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Breaking Curses

Chapter One

The Clumsy One

My name is Kaida Raidon Agate, and I am not as interesting as my name sounds. I've always been a normal girl who lived in a normal house in the lakeside town Nami. I had one problem in my life. My sister. Her name was Miki Aiko Agate, as beautiful and beloved as her name described. Everyone preferred Miki over me, saying she was prettier and more delicate than I. It was not small wonder they said such things.

Miki was nineteen, a year older than me, and she was gorgeous. She was tall, thin, with long chestnut hair that fell to her waist in perfect curls. Her eyes were a deep, pure green, and she was always smiling. Everything seemed perfect about her. Not once had she ever fallen in front of people. 'Nervous' was not in her vocabulary, unless she was describing me. She had a multitude of friends, and one more thing of which I was envious: the perfect man.

His name was Haruki, and Miki was not the only one who thought he was perfect. Haruki worked in the shipyard, and he was always atop the rigging of one ship or another. Haruki was the typical tall, dark, and handsome man. He had deep brown hair and gray eyes, was always tan from the sun, and reportedly the most romantic of any boy to have even lived in the town. Perhaps if Miki married him, she would leave and go to another town, never to bother me with her perfection again.

Every other girl in the town imagined themselves in Haruki's arms when he had first come to the town three years ago, but Miki was the only girl he had dated while he was here. They were the same age, and when they looked at each other, I knew that my sister had one thing I did not. She had someone who loved her.

My sweet mother always told me to be strong and to be myself before she died. She didn't want me to try to be just like Miki, and I knew I would never achieve that. All I wanted was to be liked as she was. My friends were few and as unpopular as I, and everywhere I went it was by Miki I was recognized. They all knew somehow that I was Miki's younger sister. Did she really talk about me that much? I didn't know how they guessed that, seeing how I in no way resembled my elder sister.

I was thin like she was, but I was taller and had always been taller. My hair was shorter and brown, whereas Miki's was long, curly, and red. My eyes were a paler green, without the intensity that Miki's held. But I did not have her way of holding herself, her smile, her grace. I was clumsy, with a crooked grin, and always tripped over my own feet, lest I held a sword in my hand. The only thing I was good at was swordplay, but women were not allowed to practice that art.

It was in secret that I made my way to a secret clearing deep in the forest that surrounded our village to practice my sword skills. The only person I allowed to come with me was Keyne. She was my best friend, a short, athletic-girl with dirty blond hair as short as a boy's and freckles across her face. We were in the clearing the day my life changed forever.

Kaida means "Little Dragon" and Raidon means "Thunder". Miki means "Beautiful" and Aiko means "Little Loved One". That's what Kaida is talking about in the beginning.

To talk about Kaida's world a little, it's a fairly modern place, but the only weapons used are swords. That's why Kaida swordfights.