DISCLAIMER

Sword Art Online (c)Kawahara Reki, Detective Conan (c) Aoyama Gosho.

環太平洋擬装網 (romaji: Kantaiheiyou Gisoumou; official English title: Pacific Rim Imitation Network) (c) Hirasawa Susumu.

Before anyone's starting to flame this piece of fan fiction out of pairing, take note that I'm not a big fan of Kazuto/Rika (aka Kirito/Lisbeth), but not a big fan of Kazuto/Asuna (Kirito/Asuna), either. I'm a pragmatist when it comes to pairing.

'Kay? 'Kay.

Yosh, with those in mind, here we go~ :3

xx kantaiheiyougisoumou_thecrasherswereinblack xx

Chapter 1 – The Crashers Were in Black

8 August 2035, 1045 JST (UTC+9)
Somewhere in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture

"Do you, Shinozaki Rika, take this man, Kirigaya Kazuto, to have and hold to from this moment, for the better or the worse, until death separates you?"

"I do."

In a way, fate is weird.

After all those time Kazuto had spent with Asuna, a sudden turn of event – that she is recruited by a weird intelligence organization that places her in Beika for her first mission – separates them about four years ago, but not without one of Asuna's ... weird moves: entrusting her first love to her best friend, Rika. Good thing Kazuto have known her well, so there was no need for (re)introduction.

Then, Kazuto has become an employee in Shimeji Solutions, an IT company that runs primarily in computer security. Rika, in the meantime, had become an elementary school teacher. Although not without the usual hassle of dating, especially considering that Kazuto's recent promotion into a field consultant frequently required him to cancel their date unexpectedly, they were going pretty smooth, until the day they agreed to get married.

Perhaps that headstart in Aincrad 55th Floor years ago did much to them, but I digress.

The marriage party was a simple, obscure one. Aside of the families of bride and bridegroom, there were a few of co-worker of both of them, among other assorted strangers that crashes their marriage in low profile. As the couple expected, though, Yuuki Asuna, one of their best friend thanks to that infamous Sword Art Online Incident years ago – as a retrospect, perhaps their marriage wouldn't be possible without the incident happening in the first place – wasn't there. They have tried contacting her a few day before the ceremony to no avail. All her numbers within their combined reach can't be contacted.

It turns out that the obscurity did nothing to keep the weather calm, especially without any securities around the party. Sure, securing a marriage ceremony isn't exactly the same thing with securing a military cipher or other cryptographic product, but as Kerckhoff once put it out, relying on obscurity without a second defense line to help secure whatever it is pretty much equals no defense once the jig is up. Their marriage ceremony was interrupted with a very-high-profile wedding crash. About forty minutes after they formally agreed to be married before the marriage official, a few men, all wearing black suits and gas masks, stormed the room and lobbed a few gas grenades. Within a few seconds, everyone except these assailants are knocked out into unconsciousness thanks to the gas. A few minutes later, when the first man – the marriage official – regained his consciousness, both Kazuto and Rika are missing. The happy couple were gone from the ballroom, probably taken by those men in the mask.

The next day, this act of kidnapping were known to the entire prefecture, even became the headline of a local newspaper. Some speculated – thanks to all those newspaper agencies that care to serve it on their August 9th newspapers, especially the local newspaper that made the incident its headline (the headline ran like this: Men in Black Strikes! Crashed Wedding, Both Bride and Bridegroom Missing) – that it was the Black Organization, an infamous crime circle in its own right, who kidnapped both of them. Some says that after a revolution inside the Black Organization two years after the Sword Art Online Incident has resolved, they changed most agents' codenames from wine-themed codenames into flower-themed codenames.

However, there remains the mystery about the reason why would they kidnap, rather than kill, Kazuto – who was not exactly high-profile back in Shimeji Solutions by the time he was married – on the spot, never mind why they they did so to Rika – an ordinary woman the Black Organization wouldn't deal with without a very strong reason – as well. Moreover, there's the issue of gassing the entire ballroom, especially when it leaves only one corpse: Rika's already sickly grandmother, whose husband, deceased three years ago, used to be a heavy smoker until the elementary school Rika teaches at recruits her four years ago. It implies that the assailants purposely uses non-lethal gas.

Granted, most peoples coughed a while after they walked out of the gassed room, but this is just not how Black Organization clears evidence. Unless they have a very strong reason to avoid life loss, they prefer their witness dead at all costs.

xx kantaiheiyougisoumou_thecrasherswereinblack xx

9 August 2035, 0930 JST
Somewhere out of Saitama Prefecture

A phone, laid above a table, rang. Its owner, with an air of annoyance around him, half-heartedly picked the phone.

"Good day, what is it?" he asked. He knew well who's over the line.

"Aniki, we have a problem over here," the man, with an obviously a male voice, spoke over the line.

"Go with it, Hibiscus. Keep it brief, we can never know who's peeking," said the owner of the phone.

"Then it's better to waste no time and speak about it on the base," answered the other side.

"If you wish. Just make no trouble, that damn newspaper has given us enough of it already, slandering us for a crime we have no reason to commit. Oh, Astro-Ho told me he wants that man ... to be an unperson. More info in the base, then," answered the man before he closed the line. He then walks to his garage, revving his pride and joy – his well-groomed Porsche 356A he inherited form his father, easily older than its owner at times like this – before he gave the car a full throttle.

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To be continued.

A/N: Yup, there is no mention to that song of Hirasawa yet. In time, it shall be made clear. (BTW, his ... popular stage name, if you will, is simply his name written in the "given name – family name" format (i.e., Susumu Hirasawa) without more fancy modifications. For what reason it is, I don't know.)

BTW, most wedding crashers (in the meaning of 'coming to the party uninvited') come without attrracting attention to themselves, methinks. I've yet to know a wedding got crashed by kidnapping the couple.

So, is this 'Hibiscus' a man from the Black Organization – the same one we'd see in Detective Conan – or another criminal circle entirely? We'll see later.