Kaoru Sakurayashiki

"S" Nickname: Cherry

Aliases

AI Skater

Four-Eyes

Affiliation: Sakurayashiki Calligraphy

Birthday: March 27

Age: 26

Talent: Calligraphy, Skate boarding

Gender: Male

Eye Color: Gold

Hair Color: Pink

Height: Six feet

Kaoru Sakurayashiki, is in"S" as Cherry Blossom He is a skilled skater and one of the founding member of "S" who uses his AI board to skate in a calculated and logical fashion.

Appearance:

Kaoru is a pale-skinned young man of reasonable height and stature who's often acknowledged for his beauty by the onlookers of "S" with long sakura-colored hair that he usually wears loosely tied back by a yellow string over his left shoulder with long bangs falling in waves over the right side of his face and golden eyes.

Outside of "S", his usual attire consists of a plain navy-blue kimono with a gray and yellow obi, white tabi socks with zori sandals on his feet and he wears what appears to be a simple purple band on his left wrist which he uses to communicate with Carla. He wears a pair of silver-framed glasses and he is often seen carrying a fan, which he tends to hold up close to his face whenever he's observing people or thinking. While donning in his Cherry Blossom outfit, he ties his hair in a high ponytail and he removes his glasses. He wears a sleeveless white hakamashita kimono with thick purple cuffs around his shoulders, baggy hakama pants that he secures with a black and yellow belt while there is a red sash tied over it and a black armband on his left bicep that has the cherry blossom emblem on it. He wears bandaged wrist-guards with black accents that extend into gloves, a matching pair around his calves as well as a black balaclava over his lower face, giving him the look of a ninja. His shoes are, again, zori sandals with plain tabi socks, but they appear to be more reinforced and have thick purple soles. Whenever he is not skating, he usually wears a white robe over his hakama kimono that has cherry blossom printing designs on the left side/back and he doesn't wear his balaclava mask. During his high school years, Kaoru had slightly shorter hair that he wore left down with a shorter section hanging over his right eye and he had a number of piercings on both his ears and a lip ring on the left side of his lip.

Background: Kaoru has been skateboarding ever since he was a teenager alongside Kojiro Nanjo aka Joe, during which time he appeared to be much less polite and proper than he later becomes as an adult. He and Kojiro met Adam when Kaoru challenged Adam to a beef and the three soon became inseparable friends with Adam even telling the two that they were special and different to everyone else he knew. At some point, they formed "S" together. It was during his time with the pair that Adam began to spiral out of control, which concerned Kaoru as he and Kojiro kept stumbling across him injuring other skaters during beefs. Adam then suddenly left for America, abandoning Kaoru, which affected him and Kojiro a lot.

This is the reason for Kaoru's bad blood with Adam and the explanation for why he wants to beef against him so badly; he feels betrayed by his former friend and wants to prove that he is still worth as much as he was back when they were friends. At some point, Kaoru grows up to become a professional AI calligrapher, but still dedicates a lot of his time to skating alongside Kojiro with his new AI skateboard Carla. He is among the top contestants of the "S" skateboarding race.