無限の流血-無限の憎しみ- (Endless Bloodshed; Infinite Hatred)
It was a flawlessly beautiful day. The youth of springtime was made extremely apparent as the birds happily chirped, the river happily lapping up against the rocks by the large and formal estate. The estate stood proudly and defiantly on top of the large hill. Two large buildings made up the estate, a main building where the more quaint homely features of a kitchen, dining room, bedrooms and main lobby made up the building.
The other large house was the Kurokami main building. It was simply composed of a large dojo and a meeting room right next to it. The second building was never Ui's favorite one, she spent her entire life in that building training and praying in the temple and taking lessons from the caretakers, she never really had a lot of chances to spend a lot of time outside these two buildings. When she told her parents that she wanted to become the heiress of the clan her parents were ecstatic, since then she had to devote her life to the Kurokami clan. It was annoying, but right now it was worth it!
The main building was occupied right now. Several leaders of the samurai clans were sitting at the meeting table, the spot at the head of the table was empty and a cup of tea with a piece of bread sat right at the table. The samurai leaders and their respective bodyguards shifted uncomfortably. Who couldn't blame them? Their hostess and the reason they are here had gone outside to take a "short break" as she had put it. Ui had always hated the heat, and the cold for that manner, and being stuck in that stuffy room for 3 hours talking about politics and the war was booring!
Although Ui had certainly studied politics as a child to prepare her for the role of the heiress she always hated it. It was so uninteresting and just bland! All Ui wanted to do was play with Yahiko all day, but even then she couldn't do that! She had to go out in the main village to meet the people and speak with people, then she had to meet with daimyos to talk about the economic stability provided by the Kurokami clan, then she had to go out west over to China to meet with some foreigners about the commerce plan Ui had to lay out the night before and they rejected it! Politics were annoying, why did she have to go through with it every single day?
But right now, Ui didn't have a care in the world. After suddenly standing up during the meeting to declare a recess Ui had skipped outside, grabbed her 2 year old son and headed out to the garden to play. It was rather humid so Ui had stayed alongside the river to keep cool. The garden was beautiful as lush greenery carpeted the space. Flowers of all different magnitudes were planted here, Ui didn't know the names or what they were but she didn't care. The pretty pink ones had outlined the perimeter of the garden, the bright loud yellow ones had been perched up high in the trees to make it look like it was sunny all the time, a large tree with purple leaves stood in the middle of the garden and provided excellent shade from the sweltering sun. Little squirrels had come along to play and the Kurokami family pet; Usa-chan - a small black and white cat - was sleeping lazily underneath the large tree.
Ui and her son were running around in the garden laughing giddily. Ui had deliberately tripped so that baby Yacchi could jump on her stomach. Hugging the small child to her chest Ui giggled and rolled around in the grass, her pink kimono was getting a bit messy and her hair - which took hours to fix up all nice and pretty - had become undone. Ui had refused make-up but instead had opted for a hair-clip that smelled like sandalwood tied to her hair.
"Yacchi!"
"Okaachan!"
"Yacchi!"
"Okaachan!"
The two repeated that to each other as they rolled around giggling without a care in the world.
Meanwhile back in the actual meeting, Ui's personal caretaker - and childhood friend - Kanata was standing in the meeting room with a sheepish smile on her face as she peered out the window to look at Ui and baby Yacchi rolling around in the garden.
"Would anyone like some more tea?" Ui had a strange talent of making her seem bad in front of everyone especially since the main purpose of this meeting was to appease to the samurai to undergo a more diplomatic tactic in dealing with the war. Two caretakers had came outside to get Ui but she saw it as a game and ran away from them jumping over the small river with baby Yacchi on her shoulders.
This may not go as planned...
It was a flawlessly beautiful day. The youth of springtime was made extremely apparent as the birds happily chirped, the river happily lapping up against the rocks by the large and formal estate. The estate stood proudly and defiantly on top of the large hill. Two large buildings made up the estate, a main building where the more quaint homely features of a kitchen, dining room, bedrooms and main lobby made up the building.
The other large house was the Kurokami main building. It was simply composed of a large dojo and a meeting room right next to it. The second building was never Ui's favorite one, she spent her entire life in that building training and praying in the temple and taking lessons from the caretakers, she never really had a lot of chances to spend a lot of time outside these two buildings. When she told her parents that she wanted to become the heiress of the clan her parents were ecstatic, since then she had to devote her life to the Kurokami clan. It was annoying, but right now it was worth it!
The main building was occupied right now. Several leaders of the samurai clans were sitting at the meeting table, the spot at the head of the table was empty and a cup of tea with a piece of bread sat right at the table. The samurai leaders and their respective bodyguards shifted uncomfortably. Who couldn't blame them? Their hostess and the reason they are here had gone outside to take a "short break" as she had put it. Ui had always hated the heat, and the cold for that manner, and being stuck in that stuffy room for 3 hours talking about politics and the war was booring!
Although Ui had certainly studied politics as a child to prepare her for the role of the heiress she always hated it. It was so uninteresting and just bland! All Ui wanted to do was play with Yahiko all day, but even then she couldn't do that! She had to go out in the main village to meet the people and speak with people, then she had to meet with daimyos to talk about the economic stability provided by the Kurokami clan, then she had to go out west over to China to meet with some foreigners about the commerce plan Ui had to lay out the night before and they rejected it! Politics were annoying, why did she have to go through with it every single day?
But right now, Ui didn't have a care in the world. After suddenly standing up during the meeting to declare a recess Ui had skipped outside, grabbed her 2 year old son and headed out to the garden to play. It was rather humid so Ui had stayed alongside the river to keep cool. The garden was beautiful as lush greenery carpeted the space. Flowers of all different magnitudes were planted here, Ui didn't know the names or what they were but she didn't care. The pretty pink ones had outlined the perimeter of the garden, the bright loud yellow ones had been perched up high in the trees to make it look like it was sunny all the time, a large tree with purple leaves stood in the middle of the garden and provided excellent shade from the sweltering sun. Little squirrels had come along to play and the Kurokami family pet; Usa-chan - a small black and white cat - was sleeping lazily underneath the large tree.
Ui and her son were running around in the garden laughing giddily. Ui had deliberately tripped so that baby Yacchi could jump on her stomach. Hugging the small child to her chest Ui giggled and rolled around in the grass, her pink kimono was getting a bit messy and her hair - which took hours to fix up all nice and pretty - had become undone. Ui had refused make-up but instead had opted for a hair-clip that smelled like sandalwood tied to her hair.
"Yacchi!"
"Okaachan!"
"Yacchi!"
"Okaachan!"
The two repeated that to each other as they rolled around giggling without a care in the world.
Meanwhile back in the actual meeting, Ui's personal caretaker - and childhood friend - Kanata was standing in the meeting room with a sheepish smile on her face as she peered out the window to look at Ui and baby Yacchi rolling around in the garden.
"Would anyone like some more tea?" Ui had a strange talent of making her seem bad in front of everyone especially since the main purpose of this meeting was to appease to the samurai to undergo a more diplomatic tactic in dealing with the war. Two caretakers had came outside to get Ui but she saw it as a game and ran away from them jumping over the small river with baby Yacchi on her shoulders.
This may not go as planned...