Kaoru Hanabishi, a college student living alone, encountered a beautiful yet perplexed girl wearing a kimono at a train station. He offered to help her find the address she sought, which was in his neighborhood but turned out to be a vacant lot. Unsure of what to do, Kaoru invited the distraught girl to his apartment and requested any further clues to her intended destination. She presented him with a photograph of two children, which Kaoru recognized as himself and Aoi Sakuraba, his childhood friend. The girl before him was indeed Aoi Sakuraba, his betrothed fiancée who had traveled to Tokyo to marry him. Her revelation was not only astonishing but also reawakened deep memories of why Kaoru had left the Ai Yori AoshiHanabishi family initially.
