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[h2][color=D9EBB3]Kimiko Megumi[/color][/h2]
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[b][color=D9EBB3]Introduce Yourself:[/color][/b]
Kimiko Megumi

[b][color=D9EBB3]Where do you come from?:[/color][/b]
Megumi is the daughter of a large, wealthy family, consisting of among others monks, commanding officers, and business men. She was born in Kanazawa in a large, traditional house, and has lived here all her life.
The garden, in which a small pond can be found, is situated next to a forest.
During vacations Megumi sometimes stays at the family’s somewhat smaller house, also in traditional style, near a private beach.

[b][color=D9EBB3]What year are you?:[/color][/b]
17, second to last year of high school. After high school, she wants to go study biology.

[b][color=D9EBB3]What kind of person are you?:[/color][/b]
Megumi is a girl who usually doesn’t show much emotion, although she’s rather sensitive. She often keeps her emotions to herself, which occasionally leads to her bursting out the emotion she feels strongest at a certain moment. Aside from that, Megumi is generally gentle of heart and most of the time acts so as well, but because of her lack of contact with people, except for with her family and servants, she sometimes may act cold-hearted, often not even knowing it comes across as such.
Megumi is a pretty intelligent, quiet and reserved girl, and only speaks when she is asked to do so, or when she really needs to get something of her mind. Because of Megumi’s shy nature, she doesn’t interact often with people, and thus she doesn’t have any friends. She could get along very well with her brother, though. He was the only person by whom Megumi could show what she felt inside in a normal way.

[b][color=D9EBB3]Tell us about yourself!:[/color][/b]
Megumi was born together with her twin brother Kenta to a wealthy family in Kanazawa. Both children were mostly raised by the servants, but got attention from their parents every now and then.

The family keeps a weapon that is passed from father to son: a wakizashi which is said to carry great powers. Because of this tradition Megumi’s brother got the most attention in order for him to grow up to be a healthy, strong and happy child. Despite not getting much attention, Megumi still grew up quite happily, according to herself. Throughout her life she developed a love for playing the erhu, reading mythological stories, studying the human anatomy, and studying animals.

Because of the family’s wealth, Megumi and Kenta didn’t go to a public school, but instead received home schooling.

At the age of twelve Megumi’s brother started practising kendo. Megumi was offered to practise other things, like painting and performing ritual dances, but Megumi wasn’t too good nor interested in these two subjects. When Kenta was training, she often observed him from a distance and tried to mimic his movements.

When Megumi and her brother turned sixteen, it was time for Kenta to perform the ritual to obtain the sword. Megumi and her family watched as he immaculately performed the steps and ended by thrusting the blade inside his chest. However, Kenta missed the right spot and dug the blade in too deep. After a moment, he dropped to the ground, blood staining his chest. Her family rushed over to the boy, while Megumi sat there, eyes wide open, not able to move. Suddenly it was as if an unknown force drew her to the sword. She grabbed it, her expression unchanged, and performed the ritual just like her brother had done, though with more grace and something that could be described as passion. As she stabbed herself, a vision appeared to her. A black-haired male, dressed in mostly the same colour as his hair, called Yin approached Megumi and told her his story. She decided to agree with the pact to protect the one’s dear to her, to save the innocent yokai out there, and maybe mostly because she wanted recognition from her family.

At first, her parents were exactly the opposite of thrilled. Understandable, since their son just died, but it wasn’t only that. They were disappointed in her and her father distrusted her. Did Megumi know Kenta would not be able to obtain the sword and would die?
Later, they accepted Megumi and her brother’s fate and offered the girl training in kendo and archery.

[b][color=D9EBB3]Put your best foot forward!:[/color][/b]
Megumi is an excellent erhu-player, has become quite skilled a kendo and is starting to learn archery.
While in combat, she is able to gain superhuman strength and speed, and is able to control dark matter, all thanks to the pact with Yin.
At school, Megumi is good at the subjects History and Biology. She especially finds biology interesting and wants to study this when she is done with high school.

[b][color=D9EBB3]Other:[/color][/b]
Megumi has a scar on her chest from completing the ritual.
She wears a monks bracelet which she received on her seventh birthday from one of her uncles.

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Megumi caressed the velvet fur of the domestic ferret that had fallen asleep on her lap. She could feel the warmth of the animal through her spring-green yukata, decorated with dragonflies of the same colour, only lighter. One might be surprised that the girl hadn’t passed out from the heat already, but Megumi had by now gotten used to the weather. The past few weeks the temperatures had been fairly warm, even for fall.

Megumi watched as some red maple leaves made its way through the open sliding door into the room where she was sitting, one at the back of the large house, built in traditional style.
Normally a servant would have immediately removed the leaves, but at the moment there was no one at her side; they were all busy with preparations for the arrival of her cousin and her family. Her name was Chihiro, if Megumi had remembered well. She could vaguely recall her appearance. The only thing that had always stuck in her memory was her silky, dark hair.

She bent over, reaching out for one of the maple leaves so she could take a closer look at it. The ferret lying on her lap awoke to the shifting and looked up at her with its pale blue eyes. They reminded Megumi of a person who she had met only a few weeks ago and who had, to a greater or lesser extent, changed her life.

When her brother Kenta had turned sixteen, he had performed a ritual to obtain a weapon that had been passed from father to son for several generations. The ritual had failed. Her brother had put the sword to his chest, the final step of the ritual, but had accidentally hit a critical spot. A few seconds later he had collapsed to the ground, his eyes dull and lifeless.
Instead of feeling the need to rush over to him, Megumi had just sat there, staring at her now dead brother. Suddenly it was as if something had drawn her to the sword, like an invisible hand had been on her back, shoving her forwards, and had made her pick up the sword. She had performed the ritual just like her brother, but unlike her brother, she did succeed.
A black haze had formed before her eyes and from the darkness a male had appeared. His persian-blue eyes had met her golden ones as he approached her. After introducing himself, the man Megumi now knew went by the name of Yin offered her a pact. If she would give him a part of her life, she would receive a part of his powers and him as her servant in exchange. Without even hesitating she agreed, not even sure why. Perhaps to be able to protect the one’s dear to her, or to get recognized by her family, or maybe just to break the daily grind.
After that, Yin had been released from the sword and had stood beside her from time to time as if he was waiting on something. Megumi had been unable, or maybe rather too shy to ask him why he was guarding her. She just looked at him every now and then, still new to him and the idea of having gained powers and him as her servant.
After a while he had just left, but returned every once in a while, still looking as if he was waiting on something.

And now here she was, still unsure why she had agreed to the contract and what to do with it. She looked out of the open sliding door up at the pastel sky. “I wonder where he is now…” she softly mumbled. “The next time he arrives here I will ask him what he is waiting for, what he is expecting from me. This time, for sure.”

Megumi heard a car near and take a halt. [color=D9EBB3]"That should be Chihiro and her family,"[/color] she thought. A servant opened the door to the quarter where she was present. [color=9D9DFF]"Ojou-sama, your cousin has arrived,"[/color] a friendly woman voice informed her. [color=9D9DFF]"If you will please follow me..."[/color]
Megumi did as she was asked and followed the servant to the foyer. From here she could see her cousin exit a large, black car. Like Megumi had remembered her, Chihiro still had the sleek, black hair, the descending sun giving it a slight red glow. She noticed the girl’s grandmother had also come along as her cousin took place next to her. The two stood still for a moment, taking a good look at the house in front of them, before drawing closer.
Megumi turned around, her silver hair following her movement, sweeping gently. She made her way into the living room where light had grown dim as it faced the east. She put on a hanging lamp above the low table which stood almost in the centre of the spacious room before taking placing on one of the cushions near it, awaiting her family’s entrance.
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