Zahra Kuroyama

 Zahra Kuroyama, affectionately known to her friends and family as "Zar" but to her fans and fellow break dancers by the name "Silent Z", is the daughter of the late Yuki Kuroyama, the “King of Iron Chefs”. Yuki was a students of the late Hiroyuki Sakai, the previous “King of Iron Chefs”, before his passing away. Mr. Kuroyama pushed his 4 kids, Zahra, Kaze, Yukiko and Hara to become Chefs in their early life and throughout their teenage and young adult lives, hoping they would develop the art of cooking and become Iron Chefs and one day inherit the family owned business named "Kuroyama's". The oldest two children, Zahra and her older brother Kaze, were rebels in their deciding to learn break dancing. Yuki disliked the latter along with anything associated with the culture. To force his views on them, Yuki threw away away anything that belonged to Kaze and Zahra he found to be from the Hip-Hop culture (music CDs, Bling Bling, T-Shirts etc…).

 Yuki was often abusive resulting from his excessive drinking and was never home. The times that he did were spent drinking and yelling at his two oldest children who wouldn’t give up on their passion. When he was away, Kaze and Zahra snuck off to break dancing competitions held in their hometown of Kyoto, Japan. Yuki's unyielding and uncaring attitude towards Zahra led her to have a fear others who weren't family. Consequently, Zahra was quiet among strangers and rarely made any friends.

 Over time, Keiko, their mom, couldn’t take the pressure resulting Yuki’s abusiveness. She committed suicide when the three were in their mid teens by jumping off a bridge near their Kyoto home. Yuki died in a plane accident a few years after her death. Kaze and Zahra moved to Zyra after seeing bigger opportunities in break dancing as the new Raylorian Royale Break Dance Competition (RRBDC) held in Sector C opened up several months after Yuki's death.

 Currently, both Zahra and Kaze have separate break dancing crews. Occasionally, the two faced off in the RRBDC but always through a tiebreaker did Zahra's team showed themselves to be the better dancers. Zahra's team is known as KZN and Kaze’s team is known as the MidKnights. They remained undefeated for several years up until the presence of Vera Avenue, led by MCLT-2 graduate and archrival of Kayleen Evanston, Lina Vera (AKA: Aero Vera). Rumors say that Lina cheats to win, however, no one ever came close to finding out until Kayleen entered the picture.