Name: Megumi Takani

Aliases: Fox Lady, Foxy Doctor, Medicine Chest

Age: 21

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 108 lbs.

Body Size: B 34"-W 23"-H 36"

Hair: Black

Eyes: Dark Purple

Blood Type: B

Weapon: No Weapon

The Takani family name has been famous in the medicine field. Megumi's father, Ryusei Takani, is quite well-known. However, at the young age of eleven, Megumi began a life of lonliness. During a battle in her hometown, Aizu, Megumi's father was killed, as he was a doctor who tended to the injured on the battlefield. Megumi was also separated from her mother and brother during this battle, forcing her to seek a way of income by herself.

Megumi soon took a job as a doctor's assistant in Tokyo. She had always wanted to be a doctor because it was in her blood. Yet, the doctor she worked for manufactured opium for a big time drug dealer named Kanryu Takeda. When the two got into a disagreement, Kanryu shot and killed the doctor. Since Megumi had witnessed the incident, she was forced to take the doctor's place in manufacturing the drug, as she had also required the skill of making opium from the doctor.

Miserable was Megumi, dealing drugs, which she knew wasn't right. Opium sold well on the streets, but Kanryu wanted something even better than the current product. Megumi was forced into making a more powerful opium, one that could kill if taken. A few bags of the new opium were sold, and those who bought it eventually died after taking it. The most notable death of the bunch was Sanosuke's friend Yoita.

Megumi tried to escape Kanryu, turning to assistance from Kenshin, who she ran into at a gambling hall along with Sano. Kanryu wouldn't let the one that lays the golden eggs run off so easily without at least telling him the secret of making the deadly drug. Kenshin and Sano protected Megumi from the men chasing her, Kanryu's thugs and the Oniwabanshu. Yet, Sano could care less of what would happen to Megumi once he learned she was the one that sold the drug that killed his friend. Many times, Megumi has thought about suicide to escape her life. When she was captured by Beshimi of the Oniwabanshu and was locked up in a tower awaiting to be tortured by Kanryu for defying him, Megumi readied her knife for her own death. Luckily, just in time, the Kenshin Gumi arrived and Sano prevented Megumi from throwing away her life.

Kenshin convinced Megumi to continue living as a doctor to assist the sick and wounded, atoning for her wrongs, just like he is. Although she was a drug dealer, Megumi's name was cleared by Kenshin, preventing her from getting thrown into jail. Megumi became Doctor Genzai's assistant and lived at his residence until she moved back to Aizu after Kenshin's battle with Enishi. Often she had stopped by the Dojo Kamiya to flirt with Kenshin and tease Kaoru. Yahiko has no qualms with the fox lady, the nickname of Megumi given to her by all men who saw interest in her, because she had saved his life once. In secret, Megumi has a liking to the ex-gangster Sanosuke. She is too shy to tell Sanosuke her true feelings, so she pretends to like Kenshin, although she knows he's already taken.