of the Shiratorizawa Girls' Volleyball Team and is described as "impressively tall".

Post-timeskip, Kaori's appearance has changed very little, though Kenjirō (eldest younger brother) mentions that her hair is no longer stopping at her waist. In the photograph that Kenjirō shows to Taichi Kawanishi, she is shown to sport a braided fishtail-style ponytail pinned at the back of her head.

## Personality

The "Golden Child" of the Shirabu Family - Kaori is a dignified, serene, and peaceful person - displaying a small margin of emotions (most all of them uplifting or happy) - while downplaying her more negative emotions in matches. She has little regard for those who waste her time and even degrades those who attempt to impress her, viewing them as simply "idly wasting time away" - even once rejecting Akinori Konoha after he attempted to ask her out - causing Akinori to see her as extremely rude and demeaning to others. This, however is a façade that Kaori put up, in order to prevent people from prying too deeply into her background. To be quite truthful, it is hard to tell what face of Kaori is her real personality, as according to Kaori herself - she has forgotten what her real personality used to be like.

After marrying Ushijima, she seems to have become much more of a gentler person overall, even apologizing to Akinori Konoha over and over again, after he came to visit Kaori and Ushijima in Poland.

## Background

Kaori lived in both Miyagi Prefecture and Honshū Prefecture, and thus speaks in a Tōhoku dialect. She is currently a third-year at Shiratorizawa Academy with her younger brother, Kenjirō. She is recognized as the number two female high school ace and opposite hitter, as well as receiving the Best Opposite Hitter Award during middle school and the Interhigh. Due to her cultivated skills and abilities, Kaori is one of the few players invited to the All-Japan Youth training camp, which combines male and female players together.

## Plot

### Tokyo Nationals Arc

#### Preparation for Nationals

Kaori is one of the players invited to the All-Japan Youth Intensive Training Camp. During the first practice match, Kaori is startled by the sight of Kageyama messing up, wondering out loud whether Kageyama was alright. Sometime later, during a break, she approaches Kageyama alongside Atsumu, while the latter is talking to Hoshiumi. After Kageyama tells Hoshiumi that he's not really affected by his jumping power, Atsumu laughs and calls Kageyama a cool and collected person. Kaori asks Kageyama whether he is okay, offering him a onigiri, with Kageyama recognizing her as the captain of Shiratorizawa Academy Girls' Volleyball Team. Surprised by Kageyama knowing who she is, Kaori asks if he would be willing to help her stretch her lower-legs. Kageyama agrees but makes her promise to hit his tosses, to which Kaori swiftly agrees.

Later at dinner, Kaori is seated with Kageyama and Komori, when Sakusa approaches them to ask Kageyama about something. Visibly uncomfortable by this encounter, Kaori leaves the table swiftly after receiving a call from Ushijima about something.

## Trivia

* Past Concern: She keeps misplacing her phone
* Current Concern: She's always misplacing her jackets
* Her allergies consist of bread, most kinds of seafood, some kinds of jam/preserves, and farro ("three-grain wheat").