Welcome to Gaia! ::

Ana smiled to Sachiko while her sister adjusted her fingers. She nodded to her as she began to open and shut them as instructed. She managed to get a handle on it by the second or third try. She beamed to Tohru.

"Onee-sama will be happy when I show the dance you're teaching me, Tohru-chan!"

Tohru smiled and nodded, proud of Anata learning so fast. "We can practice at the okiya, too, Anata-chan, if you'd like. Onee-sama could watch us perform."

Tohru looked at Sachiko's hand and clapped. "Very good, Sachiko-san! That's perfect. Now, tossing," she said taking her fan and tossing it in the air. She held her hand up and caught it smiling.

"Balance the fan before you throw it like this. Toss it lightly and then catch!" she explained going through the motions slowly. "You two try."

Tohru blushed a little and tried to hide it by fanning herself. "You're such a fast learned and attentive student, Anata-chan. Keep practicing, and it will get easier with each time."

Tohru closed her fan and reflected for a moment. "Practice being graceful. Make every movement fluid and beautiful. Think of the most graceful animal that comes to mind and mimic its movements. Don't just mimic them in here; discipline yourself to mimic it at all times so that it becomes second nature."

Tohru closed her eyes and visualized a swan. It felt like such a long time since she had done this consciously. Carefully and gracefully, she took out her fans and did a slow dance, moving as fluidly and gracefully as the swan she saw in her head. After a few moments, she forgot her she had an audience and allowed herself to continue dancing, her eyes closed, a small smile forming on her face.

She smiled to her and then to Sachiko as she thought of a butterfly koi. With the long graceful fins that flowed in the water with such a refine deliacy. She did her best to protray the whimsical fins in her movements, doing her best to mimic Tohru's movements too.

"Like this?" Ana asked aloud repeating her movements as she done so many times by now.

Timidly Yokohana walked into her dance class that she had long been absent from. Looking down ward as she found walked to the teacher. " I'm sorry that I have been gone for such a time..."

Yokohana nodded. "Thankyou..." Quitely she would question Iyasu before going to the line with the others. " When, you are free at the Okiya...Could you please show me what I missed?"

Seeing Akyio enter Yokohana waved her over jesturing to the area next to her. "If you would like, Us sisters need to stick together...Seeing as Yokome-nee-san is onee-san to the both of us..."