Mikumo Kushinada

Mikumo Kushinada is the Jujutsu Master as well as the Bewitching Fist of Yami's One Shadow, Nine Fists, the Master and also foster mother of Chikage Kushinada. It is worth noting that she was the only female member within the Nine Fists. Mikumo is rather tall and fair-skinned. Deceptively youthful-looking for her advanced age, she appears as a beautiful woman in her late 20's to early 30's. She is slender in frame yet exceptionally voluptuous with long shapely legs, wide hips, round rear, slim waistline, and a considerably well-endowed bosom. She has brown eyes and flowing black hair that reaches her lower back and bangs that hang over her face. Commonly, she is seen wearing a miko-like attire consisting of a red hakama and white kimono with white tabi and straw sandals. Her kimono has red lining and eye-like designs at the end of the sleeves, which are loosely binded with red strings to the rest of the kimono. She generally wears rather her kimono rather open, revealing her ample cleavage. She also wears red armguards with red lining and a red "x" on the backhands. Around her neck, she wears large wooden prayer-like beads. In her youth, her hair was shorter, down to her chin and she was slightly shorter with a comparatively smaller bosom. Mikumo is one of the most emotionless and serious members of Yami shown. She rarely shows any emotions other than surprise and always keeps a melancholic face. She believes keeping emotions in control is important for battle and that losing one's temper will dull one's skills. With Chikage, whom Mikumo treats very well, more so than any other member of Yomi (aside from Sho), possibly because she's her disciple and seems to treat her as her own daughter. However, her relationship with Chikage at times is not as maternal as it would appear, as Mikumo is more focused on turning Chikage into a ruthless killing machine rather than as a person. After she personally witnessed Chikage crying over having hurt Ukita and Kisara, Mikumo knocked her out and attempted to brainwash her into becoming a ruthless killer because she wanted to "break" her. She was also very angry when Chikage abandoned their plan to help the pride of their masters rather than kill the Shinpaku Alliance, even going as far as to leave fighting the Ryozanpaku masters just to stop her. She seems to be fond of meditating, as she tends to meditate when she has free time. Her lifestyle seems at times to be a contradiction. While normally appearing to have strong traditional Japanese values, with how she dresses and decorates her room, she is also rather flashy choice in means of transportation, as she has been seen driving in a sports car. In battle, she is very ruthless, showing little to no mercy even to a fellow Yami member such as Diego Carlo and even attempted to kill him and his disciple Rachel Stanley when they both were defeated and could not fight anymore. However, she does have some honor, agreeing to a 1-on-1 fight with either Sakaki or Shigure. She has a habit of referring to others, regardless how old they are, as brats. Mikumo also has little to no sense of comradeship, as when Sai Kagero joined the side of Ryozanpaku, she had no qualms in viewing him as a traitor and brutally murdering him just to prove a point. Despite being one of the most powerful masters in the series, she has no problem using petty tactics such as threatening the Ryozanpaku masters with giving orders to Yami control room to have Shigure executed should they interfere with the plans. This act of hers deeply enraged Cyril Rahman to the point that he launched a devastating attack at Kushinada while criticizing her with the fact that she is willing to use such a dishonorable and cheap tactics to win the war. It should be noted that her behaviour drove Cyril Rahman to switch sides and become an ally of Ryozanpaku. Mikumo holds the belief that empathy is weakness and that the strong do not let their heart be shaken by the weak. She used this to her advantage to make Ethan Stanley fight more ruthlessly against Kenichi to save his sister. However, she acts oddly feminine when she recounts her past adventures with Hayato, chiding him for being "hardly charming", covering half of her face with the sleeve of her hakama, and referring back to the events as "the hot fires blazing between us". Upon witnessing Agaard, Sougetsu and Cyril ally with Ryozanpaku, Mikumo finally lost her calm emotionless demeanor and reacted in frothing rage. She then choose to willingly move ahead with the plan solely because they were provoking her.