Fumi Hashimoto

Fumi Hashimoto (橋本 ふみ Hashimoto Fumi) is the adoptive younger brother of Shun Hashimoto in the Harukaze no Étranger volumes of the Stranger in the Spring Breeze series.

Appearance
Fumi is physically a small boy with dark-colored hair. When he's 13, he dyes his hair blond out of rebellion. It doesn't stay in his hair very long and it goes back to black pretty quick.

Personality
Fumi is a very kind and cheery seven-year-old boy who's full of energy and curiosity.

Story
Fumi is with his father and tries to wake him after he fell on the beach. Assisted by Mio passing by back at his house, he finds Shun join them after the phone is used to contact him. Unfamiliar with Shun, Fumi realizes that he is his adoptive brother.

With the Christmas season, he enjoys the snow and buying presents. Mio shows a lot of care and love for Fumi, gifting Fumi a playstation on Christmas. Mio spots Shun and Mio being intimate, and in shock, flees the scene. He learns the next morning after a discussion with Sakurako, Mio and Shun that Mio and Shun are in a romantic relationship. This bends his perspective on love as he tries to grasp the concept of love between the same gender.

He develops feelings for Sakurako in the 5-year time skip also a noticeable dislike towards Mio and Shun. Shun especially, as he envies Shun for being able to have a past history with Sakurako in which Fumi did not.

Shun Hashimoto
Shun is Fumi's adoptive older brother and hugs him, having finally met him.

After the 5-year time skip, Fumi develops a dislike towards Shun. Usually referring to him as a “Neet” or “Homo”

Mio Chibana
Happy around him, Fumi describes Mio as like a child himself.

Etymology

 * Fumi's surname Hashimoto means "bridge" (橋) (hashi) and "base, root, origin, source" (本) (moto).

Trivia

 * Fumi's hair is bicolored as a consequence of trying to dye his hair blonde on his own.
 * Before being adopted by the Hashimoto family, Fumi used to live at the Himawari Orphanage.