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C h a p t e r 2 - B o s s S e t a
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A young man in a katou mask, walked inside a night club by the name of AIR. AIR is one of the hottest night clubs in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Only the 'big' people around Tokyo can only get access inside, but of course, this young man is one of those 'big' people in Tokyo, if not, the biggest. His name is Seta Soujirou, eighteen years old. Although, everyone calls him either by Boss Seta or by Tenken-sama. Soujirou is a loyal member of the Juppon Gatana with four positions in his yakuza. He is Shishio's kobun, Shishio's right hand man, number one assassin in his group, and the sohonbucho (Headquarters' chief) of his yakuza. Now, you may be asking why he has so many jobs while most Juppon Gatana members have only one or two. The answer is because he is fit for all of those jobs. A born prodigy but having four positions, which all are high ranks, gave him many responsibilities.
As he walked coolly past many of his yakuza members, he constantly had a smile spread across his face. On his back, he carried a sheathed katana which hung from a red leather string. Members who were below Soujirou's rank, quickly moved out of the way as they saw him coming. As he passed them they all bowed in respect. Most bosses in their group didn't get as much respect as him but it was because of two reasons.
Reason one: Of course, his four high ranking positions in the Juppon Gatana comes in. First of all, he is Shishio's kobun. Makoto Shishio is the oyabun of the Juppon Gatana and the oyabun and kobun act together as one. The oyabun leads his yakuza clan and the kobun acts as his bullet. Whoever the oyabun wishes to have dead, the kobun grants his wish. It's consider to be a high honor to be kobun and a lot of respect comes along. Second of all, he is one of the bosses in the Juppon Gatana. Each boss has his own small army and they are considered leaders in their own gangs. Being Shishio's right hand man means any big assassination jobs comes up, Soujirou will be the first to be called about. Plus he's the number one assassin, you do the math.
Reason two: Soujirou may look like an innocent teenager on the outside but truthfully, he one of Japan's deadliest person alive. Together with his katana, he can slice, grate, grind, shred, crush, cut, tear, mince, chop, or puree anything apart. Of course, words do not prove anything being in the yakuza. People only believe what they see and of course, Soujirou did do many demonstrations. The one that everyone remembers yet was the death of Boss Tanaka. During a meeting with Makoto Shishio and all of the other bosses in the Juppon Gatana, Boss Tanaka had a bone to pick with Shishio that night because of promotion issues. Unfortunately, things got a little too far and within a blink of an eye, Soujirou appeared in front of Boss Tanaka. He made four slashes at the yakuza boss and in seconds, arms, legs, heads, were flying everywhere.
But that was the past and this was the present. Soujirou ignored everyone else and headed towards the lounge area to meet some of his members. He could hear the loud rock music roaring as he got near the DJ. As he was passing through dance floor, two girls came up towards him.
"Sooujiroou!" One of the girls walked up closer to him. She wore a red skimpy dress, which made her look like some prostitute. In fact, they both looked like prostitute. Soujirou had no clue who they were but he was guessing that they were with Chou. Sawagejo was quite the player and had had many prostitutes to please him. Occasionally he would have a one night stand at some love hotel. Of course, he would always try to get Soujirou to go with him but he would always deny the offer. Chou's many whores would always seem to flirt with Soujirou for some reason he didn't know. This is one of those times.
The girl in red laid her hands on his shoulders and said, "Come dance with me! You promised me last time."
"No way, Sou wants to dance with me," the other girl said as she started to hug onto him too.
He didn't, of course, because he had better things to do and he didn't remembered anything about a promise such as that. He smiled and said, "I'm sorry but Chou calls. Maybe next time," and left without another word. He could hear their whines as he walked away. He was used too it. He had used, 'Maybe next time,' way too many times but he never keeps his promise anyways.
After passing through crowds of dancing people, he finally spotted Chou. He was sitting on the black leather chairs with four girls surrounding him. One was snuggling against left arm and the other on his right. The third one was pouring him a beer and the fourth was behind him, giving him a massage. As Soujirou started walked towards, Chou immediately spotted him in an instance and greeted him, "Yo Sou boy! Been waitin' for ya. What took ya so long ta get here?"
Unlike most people, Chou didn't use manners when it comes to Soujirou. The two knew each other well enough so both of them didn't mind.
Soujirou sat down at the seat opposite of Chou. Once he sat down, two of Chou's girls came over and sat next to him. They giggled and said hi to him. Soujirou just smiled and gave a nod and turned his attention back to Chou. He replied, "I'm sorry. I had some business to take care of. Shishio-san's orders."
Chou nodded his head. He knew exactly what his buddy was talking about. Earlier that night, Shishio-sama had ordered Soujirou to do an assassin on a man by the name of Okubo Toshimishi. Okubo was head of a police team and he had been trying to track down the Juppon Gatana down for quite a long time. The man was smart considering he was old and senile but he was determined to put Shishio and his men behind bars. He had ruined quite a few of Shishio's plans and so the time, Shishio wanted to make sure he's out of the way for good.
This assassination has been yet, the most important one so far. Chou was a little jealous that Shishio had chose Soujirou to do and instead of him but he knew the reasons why he chose him. Soujirou had been with him the longest out of all of the members of the Juppon Gatana. He was there with their lord during the beginning up to now. It's no reason why he wouldn't pick Soujirou since Shishio trusted him the most out of the group. Still, Chou would feel a bit of jealousy from time to time.
The sword hunter just grinned at Soujirou. "S'how did it go? Successful as I always I'm guessin'. C'mon, gimme da gory details."
Soujirou gave a small chuckle as he looked at the floor to be modest. "Yes, it was successful. He's now officially gone so Shishio-san don't have to bother with him anymore. Oh and uh, I stabbed him in the neck with a knife if that's what you wanted to know."
Chou laughed out loud right in his seat and slapped his fist into his hand to show his pleasure. "Aw man! Niiiice. Quick death, that's always you. I prefer slow torture."
Soujirou gave a sweat drop. "Yeah, that's always you. You didn't call me here just to hear this, did you? There must be something else you're going to tell me, right?" One of the girls to his right took one of the beers on the table and gave it to Soujirou. He smiled and took it after a nod of thank you. Opening the beer cap, he took a gulp of alcohol as he waited for Chou to answer.
Chou gave one of his mischievous grins as he stuck his head closer to Soujirou as if he was about to tell some secret. Soujirou, too, moved closer to see what this was going to be about. Chou began to explain to him, "Listen closely. I 'eard dat da Oniwabanshu are meetin' up with some other yakuza. I think they might be discussin' 'bout somethin' dat has ta do with da us."
Soujirou nodded, listening closely. "So you're planning to do something about it?"
Chou gave a bigger grin and replied, "Bingo. I'm gonna plan on eavesdroppin' on them and see if there's anything important to report Shishio-sama." His other reason, besides to help Shishio, was to impress his lord and maybe he could be promoted up to a higher rank.
"Where is this meeting going to held? If it's at the Oniwabanshu mansion then you won't make it in there alive, ya know. They have hundreds of guards surrounding that place. You'd be cut up into tiny pieces by kunai and knifes if you take one step on their ground," Soujirou joked.
"No way in hell," Chou joked back, "Ya think I'm stupid? It's gonna be at a restaurant called Kamehachi. They'll meet da other yakuza there at 5:00 a.m. 'n I'm gonna crash it."
Soujirou smiled and replied, "Well good luck!" He stood up and started to leave.
"Waitaminute!" Chou stood up and grabbed Soujirou's shirt collar. "I need your help too."
"But I have school tomorrow and I haven't slept yet."
"Who cares! It's for da good 'n benefit of the Juppon Gatana!"
He looked at Chou for a second. Just in two hours, he would have to attend school and he didn't want to miss his first day. Not to mention, he didn't even want to fall asleep in class and piss of the teachers but what Chou said was true. Soujirou would do anything for the Juppon Gatana so he couldn't resist. "Alright Chou-san," he sighed, "What do you want me to do?"
Once again, Chou gave one of his evil grins, making Soujirou raised his eyebrow, wondering what evil plan he had cooked up.
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Standing outside in the back of Kamehachi, Soujirou took out a cigarette and lit it. As he began to smoke, he wondered where Chou was. It was exactly 4:50 a.m. and Chou was suppose to meet him 20 minutes ago. He was getting impatient considering he had been standing there for a while and had to be on full alert just in case any of the workers from the restaurant came out and saw a yakuza member.
"Yo," Chou said as he came from behind the fence of restaurant.
Relieved to see him, Soujirou quickly walked up to him, "Well Chou-san. You took your time nicely coming here. What's the plan?"
Again, Chou's evil grin appeared again. Instead of saying it straight out loud, he whispered it into Soujirou's ear. Instantly, Soujirou jumped back after hearing it. He looked at Chou oddly and shook his head slowly as if it was something frightful. Not many things scare the Tenken of the Juppon Gatana but this one certainly did.
"C'mon, you're perfect for da part! I got da stuff right here," he said as he held out a briefcase of Soujirou to see. Again, Soujirou shook his head.
"It's just for an hour! No one will notice!" Chou pleaded. Still, he shook his head.
"Remember, it's for da good 'n benefit of da Juppon Gatana 'n Shishio-sama. This might be important info, ya know." Soujirou looked away thinking, running his hand through his hair in frustration. Finally he looked back at Chou and sighed. He replied, "Alright, for the good and benefit of the Juppon Gatana and Shishio-san."
Chou smirked showing his joy, knowing that he won. "Alright then! For the good and benefit of the Juppon Gatana and Shishio-sama!" And with that, he high fived Soujirou and gave him the brief case then ran away into the building. He gave a last shout and disappeared. "REMEMBER WHAT TO DO SOUJIROU!"
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"You there! Carry these trays to that table over there!" One of the head waitress commanded Soujirou.
"Y-yes ma'am!" Trying to give a smile, he took the trays from her hand and head over to the table she pointed at. Soujirou tried walking over to the assigned costumers' table wearing high heals, a black skirt, white blouse, and a blonde wig. Apparently and unfortunately, this was Chou's great plan. Himself posing as a waitress in the restaurant and alerting Chou as soon as he sees the Oniwabanshu and their guest arriving at the restaurant.
There weren't many people in Kamehachi since it was around 5 a.m. and most normal people would be in their beds sleeping at the moment. Now standing in front of the table of two, in his most girlish voice, he asked them, "Ohayou gozaimasu!" Then while giving out the menu to the two people, he continued, "What would you like to order?" He smiled at the man and woman.
"I'll have the Kamehachi salad please," said the woman, who seem to be having a very early breakfast with her brother, friend, or boyfriend. But whatever. Soujirou was about to take the man's order until he felt something pinch his behind. Of course, he jumped being startled and turned around to see an hold man with a dirty look in his eyes. He grinned at Soujirou, thinking he was a hot 'babe.' On the other hand, Soujirou felt very uneasy. He didn't like that at all.
"S-sir! Please do not do that!" Soujirou yelled nervously at him in his high, girlish voice. Then the man before, that was about to give Soujirou his order, yelled at Soujirou from behind. "Excuse! I would like to take my order right now if you don't mind young lady." Soujirou could tell that he was getting the costumers mad and quickly turned around to apologize. He bowed many times and said, "Gomen nasai! Gomen nasai! Gomen nasai!" Then he took his order, making sure that he wasn't near the dirty old man.
After taking the two people's order, Soujirou quickly went to the kitchen to give out the orders. He also tried to avoid the old man who was hitting on him. That had scared him quite a bit. But unfortunately, before he could get to the kitchen, he accidentally tripped over someone's foot. Actually, it was some rotten thirteen-year old kid that left out his foot on purpose to trip the next person that passes his table. Luckily for Soujirou, his blonde wig didn't come off but the unlucky part was that a waiter carrying a bowl of hot miso shiru tripped over Soujirou, who was lying on the ground. The bowl of miso shiru was very hot, almost the point of boiling. Within an instant, the bowl fell and landed on Soujirou's head.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Every citizen in Tokyo could have heard his scream of pain. Everyone in the Kamehachi restaurant all stopped what they were doing and looked at him. Even the other waiters and waitress and chefs looked at him. Soujirou didn't care; he was in great pain enough. He lay on the ground holding his head. His eyes didn't open until five seconds later. And what stood in front of him was what had been hoping to see. The Oniwabanshu yakuza. They looked at him oddly, wondering what the hell was going on.
Looking up, he saw five people with Shinomori Aoshi, the Lord of the Oniwabanshu. There were two women, two men, and a girl in a school uniform. Behind him were a man and a woman and five yakuza members in uniform. The man and woman is probably the yakuza they are going to have a meeting with, Soujirou thought. After giving Soujirou some looks, the whole bunch of yakuza walked past him and met up with the manager of the restaurant. She greeted them very friendly and bowed to them many times, showing respect. It was either she knew that they were the Oniwabanshu clan or that seeing that they're a bunch of rich people that they'd pay a lot more.
Soujirou didn't have time to lie around at that moment. He quickly stood up. Ignoring his injuries, he ran into the men's bathroom. Before walking into the rest room, Soujirou opened the door slightly to see if anyone else was in it. Chou stood in the center, leaning his back to the wall. "Are they there y? Whoa! What da hell happened ta ya?" At first, he ignored Chou's words and went inside. He knew he was a wreck. His wig was soggy from that bowl of miso shiru and so was his white blouse. Ignoring all of that, he quickly looked at the bottom of each bathroom stalls to see if anyone else was in there.
"Don't worry your little head off. I made sure no one would enter here. So spill it already. Are they here yet?" Chou asked impatiently.
Soujirou nodded, "They're here. You better hurry."
Chou smiled and started to run out the bathroom. Before he left, he looked at Soujirou and scratched him head, "I didn't know being a girl would be this rough." He laughed then ran out the door.
Sighing, he went to one of the sinks and started cleaning himself up then changing into his real clothes. Real manly clothes.
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Inside one of the private tatami rooms, Aoshi sat at one of the far end of the table with his yakuza members. At the end of the other table sat the man and woman and their yakuza members. On the tables were plates of food they ordered but no one seemed to be eating at the moment. Each side seemed to be staring at the other clan. No one said a word until Aoshi was the first to speak.
"Shougo Amakusa-san, I have received information from you that you wish of the Shimbara yakuza to join with the Oniwabanshu, is that correct?" he said in his serious tone of voice.
The man sitting on the other side nodded. His identity was revealed to Chou, who stood outside of the room the meeting was held. He made sure that he didn't make a sound at all because he knew the Oniwabanshu had good ears. He continued to listen.
"Correct Aoshi Shinomori-sama," Shougo began, "You and I are both enemies of the Juppon Gatana. If we are allies then I can assure you we can eliminate the Juppon Gatana and their Lord Shishio. I am willing to help you with your problem and also mine. As you might have known, Shishio and I have fought with our clans before"
"I know," Aoshi cut him off, "He ambushed you and almost kill you and your sister. Everyone in Tokyo knows about it. Tokyo press printed the story to the public right after the incident. It frightens the public and the people became very alert to where they went around Tokyo. That was far yet the most prominent scrimmage dealing with Shishio and you." He looked at the woman on his left. She looked up, realizing that Aoshi was staring at her. That made her a bit nervous and she gave a gentle hold on her brother's arm.
Amakusa continued, "Of course. The body count for men was three hundred and sixty-five precisely. Shishio only lost twelve men. I barely made it out alive with my sister. But that is the past and this is the present. If I am allied with you, I will be sure to help you defeat the Juppon Gatana."
The Oniwabanshu lord looked at Amakusa with his cold eyes as if he was trying to find the truth behind the man and his words. Finally, he spoke again. "Amakusa-san. How do I know that I can trust a man like you? I do not know you and your clan that well so I must be cautious at first."
Shougo looked down for a second but looked up again with a reassuring smile, "Aoshi Shinomori," his voice became serious, "My only wish is for Shishio to die and the Juppon Gatana to go with him down to hell as if they were never a yakuza clan."
"But that would mean the Oniwabanshu will be the top yakuza in Tokyo. What will you do then?" Aoshi kept questioning him as if he was some kind of criminal.
"During our alliance, you may keep a close eye on myself and clan if you wish. I have already planned what to do if the Juppon Gatana is annulled," the members of the Oniwabanshu listened carefully. They wondered if Amakusa's plan was a good thing or a bad thing to their clan. "My clan and I will be resigning and the Shimbara yakuza will be as if it didn't exist," He glanced over his sister and looked back at Aoshi, "I do not want any harm to go towards my only blood and family and living a life such as this is not proper." He stopped and stared firmly towards Aoshi, "I give you my word as a Lord of a yakuza, Shinomori-san."
Aoshi knew that Shougo was a man of his word. It was dishonorable for a Lord to turn back on his word and he knew for a fact that the Shimbara lord never turn back on his word. He thought for a moment but then finally decided. "Shougo Amakusa, I accept. But a close eye I shall keep on you until I know I can trust you."
"Very well," Shougo replied.
Aoshi was about to say something until he heard something. The sound was so faint, the average person would not be able to hear it. Immediately, he stood up. Everyone around the room looked at him in surprise.
"There is an intruder here," Aoshi replied and quickly dispatched three of his members. Outside the room, Chou was suddenly startled when he heard Aoshi say the word intruder. He quickly ran fast and quickly. But before he could disappear, the Oniwabanshu members opened the door and saw him just one second before he vanished behind another private tatami room's walls.
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After cleaning himself up and changing back into his normal clothes, Soujirou sneaked out to the backside of the restaurant and crawled his way to the front. There, he could see the busy streets of Tokyo and the cars speeding past him. He had parked his motorcycle there and now the only thing left to do was to wait for Chou to come back. Just when he was thinking about it, Chou came running from the restaurant. He had an expression on his face that made him look as if he had post traumatic stress syndrome.
Soujirou sat on his motorcycle and looked at him oddly as he came up to Soujirou. "Oniwabanshu's afteh meh! Quick! Let's go!" Without questioning him, Soujirou put on his motorcycle helmet and Chou did the same. They left two seconds before the men, who Aoshi assembled, ran out of the Kamehachi restaurant, only to see their enemies had ran away.
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The two Juppon Gatana members had split up. Soujirou went back to his apartment to get a couple minutes of sleep before he had to go to school. Chou, on the other hand, decided to go to Lord Shishio right away to inform him about the meeting between the Oniwabanshu and the Shimbara. Unfortunately for Soujirou, he got a call from Chou through his cell phone that Shishio wanted him there at the Juppon Gatana headquarters as well.
Soujirou didn't complain thought. He was tired, but he didn't complain. He had been through situations that were much worse and besides. He was very mature for his age and knew his priorities.
Anyways, now standing on top of a roof of some company factory, Soujirou looked down to see Chou there. Chou had company thought. It seems that one of the Oniwabanshu members had found Chou. Soujirou jumped down from the building and ran forward to Chou.
When he arrived he greeted his member first and foremost before dealing with the situation, "Sawagejo-san!" It was to get Chou's attention. He looked down at the Oniwabanshu member. It took a few seconds for him to remember who she was. It was that girl he saw at the Kamehachi restaurant who stood at Aoshi's side. I believe this is Misao Makimachi, Aoshi's Kobun and Kashiwazaki Nenji's granddaughter. He thought as he studied her. She had a cut on her stomach. Probably Chou's work.
"So finally ya came! Took ya a while," Sawagejo said to Soujirou, "A member of the Oniwabanshu tried to kill me. Unfortunately for them, this midget had no luck with the great Chou," he became to chuckle to himself.
"Well...they're still alive. Shall I finish them off?" He knelt down towards Misao's level and came face to face. He started to undress her disguise. He was curious to see what she looked like. First he took off katou mask. She had green eyes and she stared at him with anger and hatred. Then she blanked out. Her eyes close and was unconscious right there and then. He was about to take off her black handkerchief off her face but suddenly he heard footsteps. Chou and Soujirou turned around to see more Oniwabanshu.
The tall one and also seemed to be the leader shouted to them, "Give us that girl back to us and we will let you go without any force."
Chou laughed and replied, "And what makes ya think you could beat us up?"
Before Chou could say another word, Soujirou suddenly cut him off. "No. It's alright. We'll leave the girl here." Chou looked at him strangely. It wasn't like the Tenken to throw down a fight for a killing. Soujirou had his reasons. First of all, he had felt something that made him want her to live. It was very un-Soujirou like but he couldn't help it. But he came up with good logical reasons to convince Chou. "Shishio-san wants us at the Juppon Gatana headquarters. If we stay to fight, Chou-san, we'll both be late and you know our lord doesn't like lateness." He smiled at Chou and the Oniwabanshu members. He knew he could kill all of them with just a quick flick of his sword but he wasn't in the mood for some reason. He wondered if it was because of the girl.
Without giving the Oniwabanshu or Chou the chance to reply to him, Soujirou started to leave. Chou followed along. It was a order from the Tenken so Chou didn't argue.
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