False honor

Ancient Japan, 1630, The smell of spring is in the air, the trees have pink leaves that were, until recently, either on the ground or yellow. Yukio Shimazu, Samurai of Shimazu clan, 195 cm tall and 86 kilograms of pure muscles has black long hair that touches his shoulders. He walks on the path in clan garden, he walks towards his friend Yamatto-kun, Yamatto-kun is 2 years younger than him. Petals drifted across the stone path,The garden was quiet.While walking through the most beautiful garden on the entire island of Shikoku, Yukio saw a large oak tree over 100 years old, a tree that had survived several generations of the Shizamu clan. That tree reminded him of an incident from his childhood, Yukio was 7 years old, after a hard training session he saw a girl by the tree, at that moment Yukio felt something in his chest that he had never felt before, something indescribable, indescribable but still the most beautiful thing he had ever felt. He approached her, taking slow and quiet steps, and said to her: "Hi, I'm Yukio" just as she laughed, he felt something on his neck, at first he couldn't make out what it was, it had a softer, warmer part and a colder, metal part, it only took him a few seconds to realize that it was his father's belt, the belt that got him hit in the butt every time he swung his sword wrong, his dad got in his face and said: "Girls are just a distraction from the goal, just a distraction from the honorable path, girls don't do anything other than extend honor and clan to yours heir". That moment, From that day on, he did not look at girls the same way, Yukio's father's speech, entered Yukio's subconscious so deeply that he himself forgot the feeling he had when he saw the little girl. He tried to find that feeling in his teenage years, but soon after his first battle, he gave up on searching for that feeling and replaced it with honor. Yukio doesn't like to remember that moment, because he feels like he's close to finding that feeling, but he knows he can't. The closest he comes to that feeling is his conversations at the bar with Yamato. Back to the reality, to today,Yukio came to a small house, a house big enough for only 1 person, a house with a classic door for that time in Japan, he slowly opened the door, as he slowly opened the door he slowly got a view of the kitchen with 1 small table, then he slowly got a view of the living room with the sparring room, he saw his friend Yamato constantly hitting the sparring dummy, not paying attention to his friend's entrance.Yamato had short white hair down to his ears, weighed 90 kilograms and was 173 cm tall. He wasn't as lean as Yukio, but he was still above average. While training, Yamato didn't like to wear a shirt, sweat flowed from his well-developed chest muscles to his stomach, the light was reflected so much that it looked to Yukio as if Yamato had glitter on his body.Yukio coughed awkwardly to attract attention, Yamato slowly turned his head. Yukio started the conversation with: "our plan for drinks tonight I will have to cancel, because of the clan meeting", Yamato laughed a little mockingly and said: "Am I still an outsider to you?" ,After 5 seconds of intense silence, silence more intense than battle of 10000 soilders ,Yukio answered with shame in his voice: "Shizamu clan meetings are for members of the Shizamu clan, as the name suggests, it doesn't matter how much I love you Yamato, when you are not and cannot be a member of the Shizamu clan when you were born in the Taiara clan," ,"who is now all dead thanks to you and your people," Yamato interrupted him, Yukio rolled his eyes , but he didnt roll his eyes bc of anger on Yamato, he just didnt know how to respond to that, every time he tought of that he felt like his sword and heart are breaking, and than he said: "do we really have to go back to this?", "no," Yamto answered calmly, "but tell me about what is a meeting at all about" continued Yamato, "Meeting will be about tactics to continue silencing the Oda's rebellion, Oda Yabuki, the biggest stubborn fool, how is it not clear to him that the rebellion will not succeed" Yukio says a little angrily and continues "there he is keeping us on internal problems while it is only a matter of time when the Chinese occupation of the 4 united Japanese kingdoms will start", After that Yamato approached Yukio and said: "can he drink tomorrow then?" , "indeed" replied Yukio.At the meeting of the Shizamu clan, there were all the main male members of the Shizamu clan: Yukio Shizamu, Yukio's dad Haruto, Yukio's younger brother Ren, Yukio's older brother Minato, Yukio's uncle Gin, Yukio's 2nd uncle Saburo. They were all sitting at a large table next to a map of the united kingdoms of Japan. The table is 7 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, made of the highest quality oak wood. The meeting was started by Yuki's dad Haruto: "The Oda's rebellion against the King of Shikoke has been going on for the past 2 months. We haven't had a single defeat in those 2 months, and I congratulate you on that, I really congratulate you, but the war isn't over until the last enemy falls. The Shizamu clan has served the crown for over 200 years, and we have never let them down. We have never let down the Kingdom of Shikoke or the 4 United Kingdoms of Japan. And it will continue like this for at least another 200 years. Not only have we become rich and become the 2nd richest clan in Asia, but we have also become honorable soldiers who will be sung about in songs, your great-grandchildren will sing about your courage and no one can take that away from us. I just wanted to say this before we start the meeting, be proud to be part of the most powerful clan in the United Kingdoms, be prooud of what you and you ancestors did ,We are alive ,our enemies are dead.For two centuries, this clan has stood when others fell.We don't break. We don't kneel.And we don't lose. So we wont lose to some weepy kid who thinks he can be king ,am i right?" . Everyone started excitedly yelling "For the victoryes Gods will give us" and than all of them Drew swords at the air while celebrating their own honor ,including Yukio,but for a split second, as the steel caught the light, he felt nothing. No pride, no heat,just the cold weight of the metal in his hand.