And here's where Sakamoto gets confronted by the same bullies he dealt with at Shanghai Secluded Valley, but never got bothered by their stupidity. What will happen next?

Chapter 16: Defending Sakamoto

The next day comes around and Sakamoto is out, just walking around the Valley and taking a little look around and as he walks past a noodle shop, he didn't realize that there were a gang of other animals standing in his way and as he looked up, he was surprised to see the same group of bullies that picked on him back in Shanghai Secluded Valley here in the Valley of Peace. The grown tiger comes up to him and said, "Don't we know you from somewhere?"

"It's possible. Although it would be difficult to remember." Sakamoto replied.

Just then, the female black panter immediately got familiarized by the japanese mark on Sakamoto's forehead and she gasped in shock and said, "Guys, it's the halfer!"

All of them were not in a very good mood to see Sakamoto again, but they had no problems to just immediately take some jabs at his heritage and Sakamoto did not get bothered by it at all and the more they jab, the more Sakamoto stayed silent and cool throughout the whole thing, in which the gang got aggravated again and the tiger exclaimed, "You still ain't saying nothing?"

"Nope. I am not a pawn in your childish antics." Sakamoto replied.

The black panther angrily got in a fit of rage and roared at Sakamoto's face and exclaimed, "I see you still haven't changed! You still ain't letting us get to your skin!"

"And we don't give a crap that you served in the army! We would've been better off being killed by those Mongolian bastards that be saved by a wannabe Chinese person like you! Why don't you take your fat ass back to Japan where you belong and eat some bamboo?" one of the tiger brothers said.

Once again, Sakamoto did not give in to their reaction as he ignored their comments and the other tiger brother said, "Aren't ya gonna fight back at us?"

"Don't feel the need to." Sakamoto answered.

That really made the black panther heated and she said to him, "You are a worthless, fat pathetic piece of (bleep)! How about that!"

"Still nothing." Sakamoto replied.

The same vicious tiger that got nutted by Bao-Yi really got agitated by Sakamoto's steady calmness and unability to react to an insult or take it personal and he said, "Let's see how calm you are when I do this..."

He immediately shoves Sakamoto down to the ground and planned to mess him up real bad and he climbs up the air and beats the living crap out of Sakamoto, but all it's doing is making Sakamoto that much more unreactive, which sends a state of fury for the other gang members and the black panther said, "If you ain't gonna fight back at us, then I guess we'll have to do what we all should've done in the first place..."

Suddenly, a huge bao guang came out of nowhere and burst the gang down to the ground and as Sakamoto looks from behind, he sees Akimitsu standing there and he looks absolutely pissed at them and he walks towards the gang and said, "Now I don't know you guys, but I overheard everything you said about my friend."

"Well, your friend is a Japanese freak. We don't allow that kind in China." the black panther said, proudly.

Bao-Yi steps up and she angrily said, "Says who?"

"Says me and my crew. And why would you want to be with this slob?" the black panther stated.

Then, the tiger comes in, showing off his muscles and said, "When you can have a real man? Like...me?"

Bao-Yi responds with giving him a kick in the groin and said to him, "I already have a real man...that I am engaged to."

Sakamoto gets himself up and he dusted himself off as he looks at them and stands up to all of them and said, "Listen, it is over. We have all grown up from this and yet you still bring your childish antics over to me. Yes...I am a half japanese, but as I mentioned...I am still proud of who I am, where I came from and who my father is. But what you say still doesn't bother me. I honor myself. And I feel sorry for your family too."

Shizue comes at most of them and she pulls out her shadow techniques to get at the gang and throws them up, down and around and soon enough, Akimitsu unleashed his Bao guang power directly at them, which sent them hurtling through the air and then landed back to the street where they're standing. All of the gang groaned in pain as they looked up and faced Akimitsu again and the wolf said, "When you mess with my friend, you mess with me."

Shizue couldn't agree more and focused her attention on the black panther and she said, "You think you're all loud and proud, ain't ya?"

"I still am." the black panther retorted, in a cold tone.

Shizue chuckled at this and she quickly pulled out something from the black panther's shirt and took out some of the tissues from her chest, completely making the panther shocked and appalled that she'd do that and the response from Bao-Yi, Akimitsu and Sakamoto was priceless; really shocked.

"And you call yourself real?" asked Bao-Yi.

And Akimitsu wiped the panther's entire face off with those tissues and revealed a ton a make-up beneath it and Sakamoto looked shocked by this and he shook his head and said nothing at all and Shizue said, "That's how I can tell real from fake. And you...are as fake as they come."

"Remember that the next time you mess with my friend because your butts were saved by us fighting the Mongol war." Akimitsu replied.

All four of them walked away from them, leaving the gang utterly stunned and disturbed that they've actually lost the fight and the black panther just ran away, totally humilated. The rest of thwe gang followed suit, never to be seen or heard from again because they got what they deserved.

"I don't know what else to say...other than thank you." Sakamoto added.

Akimitsu chuckled softly at this and he said to him, "Anyone who messes or torments my friend will have to talk with me. I can't believe they would make fun of your heritage like that."

"And that my dad's a kung-fu master too." Sakamoto replied.

Shizue groaned in disgust and said, "Stereotypes...I hate those. I hope that they'll learn their lesson because if they don't, we'll give it to them again."

All four walked back to the Jade Palace, just laughing and talking about that situation like it was nothing short of a big deal and Sakamoto was lucky to have his friends around because they're the ones that got his back...including his fiancee.

It's good that Sakamoto's got good friends and a fiancee to be there for. Stay tuned for more!