Yuzuriha Nekoi

Yuzuriha Nekoi
Biographical Information
Full Name:	Yuzuriha Nekoi
Age:	14-15
Status:	Unknown (Manga) Alive (Anime) Deceased (Movie)
Allegiance
Affiliation:	Dragons of Heaven
Occupation:	Student
Family:	Unnamed grandmother Inuki (spirit dog)
Residence:	Mitsumine Shrine Tokyo, Japan
Physical Description
Gender:	Female
Hair color:	Black
First Appearance
Anime:	Episode 0
Manga:	TBA
Voice Actors
Japanese:	Template:W (TV series) Template:W (Movie)
English:	Template:W (TV series) Anne-Marie Lawless (Movie)

“	If someone I love dies, I will be sad, very sad that I could die for just crying in too much sorrow.	”
–Yuzuriha Nekoi (Volume 18: Inversion)

Yuzuriha Nekoi (猫依 護刃, Nekoi Yuzuriha) is one of the supporting characters of X series. She is the youngest member of the Dragons of Heaven.

Appearance

Yuzuriha appears as a genko girl from the Mitsumine Shrine, a super hyper and childish one. She first appears in front of the other characters in the Diet Building. Yuzuriha is the smallest among the Seals and indeed a little bit smaller than Kamui. She has really a short black hair and dark blue eyes. In the anime she mostly wears a uniform, a green and white blouse with a big red ribbon and a short skirt with a pair of white socks and black shoes. While in the manga, she also wears as black dress uniform with white collar and ribbon.

Personality

Yuzuriha is a cry baby not to say that she is the youngest among the Seals. She has a strong willed-personality. Even with her younger age, she is very optimistic. She is also hyper and friendly just as Sorata does. If Kamui is like Arashi when it times to personality, Yuzuriha and Sorata are identical in personality.

Biography

Anime

Yuzuriha and Inuki

Yuzuriha first appears as a girl from the Mitsumine shrine that is excited about going to Tokyo and meet up Kamui. She don't want to date anyone around that doesn't see Inuki until she meets Kusangi that does. Right away, she meets up Hinoto, Saiki, Sorata, Arashi and Kamui in the Diet Building with the help of Inuki. But then, Sakurazukamori interrupts their conversation because he is drawn from Yuzuriha's finding to Hinoto by a Spirit Dog. Inside the illusion, she was able to transform her dog to a sword. In the end, Kamui becomes strict to Yuzuriha like he does to others that got involve with him. She even offered Kamui a snack to relax and refrain himself but it has a different result. In that night, Yuzuriha and Inuki followed Kamui in the Tokyo tower, watching him alone.

Her next appearance is with Saiki on their way to find Aoki on Yasukuni Shrine. Yuzuriha offers an ice cream and as Saiki waits for her, Yuzuriha was on her way to buy when she founds Kusanagi on the park and met him again. Yuzuriha told Kusanagi why she was so glad when he just met Inuki. Yuzuriha told Kusanagi that when she was a child, everyone thinks that she is a liar because of Inuki until the time that she realize that she should stop talking about it. Until Yuzuriha become mislead of the time and let Saiki wait too long until she don't bought any ice cream. But Aoki offered them to a restaurant that sells ice cream and learns that Saiki is Aoki's nephew.

When the three of them realize an appearance of the first Dragon of Earth on CLAMP campus they reacted with it but they weren't able to catch up with Kotori's murder. But in the manga, along with the other Seals except Karen and including Saiki, they were present with the said event. When Kamui falls on a catatonic state, all she could do is too cry because of the sudden climax of events and Arashi is confronting her all the time. After that, she becomes attached with the younger Seals (particularly Sorata, Arashi, Kamui and Subaru).

One time, she had face a battle against Satsuki and her Cyber, 'The Beast'. During the fight, Yuzuriha had to face a difficult question from Satsuki, 'Why does killing humans wrong?'. In the end, she wasn't able to answer it until then, Inuki dies in protecting her. And because of that, her barrier field broke apart. Luckily, Kusanagi manage to save her before the place turns into ruins. When she wakes up, she founds Kusanagi right by her side and found herself in one of the camps of Japan's Self Defense Force. Yuzuriha told Kusanagi that Inuki saves her life and dies because she can't answer the question but Kusanagi told her that she knows the answer because she cries about the lives that are lost and also because of the death of Inuki.

Kusanagi realize that Yuzuriha is one of the Seven Seals. And the other seals are still searching for Yuzuriha. Yuzuriha told Kusanagi that she likes him and she hopes that it will not be a burden if she loves him. As she made her way back to the others, she told herself that she should live for the life that Inuki saves and encounter the Kamui of the Dragons of Earth. But luckily, she was saved by Kamui. When Kamui and Fuuma fights and she notice that Kamui is already near to lose from Fuuma by death, she tolds herself that she wants to protect everyone and a new puppy appears between the two and avoids them to fight. Yuzuriha named him as Inuki as well. Kamui and Yuzuriha leaves and arrive at the Diet Building wherein Inuki notice the change about Hinoto. With the other seals, they went to Yasukuni shrine and remembers the time that she is with Saiki there when they are waiting for Aoki.

Like the others, she wasn't able to realize the change that happened at Hinoto and when Subaru leaves, she and Arashi was assigned to protect Inokashira Park and told Arashi that she thinks that Arashi is in love with Sorata because of her look when Kamui and Sorata leaves to protect Ginza. In the manga, she is along with Kamui, Aoki, and Karen in the final battle and told Kamui that even for a moment, that for them, he is still the Kamui-san they have come to know before being the real 'Kamui'.

She was saved by Kusanagi while fighting Nataku and along with the others that saw Kamui's barrier field. In the epilogue, she is with Kusanagi in the waterfall that she and Inuki once visit when she was still a child.

Movie

She was killed not so long after Kusanagi is killed. She is with Kamui when they encounter Kusanagi in one of the shops of Ebisu. Unlike the manga and anime, there was no connection between the two and Kusanagi was more dedicated to his role as one of the Dragons of Earth

Powers

Yuzuriha wields a sword from a spirit dog, Inuki.

Relationships

Kusangi Shiyu

Kusanagi is a member of the Japan's Self Defense Force that first saw Inuki in Tokyo that made a strong bond between Kusanagi and Yuzuriha.

Kamui Shirou

Kamui and Yuzuriha are one of the youngest members of the seal that made their relationship deeper like any others. They are contrast in their personality but they are commonly seen to be alone and lonely with the tragic of their childhood.

Dragons of Heaven

Yuzuriha is really a kind and innocent girl that's why sometimes, when the seals' job is to protect Kamui's safety the other way happens, they come for Yuzuriha's very own safety being the youngest among the Seals.

Appearances

X/1999 Episode List
A Reunion: Absent	A Nightmare: Absent	A Pledge: Absent	A Sacrifice: Absent	A Destiny: Absent	Kouya: Absent	Cyber: Absent	Gemini: Absent
Onmyou: Absent	Inuki: Absent	Border: Absent	Alternative: Absent	Return: Absent	Gathering: Absent	Guardian: Absent	Slaugher: Absent
Wish: Absent	Newborn: Absent	Inferno: Absent	Ripple: Absent	Current: Absent	Betrayal: Absent	Earth: Absent	Legend: Absent

X/1999 Manga Volumes
Prelude: Absent	Overture: Absent	Sonata: Absent	Intermezzo: Absent	Serenade: Absent	Duet: Absent	Rhapsody: Absent	Crescendo: Absent	Requiem: Absent
Fugue: Absent	Interlude: Absent	Movement: Absent	Lament: Absent	Concerto: Absent	Waltz: Absent	Nocturne: Absent	Suite: Absent	Inversion: Absent

Other appearances

Yuzuriha appears as a demon hunter along with her hunting partner Kusanagi Shiyuu in the virtual world of Outo, which is actually Edonis.. Her dog Inuki can apparently be seen by everyone.

Trivia

• She shares the name "Nekoi" with a member of CLAMP.
• Her name is different from it. Yuzuriha's last name, Nekoi is composed of the kanji 猫 which means 'cat' and 依 which means 'dependent'. While her name Yuzuriha is composed of the kanji 護 which means 'protection' and 刃 which means 'blade' or 'teeth', just as her Inugami transforms as a shield and sword.