The story of Tanaka
Tanaka's Pov
My name is Tanaka Youma and I was born on October 28, 1811 in Kyoto. I was the son of a Samurai and I was expected to be too. I had 2 sisters: Kiriko and Akiko, both younger than me, they would be wives of samurai but it could not be like that. My mother was the daughter of a samurai, she was a motherly and affectionate woman, her name was Wakasa, I still remember her singing love songs to my father, she took care of her family especially the hard head of my father, Tanaka Isao, I loved him but he was a hard head. At that time, being the administrator of the Phantomhive family never crossed my mind, I thought of becoming a samurai like my father. My father was the man of the shougun's trust, so I studied next to the son of the shogun, of course, my little sister Kiriko was in love with that fool and got mad every time I called "fool" but the truth was he was a cretin.
When I turned 16, my rivalry with that idiot began and I did not finish well because I beat him in sword practice. One day I beat him again and Kiriko came to claim me.
"How could you do that to the young master?" Kiriko alleges
"He's not my young master, we are of the same age"
"You are a fool, Youma! He is the future shogun, you mustn't humiliate him!"
"He doesn't love you ... and you know it"
"Shut up! You are a fool!"
"And you're a stupid little girl"
"I hate you Youma!"
Kiriko left my room running and crying, deep down I knew everything but refused to accept it. Then Akiko came in and looked serious, she was only 15 years old but she was as mature as an old woman.
"Kiriko told me everything, she is very angry with you" Akiko said
"She is just a boy"
"But she is in love"
"Of an idiot"
"Listen to Youma, I know they are rivals, but it is not good that you become their enemy, after all, he will be a shogun"
"I know Akiko"
"It is good that you understand"
I react as any teenager to the words of my younger sister with indifference but she was absolutely right, that bastard hated me and took revenge on me when he became Shogun.
I was 22 old-years when all this happened, the new shogun, my childhood rival, ordered my family to be executed, before sending my sisters and my mother to be raped. I could not stand it and I killed him with his men, after that I could not stay longer in Japan, so I had to escape. That night, after my revenge, I took a small boat and went east. I don't know when time is at sea, but I ended up in Korea, a strange land for me. I arrived in a city called Busan and I think they were not used to foreigners or the Japanese, because they all avoided me or looked at me as if I were from another planet, until a group of children started throwing stones at me, they stopped when they I showed my katana. For 2 weeks I lived in the streets with the vagabonds, who gave me their liquor, something good to live in the street. One day I caught the attention of a Korean nobleman, I still remember him: something fat, dressed in silk and with a beard; I was accompanied by a servant.
"You look terrible boy" the nobleman with a firm voice said
"And I feel the same " I answered
"It can be fixed"
"How?"
"Your sword"
-What happens with my sword?
"I need a new bodyguard and you seem the right one. If you want a job and a place to live? Come with me"
I was surprised by his proposal, but I accepted it, I did not want to continue living with the drunks and the vagabonds. On the way, I wonder what my name was and I simply told him he could call me Tanaka. I do not ask anything else.
This noble man's house was huge and very luxurious, I lived well and did not complain, I was his bodyguard and I wanted to make sure nothing happened to him. At that time, I never knew it was true love or imagined it was until I met her. My beloved Jung-Suh. That night that nobleman told me that they would go to see the "Sun of Busan" dance, which went to a house of Giseang, something similar to a house of Geishas. I was a little bored waiting for Busan's sun to dance when it appeared in my heart I wanted to taste of my chest and I could not believe my eyes, she was a true beauty: well-combed black hair, moon-white skin, eyes as black as olives, thin eyebrows, fleshy peach lips. 2 women spread a paper on the floor and Jung-Suh dipped his feet in Indian ink, it was when he began to dance doing a beautiful drawing with his dance; and I began to fall in love with her with every step I took, it was like a butterfly. When the nobleman for whom he worked ended, he approached her to talk and congratulate her.
"Oh! My lady, your dance reached my heart" the noble said
"So you honor me" Jung-Suh said
"Not for nothing you are the light of all Busan"
"Only from Busan?"
"From all of Korea ... From around the world" I said blushing
I must admit that at first I did not like her because she ignored me, but I did not give up. Try by all means that she looks at me, but she keeps ignoring me, I almost gave up until that event happened. Surely the goddess of love accompanied me that day. There was a girl, Giseang's apprentice, whom Jung-Suh loved as much as a younger sister, sure that Jung-Suh was her Onee-san. That day Jung-Suh ignored me as usual until the girl fell into the river while playing, that was a powerful river and the girl could drown if she had not come out safely, almost threw the girl because she kicked a lot but managed to take it out of the river , the poor girl looked like a wet girl and scared by how she trembled, but that fatal accident served to conquer a Jung-Suh because when I saw her eyes I knew that now I looked different, not with repulsion but with attraction.
"Thank you ... for saving her " Jung-Suh said.
"It was nothing, I could not let a child die"
"You're a good person"
"Thanks you" I said retreating
"Wait! ... I would like to know your name"
"My name is Youma"
"I'm Jung-Suh"
It could be her makeup but I swear I have seen her blush and I also blush, that's how a friendship started that quickly became love, but we had to keep it hidden or we would have problems. Our love nest was in an old abandoned house near a lake, there we gave free rein to our love, I still remember the nights when I loved her carnally and they are still magical for me. One day Jung-Suh gave me important news that would change our lives forever.
"I'm pregnant" Jung-Suh with his hands on his belly said
"I'm going to be a father?!"
"Yes, you're the only man I've been with"
"Buda! Jung-Suh! What joy!"
At that moment she broke down in tears, I did not understand what happened to her, it must have been the emotion but she seemed scared.
"What-what happens?"
"If Madame finds out, send me with the prostitutes!" She reply crying
"That will not happen ... I will not allow it"
"Youma, I'm scared, what can we do?"
"Escape"
"What?"
When I said that she stopped crying but the black tears kept rolling down her cheeks, she did not expect that answer, let alone hear the word flee but I stop crying just look at me as if I had said crazy.
"Escape? But where? You cannot go back to Japan and Korea are not big to hide"
"Then we will go to England"
"England?"
"Yes, it will be our new home ... Although I do not have much money"
"I have it! ... the clothes and accessories of a Giseang are very expensive, we will have the money if I sell them"
"Good idea, my love"
The plan was to escape the day when there was a celebration but something happened that spoiled things and it was the madame from Giseang's house where Jung-Suh lived, that woman knew that Jung-Suh planned to escape with me and punished her as if she were an animal. She was half naked, tied upside down on the floor while they were throwing cold water on her and they were hitting her.
"Say it! Gave the name of the father of that bastard you carry in your belly!"
"….. "She did not answer
"Did he promise you a better life than you have ?! What did he promise you ?!"
"Love"
"Love? Do you think that the Giseangs have the right to love ?!"
"Yes"
"You are stupid! ... I thought I was doing well by converting the daughter of a poor butcher in Giseang but it was my mistake, you were the sun of Busan but now you are nothing and you were going to be my successor!"
"I'm the sun of my beloved"
"A man! You chose a man, not as a giseang but as a prostitute"
I heard everything and could not stand it and ran to them not without first giving a beating to a guard but they were too many and managed to immobilize me, the madame, a beautiful mature woman, approached me and looked at me as if I were an insect I wanted to step on.
"I must assume that you are the father" the woman said
"Get away from her!"
"But what strange is your clothes, it seems to me that you are not from here"
"It does not matter, don't touch my wife!"
"You stole my future successor but neither you nor she interest me, take your wife and get out"
The guards released me and I went with Jung-Suh, cut her ties and take her with me. She was very weak and could barely walk so I had to carry her, when we left that giseang house, Jung-Suh showed me the bag full of money for selling her Giseang clothes and things. Enough for our trip to England but first she needed new clothes. The trip to England was long and our son was born somewhere in the ocean, he was a strong child, he looked a lot like me.
"What will his name be?" Jung-Suh asked
"Because you ask me?"
"In Korea it is tradition that the father names the sons"
"Really?"
"Yes, name our son"
"Ryuho, I've always liked that name!
"Then, he will be called Ryuho"
Two months passed and we arrived in England, it was a different land from Japan or Korea, but here the 3 of us would be safe and happy. I worked in a sawmill while Jung-Suh was engaged in washing clothes and singing songs to me and to Ryuho; As for our son he grew up healthy and happy although he also fought with the other children, I must say that I was proud of my son. One day Ryuho found my katana.
"What are you doing Ryuho?" I asked
"What is this, dad?"
"It's my Katana, when I was a samurai"
"Samurai?"
"They are honorable and strong warriors"
"And you were a samurai?"
"I was ... but do not tell your mother that I have this katana or worry, it will be our secret"
"Yes Dad!"
My little Ryuho, so similar to me and with the smile of his mother. When Ryuho was 8 years old our second daughter was born, she was the living portrait of her mother.
-Youma - said Jung-Suh - I would like to name our daughter
-What name do you want to put?
-Seol-Ri, in honor of my younger sister
-So she will be called Seol-Ri
I took my little daughter and the baby opened her eyes, and she smiled at me, I really knew that I was her father. Seol-Ri, everyone in the family adored that girl until she bought 2 dolls that Kiriko and Akiko call, she adored them.
Over the years things became more difficult. Ryuho was already 16 and Seol-Ri was 8 years old. Ryuho started to participate in street fights to earn money for the family even though I and his Mother asked him to stop but he was very stubborn and continued like this when Jung-Suh had tuberculosis, the medicines were expensive and my hard-headed son continued to fight and that saddened his mother.
"I'm going to die "Jung-Suh said sure of that
"No! You will not die! You will recover and we will return to normal"
"You listen, I do not mind, only our children matter ... Please have Ryuho stop with those fights" she said between coughs
"Quiet, nothing will happen"
"You must take care of Ryuho and Seol-Ri"
"We'll be together"
Jung-Suh was not the only person with tuberculosis in the building where we lived, almost half had tuberculosis. And that disease would be the downfall of my family. That day I had locked up Ryoho at home and went to buy medicine for my wife and when I returned I saw something horrible, the building where we lived was engulfed in flames with my family inside and many innocents had burned the building so that the plague of the tuberculosis will not spread throughout the neighborhood; I tried to save them, I tried to get them out of the fire but it was useless people stopped me. My family had died from the inhalation of smoke and the only thing that survived was my katana and an ornament of Jung-Suh that I keep from his times as a giseang. When I lost them I lost everything.
I became a drunk who lived in the streets and annoyed everyone and nobody wanted near, I got angry for the people but they did not understand my pain. I had lost the woman I loved, my little daughter who would never become a woman, and my son who would never give me grandchildren. No one understood my pain, for them it was only that drunkard who annoyed everyone.
One day I decided to commit suicide, I did not want to live, I just wanted to be with my family, but when I was going to jump off the bridge, an angel saved me, a Phantomhive angel that prevented him from jumping.
"Let me go! You fucking!" I shouted
"What were you trying to be?"
"What can you understand? I lost everything! The woman I love and my children are dead! ….I have nothing"
-"You can have something more"
"Like what?"
"Come with me and you will know"
Lord Phantomhive took me to his manor and there I met his children: Vincent, Frances and Adelaide, also his wife Lady Claudia Phantomhive. Lord Phantomhive hired me as his steward and gave me a new reason to live, however, I still missed my family, but they will always be in my heart.
End of Tanaka's Pov
Tanaka and Snake went shopping in London when they suddenly crossed paths with a woman in Korean clothes accompanied by two children: an 8-year-old girl dressed like her mother and a 16-year-old boy dressed in Western clothes. When Tanaka saw them it looked like he had seen a ghost since they were his late wife Jung-Suh and his children, Ryuho and Seol-Ri.
"Can we go home now?" Ryuho asked
"Yes, mom, Kiriko and Akiko should feel alone" Seol-Ri said
"Quite children, just one more assignment and we can go home" Jung-Suh said
Tanaka could not believe his eyes, they were alive and still young, the impression of the old man was such that he fainted, and Jung-Suh and his children worried about the old man rushed to help him. Once again Tanaka was reunited with his family.