[SAKURA]
When she had left the Kimura manor, Sakura was sure she was in her right mind to be out fighting wars and all the shit that came with it. She had prepared herself from the moment Otaru had pointed out that they would be going against Izanami.
But when Izanami walked through that door, she felt her heart snake into her stomach.
For a moment, it was just her and her mother, the last remaining Watanabe women.
A mother and daughter who would never see eye to eye.
A queen and a dowager who had different ideals and were scary in the worst of ways.
And that was scary because at that moment, Sakura didn't see her mother. She didn't see the dowager; she had simply left her seat a month ago. She didn't see the woman who had been ruining lives for the moment she had taken over, no.
Sakura saw someone different.
