Flashback

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Was he really serious? I never knew my father to be the sensitive and open type. But that was somewhat close to that.I just shrugged it off and decided to go out and try to collect my thoughts. It has been awhile since anyone has mentioned the man who killed mother. No one talked about her anymore except my father because he was and still is obsessed with vengeance. I tried and got out of his conspiracy for a few years, and somehow the hatred for the man that took her away from us always comes back to haunt me. 

Father told me the story when I was about seven years old. I was always curious to know what happened to my mother, but waited until I was old enough to understand. He told me that it all happened before I was even born. Here's what happened:

My father had an adopted brother. They were a few years apart making my father the youngest son.
Growing up together they were extremely close and did everything together. That is u til one day they both fell for the same girl. My mother Tang Shen. She was the most beautiful girl in all the whole village. At first they paid no attention to her, but as the years passed... things took a turn for the worst. Both men (now trained assassins) wanted to be with her and was determined to make her their wife. Their brotherly love soon vanished. They both resented one another and fought to win the young maiden's heart. After years of trying, my father had won. Shen had knew in that my father Saki would be 'the one'. Not long after being married I was born. A few months after that, a terrible accident occurred that changed my life. 

One night as my mother and father were sleeping, an enemy attacked. What was meant for my father hit mother instead. And in the end... she never walked away that night. 

I was only an infant when this happened and had no memories of her. I now only have pictures and stories of what she once was. I did have the same taste in vengeance as my father still has. But I figured out that you can't change what happened so long ago. Instead I found refuge in knowing that I now had choices to make on my own. I could change my family history and re-write our story. That's what kept me going all these years. And I will do anything to keep that promise.

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