Haruka

Haruka () is one of the main characters of Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan!. She is a young girl who calls upon the help of Kiryu Kazumanosuke to seek vengeance against the man responsible for the murder of her parents.
==Profile==
=== Appearance ===
Haruka's facial features are nearly identical to her modern counterpart, Haruka Sawamura. Her hair is tied up, featuring some gold headwear. During her first encounter with Kiryu, she weirs a purple kimono.
For the rest of the game, she wears a bright red and white kimono. During her visit to Nijou castle, she wears a green kimono.
=== Personality ===
Haruka is vengeful, which is shown whenever she asks Kiryu to kill Miyamoto Musashi. When she realises Kiryu is Musashi, she doesn't hesitate to draw a blade at him when he pretends to be unconsious.
However, she is mostly soft-spoken and shy, never having any full conversations with anyone other than Kiryu or Ageha.
== Background ==
Haruka is the daughter of the late Shogun Yuki Hideyasu. In 1600, he was assassinated by Miyamoto Musashi under the orders of his superior, Marume Nagayoshi. Before his murder, Haruka was placed into care with people she believed were her parents, so that she would be safe away from political war. During one night, Marume was sent by Nankobo Tenkai to kill her and her parents. While Marume and his soldiers killed her foster parents and brother, he couldn't bring himself to kill Haruka. She escaped, and went into hiding. Whilst in hiding, a man known as the Wandering Monk approched her and told her to go to Gion, and seek out Kiryu Kazumanosuke.
==Involvement==
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku: Kenzan!: 1605 ===
In present-day Gion, Haruka arrives in Gion with an item covered in cloth. The guards of Gion bring her to Kiryu, due to Haruka mentioning his name. Kiryu is initially hesitant to talking to her, until the cloth comes off and reveals a sheathed sword. Kiryu takes the girl in, and asks her what the request is; to kill Miyamoto Musashi. She explains that her family were killed at the dead of night, and that she escaped into the night. She also explains how a man with a scarred chest told her to seek out Kiryu in Gion. Kiryu takes the sword from Haruka, and finds a small red bell attached to the buckle of the sword. He talks to her about how he can't just go around and kill whoever, but get's interupted by Haruka stating that Kiryu agreed to do the job as long as he gets paid. When the Landlady of Tsuruya arrives with a group of training kamuros, Haruka decides to apply to work in Tsuruya as another kamuro, servants for the higher ranking courtesans. After she leaves, Kiryu grows concerned and checks up on Haruka at the brothel.
Later that night, Kiryu talks to Haruka about her request, and she confirms she still wants vengeance. Kiryu agrees, and sets off to find out who this other Musashi is.
He stumbles upon Haruka being dragged out and verbally abused by the courtesans. They are confronted by Yoshino, who scolds the two courtesans, and helps Haruka up. After Yoshino leaves, Kiryu sees Gion Toji walking out of the entrance, stumbling onto a crying Haruka. He approches her, and attempts to solicit her, before Kiryu stops further talk. She is sent back into the brothel by Kiryu.
A few days later, a banquet is being held at the Tsuruya brothel for the new Governer of Kyoto, Itakura Katsushige. Before the banquet begins, Kiryu checks on her again, and they start talking about whether the request was a good choice; if it would make Kiryu a "bad person". Kiryu assures her that he won't change, and she leaves to get ready for the banquet. Once Kiryu and Ito sneak into the brothel, they witness Itakura inappropriately holding Haruka, with the Landlady and Yoshino trying to stop him. Itakura drags her away with him away from the banquet, just as Kojiro ambushes the brothel. A fire breaks out, and Itakura tries to kidnap Haruka away from the brothel. When burning pillars fall in between the two, he leaves her to burn to death. He is then killed by Marume, and Haruka is left to fend for herself. She finds Kiryu during her escape, and sees Kiryu with the sword holding the red bell, coming to the revelation that Kiryu was Musashi all along.
After the brothel is burned to the ground, Kiryu tries to talk with Haruka again. She shows him a red bell, and tells him she knows he is Miyamoto Musashi. Kiryu tries to explain that he wasn't the murder, she doesn't believe his denial, and goes back woth Yoshino. After Kiryu takes on the Hozoin tournament, he meets up with Marume, who reveals that Itakura arrived in Tsuruya to take Haruka to the Tokugawa clan, who had been searching for. Marume had killed him in order to prevent Haruka from escaping.
A day later, Yoshino brings Haruka to Kiryu's residence, and Yoshino reveals that she was worried about him when he left for the Hozoin tournament. Haruka then asks him to come to the brothel in order to discuss something. When Kiryu arrives, he hears from Yoshino that Haruka has now become a Shinzo, known as an apprentice courtesan. He states that he's proud of Haruka for how well she's adjusting in the red-light district. She arrives, and shares a drink with Kiryu. She and Kiryu talk about the duel between Musashi and Seijuro, and Kiryu reveals that he is going to the duel to find Musashi. She says she'll wait for him to come back.
Haruka finds Kiryu passed out in his home, after a battle with Ueda Ryohei and Gion Toji. She sits near him as he sleeps, as Yoshino tells her that even if Kiryu is indeed Musashi, it doesn't have anything to do with her or Haruka. She is told to keep an eye on Musashi, and she stays by his side. She starts to contemplate killing the unconscious Musashi, before being confronted by Yoshino. She doesn't go through with the killing, and runs away.
Later in the night, she bumps into Majima Gorohachi, who then kidnaps her and keeps her hostage at the Kiyomizu temple. Kiryu fights Majima, and Haruka is rescued. Kojiro ambushes them, but is stopped by an old man who unchains Haruka from the temple.
The next day, Kiryu and Haruka go to the Nijou Castle, where they meet the old man, who reveals himself to be none other than Haruka's grandfather, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu explains that his son, Yuki Hideyasu, was due to become shogun. But because he was killed in a scheme by Nankobo Tenkai, the heir to the shogunate instead went to Tokugawa Hidetada. After this revelation, Ieyasu asks Haruka if she wants to come to Edo, but she declines, due to growing attached to Musashi as a fatherly figure.
After a few days, she is kidnapped by Tenkai and brought to the Ganryu island, where Kojiro asks Musashi for a duel. After the duel, Tenkai arrives and ambushes Musashi with his personal army. During the long fight, Tenkai is seen dragging Haruka allthrough the island. Once Tenkai is stopped at the edge of a cliff, Haruka runs away behind Musashi. As Musashi and Tenkai fight, Tenkai falls over the cliff and onto the beachside. Haruka watches as her uncle comes to land the killing blow on Tenkai, only to be stopped by Musashi. She watches as Kojiro instead kills Tenkai, as ships brought by Tenkai start arriving on the island. Musashi gives Haruka one last request to be with her family, but she refuses. She tries to stop Musashi taking on Tenkai's army alone, but Musashi assures her that she changed his life for the better. She watches as Musashi sacrifices himself to fend off Tenkai's troops.
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