Lucky Kyo
Chapter Two
Kyoumi
Kyoumi is the first cat in Sohma house that I was able to find records of… and extensive records they were. Kyoumi was born in the year 1840 to a dragon and a rabbit. The rabbit, her mother, died shortly after her birth and the dragon, her father, didn't even live to see his child born. He died in a fire three months before her birth.
No one wanted to touch the disgusting child with the orange hair. No one wanted to be near it. It was a curse. It was a plague. It was a cat.
Along with being the first cat found in the archives, Kyoumi was also the youngest cat to be caged. Ryuusei, the leader of Sohma house at the time, ordered a woman named Uzuki Sohma to take care of the child until she was four. Uzuki agreed begrudgingly.
Kyoumi was entrusted to Uzuki's care at the age of two months. Uzuki, sickened at the sight of the cursed child, took very poor care of Kyoumi. Kyoumi was starved the majority of the time. Despite Uzuki's intent to starve the child to death by feeding her less than once a week, Kyoumi refused to die. By the time Kyoumi reached the age of one, Uzuki resorted to crueler tactics. Uzuki attempted to poison Kyoumi's food on several occasions but Kyoumi still refused to die, throwing up the food before the poison had time to take effect. Once this plot had been foiled, Uzuki moved on to her most direct attempt to kill the child.
For the next three years of her life, every day, Kyoumi was beaten. Sometimes with a belt, other times with a paddle, and still other times with Uzuki's son's old baseball bat. Despite the abuse and the resulting frequent hospitalization, Kyoumi survived. On the day of Kyoumi's fourth birthday, Uzuki helped Ryuusei toss her into the cage, laughing gleefully now that the cat was no longer her problem.
With Kyoumi being as young as she was, Ryuusei took a minimal sympathy toward her. Until she reached the age of fifteen, Kyoumi was provided with a full meal once a day. It was a very bland and unsatisfying meal though.
When Kyoumi turned fifteen, the meals stopped coming. She was fed only scraps left over after all other Sohmas and any animals around the estate had been fed. She began to think things couldn't get worse. She was wrong.
Around the age of eighteen, Kyoumi had caught the eye of Ryuusei's son, who was approximately twenty times the psychopath his father was. Kyoumi was forced to wed Ryuusei's son Hiraku. Even after being wed, Kyoumi was never allowed to leave her cage. Hiraku was allowed free access to the cage but Kyoumi was never to be allowed out. On their wedding night, Hiraku entered the cage and raped Kyoumi. Then, he left without a word.
Hiraku, encouraged to continue his father's lineage, decided he wanted a son. Once a month, he raped Kyoumi and once a month a doctor would be called in to see if Kyoumi was pregnant. After three years, she was with child… but it was a girl…
Hiraku refused to acknowledge the child as his own. When the girl was born, Hiraku accused the doctor of being the one who impregnated Kyoumi. By ruling of Ryuusei, the doctor was slain and Kyoumi herself was to do away with the child. Fortunately, Kyoumi managed to locate a sympathetic woman who had secretly just lost her child in a miscarriage. This woman took Kyoumi's infant from her and raised it as her own. It was a light in the darkness for Kyoumi.
Things took a turn for the worst, however. Hiraku blamed Kyoumi for the fact that the child was a girl. As punishment he bound and beat her. He also became more determined to have a son. Hiraku began raping her about three times a month and refused to call in a doctor anymore. He almost killed his own son, because he continued to rape Kyoumi until three months after his son was conceived. The child was born four months later and after that, Kyoumi never saw her son again, but she continued to be raped and beaten.
When Hiraku had enough of Kyoumi, he asked for the marriage to be broken. However, it was impossible for that to occur. Hiraku then asked of his father if Kyoumi could just 'disappear.' It was given Ryuusei's approval and six days later, Kyoumi 'mysteriously' disappeared from her cage. She was found in a creek on Sohma property strangled and beaten. It was unsure whether it was the strangling or the beating that had killed her but at the age of thirty-two, Kyoumi was dead.
