Fubuki

Fubuki (吹雪)
Breed	Akita Inu
Affiliation	No information
First appearance	Shiroi Senshi Yamato
Last appearance	Shiroi senshi Yamato
Status	Deceased (shot by Zenkichi)
Family or owners	Arashi (mother), Yamato, Hayate (sons), Zenkichi (owner)
Meaning of name	Blizzard

Fubuki was a legendary fighting dog and the father of Yamato and Hayate.

Fubuki began his life as a Matagi Inu (ancient type of hunting dog belonging to traditional hunters in Tohoku - or the northeastern parts of Japan). Since he was trained to brutally attack bears, the elderly man - Zenkichi - put him to use as a fighting dog, which he was very good at.

However, Zenkichi began to fear his own dog's power, and this led him to instantly distrust him when a horrible even occured. When the man took Fubuki and his infant grandchild, Shizuko, out to look for edible plants in the mountains, he left Shizuko in Fubuki's care. Several feral dogs attacked, looking to get an easy meal out of the helpless baby, and though the Akita tried to defend her, he was unsuccessful and she was killed quickly by her arm being ripped off.

Fubuki chased the dogs down to recover Shizuko's arm, but when he returned with it, Zenkichi assumed Fubuki had killed his granddaughter and began beating him mercilessly. Leaving the dog for dead, the old man took the child's body home.

However, Fubuki was not dead, and awoke in bad shape. He stumbled off into the mountains, and would not be seen again for a few years, when he reappeared as the boss of some feral dogs (it is unclear if it is the same pack that killed Shizuko, but unlikely).

Shortly after Yamato is born, the pack begins bothering livestock in the village, and so the village rallies their hunters to shoot them all down. Fubuki is killed during this raid by a random gunman (it was previously believed it was Zenkichi, but he only appears after Fubuki is dead), leaving Yamato an orphan.

A one-chapter story about Fubuki's origins as a hunting dog was later released as a bonus known as Bear Hunter Fubuki-gou in the second volume of Ama Kakeru Toki.

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