What is the meaning of beauty? There are tons of answers to it, but for me, there's is non prettier than mother nature itself. In warm spring, sakura petals blew into the winds as they fall from the sakura trees, the petals like a well made pink silk kimono covering the whole land. Right now, for me, it is time to practice my dancing performance.

"You are losing focus, concentrate on the music Wakumi-kun," Yusa, my Nee-san scolds me as she continues playing the shamisen. "I know it's spring but the sakura festival will be in three days and you still can't memories the steps."

As I come back to my own senses, I apologise immediately, "I am sorry Yusa Nee-san, I will try my best." To be honest, damn, this kimono is too heavy for me.

The Sakura Festival is a local tradition to the Yukaku of this town when Oirans and Geishas from each house perform their dances to worship the beauty of mother nature. Every year Kongiku Nee-san, my senior, is the star of our teahouse who performs every year representatively, but to my curiosity this year I am the chosen one.

After the whole morning practice, I am worn out as I walk back to my room. Before that, someone calls me.

"Wa-chan, can you come in here for a moment?" There's Kumiko Nee-san, the youngest courtesan among the others. Although she's not as skilful as Yusa-nee, she is talented at stitching kimonos.

"Sure, I am coming," I replied and entered her room, a splendid particular display of Kimono collections flickering in front of my sight.

Kumiko-nee closes the sliding door and pulls me to the centre, "Here here, you got to try this one that I made for your festival dance."

After she finished dressing me up, she let me put on a pair of black platform geta humming in the background. The moment I looked into the mirror, Kumiko-nee let out a cute squeaking noise, "Kyaa, you are so cute and small. Luckily the getas show you some more heights."

I quite appreciate her help, to tell the truth, she made the best kimonos in the world. After trying out my new outfit, I changed into my casual kimono and planning to do some shopping. Before I just got to the front door to get my getas, someone is calling me.

"Wakumi, you are going out? Nee-san is coming with you." There is Kanagawa Nee-san, although she may be cold-hearted on me she scares me a lot, but a good sister too.

"Sure, not a problem Kana-nee." I wait for her and she comes along with me, we get our getas on and we left the teahouse for a walk.

The first time I came to this teahouse, every Nee-san were very anxious and aware of me that I am actually a boy but look more feminine. But Maika-san, our "Okaa-san" accepted and allowed me to stay in this family. However, living with them for a long time we got well know each other and they treat me as their family. Of course, the first day is not a great day for me.

-^-^-^-

Before that, I was just a lone stray boy wandering the town. Actually, I am used to be as a boy but my parents took me as a girl. Back in the home my childhood never went well, my father was a drunkard as my mother was a prostitute working in an illegal Okabasho, darkness swallowed my past and I continue living in fear.

Years later my parents sold me to the slave market for one large gold coin, but I escaped and wandered into the woods for three days without food or water. I thought I was going to die but a pathway appeared in front of my sight, I followed it and there is a town where merchants and travellers visit frequently.

As I entered the town it was dawn, I covered myself with a black cloak I found on the sidewalk. As night draws near, the streets are lit up by colourful lanterns hanging between buildings and I have never seen such a lively town full of people. Walking down the streets, I heard shouting from somewhere.

A male teahouse staff stood next to a cage-like window shouting, "Welcome! Welcome to Sanzu-no-Kawa! It's our famous display of all the most beautiful girls in Shinkatsu (town name), it would be such a waste if you don't come in at least once!"

The crowd is getting bigger and bigger, I slipped into them to see for myself. As I got a clear spot, I couldn't believe it. A light smell of cherry wood smoke blew out from a lady's red lips, luxurious clothing, pretty hair ornaments with lustful smiles. So these ladies are Orians and other prostitutes that work here, my eyes are totally fixed on them.

Then, a lady in golden hair talked to a girl in red kimono, the girl's eyes were looking and smiled at me, she giggled as I tried to look away. After such a view, my mind still shows those beautiful Orians. I hope one day I can be like them, I thought to myself.

Wandering around the town for the whole night had exhausted my strength as I couldn't walk any further, before collapsing onto the ground, someone held me up just in time, it was a lady.

"My my, are you alright dear? You look so pale," the lady held me up to a bench to let me sit down.

"I haven't eaten for three days," I replied. "And I don't have the strength to stand up."

The lady thought without hesitation and lend me her hand, "Come, let me carry you from my back. I will take you somewhere to settle." She carried me on her back and walked slowly.

I am so weak as I spoke softly to the lady's ear, "Thank... you..." Then I slowly fell into a slumber. That is the first time I met Okaa-san herself.

-^-^-^-

Not so soon, we have arrived. The kind lady slowly woke me up as I opened my sleepy eyes. "Here we are," she said. In front of my sight, it looked with a familiar memory, it was the teahouse I visited earlier. Then curiosity grew in my mind, was this lady a member of the teahouse staff? I thought.

The moment we entered such splendid architecture, it was my first time to visit a tea house like this. The arches and ceilings are well constructed with decorations on them. Before entering, the lady helped me change my straw sandals into a pair of curve wooden geta.

"Here you go, you will need to keep your bare feet clean, let me wash your feet in the backyard," she led me slowly through the corridors and asked for my name.

"It's Wakumi," I said softly. The lady smiled, "You call me Okaa-san for now as I am the landlady of this teahouse." In short, she took me to the backyard and told me to wait.

"I will be back with a bucket of hot water and a warm towel, you wait here," she said. I nodded as she patted my head and she went away.

The backyard has glittered with fireflies with pure moonlight shining from the dark sky, I am so glad that Okaa-san gave me a temporary shelter to stay for a short moment, but the truth was there were secrets I never knew about this teahouse.

While I waited, I thought I heard some crying voice behind the bushes in the yard, I pretended to hear nothing but the voice still echoed in my mind. I put on my new pair of geta and walk slowly into the dark following the voice. It was getting louder and louder as I came closer to it, I moved the bushes aside and was shocked by what I saw.

A girl in white kimono with purple obi crying behind the bushes, I slowly walked closer to her and asked, "Umm... are you alright?" The girl sniffed and looked at me with her dark purple eyes, suddenly I got a chill as her face appeared under the moonlight. White skin... white long hair... tiny sharp teeth... and weird red pattern tattoos on her face, IT'S A YOKAI!!

The moment I just turned and ran, I felt some sticky caught my sleeves and I am being pulled to a tree and tied up on it. I tried to scream but my mouth was gagged by a towel. Behind the white kimono girl, there are two more mysterious shadows appeared behind her, the shapes of them did not seem to be human.

"Ara ara~ Look what we have here~ A young fresh meat little girl~"

"She is so dumb and falls into our trap."

"Ahaa~ I want to lick her crotch, I can't wait."

This is bad! This is very bad! I thought to myself. I tried to free myself but those sticky ropes are so strong. Just then, clear geta steps were getting closer and closer, the white kimono girl was facing in front of me. She lifted up my chin and licked it slowly. Oh no! I am going to die! I AM GOING TO DIE!

Then the girl grasped my kimono and it seemed she was going to rip them off. As I tried to scream as loud as I could, I heard someone rushing here, as I looked around, there was Okaa-san with a lantern in her hand. But the moment she arrived, the girl had already ripped my kimono off with my whole body naked.

"What the devil you girls are doing?!" As Okaa-san looked at me, she gasped with her whole eyes wide, as did the white kimono girl and the rest. With a moment of awkward silence, they screamed. Yep, they find out that I am a boy.

-^-^-^-

After I am freed from those ropes, I am being waited for sitting in a hall as I heard screams of pain outside the doors. The moment the slide doors slammed open, Okaa-san was pulling three yokai girls into the hall while pulling their ears. They were screaming from the pain.

The girl with a pair of small horns on her forehead apologies, "Ow ow! I am so sorry Okaa-sama, It was all Kumiko's idea!"

Then a girl with a half-snake body said, "Please please it was really Kumiko's idea, not mine!"

The white kimono girl screamed in pain, "Please, please don't cut my pay as punishment! Please!"

As Okaa-san released their ears, the girls were rolling on the mat in pain. Then she snapped, "You three! Sit up!" As they sat up properly, I ran to her and hid behind Okaa-san's back.

"How many times do I need to tell you? Huh? You do not reveal your true forms whenever there are guests in our house, do I make myself clear?!" Okaa-san shouted as the girls were full of regret.

Okaa-san turned to me and asked, "You still hurt?" I shook my head as she let out a sigh of relief.

Then she turned to the girls angrily, "For your punishment is to clean up this young boy! Or else, no red bean soups!" As she just finished, the girls fell into silence. She turned to me and said, "I will prepare you some food while you are taking a bath with them, if they try to fool you again, tell me, ok?" I nodded and Okaa-san left me to the girls.

-^-^-^-

After that, I am being brought to the onsen bathroom by those mysterious girls. The onsen designs were spectacular, it looks like a high-class bathroom. As the girls insisted on me sitting on a stool, The girl with half-snake body took my towel away and put it aside, "Now, let us make you nice and clean."

While being scrubbed, the girl with horns spoke first, "I am so sorry we scared you too much." I am so afraid of what they did to me, I better keep myself silent.

The white kimono girl sighed, "Actually I don't know you are really a boy, also sorry for what I did to your clothes."

She lowered her arms and introduced herself, "I am Kumiko, the youngest courtesan who works here. The girl with horns next to you is Yusa and Kanagawa, the half-snake girl, they are my Nee-san of this teahouse."

I looked at Yusa as she smiled at me, the smile, so she was the red kimono girl I saw from the crowd! But as I turned to Kanagawa, she let out a grumpy sound. Looking at their appearance, I can't believe that yokai do exist in this world.

While washing my hair, Kanagawa asked, "So where do you come from?" Her chest was pushing against my back, I don't know what to say.

"Hey, at least the name of your village?" As I still don't know how to reply, Kanagawa was losing patience, she warped my neck with her tail and lifted me up into the air, choking me. Yusa and Kumiko looked surprised.

"So you want a death wish! Huh?!" Kanagawa angered like a pissed snake.

"Stop Kana! You are going to kill him!" Yusa cried as Kumiko stopped Kanagawa, "Just leave him be! Otherwise, Okaa-san is the one to kill us!"

After being scrubbed clean, I dipped myself into the onsen with the others. Ahh, all my muscles and pain have been washed away as long as I can only feel relaxed. While relaxing, the girls were sitting so close to me as their naked boobs were afloat on the water. My head started to get red as hot.

Looking at their fully developed bodies, I poked Yusa's arm to get her attention. "What is it, Wakumi?" she asked.

I tried to avoid contacts on her chest but Kumiko got so close in front of me as her big titties were facing in front of me. "Um... can I ask you a question?" I asked Yusa.

"Please, you may ask me anything you wish." She said. I slowly looked towards her chest, "Your breasts are really amazing, they're almost like big freshly baked rice cakes."

As I finished, Kumiko cut in, "Hmm? Ara...Ara! So Wa-chan, you want to touch them?" She squeezed her boobs between her arms and tried to seduce me.

I tried to look away but Yusa saw me blushing, she giggled and held one of my hands and so Kumiko did the same thing, they put my hands on each of their boobs as Kumiko said in a lustful voice, "How do they feel? Is it the first time you touch a girl's body?"

"It... It is my first time, they are so soft and bouncy," As I continued groping, my mind was going blank.

Yusa was letting out a small moan, "Mmn! You're being so rough... to let you know that, the bigger they become, the stronger our power over men will be." "Huh!? Really?" I replied.

From the other side of the onsen, Kanagawa was watching afar with scary cold eyes. "Damn those two! They are doing this on purpose, knowing that I am not fond of liking him!"

While I am still being seduced by such weapons, something is going to happen under the towel on my lap. Kumiko looked down and licked her lips, "Nee-san, I think we got a tiny pitch tent here." No! No way! There is no way I could calm down myself!

In a while, Yusa also noticed something under the water. She lifted up my towel and there was my penis "saluting the truth". The two of them looked at each other more than at me with their lustful eyesight. I am feeling something is going to be very bad.

Still in the onsen, I had been forced to sit on the poolside while Yusa and Kumiko stroked my penis. The moment they stroked, I couldn't resist!

I begged them, "Yusa-nee, Kumiko-nee, can you both please stop?" They couldn't listen to me as they slowly moved closer to my ears and bit them. Oh my god! What am I actually experiencing right now? Far from the other side, Kanagawa was trying not to look at us, but actually, she couldn't resist herself too, she was masturbating herself.

-^-^-^-

After a long bath, I am being brought to the dining room where I am having late supper with the others including Okaa-san herself. Then I noticed there was another Oiran sitting next to her, smoking with her kiseru (a kind of Japanese smoke pipe).

She looked at me with such sharp eyes like a sly fox, she puffed and asked Yusa. "Yusa-chan, who is this little fellow next to you?"

"Oh this is Wakumi-kun, you may think of her as a girl but actually a boy," then she tapped my shoulder. "She is Kongiku-nee, our oldest Nee-san and the most popular Oiran in this district. Introduce yourself to her."

I lowered my head and bowed with politeness, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Kongiku Nee-san, I am Wakumi."

She looked at me full of her eyes with a smile, "Ehh? A boy? Interesting..." Then suddenly nine fox tails appeared behind her along with a pair of fox ears on her head.

Kongiku did a posture to call me to her, "Come here little fellow, let me see you closer with my own eyes."

Although that gave me a small chill I took my bravery and walked towards her, Kongiku patted on her labs, "Come, lay on my labs, let me touch your hair." I did as she said and she caressed my hair with a tail patting my body. In an instant, her tail caught my attention, such a fluffy looking tail.

I looked at Kongiku-nee as she looked at me, "Ara~ you want to touch my tail? Go on." Wait, did she look into my mind? I hesitated a bit as she looked at my puzzled expression, she giggled.

"Ara~ Ara~ what is that face dear? Of course, I am a Kitsune and I can read your mind." One of her tails wriggled in front of my sight, "Come on, touch it."

The moment I touched them, my hands were sinking into the fur, such warmth and fluffiness. Looking from the other side, Kumiko and Yusa were jealous.

Then suddenly a mind appeared in Okaa-san's mind, "Kongiku, you reminded me that Yusa is in the age of official Oiran right?"

Kongiku nodded, "Yes she is, she is able to teach and accept apprentices." Yusa was confused about what she heard.

Then Kongiku looked at her, "Yusa, I am fond of this young kid. He has the talent to be a better Oiran. I have made my choice to accept him as an oiran apprentice of ours."

Yusa and Kumiko were very surprised and thrilled, "So he is staying here with us?" They asked.

I jumped up and asked Kongiku, "Really? I can stay here?" She nodded along with Okaa-san's smile, "Yes, you are now one of us in this family, Wakumi." said Okaa-san.

Apart from Kanagawa looking away from me, the rest joined in together and hugged me, "Welcome to the Sanzu-no-Kawa Family, Wakumi."

-^-^-^-

And so, there is where my life as an apprentice oiran in the Sanzu-no-Kawa Teahouse.

- Edited by @DannyTheWeeb