Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic. Is a Sakura Taisen and FATE/STAY NIGHT story. I don't own Sakura or any of the characters. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others 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.
This story revolves around a heavy subject and things that many might found uncomfortable reading. Anyone who doesn't feel comfortable with the story subject is advised to not continue. Anyone that dislikes what will happen on the following chapters is also advised to stop.
Many characters will be suffering on the events displayed bellow. Non-constructive critics, flames with harsh words and just saying that the story suck won't be accepted or replied. You might voice your discontentment in seeing your favorite character suffering on the story as long you keep civil and understand that his is only a story and the suffering is a main part of the story plotline. It won't be changed by requests of readers; I won't spare one of the characters because the readers are telling me to.
I write this story. If you don't like it please don't read it. Some characters might be out of character and acting in ways that they wouldn't act, that is because what happen on the story. If you dislike seeing OOC stop reading because it will appear a lot. There will be original characters and self inserted characters on the story if you dislike them stop reading here and go look for another writer because I ALWAYS write SELF-INSERTED fics.
If you do read the story being against something that I wrote above I just tell you this: "You have been warned."
Author notes: I am trying a new story style on this fic, it might be slight different from my usual one and if I dislike it I might change to my normal style.
"Text" Talked sentences.
'Text' Thoughts. (Mostly Benji's)
-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 important being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.
Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.
Ankoku no Gekijou
Chapter Seven: Discovers
Yokohama Kanzaki family mansion April twenty second 1927 12:43 AM; guest's room
Benji is on his room arranging his weapons and ammo, thinking in what happened so far and wondering why both Kanzaki women are so friendly towards him. So far he only got more doubts.
-Click- Benji jumps at the very light sound of the doorknob twisting. He spins quickly aiming his RFP at the door. Alexia is there. "Knock before entering Saber. I almost shot you." Benji says seeing the blonde opening the door. He rests the gun on the desk again.
Alexia closes the door behind her and dashes at Benji. The brunette grabs his pistol by reflex and aims to her. Because his wounds he is slower than the usual. She grabs his armed hand and slides her finger behind the trigger to prevent him from firing. She pressed him on a wall using her body.
"Saber what you ar…" Benji's sentence is cutted by Saber that silences him with a kiss. An impressive feat since he is much taller than she is. She holds his left wrist preventing him from reaching his thigh or knifes. She works on his right hand with her left hand making him drop the machine pistol. She undoes his belt and pulls his pants down.
Under them there was another pair where the two knifes are over and held by the leather straps of the holster. She takes that pair down too taking his knifes. Benji protests at her actions still she manages to undress his lower body. She pushes him to the bed finally breaking the kiss. She straddles him and takes off her own clothes.
"What are you doing?!" Benji asks still shocked from Alexia behavior. "I need to do this…I have to do this…" she whispers frantically. She holds his wrists over his chest while moving on his lap.
Yokohama Kanzaki family mansion 1:21 AM; guest's room
Saber is still over Benji. She is pressing her body against his licking the blood from his shoulder that began bleeding when she on the throws of the passion grabbed it and her thumb ripped open the wound. Benji is trying to recover from Alexia's actions plus the searing pain of his wound being ripped open. Even thought the gentle and soft touch of her tongue while she laps on his shoulder sooths the pain only in a little bit.
Even focused in drinking all the blood that escapes thru his wound she continues to move her hips and trying to get more of Benji's life energy. Benji knows that in normal situations a second maybe a third time wouldn't be a problem, but he can't build the energy because the pain and the weakness from recovering from his wound.
"Why you did this?" Benji asks gently holding her naked hips making her stop moving. Alexia tenses over him and he can feel it. She looks up to him, her lips still tinted with his blood. "I needed your energy. I need energy to live. Normally on the agency I can get it on the air since it is inside a special field. But have been days since I was there. I can also get it from food but it wasn't enough." She explains on a meek voice. "I can also get the energy exchanging body fluids with a certain person. And this is what I did…"
Benji is about to ask why, but her eyes and face shows that she doesn't want to talk about it, at least not now. He sighs and with his right hand gently caresses her hair. Alexia is surprised, she smiles a little and once again begins licking his blood. 'I wonder why she needs that energy and why me. But I won't complain much. Alexia is attractive and I won't deny that I had some fantasies with her.' Benji thinks caressing her.
Benji falls in sleep after a while wondering why he is so tired. Alexia stops licking his wound when the blood stop flowing and she gets up and picks a first aid kit. She cleans up his would carefully and dresses it with clean bandages again. Only after she is done she returns to the bed lies besides him and cover both of them snuggling close of Benji.
Yokohama Kanzaki family mansion 12:35 PM; garden
After a small farewell Benji and Alexia leave the mansion. Lancer is with Rider. They would need someone to drive the bike that Benji used when taking Hinako to the mansion. The trip went well and quiet, taking out a bit of a chat here and there.
FATE agency building 1:15 PM; garage
Rider parks the car neatly on its spot. Benji, Saber and Rider leave the car. Benji is with his bag on his hand. They move to the hall with Lancer and they are intercepted by Rin. She tackles/hugs/glomps him. "BAKA! You nearly got yourself killed!" she shouts squeezing the air from his lungs.
Lancer and Rider chuckles at Benji's fate. Saber moves to the kitchen in hope of get something to eat. Benji is forced to walk with Rin firmly attached to his chest. Rider and Lancer tease him about it.
Rin only let Benji go when he went to report to her father. Benji gained a minor scolding for being reckless with his wounds a praise for his good work and was dismissed to go put his things away and move to the infirmary. Benji does as told and meets inside another Servant. "Hi Caster, have been a while." He greets the woman.
"It for sure has. I was really busy lately." She replies. She has blue hair that reaches to bellow her hip, pointed ears and blue eyes. She is wearing a light blue dress with a lab coat over it. "Sit down and let me see your wound. We can chat later." Benji nods and opens his shirt.
Benji allows Caster work on his wound. He doesn't know why but every time that she treats him his wounds heals up in an insanely quick pace. He doesn't even feel the needle being stabbed on his neck making him fall in sleep. Caster proceeds to remove the broken stitches and replace them with her own stitches using a very thin needle and thread.
About fifteen minutes later Caster removes the needle from Benji's neck after finishing up. The stitches are now very small and are covering the entire surface of the wound as if she sewed a cloth and it now looks as a small scar than a bunch of stitches. Benji wakes and sees Caster dressing the wound again.
After a quick chat and stories trade Benji leaves the infirmary and Caster does the same leaving the lab coat behind. Benji moves to his office, the talk with Caster recalled him of his original assignment. He asks to Sakura to send Alexia to his office and after the blonde enter in there he closes the door and locks it so they can discuss the case with out interruptions.
"So what we got so far?" Alexia asks to Benji. "Interviews with all members of the hanagumi, comments from Tsubaki, denials from the other two girls, the reactions of the members of the theater to the questions and few subtle hints from Sumire." Benji answers in a serious tone. He was going to organize his ideas before resuming his assignment and continue the interviews in the following morning.
"Let's start with the beginning okay Alexia?" Benji asks. She nods and they sit around his desk each with a note pad in front of them. "The chief told us that he heard rumors about the hanagumi be doing things to rich people that are selected and pay very well." Benji says while writing it down, Alexia nods agreeing. "And that is why we are investigating the theater and the people that live in there." He continues.
"Taking out personal arguments that are common when living together with other people there wasn't complains about anything." She comments tapping her pencil on her chin. "That is true. But their words and body language spoke in different ways. In some even the tone of voice said that something was wrong." Benji replies. "And Sumire hinted that someone was responsible for bad things on the theater. She also reacted with a bit of unease to when I asked about the retirement."
"I didn't notice." Alexia replies. Benji sighs at his current partner. "She also said that she thought that I could stop whatever is happening there and the reasons that she can't explain me anything is because was very painful." Benji muses recalling what happened after they left the mansion on that day.
"She mentioned Geki and a lie inside it. She told where to look but thanks to Rin I forgot that." Benji commented. "I wonder what her reasons to stop acting were." Alexia muses on loud.
'Me too.' Benji thinks sighing and closing his eyes. "I won't question your retirement, but what made you decide to retire so suddenly in such tender age of your career?" Benji asks in a serious but Sumire can detect a hint of curiosity on his voice.
"Because very serious personal reasons." Sumire replies in a serious tone. She also knew that he would ask that sooner or later. "Because they are personal I won't tell you the why of the reasons. But I assure you Mister Himura that I thought about it for a long time before announcing it. As my personal physician Dr. Takeda Fujimura said to me I had to consider what was more important to me between me and the theater. As you can see I come first." "I fully understand and respect your reasons." Benji commented.
On his mind's eye Benji can see the moments when he asked to Sumire why she stopped acting. 'Wait a second…I am missing something on her body language.' He thinks and focuses again on the scene but lowering his and Sumire's voice and paying more attention to the body language.
"I won't question your retirement, but what made you decide to retire so suddenly in such tender age of your career?" Benji asks in a serious but Sumire can detect a hint of curiosity on his voice.
"Because very serious personal reasons." Sumire replied in a serious tone touching her throat with her left hand. She also knew that he would ask that sooner or later. "Because they are personal I won't tell you the why of the reasons. But I assure you Mister Himura that I thought about it for a long time before announcing it. As my personal physician Dr. Takeda Fujimura said to me I had to consider what was more important to me between me and the theater. As you can see I come first." "I fully understand and respect your reasons." Benji commented.
"That is it!" Benji shouts smacking his desk with his right hand. "What?!" Alexia asks startled. "One of her main reasons of retiring!" Benji exclaims picking his telephone. "Sakura get your cute ass in my office and bring a record that you have of Sumire singing solo in a play and the record of her last song!" Benji shouts on the phone after Sakura picks it up. She let out a small wail of surprise. "HAI!" she squeals running to obey him. She knows that when Benji gets that worked up something came up.
In two minutes Sakura runs on the room and places the records and the player over his desk. After turning it on they listen to the song. Even Sakura that stayed there by his request, after all she helps him a lot when dealing with audio. "Sakura you heard it?" Benji asks.
Sakura nods. "I didn't notice before. Her voice is half tone deeper than on her earlier days singing." Sakura replies. "How you noticed that?" "I saw her touching her throat when saying something. But I just figured it out now. Her throat was getting hurt when singing?" Benji asks to Sakura.
"I doubt that. Everyone on the theater trains well and does their bests to preserve their voices. They wouldn't sing until damaging their throats. It is another factor." Sakura answers in a serious tone. "We can rule out tobacco since she doesn't smell like old tobacco, her teeth is pearly white and her fingers don't have stains." Benji commented.
"So is another factor, maybe alcohol." Sakura commented. "I never heard about alcohol causing damages on the throat." Benji replies.
"We are talking about a professional singer. And alcohol is dangerous. If her throat was very sensitive or with a small wound it could damage it. It also depends of the quantity that she drinks and the alcoholic level of what she drinks." Sakura commented "Okay then. Let's presume that by a reason that we don't know he throat was hurt and she drinks something with forty seven percent of alcohol it would damage her throat?" Benji asks.
"I think that it is possible. But I guess that Caster could answer this better than I." Sakura replies. Benji nods and calls Caster. After she arrives Benji asks to her the same question.
"It is a possibility. When we clean wounds with alcohol we are killing every living organism there. Even the cells responsible by closing wounds and that will make the wound take longer to heal. And you know that in tissue that moves too much there will remain a scar since it won't heal evenly." Caster answers in a serious tone. "The throat never stops moving. It moves even when we sleep. So it is a strong possibility. A source of wounds, the location of them, the fact that the throat never stop moving because we breath, eat, drink and swallow, alcohol and time could cause scars on the inner tissue of the throat. Maybe even some even more serious problems."
"Damn it sounds serious about that." Benji comments to Caster. "So if she continued acting she could lose her voice?" Caster nods. "Yes. It is a possibility. She used to sing, dance, act and fight. All those need a lot of the throat because her breathing will be changed. And singing and acting takes a lot of her throat." She replies.
"Then she decided to stop and preserve her voice." Alexia comments understanding. "Now we have to find what caused those wounds on her throat." Benji nods agreeing. "But that is the main turning point of the case. Because whatever caused those wounds is the true reason that she retired and that reason must be with the remaining girls too." He says in a serious tone. The others nod agreeing.
End of the chapter seven:
Teito Imperial Theater April twenty third 1927 2:46 AM; living quarters; Reni's room
"I am sorry that I can't speak with you freely or tell you what is truly happening here. It is too painful for me and everyone else to think about it. We never mention this to anyone not even between ourselves… we try pretending that it doesn't happened, that there isn't anything wrong here." Reni says to small black button on her hands with a hoarse and sorrowful voice. "But we all know that things are very wrong here. On the beginning each of us thought that we were the only one suffering that…but we were wrong…all of us are suffering…"
Reni is crying and sobbing but she forces herself to continue. "Deep down we knew that it was the reason that Sumire had retired. She was the brave one of all us that finally gathered the courage to give up and walk away. But none of us have a place to go…we only have the theater…-riiinnng- the bell…it will begin again…it will be hard do this again…specially because I know that you will be hearing it all…but I have to at least try to do it so you can at least have an idea of what is happening…"
Reni quickly hides that black button under her neck brooch and she walks away from the room. After a while she arrives in a hidden room under the theater basement. She swallows hard and opens the door. She seems many men in there; she fights her instincts to run away and closes the door behind her.
Reni leaves the room much later. She is covered in a foul white substance. Around her neck still are the remains of her shirt collar and the brooch. She runs to the restroom and still crying and sobbing hard violently throws up. Her stomach contents mixed with a large amount of the same substance that is covering her body splashes against the cold porcelain of the toilet.
Later Reni moves to the shower room. She removes the button from her collar and says to it. "We all need help…but some of us won't help because fear…fear of that being exposed…fear of how everyone will treat us…some of us will help…some won't do anything…but some might be hostile to protect that secret…be careful…"
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Caster's explanation about the alcohol doesn't have any kind of scientific background or theories to back it up, in real life I am not sure if alcohol can cause that kind of damage.
However for the sake of the story it does, and if alcohol can destroy a liver I am quite sure that it can damage the throat of a singer.
The final scene that is presented after the end of the chapter and before this explanation isn't complete and it was made in purpose by two reasons, one is for the story sake to not reveal too much, the second is because the rating I can't place what happened here because the content.
