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Totally opposite to the good and wise Sumeragis, the Sakurazuka family is a mysterious Clan of powerful Dark Omnyouji that has always moved in the shadows of the history of Japan, representing the evil forces that must exist in order to keep the Balance. They master the black Omnyoujitsu magic, which symbol is an upside down pentagram called the Sakurazukamori Star, based mostly on deathly curses that can bring terrible consecuences to those who cast them, and use that power to kill. For their very nature, they find in the Sumeragi Clan their eternal enemy.
It is also suspected that the members of this family are the ones who conform the siniester inheriting line of the feared assasination guild called the Sakurazukamori (cherry tree barrow guardians), that bears only one member for the terrible way in which the new Head of the Clan asumes this title is by killing the former one, what means murdering a member of his/her own family, very usually a parent.
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The inmense power of the Sakurazukamori comes not only from the Omnyoujitsu skills but also from those murdered by all the members of the dark guild, whose souls are imprisioned eternally on the Sakura Barrow, a cherry tree that represents the very escence of the Sakurazukamori, and which it´s member is supposed to protect, that is why he/she is usually reffered to as "The Guardian". The tree itself provides it´s protector with all the energy it has accumulated for centuries thanks the souls of the victims, and it´s beautiful but deathly petals are the symbol and main weapon of the Clan member.
Very little is known about the Sakurazuka family´s ordinary life, but it seems to be as wealthy, not still as powerful as the Sumeragi. The Sakurazuka name has never come to the light, though they are famous among the comunity of spiritists for their medium skills. The family members´ names are usually kept as secret as their actions and identities. The Head of the Sakurazuka Clan recieves a training and education as severe and strict as the Sumeragi one, maybe more still. They are teached to get rid of every bit of emotion to the point of becoming totally devoid of feelings, so that taking away another human being´s life means nothing more than breaking a useless toy. This can be considered as autodestructive, for the former member is the one who iniciates the new one in the practice of the dicipline this will then use to kill him. The Sakurazukamori is a lonely shadow hunter that walks dark paths, his face never shown, devoting his life to murder in mystery.
Having killed his own mother to achieve his position, Seishirou Sakurazuka is the last one of the Sakurazukamori Clan, and unlike the rest of it´s members, he decided to break the sacred rules he was teached since childhood by sparing one of his preys´ life, Subaru Sumeragi, for whom he has many times shown he feels a fierce and obsessive love. By that he has betrayed his family and Clan, for which he doesn´t seem to care a big deal.
He is probably the most independant and powerful of his dinasty, his look alone, hidden behind glasses in order to control it´s power and disguise it, being able to kill. Appart from the passion he holds for Subaru, he is totally heartless as well as his predecesors. Not having any inheritors, the Sakurazukamori Clan will come to an end with Seishirou´s death.
Sakurazuka Setsuka was Seishirou's mother and the previous Sakurazukamori. Just like her son, everything about her past remains shadowed by mystery. All we know about her is that, unlike her inheritor, she was born in Tokyo, where she seems to have spend her whole life, and was taken away from little Seishirou just as he was born. Her mesmerizing beauty is mirrored in Seishirou's raven hair, pale skin and harmonious features. Seishirou usually remembers her as a timeless woman, always seeming to be a young girl, and appears incapable of beliving that the one he met for the first time when being only nine years old was actually the one who gave birth to him. The figure of Setsuka appears blurred by his memory, and all the traces we have is her everlasting, almost sadistic smile and eternally cheerful attitude even towards death (something for which we can somehow relate her to Seishirou).
More details about this strange woman and her bizarre relationship with her only son can be found here:

This is a very interesting essay about the way in which Seishirou and his mother were bonded, written by my friends Dark Setsuna and Mitsuki Kaburagi.

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Seishirou Marks little Subaru's Hands with the Sakurazukamori Star.
This mysterious, darkly romantic moment is one of the memories Seishirou had removed from Subaru's mind about the day both had met. It seems almost ironic than with a single kiss in each palm, the mark remains perpetually encarved on the skin forever.
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The Killing of a Victim.
Sakurazukamori knows many ways of murdering his preys, but probably one of the most mysterious is this, which involves sakura petals engulfing the body of the victim. In no way it can be guessed how does the prey die, but it seems as effective as a heart attack.
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A Scouting Shikigami Returns to it's Master.
Shikigami are usually used by the Sakurazukamori to select or find his preys. Being it's master's eyes and ears, the shiki can turn into a most convinient, invisible spy the Sakurazukamori usually lets to be his guide in the selection of an interesting victim.
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When Entering a Maboroshi
The maboroshi is a kind of magic veil that envelopes the victim in a kind of dream or illusion totally controlled by the caster. Entering a maboroshi is joining essences an empty socket of time and space, where death always awaits the preys.
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[ Wondering from where does all the bad blood between both Clans come from? Read my version of how it all started. ]
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