I Do Not Own Black Lagoon
This story takes starts pre-series. I may or may not continue it, depending on how my inspiration strikes.
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Shenhua smiled as she awoke for the day.
The Taiwanese woman was amazed at how…comforting it was to be loved. The only way it could be better was if she could share her real self with her boyfriend, Rokuro Okajima.
The blue-eyed woman worked as an assassin for the Sun Yee On Triad, specifically the branch that operated out of Roanapur, Thailand. Occasionally she did a freelance job, but whether she was working for the Triad or an independent contract, Shenhua was very good at her job. Her twin kukri knives were often stained red with her various target's blood.
And her boyfriend knew nothing of this
She'd met him when she had come to Japan on a job.
At the time, all she'd had on her target was a picture and knowledge that he was an executive with Asahi Heavy Industries. He'd gotten into debt with the Triads, and Mr. Chang, her boss, wanted to make an example out of him to discourage others. But thanks to the man's money, he'd done a good job hiding.
Shenhua had then decided to seduce her boyfriend, a salary-man at Asahi, to gain access to company social events, in the hope of eventually finding her target and then tracking him to his home.
Rokuro had been simply a means to an end at first. She'd chosen to seduce him because he was somewhat shy and quiet from her observations, and she believed it would be easy to manipulate him. But as she seduced him, she found herself seduced by him. She quickly learned that while Rokuro was quiet, and shy in public, he had a devious mind. Not to mention his romantic tendency and tenderness with her.
Most men she encountered simply tried sleeping with her. Rokuro tried to dig into her very soul. The conversation he held with her were…enlightening, despite the things she'd had to leave out.
Of course it helped that his naturally thin frame, and preferred style of clothes (even when he wasn't working he preferred dress shirts and slacks), hid a surprisingly muscular body.
She treasured the care and attention he lavished on her. And though she told him she traveled for work to explain her need to return to Roanapur, he remained faithful to her (she'd actually tested this, hiring a fairly attractive prostitute to attempt to seduce him), despite her long absences.
Knowing that she currently had only one more day with him before she had to return to Roanapur, Shenhua decided to wake Rokuro up. With a mischievous smirk on her face, she climbed over him so that she was straddling him. Then she lowered herself onto him.
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A Few Weeks Later
Rokuro Okajima or, as he was now known as, Rock, picked up the phone and began to dial the number Shenhua had given him to contact her when she was away on business.
A few days ago, he had been taken hostage on a business assignment for Asahi Heavy Industries. Through a series of events, he'd ended up working for his once captors. And, having settled into the room Dutch had provided for him at the company's dock, he'd thought hard about what to do about Shenhua.
He loved her, enough that he had planned on asking her to marry him when she returned from her trip. But because he loved her, he couldn't ask her to come live with him in Roanapur. It was a dangerous city, and he knew that while he was fit, he was ill equipped to protect even himself in this city, let alone the woman he loved. But he'd had his eyes opened, and there was no way he could go back to work in Japan. Asahi had tried to kill him, apparently caring for him as much as a used up piece of paper. Considering how junior he'd be if he tried to get another job, he had no illusions other companies wouldn't do the same thing.
But before he'd finished dialing the number on the old payphone, a voice he did not expect to hear spoke behind him, "Rokuro!" He turned, and was stunned to find his girlfriend standing behind him with a shocked look on her face. He noticed that on top of her usual attire, she had several throwing knives strapped to both her thighs. Before he could ask what she was doing in this city, she asked, in her native Chinese, "What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same question," he answered, using her preferred language, and finally noticed the large suitcase she had with her.
Shenhua glanced at the suitcase, before saying, "I can't talk now, but I should be free shortly. In the meantime," her eyes hardened slightly and she grabbed his arm, before guiding him to a red sedan, "You will come with me. It is not safe for you to be on the streets by yourself."
"But…"
"Do not argue," she commanded, a harsh edge to her voice. "Now is not the time. I will finish my errand, during which you will remain in this car." She sighed, and in a softer voice continued, "Then we will go someplace private and talk."
Without waiting for a response, she closed the door. Rock watched as she walked back to the curb, grabbed the suitcase, and drug it to the trunk.
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The ride was awkward and silent as Shenhua drove to a business that proclaimed itself to be U. G. Pork. After telling Rock to stay put, Shenhua took the suitcase out of the trunk and into the building, returning several minutes later, and driving to a Chinese restaurant.
Upon entering the bar, Shenhua quietly spoke to the host, before she and Rock walked back to a private room.
After entering placing their orders, and being left alone, Rock finally broke the silence between them. "Shall you go first or shall I?"
Shenhua sighed, before replying. "Please, tell me why you are in Roanapur first." She paused for a moment before adding, "I am not sure you will want to sit and explain why you are here after I explain why I am."
Rock looked at her strangely for a moment, before explaining to the woman across from him how he had come to Roanapur. When he explained about his phone call where Mr. Kageyama basically told him he was a dead, he noticed a hard glint enter his girlfriend's eyes, though he continued his tale.
"I suppose it is time for me to explain myself then," Shenhua sighed after Rock had finished his explanation.
"You work in the city," Rock said, having put the pieces together himself. Noticing that he had Shenhua's attention, he continued, "You're a guard or enforcer of some kind, my guess is for the Triads."
The Taiwanese woman looked at Rock with pride. "Yes," she confirmed. "I work for the Triads. Though I am a bit more than a guard or enforcer, though I have done those duties. Mostly, I am an assassin. I am sent to kill people, in and out of the city. I was on a job when I met you."
She looked away from Rock, waiting for his condemnation. She was surprised when he said, "I understand why you never told me."
Shenhua looked up at him shocked. "You're not mad at me for deceiving you."
Rock shrugged. "A little, but I can't fault you. As far as you knew, I was a law abiding man who would not only leave you, but turn you in to the authorities," he explained. "I wouldn't have, but you didn't know that. I suppose the question is, what do we do now?"
Shenhua smiled slightly, "You could move in with me. I have a rather nice apartment, and there is plenty of space."
The Japanese man smiled. "I'd like that, but I had something else in mind."
"What?"
Rock stood up and walked around the table. Taking Shenhua's hand in his own, he knelt down and asked, "Marry me?"
The assassin looked at her boyfriend shocked for a moment, before a wide smile crossed her face. Pulling him up from his knees, she kissed him passionately as she replied, "Yes!"
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Two weeks later, Mr. Kageyama was found dead in his office at Asahi Heavy Industries….
His head sat on his desk, while his body laid behind it.
Police could find no trace of his killer.
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