 She tells Kyo Soma she is ignored and rejected by her parents, and falls in love with a student teacher named Katsuya Honda who stands up for her when her parents disown her after a gang fight.Katsuya and Kyoko marry after she leaves middle school and has a daughter, Tohru, and Kyoko learns how to work through difficulties together with Katsuya.She is devastated by her husband's unexpected death and nearly kills herself before remembering her three-year-old daughter needed her.