Kodachi was the product of a second marriage.
Principal Kuno's first wife, another Kuno from a somewhat distant branch of the family, had died due to a slight...misunderstanding. She'd wanted to go to a store on the otherside of the highway and the semi she walked in front of hadn't listened when she'd insisted that it stop.
Then her father had remarried to Kodachi's mother, who'd been an American-born Japanese woman that was something of an eccentric herself. Her death had been something of a mystery, actually, no body had ever been found.
At any rate, Tatewaki had always railed at her for her impure blood. He claimed that it twisted sense of reality. Really, she tried to follow her brother's example as much as possible, but sometimes she just couldn't understand how he wanted her to act.
Kunos had to always be the victors at everything, fine, she could understand that sort of pride. When she took steps insure that she was always victorious, he railed at her for being low, under-handed and dishonorable. She could never understand why he was yelling at her for doing what he told her to do, which was win.
She had also tried to follow his example of trying to behave appropriately with the peasants, but so far she hadn't seemed to receive in awe, worship or respect. Several people were afraid of her, some laughed at her behind her back, but nobody really treated her like a noble.
Kodachi simply didn't understand. Her brother was the purer blood, so he should be have a better idea of how the world of nobility worked. So why didn't things work the way he impressed upon her that they should work.
Sometimes it made her so frustrated that she even lashed out at him. Why didn't things work the way her brother said they were supposed.
But now she may have found the reason.
She wasn't REALLY a Kuno, after all. So there was no reason that what worked for her brother should work for her. After all, she was just a peasant PRETENDING to be noble. So, of course, she couldn't do anything right at all, it was heaven's vengeance for her presumption.
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