Title: Her Hero

Author: Snoweria

Beta: aime0x (.net/u/2302610/)

Summary: Matt is a famous gang leader who had conquered Tokyo for two years now. He, along with Taichi, Jyou and Sora are pop culture icons. Besides being a gang bangers and pop culture icons, Taichi is also a soccer star, Jyou continued his career as a doctor and Sora is a fashion designer. Everyone was happy, until a criminal organization from Odaiba lead by Tachikawa Keisuke, have Matt, Jyou and Sora captured and held hostage on plane. Jyou died while they were escaping and Matt with the rest of his gang decided to take revenge and take over Odaiba. When Matt found out Keisuke had a daughter, he decided to capture her and see how far her father would go to save her. What Matt doesn't expect is that Mimi (Keisuke's daughter) seems to like him and is very willing to be his hostage.

Characters/Pairings: Matt/Mimi, Taichi/Sora

Genre: Romance, Comedy, Action, Crime.

Rated T for languages and (possible) violance.

Notes: This is a Mimato fic with slight Taiora, if you dont like these pairings, click the back button now! I've been dying to make a fic with Matt being a bad ass, so here it is. Matt is a gang leader and somehow is also a celebrity, along with Taichi and Sora (so they are very famous).Taichi is like second in command (or the lieutenant) in the gang. The story is set in Odaiba. Characters may be OOC, but I'll try my best to keep them IC. I would appreciate it if you give me nice and helpful feedbacks. English is not my first language and I am trying to be better (also recently got help from a beta reader aime0x). I had difficulty on deciding on the title and the summary, which was a pain. I hope you'll like this story and enjoy reading! :)

This chapter had been updated in beta-ed version

Chapter 1

Bang! Bang! Bang! (gunshots)

He woke up abruptly from his bed, gasping for air. His whole body was damp, covered in sweats, which did his blonde hair and white shirt no justice.

"Shit!" he cursed as he threw his pillow across the other side of the small dark cluttered room.

He had been having the same dream every night, since the night he manage to escape that plane with Sora. In his dream, the sound of those three gunshots he and Sora heard from the intercom was replayed. Those sounds of gunshots that killed one of his best friend, Joe Kido.

The dream itself was vivid. It was like a warning, begging him to do something about it.

He hated himself for what had happened, that night when he and Sora had failed Joe.

No.

He had failed Joe.

It was not Soras fault. No, not at all.

It was his. He was after all the leader of their notorious gang. He was the one to be responsible and blamed for, for everything, especially when it came to the death of one of his friends.

Getting up from the bed, he took off his damp shirt and revealed a masculine body, it looked as if had been working out, he then threw his shirt across the room to where the pillow is. Going through his fingers through his damp blonde shaggy hair, he walked out of the bedroom toward the small fridge under an old tatty tiny television.

I need a drink, he sighed.

"Same dream?" asked a scratchy drowsy male voice, as he bent down to get a can of beer from the fridge. He didn't need to turn around to see who was asking the question.

"Yea.." he anwered with his own scratchy voice, "Did I wake you?" he asked as he opened the beer can and turned around to face his gang lieutenant.

"Kind of." the brunette answered with a slight sigh. "Heard your pillow hitting the floorboard. Man, you got to stop doing that."

The blonde merely shrugged, then began drinking his beer as he slowly sat on the old worn out sofa.

"Matt, you have to stop doing this every night. I know we lost Joe and it is painful. It is for me too. But like you said, we will kill Keisuke and we will have our revenge."

"I know that Tai! It's just..." Matt sighed."..this guilt and dream."

"Dont blame yourself Matt." Tai said as he sat down next to Matt, "It wasn't your fault. Sora too was blaming herself, but... "

"I know, i know... we have to move on bla bla bla and kill Keisuke bla bla.. Christ sake Tai, I've heard that from you ten times for the past three days and if you say that again I'll literally shove this can down your throat!"

"Why you gonna be like that?" Tai made a face, not caring what his boss said he'd do to him. Matt could be the boss, but he was also his best friend. "We have been covering our tracks for three days now, what do you think of doing next? I'm sick of living in this old shabby apartment."

Matt chuckled at his friend's typical behaviour, "Use to stay in posh hotels?"

"True that." Tai smirked, nodding his head.

"Sorry man, aparently we were robbed. Not even a single yen was left in our bank account." Matt pointed out, "..and now we are living in a small shit hole in Odaiba. A shit hole we manage to get from your girlfriend's dead grandpa."

"Oh come on! She's not my girlfriend okay, she was just a hook up, a one night stand back in Tokyo. I had to sacrifice myself just to call so we could have a place to stay." Tai explained, "Wait.. dont tell her that. And don't ever mention about her dead grandpa again. I feel bad."

"Why would you be?" Matt scrunched his face at Tai, "Anyway, about our next plan..." he put his empty beer can on the floor next to his right feet, stamping on the can, squashing it. "We need to get a new place, gather our boys, get some cash..."

"Yeah about getting a new place! I had this id..."

"I found a place for us and it's a penthouse." A faint voice said coming through the door.

"Sora? Where have you been?" Matt asked, turning his head towards the auburn haired girl who just walked into their shit hole apartment.

"Damn it Sora! Why do you always have to steal my brilliant ideas? Do you have something against me?" Tai complained, frowning.

Ignoring Tai's bitching, Matt continued his conversation with Sora, "So, what's this penthouse you were talking about?"

"Its..." Tai began, before getting interrupted again.

"Its own by the Tachikawa's and they are having a party tonight, they are welcoming an international business partner or something like that. I heard the party includes strippers, so i dont think it's a formal." Sora explained, "Keisuke wont be there though."

"So, you are saying, we are going to crash the party and take the place for ourselves?" Matt questioned, a grin forming on his face.

"You read my mind boss!" Sora nodded and clapped her hands.

"And you read my mind?" Tai yelled, shooking his head in dissagreement, unsatisfied and angered at being ignored and have his idea stolen by a girl, who always seems to be able to read his mind like she is a telepath.

"Chill Tai! Dont be jealous." Sora said, patting her comforting hand on Tai's shoulder.

"What about getting inside the penthouse? Why didnt you tell Matt about that too huh, Sora the telepath?"

"I'm not a telepath Mr. know it all. I'm just smart and faster than you." Sora glared at Tai, then stare back at Matt, "So, the problem is I heard they are going to block the access of the elevator on their floor."

"Why would they do that?" asked Matt in confusion.

"Dude, it's a VIP party. Security and all that shit." Tai stated sarcastically.

"Oh.. So, how do we get in, if the elevator ..."

Before Matt could finish his question, Sora cutted in, "It's a penthouse! Duhh... You are getting in there through air."

Matt and Tai were in a helicopter, on top of the penthouse and Taichi managed to get themselves hidden in the midnight sky, if it's even possible. Taichi did a hell of a job flying a helicopter, well, to be exact, he did a great job on hiding it. None of Tachikawa's thugs noticed as they were all too caught up in the party. With the back of the helicopter wide open, Matt hold himself at one side, positioning himself and was more than ready to jumped off the helicopter.

"Ready?" Tai asked.

"You know what, I really need to stop doing this. I might give myself a heart attack one day." Matt joked.

Tai chuckled, "Relax, you are like the best sky diver, from what I heard from Sora. You two could have died, if it wasnt for you."

"Trust me, it was not easy."

"So, are you ready?"

"Let's do this." with that, Matt jumped off the helicopter.

He has to admit, free falling was one of his ways to relax. Everything that had happened just seems to dissapear. When he jumped off the helicopter; the worries, the guilt, the sins, the emotions, the memories were all thrown out, away from him, along with himself. Leaving him only one goal, to land on the penthouse, alive, wait let's make that two, Matt needs to land and make it alive.

The hard wind blew, through his face, his narrowed blue eyes, his blonde hair, his whole body, and when he thought it's about time to pull open his parachute, he did what he did. The parachute made him float on the air. He sometimes wondered, what would happend if he decided not to open his parachute. Well, who was he kidding? Of course, he will crash and crush, like a bug that died of falling, because it broke its wings in the mid air. Even now, he was imagining what he would look like on his soon to be penthouse helipad, if he did not open his parachute few moments ago. He never told anyone on how he wished he could be able to land safely and alive on the ground, without having a parachute to save his ass. Too bad he is a human and not superman, he still needs a fucking parachute.

Matt was not scared of death. He was near death so many times. He could try landing on the ground without a parachute as a human, but he just couldnt kill himself, when he still have many things in this world he could conquer. He conquered Tokyo. He could do everything he wants there and had become the most frightful person. Did he mentioned he and his gang members have fans? Since they were also celebrities.

As soon as he landed on the helipad, he walked towards the pool area (which was obviously away from the helipad, where all of the guests were around). He slowly took out his pistol as he looked around for any sign of people whohad noticed his arrival. None. Everyone were just too caught up with all the hot strippers, drinking, dancing, and now there's an asshole swimming in his pool. Right, everyone in this place gots to die.

Matt called Sora through his phone and informed her, "I'm in."

"Great. Now go activate the elevator. We are charging in as soon as the elevator's on."

"Roger."

In less than 15 minutes, mission accomplished.

They got the penthouse (their new crib).

The dead bodies of the party goes (including guards and strippers) were everywhere and Matt had his crew cleaning the place up.

"You guys sure know how to pick a place." Matt complimented as he looked around the penthouse and sat himself on the leather sofa, followed by Tai and Sora.

"Glad to know you like it." Sora said. "So what's next?"

"What's next is we are going to fuck Keisuke over and we are taking his whole organization down." Matt stated, looking very serious.

"Hold up Matt. We need cash for weapons and if you want to stay alive in Odaiba, you need cash flows." Tai suggested.

'He's right, you know." Sora said.

"So what? We rob?"

"No, no." Tai shook his head, smirking, and was looking as if he has got everything planned out, and Matt thought he has," Rob, causes more trouble. We dont have anyone to cover that for us here and if you still remember, there's none in Tokyo too, plus we dont have money to bribe, just yet."

"So? What are you implying, Tai."

"I say we buy the Tachikawa's property."

"And how do you suggest we do that? Like you say, we dont have money and it's less likely they would sell it to us, especially when we are after their leader." Matt frowned in confusion.

"Well, I found their safety deposit keys and some of their property deeds." Tai smirked, proud of what he had accomplished.

"Okay, so that means money problem solved? Why didnt you tell me about this sooner Tai?" Sora asked with her voice sounded slightly irritated.

"I dont want you to steal my ideas anymore!" Tai stuck out his tongue at Sora, while she glared at the boy.

"Nice one Tai." said Matt half laughing.

Buzz, buzz, buzz...

"Your phone dude."

"I know." said Matt, then picked up his phone, "Sup?"

"Hey Boss! We found a captive." said one of Matt's gang boys on the other line.

"What? Who is it?" Matt questioned, looking slightly surprised.

"No idea boss. He said his name is Koushirou something."

"Do you still have him tied up?"

"Yes. That's why we called you. What should we do to him?"

"Bring him here, immediately. " Matt ordered and ended the call.

"Who was that?" Tai asked.

"One of the boys." Matt said, looking deeply in thought, "There's a captive."

"You mean one of Tachikawa's goons or Tachikawa's captive?" asked Sora.

Matt sighed, "Keisuke's captive. He must know something. I asked the boys to bring him here. They said his name was Koushirou."

"Dont tell me it's Izumi Koushirou?" Sora suggested as she seemed to be in thoughts.

"What do you mean? Do you know him?" Tai asked, slightly annoyed leaning forward to face Sora.

"If that is Izumi Koushirou we are talking about, then I know him."

"Who is this Izumi Koushirou? One of your ex boyfriend?" Tai snickered, jealousy running through him.

"No! He was one of my childhood friend back in Tokyo. He moved here eight years ago. The last I heard from him was six years ago and he was said to be working with the science organization or whatever it is... He is a really smart guy, but what does Tachikawa want with him?"

"Well, we'll find out soon enough..."Matt said, trailing off.

to be continued

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