Nitta Sayuri/Sakamoto Chiyo: Yuna, she is 9 when she is in the beginning.
Pumpkin: Rikku
Mameha: Leblanc
Mr Bekku: Logos
Mother: Mother
Auntie: Auntie
Granny: Granny
Chairman: Tidus
Nobu: Auron
Hatsumomo: Dona
Korin: Nhadala
Yoko: Shelinda
Awaji San: Seymour XD
Mr Bekk: Not really necessary
New faces, new surroundings and maybe a new friend.
I felt scared, bright lights blazed all around, the houses in Besaid used fires. I tried to stop crying and wiped away my tears. We came to a screech outside a building. The man threw me out of the carriage and I landed on the street. I cried out, it felt really painful. I looked up and saw a woman. She was extremely beautiful, her kimono was magnificent, it was a bright pink with pictures of sakura on it. Her hair was fashioned with lobes. But the most magnificent thing was her face. She must have painted it a snow white. Her lips were painted red, her face looked like someone spilled red paint on the snow. Her hair was decorated with ornamental flowers as she walked towards us. This woman was Dona, one of the most famous Geisha in Luca. She finally stopped in front of me and said "Logos-san, you know that I HATE seeing rubbish littering our Okiya, but well, since you can't that, I'll take care of it myself!" After she said that, she lifted one of her foot and kicked me aside. I fell onto my back as we watched her walk away.
I looked back up Mr. Logos got back up on his carriage and drove away. I didn't notice an old woman walking towards me for I laid down on the floor and cried again. I heard the old woman say some things like "Must be Dona..." She lifted my face and dried it with a handkerchief she took out of the furi in her simple grey kimono. I felt strange as she wiped away my tears and held my hand. She lead me into the house, I noticed a lot of things outside. The garden was decorated with a well and some plants. I didn't have time to notice as she continued to lead me in. She sat me down on a little chair as she said "Don't cry little girl, there's nothing to be sad about. You can call me Auntie, why! What a pretty girl you are! Look at those eyes...Mother will be so thrilled to see them!" Auntie looked old, her hair, knotted at the back in a very old fashion was gray.
We walked forward, past a doorway and into a corridor. There were two buildings there, another corridor led to a courtyard. One of the buildings was a room for the maids, simple rooms of dirt. The other was a very elegant house sitting on foundation stones. It was a normal house. The courtyard had just toilets and a storehouse for kimonos. It looked bigger than all the villages in Besaid. I saw Auntie walk away into the kitchen as I stood there in the corridor staring at the sky. In Besaid, you could see the stars shining up above you but in Luca, there was so much light that the stars were blocked. I soon saw another girl my age carrying a bucket of water. She sloshed half of it on the floor; it's not that its heavy but it's the fact that the girl as I came to learn was extremely clumsy. Her body was narrow but her face was rather chubby. Her hair was blonde and tied up. She looked adorable. She had this habit of smiling incessantly. I also found out that her favorite color was orange. I soon nicknamed her "Pumpkin" because the vegetable was also orange. People also called her that, some found it strange whilst some found in extremely cute.
She put the bucket beside me and tucked a strand of hair away. She looked hungry as she drew in nearer. I thought that she was going to take a bite out of me. But instead she exclaimed "Where in Spira did you come from!" I didn't want to answer, it hurt that I was dragged away from Besaid. I just said that I just arrived. Her eyes went wide comically as she said "Wow! I never thought that I'd see another girl my age... I like your eyes! Their really pretty" With that, she smiled sweetly. I smiled too, I felt a bit better. Auntie came out of the kitchen before shooing Pumkin away. Pumpkin muttered "geez" softly before walking away, sloshing more water. Auntie carried a bucket, cloth and a bar of soap and we went down to the courtyard.
It had a beautiful mossy look, but it smelled awful because of the toilet. Auntie told me to undress and I did just that. She remarked kindly that I was going to be a beautiful geisha when I grew up. She poured some water on me and scrubbed me. I felt the cold water splash all over my body, it felt refreshing. After that, she gave me a robe. Other people might think that it looked ugly but I adored it. It was a dark blue with a pattern of swirls. I put it on and felt glamorous; Auntie saw my happy face and said "If you do well, you will wear even better ones." I didn't understand but I just kept smiling. I wasn't really that happy, I was just trying to be strong. Auntie finally put on a serious face as she told me.
"Well, listen up. You're going to meet Mother and Granny. If you behave well, they might keep you. If they don't... You're not really going to survive out there. This place is an Okiya, its where Geisha are trained. All you have to do is bow as low as possible and for gods sake. Do not answer any questions they ask you or look at them in the eye. They hate that!" I kept quiet to show I understood.
I soon heard some noise from the entrance hall. I bowed as I heard the sound of lacquered zori clunking against the teak floor. (Haha I learned that from Design and Tech. XD) I raised my eyes slightly; I saw what looked like 2 pieces of yellow and green silk drifting towards us. They soon knelt down before us and Auntie called for the cook who came running to serve us tea. I raised my eyes and looked at the yellow "silk" I got a shock, the woman wearing it looked horrible. Even though her kimono looked lovely, with decorations of trees bearing leaves. Her face was shocking, her eyes were a ghastly yellow and her mouth was open and I could see that her gums were blood red. She looked awfully stubby. I shifted my head slightly and saw the "green" piece which was Granny sipping tea. She was like Auntie, old, but much older. She looked as old as my father and looked mean. All these years up to when she died, I never saw her smile once.
Mother soon took her fat fingers and tilted my head upwards. I looked up as her fingers supported my head. She looked at me more closely before looking mildly surprise. "What astonishing eyes... I can just hope you are as smart as you are beautiful!" She laughed as she said that, I wouldn't call that laughing, it sounded like coughing. "Auntie, please take Granny away." I saw Auntie lifting Granny to her feet as both walked away.
"Listen little girl, I know that you must feel scared but I warn you, your here to learn to be a Geisha, not to waste your life. I don't want pretty girls. I want smart ones! Not like Dona, she has the beauty of a perfectly decorated chado teapot. But inside, her brain is empty just like the teapot itself! If you do well as a maid, I might decide to let you school. Am I understood?" I said yes before Mother scolded me for talking like that. She wanted me to speak with a Kyoto accent. She stood up and drifted away before Auntie came back. Auntie then led me into another room where she took shears and cut my hair. No longer was it in a ponytail, it was short (Just like Yuna in FF10) I could see my soul destroying my true self and replacing it with another person.