Saki Hanajima

## Voices

**Saki Hanajima** (花島 咲, *Hanajima Saki*) is one of the recurring characters. She is also known by her nickname **Hana** (花).

She is one of Tohru Honda's best friends. She is depicted as very perceptive; and conducts herself in a deadpan manner. She is considered to be scary by her female schoolmates; though Saki uses her reputation to shield Tohru from the malice of the Prince Yuki Fan Club. With her other best friend Arisa Uotani, Saki swore on Kyoko Honda's grave to look after Tohru, and in their "parental" protection of Tohru, noted by Kyo Sohma and Yuki Sohma, Saki is depicted as the overprotective mother-figure.

Saki is a psychic girl who has the ability to sense people's "waves" and send out electric waves. She had trouble controlling her abilities when she was young and blamed herself for the near-fatal collapse of a boy who was bullying her. Tohru was the first person in school that truly accepted her, which helped her gain control of her powers. She always wears all-black clothing, habits Saki started as a way of signaling her guilt.

## Appearance

Saki is a fair-skinned teenage girl who stands at an average build and height, with a pair of droopy purple eyes. Despite her intimidating aura, she is noted to be very beautiful by the people around her. She has long, wavy black hair that goes down to her hips. She usually wears her hair in a single long braid which is laid over her shoulder, but will sometimes wear it loose outside of school.

Saki is often depicted in her standard classic naval-styled Japanese school uniform, which consists of a white and blue top with a blue jacket. She also wears a rather blue skirt which goes down to her knees, with pleats and ruffles at the hem.

Outside of school, she only wears black clothes; she likes chic, elegant black dresses, veils, and the black cape that matches her younger brother Megumi's (the capes were made by their grandmother). She also wears black fingernail polish; all of these a way of signaling her guilt. However, she later admits that she now genuinely likes black clothing and feels comfortable in it.

## Personality

Saki is a natural loner who initially almost completely isolated herself from others due to her past experiences. She was self-loathing to such an extent that she spent most of her childhood punishing herself, believing she deserved to be bullied and ostracized for what she had done. When Tohru and Arisa break through her defenses, she begins forgiving herself and gains much more confidence.

Saki gives off a very aloof, mysterious, quiet, and spooky aura. Although she is polite, she speaks very little; and when she does speak to people who are not her friends, she is very blunt and not afraid to confront people head-on. On the other side, she can be quite humorous and tends to make fun of people with a poker-face on. She also is stoic; always monotone and rarely emotional, and only shows her smile to those closest to her. In fact, Saki does not care about the assumptions and rumors about her, because she knows she has people who cherish her for who she is. Saki is also shown to be very protective of her friends and family. She is very mature for her age and extremely level-headed. Because of her powers, Saki is incredibly perceptive, as she picks up on things that no one else does, and can figure people and their feelings out flawlessly.

On the other hand, Saki can actually be quite air-headed and lazy, preferring to just slack off, to the point that her plan for life after high school is just to muster up the motivation to actually pass high school. She fails school tests on purpose because the makeup tests are easier. She's not stupid, but she pretends to be because the make-up ones are easier. She also dislikes physical exercises and tends to be quite overdramatic to be able to skip her school's physical tests. She would rather just read a book, or play card games. Although she hides her interests quite well, food and Tohru is on her mind most of the time. Her greatest weakness, according to her, will always be Tohru.

Saki also seemed to has a crush on Kazuma Sohma, and Kyo despises the thought of her and his adoptive father together. Saki also seems to be unusually friendly with the other Sohmas, and called Akito Sohma "Ah-chan" upon learning that she's a female and not a male. Despite her rather reserved nature, Saki proves to be quite popular with the boys in her class.