Chapter 1: Baba Yaga And The Gate
(Opening A/N: I'm writing this story to prove a friend of mine *WhiskeyFoxtrotTangoCharlie141* wrong, and that this story can be done. Here's the plot...After John Wick gets excommunicado and is now being hunted by assassins, John decides to take his unnamed dog and move to Tokyo to see if he can lay low, he decides to visit his old friend and former Continental assassin Youji Itami, and it turns out that Youji got John into anime, and when the gate opens in the Ginza district, and both Itami along with John decide to go through the gate as the JSDF begin a full on assault and John's going to need all of his assassin skills if he's going to survive both sides of the gate. This story is rated M for Blood and gore, strong graphic violence, adult language, nudity, and for lemons as well. Disclaimer I don't own Gate or John Wick for they are rightfully owned by Takumi Yanai, Daisuke Izuka, and Kurojishi, whereas John Wick is owned by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch along with Lionsgate/Summit entertainment, anyway, let's get to it!)
[Coast of Japan, after the excommunicado of John Wick]
A cargo ship was pulling into the port of Tokyo, where a former assassin is about to try to make a new life in Japan, he had a pitbull by his side which was unnamed, the man had short black hair, brown eyes, and he was wearing some tattered clothes, his name is John Wick.
"Excuse me, are you John Wick?" One of the ship hands asked, John curled up a fist if it was an assassin looking for a fight.
"So what if I am?" John asked, John turned around to see it was a member of the JSDF, and he happened to know of another former Continental assassin, Youji Itami.
"You happen to know Youji Itami right?" The ship hand asked, and John began to release his fist.
"Of course I know him, where is he?" John asked, and the ship hand showed him off of the boat, he then wrote down Itami's address, and handed it to the former assassin.
"Stay safe." The ship hand said as he headed back onto the boat, John whistled and the dog began to follow him.
[Itami's apartment…]
John finally arrived at his destination, he knocked on the door and there was a voice on the other side…
"I'm coming, I'm coming." said the voice on the other end, the man opened the door, he had scraggly dark hair, same color eyes as John, he also wore a t-shirt and some denims as he saw his old friend and nearly keeled over.
"John?! What are you doing here?" Itami asked, and John sighed as he tried to see where to begin.
"Could it be alright if I could come in?" John asked, Itami nodded, both he and John were old friends once upon a time.
"Of course, mind the dog." Itami said as both John and the unnamed dog walked into Itami's place, it turned out that Itami was a diehard otaku, and he also got John into anime when he was here in Japan.
"How's your wife doing?" Itami asked, and John just bowed his head.
"She died. Yours?" John answered, and Itami had a feeling of guilt ping in his stomach.
"We're divorced, and I'm so sorry, besides, what brings you back to Japan?" Itami asked showing sympathy for the ex-assassin.
"I'm excommunicado now, and all the assassins from every corner of the globe are going to be gunning for me." John stated, and this just made Itami let out a small whistle.
"We go back you and I, remember the time we took out the Asamori clan?" Itami asked, John could remember taking out one of the most corrupt Yakuza clans in all of Japan, and he also had help from Itami when he was a member of the Continental.
"Yeah, I still remember, they were good times." John said, and the dog walked up to Itami as he scratched the dog behind the ears as the dog began to wag his tail.
"Look, I know it's really tough to think about, but what caused you to become excommunicado?" Itami asked, and John came clean with Itami that he killed Santino D'Antonio after he was placed in the high table and he also killed him while he was in the Continental lounge.
And John knew that there were consequences for killing people on Continental grounds, it was an unbroken rule and therefore, Winston had to declare him excommunicado.
"I killed Santino D'Antonio in the lounge of the New York Continental, and therefore, Winston marked me as a wanted man and now I have a target on my back, and as you should know, there could be some assassins here in Japan looking to kill me as well." John said, he then pulled out a blood marker and showed it to Itami.
"What do you want to do with that?" Itami asked, and John was up for one last job if Itami was up for it.
"I'm looking for one last job to do, and I'm looking for someone to help me out with that last job." John said and Itami smirked, he was looking to reunite the two most dangerous assassins in the world, the boogeyman and the werewolf.
John was the boogeyman and Itami was the werewolf, and together, they were the most feared assassins in the land of the rising sun, then they both went their seperate ways and they both got married and settled down, but fate played a sad card for both men, Itami and his wife divorced and John's wife Helen died of an unknown illness, and fate decided to have both John and Itami to team up.
"So you want to bring back the 'assassins of darkness' huh? Alright count me in, but first there's an anime convention happening over in Ginza, if you're still interested in anime, you wanna go?" Itami asked, and John liked anime since Itami was the one who got him into it, but he stopped after he got married to Helen, then after Helen died, he just forgot all about it.
"Alright, I've even brushed up on my Japanese, and I gotta thank you for getting me back into the world that was lost to me." John said, and both men along with John's dog decided to head to Ginza.
[On the train to Ginza...]
Itami, John and the dog were riding the train to the Ginza district, just then a young boy comes up to the dog and he holds his hand out as the dog begins to sniff the boys hand as the dog then begins to lick it.
"Could it be alright if I pet your dog mister?" The boy asked, and John didn't see any harm in that.
"I don't see why not." John said and the boy gently pat the dog as the boy was happy to see a dog, and John still hasn't even named him.
"What's the dog's name?" The boy asked, and John pet the dog as well.
"I didn't give him a name." John said, and Itami came up with a good name for the dog.
"You still like Cowboy Bebop right? How about naming the dog Spike after Spike Spiegel?" Itami suggested and John now has a name for the dog.
"Alright, then the dog's name is Spike." John said as he began to scratch behind Spike's ears showing the dog affection.
The train stopped as they made it to Ginza, Itami, John, and Spike all got off of the train, but little did they know what was going to happen and how it was going to bring both assassins to the life they once were a part of.
An invisible gate began to open as men riding dragons began to fill the Ginza, the men began to attack the citizen of the district as many innocent people were getting slaughtered, the dragon riders were killing men and women alike as they were cut down for no reason whatsoever, both John and Itami decided to arrive to the police and they decided to help get the people to safety as they were trying to figure how to fight the unknown enemies, soon after the police along with the JSDF evacuate most of the civilians and only 150 were found dead.
"I also know an arms dealer that owes me, and I'm going to cash in on that favor for you, but if I were you, I'd go from being an assassin to being a mercenary." Itami suggested, and John had no choice, he was no longer a Continental assassin, so he decided to become a mercenary.
[To Be Continued...]
(A/N: I know it might be short, but here's my retort: I like to keep my first chapters short sweet and to the point. Also, this is a 50:50 gamble here, I mean, I'm gonna roll the dice and take a shot at it, if I can prove WhiskeyFoxtrotTangoCharlie141 wrong, then I'll do more chapters, also just a small request, if it's possible, can someone make the cover art for this, I'd like to see what it looks like. If this truly is going to be a flop, then I'll publish no more, however, if people want to see more, then all I ask for is a little time since I'm juggling between work, life, and writing, but all in all, reviews, ideas, faves, follows, etc. are happily welcome and are completely optional, so until the next chapter if possible, this is the master of chaos, the commander of the legion of corpses BloodyDemon666 signing off!)