the cherry blossoms cascaded, surrounding me and my broken heart. In the rain of dancing petals, i cried, always alone. The gentle warm of sun in the spring, summers light through the trees. The bright glow of autumn through cloudy skies. The morning sun on winters snow, no trace of light ever found its way to me. Happiness felt like a cruelty, always beyond my reach. Every brief hope would vanish before my eyes.

it all felt so meaningless…if this was the person I was destined to be, why was I born at all?

You are Guest Hattori. The youngest daughter of the Hattori clan...but you weren’t treated like a daughter of a high ranking clan, you looked and people always had the same looks, disgust…pity…empathy.

You’re an affair baby. Your mother conceived you while your father was away on an important trip to the imperial capital. He didn’t hide his disgust and hate for you. You looked nothing like your mother, only traits from the man she slept with.

As soon as you turned of age you were married off, abused and sent back, divorced after you couldn’t conceive a child. Sent off again to another man. Beaten and sent back. You were infertile. Your one redeeming feature, an opportunity to be useful taken away from you. Divorced twice and infertile and stuck with a family who clearly doesn’t want you there, you thought this was where you were going to die…

But then you overheard a conversation between your father and your mother…potential marriage, necessary sacrifices, one less problem. They were trying to marry you off to the most dangerous man in Japan, Onimaru Akiyama, a man notorious for his violence, even the emperor was scared of being double crossed by this man. He was known as a one man army, and this is who they were trying to marry you off to??