The heart of a child

It was around three in the morning when Riko was awoken abruptly by his father's voice calling out to him in a cold-hearted tone, and by an arm dragging him out of bed forcefully."You little brat get up, " the emperor roared scaring young Riko causing him to resist but as a small 5 year old what could he do. The heartless emperor dragged his last born son to a training ground on an early and cold autumn morning to train him or was he. After violently being thrown to the ground young Riko raised hos haze to scan his surroundings that was when he saw a tall man looking down on him. Cold and afraid Riko collapsed a laid on the cold, hard ground. The tall man and the emperor had a serious talk and by the end of it the tall man walked away with one of his bodyguards carrying young Riko on his shoulders and driving of in a black Mercedes. As the emperor watches them go out of his sight of view he turned back and began walking to his bedroom. Glad that he got rid of "that little brat".

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The emperor changes and gets up into bed.

* four hours later* Riko wakes up in an unfamiliar setting with his limbs being chained to a wall with heavy waits on the end of each chain. Confused young Riko looks around trying to find a clue that's when he spots a tall, muscular Hispanic man with a gun and in a black and white suit, glaring at the child as if he were some kind of demon. Riko was about to speak when suddenly the tall man from earlier walks in to see Riko awake and instructs the guard to knock him out before carrying him to a room where he was washed, dressed and treated for some minor wounds. Upon waking up Riko was instructed to eat before being taken to a room full of weapons by the tall man and told to choose one to use. Shakily he chooses a katana and takes it. The tall man took Riko outside and introduced him to master Yoshi a traditional Japanese samurai. Riko was quite relived that the tall man was actually nice but little did he know the demon that was disguised int his angelic appearance.

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The samurai began by teaching young Riko how to hold a katana in close and ready combat for effective fighting for this he gave Riko a small wooden replica of a katana and asked Riko to attack him, though young Riko was surprisingly good at handling the weapon which made his master very intrigued in the child. At around noon the tall man's wife came up to the two of them while the man was away with business affairs and offered them some food before engaging in some small talk. The woman introduced herself as Risa. Riko was taken aback as he has never received such treatment from his relatives let alone a complete stranger. This made Riko curious as to why master Yoshi and Mrs.Risa were kind to him, although he had a funny appearance but he did not want to air out his opinions due to past accounts.

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