Tsunaryu is my sister. Four years my junior. She is the opposite of myself. She's funny, outgoing, and is a bit of a stalker. When it comes to an older man. Even if she only saw him once! Lord Benji the handsome flirt and he knows it too. Falling in love all the time proves the inability to love oneself.
A few days after Matriarch Asakuni Hinokawa, Kurokuni's mother, was refused from a letter poem from Lord Shihoin. My sister and I visited her daughter Kurokuni for more of the same etiquette lectures ever since childhood. Boring but there were no way of learning tea ceremony and ikebana without developing your creativity and individual style.
But this time we were going to practice musical instruments. The only instrument I was ever good at playing was the flute. Strings on a biwa and a shamisen were difficult to remember according to the notes of a song.
"You skipped a note, Lady Junko." Kurokuni scolded my shamisen playing.
"I'm sorry. My skills fall into a different field."
"Hopefully, Your horrible verity of music skills don't have a negative effect on eligible bachelors." Kurokuni patronized my skills.
"Everyone knows that guys don't care about his lady's musical talent. He's interested in playing with her strings and making her sing to him." Tsunaryu exclaimed forwardly. In a way she was backing me up.
"If that was true... Then what were my lessons for?" Our teacher cried out.
"Culture, literary skills, entertainment, and etiquette." I summed up. "Absolutely nothing to do with men."
"Yes, what could you ladies possibly know about them?" Kurokuni said with a sinister grin.
"Nothing at all, My Lady ." I muttered.
Tsunaryu knew more, "They have two brains. One in their head and one in the pants. One does more thinking than the other."
"Who told you that?"
"My mother."
"I see, The daughter is straight forward like her mother. You need lessons on being appropriate , Tsunaryu."
"Does that include pointing your finger and treating me like a child?" Tsunaryu met up with her.
"I hope it doesn't."
"You wanted to speak about marriage? Lady Kurokuni?" I reminded her, trying to skip the subject and a possible argument.
"Marriage? The both of you are hopeless, You Lady Junko will be off to the thirteen court squads, and young Lady Tsunaryu your vulgar tongue will scare them all away." Kurokuni thrusted the judgment upon us.
"Hypocrite! You are not even married and you are 25, Are you getting ready for spinsterhood? Yet? Lady Kurokuni?" Tsunaryu spoke with the intent to insult.
"I was going to be married, But I was jilted." Tears dropped from Kurokuni's brown eyes.
"There are many more fish out in the sea of reishi, Maybe instead of being a lady of leisure, Go join the shinigamis!" I announced.
"That is how you are going to find a man? Lady Junko, You are a genius!" Kurokuni fluttered like a butterfly. Flushing away all her sadness.
"That is not what I meant..." Though she did have a point.
"Genius! I will find a brave warrior, fall in love, marry and one day due to a hollow attack, I will be a widow!... That is horrible! What if I'm the one killed by a hollow? What if I really loved my husband?" She ignored me and rambled on. "True happiness is short and worth it,"
"I guess that's all to it." I hope I don't end up as heartless.
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