Yamabuki Inori

Yamabuki Inori, also called "Buki" by her friend Momozono Love], is a 14-year-old schoolgirl at [[Christian Private White Clover Academy. She is an animal lover, aspiring to be a veterinarian. Her Pickrun, the Kirun, is yellow and has horns on its head, and her alter ego is Cure Pine (キュアパイン).

Story
Love asks Inori to join her and Miki to form a dancing team, but Inori, too shy, backs down. She gets a job taking care of a boy's dog, named Lucky. Unknown to her, Eas turns the dog to a Nakewameke, and by the time she starts to look for the dog, Cure Peach and Cure Berry are fighting the transformed dog. Inori begs Lucky to stop, but the dog does not listen at first. It takes some coaxing, but the dog stops eventually until pushed by Eas. Seeing its master in danger, the Kirun goes into Inori's cellphone, turning it to a Linkrun. This gives her the ability to become Cure Pine and she stops the dog with Healing Prayer, purifying it.

Inori likes animals, but ferrets scare her. When Souler's slot machine Nakewameke runs loose, Inori and Tart swap bodies. The two get an experience of what it is like to be the opposite species. After the Nakewameke is defeated, the two are back in their proper bodies, and her fears are eased.

Due in small part to Tart's video game playing last night, Chiffon falls ill. Inori decides to nurse her back to health, but runs into the complication of Chiffon's baby talk. When the remaining two girls are being attacked, Inori decides to save them. Chiffon summons the Kirun, and Cure Pine activates it's power during the fight, receiving the Pine Flute. She uses Healing Prayer Fresh to purify Souler's game system Nakewameke.

After Love finds out Setsuna is Eas, they go to visit Love in her house. Inori tries to talk Miki out of speaking harshly to Love to get her to fight Setsuna, but they have to find her once Love runs out of her room. She is present for Cure Peach's fight with Eas, and Setsuna's rebirth as Cure Passion. Days later, a tower Nakewameke attacks the city, getting Inori's attention. She transforms to Cure Pine and meets Berry along the way, both help Peach deflect a missile heading for Cure Passion. The three welcome Cure Passion to the team after Wester retreats.

After practicing for a dance that involves four members of a team by a resort, Inori asks her two friends to go on ahead to a barbecue dinner Miyuki offered. She finds Setsuna in her room and tells her of how she was initially too shy to dance. She convinces Setsuna to join Clover, and helps her through basic dance routines to show how much fun dancing is. Cure Pine and Cure Passion later work together to defeat an inner tube Nakewameke summoned by Wester.

Personality
Inori may look calm and quiet, but actually suffers from low self-esteem. In order to improve herself, she joins the dancing group with Love and Miki, which is called "Clover". She sometimes lacks common sense and just goes with whatever situation she finds herself in. She is also very formal, and has good grades at school.

Relationships
In the beginning, she has a grand fear for ferrets, and thus refuses to be close to Tart. However, after being in Tart's body through the tenth episode, she comes through this fear, and they are now in very good terms. Because of her love for animals and aspiration to become a veterinarian, she is very gentle and kind to everyone she meets, and is therefore liked by many. Inori feels the most inspired by her father, and possibly wants to follow in his footsteps.

Cure Pine
"The yellow heart is the symbol of prayers. Freshly-harvested fresh, Cure Pine!" イェローのハートは祈里の表号. とれたてフレッシュ、キュアパイン！ "Iero no haato wa inori no shirushi. Toretate Furesshu, Kyua Pain!" Cure Pine (キュアパイン) first appeared when Inori's wish to help a dog named Lucky, who was being possessed by a Nakewameke, from being hurt by Cure Peach and Cure Berry. Cure Pine's hair brightens to rusty blond when transformed, and her confidence raises drastically. Cure Pine is also noticeable cheerful, smiling every time she transforms or does her attack. Her suit symbol is the diamond.

Cure Pine's attack is called Healing Prayer, and is upgraded to Healing Prayer Fresh when she gets the Pine Flute.

Etymology
Inori is pronounced as the Japanese word for prayer, which may come from Pine's attack, Healing Prayer, as well as she is the symbol of prayers.

Buki, the nickname Love uses on Inori, is a part of her family name, and may also mean "blowing".

Yamabuki her last name means "kerria" in Japanese, which color of the plant is her theme of clothes.

Trivia

 * For a while, Inori was terrified of ferrets.
 * Inori and Cure Pine's hairstyles are more alike each other than the others, and thus Inori's hair is the one who goes through the least changes.
 * Coincidentally, Inori's personality is closest to Yukishiro Honoka than any of the other characters in Fresh Pretty Cure!, though their looks are completely different.