Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic; it is a Sakura Taisen and Code Geass story. I don't own Sakura or any of the characters. I own Benji Himura and others original 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

I want to thank Andou Masaki for the idea of this story, the personal review of the rough sketch of the prologue and the idea for the title of this story.

"Text" Talked sentences.

'Text' Thoughts.

-Text- Sounds effects.

(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language, as English when everyone else speaks Japanese.

: Text: Messages show in an electronic screen or written.

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.

Code Geass: The Blooming Cherry Blossom Enigma

Chapter one: Arrival

Benji lands hard on a roof that collapses with the impact causing him to fall more until he crashes on the floor inside the construction. In pain Benji clutches his chest gasping for air inside the now closed helmet of his armor.

After few moments of pain Benji stays still crying for the death of Ruby, he knows that she died, there wasn't a way for her to be alive after he left he knew that she would rather die than fall in the hands of the Britannian army.

Many minutes pass with him crying, it was an alarm on his armor that made him stop and pay attention to it, in the lower left corner of his visor an small screen with the image of a woman wearing a maid outfit with long graffiti colored hair braided in two braids on the base of her neck and resting over her shoulders, finishing the outfit is a white cap adorning her hair.

"Master I registered an energy surge consistent with a transdimensional jump." The maid said in a clinical tone. "The energy signature is consistent with the recorded signature of the Britannian army's produced transport facility." "Shit they are way ahead the schedule in everything." Benji cursed standing up and pressing a button on his helmet opening it, then he cleans his eyes and closes the helmet again.

"Give me coordinates of the landing location and the best route on a map." Benji ordered in a serious tone. "Unable to comply." The maid replied in an emotionless tone. "Location and data unknown unable to create a map of the landscape."

Benji sighs and leaves the building; on the bottom of the maid's screen a blue bar with the word loading on it is quickly being filled. "Location acquired city data on the databanks." The maid said in her plain tone. "Third person view map created, activating filters and removing needless information."

In few seconds on the visor a map of the city made only of thin semitransparent lines appears with out blocking his vision. "So I am in Teito." Benji said reading the name of the city on the upper right corner of the visor. "Show the location of the container, Lisa." "Adding location of the container, angle of the map changed." Lisa replied moving her hands as if adjusting the map.

"Shit…fifty meters under the earth…" Benji said seeing the map. "The container's structure isn't compromised." Lisa said altering the map again and showing the location of the energy surge. "It is inside a large cave, however the cave is naturally sealed and I assume that filled with toxic fumes. In this moment detaining the invasion is most important than securing the container."

"Easy for you to say that." Benji said running to the location of the energy surge. "I am the one that has to take down knightmares without a knightmare." "Which is your specialty." Lisa replied in a teasingly tone, Benji couldn't help in smiling at the display of emotion. "ETA two minutes in current speed, battery cells with ninety eight percent of charge, total ammo available in this unit is exactly three hundred and two thousand and five hundred and ten rounds, anti-missile defenses, and heavier weaponry systems were removed from the unit."

"Break down the total of the ammunition to each caliber total." Benji commanded in a serious tone. "Currently there are three hundred thousand and four hundred rounds for the 5.7x28mm, one hundred for the .338lapua, and six hundred and seventy to the ninety millimeters heavy armor piercing rounds, six hundred and eighty for the .45ACP that combining all the ammo types." Lisa said displaying the numbers in the screen. "And lastly six hundred and sixty rounds of 10mm ammo. I am not counting to the total the eighty rounds of the heavier 25mm of the heavy anti knightmare rifle."

"It isn't all that much but I think that using it wisely it will last until I find a way to recover the container." Benji said in a serious tone. "No damage registered with the fall, all weapons are green, waiting for command." Lisa added with her hands together in front of her white apron. "Disable the ninety millimeters and ten millimeters arm cannons, retreat the feeding belt and tube, lock the ten millimeters arm cannon in single shot mode only, it can only be unlock with the usual password." Benji commanded. "Done." Lisa replied after few moments. "ETA one minute." The armor now changed with two of the three metal belts connecting the backpack to his left arm now removed

Benji arrives in the coordinates and sees at distance nine different colored robots that look something like a mixture of rice cooking pans and hard diving suits, he smiles seeing the group still moving while trying very hard to come up with an effective attack plan against a pair of Sutherlands with full battle equipment.

"Smart they are retreating using the city landscape." Benji whispered while pulling the thick tube from his back. "The Sutherlands don't know if the city is mined of if have more koubus here, they will move slowly while studying the situation. Just perfect." Benji pulls from the tube a long and heavy looking black rifle parts.

"Distance from the targets fifteen hundred meters." Lisa said while Benji assembles the rifle with practiced ease. "Easy shot." Benji comments while loading a large box magazine and pulling back the rifle bolt loading it. "Give me wind speed, gravitational pull and delay of the shot."

"Wind speed three kilometers per hour, gravitational pull results already send to the scope, delay of three seconds." Lisa answered in a plain tone. "Okay, is as perfect as it can be." Benji whispered looking thorough the scope and aiming. "I will take down only the pilots so I can use the Sutherlands, at the very least as spare parts."

"The outdated robots called koubus are now four blocks away from the Sutherlands, they seem to be discussing some kind of strategy to attack again." Lisa said to him. "Great, it will give me time to reach the Sutherlands." Benji commented. "Now stay in silence and let me aim, warn me if anything important is about to happen." "Understood." Lisa replied.

Benji takes a deep breath and waits, the closer Sutherland stops and scans the surroundings searching for traps. Benji pulls the trigger and don't even wait to see the result before chambering a new round and aiming to the second Sutherland. While Benji adjusts the aim the massive bullet pierces the armor of the cockpit and kills the pilot inside it before piercing on the other side and stopping on a wall.

The sound of the shot alerts everyone of his presence but is already too late for the second knightmare to react; the second shot were already fired and have the same result of the first. "Silver line reaction detected." Lisa warned in an emotionless voice. "Adding location of the silver threads to the aiming system."

Benji chambers a new round and fired at the top of the cockpits in a sturdy box, the box explodes in a silver burst of flame before vanishing; Benji repeats the process and runs to the two knightmares with out storing the rifle away. "The local defense force is hurrying to the knightmares, in our max speed we will have only twenty seconds of advantage over them." Lisa said now with a hint of worry on her voice.

"It is enough." Benji replied while jumping over the rooftops. "Start hacking on the closer frame, I want it open when I get there." "Complying." Lisa said furiously typing on a laptop.

Benji arrives and sees the cockpit open and the pilot with a large hole on his chest showing where the shot hit, in one side was just a hole of the size of a golf ball and a gaping hole on the exit wound that splattered blood on the cockpit. Benji tosses the body away and closes the cockpit.

"Ejecting the cockpit of the second frame." Lisa said before acting. "It will lessen the weight of the frame to levels that will allow this frame to drag it." Benji grabs the other frame by the hole left on the cockpit and sees the hanagumi approaching. "I will leave something for you to study." Benji said before giving the command of release of the machine gun. "For now good bye." After those words Benji launches a smoke bomb and flees of the location with the knightmare.

Confused the hanagumi doesn't know what to do. "Do not chase." A feminine voice said from the radio on the koubus. "At this point letting whoever is in there escape is the best solution, collect the dropped gun and that box and bring back to the base, we will study this as he said so." "Ryokai!" the hanagumi replied not truly happy in letting the frames escape.

In the underground base Kaede looks to a woman with shoulder long green hair. "You are sure of that Asa-san?" Kaede asked in a serious tone. "I am dead sure of that Kaede-dono." Asa replied in the same tone. "In the first attack you saw that the hanagumi barely scratched the Sutherlands."

"Besides there is only one person in the world able to take down a knightmare like that." She added with a smile. "And if he did what he just did it is better not to provoke him now, he is unruly and suspicious. For the moment we should give him space, let him get used to this place."

"But why he ran like that? If he is an ally why he is running?" Kaede asked confused. "Because he has no idea that you know about the invasion, he doesn't want to risk himself in making the first contact, he thinks that you might try killing him and steal the technology from him and that would lead to the victory for the Britannian invaders." Asa answered in a serious tone. "Don't worry he won't cause trouble. Right now he will lay low, he will mingle in the crowd and try to settle down."

"Asa-san there is corpse on the street what we do about it?" Ogami asked a bit shaken by the sight of the corpse. "Leave there for the clean up team. Maria-dono I want you to locate the projectiles that are imbedded on the walls, mark the location so the clean up team can extract them, I also want you to locate the direction of the shooting by the bullet's location, and we will look for the casings later." Asa commanded in a serious tone. "Why those are needed?" Kaede asked in a curious tone. "We need them to recreate those bullets; after all we will need more of those to take down the knightmares." Asa answered with a smile. "I am quite sure that he will like to know that we have a supply for him."

Kaede looks at the green haired woman in confusion, since her arrival she gave to them large amounts of information and a large leap forwards in technology advancements, she had to believe on her on her decisions she was right about the invasion even thought was earlier that she said that would be.

Asa is wearing a white, brown and tan uniform similar to a school sailor uniform and doesn't look older than nineteen years old, she has blue eyes and her skin is very white, almost unearthly white, she is playing with a longer strand of her hair tied with a thin black string.

"He will first find a hiding spot for the two Sutherlands, then he will leave them there with the automatic defenses on, he will dress on civilian clothes and try to make money by selling precious stones." Asa said in a casual tone. "Why doing that? Why not using money?" Kaede asked curious.

"Money from our world isn't worth the ink that is used on it here, however precious stones and metals are precious everywhere." Asa answered casually. "That is a universal truth. He will sell enough to buy real state, he will then buy a large warehouse or depot to hide the Sutherlands, he might live there for a while, while he buys and most likely rebuild a building in a area with a good view of the theater but at the same time an place that we won't notice, it might even be close enough to see the theater but far to get here by the streets."

"That is awfully vague." Kaede commented with a frown. "I know, that is the idea, he wants to be able to observe the theater from a safe distance but at the same time being in a place that no one will notice it." Asa explained with a smile. "He will also try to start a business, something like a café or a dinner, and it will be a huge success because the ground breaking recipes and never seem before products, that will give him a good cover as well giving him an steady source of income with out raising questions."

"How you know that much about his actions?" Kaede asked confused. "Simple, it was his plan after all." Asa said with a playful smile "After we arrived on this world we would try to mingle here, we would sell some gems to raise money and purchase the depot or warehouse, then we would buy and build a café, restaurant or dinner as a front, it would be positioned close of the theater so it would use the flow of guests from here as clients."

"That is a very well thought plan." Kaede said impressed. "With the plays that café would be always with clients before and after the plays, the location would also make it busy whenever not having a play and knowing the hanagumi they would most likely go there too if the food there is as you said that will be."

"I know that, it was part of his plan too." Asa replied casually. "That would make the hanagumi grow accustomed with our presence and would know when we finally revealed our intentions that we are allies and are trying to protect this place. Everything was planned on the minimal details."

Kaede nods agreeing she could see how well that plan would work. It was simple but very effective. "However I don't know what made him take the Sutherlands, he was supposed to be inside our own knightmare." Asa said with a grimace. "And everything is way far from the scheduled; everything was supposed to start in two months from today giving us more time to settle everything. Our team would arrive in two weeks and start to settle here, in six weeks after that the invasion would start but we would be ready to fend them off. Something is too wrong, way too wrong…" Kaede stays in silence not knowing what to say.

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One hour later the hanagumi is assembled in the briefing room, they are rather nervous and waiting for Asa to enter and explain then everything. Kaede and Yoneda are also there sited on their chairs also waiting for the briefing. Asa enters on the room with a serious expression on her face and places a laptop on the desk before connecting it to a socket and a screen behind her lithe up.

"As you all noticed the schedule changed with the sudden appearance of two Sutherlands here." Asa said in a serious tone while the screen displays images of the two knightmares. "And as you all confirmed they are stronger than the koubus, however even being a pressing issue isn't as pressing as what I am going to explain." Everyone stays in silence and the hanagumi wonders if whatever Asa was going to explain was more pressing than the sudden invasion of a much stronger enemy force.

"After the appearance of the enemy today I have confirmed the appearance of an ally." Asa continued in a serious tone. "However as the enemy he is also ahead of the schedule and that leads to the very troubling issue of what caused such rush on the plans. That rush also seems to have caused to our allies the loss of our two available knightmare frames, because our ally took the Sutherlands it is a certain that he isn't with any unit available."

"So that is why he wasn't in a robot?" Sakura asked confused. "Yes, that is why. If he had any of the two frames that we had he would have used it." Asa answered in a serious tone. "In our original plan we would try to disable the enemy's knightmares with out damaging them too much in order to use the parts as spares, however he killed the pilots with a heavy caliber anti-material rifle that means that the knightmare isn't available, but this isn't what is important."

"Then what is?" Ogami asked not understanding why the loss of two allied knightmares wasn't the real reason of the meeting. "There is only one of our allies here, his identity is as clear as crystal to me; after all in our world there is only one man that can take down a knightmare using a personal carried rifle." Asa said with a smile. "He is the leader of the Brazilian resistance and he is the one that is behind the entire defense plan to protect this world of the Britannian tyranny."

"Then why he hasn't joined us?" Maria asked confused. "Because in our original plans none of you would know about us or the invasion until it began. My action of starting our first contact as I did isn't known by our allies, my superiors since I removed my silver thread they assume that I died." Asa answered seriously. "Our plans were to settle down here and slowly get to know you all outside battle so after the first battle when you saw our two knightmares helping you to defend the city we would reveal our identities and start to give technologic aid as well battle aid and slowly increase the power of the defense forces around the globe in order to effectively protect the world from both the supernatural evil that you face as the Britannian evil."

"I see." Maria murmured understanding; she can easily understand why he didn't come forward after taking the two knightmares. He could even be expecting them to be hostile or even believing that he was part of the enemy send there to weaken them from the inside as they did with Asa.

"My superior is now hiding somewhere in the city and we will leave him alone for a while." Asa said to everyone. "Whatever happened in my world must be really serious and he for sure is unruly and suspicious even a bit defensive. He won't be acting nice, he is very well armed and is very dangerous, he is a know expert in combating knightmares with personal weapons, if he feels threatened by us he wouldn't hesitate in wounding us to escape, he believes that he must protect us even against out will. He thinks that we don't know anything about the invasion."

"Why protect us against our will?" Orihime asked not understanding. "If he was chased he would attack because he wants to protect this world even if every inhabitant doesn't know about the threat and think that he is the enemy." Asa explained. "That isn't important, what I want is to you all be careful, right now he must be like a caged wounded animal, he will be attacking everyone that he thinks that is threatening him. So we will let him calm down."

"For how long?" Reni asked in her usual tone. "Few days, one week or two on the tops." Asa replied. "Right now he must be dressed in civilian clothes and is walking on the shopping district in order to sell precious stones to rise founds to carry the plan. We will let him do it; he will later try to rent or buy a location to hide the knightmares in a more permanent location and will live there until he finds a good location for the next stage of the plan."

"Why we are allowing him to do that?" Kanna asked not understanding anything, if he was an ally he should join them. "Because following the plan will make him relax and won't be as hostile when we approach him." Asa answered. "Imagine that you were wounded and are in pain, if someone approached you it is very likely that you would attack the person even if that person is trying to aid you. We have to treat him like that, give him space and let him heal, if he is here alone and without a knightmare I am sure that there was battle in our world, he must still be on fighting mode. We give him time and he will slip out of it."

"Now I understand, it makes some sense." Kanna commented with a large smile. "Continuing, he will try buying a building or a house in a six blocks radius from the theater." Asa continued. "Afterwards he will rebuild the place in order to suit the needs settled in the plan. I plan in meeting him during this phase of the plan."

"By finding a new construction area around the theater it will lead us to the person behind it and that person is our ally." Reni said explaining to everyone. "Exactly Reni-chan, you are so smart." Asa said with a smile. "On the mean time we will try to reverse-engineering everything that we can on the discarded cockpit from that Sutherland as well from the assault rifle that he left behind, with those samples we can at the very least increase the firepower of Maria-dono's koubu. Is that clear to everyone?"

"Yes it is." Everyone replied casually. "Well then now I will start the arrangements of the disassembling of the cockpit." Asa said to them. "You all can continue the briefing if your commander want to." "You are all dismissed." Yoneda said to the hanagumi after standing up. The hanagumi stands up, salute the older man and leave the room.

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On the meantime Benji leaves the abandoned warehouse that he is using to hide the knightmares. "It is quite good that Teito does have the destroyed area from the kouma war." Benji whispered adjusting the collar of his well worn leather jacket; he is wearing a pair of simple black shoes, jeans pants, a white shirt and a dull black leather jacket, nothing that could attract attention to him knowing that his clothes are not uncommon on that time and world.

After one and a half hour Benji arrived in Ginza, in there he starts to look around for jewelry shops to sell the not so small stash of stones that he is carrying. Finding few jewelry shops Benji had three stones appraised and evaluated; Lisa is hearing everything and aiding him to discover if the manager is lying.

It takes over one hour of negotiation and a couple trips to the bank in the store's behalf to close the deal, Benji was content since he had made a little above what he expected to make with the sale. "Sir you really don't want to see that ruby pendant?" The manager asked pointing to a ruby pendant shaped as a long crystal hanging on a silver necklace. "I can make a really good price for a hexagonal cut long ruby of that size."

"This isn't for sale." Benji replied placing the necklace under his shirt. "I see, I won't ask again." The man said placing a leather briefcase over the desk. "Here is the payment for the three diamonds." Benji takes the case and opens it quickly checking the wads of money.

"Everything is fine." Benji said closing the case again after taking one of the wads and pocketing it. "If I have new stones I will bring here first, how it sounds?" "It sounds perfect for me sir, the quality of your stones are so high that I will happily buy any other that you might acquire." The man replied in a content tone.

After few more pleasantries Benji leaves the store, now outside the store Benji pulls two black cable ties and passes it over the case and tightly seals the case with them to prevent incidents of it opening unless he really wants it.

Benji moves to another store to purchase few more needed goods, while supplied with some basic gear the armor's backpack was mostly filled with combat equipment, the clothes that he is wearing, few clean changes of underwear, a small first aid kit, a personal hygiene kit and two meals worth of military rations.

Feeling tired after everything even with few hours resting Benji decides to end the excursion; he had purchased mostly everything that he needed to live in the warehouse for few days.