Kalma

Legacy Full of Kindness

Before a treasure, she always struggles to find the meaning of relationships.

The mask that she constantly puts when she was younger, means that she's trying to be different. And it might be successful.

Before the happy and gregarious lady that they see today, there was the past's Yamato Louise.

In truth, her family was constantly moving because of her dad's job as a constructor. So, different faces, for maybe every two years or so.

The family butler, Jeffrey-san, has been there from the start. Yamato's mother was from a wealthy family that produced a samurai sword as a living. Although it was more of an antique product.

But her mother, since little, always loved Samurais. She admired them and their nature, especially the vagabond type. It feels free, they were not shackled by chains of everyday life.

Ohh, and actually Yamato's dad was a sculptor at first, but later on, he's decided to pursue a different career, after that tragedy.

When her mother was in college, she decided to go on an art display, where she met her future husband, a foreign man trying to make a living.

They just seemed to be able to have chemistry, it was important.

They decided to get married, and it was amazing that her family agreed because of his passion alone in realistic art. His love for his wife seems infinitely more meaningful.

But that tragedy.

He was full of misery. Jeffrey-san always reminded him that there's still Yamato, but her dad just doesn't seem to be brave to talk to her. Well, not that ugly, but he always feels awkward, even if her daughter feels otherwise.

Before seeing the meaning of relationships, Yamato had lost one.

It was on her birthday, the first day she was crying out loud. Her dad was waiting outside, for the doctor, to bring bad news. Jeffrey-san stands near them.

"Mr. Louise, I apologize. We've lost her,"

Her dad only looked blank at the window, where his wife lay down with what seemed to be a smile, when her daughter cries and cries again.

Jeffrey-san tries to console her dad, "Master Jean, I'm sorry, but you must be strong. You still have that baby, imagine her as your most precious treasure. Her being is the best gift your wife can ever bring,"

Her dad couldn't hold his tears, "Jeffrey-san, I'm sorry. You're right. Of course."

Jeffrey-san, who has known Yamato's mom since a baby, has felt the most despair of them all.

He therefore holds them all together in a very tight rope, very fragile.

The doctor offered the father to hold his newborn.

When he held her fragile body, she suddenly stopped crying. She smiled.

The girl grew up almost constantly moving around the country. Jean Louise decided to at least not leave Japan, for he still wants to visit his wife's grave as much as possible.

Little Yamato was taught music, since she's always humming this beautiful melody out of nowhere, according to Jeffrey-san.

One time, when they were living in Yokohama, Yamato was still 8 years old, she came home with the smell of eggs on her hair.

"Master Yamato! What happened?"

Asked Jeffrey-san.

She answered, "my friends said that my hair is an egg yolk! So they gave me eggs! They said it's a decoration!" She smiled.

"Master Yamato... That's not a decoration. We should get you cleaned!"

"Hahahaha don't worry. I can get many friends with this!" She laughed it off.

But because she was constantly moving, there was no real friendship forged. Each time she moved, she always got bullied, either because of her hair and her demeanor. Or maybe because she seemed to be an alien.

"I can speak Japanese!" She exclaimed to the group that surrounds her in class. She was 10 at the time.

"But you look like you're from Europe or something!" The boys stated.

"Well my dad is from France," she exclaimed.

One of the jealous girls replied, "hmm, maybe she's only a fake foreigner!"

Even one of them was nasty enough that they wanted to cut her hair whole, and she once got home and her dad decided to move away from the city right after because of this incident.

"Dad! Don't worry, I'm going to prove to them that my hair is natural!"

"Yamato! I-i can't see you like this! Please!" He doesn't know what to do, and of course at times like this he would prefer to have her mother at his side. She would say things like, "Yamato-chan, you don't need to prove anything. Just treat them nicely, even if they aren't nice. It can be your savior for the future. Your kindness. It can't be replaced, honey."

Jeffrey-san was always there to give Yamato guidance, as he did with her mother. That's why the kindness that the friends see today, it accumulates from his teachings.

When Yamato was 14, her family decided to move from Niigata, when her father got a big break working on a building near Manjiro shopping district.

He even designed a mansion for them to live in together. But he's rarely there, he was so busy with his projects.

Once upon a day, Jeffrey-san looked at Yamato when she was coming home from middle school. Usually, she will smile and laugh, but this time, she seemed heartfelt.

"How is your day, Master Yamato?"

"John-san! I think I've found a friend! She was so nice hearing me talking. I even offered her to ride our jet together! And she's the first one to accept my offer. She don't laugh at all John-san! We even hum some songs together!"

"Master Yamato, are you sure? Are you hurt anywhere?"

"Hmm? No of course not!" She then finally cried.

She just realized of the accumulation of treat she got when growing up.

"Master Yamato," Jeffrey-san said, "you know what keeps me happy these days?"

She nodded, and wipe her tears with her hand, waiting for his answer.

"It is you and your father's happiness. It's the legacy of Mikoto,"

"So smile Master Yamato! I'm sure your mother wants it!" Jeffrey-san encouraged her.

She then realized that she's been crying and said, "yes! I will!"

The kindness that someone bring, it can be only a miniscule of degree, can create a long lasting impact. It's up to the person who wants to initiate it, and they don't think about other things after that.

Everlasting good luck.