Kaori is often up with the birds, before the sun—and her family—rises. She scoots up close to the entrance to peer out of the den, already getting a little crowded with the growing girls. She peers across the way to see Ukko sleeping out in the open, wondering how cold it must be without the heat of the others. Why he stays away from them at night has been a question in her mind but one she’s never quite voiced. Instead, she looks back to her slumbering sisters and her mother. With a heavy sigh, the girl lowers her head to her paws and waits for the first set to wake up or someone to come by and whisk her away.
Come by someone did, and Hisaya approached gently the pup she saw stir, a pheasant hanging limp from her jowls as she cautiously dropped the gift beside the denmouth. She had woken earlier and decided quickly a gift for her sisters growing family would be in order, but the girl caught her attention quite easily.
"hello", she greeted simply, a small smile dancing on her maw as she glanced up from placing down her small offering and at the girl that sat seemingly with patience, wondering for a brief moment which one she was; though she guessed that simply the girls response would allow her to easily guess.
While the eldest, Airi was often second to rise. It didn't bother her much — she was getting her beauty rest after all; she needed it as a growing girl — and she lazily rose soon after Shiori, her goody-two-shoes sister, did. She saw the small dark figure, her sister, curled up outside. She smirked wickedly, hoping to stalk out and catch her by surprise, but there was another who arrived first. Airi strode outside, pouting at the woman, giving a half-glance to the pheasant. Alright. Ohayōgozaimasu. Go now. Bye.
She said, stepping towards the pheasant, intent on claiming it first.
The approach of another puts a big smile on the girl’s face and she begins to pick herself up so that she may properly greet the woman. She seems familiar, if only vaguely, but perhaps it is only because she is supposed to know who stands before her. Kaori opens her mouth to speak but the words are silenced by her older sister whom is being quite rude. The girl narrows her eyes and wrinkles her nose and shakes her head, stepping out of the hole in the ground to leave Airi behind.
“Be nice,” she hisses before spinning back to the stranger. “I’m Kaori!”