Kaoru is a strong willed girl who, in the series, is a budo teacher of the Kamiya Kasshin Ryu created by her father. Her fighting style is intended to protect people. She can be a bit short-tempered but overall, she is quite a friendly person, willing to help anyone to the best of her ability. She met Kenshin, when she assumed that he was the murderer for all the local murderers currently happening in her town. When she finds out that he wasn't the murderer, she was quite nice to offer her home as a place to stay for Kenshin. She does eventually develop a love for Kenshin, but she's a bit shy on the romance side . She only has one student at her dojo, Yahiko, and everyone else that lives at her home just freeloads.
