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Genre: Action/Romance/Slice of Life/Military
Chapter 0: The Night of the Patriots
Prologue:
In the twenty first century, Japan, which has always been a peaceful country, was greatly shaken by the government's move to turn the country into a state of total military control which demands a complete crackdown on terrorists, as well as political dissidents. And also demands the modernization of military powers.
Should Japan welcome the change, or rather go against it? Thus the country is split into two once more.
This is the story of two lovers, along with their friends and like-minded allies, who are caught into the crossfire of the changing times during the final days of a peaceful era.
One summer night, in the twenty-first of July in the year 2014, a group of Japanese military personnel are walking in the bustling streets of the shopping district in Kibitou, and they are heading to a meeting spot which is a well known steakhouse in the area. And it just happened that there are some customers in the steakhouse that night when the military has entered the establishment.
"Sorry for the interruption, but is the owner around?" A voice is heard from someone which happens to be the leader of the group. And the owner of the steakhouse approached them. "I'm the owner of this steakhouse. What can I do for you?" He said. "I'm Tsukasa Ayatsuji, Vice-Commander of the Onmyojigumi" was the group leader's reply. "And we would like to borrow this place for a while." "Okay," the owner said, "just don't wreck my steakhouse or something." He goes on. "We'll keep that in mind," Tsukasa's reply to the owner. And she called two of her subordinates, saying to them "Kazehana-san, Honda-san, you guys know what to do." She commands them.
And when the customers realized that the group that they are seeing is the Onmyojigumi, they fled the establishment in panic. And while Jirobou Honda arranges the tables, Ayame Kazehana sets up her laptop and started a relay network. "Okay, uplink complete." She said.
In the outskirts of Kibitou, a man wearing a black suit has entered an abandoned warehouse. But unknown to the man, he is being watched by two spies of the Onmyojigumi and one of them, Ai Nanasaki, wears a tracksuit.
A few minutes later, Junichi Tachibana, along with two of his subordinates Kaoru Tanamachi and Kyozaburo Shinomiya has entered the steakhouse, "This way," Jirobou guides them to their respective seats. Junichi asks his officers, "Do you have any word from Nanasaki-san?" Tsukasa replied, "None at the moment." Junichi just sighed and went to his seat.
Back at the vicinity of the warehouse, the spy wearing a tracksuit, Ai Nanasaki is being asked by her companion. "Hey Nanasaki-san, can you tell me what Michihiro Koyabu looks like?" The young man asks her. And Ai said to him, "Michihiro Koyabu is a very cautious man, and he's wearing glasses. He looks down so that people can't see his face and he avoids anyone who comes towards him." And Ai describes further, "Not to mention that he's a master of the Ganryu Suiren style of kenjutsu and he can sense someone behind him." "Okay, that should help." Ai's companion said, and he asks her again, "So if I see someone walking way too fast with his head looking down at the ground, that's Koyabu right?" And Ai nods in agreement.
A few minutes later after Junichi entered the steakhouse, Keiko Tanaka, the accountant of the Onmyojigumi, has made an important announcement to her fellow officers, "I'm passing out the combat uniforms" she says. And while the uniforms are being passed, another group has entered the steakhouse. "Sorry we're late. Kazutoyo-san and I just have to pick up two dumbasses at the original meeting site" a woman in that group said. "It's alright Sawada-sensei, but the meeting has already started however." Tsukasa replied back. "I see" Masako Sawada answered her in a calm manner as she goes to her seat. Keiko meanwhile passed one of the uniforms to Kazutoyo Mori, one of the officers while saying thanks to her. Kyosuke Iwaguchi, another member of the group, is staring in awe while he holds his new heavy duty carbon escrima sticks. And another guy, Iemitsu Fujiwara is asking Keiko, "Hey Keiko-chan, do you got what I ordered earlier?" Keiko then blurted out, "Huh, what are you asking for again?"
And after all the preparations are made, Tsukasa the Vice-Commander briefed the unit in the situation they are about to face. "The extremists have probably more than fifteen men in the area." Tsukasa then ordered to Jirobou, "Honda-san, please wait at the entrance along with Ozawa while the rest of us storm in." And Masako stated, "Wait, it is not wise to fight inside the warehouse, it's like a labyrinth of sorts." Then Ayame seconded, "So, you're saying that it's a major disadvantage when we raid the place with a big group right?" "Yes, you're correct Kazehana-san. So we should let them escape through the back door and ambush them by the open field." Masako answered back, and then she asks Junichi, "Do you have anything to say General?" In which Junichi replied, "Judging from the observations you made Sawada-sensei, I've got an idea, let split into two groups. The Vice-Commander, Kaoru, and good old Saburo, you're coming with me at the frontlines. And Iwaguchi-kun, along with Fujiwara-kun and Kotaro-san, under Colonel Mori's command, are to apprehend the fleeing extremists in the open field." "Very well," Kazutoyo nods in agreement. And then suddenly, Tsukasa looked at Shinichiro Fuma, also known as Kotaro by his peers, who is sitting near the window and asked him, "Hey Kotaro-san, are you listening?" Kotaro just smiled at the Vice-Commander and looks back at the scenery. Tsukasa then said to the group, "And that's it. We'll just have to wait for Nanasaki-san's report then."
Back at Ai's location, a strange man wearing a red overcoat and glasses is walking towards the warehouse. And as he walks, a passerby walks in front of him, and the strange man avoids the guy while looking down at the ground. And when he sensed that the passerby is gone, he goes on to the site. And then suddenly he looks at the spot where Ai and her companion are hiding. With a dart in hand, he watches intently at the spot for any strange movement, only to realize that he doesn't sensed anything suspicious. And then he entered into the warehouse. "Hey Nanasaki-san," Ai's companion said, but he didn't know that Ai has already left the area.
A few meters from the target site, while the entire team is waiting for Ai's report, Kaoru is talking to Kyozaburo. "Hey good old Saburo, I have just formulated the idea of how to take down an enemy without dirtying yourself." Kaoru just said. "Okay smarty pants. And how are you going to deal with the blood splash?" Kyozaburo asked her. Then she replied, "Easy, I'll just roll backwards before I blast the enemy with this concentrated fire shotgun." "That's not going to happen that way." Kyozaburo interjects. "Well I'm going to test my theory tonight." Kaoru lashed back at him. "Kaoru, will you just focus on killing the enemy?" Tsukasa rebukes her. Kaoru then answered, "Hey Tsukasa, if we all get bloody tonight, we can't hang out at your place later, and that goes also especially for you and Junichi who happens to have a few relatives waiting for you guys to come to her alive, and then you guys appeared to them with bloodstains on your uniforms and-" "Okay, okay, I get it!" Tsukasa yells at her, Kaoru then just laughs while Tsukasa blushed at the thought. Meanwhile on the other table, Keiko looks inside the inventory box, and she calls for Iemitsu, "Hey Fujiwara-kun. Is this what you needed?" Keiko points out to the new shoes that Iemitsu is looking for. "Yes, that's it! Thanks girl, I owe you one." Iemitsu said to her, and then she replied, "What's with the shoes anyway?" Then suddenly Ai bursts inside the steakhouse, ready to inform the team of the situation. "Michihiro Koyabu has just arrived!" Ai said. Then Junichi, knowing of the situation, nods at Ai and then signals the team. "We're moving out!" is Junichi's order to his team.
While the main and secondary forces of the Onmyojigumi are heading to the warehouse, a secret meeting is going on at the site. The extremists are presenting their plans for the city, which includes desolating the entire city to rubble and flames, to which Michihiro Koyabu replied, "I'm afraid I wouldn't agree to that. Besides if you raze the entire city of Kibitou, many innocent people will end up homeless and end up living on the streets."
A few minutes later, both the primary and the secondary forces of the Onmyojigumi have arrived at the target location. And after taking their respective positions, Junichi gave the order to the main force in which he is the leader, "All units, begin the operation!" he exclaimed.
And as the main force storms the warehouse, the extremists' informant is hurrying to the room in which their main unit is still holding their meeting. Back at the room, Koyabu is stating his plan to his men, "Now as for our plan in Tokyo, due to the state of political disorder we are having right now, we'll move the Prime Minister to somewhere in Shikoku." Then suddenly their informant bursts in, "The Onmyojigumi forces are here! We must hurry!" he then yelled at the group, while they are scrambling out and taking their defensive positions.
As Junichi and Tsukasa approached the extremists' meeting room, they sensed that the area is getting darker and darker. Then as they approached the door to the meeting room, Junichi prepared some chemical flares at his disposal while Tsukasa is preparing to breach the door with a specialized breaching bomb that Ayame has developed. And once she detonated the door, Junichi then threw the chemical flares at the darkened room, which revealed the extremists waiting for them with their swords drawn. Three of the extremists lunged at Junichi and Tsukasa but they are easily defeated by the couple, sending some of the extremists in fear and ran off in different places, the two decided to split off in two directions.
And while Koyabu, accosted by two of the extremists, rushes off to the abandoned office room to record something, Kaoru on the other side of the walkway is battling with two Ingram-toting soldiers. She disarms the two with a carefully aimed shot at their hands, the first guy runs away but the other guy pulls out his sword and suddenly rushes out towards her, only to instantly dodge it and Kaoru pulls her shotgun and fires it at the madman, killing him. And then she realized as how far as she's concerned about her theory earlier, luckily for her, there no blood has spattered on her uniform. Kaoru just then smiled to herself.
And as Junichi goes near to the office room, he slows down and carefully investigates the area. But as soon as he entered the room, the two guys go out of hiding and rushes towards Junichi, only for both of them to be overwhelmed by him. And Junichi quickly rushes towards the window, only to see Michihiro escaping on a motorcycle.
Meanwhile, Tsukasa has met with Kyozaburo who has a bit of trouble in dealing with the enemy soldiers in his location, and she rushes to them with her sword and she takes them down with ease. At the warehouse entrance, some of the extremists are rushing towards the main door, only to face Jirobou who is guarding the exit. And one of the men just swung his sword at Jirobou only for his sword to be blocked with a heavy duty gauntlet, and then Jirobou grapples the enemy and flung him in the air landing on the doorway. Seeing Jirobou's strength in combat, the remaining extremists escaped through the back door in fear. "It's just as we planned." Jirobou muttered to himself.
And as the extremists are running from the back, Kyosuke suddenly appeared before them and he chased them towards the open field, to which in their surprise, the second team of the Onmyojigumi troops led by Kazutoyo have emerged from hiding. And as they take up their offensive positions, Kazutoyo orders the men to take the extremists alive. Now as the two factions began drawing their swords and attacking each other, Kotaro began taking down one of the men with his blade claw, Kazutoyo on the other hand, disarms his target and knocks him down with the back part of his sword. Kyosuke also managed to fend off an enemy with his signature escrima techniques while saying "Stay down dammit!" Iemitsu handles two of the swordsmen using his b-boy moves at them. Just as the Onmyoji-gumi almost defeats the retreating extremist troops, one of them tries to run away. But Kotaro gave chase to the retreating soldier and felled it with one slash of his blade claw.
Back at the steakhouse where the Onmyojigumi's communications unit is staying in, Ai received a report from the spotter via phone. Then she informed Ayame about the situation from the battlefield. "The report just came in, four are killed, ten are apprehended, but there is one that escaped." Ai reported. "Who got away?" Ayame asked. "It's Michihiro Koyabu." She replied back. "Not again! Tsk, we did pretty well though." Ayame retorted. Then Masako looked at Ayame with a serious look saying "Kazehana-san, get three body bags ready. And keep the apprehended extremists away from the newsmen's cameras." "Huh, why's that?" Ayame asked her, and then she replied "Yes, it's undeniable that they are extremists, but they are still human beings that should be treated with respect." "Wait," Ayame interrupted her, "But can't we leave that to the military?" "No, that's part of our job." She replied.
Later that evening, at the Tachibana residence, a phone is ringing in the living room. Miya happens to pick up the phone and she is surprised that familiar voice from the other line. "Tsukasa-chan," Miya said. "How are things there? And is nii-nii safe too?" she goes on further. "Well, you can say that. Anyway, is my sister still there?" Tsukasa asked her. "Yep, she definitely wants to see you guys back. And before you ask what she's doing, yes, she's watching TV at the moment." Miya replied. "Okay. Anyway, we're going home a bit late." Tsukasa then said, and then she added, "Oh yeah, we're coming there along with the rest of the group." "Huh, uh okay. I'll prepare some meat buns then." Miya replied. "Call me back later then." She added. "I got it, later." Tsukasa then hung up. While going back to the rest of the frontline team, Kaoru then asked her, "Okay, are you planning to scare, I mean surprising your folks at home?" Tsukasa was surprised to hear that question, so she shot back at her saying, "Hell no! Besides, we're not that bloody right Junichi?" She then asks the General which also happens to be her boyfriend who is washing his hands at a nearby stream, and then he said, "I got no bloodstains on my clothes, save for my hands though which I'm washing off right now as you can see. Oh yeah, we're going home via the main road." Kaoru then cuts in the conversation saying, "Wait a minute, but there are lots of crowds there at this time of night." She said. "And that's why we're taking that route." Tsukasa replied. Kyozaburo then approaches them saying "We are all gathered here." Tsukasa then nods while saying "I see." And then she looks at Junichi and calling him by his rank, "Commissioner General!" Junichi then turns around, looking at his group and signaling them, "Let's go!" And the strike force then marches in the main street, not minding the watching crowd. And as they marched, Tsukasa approached the flagman saying "Hey, can you hold the flag upright? The characters "Heaven's Justice" is not visible." The flagman nods and raises the flag up high so that the crowd could see it.
Somewhere in Tokyo, inside the Defense Bureau, a man rushes off towards the meeting room. He enters and gives the report to Hiroshi Saiga, the Defense Minister saying; "Sir, the Onmyojigumi has apprehended some extremists at the abandoned warehouse near Kibitou." "Commend Tachibana for his excellent work." The Defense Minister said to his secretary. "Well then." The secretary said. Saiga adds, "You know, the Onmyojigumi are working very hard to protect the nation. I would love to meet with again very soon." To which the secretary replied, "I'll arrange it sir."
Meanwhile back at the steakhouse, Keiko pays the owner. "Thanks, this is for letting us borrow your place." But the owner said to her, "Excuse me, but one of your comrades has ordered a Salisbury and a T-bone steak with lots of rice in it." Keiko was shocked when she heard that, and then she asks the owner, "Okay, just how much is it?" while she's getting her wallet.
And meanwhile, in an air base barracks somewhere in Okinawa, three people are hanging out in one of the rooms. "Hey guys, I hear that the city of Kibitou has become safer after the Onmyojigumi has been formed." Ken Motosawa, the man wearing glasses said to his roommates, and one of them, Risa Kamizaki, is dazing by the window. Ken goes on, "And there aren't any suspicious characters anymore. But to me, the Onmyojigumi are much scarier than those extremists. You know, I liked the situation before." And the black American guy, Michael Langley, calls Risa and said, "Hey Risa-chan, here's the lemonade you ordered." And he goes to talk to Ken, "Well, I hear that the Onmyojigumi may look mean, but they're not that violent though." He says. And Ken replied, "I haven't heard much about those guys lately, but still I don't want to deal with them. I don't need to tell you why." And Michael realized something, "Wait a minute man, doesn't Risa personally know the General of the Onmyojigumi? I think his name if I'm correct is Junichi Tachibana or something like that." Ken snaps back, saying, "Whoa! Is he your friend Risa? I'm really sorry about that." Then Risa gets up from her position and grabs her lemonade, takes a sip and says something. "Well, he's just an old friend of mine." She says. "Yep, they're childhood friends." Michael added. And Risa goes on, "We used to see each other a lot in Kibitou before I was assigned here by the Air Defense Bureau a few years back." Michael then asks Risa, "Hey, can you tell us what Junichi Tachibana is like?" "To tell you the truth, I don't know how to describe him." She then answers. Then Ken also asked her, "Is he scary as they say?" "Dunno about that." She answered his question. And yet they kept her bombarded with many questions from the two like, "Is he one of the strongest swordsman in Japan?" "Is that true that he can juggle up to six basketballs?" "Is he an excellent strategist?" And more questions had followed. Then Risa sits near the window and she gave those questions a single answer, "Dunno about that." Then her two companions said to her, "What? Is that all you have to say?" Risa stares at the stars while whispering Junichi's name to herself.
Back at Kibitou, the Onmyojigumi, after a hard night's work, has decided to march into Junichi's place, calling the night a success.