General Info

First Issue: USAGI YOJIMBO Volume 2, Issue 14

Comics Which Contain This Story

This story can be found in the following comics:

USAGI YOJIMBO Volume 2, Issue 14

Characters

The following characters are mentioned in the story:

• Gunichi
• Miyamoto Usagi
• Neko Ninja

Story Synopsis

Usagi remembers his ordeal with the princess Kinuko as her procession passes. After evading the Ninja, they realize much of their ordeals are similar.

They attend the Tanabata Matsuri festival, where they enjoy themselves, and begin to fall in love. She gives Usagi her favorite flower, a Kiku blossom, and they are about to kiss, when Usagi denies their passion for duty.

At that point, they are beset by the Neko Ninja under Shingen. Usagi holds them off until Gunichi arrives with his search party.

Afterwards, Usagi meets the Princess in the gardens privately, to take her up on the offer of being runaways. This time she refuses for duty, and they part ways.

In the present, her procession passes, and he walks away, wondering if she still remembers him and not noticing the Kiku blossom she drops from her carriage for him.