Kakunojou Dabble

This is a short dabble I cleaned up for Iroha (recall, Iroha was, and still is one of my fav. anime. My face literally lit up when I talk about Akizuki with H-dono during the summer + I couldn't stop grinning for a whole night after getting the mook).

I wrote this a while back, probably beginning of this year. It's probably one of the very few fanfiction-ish thing that has no romantic undertone.

Her mother was a kind a gentle woman famous for her humility.

As a daughter of a minor landlord who valued arts and education, she took lessons on language, music and dancing from private tutors with her sisters. As such, all five sisters grew up very accomplished and they all had many suitors.

Zagashira told her stories of how her mother charmed even the most callous men by her singing and dancing. You have taken after her, he would add, sometime, as an after thought. Other times, he would go on to tell the glorious saga of how her father won her mother’s hand dispite of her many other, richer and more power, suitors.

Five riddles, Zagashira would say, you mother declared she would marry who ever in the room that could solve all five correctly.

She sometimes wondered if Zagashira was telling the truth, because five riddles seemed too wondrous a way to choose a husband, and what father would allow his daughter to marry for such frivolous reason? Yet, she never questions him. Finding the turth would, she knew, destroy the rich tales and legends that solidfy her parents in the turf of her mind.

So Zagashira kept telling and she kept listening, doing her best to retain the two vague sihouettes that occasionally dance in her dreams.