Chapter 8: The Origin of O-Ren

O-Ren Ishii was born on an American military base in Tokyo, Japan. The half-Japanese, half-Chinese American Army brat made her first acquaintance with death at the age of 9. It was at that age she witnessed the death of her parents at the hands of Japan's most ruthless yakuza boss, Boss Matsumoto.

She was under the bed watching as her father was ready to fight one of the bad guys as her mother was held at sword to her neck by another and Boss Matsumoto was sitting on the chair in the bedroom smoking a cigar. Her father manages to take out the first 2 that charged him but when his back was turn another bad guy with a sword stabbed him. The bad guy pulled the sword out and O-Ren's father went to the ground. O-Ren saw him as he was trying to say something but then the same bad guy stabbed the fallen solder through the head with the sword. The father died instantly. O-Ren started to whimper but she held it in. The man that stabbed the father moved his hair out of the way and smirked. Then he pulled the sword out and wiped away the blood. The boss was laughing so hard that he nearly choked himself. Boss Matsumoto put out his cigar on the armrest and stood up. He walked to the mother, grabbed her by the hair and threw her on the bed. O-Ren lay back so the weight wouldn't crush her. Then the bad guy gave Boss the sword. Then with a scream, he stabbed her with the sword and the blade went through the blade. Luckily the blade landed a couple of inches away from O-Ren. The bed became soaked in blood as she started to cry as drops of blood landed on O-Ren. Then the bad guys started to leave, but one more stayed behind. It was the one that killed O-Ren's father. He saw a bottle booze and shot it and then kicked the cigar onto the liquid and it started a fire and then he left. O-Ren managed to get out of the house but that attack changed her forever.

She swore revenge. Luckily for her, Boss Matsumoto was a pedophile.

At 11, she got her revenge.

O-Ren was on top of Matsumoto and plunged a huge knife into his chest. Boss was in his underwear while she was in a Japanese schoolgirl uniform. As she stabbed him Matsumoto clenching his teeth so hard they popped out. "Look at me, Matsumoto…take a good look at my face. Look at my eyes. Look at my mouth. Do I look familiar?" she asked. Matsumoto then froze. "Do I look like somebody…you murder?!" Then she pulled out the knife as blood spattered everywhere leaving a corpse. O-Ren let out a breath of relief that her parents were avenged. But it wasn't over yet. She heard footsteps of 2 men running to the bedroom. Once the door opened they gasped at the sight and just before they shoot her, she got out of the way, using the dead body as a shield and once the 2 were out of bullets, she got them from under the bed. Easy peezy.

By 20, she was one of the top female assassin in the world.

O-Ren was dressed in red on a rooftop with a high-powered, scope-sight rifle up to her eye. She fires. In the limo, a Central American General riding backseat of his government vehicle. Two beautiful Latin women in one-piece bathing suits sit on either side of him. They both wear sashes down their front; one reads, "Miss Panama," the other reads, "Miss Venezuela." He has both hands on each of their bare knees. He was laughing until the top of his head was blown off. Naturally both girls screamed.

At age 25, she did her part in killing of nine innocent people, including my unborn daughter in a small wedding chapel in El Paso, Texas. But on that day four years ago she made one big mistake. She should have killed 10. However, before satisfaction would be mine, first things first.

"Wiggle your big toe." Her toes started to move. "Hard part's over. Now let's get these other piggies wiggling." Then she felt the door open behind her as she flung back. She looked up and saw familiar blonde. "Sonya."

Sonya looked down at her and smiled. "About time you woke up."

Shan asked, "You knew I was awake? Did you also know I was being raped for the past 4 years?" She wasn't so happy seeing Sonya.

"If it makes you feel any better, we clean you out every time and arrest the guys." said Sonya. Then she pulled out a couple of files. "Plus, I think you'll be interested in these." She handed them to Shan.

Shan looked at the file names and smiled. "I'm guessing I'm going to be punished for what has happened?"

Sonya said, "As far as the record show, you're still undercover. So…" She smiled at Shan as she put a bag in the truck.

Shan said, "I'll finish the job."

Sonya said, "Good luck." She pushed Shan up and closed the door and walked away.

~Thirteen hours later~

The Bride walks around to the driver's side and climbs in. She sticks Buck's ignition key in its slot and turns. The truck's engine rumbles to life. The Bride drives Buck's big, yellow pussy wagon all over El Paso. She managed to find a hotel and checked in. Once inside her room, she opened the bag Sonya gave her. Inside was a pair of cherry brown cowboy boots, a top, pants and jacket. Inside the room, provided by Sonya as well, she found a shovel, hand pickaxe, camping flashlight, map of Texas, writing notebook, and a bunch of red and black pens. Once she collected herself, she drew a bath in the bathroom of the motel room. She pulls down a bunch of bath products, like bubble bath, salts, apricot this - kiwi that, we see her pour all the items in the bathwater…then she entered the bathwater…lower her whole body into the bathwater. Now submerged in the warm bathwater, by herself she begins to cry...her poor heart has been shattered and four years of tears come flooding out of her. She cries for her baby...She cries for the motherhood robbed from her...She cries for all the innocent people at the wedding chapel, who died simply because they were unlucky enough to cross her path...She cries for the betrayal at the hands of her lover...She cries for the treachery at the hands of her comrades...She cries for the four years of life snatched from her...She cries for the countless violations she endured while incapacitated...And finally, she cries for all the misery she will cause the undeserving...enrooted to Michael's retribution. Retribution that begins the minute she steps out of this bathtub. She curls up into a fetal position inside the tub of warm water...weeping. When she's finished shedding tears, is when she'll begin shedding blood. When the bathroom door opens, the woman that emerges, has closed out all of her emotions...save from one...revenge and her eyes slit like a lizard or a cat, is proof of it. Black Mamba was born. It's that woman, in her new outfit that climbs into the yellow pussy wagon, puts the T.C.B. Sunglasses over her eyes, and starts the engine that sets into motion the gory story to follow. "Where first boys?" The tattoos on her back glowed. "Let's go."

At the Airport, she was buying a ticket to Japan. "Welcome to Air O. May I help you?" asked the clerk.

The Bride said, "Okinawa. One-way." She got the ticket and away she went from the states to Asia.