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Saena Mogami was 5 when her father died of illness. She could remember standing by his death bed, holding his shaking hands in her own. Watching his shuddering chest rise and fall slowly and painfully. The tears in his eyes that threatened to leak onto his pillow. There was that last smile, one full of love and regret. Saena was crying, mashing her hands up in her eyes so that her daddy wouldn't have to see her cry. She was too young to really understand, she just knew that her father would be gone for a long time and would never come back. Her mother held the sobbing girl in her arms as she watched the man who had loved her so much. His breathing soon stopped, and Saena's mother screamed for her dead husband.
Many nights afterwards, Saena would be haunted by the sound of her mother wailing and shrieking in the middle of the night. The tears she had been holding in for her mother would fall as she cried with her suffering mother. Every night there would be nightmares of everyone dying around the young girl, her friends and mother would all be gone. The her mother did disappear. About a month after her husband's death, Nanami Mogami killed herself. Now Sanea was all alone in a big empty house.
At age 7, she was already in the care of a kind family, an old couple who had never been able to have a child of her own. Her only family left was her uncle, who was currently in prison. She was still haunted by the nightmares. She would scream and kick, until her adoptive parents would rush in and hold her until she calmed down. Every night was a repeat of the same thing until Saena learned that if she didn't sleep, she didn't dream. Sleepless nights would go by, leaving the poor girl tired and worn out after a day of school.
She made a friend during those years, a little girl named Hina. They were best friends, completely unseperable. While Saena was a little more shy and quiet, Hina was loud and bursting with joy. They were opposites but so alike in many ways. It was Hina that first brought Saena out of her quiet shell. It was that one little girl that cried with her best friend clinging to her. Every sleepover would end the same, Saena shaking within Hina's comforting arms. Hina never complained. She was such a kind person, someone who could love even the tiniest ant on the planet. She was like a big sister to Saena, who was a year younger then her friend.
It was when she hit the age of 10, did things start to change. Saena was already a little more outgoing, but was still a little uncomftorable. The nightmares had stopped, but she was beginning to get more curious about her mother's death. All of the adults had told her the edited version of the story, Nanami had died in a car crash. Saena asked all the adults about what had happened to her mother. They repeated that she had died in a car-crash. Saena doubted it and searched for the truth on her own. She poured through newspapers of the month of her mother's death. There was nothing on a tragic car-crash, leaving a child orphaned. She let it go for a while, but would occasionally search again from time to time.
Age 13 came, Saena was becoming a beautiful teenager. She had long, silky black hair, and golden eyes. Her smile was brighter thanks to her dear friends. She had begun to create an inner group of friends consisting of her, Hina, a short girl named Asuka, and Hanako. They were very close and were always kind to others. The girls practically ruled the school. They all exelled with different things. Asuka was a gifted pianist, and was also playing percussion in the school band. Hanako was very smart, she recieved the top grades, and won all sorts of academic awards. Hina was kind, which in turn granted her the oppurtunity to make many friends and was always the most popular out of the four. Saena really didn't have anything special about her. She was pretty, but quiet. She maintaned average grades, couldn't understand music, and only hung out with her 3 best friends.
Then she discovered theater. Acting became her passion, she lived and breathed theater. Being on the stage, standing on the spotlight, delivering lines, she loved every part. Her first performance was a small ensemble part, she played a villager in a play about a prince falling in love with a peasant, set in an earlier time period. The next show happened to grant her a role with speaking lines, she portrayed the main character's little sister. At this time, the director at the theater had already noticed the pretty actress, and was set on getting her a lead role. This play centered around a young girl's life as she took a walk through fairy-tales. It was very popular, especially for such a small theater like the one she performed at.
After turning 15, she moved on to larger theaters. She got lead roles, always the shining star in whatever play she was in. Saena was talented, beautiful, and smart, but she was beginning to grow a slight mean streak. Hina was the first to notice. She confronted the younger girl one day after she had snapped at another student. Saena just apoligized and blamed it on the stress of opening night. Hina didn't buy it. While Saena began to develop a habit of laughing at other's expense, she never noticed her closest friend slowly drift away.
Then one day, Saena turned on her closest and dearest friend. They were backstage, talking after Saena's latest performance. Hina mentioned that she was going out with a boy Saena had had a crush on in 7th grade, and Saena's warm smile turned frosty cold. Her eyes bored into her friends as she stood up and traced her fingers against the walls of the room. She walked around a few times, an aura menacing and evil. She turned to Hina and spoke in a bored voice about how stupid the boy was, what a freak he was, how he belonged with someone else. Hina cried. Who wouldn't after seeing the person they had known since the elementary years was being downright nasty. Saena saw her tears and laughed, walking out of the room to leave her so called friend alone to sob.
Saena cried too. She felt awful, guilty, and sad, she might have just lost the first important person to her since her mother died. She was right, Hina ignored Saena and pulled Asaka and and Hanako even further away from the lonely girl. Saena had become completely by herself and was downright miserable.
Instead of trying to apoligise and get her friends back, Saena ignored them too. She turned all of her attention towards acting, and eventually, boys. She met many of them, using her good looks to attract them to her. They all fell, hard. She was a huntress, always capturing her prize in her net. No one could escape from her clutches, no man wanted too. Her first time sleeping with someone was awkward, he was awkward, not her. She got bored with that guy and moved on to her new prey. After that, she slept with every guy she dated for more than 2 months. She never got to know love, real love. She liked to use the term "making love", when she slept with a man, but it was really just fucking. The only time she ever fell for someone, was the last time she got to enjoy care-free life. She was 19, a rising star, and ready to make this man fall in love with her. He worked backstage in plays, and she was extremely attracted to him. It was easy too, he fell for her like many others. But instead of her initiating everything they did, he was the one who would push her onto the bed, and he was the one who trapped her in his arms. She wasn't careful though.
He moved away, leaving Saena behind. She quickly got over it and set about to furthering her career. Then she found out she was pregnant.
The news shattered all dreams of becoming a big star, who would want a pregnant young actress to star in their play. She turned her back on acting and on the rest of the world. She became broken again, no more meanness, no more spiteful words, and no more confidence. She once again needed a friend to help her get through the long days ahead. The girl she had missed for over two years was finally apoligized to, Saena had tried everything to get Hina to forgive her. Eventually, the two girls became close again and Hina was the only one who knew at the time that Saena was pregnant. Since Saena was already on her own in the adult world, she didn't have to worry about parents worrying her and chewing her head off about being pregnant. She could have had an abortion, but Saena was too kind to kill someone, even if this person wasn't even alive yet. Abortion was not an option.
After finally pulling herself out of her own misery, Saena worked hard to get a job anywhere she could. She was dead-set determined to raise the baby and have a healthy beautiful child. Around this time, Hina became pregnant as well. She had been married to her husband Saito Fuwa for a little time, but they were already prepared to have a child. Saito was a part of a long generation of Fuwa's who ran a Ryokan in Kyoto. Hina had not yet moved in there yet, instead choosing to stay in Tokyo to further her career as a chef. After becoming pregnant, she decided to move to Kyoto to live with her husband. Hina offered to take Saena with her, Saena agreed and the two friends set off together.
At Kyoto, Hina quickly adapted to life at the Ryokan, cooking, cleaning, and serving guests. She was hard-working and very smart. Saena worked to, but wasn't as comftorable. She got a job and paid for her own means. Soon, both women had swollen bellies and were not expected to do as much work.
On December 25, Saena gave birth to a little girl, the baby was the perfect Christmas present. Saena was very tired after giving birth, and was trying not to fall asleep without her new daughter. She eventually gave in and closed her eyes to escape into her dreams where she was famous, beautiful, and a shining star.
Saena was a wonderful mother! She took care of her baby perfectly. Little baby Kyoko had her mother's eyes and her father's dark hair. The baby was quiet, and very cute. Hina loved to babysit, she considered it practice for when she had a child of her own, which she did. On May 29, Hina gave birth to a little boy named Shotaro. Saito had chosen the name, and Hina had adored it. He was very loved, much like Kyoko. Everything was right in their lives, they had beautiful healthy children, jobs to feed the family, and each other for support. Hina and Saena were as close as ever. They were happy for a few months, until Saena became worried about one thing. What happened to the father? She didn't want her daughter to grow up without a father, every little girl needs a daddy. It was around when Kyoko was 3 that Saena began to leave the girl at the Ryokan to search for her father. She remembered his name, and began to ask around. First she did a little research online, nothing came up. Then she moved on to calling anyone who might have been vaguely related to him. Nothing. Then she left home for long periods of time to go to Tokyo for two reasons, to promote the company she was working for and to find Kyoko's father.
Saena was very sad, she had not seen her daughter for such a long time, and she had always been so cruel to her. She could blame it on the worry of her job, she could have blamed it on the stress of a child depending on her, and she could have blamed it on the father. She would secretly blame it on herself and her fear of being a mother to someone. She was all to scared to turn out like her mother, who she found out had killed herself. She didn't want to leave a little girl motherless, so she didn't stick around enough so that Kyoko wouldn't become too attached. When she was home, Saena would brush off the child, trying to push her away and hopefully teach her a lesson about working hard for approval. Saena loved her daughter, but needed to work so she could send little Kyoko to school and get her money for the things she would need.
Contact with her daughter was cut off when she turned 10, Saena became to sad to see her daughter anymore. For the next 5 years, Saena worked, searched for Kyoko's father, and tried to keep her daughter far away. Then she found out that Kyoko had run away to Tokyo with Shotaro. It broke her heart, over and over again. Saena soon found a reason to permanently move to Tokyo, she had to see her daughter.
