Kuzu

Kuzu

The Byakko Seishi Kokie

The five foot eleven inch tall young woman aimed her arrow and shot, the arrow slamming into the bull's eye of the target about a hundred yards away and splitting the tree in half. The Amazons around her cheered. Kuzu was their best warrior with super human strength and an incomparable technique of being able to master any kind of weapon.

The Amazon tribe saved her when she was just a baby from a burning house. Her tribe had raised her since then, training her in the arts of fighting. She was much taller than any other normal woman was and with her constant training she was also much wider in shoulder (not excessively so, but still wider) and she had always had a super human strength that only doubled her ability in battle. But like any other young woman in the throws of her teenage years, she was desperate for male companionship. After the tournament, Kuzu and her friends went to the nearby village to hunt for males. A pastime they thoroughly enjoyed.

For months, Kuzu had been seeing a six foot four inch man named Shishio who was abnormally tall but was gorgeous with long black hair and maroon colored eyes. His nickname for her was Kokie, a name that really didn't match her but she loved. One day, as Kuzu wandered around town, she couldn't find him.

When she passed by his home in desperation as her other friends walked about with their boyfriends, she paused and knocked on the door. The woman who opened had long burgundy hair and hazel eyes that were red and puffy. Kuzu didn't know what make of it but she still asked the woman before her.

"Excuse me, but is Shishio home?"

The woman stared up at her with tortured eyes. "Gomen nasai, but my husband is dead. He died from a terrible accident several days ago. Who are you? How did you know my husband?"

Kuzu blinked in astonishment. Shishio…the man she loved…was married…and dead. Kuzu's heart twisted in her chest. She bowed to the woman before her, her short amber brown hair shifting forward. "Gomen nasai for your loss." Kuzu didn't wait around for the woman to answer her. She quickly rushed home and into the arms of her best friend Kamatari. Kamatari comforted the weeping Kuzu who was torn with the fact that the man she loved had died and that he had been married since the beginning of their relationship. But eventually Kuzu recovered and fell in love again.

She fell in love with a young man…also exceptionally tall…named Okina, who after months of being together…also died…

By now Kuzu had realized that every relationship she gotten into was doomed. Every man she loved ended up dead and she couldn't take it anymore. She refused to get into any more relationships. Her friend Kamatari tried to comfort her, but to no avail. Kuzu then decided, after living with a tribe of women that she loved so much, and none of them had died, perhaps she was destined to love women instead…

Eventually, Kuzu left her the Amazon Area and headed off on her own to live her own life as either a man or a woman. She wanted to find love, but new it was probably hopeless considering her situation. Every man she fell in love with died…and there weren't that many women to keen on falling in love with another woman…even if she did have a striking resemblance to a very beautiful man. Kuzu's black eyes and short straight amber brown made her very lovely to look upon, but as she left she could only think of the loves she had lost and the loves she would loose unless she somehow found a woman who would want her…as a woman.

Kuzu disappeared away from the Amazon Area, but returned quite often. Currently, she was headed in the direction of the Sairou Empire, a desert country whose army was in desperate need of good members. Maybe she could get lucky…