Mafuyu Hanabusa

"Please... Don't let my Little Dream die..."- Mafuyu Hanabusa in Yakuza Kiwami 2

Mafuyu Hanabusa, often known as Mafu-chan, is a character in the Yakuza series. Her agile fighting style and her use of her seduction skills earned her the nickname "The Dancing Fairy of Shimano". At the start of the Goro Majima Saga in Yakuza Kiwami 2, it is found out she had died from a bullet to the heart at the hands of Kawamura.

Appearance
Mafuyu has an hourglass-like figure, which she utilizes to achieve incredible levels of agility and flexibility. She appears to have more muscular legs than arms, which is likely due to her reliance on dance-fighting and acrobatics. She has green eyes that seem to resemble peridot gemstones and long white hair that many compare to snow.

Attire
In Yakuza 0, when working at the Grand, she is mostly seen wearing a white dress with long sleeves and a knee-length skirt, powder blue leggings, white high-heeled Mary Jane shoes, diamond heart stud earrings, and a powder blue hair bow.

In Yakuza Kiwami, she wears a white button-up shirt, a blue suit jacket, blue slacks, white pumps, her signature heart earrings and a diamond wedding ring on her left ring finger.

In Yakuza Kiwami 2, she wears a pink dress with a rose pattern on the skirt, pink high-heels topped with bows, a diamond necklace, her earrings and her wedding ring. When she is hospitalized and dies, she wears a white hospital gown. She no longer has her earrings or ring due to her giving them to Goro before she passes away.

Personality
Mafuyu is a good-hearted, courageous, and talented individual. She has gained the respect of friend and foe alike, often with her abilities in battle and charming personality. She is very good at interacting with others, as seen with her success at being a hostess at The Grand and Club Sunshine. Due to being traumatized by seeing her mother die right in front of her, she can become quite attached to anyone she becomes close with outside of her own family.

Background
While much of Mafuyu's childhood is unknown, she appears to have joined her parents' family at a young age. The furthest scene into Mafuyu's past has her talking with her childhood friend Chitose Yufuin about a ball being held by her mother to celebrate Mafuyu becoming the heir to the Hanabusa Family. On the day of the ball however, her mother is assassinated by the patriarch of another family. This caused Mafuyu to become traumatized and she falls into a coma for four years. Once awakened, she sees Tokiya. She asks how long she had been out for and if her mother is alive. Tokiya says she had been unconscious for four years and updates her on what has transpired. Due to her mother dying, Mafuyu was now able to become the Patriarch of the Hanabusa Family. Mafuyu shook her head, saying that was not what she wanted anymore. She asked where Chitose is and Tokiya answers that after what happened to Mafuyu's mother, Chitose left the clan and became an actor. She asked her father if someone else could take her place. Her father nods, knowing that the event left her mental state in disarray. A year later, she is released from the hospital.

Involvement
After being released from the hospital, she manages to pin down a job as a hostess at the Cabaret Grand in Sotenbori. Sometime during her first year, she meets Goro Majima. She falls in love with him but he does not know her feelings, nor do they know that they both come from yakuza families. Together, the two of them turn the Grand around and make it one of the most well known attractions in Sotenbori and becoming the "Lord of the Night" and the "Lady of the Light". Over time, she can tell that he is unhappy what with being walked all over by the customers.

On the day that Goro is supposed to carry out a hit on Makoto Makimura, she follows him to the massage parlor. She finds the room that Goro went into and becomes involved in the fight with Makimura. She also sees Goro's full back tattoo and realizes he's a part of the Shimano clan. After the fight, a group of Omi Alliance members barges in, demanding a Makoto Makimura. Mafuyu looks over in confusion at the man she and Goro bested when the woman returns, and it is revealed that she is the real Makoto Makimura. The Omi Alliance members kidnap Makoto and shoot the man previously thought to be Makimura. Before he loses consciousness, he begs Goro and Mafuyu to keep Makoto safe.

Goro and Mafuyu chase her down, and sneak Makoto away, ending up in an alley where Makoto clings to Goro's leg and cries. Goro hesitantly pulls out his dagger, knowing that he must kill her in order to complete the task given to him by Sagawa, but Mafuyu stops him, saying that she's already been through enough torture, considering her blindness, and they both decide to keep her safe.

Later, once they are safe in a borrowed storage shed, Goro and Mafuyu question Makoto as to why the yakuza are after her. Though she says that doesn't entirely know herself, she reveals her past of being a human trafficking victim, which caused her to go blind as a result of psychological trauma.

It was Wen Hai Lee - the man who Goro and Mafuyu had previously thought to be Makoto Makimura - that rescued and later took her in. Goro and Mafuyu sympathize with Makoto and give her a few vague details of their own similarly traumatizing pasts. Mafuyu is confused as to why a blind woman wears a watch, and Makoto concedes that it's a bit ridiculous and discards her watch. Goro is seen putting it into his pocket.

Goro and Mafuyu then go to meet up with Lee, and hear out his plan to escape Sotenbori and get Goro, Mafuyu and Makoto to safety and away from the Omi Alliance's grasp. Lee's plan is to kill a body double in Makoto's place, but Mafuyu refuses to let an innocent person die for their sake, and fights Lee again in order to prevent him from carrying out the plan on his own.

Goro and Mafuyu discards the bag containing security camera pictures of their mark along with a spare uniform of Makoto's in a park trash can, only to find out the next day that the double was murdered anyways at the hands of Homare Nishitani, patriarch of the Kijin clan.

When Goro and Mafuyu fight Nishitani at the Grand, he reveals that there are two sides in the conflict, and that he is being paid by a Tojo benefactor to bring Makoto back before Sagawa's men kill her.

After the altercation between them and Nishitani, Sagawa asks Goro about the hit he's supposedly carried out, suspicious about the state of the body - with the girl's face bashed in to the point of her being unrecognizable - and why he'd been so careless as to have it be discovered in the river. Goro dismisses it, and says he was simply nervous due to it being his first time killing anyone.

Goro and Mafuyu return to the warehouse, where Sagawa's assassins find them, Makoto and Lee. The four are forced to make a last-ditch attempt to escape from Sotenbori, but before they can flee the city, Lee is killed by his van exploding, leaving Goro, Mafuyu, and Makoto injured and helpless from the blast. Sagawa appears, scolding Goro for disobeying him once again. He is about to kill all three of them when Masaru Sera arrives and shoots Sagawa in the back, knocking out a desperate Goro and Mafuyu and forcibly taking Makoto away.

Goro and Mafuyu end up at the mercy of Sagawa, who proceeds to torture Goro for his insubordination and sexually harass Mafuyu, only sparing them because they are the only ones he suspects can get information about Makoto's whereabouts from Nishitani, who has taken a liking to them

Goro and Mafuyu find Nishitani through the corrupt cop Billiken, who brings them to the jail cell Nishitani is quite comfortably residing in. Nishitani tells Goro and Mafuyu everything he knows about the situation and reveals that Makoto has been taken by the Nikkyo Consortium, run by Sera, to a brothel called Camellia Grove. As they attempt to leave, Nishitani and Billiken are killed by a bribed guard, and Goro and Mafuyu escape to tell Sagawa where Makoto is held.

Together Goro, Mafuyu and Sagawa travel outside the city limits of Sotenbori, and Goro and Mafuyu fight their way to Sera, who tells them the truth about Makoto holding the deed to the empty lot. Sera gives Goro and Mafuyu a choice between keeping Makoto safe or killing him to find her themselves, to which Goro throws down his gun and puts their trust in Sera. However, Sagawa appears from behind Sera and shoots him, and steals Kazuma Kiryu's business card from his breast pocket. Sagawa then takes Goro and Mafuyu to Kamurocho in order to track down Makoto for themselves.

Once there, Majima is told that Shimano wants to see him. Shimano reveals that he was the one who ordered Sagawa to order Majima to kill Makoto. However, Shimano never actually intended for Goro to kill Makoto. He wanted Makoto to willingly give the land over to Shimano and Sagawa, with Goro's help, so that Shimano could rise to power, dethrone Dojima, and have the Tojo clan under Omi dominance. Shimano simply gave the kill order so that he could humiliate him for his unwillingness to murder.

Mortified at the realization that they have both been manipulated from the start, Goro and Mafuyu go off on their own - taking matters into their own hands, they fight both Osamu Kashiwagi and Akira Nishikiyama for information on Makoto's whereabouts. When they do find Makoto at the site of the empty lot, Makoto begs them to kill Dojima's lieutenants in retaliation for their part in her brother's death, but Goro and Mafuyu decline their offer of 1 billion yen, pleading for her not to not go down a road she'll regret.

The two of them go out to get takoyaki, but Makoto gives him the slip, sending a delegate to tell him to meet her tomorrow if he decides to help her avenge her brother's death. Majima shows up at the Vacant Lot but is greeted by Shibusawa's men, who tell him that Makoto has arranged everything herself and is already meeting with Dojima and his lieutenants. He beats down the assassins and rushes to the Sebastian Building only to arrive at the very moment she is shot by Lao Gui. Majima is stricken with grief and anger and tears his way through everyone that stands between him and Makoto.

Once they defeat the last of Dojima's men, they kneel before Makoto and quickly realize that she's still breathing. Sera appears with his men and rushes Makoto to the hospital. As the doors to the operating room shut, Goro breaks down, vowing that he'll grant her wish of eliminating the Dojima Family. Mafuyu comforts him, saying that she'll also grant that wish. They go on a rampage through Dojima HQ, defeating Hiroki Awano and Lao Gui. They are stopped from killing Dojima by Sera, who reveals that Makoto has given him possession of the land, and that Makoto has recovered but is now in a coma. Sera demands one last task from Goro and Mafuyu: to kill Shimano for his betrayal to the Tojo clan and for conspiring with the Omi Alliance.

Goro and Mafuyu return to the boss' office with guns in their hands. Facing Goro's boss, they prepare to take the fall for the murder of Goro's patriarch in exchange for Goro's return to the yakuza, alongside Mafuyu's. However, they ultimately decide not to kill Shimano, and instead ask for the truth of Saejima's fate in exchange for their own lives. To preserve his own life, Shimano kills the Omi delegate he had been negotiating with, and tells Goro it was in his intention to send him to Sotenbori and reinstate Goro back into the clan.

One month later, they meet with Sagawa for the final time, telling him that they'e going to "live their own way", inspired by the likes of Lee and Nishitani, and to a lesser extent, Sagawa himself. They walk away, hand in hand, not realizing that Sagawa was promptly killed afterwards.

Goro and Mafuyu run into Makoto again, who is being harassed by fellow Shimano family members. They save her, not saying a word so as to not reveal their identities to her. Goro and Mafuyu did this so that Makoto wouldn't come looking for them, thus putting herself in danger. They leave Makoto in the hands of her current lover Tateyama, the doctor who had been helping her regain her sight, and tell him to keep her safe. A year, Mafuyu marries Goro and gives birth to their daughter Yume.

Goro and Mafuyu cross paths with Kazuma Kiryu as they walks down the streets of Kamurocho, and greet him with the newfound enthusiasm of the Mad Dog and the Dancing Fairy of Shimano: "Yo. [...] Kiryu-chan!" "Welcome to Kamurocho!"