Kari Kamiya

Kari Kamiya is the 13-year-old main protagonist of Kari & Friends. She is the daughter of Susumu and Yuuko Kamiya, the younger sister of Tai Kamiya and the human partner of Gatomon. She along with her friends are traveling companions of Lord Sesshomaru, Jaken, & Rin. She is the best friend of Rin and always looks after her. Her partner in the InuYasha world is Mei, a female wolf demon. She is 9 in season 1, parts 1-10, and 13 in season 2. She is the love interest of TK Takaishi, her childhood friend and was reunited with him after traveling with her friends for so long. The Astro Boy gang, Case Closed gang, InuYasha gang, and Pokemon gang team up with Kari, TK, and their friends: Davis Motomiya, Yolei Inoue, and Cody Hida to stop the Digimon Emperor from enslaving innocent Digimon.

Personality
Kari is kind and sweet by nature, always looking for the best in people and avoids fights whenever possible. She is compassionate, wise, and jolly. She acts as the voice of reason for her friends always finding a way to protect them since she is the oldest of the group. She acts like a sister towards Rin. Lord Sesshomaru treats her, Rin, & Kari's friends like his daughters. He cares greatly for Kari and admires her because she is brave. Jaken is awed by Kari because she never cries or fusses. Kari is calm and friendly. After reuniting with TK and her family and after three years have passed, Kari is now a teenager.

Story
Kari was born on an unspecified date in 1991 to Susumu & Yuuko Kamiya as their only daughter and youngest child.

Kari & Friends Meet Lord Sesshomaru
9-year-old Kari Kamiya and her friends end up in the world of InuYasha alone and hungry. Suzie along with rest of the group whines, but Kari reassures them telling them they would find food. Kari says that she misses her parents and older brother trying to comfort the others. She then smells food and leads the rest of the girls towards the food, but then they hear voices and she tells the girls to hide. When Suzie starts crying, Kari tries to comfort her also telling her to be quiet. A tall human-like man who appears to be in his 30s hears Suzie crying. Kari manages to calm Suzie down, but Lord Sesshomaru spots them in the bushes and orders them to come out asking them where they're from and where their families are. Kari and the others state where they come from. Lord Sesshomaru then takes a liking to Kari asking her and her friends to join them on his journey and keep Rin company. Jaken then appears demanding who the girls are. Lord Sesshomaru then tells Jaken calmly that the girls are joining them. Jaken objects, but Lord Sesshomaru ignores him and leads the girls to Rin. He and Jaken also warn them about Naraku.

Kari & Friends Meet Kagome & InuYasha
Lord Sesshomaru promises the girls that they would get food, but Zoran objects saying she takes energy from a tank instead of food since she is a robot. But Lord Sesshomaru tells her there is no energy tank, only food. Zoran reluctantly agrees to eat food. Kari gets acquainted with Rin who asks her if she lost her parents, but Kari says that her parents and older brother are waiting for her at home. Rin then tells Kari what happened to her family. Kari feels bad for Rin and tries to comfort her. Naraku watches Kari talking to Rin while the other girls follow taking an interest in the girls and says quietly to Kagura that he could use the girls to get to InuYasha and Lord Sesshomaru and tells Kagura to watch them closely. The girls and their new friends approach the camp where InuYasha and his companions were sleeping. InuYasha watches them closely with one eye asking himself why Lord Sesshomaru would have more human girls with him since he hates humans. InuYasha approaches Lord Sesshomaru and offers to take care of the girls for him. Kari and her friends are afraid of him and back up in fear. Lord Sesshomaru steps in front of the girls to protect them. He tells InuYasha calmly that he would never give Kari & her friends to him since they are under his care until they get reunited with their families. InuYasha smirks and points to Kari offering to take care of her since she will grow up and become a beautiful woman. But Lord Sesshomaru snaps at him to stay away from Kari. Kari tells Lord Sesshomaru they could spend the night and Lord Sesshomaru reluctantly agrees. Kagome notices Kari and asks if she's lost. Kari is happy to meet another human. InuYasha expresses interest in Kari which makes her afraid of him. He steps up to Kari, but Kagome orders him to sit seeing that Kari is afraid of him. Koga who is sitting away from the group, spots Kari and imagines her as a young woman he could marry. He takes interest in Kari and walks over to her offering to sleep with her. Kagome calls him a creep taking an love interest that's a little girl. But Koga mentions that she will grow up to become a beautiful woman. Kari sighs irritated and says that she wishes Tai and her partner, Gatomon were there to help. Kari then mentions that she already has a boy that loves her and that his name is TK Takaishi. Koga was still willing to win Kari's heart even if it meant fighting TK over her, but Kari mentions that TK is about the same age as her which shocks Koga who finally understands that he can't fight a little boy. The next day, the girls, Lord Sesshomaru, Jaken, Koga, his group, his wolves, Kagome, InuYasha, and their friends part ways. Kari hugs a female wolf that is one of Koga's wolves and the female wolf takes interest in her asking her master if she could join Kari to protect her. Kari pleads with Lord Sesshomaru to let the female wolf to join her. Lord Sesshomaru reluctantly agrees and Koga allows the female wolf to travel with her and friends and make sure she is safe and that she will grow up to a beautiful woman. Kagome glares at Koga telling him to leave the poor little girl alone. Kari, her new friend, and friends then follow Lord Sesshomaru.

Ai's Quest
Little 4-year-old Ai Terada, one of Suzie's friends stumbles into the InuYasha world hoping to find her friend, Suzie. Naraku watches her closely saying that he could use her to get to the other girls that travel with Lord Sesshomaru to capture them too. Ai goes on a quest to find Suzie. She runs into three human children with their parents and asks them politlely if they saw her friend Suzie. They scream at how she looks calling her a demon, But Ai says that she's human just like them. The children then calm down and mention to Ai that they saw a group of girls traveling with a tall man, a wolf, and a demon. Ai then thanks them and keeps looking for them. She then gets so tired and hungry that she collapses calling out for her partner, Impmon and then falling asleep. She dreams about her little brother, Mako and her playing with Impmon and then dreams about Impmon trying to find her. Ai then wakes up and hears a voice. Naraku appears offering to help her find her friends. Ai at first doesn't trust him, but Naraku convinces her to come with him saying that he will even help her find Impmon. Ai decides to go with him, but then she is trapped in a cage by Sango's little brother, Kohaku, and Kagura and she screams at Naraku saying that he lied to her. Naraku then smirks at her and tells Kagura and Kohaku to bring the cage with Ai with them saying that he captured one of the girls that would lead Lord Sesshomaru to them. Ai then calls for Impmon to help her. Back in the Tamers' world, Impmon hears Ai's cries for help and jumps into the world of InuYasha following Ai's cries and is eager to save her.