Kimiko

Kimiko.

Kee-Mee-Ko.

It is a name that his tongue curls to many times, the name that is like a nagging thought that lingers in the abyss of his mind. A name, or a bunch of alphabets strung together that described a woman, which he obsessed over. He will not admit that his admiration or infatuation for Kimiko was deemed as creepy or weird by others. How could you merely accuse someone as 'a man with a mental condition' just because he sat at the teahouse facing the okiya which she resided in, from dawn to dusk?

But enough about him and more about that peculiar geisha and her soft, plump and pinkish lips that was always stained with a red smear. And her intricate designed kimono which she sported today, a dark shade of lavender with spirals of sakura strewn across it. Those lips that he often gazed at from his position in the teahouse as she walked around Yoshiwara with her apprentice as she gracefully greeted her patrons and introduced them to the little maiko.

Oh how he wanted to graze his lips against hers. No matter how much he wished to buy her time and company, it was against his family rules and his status as a daimyo to ever communicate with a geisha; especially a geisha with such a high standing in the industry.

He himself finds it wrong to associate with that Kimiko, not because of her occupation, but the age difference that they shared. Though the gap was only 5 years apart, he couldn't but be stunned whenever he remembered that he was head over heels in love with a girl five years his junior. Yet, he highly doubted that society would mind the age gap. Truthfully, age gaps in the Yoshiwara district didn't matter, a 60-year-old man could seek solace with a 24-year-old geisha so long as he paid a price. A hefty price.

He was awoken from his reverie when Kimiko raised her head from that ninety-degree bow and her eyes slowly trailed to the teahouse he was in.

Before her gaze landed right into the irises of Chase Young.

And something in him clicked right then, that he would do anything in his power to make her, his.

geisha-female entertainers during the edo period.

Yoshiwara- the pleasure district during the edo period.

Maiko- a geisha-to-be

Daimyo- Territorial lord

Okiya- a place where a geisha resides

chapters will be short, but fairly quick. all are un-betaed.