Satomi Kimura

**Housemates:** | Kotomi Kimura (mom), Naoki Kimura(brother)

Satomi was born to Eito and Kotomi Kimura. Satomi has experienced sickness ever since she was a baby. She born prematurely on November 9, 1999 at nine in the morning a few hours after her mother was involved in a car accident. No damage was inflicted on Satomi's mother but Satomi had to stay at the hospital for a few weeks to grow a bit more and develop. As the days passed, Satomi had grown to a healthy weight and was able to be taken home by her family.

She was showered with love and gifts. After about almost two years, Satomi's mother became pregnant again and gave birth to her younger brother, Naoki in the spring of '01. A few months after Naoki's birth, Satomi's mother received a phone call from a local hospital telling her, that her husband was caught between cross fire of dangerous gangs and unfortunately was shot in the abdomen. Although Satomi didn't quite understand what had been going on, she felt sad because she had to watch her mother cry. Eito, Satomi's father, didn't die at first but he remained in a coma which extended from three weeks to six months.

Kotomi could not bear of watching her husband hover between life and death so she wanted to end his misery and requested that the nurses take him off life support. He died that night and Kotomi told her children that their father had went back to his home country, Japan, and was never coming back. Kotomi was able to mourn and his accept his death while her children accepted that their father had left them. With Eito gone and no one to provide the money, she knew that the landlord of her building would evict her so she gave a month's notice upon her lease. She decided to move in with her sister, Carol who had been married to an American fellow named Joshua with two children, Liana and Mordecai.
So she moved out her house into her sister's house with her children. Carol offered condolences upon Eito's death. Satomi and Naoki had a wonderful time playing with Mordecai and convincingly all them had been toddlers except Liana who was in her fourth year of elementary school. She stayed in their house for years until Satomi came down with another strange sickness when she was about seven. She kept falling unconscious in class and having nose bleeds plus she felt constantly sick and tired all the time. When the family took her to the doctor, they found out that she had leukemia and desperate to save her life she was put on chemotherapy.
Satomi had been sad and didn't understand why she was sick and why her hair fell out. She had to wear wigs in the early stages and only few people saw her bald. It took three years for the cancer cells to be cleared from her body and to be declared cancer free. However she was still monitored upon to see if the cancer would come back but it did not. Kotomi moved her daughter and son and got a small apartment while working part time at a sales department store, she also got money from her sister's family to help her out. Her hair started to grow back but very slowly which embarrassed her so she often wore hats in school and refused to remove them which got her sent to the principal's office often. After the issue was cleared up by her mother, Satomi was allowed to wear hats.
When she was fourteen, her hair had grown up to her shoulders and she decided to cut it a bit shorter because she did not like the way it felt on her neck. Currently she still wears the same short hairstyle everyday. Now she is struggling with the daily trouble of high school and is still working on trying to figure it all out.

Satomi is actually very moody some days she will feel seldom blue and on others she will feel or just okay. She's actually a very reflective person and keeps things to herself and she is rarely ever loud but more so on the quiet side. Her father leaving her still has an affect on her making her not to trust any member of the male population except for her cousins, brother and uncles. She's actually confused on why so many bad things have happened to her and wonders if anything good will come from it. She frequently talks with people when she can but she considers them acquaintances rather than actual friends because she doesn't believe anyone fits in the category. She is very close to family though and will protect her family at any cost.

* She has a fear of bad reputations.