Team Sacred Treasures

The Team Sacred Treasures (三種の神器チーム, Sanshunoshinki Chīmu) is a reoccurring Special Team in The King of Fighters series.

Description
The Team Sacred Treasures, for most of the series, is not a normal team, but rather a Special Team consisting of members from other established Teams. However, unlike most Special Teams, this Special Team has events that are canon to the KOF series.

In The King of Fighters '96, Kyo, Iori and Chizuru teamed up together to defeat Goenitz. After his defeat, Chizuru asks both Kyo and Iori to team up in order to defeat Orochi's threat, but both men refused, as they heavily disliked the idea of working together. Despite this, they were forced to team up again during The King of Fighters '97, when Yashiro, Shermie and Chris kidnapped Yuki as a sacrifice to resurrect Orochi. After defeating the 3 remaining Heavenly Kings, as well as Orochi, Kyo mysteriously disappeared shortly after the battle.

In The King of Fighters 2003, Chizuru discovered that the seal to Orochi was breaking, and asked Kyo and Iori to investigate. However, once again, both men refused to assist each other, and ignored her request. Despite this, the three assisted Team K' to take down Mukai during the tournament's climax. Shortly afterwards, Ash Crimson stole her Yata Mirror, rendering her unable to use her powers.

In The King of Fighters XIII, despite the Team Sacred Treasures is currently absent where Kyo reform his original Japan Team with his former teammates Benimaru Nikaido and Goro Daimon, Iori can still fight without his flame, but desperately want it back to kill Kyo, with an indirect assistant from Mature and Vice, and indirectly forming his old '96 Team. With Ash's true intentions are revealed, but ultimately sacrifice his life to cease his ancestor Saiki out of existence alongside him, Chizuru and Iori’s powers return to them, leaving Kyo as the only surviving Sacred Treasure fighter who never had been stolen by Ashin entire life.

For the first time in the series, Kyo, Iori, and Chizuru forms the Sacred Treasures Team in The King of Fighters XV as an official Team. Their reasoning is to investigate how Orochi was resurrected after Verse's defeat in the previous tournament, as well as dealing with the newly revived Team Orochi.

List of Members

 * Kyo Kusanagi - Leader of Team Sacred Treasures; he helds the Kusanagi Sword (の, Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi).
 * Iori Yagami - Member of Team Sacred Treasures; he helds the Yasakani Jewel (, Yasakani no Magatama).
 * Chizuru Kagura - Member of Team Sacred Treasures; she helds the Yata Mirror (, Yata no Kagami).

Team Kusanagi-Yagami
This new formation appears in The King of Fighters XI. Shingo Yabuki is entrusted by Chizuru to take her place in this game, where the Team Sacred Treasures Team is temporarily renamed as "Kusanagi-Yagami" Team to watch over Kyo and Iori from falling apart. When Iori's Orochi blood gone haywire during a final fight against Magaki, Kyo is knocked out, Shingo is critically injured, and Ash stole Iori's power before the Rivals Team arrive and eventually discover his presumable evil scheme.

List of Members

 * Kyo Kusanagi - Leader of Team Kusanagi-Yagami. Left in XIII.
 * Iori Yagami - Member of Team Kusanagi-Yagami. Left in XIII.
 * Shingo Yabuki - Member of Team Kusanagi-Yagami. Left in XIII.

Trivia

 * Because Chizuru did not join any of the tournaments from KOF '99 through 2001, the Team Sacred Treasures was never formed during the NESTS Chronicles Saga.