Kai Doh Maru

The battle for the capital city of Kyo rages as warring political factions vie for power against the hereditary rulers. After the murder of her parents by her seditious uncle, a young girl named Kintoki flees to the mountains, where she leads a harsh life and is renamed Kai Doh Maru by the local villagers. She is later rescued by Raiko, the captain of "The Four Knights"—honorable defenders who protect the peace of the city—and is raised within their group as a boy. Living among the Knights, she learns martial arts and develops into a skilled samurai, becoming a permanent member of their team. Now, as a young woman of seventeen, she begins to experience new feelings of passion and love for Raiko, but she also discovers that these emotions provoke a storm of jealousy and rage in another woman connected to her past.