Tsubaki

Tsubaki was a young miko Shrine Maiden in training like Kikyo when she was alive. She studied under a priest at a Shinto shrine as an apprentice and she and Kiky were rivals sometimes battling sidebyside to defeat ykai Tsubaki always attempting to better Kiky using her own holy power. While Kikyo and Kaede were traveling the countryside to visit small villages and help slay ykai Tsubaki laid a curse on Kikyo telling her that as a miko she must abandon her heart for if she ever fell in love with a man she would lose her holy powers and suffer an untimely death answered by Kikyo039s cool denial.