 Although it seems Tenma's feelings for him are unrequited, he shows true concern for her in the story on a more subtle level.His parents live in the United States; in the beginning of the story, Karasuma was supposed to move there, which caused Tenma, in a fit of despair, to write him a love scroll (it was initially meant to be a love letter, but Tenma had written what she felt, so in the end, it came out in the form of a scroll.