 Two years before the series began, he was engaged to Kana Soma, the assistant in his doctor's office.The relationship ended when Hatori asked Akito for permission to marry Kana and in response, Akito attacked Hatori (in the anime, he threw a vase), leaving him almost blind in his left eye; Akito then blamed Kana for the incident and she felt so guilty about it that Hatori was forced to suppress her memory of their relationship to ease her suffering.When Tohru meets up with him near the end of Volume 2, he looks back on his time with Kana, then says his heart is like snow.