Accidental Fate

chapter 3

Hijikata pov

She - she.... looks just like.....me?

"Greetings Toshizo Hijikata, my name is Kazuhi...Hijikata." The young girl had pitch black hair, the exact same as mine, hard violet purple eyes, just like mine and hard-angled features. Her body was built thin and lean except her bust, her eyelashes were dark and heavy around her eyes and her pink lips sent shock waves of memories through me.

Flashes from twenty years ago stormed my mind, visions of my sixteen-year-old self in a night of drunken mistakes and the regret and pain of the morning that followed. The girl I spent the night with twenty years ago... This is my...

Daughter.

"I'm guessing you remember Haru Yamamoto now. I believe I'm the same height she was, but I'm slightly older than when you two met aren't I?" This girl continued to speak. Snapping out of my frozen state I locked my jaw as a huge sense of shame and fear overcame my senses. Snatching her wrist I pulled her from the room which erupted with shouts from my captains.

"Come with me now," I ordered her but she snatched her hand away. "Ha! You think you can boss me about? I'm not one of your wolf cubs." She glared at me.

I had no other choice but to try this a risky tactic, "As your father, you will listen to me." I ordered, standing tall.

SMACK

My face snapped to the side, my eye watered from the stinging impact on my right cheek, "You bastard. How dare, how dare you call yourself that!" She barked at me. "YOU CALL YOURSELF A FATHER AFTER LEAVING MY MOTHER TO RAISE YOUR CHILD BY HERSELF!? YOUR NOTHING MORE THAN A SELFISH BASTARD TOSHIZO HIJIKATA AND I WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO HER AND WHAT YOU DIDNT DO FOR ME!" Her body shook violently as she screamed at me, her eyes were slightly misty as she spoke of her mother but soon hardened again as she tore into me.

No doubt the whole of the compound was listening, sure enough, I heard footsteps running towards us and glanced behind me to see Kondo San stop dead as he looked at Kazuhi. "You are the reason she's dead." Kazuhi stepped up to me, pushing a finger into my chest. I raised my arms as a defense but she pressed on, "You are the reason my mother never recovered and eventually died thanks to your gift to her!" Shoving with both hands, she pushed me into the decking and I let her.

I heard the click as my men unsheathed their swords around us, "Hijikata San?" They said cautiously but I waved them off. Kazuhi laughed, "Worried about your precious vice commander?" She drew her sword and pushed it under my chin, for the first time I was actually afraid she would hurt me. "I hate you, I've hated you for a long time." She pushed my head up so it was tilted backward, "But I'm not gonna kill you, oh I want to, but I won't. You wanna know why?" She asked. Everyone was silent.

Men circled us, Kondo-san was directly behind as all eyes watched the violet-eyed woman whose face held no emotion. "Well do you?" She said louder. "Why won't you kill me if you hate me so much?" I questioned, propped up on my elbows as she stood above me. Holding her sword to the side so the length was along my neck, sitting on my sink; she bent down close to my face and I didn't dare breathe.

"Because of her. She never once not once did she ever curse your name for her family disowning her, not once for causing her to become permanently sick because of childbirth, not once for causing us to go days without food, oh no." She laughed, sheathed her sword and held her hand out to me. I took it and she pulled me up, "She said I was your greatest gift to her."

She took a step back, pulled her fist back and threw her entire weight behind a punch that landed right between my eyes; the force shocked me as I jerked backward ending up on the floor again.

"What a load of shit." She spat at me.

With one last glare, she walked through the courtyard and out the gates. Blood gushed from my nose, the back of my head throbbed from landing on the decking twice, but it was nothing compared to the shame and regret that coursed through my heart.

I have a daughter...

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