Sakurako Sakurakouji

Sakurako Sakurakouji (桜小路桜子, Sakurakouji Sakurako) is one of the Four Founders of Eden and is Sakura's real mother. She is known as "The Amazon".

Appearance
Sakurako Sakurakouji is a beautiful woman. She has long, wavy black hair like her daughter. She is most often seen in a kind of dress, and is unafraid of flaunting her body.

Personality
Her personality is somewhat of a mystery at this point, as are her intentions. However, it is known that she really loves her daughter. She also cannot stand people betraying or disobeying her, as seen in her interactions with Heike Masaomi and Zed.

Background
Sakurako is one of the Four Founders of Eden, alongside Heike and Code:Emperor. The doll who restored the Emperor, Kurako, belonged to her.

There is a possibility that she also created Inoichi, another doll who is supposed to protect both Sakura and the Pandora's Box. All the mechanical dolls share the same emotions as Sakurako, allowing her to feel their emotions too.

She is Shibuya's ex-wife, as seen in chapter 126, when Yukihina almost told Sakura that Shibuya was Sakurako's ex-husband.

History
Around a century before the start of the series, Sakurako along with Heike, Code:Emperor, and Zed founded the organization known as "Eden". Later on, she fell in love and married a certain Rare Kind, Shibuya. She gave birth to a baby girl named Sakura Sakurakouji. The three of them lived a very happy life until EDEN found out about the negation, which is created with power user and rare kind blood. In order to prevent the negation from happening, the Emperor ordered rare kinds to sever all ties with power users. Sakurako was part of the families that resisted, and because of that the emperor decided to burn all of the rare kinds, and that day has been known as December 32. Sakurako and Shibuya both parted ways and vowed to maintain a completely neutral position if another event like that happened. Sakurako left Sakura in the care of her distant relatives after that.

Powers/Abilities
Swordsmanship (Katana): She carries a long katana, which is capable of eliminating both Rare Kind and special powers.

Vitality
Sakurako's power is Vitality, the power to transfer vitality, the normally nontransferable source of Special Power, into or out of almost anything. She is able to transfer vitality to other living beings, to strengthen their own life-force, and can even revert a Power User's Lost Form. The vitality is normally transferred via a kiss. It has also been shown that the she can transfer vitality to herself as well, allowing her to practically "eat" Special Power, and can even revert other Power Users to their Lost Forms. Interestingly, when transferring vitality to herself, she bites her target rather than kiss him/her.

Using this ability, she can transfer vitality into nonliving bodies such as mechanical dolls, and manipulate them at will. She can manipulate them at a distance, and even give them orders for long term missions without her presence being needed. Since they're just dolls, they can't die, and thus can easily replace missing or destroyed body parts with new ones, and continue on. The dolls also have far greater physical skills than the average human, able to easily lift two teenagers with very little effort, and even hold up half of a bridge for a short time; they are also quite fast. And, because the dolls are powered by her own vitality; they carry her emotions and thoughts. It's unknown how many dolls can be manipulated at once, but Sakurako has been seen manipulating at least nine dolls simultaneously. The dolls can also transfer vitality to others, at the cost of them ceasing functioning.

Shibuya
At one point, they were husband and wife, and had a daughter. They separated after the fight with the Rare Kinds, so that Sakura might be safe. Heike notes that Shibuya feared her, although he may have been joking around.

Sakura Sakurakouji
Although Sakurako is Sakura's mother, due to the events of December 32, she promised never to see her again. She refuses to acknowledge herself as Sakura's mother, and states that Yuki (Sakura's adoptive mother) is Sakura's true mother.

Rei Ogami
Sakurako has aided Ogami more than once, including helping to restore his powers when he lost them (due to Code:Emperor's death). She also seems to be rather supportive of her daughter's association with him and places a great deal of faith in him, handing him the job of protecting Sakura and giving him her Rare Kind-defeating sword.