Board Thread:Konoha General RP/@comment-28929139-20170617012019

Almost two years ago, Kideme was gearing to leave entertaining behind, but then a little birdie put the bug in her ear to keep trying and maybe go another route. And she did. Her first attempt at dancing like a showgirl had been a complete disaster, and what was worse was the fact, that she didn't even know she did so bad until it was over. Since then, however, Kideme had been practicing and practicing ...and practicing. And she practiced even more after that. She even took Tiatsu's advice to try and learn from Akane directly. Normally, the woman was an ice queen offstage and would have laughed anybody else out of the okiya. Perhaps it was because Kideme was the Suzume-Bun [heiress] of the teahouse, or maybe it was her manner or the fact that she just didn't see her as competition, but whatever the case, Akane surprisingly agreed.

Learning how to dance as a geisha was hard because it required grace and elegance, and though Kideme didn't have much of either in most circumstances, she could pull it off. Seductive dancing, however, was ten times more difficult because it was high energy, you needed to engage your audience, and you had to be sexy while understanding poise. But most of all, it required personality, and Kideme had that in spades...but....everything else needed work. Still, she worked herself to submission just about every day to learn and improve. With that in mind, every so often, she would call on Tiatsu to stand in as a one-man audience to judge and criticize. If she was being honest with herself, she didn't always like the things he had to say, but his words were accurate and she used them as a springboard to improve on.

That being said, she had since seen him and she gradually got better, and today was one of those days. Any time he came too, he had his pick of tea and food for the day at no charge.

As usual, business this afternoon was peaceful and quiet, and Kideme waited for him in the Tea house's foyer. She was dressed to the nines as usual in a pink kimono and her hair was pinned into a bun with a few combs. Whenever he appeared, she smirked with a slight bow of her head."Brown afternoon. Ready?" 