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KYO KUSANAGI
"Metropolis of the Dragon Slayer"
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Birthplace: Japan
Birthdate: December 12, 1976 (23 years old)
Height: 1.81 m (5'9")
Weight: 75 kg (163 lbs)
Blood type: B
Hobbies: Writing poetry
Favorite food: Barbecued fish
Favorite sport: Ice hockey
Most valuable: Motorcycle and his girlfriend, Yuki
Hates the most: Hard work
Fighting style: Kusanagi style Ancient Martial Arts
This is the story of the greatest fighter that ever fought in the King of
Fighters tournament...
Kyo is the latest descendant of the legendary Kusanagi clan, which is one
of the two families that managed to seal away the Orochi power 1800 years ago,
along with the Yagami. However, ever since the Yagami striked an unholy pact
with the Orochi, the Kusanagi have objected to this and due to the challenge of
the Yagami, the Kusanagi now engage in a mortal war with the Yagami, and now
they use their crimson flames, which were once used to put Orochi to sleep,
against their ancient allies. Many members of both clans have perished up until
this day, where Kyo and Iori must now finish the battle of 660 years.
Kyo, despite his respect for Iori, considers he can not escape his fate,
and that he has to fight, and maybe kill Iori one day. Meanwhile, Kyo studies in
high school (where he had been for quite some time, due to his lack of will to
study), and passes most of the time with his girlfriend Yuki, his best friend
Benimaru, his confident Athena, and his pesky student Shingo. He also likes to
talk with his mother, Shizuka, whenever he gets home. Since Kyo's father,
Saisyu, is always out searching opponents to fight, Shizuka is the one to carry
on the legacy of the Kusanagi and pass it on to Kyo. However, Kyo also seems to
be a very cold and arrogant man, and pretty unsocialable to all those who he
sees as bothers. Meanwhile, Kyo keeps on training, and learning to wield the
crimson flames of the Kusanagi. He uses specially designed gloves in order to
wield the flames effectively.
After fighting so many opponents, Kyo is attracted by a poster that
announces a martial arts tournament, that will take place in order to define the
three most powerful fighters of Japan, so they can form a team and fight in the
new format of the King of Fighters tournament. Inspired to fight, and more due
to the challenge from Benimaru, Kyo enters the competition. Not using his whole
power, Kyo manages to reach the semifinals with not too much effort. There, he
faces a huge Judo fighter. His name was Goro Daimon, and he turned out to be an
old friend of the family. Either way, Kyo has to fight Daimon, and for the first
time, Kyo has to go all out, and manages to defeat Daimon in the end using his
crimson flames for the first time. Daimon congratulates him, and Kyo is so
impressed with Daimon that he would like to see him in his team. Daimon
promises, and said that, Daimon wins the third-place match. The final battle was
against no other than Benimaru, the narcissist who dared Kyo to a fight. Now,
they both had their shot. The fight was very spectacular, with flames and
electricity flying everywhere. However, Kyo won at the end. Benimaru accepted
his defeat, and decided to be friends with Kyo. The duo has been the closest of
friends, but they also tend to quarrel too much when they discuss aout their
skills, having to be cooled down by Daimon!
Kyo and his team now enter the King of Fighters tournament. Kyo now has to
fight living legends such as the past champion, Terry Bogard, the fighters of
Kyokugenryo Karate, and others. Kyo was very excited to fight so many good
warriors, and extracted a bit of knowledge from each battle. The Japan Team
fought with all their might, and won the right to fight in the last battle. A
beautiful woman invited them to a helicopter, which transported them to a air
carrier in the middle of the sea. Inside, Kyo saw a man sitting in a black chair
with a pet panther aside him. The man introduced himself as Rugal Bernstein, the
host of the tournament. Rugal admits that their skills were quite impressive,
but he had to finish them now. Then, the Hero Team realizes with horror that
Rugal has a personal collection of statues of fighters who were actually alive,
but bathed into metal once defeated. Refusing to accept this horrible destiny,
Kyo and his team fights against Rugal. Although Benimaru and Daimon fight well,
they only manage to increase Rugal's wrath, and once he reveals his true power,
he blows Benimaru and Daimon away, and now Kyo has to face him. But Kyo doesn't
fair any better, and begins to get trashed. However, Kyo notices a man lying on
the ground in a corner of the room. Upon closer inspection, it was his father!
Fill with rage, Kyo now attacks Rugal with all the rage of the Kusanagi. Pushing
Rugal to the limits, the evil fighter bombs his own carrier, and Kyo and his
team barely escape with their lives. However, Kyo worries about his father, and
thinks if he managed to survive...
A year later, Kyo is invited again by a certain "R" fellow. Suspecting
something going on, Kyo enters again to look for his father. However, he also
has to be aware of one man who has entered the tournament to kill him...Iori
Yagami! Now with two worries, Kyo fights with all his might. While the Hero Team
was preparing themselves for one of the final battles, gas fills the room. Kyo
feels doozy, and falls unconsicious. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a
hidden base. But then, a laughter catches his attention. It was Ruagl! He seemed
pretty much alive, and ready to take revenge from last year. Kyo challenges
Rugal, but he instead calls for his "partner". Kyo is dumbfounded when he meets
Rugal's aide. It was no other than his father! Kyo is so happy to see his father
alive again, but he doesn't seem to care that much. In fact, he challenges Kyo
to a fight! With no courage to fight his own father, Benimaru and Daimon decide
to take care of him. Finally, when Saisyu loses control, he is defeated. Then,
with his last breath, he tells Kyo to fight and take out Rugal for him. Enraged
again, Kyo faces Rugal. But this time, Rugal was ready. Kyo suddenly felt a
terrible power surging from Rugal's body. It seemed so powerful, and now Kyo had
to fight a certainly ticked Omega Rugal! It was pretty useless for Kyo to attack
Rugal, since his power had increased beyond imagination. However, with a bit of
help from his friends, Kyo managed to fight back. When Rugal was about to use
his full power, his body suddenly began to destroy itself. Rugal couldn't
control his own power! Unable to withstand the inmense surge of power, Rugal and
his base begin to explode. Kyo goes where his father lied, but he isn't there
anymore. With no time to lose, Kyo exits the base, and begins to ponder on what
sort of power was that destroyed Rugal.
Some time later, a mysterious man challenges Kyo to a fight...alone.
Having a bad feeling, Kyo attends the battle scene, and is then greeted by a
tall man in strange clothes. An eerie wind begins to blow, and Kyo feels chills
up his spine. The man seemed to have the same power as Rugal, but this time, he
DID know how to use it. Kyo never had a chance, and was promptly defeated by
that man. Standing next to Kyo's battered body, he tells him to keep on
training, since the fight is not over yet. He then promises Kyo to fight again
if he reaches the finals of the tournament. Kyo loses consciousness and wakes up
in a hospital. Yuki and his friends are around him, but Kyo suddenly gets up and
goes outside, with his friends hopelessly watching how he painfully walked. Kyo
then begins to charge his crimson flames, and concentrates it in his fist. He
then releases it with a very strong blast of power and flames; a punch filled
with hatred and passion. Fazed by the blast, Kyo's friends watches how he still
stands up. Kyo has finally developed a new technique, born from the desperation
and the feel of battle.
Kyo enters the next tournament with his team again to go look for that
man. Kyo proves to be next to new by using his new techniques against his
opponents. However, Kyo notices how all his fights are overlooked by the new
host of the tournament...a very elegant woman. Kyo would soon know who she was
when she fights against them amidts a stadium filled with emotive people. Kyo
feels familiar with the woman's aura, but doesn't realize what it is until he
defeats her. She reveals to be Chizuru Kagura, heir of the Clan of the Yata, and
protector of the seal imposed over the Orochi power. It had been awhile before
Kyo heard that word. It seemed that some man broke the seal by killing Chizuru's
sister, and now it menaces all the world. Said that, a huge gust of wind blows
through the stadium, but Kyo resists the wind blast. However, everything else
gets blown to pieces, and Chizuru is wounded. She tells Kyo that he has to fight
aside Iori if he wishes to defeat him. Before Kyo could ask anymore questions,
Chizuru faints, and once again, a familiar figure appears from the mist. Kyo
identifies him as the man who had defeated him earlier. The man tells his name:
Goenitz. He was pretty impressed with how much Kyo had improved. Kyo clenches
his fist, and beckons for Goenitz. Both engage in a fatal battle, but Kyo's
powers seem useless against Goenitz' huge strength. When all indicated that the
same result would take place, Iori appeared from out of nowhere. Kyo is
surprised, but Goenitz laughs and tells Kyo that since Iori has Orochi blood in
his veins, he would help him in killing Kyo. But Iori thinks otherwise, and
attacks Goenitz instead. He tells him that Kyo can only be his to kill. Confused
by the moment, Kyo clears his mind by fighting Goenitz with Iori. Although Kyo
was using his whole crimson flame power, he noticed that Iori's purple flames
gradually became crimson as well, and with a final double crimson blast, Kyo and
Iori defeat Goenitz. Goenitz promises that the Orochi threat would never end,
and saying that, Goenitz vanishes. Chizuru wants Kyo and Iori to become allies
again, but Iori refuses, and walks away. Kyo knows that the two would encounter
again next year...until somebody gets killed.
A long year passes, and Kyo has been having nightmares of a strange man
defeating him. Including that, he has to train a young fanboy named Shingo
Yabuki, whom desires to be as strong as Kyo, and be able to wield crimson flames
just like him (but of course, he can't). Having some bad thoughts about the next
tournament, Kyo has no other choice but to enter. He then fights all his
battles like if it where the last, and it esentially where. By the final stages
of the tournament, Iori and Leona, the new Ikari warrior, disappear without
further advice. Kyo is worried about Iori's fate, knowing both he and that Leona
girl were of Orochi blood. Iori and Leona are found in full Riot of Blood. Kyo
aids in stopping them, but when they do, more trouble looms in the horizon. It
was the New Face Team, but they seemed to have planned everything, and used the
tournament to gather as much fighting energy as they could to feed Orochi. Kyo
vows to stop them, and engages in a desperate battle with the rest of the
fighters, a fight where the fate of the world rests. Kyo then knows from
Yashiro, that her girlfriend, Yuki, is one of the 8 Kushinada girls, the women
destined to sacrifice themselves for Orochi! Kyo refuses such a fate for his
beloved, and fights for more than the world, but for Yuki and for him! But even
after defeating them, the fight was not over. The kid, named Chris, revealed
himself as the host of the Orochi power, and soon, it would awaken completly!
Kyo then had to face the Orochi power itself. It was useless battle for Kyo,
even with Chizuru aiding him. But suddenly, Iori out of nowhere, comes to help
Kyo. Iori smiles, and feels it is ironic for him to help Kyo at this moment. Kyo
was satisfied that Iori and him could finally fight together as friends. And
during the fateful battle, it became more evident that both wanted it more than
ever. During a moment of the battle, when Kyo and Iori had the upper hand,
Orochi began to control Iori, once again making him enter the Riot of Blood. But
this time, Iori grabbed Orochi by the neck! It was the perfect time for Kyo to
finish Orochi off. Kyo, with Yuki in his mind, gives a bone-crushing cry and
punches both Iori and Orochi.
The fight was over...and Kyo and Iori were never to be seen again. It was
said that he and Iori now engage in their final fight...a fight for detsiny!
However, destiny proved otherwise. Being knocked out by the inhuman effort
against Orochi, Kyo lies unconscious. He is then approached by a mysterious figure,
who takes Kyo's limp body, and takes him to an underground base. Kyo is then
subjected to several experiments, while being kept out cold by some narcotics.
Samples of blood of Kyo are extracted, as well as memory images from his brain.
Several clones are created by these experiments, and the mystery man deploys them
to several parts of the world. As long as Kyo's body remained there, there would be
no deadlier weapon than him!
Kyo manages to open his eyes one day, and finds himself surrounded by weird
gadgets and needles. Decided to find some answers, Kyo breaks out of captivity, and
while still woozy by the drugs, he manages to make a way out of the hidden
fortress. During his path, he constantly hears references to the Nests cartel and
to some certain "Krizalid". Who can they possibly be? With no time to ask himself,
Kyo finally breaks out, and begins to recover slowly from his sleepy effect, and
decides to perfect his techniques, and deploy the best of the Kusanagi power in
order to make that Krizalid fellow pay for his daring task!
Ready and as powerful as ever, Kyo follows the trail of the King of Fighters
tournament, in hopes that he would get his chance of payback. Suddenly, everything
began to turn familiar as he reaches the same place where he had been taken to for
the experiments. Taking a familiar path, Kyo quickly arrives in time to see his
best friend, Benimaru, and Shingo, his student, fighting against a familiar face:
Krizalid, no doubt! However, there was also two unknown fighters helping them out:
a skinny, but explosive young man named K', and a huge man with heavy armor called
Maxima. Kyo felt something familiar about the energies of K' and Krizalid. Could it
be Kusanagi power? They should have infused his power into their bodies in order to
acquire his strength. Enraged by this fact, and seeing his friends getting bashed
around, Kyo gathers all the flames and wrath of the Kusanagis, and channels it into
one huge power blast. Before he could knew it, Kyo was standing next to a defeated
Krizalid, and facing his friends (and not-so friends).
Kyo is quite happy to finally see some familiar faces, but reunion time is
cut short when an omnipotent voice begins to echo in the room. He had heard that
voice during his bold escape...It was the Nests cartel! Kyo demands their true
intentions, and they explain that they would forward the 10-year process. Kyo
begins to get a bad feeling about this, but not after long, the base begins to fall
down to nothing, and Kyo is trapped by steel doors. However, Kyo remains cool and
calm. He is glad about how much he has improved, and feels he can take anything on!
And as fate would have heard him, a familiar voice invites him to a friendly match.
Kyo turns around to face his eternal rival, Iori. This would be the time that they
would fight with no hatred in their souls, but just the feeling of fighting and
giving their bests with no regrets....
Kyo is a very proud and arrogant man, and is sometimes very cold with
those he deems to be a bother. However, his friends know him to be a warm and
caring man. He cares a lot for Yuki, his girlfriend, and is also very romantic,
since he likes to write poems. He quarrels with his friend Benimaru a lot, and
sees in Daimon a sort of parental figure. Kyo respects all the fighters in the
tournament, and about Iori, he really doesn't want to kill him, but he also
doesn't seem to have another choice.
THE KING OF FIGHTERS '94 KYO KUSANAGI (The King of Fighters '97):
Alternate version of Kyo based on his KOF '94 self. He regains his Yami Barai
(projectile) and his spinning kick, but loses ALL of his other special moves
with the exception of the Oniyaki (uppercut). His only DM is the Orochi Nagi (he
loses the Saishuu Kessen Ougi DM).
THE KING OF FIGHTERS '95 KYO KUSANAGI (The King of Fighters '98):
Alternate version of Kyo based on his KOF '95 self. Much like his '94 self, he
has his old moves back, and still retains his Modify (double kick) and Koto
Tsuki You (rushing grab) special moves. He still has one DM, though (the Orochi
Nagi).
KYO KUSANAGI VERSION 1 (The King of Fighters '99): First replica of Kyo
Kusanagi, created by Krizalid, extracted from the original Kyo Kusanagi's DNA. This
clone takes from the first fighting experiences of Kyo, using his Yami Barai,
Oniyaki, Modify, and the Twilight Ride (spinning kick). He also has an all-new
move, the Blue Demon (similiar to the Koto Tsuki You). His only DM is the Orochi
Nagi. Some of his normal moves are different than the original Kyo's (but are just
variations).
KYO KUSANAGI VERSION 2 (The King of Fighters '99): Second replica of Kyo
Kusanagi, created by Krizalid, extracted from the original Kyo Kusanagi's DNA. This
clone copies the latest techniques of Kyo, used in the past 2 tournaments, which
includes his whole Ara Gami and Doku Gami fire punch combos, the Oniyaki, the
R.E.D. Kick (the arc kick), and the Koto Tsuki You. His only DM is the Saishuu
Kessen Ougi. Some of his normal moves are different than the original Kyo's (but
are just variations).
*Fun fact = Could Kyo ever enter the Riot of Blood? This could be unknown, but
after a session of The King of Fighters: Kyo (an adventure game, exclusive for
the PSX), it has yet to be seen. His older brother (uncle?) Souji also seems to
enter what seems to be the Riot of Blood. Could he have stroke a pact with the
Orochi as well? Since I don't understand Kanji all that well, who knows...
*Cloth changes = From KOF '94 to '98 (as well as both of his clones in KOF '99), he
wears a typical Japanese male black school uniform. His jacket is opened, with a
white shirt beneath it, and his sleeves are wrapped up. He wears a bandanna, and
special Kusanagi gloves (to control his power). In KOF '99, he gets more casual: a
shirt sporting a black cross, white jacket, jeans, normal black gloves, and no
bandanna (he burns it at the beginning of each match).
Appearances: The King of Fighters '94, The King of Fighters '95, The King of
Fighters '96, The King of Fighters '97, The King of Fighters '98, The King of
Fighters '99
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