Chapter 1

This is a fan story. I do not own the manga or any of the translations. I am not trying to infringe on any copyrights.

But please leave comments about what you think: good, bad or indifferent I want to hear your opinions.

"Daddy, daddy welcome home, welcome home!" Running, a little kid cries out to a tall ever-smiling gentleman.

"Hey little pumpkin head," he responds while gently gathering the child up in his arms. "Are you ready for kindergarten tomorrow?"

"Yep, yep daddy!"

A shadow briefly crosses his face while smiling adoringly into those innocent eyes. "Very well my little Surasa*. Remember to be nice. Your new little friends, they won't know how to do everything you can."

"Okay daddy." The little child tried to reassure the man. "Surasa be good for daddy in kin'ergar'en. I make tons and tons o' friends too." Then took a small hand to pat his face, still smiling the child quickly ran off when the man put her down.

Before Surasa got very far the man called out. "Pumpkin, tomorrow your name is Tuskasa, you're going to be a boy and…"

Waving enthusiastically, to the man, she started doing summersaults and cartwheels. Carefree and innocent as only a 4 year old can be. She was oblivious to what the future was going to bring, living life as boy and not as the woman, she was originally destined to be.

A year later, Surasa aka Tuskasa had been living a dual life as both a boy and, a girl. He/she was still learning to hide who she was, inside the impenetrable walls of her home, she was Surasa beloved daughter. Outside, he was Tuskasa, a reckless fun loving boy. As her father explained it, living as a boy was a game, a game to keep her safe from mean people all around her.

As she grew older still, the game kept getting easier. She stopped living as a girl entirely and even began to live as Tuskasa inside the mansion walls. Her father brought in masters to begin training in five types of martial arts: 3 aikido, judo, and kuttu varisai were self-defense, the other 2 were for attack jujutsu and shurikenjutsu. He tried to teach her to shoot a gun, but "couldn't hit the broad side of a barn" would be an understatement of the results. Clearly guns and little Tuskasa would never mix.

There were other people who came in and out of her father's home. Most didn't know she/he lived there, so when Tuskasa was bored, she'd play pranks on them. Daddy kept scolding for her doing it, but really they should have been more observant! Though there was one time, when papa took away her bokken for picking on one of those men. That guy was mean and deserved the broken leg! After all she only hit him once, the blow wasn't that hard! If he hadn't tried to chop down her favorite cherry tree, it never would have happened. That was HER Yoshino tree, the one with both Tuskasa and Surasa carved in it!

Over the next few years, Tuskasa decided she preferred to be a boy. Boys had more fun and never had to wear skirts, nobody cared if you got into a fight, deliberately, once or twice, or maybe every week... The other main reason she didn't like being a girl, was that girls got beaten up and raped. Nobody cared about that either.

So, every day she/he kept beating some stupid idiot who thought he could hurt girls. No one was going to beat up a defenseless girl in front of Him. The ones that tried ended up with an ambulance ride, that papa made her pay for. She didn't mind it just meant she had to find a job to pay for it. Papa wouldn't let her officially join the Yakuza and earn a living that way.

It was strange to outsiders why Tuskasa wasn't a member. He dad, Kamojima, was Yakuza. He was a bodyguard for the Nindaime. He stood right behind the head of the Nine Dragon Clan, ready to lay down his life for both father and son.

Tuskasa himself never questioned any of it. Not being Yakuza was another way papa was protecting her. Just like the martial arts game and growing up like a boy. Papa loved her and did everything he could to protect her.

Explanation of Tuskasa's fighting style: Jujutsu with a focus in shurikenjutsu, aikido, judo. "Kuttu varisai" an Indian style of fighting involving: yoga, gymnastics, traditional Japanese fighting, it focuses on how to receive blows without losing power. The manga never says what fighting styles Tuskasa knows, so I added it as my own tribute to her mother the Kage no Seisai. Just adding this in, incase I can't find a way later.

*This is a real name for the Indian goddess "Durga" and I think that is what Tuskasa's girl's name should be. There were a lot I could choose but Surasa had the same ending sound as Tuskasa so that is why I chose it. The site I found it is:

www. indianhindunames .com/names-of-goddess-durga-parvati

I know in the manga her name never changes, but remember she never lived with the Kozukis this time.

The Yoshino Cherry tree is a real tree native to Japan. It grows up to 45 feet tall. I found it on ehow dot com but you can look it up with any search engine.

No comments about the gender switching pronouns. I'm doing that on purpose, after all think of all those trans-genders out here. Before they get a gender change I'm sure it's confusing to them, as to what pronoun to use.

But in Tuskasa's case is different, even in the manga she always knew she really was a girl underneath everything. It was just as she matured mentally that it came into question what she should do when adult hood came along.