I want to believe that childhood Kaoru (totally not the Kaoru that was called Kao-chan normally) had short hair (like Maya's as an example).
edit: how do you draw kids hhhh, anyways I also like to imagine that she wasn't anything like now but just a normal, even shy character. have I mentioned I have 200563090 headcanons today
edit 2: I'm gonna adopt this child god I love her, guess who went to sleep at 1 am because she stayed doing bad doodles of this girl,,yes me