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P5. hmm..? Sakura wondered, she stared off to the direction the other girl were looking at and Sakura stared in astonishment. There, was a lovely Maikor or Geisha, she couldn't tell, but she was beautiful. "Thanks anyways for your help." Sakura said smiling slightly, "I think I'll just start helping and doing my chores now, thanks again!" Sakura bowed quickly and wandered off to her room that someone else told her was hers.

Xu Jia smiled and bowed slightly again "I will be back" she headed back to the kitchen and boiled some water. Xu Jia put herbs in the tea and stirred it lightly. She put the tea pot on a small tray with a cup beside it and brought it back to Kikaru's room. Xu Jia waited at the door to be polite walking in without being invited would have been very rude. "I have finished your tea" she smiled keeping a good posture.

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Sadayakko heard Yokome's request and quickly stood and walked to the kitchen silently. She poured cold water into a tea kettle and patiently waited for it to boil. At long last, steam began to pour form the whistle in a long, steady qhite stream. Sadayakko poured the boiling water into a heavy cast iron teapot delicately painted green; though it was heavy, it held a strange beauty to it as well. Carefully, she filled a small teabag with jasmine tea leaves and closed it, and put it into the teapot.

As it was brewing, Sadayakko arranged a tea tray that complimented the teapot and carried it to Yokome's room. Sadayakko knocked twice on the open doorway before entering and placing the tray on a stand. She poured Yokome a still steaming cup of jasmine tea. She knelt to wait to see if Yokome had any more need of her.

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"Thank you, just set it over there." Kikaru motioned to a spot beside her bed. "..now can you help me replace these pins in my hair, they seem to have come loose.." She asked, smiling lightly at the maid before going over to her small table where her mirror sat. She kneeled down in front of it and waited for Xu Jia.

Mitsuki was tired of waiting. All her life she had been waiting for a chance to become a maiko, or even a geisha. And finally, when she gets the chance, it means nothing. Mitsuki didn't even know why she felt that was, she just did. "I'll show all of them I can become a geisha," she said. "Even you, Hatsumomo...." She looked over at the beautiful maid with great envy.

((No offense to you personally, Hatsumomo! 4laugh ))

Post 5

Mitsuki finally decided that now, she would take a stand. She walked out of the maid's quarters and into the kitchen. There, she found a cloth and dampened it with some water. She saw some dirty cups in a stack and had the urge to make them shine. Mitsuki took down a cup and cleaned out the leftover tea that was in the cup. After a few minutes she had finished cleaning all the cups and left them sparkling. She set them neatly in two rows and smiled. She admired her work.

7th Post

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Yukiko arrived at the doorstep of her okiya with nothing but the clothes on her back and a small satchel containg only the most precious of her personal items: a picture of her and her father, a small jar of cherry scented lotin that her grandmother gave her, and a beautiful laquered comb an old man had purchased for her because she kept him company on a long journey.
She held her breath with anticipation as she knocked on the door.
"They can be no worse than mother..." she mentally re-assured herself as she put on a polite and friendly demenor. She desperately wanted to make a good impression and resolved to work hard, physically, mentally, and emotionally. "They will be my new family." she thought as she reflected on all the wonderful times she had with her father before he died.

After a long spell of slumber, Mitsuki woke up crying. She had dreamt of her mother. Mitsuki took out her small cloth bag and opened it. She pulled out a picture of her mother and stared at it with a long, mournful gaze. Then she took out the beautiful flower comb her mother gave to her. The flower was the shape and size of a habiscus, and was pink, white, and yellow. Hanging off of the flower were strands of flowers. Mitsuki ran her fingers through the strands.

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