Chapter 1

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I Will Get Revenge On All of You

In the year of 1910, around east north there's a brave commander, nicknamed Black Panther. He gets everything and anything he want, no one dare to say "no" to him. His fiery temper and skills had won many battle and earned many respects from his soldier and his best friend/vice commander Ranko Wong. Black Panther aka Fujitaka had many wives, by now he already had 7 at his early 30th. And so, the story began here.....

It was a nice sunny morning, soft breeze blew by, a young girl around the age of 18 was walking side by side with her aunt buying things in the side street. The girl is very beautiful, also graceful, you can tell she's from a rich and respectable family and had a very good education. She had long wavy dark gray hair with bright emerald green eyes, she was wearing a Chinese style everyday clothes, but it's not tight, it's comfortable, but showed her figure nicely.

Suddenly, there's horses' whining sound, and an amount of soldiers behind Black Panther came rushing through the street, and warning people to stayed out of their way. Because the girl and her aunt's back is facing them, they didn't see the horses coming, when their about to cross the street, they saw them but was not quick enough to dodge them. So, the girl fell to the ground, and Fujitaka's horse is only a few meter away from step on her, when he saw her, and the horse is going to step on her. He quickly pulled the rope around the horse's neck and cause it to step on the sideway, and the girl is saved. She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly sit up, her aunt bring her to the other side, and allowed Black Panther's troop to continued their journey.

~Nadeshiko's POV~

I was walking around the market place with my aunt Orlean to shop for something. When suddenly a troop of soldiers coming towards us when we were about to crossed the street. I was terrified, so I trip and fell to the ground, the horse were about to step on me. Oh my god, this is the end of me! My eyes went wide, and I almost fainted, good thing the Black Panther pulled the horse to the sideway. I breathed a sigh of relief, i'm close to death today! My aunt quickly helped me up, and to the sidewalk to allowed Black Panther's troop pass.

My aunt was checking to see if I was ok, "oh, my, Nadeshiko are you hurt? Did you scratch yourself? How are you feeling right now? She was horrified to see me, almost lost my chance to live on this world, if it wasn't for Black Panther, I had to agree, he looks handsome, but he's too old for me. I was assuring my aunt that I am perfectly fine, with no scratches what so ever, just a bit scared by the sudden event. While I was assuring her, Black Panther and his troops turned back, he looked straight into my eyes, and I felt a bit nervous by the way he's looking at me. He suddenly asked me a question....

~Fujitaka's POV ~

While my troop and I are passing by the girl I saved and the woman with her. I can't help but be mesmerized by her eyes, and suddenly I remember where I have seen that pair of eyes before. So, I stopped and turned back, I stopped in front of her, she looked up at me, I looked straight into her eyes, she looked a bit nervous by the way I'm looking at her. So, I asked her a question "what is your name?" "My name is Nadeshiko Tara, sir." I thought about it, Nadeshiko, it's a very beautiful name. So, I called Commander Wong, asked him how to write Nadeshiko Tara in Chinese, and tell him to do the rest ( he had done this before, and Commander Wong knows exactly what Fujitaka's talking about, and if you want to know what it is, you'll have to continued read the story!)

~End of The POVs~

After Black Panther finished his question, without a second word, he turned and rode away. Nadeshiko and her aunt Orlean was wondering why would the famous and merciless in killing Black Panther would asked Nadeshiko her name. But, they soon get over the situation and headed straight home. That night, after Nadeshiko finished her dinner, had her shower, brushed her teeth, she write in her diary telling it everything that happened today. When she is done, she climbed into her bed, and turned off her night lamp that are on the small bed table, beside her bed, and she fell into a dream.

Next Morning

When Nadeshiko woke up, she gets dressed, and had her breakfast. She was reading books in the house's library, when some servant came and informed her "there's a lot of soldier waiting outside and they requested to see you, and they are now talking to Master Tara." When Nadeshiko heard this, she thanked the servant, and rush to the waiting room and ready to ask what happened, when she saw several soldiers holding red wrapped boxes. She asked "what's going on?" "Oh, Miss Nadeshiko, you're here, great, these are the money and jewelries, Black Panther gave to your aunt and uncle to announce that you'd be his eighth wife." Said Vice Commander Wong.

"I'm afraid you have to take these back, we are at least a well respect not to mention well educated family, we can't accept that our niece being Black Panther's EIGHTH wife." Replied Nadeshiko's uncle.

"Mr.Tara, our commander respect you very much , he's brave and wealthy, he and Miss Nadeshiko are the perfect pair. Commander can provide the BEST of everything for your niece's needs if she becomes his wife. Our commander's fourth wife was the daughter of the emperor's personal literature teacher. Also, you knew full well, that our commander are definitely capable of ruined everything you have right now, if you dared to oppose his command." warned Vice Commander Wong.

"Then, I guess, this is a forced marriage, we can't do anything but accept it?" questioned Mr.Tara. "You do not need to be worried, Nadeshiko is in good hand, Black Panther will take care of her, and make her happy." Said Vice Commander Wong.

"Are you sure, I'll be happy, being his eighth wife?" asked Nadeshiko finally.

"Trust me, Black Panther is a great man, if you married him, you wouldn't ever think about leaving him." stated Vice Commander Wong. "Alright, I'll accept the marrige, don't worry aunt and uncle, I can take care of myself, I don't want you to be in trouble because of me." Said Nadeshiko.

They hugged her, and replied "Child, you had never given any trouble to us, we were willing to do it for you, because we care for you like our own daughter." "Thank you aunt and uncle, I'll try to visit as much as possible." Since V.C Wong got his answer, he left the stuff, and left to tell Black Panther the good news.

When they open the box that supposedly contain the clothing for Nadeshiko to wear and attend the wedding, it was a red horseback riding costume. They gasped and said "don't tell me, he wants you to wear this for your own wedding." While they are talking about the costume, Nadeshiko is thinking to herself "I hope I made the right choice in marrying him."

The next day, the trip from the Tara to Black Panther's mansion, were filled with people at the sidewalk celebrating. After the ceremony, Nadeshiko had become the eighth wife of Black Panther, but now she could addressed him as Fujitaka. He only allowed family to address him like that. When time passed by, Nadeshiko really did fall in love with Fujitaka, but good time like these didn't last long.

1 years later

While Fujitaka booked a seat at a music theatre to listen to the performance. He spotted another that reminded him of her, he signal V.C Wong to do what he needs to do. After a few association, the girl's name is Sonomi High, and is now 19 years old. A month later, Sonomi became Fujitaka's ninth wife.

30 years later

A old man sitting at a window looking outside and think, suddenly there's a knock at the door. In came Sonomi holding a tray of hot tea, and greeted the man "Fujitaka, I had your favorite hot tea for you, do you want to drink it now?" The old man is Fujitaka replied "Sonomi, I was thinking about what happened in the past, I really missed Sakuya". Hearing this, Sonomi was boiling with anger inside, but remain calmed outside and said "why do you think of Sakuya, she already died, don't think about things that are sad. See, I had 4 children for you too, 2 sons and 2 daughters, shouldn't you think about them instead?" With that, she called the maid to get her daughter Tomoyo whose the second eldest in this family. But the maid replied that Tomoyo was still in school and have not come back yet.

Syaoran and Eriol

Tomoyo was waiting at the bus stop, and was waving good-bye to her friends at school.

Syaoran and Eriol was trying to get into the office building and hoping to get an interview with Mr.Qing, but his bodyguard wouldn't let them take even one step closer to the building. While they argued, Mr.Qing was hugging a woman and walked out of the building, Eriol took this chance and take a picture of Mr.Qing and the girl. The bodyguard immediately tried to grab the camera, but Syaoran and Eriol had already been running for their lives, so the bodyguard was chasing them around the streets in Shanghai.

While Syaoran and Eriol are running, Syaoran took the roll of film and hid it in his pocket, they keep running when the got on the bus, which is the bus Tomoyo is on, they hurriedly climbed up and keep running, but Eriol accidentally bump Tomoyo. She waited for the impact on fall to the ground, but it never came, she opened her eyes, to see Syaoran holding her to keep her from falling, she blush a shade of red, and stand up. By the time, the bodyguards had already got on the bus, Syaoran quickly gave Tomoyo the roll of film, and said "meet us at the next bus stop." With that, he and Eriol jumped out of the bus, and run. Tomoyo watch them run and put the film roll into her handbag.

Tomoyo's POV

The bus was quite crowded, I wonder if I can find a seat. I wondered silently to myself, just then, a boy with glasses is heading straight towards me, I can't find a place to dodge him, and he bump me and made me lose my balance, I waited for the impact, thinking its gonna hurt, but it never came, I opened my eyes, and staring into a pair of mesmerizing amber eyes, I can't and don't want to break the eye contact. But some people dressed as bodyguard came towards us and shattered the moment.

The guy with the amber eyes gave me a film roll and whisper in my ear "meet me at the next bus stop." Then, he disappeared into the crowd and jumped out of the bus with the guy who pushed me accidentally. Should I wait for them at the next stop? I really want to see him again, I guess I'll wait for him then. I put the film roll into my handbag, and waited for the next stop.

End of POV

Back to Syaoran and Eriol, they have been dodging, running, and damaged several flags, to hide in the small ally but the bodyguard soon they had been surrounded in a small alley way, they surrender and gave the camera to the bodyguards, they took the film out and broke Eriol's camera and walked away.

Eriol freaked and said "Oh no! My camera! It's broken, now the manager are going to kill me!!! Syaoran, if you're going to hand them the film roll, why didn't you just handed to them earlier? Or maybe give them the film roll and keep the camera? Now my precious camera is gone, I even told the manager, that the camera is here then I'm here, the camera is gone then I'm gone, he's going to fired me!

After many complaining, Eriol finally calmed down, so Syaoran speaked up, "Eriol, I didn't gave the bodyguards the film, the one they took was the one that we take in the zoo, it's all about animals, and is filled with elephants, monkeys and many others. Now, if we hurry up, maybe we could get the real film back." With that, Syaoran leads Eriol to the destination.

After Tomoyo got the film, she secretly kept it, she had a feeling she could trust that guy. So she waited at the bus stop for them, awhile later, Syaoran and the other guy, it was the guy that bump into her, they came toward her, stand in front of her. Syaoran politely ask Tomoyo "Thank you Miss. Can we have our film back now".

Tomoyo decided to had a little fun with them so she put on a innocent dace and ask "what film? I don't know what you're talking about, I don't even know what it is, so I just stuff it under the bus' seat." Syaoran and Eriol's face paled "what the! Bus? Great, we had to chase the bus we might be able to get it back." "Syaoran, how can you be so careless and handed our important picture to a little girl, anyway, let's go!"

When they were about to run and chase the bus, Tomoyo suddenly called out "is this what you're looking for?" They turned around and found Tomoyo holding a roll of film, the same roll of film that had Mr.Qing's picture in it. Syaoran took the picture and asked her "tell me, if you don't know us, then why did you kept the film for, and waited in here for us, what if we're the bad guys?" Tomoyo answer "because I made a bet with myself, and I bet that you're a good guy, but if you're not, then I'll just returned the film to the police station." "But what if we kidnapped you before you could get to the police station?

Anyway, I guess you win the bet, we're not bad guy we are reporters from Shanghai Seng Newspaper. I am Syaoran Li, and this is my friend Eriol Hiiragizawa." "Oh, Shanghai Seng Newspaper, my brother works there, I guess you really aren't bad guys after all." replied Tomoyo. "Oh? Who's you're brother?" asked Eriol. "My brother is Touya Kinomoto, and my name is Tomoyo Kinomoto." said Tomoyo. "So, you're Touya's sister, we're bestfriend with Touya, the people at the newspaper building called us the "Three Swordsmen", not real swordsman of course, its just a nickname." replied Eriol. With that the three chat like old time friend all the way, they even walked Tomoyo home.

Somewhere In The Poor Part of Shanghai

A girl in the age of 18 close to 19, was getting dressed, and was ready to go outside the pouring rain. She had bright emerald eyes, and silky auburn hair. A lady came from the kitchen and tell the girl "Sakura, be careful out there in the rain, and don't lose the umbrella, this is the last one we had. Remember don't get angry at your father, always remember to ask him nicely ok? Now off you go, come back soon." said the lady known as Nadeshiko, but she aged very much. The girl Sakura said "don't worry mom, I will ask father nicely, and I won't let Sonomi or any of them get on me." replied Sakura with a lot of confidence.

After much difficulties, and Sakura again lose her umbrella, and cover in dirt headed toward the Kinomoto Residence. She rung the bell, the maid that carried an umbrella came out, and quickly escort Sakura into the house, in case Sakura caught a cold. Sakura stand in the middle of the living room, in the large mansion, her anger doubled, but she remained calmed for the sake of her mother.

While Sakura was waiting, Chitose who had just finish conversing with her friends, start to complaining about Sakura and throw nasty words at her. But Sakura didn't flinch, but inside she was boiling with anger. Later, Sonomi came descended down the stair, she looked at Sakura and said some sarcastic remarks towards her and Sakura couldn't control any longer, she told Sonomi to shut up, and they started an huge argument.

It ended, when Sakura said "this is dad's house, if I want to come then I will, you're not my mother, you have no right telling me what to do, and where to go." Sonomi was about to argue back when Sakura's father Fujitaka came down the stair, because he heard a huge commotion down stair, and figure it was because of Sakura's visit. He came down, to see Sakura all wet from head to toe, he came in front of her. Sakura started "Father, I came here to get this month's money."

"I know, Sonomi go up stair and get $20 for Sakura." Sonomi walked upstair, but Sakura say to Fujitaka "Father, $20 isn't enough for us, it's been 3 month since we paid the rent, we still owned the people in the market money for our groceries, mother and I need more clothing, plus my shoes is opened holed, the person who fixed my shoes can't fixed it any more. And mother's sickness had been getting worse, I need money to get her to see the doctor." "So, how much do you want?" Without hesitating, Sakura said "$200". Sonomi shrieked "$200, are you crazy, please you only need money for your mother and you, 2 people. But here, we have plenty of people we need to feed, and beside you think your father is still rich like before, please, we are here to run away from those outsiders, we're not here for vacation!" "Sonomi's right Sakura, you need to understand father's situation too." said Fujitaka.

Hearing this, Sakura's anger flared up "So, you have money for maids, you have money to buy bracelets for Tomoyo, have money to own a horse, have money to own a car, have money to buy new stuff for Chitose and Jiro, but you can't spare $200 for mother and I for the important things WE need?" Now, Fujitaka is angry also, "this is my money, who are you to tell me how to use it, I'll use it on anyone I want to, you have no right to talk to me like that!" By the time, Sakura's face was streaked with tears "dad, you loved mother before, and I am your daughter too, you know, do you really want us to become homeless because we can't paid the rent!!!" screamed Sakura.

Fujitaka can't take it any more, he slapped Sakura across the face and command Touya who just came down the stair to get his horse rope (you know the one where people that are riding horse have the another rope, and hit the horse in its legs, so the horses will run faster, it's that thing.) Although Touya doesn't want to, but he couldn't disobey Fujitaka, so he reluctantly got his horse rope, but hesitated in handing it to him. Fujitaka took it forcefully, and tell everybody to step aside, he's going to teach Sakura a lesson on respecting him (that's what he think, when poor Sakura-chan didn't do anything wrong :(, (so cruel). Sakura shakily replied " no, you can't hit me, you had no right to hit me, these years you had never done a father's job, you have absolutely no right to touch me at all!!!!"

After Sakura's voice died down and fall to the ground, Fujitaka swiped the rope across her face, and started beating her up left and right, everyone was there watching her getting beaten up, Tomoyo wants to convince Fujitaka but stopped by Sonomi, they just continued standing watching Sakura getting beat up, Jiro was hiding his smile and Sonomi and Chitose was smirking at the side. After a while of Fujitaka's beating and Sakura's screaming, Fujitaka stopped, the image of Sakura getting beaten up was hunting him, so he stop, but when Sakura was able to stand up, Fujitaka told Sonomi to get $200 for Sakura.

Sonomi unhappily handed the money to Fujitaka, when Sakura was able to stand, she lifted her beaten up face, and gazed murderously at everyone of them including Fujitaka. When she finally say something she said "you'll be sorry. You'll all be sorry for ever treating me this way, I'll get my revenge, when the victories are mine, I'll laugh while watching you people suffer!" She took the money from Fujitaka, and throw it high up in the air, while it's falling down, she said " one day, I'll be back, and get my revenge. (looking at Fujitaka) I'll never accept your money, EVER again, you hurt me, you break the only connection we had as a family. You're not my father, I don't ever want to see you again!!!! With that, Sakura run out of the mansion, and into the rain, taking her beaten up body and use her determination to get home, the only place she'll felt warm and comfort, because there's the only person, who's waiting for her to come back to her. She'll care for her, love her, and do anything for her. That only person is her wonderful mother Nadeshiko.

Well, how do you think of it. I know I made Fujitaka, Sonomi mean, but trust me, they are needed in the story to make it interesting, I made it a bit more detailed, and its only Sonomi who's the b**** ^.~. Hope you like this chapter! I'll soon updated, by the mean time, I hope many of you, who read this story to please review and give me some encouragement. Constructive flames are welcome, so I know what I could do to make it interesting. Thanks so much for people who actually review the previous chapter, thanks for your wonderful comment! Until then, See Ya Next Time!!~.^