Kaoru (17)- the spirited and willful daughter of a wealthy daimyo, and the niece of the powerful General Saito of Mibu. Being used as bargaining chip in the war between Mibu and Choshu. Wants to humiliate her childhood crush Yukishiro Enishi by publ...
"But he fell in love with a beautiful lady, who walked up above in her mother's green fields. He fell in love with Persephone, who was gathering flowers in the light of the sun. And he took her home to become his queen." "Epic 1" Hadestown
Yahiko was the more mature of Kaoru's two brothers, but that meant as much as being the sanest person in the madhouse. Obviously pissed off at having been left out, he greeted Sano and Kaoru when they returned home from the dueling ground with "you're gonna get it," as if he were five and not almost fifteen. Kaoru pouted and folded her arms when Yahiko sized her and Sano up. It wasn't fair that the boy she'd always pushed around as the runt of the litter was now taller than her. But Yahiko would never be as tall as Sano. "What do you want, brat?" Sano said. He loomed half a head above his little brother. "Uncle Saito wants to see you." Yahiko rolled his eyes. "And don't call me a brat!" Kaoru and Sano shared a look. But, of course, Uncle Sano would have heard about the duel long before a half-dead Akira was carried home. He always found out about everything, and they hadn't exactly been secretive. Yahiko was right. They were going to get it. Uncle Saito ordered that Kaoru be confined to the house and forbidden from using the training dojo. Furthermore, she had to be accompanied at all times by Megumi, Tomoe, or Lady Tae, good influences who would push her to be more refined and practice her ladylike accomplishments. Kaoru wanted to entertain at Yahiko's coming-of-age ceremony, so she asked Megumi to help her practice preparing tea and pouring sake. Unfortunately, Megumi's idea of helping consisted of taunting Kaoru whenever she made a mistake and making her feel like a failure. As a result, Kaoru couldn't get through a lesson without wanting to strangle her pregnant sister-in-law at least once.
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Lady Tae asked Kaoru to give koto lessons to her niece, Tsubame. Music was one of Kaoru's few non-tomboyish interests and the only ammunition she had against Megumi, who was completely tone-deaf and sang like a crow. When Megumi wasn't teasing Kaoru for burning tea leaves or spilling sake, she was bullying Tomoe.
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