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Hana had always considered herself to be a very intelligent woman. Thru the course of her life she excelled in academics, she was popular at school and in the community, she had a host of extracurricular activities to her credit, she was a successful mother and grandmother, and she was never intimidated or pushed around by anyone or anything that she encountered. With all of this in mind she was often baffled at the choice she had made that brought her thru her life. Granted she never questioned the decision itself, rather she questioned how it was made and always marvelled at the circumstances around it.
When she was a young girl growing up her friends wanted successful husbands who treated them like they deserved and kept them in a life of luxury, Hana was always more logical in her approach to the future. All she wanted was to be an independent and successful woman who needed no man to help her, of course this changed as she grew and saw the folly of both her and her friend's line of thinking. By her second year in middle school she had come to the conclusion that instead of no man she would prefer to find one who let her be what she thought she didn't need a man to become; which was much easier said than done. After a few dates during that year Hana had come to the conclusion that all men were trash. While she was sure there were good men out somewhere in the world they simply weren't anywhere near her. All the boys she had tried to date were either intimidated by her or they were a little to "hands on" for her taste.
Eventually she did find someone who was actually good for her; of course who that was turned out to be one of the greatest surprises of her entire life. She had imagined herself, as had her mother, finding someone that fit her; unfortunately that particular "fit" was a varied definition between the two Kurokawa women. Her mother wanted a successful salary-man who would be able to provide Hana with a moderately comfortable living. He needed to give her a house and a car, plus at least one child, fortunately Hana's aversion to children was gone by her 18th birthday, and no monetary worries in her life. Of course her mother, being the shallow former beauty queen she was also had a very specific set of physical requirements that her future son-in-law had to conform to. Needless to say Hana wasn't going to find a man who let her be herself with all the character flaws that would come with her mother's idea of a man. Her father wasn't any help either. He had two different views on Hana dating. First, was when he was in a good mood and consisted of simply agreeing with everything that her mother said. The second, came when he was in a slightly sourer mood and consisted of rants about his little girl and something about an old family sword and a jar, she was never really sure. Hana herself knew she didn't want exactly what her mother did for her, but beyond that she didn't know all that much about what she wanted.
In her first year of high school she did find that particular man. She never expected it, nor did he, but it just sort of happened. They had their ups and downs but eventually they came together and Hana could not have been happier.
Hana never imagined that she would fall in love with Sawada Tsunayoshi.
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