Disclaimer: I do not own CCS or Memoirs of a Geisha I just barrowed both of them for my story.

Note: this story s set between the 1930's to the 1950's

Geisha's don't deserve happiness

Chapter 1: A very sad beginning

Today was a beautiful day in Uja Japan, it was the first day of spring and all the cherry blossom trees were starting to bloom. There a young girl about 9 years old with bright emerald eyes and short auburn hair tied in to pig tails was wearing a light green kimono with dragonflies dancing across the fabric, she ran down a small dirt road lined with cherry blossom tress. Finally coming upon a small cottage sitting next to a rice field, she saw was something she didn't expect. There was a big black carriage with 2 jet black horses in front of her home, being the curious child she was, she proceeded in to her house. She saw two big scary looking men in matching black kimonos. Her father smiled sadly at her when she walked in. She then looked for her big brother to explain to her what was going on. Once her eyes found her brothers she knew something was wrong, his eyes held anger and sadness. "Kinomoto Fujitaka" the one man with a long grey beard and balled head began "you have not been able to pay your debts, so now we are going to take your daughter to Kyoto to work until they are paid off." "NO, there must be another way to pay off our debts!" exclaimed the girl's older brother. "no there isn't, we have given your family plenty of time and you still haven't even come close to paying your debt off, perhaps your beautiful sister will have better luck in Kyoto" laughed the other man who had long dark brown hair tied in to a pony tail. Then the two men took the young girl and went outside and thru her in to the big black carriage she saw earlier. The two men quickly sat in the front of the carriage and started off towards Kyoto. The young girl quickly stuck her head out the window and screamed "TOYA! HELP!" Her brother no known as Toya ran out of the cottage and yelled "don't worry sakura I will find you!"

Sakura was asleep when she was roughly pulled out of the carriage by the man with the pony tail and dragged in to - well in her opinion, a very large house. She was thrown to the floor. Sakura looked up and saw 3 women and a young girl who looked to be about her age. The first woman was maybe in her early 40's, she had small glasses and her black hair was tied up in to a bun, she was smoking from a long red tobacco pipe. "Here Mameha" said the man with the pony tail "im sure you could use her, she has quite a debt to pay off." Mameha walked foward slowly and bent forward grabbing Sakura's face and staring in to her eyes for a moment, she let go of her face and took out her coin purse and paid the men. "Now get out, this is a Geisha house, not a brothel." Sakura was glad to see the two men leave but her thoughts were quickly disrupted when she was hit upside the head with a bamboo cane. That's when Sakura looked over to the owner of that cane. The other woman was old! She had kind but stern eyes, she looked sakura over and then spoke "what is your name child?" sakura then became very nervous and she couldn't get out a single word. "Ha! Maybe she is mute" laughed a young women with long black hair tied in to two small buns with hair cascading down her back. She had on a deep red kimono that hung loosely around shoulders. Sakura knew instantly that she was not going to get along with her. She glared at the young woman and confidently replied "my name is Kinomoto Sakura!"