Yukime

One of several youkai created in the mountains of northern Japan Yukime / is a 16year old yukionna whose life and existence was complicated due to her love and emotions for Nb. The connection was originally made five years prior when the spiritualist then a college student lost while skiing in the mountains saves the young girl ykai from a hunter determined to kill her before she grows up to bewitch and harm his village. After Nb saved her life Yukime made a promise that she would eventually find him so they could be together quotin eternal lovequot. The meaning of this was eventually made clear when she came down to Doumori intent on bringing home her beloved Nb... frozen in ice where he would not die to live with her quotfor eternityquot. She still has a warm heart however and her love for Nb was real and Yukime was convinced that he shouldn039t be brought to the mountains thanks to the efforts of Nb039s students when she tried to attack them the untilthen frozen Nb defroze himself and told Yukime that she should leave and so she did... for some time since she returned and decided to stay in Domori working as an ice skating coach at the local skating rink and trying to win his heart. Due to being a yukionna Yukime possesses several powers and weaknesses due to her connections with snow ice and the cold. Yukime039s main ability is the creation of snow or ice from her body using it as a means to freeze any target she can see or point at. Her freezing power is useful in offensive attacks the creation of roadblocks to stop larger targets and even can be used to concentrate light like a magnifying glass. not to mention its useful for making shaved ice which according to Nb is the only good thing Yukime039s power is for Yukime also possesses a slight healing ability and due to her cold connections has a natural talent for figure skating. Unfortunately being a ykai of snow has its weaknesses: she can not stand intense heat and can only remedy certain areas by freezing an area to a much colder more tolerable temperature. Furthermore Yukime can not make hot foods nor can she wear certain black clothing for fear of melting certain parts of her body. But Yukime does have a cute remedy for temperature problems: when she becomes too hot she wraps her entire body into a snowman to cool herself down and can drive Nb crazy when she pops out of it... completely naked. While many of these heat problems were eventually remedied through a revival later in the series Yukime does occasionally still have problems with hotter temperatures. While Yukime becomes a valuable ally and nuisance in Doumori it is her relationship situations involving her and Nb that drives most of her character through the series. After her first appearance as a quotykai of the chapterquot she eventually holds a love/hate relationship with the teacher with several attempts by the yukionna to get Nb to fall for her leading to some acknowledegment but further frustration for both of them. Making matters worse is beautiful and ultrasensitive Ritsukosensei whom Nb originally desires and whom eventually begins to return some of her feelings just as Yukime is starting to get through to him. The tension builds to a breaking point when another of the Mountain God039s servants tricks Yukime into capturing the teacher making her believe that Ritsuko039s sacrifice is needed to make her human and win over Nb. When Yukime tried to kill kill Ritsukosensei and ultimately failed believing that Ritsuko had no fault and that it wasn039t fair to injure her the youkai told Yukime that he was simply sent to test if she still possesses the cold yukionna039s heart and bring her back to the mountains if she does or kill her if she had indeed sympathized with humans. Nb finally came to save Ritsukosensei and Yukime and after saving Ritsuko he apologizes to her and admits his love for the latter. It was too late however as a severely injured Yukime used the last of her powers to help destroy the youkai and turned into snowflakes in Nb039s arms. As Miki and Hiroshi cried Kyouko asked Ritsuko if Yukime was truly dead and she told her that she probably wasn039t and that her snowflakes might allow her to be reborn later. While Nb believed her to be dead Yukime was in fact not. Like Ritsuko said Yukime039s snowflakes were carried away to her mountains where the Mountain God used them to create another yukionna in her place with the exact same looks and the exact same name. This Yukime however had a cold heart and did not hesitate to kill a human. Nb found her during a winter school trip where she tricked him away from his class in order to kill him. He allowed her to attack him but not without invoking fragments of the original Yukime039s memories and fragments of her warm heart. Confused the quotnewquot Yukime fled without killing Nb and his class. Yukime returned to Doumori later to find closure to her conflicting feelings and realizing she did love Nb decided to stay and reconcile the two halves of herself. Although she did not remember much of her life before it was implied that Yukime eventually recovered all of her memories. Her personality was also changed from the aggressive yukionna youkai to a balance between her childish former self and assertive new identity. In the anime there was an alternate world created in Kyouko039s dreams and subconscious created by a youkai that had possessed her in her sleep. In that alternate world Yukime had grown into a fullfledged yukionna and still was at Doumori but she wasn039t with Nb anymore since he was in a catatonic state after being almost murdered by another youkai. note: although the chapter existed in the manga Yukime was not in the original chapter since she had yet to return to Dmori at this time Source Wikipedia