1 The Beginning of the End (Part 1)

I awake with a sharp pain in my chest in a shabby room with dust in certain parts of it. I place my hand on my chest to feel the hole that should be there from the sword that wretched women just stabbed me with but i don't feel a hole, instead I just feel a sharp pain. I feel my lower back after seeing no wound on my chest only to discover that there is no scar where there should be one. I look around the room again only to be more shocked.

I mumble to myself "This is my old room in the clan mansion". My brain is firing on all cylinders to try to make sense of these things when all of a sudden the door slams open. I wanted to yell and say "Who dares enter" but as soon as I see the person who entered my heart aches with a pain it hasn't felt in a long time. The person who just entered was my younger sister Chu Sakura the person who should be dead but is clearly standing in front of me with a pouty face and has her arms crossed.

My mind explodes as that is the last straw it can handle. I run over to Sakura and bear hug her, she gives a small yelp but soon calms down and accepts it after she notices tears coming down my face. She asks after a few minutes go by "Why are you hugging me so tightly and crying?". I try to say "You're supposed to be dead" but the words get stuck in my throat due to the fear that if I say them that she might disappear again never to return to my arms. So i just stare at her for a few more minutes and let go of her and say "I'm sorry about that I thought you were someone else".

She gives me a stare for a minute or two then proceeds to pout and say "I heard my older sister wants to kick you out of the main house again due to you being slow to do certain tasks that take normal servants half the time". As she speaks my fists tighten up to where you can almost hear my knuckles pop, my face contorts some but i gain my composer soon after and think to myself "This women was the one that just tricked and stabbed me when i was sipping some of her tea she made". I say to Sakura soon after she gets done speaking "If she does then so be it, but i doubt my father will agree to that just because of me being slow to get these few puny things done."

Sakura then looks at me before saying "How can you say that after everything you have done also you are still the only male heir to the clan head". I shake my head and say "What things have i done and so what if i am the only male heir of this clan its not like i will ever be the head or will ever be recognized and accepted by those old geezers of the clan counsel to accept me as the clan head". She then looks at me with bewildered eyes and says "That may be so but you shouldn't just give up due to that". I walk up to her and rub her hair and say in a gentle voice "I'm not giving up, ill never give anything up again in this life". She blushes and says after a few seconds "Then why are you not fighting sis back and just sitting in your room?".

I look around the room once again and think "This is my old room indeed but how did i get here and have no wounds or scars also how is Sakura still alive and the clan house still standing? I remember hearing about it being completely destroyed in a landslide by crumbling off the mountain side". I shake my head due to me feeling a headache coming on and my chest having a burning sensation. I ask Sakura "Can you give me some time alone i feel a little under the weather today?".

She gives me a skeptical look then tells me "Fine then, but ill be bringing you some soup in a bit and some medicine since you look paler then usual". I look in the mirror only to be shocked to the point where I almost scream. I'm around 15 or 16 years of age my body size is back to being a little scrawny kid with no muscles or anything. I scream in the inside of my head "What in the world is going on? why am i back in my younger self". I then compose myself due to Sakura still standing there giving me a weird confused look and say to her "I thought i seen a bug on the mirror but it was my own reflection after all haha". Sakura starts smiling and laughing to my joke and i feel my heart tighten up and I think to myself "How long has it been since I heard this laughter or seen that angelic smile". She keeps laughing until shes about to close the door to my room and says "I'll be back in an hour or two so don't go anywhere or ill be upset with you". Before i can even respond she closes the door and it becomes quiet again in my old room. I then proceed to dust off my room and clean up a little bit since I'm technically 28 years old and not a dirty little kid but reality seems to like to joke with me since I'm in my younger self's body.

After about 40 minutes, I look around the room and give a nod of approval then head toward my bed which is still in a pitiful state due to my room being not taken care of or having servants cleaning it every week like the rest of my families. I sit in the middle of my bed cross legged and start to think over everything that has happened in the last 12 hours.