Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic; it is a Sakura Taisen story. I don't own Sakura or any of the characters. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura
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'Text' Thoughts.
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(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language, as English when everyone else speaks Japanese.
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Text: something being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.
Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.
Chapter one: An assassin's rose
Kyoto December tenth 1925; 1:23 AM
The once quiet night is filled with noises and screams from men and women. Benji looks down from his hiding spot, on the streets bellow him there are many men running around looking for something or someone. 'I have really outdone myself this time.' He thinks looking at them from the safety of the roof where he is hiding. 'This is what happens when the clients doesn't give me the proper information about my targets. I really should find another way of make my living.'
With practiced ease Benji moves over the rooftops avoiding the streets and his pursuers. Many blocks away Benji moves to an alley where he gets to the street and removes a mask from his face, he walks to the streets, he is wearing black trousers, a white button down shirt, a black jacket over it, rubber soled boots and black gloves. His hair reaches the middle of his back and is tied in a tight ponytail with two elastic bands, one in the base of his neck tying it and the second one lower on his hair near to the end of the strands holding them together lessening the hair volume.
Benji walks thorough the empty streets of the area where he currently is, he moves to a building near of Kyoto's pleasure neighborhood, in there he moves to his apartment. "Finally back." He commented opening the door, he takes out his shoes and leaves them on the entry. Silently he moves to the bedroom, he checks on a small bed and smiles seeing a four years old girl sleeping. 'Well at least she is sleeping soundly.' He thinks taking out his clothes, changing to his sleeping clothes. He places a long sheathed knife on a nightstand besides him and places a large black pistol besides the knife, before lying on his bed to get some sleep.
Benji tensely walks thru a silent mansion hall. He can feel the scent of blood in the air; he enters inside the mansion dinning hall and finds everyone dead. "I was beaten on this contract." He mutters in English. "The client for sure wanted the target dead." He moves closer of the corpses of maids, butlers and five people from high society, two of them being foreign, easily guessed since they both have blonde hair and occidental features.
"Why killing everyone? The target was only that man over there…" Benji muttered at the senseless deaths, not that killing a specific person was less senseless. He is about to leave the room when he feels a faint grip on his pants leg, he looks down and sees the blonde woman holding his pants. 'One of them is still alive?' he thinks. (Please… you have to save my baby…) she says in Japanese.
"I don't speak Japanese ma'am if you want to say something do in English." Benji replied kneeling near of the woman, she was a collateral victim he couldn't just leave her to die alone like that, at the very least he would finish the job of whoever did a poor one. "Thank you…at least I will pass speaking my own language…" she whispered opening her eyes. "Please save my baby…" She begs trying to hold on his hand.
"Where is the child?" Benji asked, at the very least he would make sure that it was alive and well before leaving insuring that the child would survive until the police arrive. "Still in me…" she whispered in pain. "I was not due until few more days…but I won't life thorough the night…please save my baby…" Benji looks at her stomach and sees that she is indeed pregnant and for the size she was right and she was due for pretty soon.
"You understand that I am an assassin and that I have no idea of how to give birth, do you?" Benji asked to her, wondering if he should take the chances of calling the police to give the unborn baby a chance of living. "…I know…I also know that I won't live much longer…" she answered faintly. "If you cut me and take my baby…my baby will have more chances…to live…I am already dead…"
Benji exams the woman, she has a deep stab wound on her right breast, it was fatal but it would take time to kill her. "I will do my best but I won't promise that I will succeed." Benji tells to her while moving her to a more comfortable position. "If she has a chance to live…I am happy…" she replied while Benji rested her head in a pillow. "I will get some warm water and clean clothes. Hang in there." Benji said and she nodded saving her strength.
Benji returns few minutes later with a pan filled with hot water, few table dresses and a bottle of brandy. "Drink this." Benji said gently placing the neck of the bottle against her lips. "The liquor will numb the pain and make this easier." She nods and drinks slowly, after two minutes she had drunk half of the bottle. Benji draws a long knife from hit belt, covered by his jacket, he washes the blade with the liquor.
"That brandy is over one hundred years old…" she said in a tired but amused tone. "It costed over…fife hundred dollars…and you are using it to wash a knife and to…as an anesthetic to a dying pregnant woman…so many would want to kill you for wasting it like that…"
"Depends of what you call waste." Benji replied while cutting her blood soaked party gown. "I am not much of a fan of alcoholic beverages, so using one in an attempt of saving a child life isn't a waste in my book. Besides what is the fun in getting drunk and doing stupid things?" She chuckled amused with his words; Benji noticed that she isn't feeling pain since with a wound like hers chuckling should hurt.
Benji rubs some of the brandy over her stomach cleaning the area, he knows that is futile since the woman is dying and there isn't worries of her getting an infection, but the baby is another story, he has to be careful. "I will begin now." Benji said, she nodded acknowledging his words.
Benji finds that he was wrong, she wasn't fully sedated, she groans and holds back screams of pain when Benji gave the first cut on her stomach, yet she forces herself to not squirm or trying to escape from the blade risking her child. Benji gives to her one of the clean table dresses and she bites it to control the pain. "I passed thorough the muscles of your abdomen now." Benji tells her. "Now I have to be extra careful because I am close."
She nodded thru the pain acknowledging his words. With a careful cut Benji opens the uterus causing the amniotic fluid to spills out with the cut, after cutting a large opening Benji carefully removed the child from the uterus. Using three strands of ripped cloth Benji ties tightly the umbilical cord and cuts it with the knife and finally he gives a slap on the child's behind making her cry, not to mention breath. Moving quickly Benji washes the child with the now lukewarm water and wraps the baby with a table dress. "It is a healthy little girl." Benji says to the woman. She smiles and takes the child lovingly. Benji carefully covers the woman stomach and lower body, he knows that she won't last long but that is the least that he can do at that moment.
Benji washes his hands and the knife, he notices that the woman is feeding the infant with her left breast, both of them know that will be the first and last time that mother and daughter will pass by that.
"Thank you…" she whispered gently, while caressing her daughter's few wisps of blonde hair. "Thank you very much…" Benji smiles at her. "You are welcome." He replied standing up to leave. "Don't leave yet…" she asks to him. "Why?" Benji asked. "Because I will die…" She answered. "I don't want to be alone with my baby on that moment…"
"I am an assassin ma'am I am not a proper company." Benji replied. "You aided me and gave life to my child…I can't think in a better company for this moment." She said with a faint smile. "And I don't want a total stranger raising my baby…" "I am a total stranger." Benji commented. "Not anymore…" she replied. "I know that I am asking too much again…but please raise my child…"
"What?!" Benji exclaims surprised. The woman chuckles lightly. "You are a really funny assassin…" she commented. "But I am a terrible mother…I am begging to an assassin to raise my only child…I know that I am imposing but she doesn't have anyone on this land…and my relatives will mistreat or try to kill her…I am a stupid woman…begging to an assassin to protect the life of my child…" she said chuckling bitterly.
"How many people you killed?" she asks him. "Until now?" Benji replied she nodded confirming. "I was supposed to kill that man over there." He said pointing to one of the dead Japanese men. "But someone came first, so until this moment I only have caused your death." She looks at him surprised. "I thought that you was more experienced…I guess that I am not all that stupid after all…I am begging to an assassin who never killed before to guard the life of my baby…" she said with a small smile. "And you haven't caused my death…you gave my daughter a chance to live…"
Benji stays in silence, she is right after all. "I will give you a little more trouble…" she tells him. "Moving from this room from that door over there, walking to the main hall…walking up the stairs…move to the right…the last room in the hall to your left you will find the room where…I was staying with my husband…"
"Why you want me to go there?" Benji asks her. "…In there over the dresser…there is a jewel box…I want you to take it…in the second drawer of that dresser…you will find a…violin box…inside it there is a large amount of money…please take everything…" She answered. "…take the money and jewels…use it in anyway that you see fit…"
Benji nodded. "I will go get it." he tells her, she nods and watches him leaving, gently caressing the newborn hair, and humming a lullaby. Five minutes later Benji returns with the mentioned boxes and kneels besides the woman. She smiles at him; she knew that he would return. "Open the jewel box…" She asks him, Benji nods and does so. She moves her hand in the large, filled jewel box. "…I beg you to keep this one…" she whispers to him holding a thin silver chain with a triangle shaped emerald locket on it, the emerald is from the size of a coin.
"…this is the only jewel in that box that I am…attached to…" she whispered to him. "…this is the only one…that I had to work…for it…you can do whatever you want with the others…but I beg you to…give this one to my daughter…" Benji nodded while she places the necklace on his right hand. "I have found a sword in your room." Benji tells her. "It is yours?"
She denies weakly. "No…it is yours…" she said to him. "Do whatever you want with her…I advice to keep her…" Benji nodded, the baby pushes against her mother's breast signaling that she is done, the woman gently makes the child burp and sings a lullaby making the newborn sleep. "…if I can burden you…again…what is your name…?" she asked looking at the infant.
"You wish to curse me?" Benji asked in a playful tone. "No…" she answered with a smile and a hint of laughter on her voice. "I want to…bless you…" "I am Benji." Benji said. "Benji Himura." She smiles gently caressing the child's cheek. "…it is a beautiful name…" she said with a weak voice. "If I can burden…you…one more…can you name my daughter…before I die…?"
Benji nodded. "Rosa." Benji said to the woman. "Rosa Himura." The woman softly kisses the newborn forehead. "It…is a lovely…name…Rosa…" She said with a smile, handing the infant to Benji. "…Thank you…for everything…" "You are welcome." Benji replied taking the child. The woman closes her eyes to never open them anymore. Benji covers the woman with one of the table dresses and using the last one he places the jewel box, violin box and the sword inside it before wrapping the fabric around it and tying it on a strong parcel and tying across his chest with the cargo on his back.
He leaves the room never looking back to the woman that had given her child to an assassin that had entered in the mansion with the intent of killing her husband. As quietly as he entered Benji leaves the mansion with Rosa on his arms. Benji sees the position of the moon and is impressed with the time that he had expended with the dying woman, more than four hours had passed while he was with her on her last moments.
Kyoto December tenth 1925; 7:03 AM
Benji wakes with the soft cry of a child. He sits on the bed and sees Rosa on the bed sited there. She has long blonde hair reaching to her waist, big green eyes and white skin, she is wearing light blue pajamas, and she is sited on the bed leaning on the small wood fence that surrounds the bed preventing her from falling out of the bed on her sleep, which also prevents her from leaving the bed.
"You need anything?" Benji asks to the child. "I am thirsty!" she answered Benji stands up and moves to the bed. "Come on." Benji said leaning to pick her up, Rosa stand her little arms and wraps them around his neck allowing him to pick her up. "Good morning Daddy." She said in a happy tone rubbing her cheek against his. "Good morning sweetie." Benji replied moving to the small kitchen of the apartment.
He picks a pitcher filled with water and fills one glass and gently gives the glass to the child. "Thank you!" she exclaimed carefully taking it and drink until her thirst is quenched. "Done." She said handing the glass to him. Benji takes the glasses and refills it and drinks. "You want to take a bath first or have breakfast?" Benji asks to the young girl. "Bath!" she exclaimed happily, Benji chuckles and moves to the bathroom. "Go pick up some clean clothes for you." He says putting her down. "I will get the bathing goods." "Hai!" she exclaimed running to the dresses and opening her drawer.
Benji smiles at the child while she selects one of her many dresses to wear. 'It has been a really long time that I had a dream about that incident. I wonder if something will happen.' He thinks taking the needed items to take a bath from a high shelf far from Rosa's reach. Benji takes some changes to a clean set of clothes and places the bathing goods in a small bag.
"I am ready!" Rosa chirps handing to Benji her clothes. "Okay then let's go." He replied taking her clothes and placing on the bag along with the bathing goods. They move to the entry, Rosa carefully puts on a pair of sandals while Benji slips in his shoes. Rosa stands her right hand to Benji; he takes it and opens the door. They leave the apartment and lock it behind them.
They move to a bathing house, Rosa is humming a song while they walk; they trade greetings with some of the neighbors. In the bathing house Benji pays the fee for an adult and a child and enter on the house, they change, placing their clothes in a basket. Benji wraps a towel around his waist; Rosa only grabs one of the towels while moving to the bathing area.
"Hi Himura-san!" Many attractive women exclaim when Benji walks on the bathing area. "Good morning ladies." Benji replied to them, after years getting used to the idea of collective mixed baths Benji finally adjusted himself to it. "Good morning Rosa-chan!" they say to the child, Benji and Rosa always frequent that bathing house and know everyone that also frequent it. Benji knows that all the women there are women from the pleasure district, but he doesn't care. They are making their living doing what they can, as he does.
The women there as usual are all over the child and Rosa loves the attention from them. All the women there keep a respectable distance from Benji, the only man that treats them politely, respect and with courtesy knowing that all of them are prostitutes, geishas or hostesses. The younger girls of the group play with Rosa in the tub forgetting their works and status.
Benji soaks on the tub chatting with few of them, it is part of their daily routine, Benji doesn't think of himself different from them, as those women he rents his services for the one who pays more, the only difference is that unlike him who take lives and creates sadness they comfort people, that only difference makes Benji treat them with respect, he knows that almost all of them are forced to work by one reason or other and just few of them are in that life because they want to.
After bathing Benji and Rosa leave the bathing house, the child is with a smile holding on Benji's hand, feeling happy and content, having played a lot while bathing. They move to the apartment where Benji fixes the breakfast and takes Rosa to her school. "You work hard and behave." Benji tells to Rosa by the door of the school. "Hai!" she replied. "I will be waiting you, if I am late stay here." Benji says to her. "Don't go home by yourself or with someone else, especially a stranger." "Hai." Rosa said nodding. "Good girl." Benji said kissing Rosa's forehead. "Now get inside." She chuckles and run inside the school.
December tenth 4:29 PM
"Daddy you are late!" Rosa exclaims pouting, when Benji walk thru the school patio. "I am sorry, Takuya got late on his break and I had to cover for him." Benji said with a sheepish smile. "Why you are with a cut in your lips?" Benji asked now in a serious tone. "She got in a fight with few of the older students." A woman replied for the child. "Kurosaki-sensei!" Rosa exclaimed. "I wanted to tell him that!" Benji chuckles with Rosa's reaction. "Now if you don't mind Himura-san let's go to the teachers lounge." She tells to Benji. Benji nods walks inside the school with Rosa holding on his hand.
Kurosaki offers to Benji a cup of tea and pours one for herself. She has long black hair, hazel eyes, white skin and is wearing a light red kimono, with a brown sash and a white apron over it. "As I said on the entrance your daughter got in a fight with five students of higher grade." She said placing the teapot on her desk. "And as you can see she gained that small cut on her lips."
"I am guessing that the other students got the worse end of the deal, right?" Benji asked sipping the tea, after years in Japan he still doesn't got used to the heat and bitterness of the Japanese green tea. "You guessed right Himura-san." Kurosaki answered with a small frown recalling the fight. "What can I do my little rose has her thorns?" Benji asked giving to Rosa his tea since she is holding his hand and drinking it. Rosa blushes content with his words.
"That you gave her." Kurosaki replied. "She told me on the first time that she got in a fight that you are teaching her martial arts." Benji nodded confirming. "Of course I am." Benji replied. "And why you are teaching her?" she asked. "You know why those students pick on her?" Benji replied. "It is because her hair and occidental features."
"I know that. But why you know? This is the first time that I called you to talk about it" Kurosaki asked. "Because Rosa tells me every time that she gets in a fight." Benji answered ruffling Rosa's hair. "I am teaching her how to fight because I know that the other kids will pick on her because she is different. I am giving her means to defend herself."
"By telling her to kick the boys on the groin every time that they are going to start a fight?" Kurosaki asked. "Yes, it is a way to certain take out a boy from fighting with out hurting him badly. Rosa isn't strong as a boy so I have to give her ways to overcome that." Benji explained.
Kurosaki sighs. "I know all that but she can't keep hitting them there every time that she gets in a fight with them and if they get sterile?" she asked. "It is not my problem, they are starting the fight and we both know that they would do something that would scar her for life. If those boys were smart they would stop fighting her because she will always win." Benji answered. "You are making this hard on me Himura-san. I understand your reasons and that you want to keep Rosa-chan safe, but the school is getting many complains from the parents of the children that she beats defending herself and they get very angry when they find that is a girl that did the damage on their sons." She said to him.
"As I said Kurosaki-sensei, I won't tell to my daughter to just take the hits of a bunch of stupid boys because they don't like her eye and hair color." Benji replied. "I fully back up her standing up for herself and I advise you to tell to the parents and the kids that I will continue to teach her and continue to tell her to defend herself if needed and teach where to hit to hurt."
Kurosaki sighs again; she knows that Benji is right. "I will talk to them." she said. "But they won't like." "Not more that I like to know that my daughter is being forced to fight in your school because some students bully on her." Benji replied Kurosaki nods and sees the Himuras out. "How many this time?" Benji asked to Rosa while they walk away from the school. "Six." Rosa answered with a small smile. "You did really well." Benji replied. Rosa beams up with his words.
Sometime later they are in the back of a café. "Ai mind in giving me a small glass of sake?" Benji asked to a young woman wearing a waitress uniform. "Drinking this time of the day Benji?" she asked back to him. "No, it is for Rosa." Benji answered. "Letting her drink so young Benji?" she asked filling a small glass with sake. "It is to clean a small cut." Benji replied taking the glass from the woman. "I know." She said with a teasingly smile. "Anyway you still have ten minutes of your break."
Benji nodded. Rosa moves to Benji and sits on his lap already knowing what to do. "Aaaahhh…" Rosa said while opening her mouth, Benji carefully looks inside her mouth for any cut or other wound. "Well there is a small cut." He said dipping his index finger on the sake. "I will clean it a little and you will avoid spice and hot foods." Rosa nods and Benji softly passes his sake coated finger over the cut. "Oowww…" she whimpered feeling the alcohol stinging on her cut. "Come on you are tougher than that." Benji said now passing some sake on the cut on the corner of her lips. "When fighting." She replied. "I don't have to be tough with you Daddy."
Benji smiles and finishes giving the small treatment on her. "Okay, I am done." He said picking the glass of sake and drinking it. "You stay here and work in your homework while I work." "Hai!" Rosa exclaimed jumping out from his lap, Benji moved to the café where as usual there are many clients waiting.
Few hours later Benji and Rosa leave after the working hours, Rosa is once again humming while they move to the bathing house. Because of the hour it is quite empty and Rosa is a bit quieter. After bathing they return to their house, Rosa picks one of her father's books and reads on her bed. Benji cleans the small apartment while Rosa entertains herself with one of his romances. When done with the cleaning Benji moves to the bed. "Want me to read for you sweetie?" he asks her. "Yes!" Rosa exclaimed giving space to Benji sit on the bed; Benji sits besides Rosa and takes the book from her.
End of the chapter one:
Author notes:
Okay let me explain a little about this new story, to begin the explanation this story isn't all that new, I began writing it handful of months to be more precise sometime before past August so there might be some changes in my writing style that might not be present on the early chapters of this story. I did scanned the story for them but I can't be one hundred percent sure that I got them all but I cleared most of them.
Now to a more in depth explanations:
Rosa Himura is one of my original characters; she is a character that appears in some of my stories, if anyone reading this story also read Outcast Chronicles of a Lost Writer in Ranma's World will see that she also appears there.
Actually she also appears in many other stories, she is one of my basic characters when it comes to daughters for Benji in my stories, Rosa means rose in Portuguese, I like this name so I use it quite often. Her basic concept is mostly the same in all my stories, she is a very smart girl showing an intelligence above her age, she is blonde and is a daddy's little girl.
However Rosa in this story is a different Rosa from Outcast in Ranma's world, just the name and basic character design is the same; to anyone curious the Rosa in this fic appeared first than the Rosa in Outcast so that Rosa is based on this one.
Benji Himura he is my original self insert character; he appears in all my stories, in most of them every Benji is different from the other of course disregarding sequels on one story; other than the stories of the Outcast saga were the Benji that starts the story is the same in every story, they change to 'different' Benjis as the story develops they are still the same man but with different experiences; the Benjis in all Outcast stories are based on me.
This is all that I will be explaining for the moment, I hope that everyone is enjoying the story I hope in seeing you all in the next chapter, please read and review your support is important.