Kaoru Kamiya

• Nick name: Raccoon Girl
• Occupation: teacher of Kamiya Kasshin Ryu
  Age: 17
• Birthday: June 1862
• Height: 155 cm (5 ft. 1 in.)
• Weight: 41 kg (90 lbs.)
  Blood type: O
• Weapon: Boken (wooden sword)
  Style of Fighting: Kamiya Kasshin Ryu
• Apperance: She usually wears a ponytail.

History

• Background: she is the owner of her dead father dojo, she is a master of her family style. She meets Kenshin while she is fallowing a person who says to be Battosai and is using her family sword style. She lets Kenshin and the others stay in her house and falls in love with Kenshin. She strugles a lot finding out if Kenshin really loves her, she is young and confused woman who has a lot of responsabilities. She is part of the romantic touch of the story.
   

• Personality Traits

  • too shy to open up her true feelings to Kenshin (it goes both ways though)

  • generally happy

  • short-tempered and a little bit demanding

  • jealous of Megumi because she's afraid that Megumi will steal Kenshin's heart

  • antithesis of Tomoe's character at times

  • strong virtues of honesty, sincerity, and purity of heart

• Fighting Style: Kaoru most likely learned Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu from her father. Kamiya Kasshin Ryuu's purpose was to protect the people around you. Kenshin once told Yahiko,
  
  "Kamiya Kasshin Ryu is based on protecting people. If you lose, the person whom you are protecting loses as well. It doesn't except defeat. You should remember this."

Techniques

• Hawatari- The attack succession technique. Forming an X above the head and twisting the wrists. If used right, it can be a killing technique.
   

• Hadome- Defense Succession technique. The act of restraining the opponent's weapon.