Spin-off: Four Demonly Kings
A New Year Kaguya and Momoka spent together before both joined the PPC. Since this is a backstory segment, Kaguya has short bobbed hair.
New Year had arrived, and with that much joy and excitement for the Hazama household. Momoka's first holiday spent with the family was one to remember: Kaguya's parents had given her an excellent New Year gift.
Momoka almost had a heart attack upon seeing it: an elaborate kimono order-made for her. It was a fine crêpe garment dyed in an elegant pattern of peach blossoms and temari balls over a backdrop of soft pink and white, finished with a touch of gold dust. Such fanciful clothes Momoka never thought would one day be hers.
Once she had put it on with Mitsuki's assistance, another pleasant surprise was in store – Kaguya offered to apply makeup and select accessories for her. Momoka exerted incredible willpower to remain calm – every dab of powder, every stroke of lipstick was almost torturous. Not helping matters were the remarks he made.
"Just a light dusting of blush and a cherry blossom shade for your lips. Pink is the perfect colour for you; it's like you were born to wear pink. The only thing you need now is a pair of peach blossom hair clips, with rouge kumihimo cords. Oh, don't you look like a peach princess – so sweet I want to take a bite."
"Kaguya, stop teasing her," Mitsuki said with a chuckle. Momoka hoped neither mother nor son noticed her scorching blush underneath her makeup.
New Year in Hokkaido of course came with a thick cloak of snow over every roof, every tree. Snow dusted over blooming camellia flowers and the torii gate like icing sugar upon a strawberry cake.
Among the crowd of shrine visitors on New Year's Day, a handsome young man with black bobbed hair arrived with a young woman who wrapped her scarf around her head, exposing neither her face nor her hair. "Momo, are you really that cold?" said the man. "Do you need my scarf?"
"Kaguya-sama, please don't worry, I'm alright," the woman replied. "You should keep yourself warm; your health is just as important."
Momoka was not cold; she could not bear showing her face. After the incident on her and Kaguya's first day of school, the entire student body knew she lived in the same house as the Vermilion Bird of the tea ceremony club. She dared not imagine the disaster that would ensue if she was recognized walking side-by-side with Kaguya out of school uniform.
It certainly did not help that Kaguya continued to act exceedingly charmingly. He daintily touched a snow-covered camellia blossom grown by the flagstone path and said, "Yuki fureru, fuyu gomori seru, kusa mo ki mo, haru ni shirarenu, hana zo saki keru. Ki no Tsurayuki is my favourite poet of all time, and not just because of his poems. My greatest admiration for him is toward his Tosa Diary. That a man had no fear of expressing femininity and expertly wrote from a female perspective, penning Japan's first diary novel and launching the female diary genre, I find very impressive."
Even though Momoka's face was covered, Kaguya had figured out what she was feeling. He gave her his phone and ordered, "Momo, will you take a picture of me posed next to these flowers? I'll send you a copy later. Be warned though, I'm hardly a good model."
