The Private Eye Of Teito
By Shirogami
Author disclaimer:
I don't owe any character of Sakura Wars / Sakura Taisen. But I do own this story (although I don't know if anyone write this before :P). This is the first time ever I write detective story, so please correct me and review for any misunderstanding, comment and opinion. Now, the show begins.
PrologueIn a luxurious hotel room, two people are having their glass of red wine on the queen size bed. One of them is wearing a sexy, half transparent, light pink bathrobe with a string laced up her waist. With the dim light besides her, her slim body becomes more attracting than the painting 'Mona Lisa' that hangs on the wall by the bedside. While she is resting on the soft pillow with her elbow supporting her, her smooth and sexy legs slowly appears by the bathrobe lower side, and her bosom's curves expose due to the fold of the loose bathrobe.
"So, when do we start, my darling?" She asks before having her glass of red wine.
"All is within the plan, don't worry, my dear." Putting down the glass, the conversation continues, "Now, the only thing left is to release a mouse to be played with."
"Then, do you have any option?" She asks while taking another sip of the wine. The question soon answered as a file is passed to her hand. It is a resume for a young man.
"Already did, my dear." In the mean time, the other's hand starts to slide over her thigh, while she is reading the resume. The hand reaches the bottom part and starts to play with it, then continues, "How about having some real fun first, I am so hunger now."
The woman starts to moan in pleasure and give her partner a wicked smile, "Ah you are… so naughty… but…aah but I… like it…" then she hugs her partner tightly and asks for more.
"Soon, the show will begin as I planned. Hehehe…" their midnight pleasure starts as the planner chuckles, just a warning siren before a stage play begins.
Chapter 1Ogami Ichiro wakes up in his office lazily. The time is 8.00 o'clock in the evening.
Due to the alcohol he had with his buddies last night, now he is having a headache and it makes him going to close his heavy eyes again. Before he does, he slowly raises his head and looks at the frames that were hung behind him, all of them are newspapers' cutouts.
"Officer Ogami Solves The Mystery Of 'Japan's Jack the Ripper' Case!"
"Ogami Kicks Up The Drug Lord's Butt!"
"The Star Of Teito's Police Department Did It Again!"
"Star, huh? (hick) it sounds like an humiliation to a drunken man here right now (hick) Ah… my head." While he is rubbing his head to ease his pain, someone enters his room and places a glass of warm water with two tablets of aspirin in her palm. Looking at her frown face, Ogami knows that his assistant is going to babble him again.
"Ichiro, can't you just take less liquor? God, you look awful!" She says as she passes him the aspirins.
"Sorry Maria, they said they would kill me if I don't drunk them all." Ogami swallows the medicine and drinks the water to ease it.
"And paid the bill as well?" Maria stares at her partner seriously.
"Not this time." Ogami answers with his eyes looking back at the person that gives a relieved sigh. Then she unfolds a small warm towel and rubs his face.
"Gee… Maria… What was … that... for… ouch!" Ogami struggles while Maria tries to refresh his mind.
"You better get yourself ready. We have guests waiting at the guest room." After she makes sure Ogami had awakened, she continues, "And clean your mouth, you will scare our client."
Inside the bathroom, Ogami looks at his reflection in the mirror.
"Man, Maria is sure right this time." His ebony spike hair is messy; beard starts to grow out from his chin; his eyes may not look sharp like his old days, but they still do not influence his judgment in his work; Ogami looks carefully at his body, it might not as muscular like the muscle builder, but the appropriate rich abdomen and chest muscle do make him look strong enough, thanks to his exercise and training on his Kendo lessons.
"Well, maybe not at all…"
Later in 5 minutes, Ogami enters the guest room after changing his clothes to white shirt, dark brown long slacks and his hair combed properly, although they still look spiky. He sees a woman sitting on dark green cheap sofa of his and enjoying the served tea, with two muscular bodyguards securing her safety. The woman turns at him as she hears the door opened, she stands up and gives him a bow. She is wearing a well fabric made pink kimono with darken magenta colored sakura flower pattern sewed on it. Her long dark blue hair has been combed nicely into bun, showing that she is married and well educated in term of Japanese traditional manner. Although with just thin make up on her brown eyes and her smooth cheek, her polite manner has given her the confidence to make every man to stop himself just to look at her beauty.
After returning his client a bow as well, he sits at the same sofa that is placed opposite the woman, so he can observe his client's reaction to decide that he shall receive the job or not, and to prevent any lies by observing the way his client talks and acts.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Mrs.…" Ogami greets his client and tends to ask for her name.
"Kayama, My name is Kayama Sakura. And you must be Mr. Ogami Ichiro, right?" Sakura replies and looks at the person who is looking at her. It makes her face blushes for a moment.
"He is much younger and more handsome than the newspaper."
"Please…" Ogami notices his action had influenced his client, so he says, "make yourself easy, Mrs. Kayama. And forgive me if I make you feel uncomfortable." After having a sip of the coffee that Maria just put down, he continues, "Mrs. Kayama Sakura, so you are the daughter of the Shinguji Heavy Industries' owner, and also the one who married with the young owner of the largest shipping company, Mr. Kayama Yuichi 3 months ago, am I right?" Sakura nods her head. "And what is the reason you are looking for service from a private eye?"
Sakura takes another sip of the tea, then continues, "Honestly, I want you to keep an eye on my husband, Kayama Yuichi." The request almost gets Ogami choked, Sakura says, "He has been acting strangely nowadays. I suspect that he is having an affair with someone, a mistress."
"A famous shipping company owner is having affair with someone after married for 3 months, this could be the bombastic scandal if it is revealed to the public." Ogami observes Sakura carefully, "and she is not lying at all." Ogami finally speaks, "Then why me? I might spread the news to the media, they might pay me more than you could."
"I am here because you are well-known in your field for the strong principle of keeping your client's secret. And most of all…" Sakura puts down a folder on the table, continues, "Your ability and efficiency of completing your job, like what they are written here." Ogami reads the folder slowly, all of the files are the newspapers' cut outs and pictures of his achievement and participations in various Kendo competitions.
"Now looks who's the detective." Ogami is looking back at his client icily after he put down the folder. "Well, Mrs. Kayama, there is no point for you to study my past, there are nothing to me but history." Then Ogami stands up, "and I am not interested in helping a client who is doubting about my ability, so, please leave now."
Sakura stands up quickly, but instead of leaving the office, she bows and apologizes, "Please forgive me, Mr. Ogami. I just want to make sure I find the right person for the job. I did not mean to get involve in your past. I am sorry." Then her voice sounds weird, as she starting to sob, "Please help me, Mr. Ogami. Somebody is trying to kill me!"
Ogami stares at the bowing woman, "Then get yourself more bodyguards and report to the police! I am just a normal person as you can see here... huh?" Suddenly Ogami tightens his eyebrow and having a strange feeling, just like someone is observing him like a panther. "This strong aura of killing, could it be?" On instinct he leaps towards Sakura and covers her, he yells, "Get down everyone!" Just when the bodyguards are confused by Ogami's word and action, a shot is released and it hits straight onto the bodyguard's head that Ogami just passed by. Immediately Ogami hides Sakura and himself behind the sofa, while the other bodyguard has also been killed on the spot, followed by rain of bullets onto their position.
"Maria!" Ogami shouts at the wooden door that has the word 'office' written on the translucent glass. Then the door is kicked opened and Maria is equipping herself with a sniper rifle on her left and a customized pistol on her right. The bullets still rain towards them and Ogami is holding Sakura's head close to him, then he nods at Maria. Noticing her partner's action, Maria guesses the sniper's place and fires through its direction with her rifle. After a few shots, the war stops and the environment become totally silent, leaving the room that full of bullet holes and the panting trio.
"I hope you can explain this to me, Mrs. Kayama." After ensured their safety, Ogami brings Sakura into his office, which is safer than the open place like his guest room. Sakura is shivering due to the frightening incident just now. Maria serves a cup of coffee to Sakura after she kept the weapons back in her room.
After Sakura calmed down, she says, "As I said to you before, someone is trying to kill me." Then she pulls out a letter from her purse and passes it to Ogami, Ogami unfolds it and it is a letter full of cut out lettering from medias. It says:
"I had come back from hell to take your life with me, as you had taken half of mine away from me."
While he is examining the letter one more time, Ogami starts to think, "Could this be just a joke? I know that recently people loves to play with this kind of letter and passes it to his victim to have fun by looking at their reaction. But then, how to explain the incident just now if it is just a joke? That is far more than enough for a practical joke."
"Do you have any conflict with anyone recently, Mrs. Kayama?" Ogami finally breaks the silent and asks Sakura.
"My husband was asking me the same thing, but as far as I concerned, not at all. After we were married, I seldom go in the public except to parties with him. Other than that will be only staying in my office and home." Sakura explains.
"So, you are still in charge of your family business?" Ogami keeps asking, as he wants more information.
"Yes, but I can swear that I don't make enemies with it…"
"It may be a possibility, Mrs. Kayama, After all, your company is the most influential in the industry, there is no doubt of it for suspecting it was your competitor's idea." As he puts the letter on his table, Ogami holds his chin with his left hand and continues, "And I can ensure that they really mean it after I saw what they had done with my house." After Ogami finished, Sakura takes a look at the mess behind her, where she just sat and had a cup of tea not long time ago.
"I am sorry for all of this, Mr. Ogami. I will pay for the reconstruction fees." Sakura takes out the checkbook.
"In that case, I will take it as the deposit for this job." The answer cheers up the sorrow Sakura, and Ogami smiles at her, says, "I am a private detective after all." Ogami looks at Maria. She nods lightly and returns a smile to agree with her partner.
"That's great, Mr. Ogami. Thank you very much." Sakura says happily. But in Ogami's mind, he is thinking something more than just money.
"Their marriage… the love affair… the assassination… hmm… things start to sound more interesting."
End of chapter 1Words from Shirogami:
It's been a long time after the 'After Sakura Wars: Part 2', I hope you guys will keep supporting me in this story as well. As I said before, this is a detective story, and most of the character's background had changed to fit in the fiction, but one thing for sure is I won't change their ability… well, may be a bit ()' Anyway, I will try my best.
Please R&R, it helps me to write something that keeps you reading. Thanks