Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new Sakura Taisen/Wars fanfic. Unlike my first one this one happens in the 1920s. I don't own Sakura Taisen 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.
Chapter eight: After the party…
June twentieth 1924
Ten in the morning. The sun is shining strongly near of the apex of his path. And almost every living creature that lives in the imperial theater is sleeping drunk. Taking out two tall figures that are lying together in a large sofa in the recreation room. Is an odd contrast of the two hairs and skins color on the top of then is a woman with pearly white skin and short blonde hair. And under her is a man with tanned skin and long black hair. Unlike them skin and hair they clothes are very similar in style and color. Both are using white social shirts and social pants. As she uses a dark blue with white stripes he uses a plain black one. Her left hand rests on his chest and his right hand his holding many strands of her blonde hair uncovering her left side of the face and her green eye. He is also resting his hand on her cheek. They faces are only a couple of inches apart. And her half closed green eyes look at his brown eyes loving. He is looking at her at the same way. Both of then have a loving smile on the lips. The only sound in the room is the soft sound of them breathing. For uncountable moments they stay like that until she leans closer kissing him. In the garden birds chirp happily in the trees. The warm light of the summer sun slowly moves from a window to the distracted couple until it cover them in a warm immaterial blanket.
In the other edge of the sofa lie careless placed two jackets. One an old looking one made of black leather even thought worn out gives the feeling of great comfort. And a suit jacket made of blue cloth with white stripes. On that jacket a silver clip shines in the light. After long minutes the couple breaks the kiss. "Benji you are sure that is safe now?" she whispers at him. "Yes I am sure of it Maria. I wired the ways of the doors so if someone passes in the hall we will hear when it trips." He whispers back. She nods with a small smile. She rests her head on his chest enjoying the close human contact that she never allowed herself to get. With a pleased sigh she feels him wrapping her slender form with his arms in a loving hug. She focuses on the faint but strong sound of his heart beat thru his muscular chest. Slowly counting how many times it beats using it almost like a lullaby. Even have sleeping well in the night before Maria can't help in feeling the sleep moves on her. The warmth of his body and of the sunlight, the soft sound of his heart beating in a soft rhythm and the feeling of being close and secure of someone that she loves fills her with a strong will to sleep. She feels so relaxed that she slowly drifts in the realm of dreams with Benji scent strong in every breath she dreams about a life by his side.
Benji just look at Maria taking deep and slow breaths taking her scent. He sees her chest rising and falling in the soft and slow pattern of the sleep and for more temptating that it is the idea of falling in sleep holding her Benji stays wake just to make sure that no one will found then and break Maria peaceful sleep. Benji softly caresses her hair. And in every now and then Maria calls his name softly with a smile on her lips. Hours later Maria wake just to found herself facing Benji who is looking at her. "Have you slept well?" Benji asks in a soft tone "I never slept so well in my entire life before." Maria answers with a smile. "How long I slept?" she asks before giving him a kiss. After the kiss Benji look at the sun light above then. "About four hours." He says softly. "All that?!" She asks shocked. "Why you didn't wake me sooner?" "Because I was entranced by your sleeping face." Benji says causing to Maria blush deeply "What if anyone suspect?" Maria asks shyly. "They are still sleeping." Benji says. Maria sits on the sofa and stretch raising her arms high in the air and letting out a long sigh. Benji looks at her while the shirt clings on her slender form. He smiles looking at her. He sits and stretches too. And his bones pop loudly. "That must have hurt." Maria says looking at him. "Not at all." Benji says. "Felt good." Benji says cracking his knuckles and his neck. Maria is about to say something but her stomach grumble loudly. She blushes madly shame. "I see that you are very hungry." Benji says with a smile. Maria is with one hand over her stomach looking down. "Let's eat something." Benji says with a smile. Maria nods and they walk away picking the jackets and moving to the kitchen.
While they cook in a comfortable silence they hear grumbling from the dinning room. Benji walks to there with a knife and a half peeled potato on his hands and he sees the hanagumi sited on a table. "You know that could be a scene from one of my missions. You all look like zombies." Benji says before walking back to the kitchen. Kanna is walking in a zombie like way to the kitchen feeling the scent of food in there. "Food…" Kanna says in a faint, eerie and low groan. And she began to poke around the pots and pans that are being used by the couple. Benji grabs a broomstick and races after Kanna who run away with a piece of half cooked meat on her mouth. Benji chases the girl out of the kitchen and barricaded the door. Maria chuckles at the scene. Benji smiles at her and move back to the balcony and continue to chop potatoes and other vegetables while Maria stirs a large pan filled with boiling hot soup. Later the duo walks to the dinning table. Benji is carrying two large soup bowl and place on the opposite edges of the table. Maria is carrying two baskets filled with bread. The hanagumi, kazegumi, Kaede and Yoneda look at the food with great interest and eager. Benji is laterally holding Kanna down so Maria can give the soup to the others. After a half hour and seven soup bowls to Kanna they are now looking more alive than before. And Kanna is still digging on the thick soup. "This is great." Kanna says after shove down a large chunk of bread. "If you eat like that you must have liked it." Sumire says eating in her own rhythm. Too busy to argue Kanna continue to eat. "I am happy that you convinced me to make large amounts of soup Benji." Maria says staring at Kanna. "So do I." he says still not used to the huge amounts of food that the red head eats. "This is vegetable soup?" Ogami asks. "No." Maria says. "Onion soup. The other vegetables are only to give more substance to the soup." Maria says. "We used two kilos of onions to do it." Benji says. No one seems to mind since it is good. Orihime was about to toss a complain but Kaede prevented her.
June thirtieth 1924
The alarm rang in the middle of the night waking most of the members of the hanagumi. Benji and Maria who where making the night patrol or making out in a dark corner of the theater are the firsts to arrive in the command room. A minute later the others arrive. "The enemy is attacking in the sewers under Ginza. The koubus are too large and won't fit there." Kaede says explaining to then the situation. "What?!" Sumire and Orihime shouts at the same time. "We will have to walk and fight in the sewers?!" "Yes." Kaede says to then. "We have no choice." Yoneda says. "Now arm yourselves for combat!" Yoneda orders and they obey.
The entire hanagumi are in they uniforms taking out Benji who is wearing a black vest that is totally closed with a high collar that cover his neck, it is showing his arms since the shoulders and it is very figure hugging. He is with black leather gloves with out the fingers with metal covers on the knuckles and on the back of the hand and it cover until behind the wrists. He is wearing gray overalls with a black leather belt and the top is folded leaving the shoulder straps reaching a bit higher that the upper half of his thighs. He is wearing black combat boots and he has a long combat knife on his waist. Benji is holding a katana. "You seem happy with this." Kanna says "Well I by myself like to fight in normal situations or without the koubu." Benji says with a small smile. Kanna smiles back totally understanding him. They get in the koubus and in the Gouraigo. Later they are dropped in the Ginza station. In the floor there are many marks of a dark liquid. They look curious to it. Benji looks around and something in the walls catches his attention. He picks on his pocket a shuriken and tosses in the wall. A shriek pierces the air as a line of black liquid and some black crystal shards fall from the air where the shuriken nailed itself. The hanagumi stare in shock when a women shaped creature falls in the floor and shatters in many black crystals shards. "Ambush!" Maria shouts realizing what her lover already knew.
But they where already surrounded by many women just like the one who where killed. As triggered by Maria shouts Benji springs to the closer group of crystal women. With his sword and the sheath on his hands slamming both in different women. Kanna follows the brunet lead and slams her Tonfas on the women. In few minutes the area is covered in a black goo and in crystal shards. "Anyone hurt?" Ogami asks. "No." is the answer of then all. Benji walks to a open access door. "They came from here." he says. "Okay let's grab some flashlights and go down." Ogami says Maria walks to Benji seeing four red lines in his right arm few inches bellow the shoulder line. She removes the long red ribbon of her uniform neck and folds it and wraps it around Benji arm over the wound. Before he can say anything she just shushes him. The incident passes unnoticed while the hanagumi gathers flashlights. When Maria is done the others arrive and hands to then a pair of flashlights. Benji refuses and enter first. The others move right after him. Unnoticed is the change in Benji eyes. Usually in a reddish brown color Benji eyes are now ruby red with his iris thin slitted. "God this place stinks!" Orihime says in the back as the move deeper the access tunnel become wider and they have more space to walk.
They hear a loud sound of glass shattering in front of then. And they began to run. Faster than the others Benji gets distance between then. He is the first to reach a large room that is filled with more crystal women. They form a wave and charge at him. Benji let's out a loud war cry and charge at the large wave. Almost a hundred meters away the others hear the shout and the new added sound of crystal shattering. With ten seconds of difference the hanagumi arrive. And more battle cries and battle sounds are added. Maria gun being one of the louders. In a moment of the fight Iris gets trapped by a large group of women. Benji tosses his now blunt and cracked sword over then. The sword shatters some of then giving to the little girl time to charge an attack on the enemy. Benji sheath can't do the work alone and breaks. "Partner you need a hand?!" Kanna shouts breaking many women at once. "No!" Benji shouts back slamming a woman in the ground and slamming his fist on her chest. It is a clear lie. Benji knife is with Maria who is near of Sakura fighting. And being unarmed is making his fight harder since crystal doesn't conduct electricity. Benji gives a spinning kick and open a small area around him.
He draws from his pocket a twenty centimeters long kind of hilt. A thin blade is ejected from the tip of the hilt and it is a bit longer than the hilt. Benji slashes a woman who got too close. Orihime is moving closer of Benji as the ever-growing enemy gains terrain over the hanagumi. The hanagumi is grouping. It is separated in three groups. Benji and Orihime. Ogami, Sakura, Maria and Iris. And Sumire, Kanna, Kohran and Reni. "They just keep coming!" Kohran shouts firing a small rocket on a group of women. "This will never end!" Sakura says. Benji knife breaks when he nails it on a woman forehead. Orihime gives a curse noticing it. Benji presses a small button and the remaining blade is ejected and another one appears from it. As everyone else Benji is tired and wounded. "We have to gather all together and leave this place!" Ogami shouts. "Understood!" Everyone else shouts back. They slowly move closer. Orihime and Benji were in a greater distance from the others and are slowly making progress. "So I think that we don't have much of a choice." Orihime says. "It seems so." Benji says.
Still fighting the duo charge energy. "NO!" Ogami and Maria shouts at once. "Back away!" Benji and Orihime shout back. Kanna also got what is happening. "They are going to do it! We have to get out of the blast zone!" Kanna shouts. She grabs Ogami and Maria and run away with the others. The duo can hear the shouts of the leading duo. "Let's do this right. I don't want to die here with you." Orihime says "You got the words out of my mouth Orihime." Benji says. Benji grad her by the waist. "Hey look where you grab!" she shouts. "I am trying to save your life!" Benji shouts leaping as high as he can. "DEADLY DUO DOUBLE ATTACK!!!" they shout in one voice tossing the two energy balls in the crystal mass under then. Still rising when they merge in one and explode in a violent bust of light. The duo hugs the other strongly protecting the faces and eyes before they are engulfed by the blinding bluish white light. In the access tunnel the wind moves fast and strongly with the blast and soon it is filled by the light. The shock wave of the powerful attack tosses the hanagumi out of the tunnel. They wake surrounded by the tsukigumi and the yumegumi. After recover they look around seeing that they are still in the tunnel. "Where Benji and Orihime are?" Ogami asks. "We haven't found then yet. But with the destruction of the floor in that room it will be hard to found since they fell into the underground river." Kayama says to Ogami. "But there is a good change that they are alive." Kayama finishes giving to the team some hope. "I have orders to take you all to a hospital. Those wounds are not deep but they are many and might get infected." The tsukigumi leader says. Too tired to argue the hanagumi follow him. Maria tosses few looks at the tunnel hopping to see at least Benji coming out from it.
In someplace warm and filled with a gentle white light Benji lays in a soft surface that is the ground. In front of his now open eyes a woman with long dark silver hair looks down at him. She has graffiti color eyes and a pearly white skin. She is naked showing to him a well formed and sexy body. Benji eyes are still red. "Lisa…" he whispers. She smiles at him. She says something that he can't make up because a louder voice is covering it "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" the voice shouts coming from the no where. "You are needed." Are the words that Lisa lips forms. "The time for you come to the eternal country is not even close. Go back." She mouths to him. "I don't…" Benji stops his own sentence. The figure of Maria dressed in white light only leaving uncover her head appears. "I can't stay…I have someone that loves me waiting for me…" he says with his voice getting stronger. Lisa nods at him. "I know." She mouths to him "Wake up your fucking bastard Japanese barbarian!" the voice now gets stronger and clearer.
Benji open his eyes now brown. He is lying on his back on the hard stone floor of a dungeon cell. A cold wave of water hits his face. Benji shouts some curses. "At last you woke up!" Orihime shouts he sits holding his head. "Damn my head seems to be holding a orgy of crazy, drugged and drunken demons." Benji says in a tired and pained tone. "At last! I was wondering how long you would sleep. You seemed dead.!" Orihime shouts.
Benji looks at her. Taking out a dirty light yellow panties and few ripped parts of her uniform pants hanging loosely from her waist Orihime is naked. "Why you are naked?" Benji asks "Because the explosion took most of your clothes. And those crystal women who found us ripped most of it." Orihime says in a mix of anger and shame. Benji gets up noticing that he is also not well dressed. Of his clothes only remain few ripped parts of his overalls and his boxers underpants. And those aren't enough to even make a good cover. "At least your package is covered." Orihime says relieved. Benji walks closer of her and in the faint torch light Benji sees some thin lines on Orihime waist. "You where whipped." Benji says "Yes. I was." Orihime says in a faint tone. "They tried to make me tell where we live and how defeat us." Orihime says. "Luckily the woman that was whipping me got distracted enough to give me the chance to kill her." Orihime have a small smile. "But I don't know how to take you out of there." She says. Benji look at the bars of his cell. "Those bars are made from iron and are here for centuries. Nothing than some good will and corrosion can't solve." Benji says winning a confused look from Orihime.
Benji grabs one of the bars and places one of his still booted feet on a bar besides it and he pulls it hard. Orihime stares in shock seeing Benji still wet skin produce sweat and his muscles tense. In response to his acts the bars begin to crumble leaving small rusty chunks fall on the floor and the metal seems to scream with the effort to stay still. To Orihime shock the bar breaks in the top part that is buried on the stone. And the side bar that holds it to the others rips and Benji bends the bar until it gets low almost touching the floor. Benji stops and passes by the tight opening breathing in deep breaths. "God I never saw so much strength into a man before!" Orihime says in a admired surprise. "I hope that you never have to see it again." Benji says "Where is the exit?" Benji asks "I only know the way that I came." Orihime says. "Okay that is a beginning." He says and they begun to walk away down the long dark halls. Benji is holding a torch and Orihime is walking very close of him pressing herself in his back scared seeing again many skeletons and dying creatures in the cells. In any moment the thought of the nudity of Orihime and her pressing herself on him was considered erotic or improper. She is scared and they haven't any clothes.
They reach a large torture room. Taking out many chains hanging from the ceiling and the walls there isn't anything to use as a weapon. Benji sees a whip near of a pile of crystals. He picks it up knowing that it was the whip that tortured Orihime and that is the only weapon that they have. Benji wraps the whip forming a circle and holds with his right hand keeping the torch in his left. Benji feels the hardened leather of the whip on his hand. He doesn't need to ask to know that Orihime is holding back her pain. And he can't avoid on feeling some pride that she is doing so. "She has more guts than any other spoiled princess. I give her that." Benji thinks with a hint of a smirk on his lips. Orihime is seeing many cuts and wounds on him too. And some that she is sure that are from the rats who where moving on his cell. And a large blue dragon tattooed on his right shoulder blade calls her attention. The dragon is made of lines with small spaces between then forming the snaking form of a oriental blue dragon covering his shoulder blade and part of his lower back with the head moving to his right arm. "A tribal tattoo. I heard about this style. Red eyes. That is also odd." She thinks. They hear the foot steps of the crystal women. Benji hands her the torch and he whips the head of the women who first crossed a door leading to the stairs that they where climbing.
In the theater Maria is worried pacing on her room. "Two days have passed since the attack. The yumegumi are sure that they are alive. But they can't found then. And with Iris nightmares only made it worse to me bear this." Maria thinks in her right hand is the silver clip that Benji gave her. Her hand is closed tight around the delicate jewel. Her worry gets worse when her mind flashes to her the words and the feelings that came attached to that jewel.
End of the chapter eight:
Benji walks to the stage. "Hi everyone. I am Benji Himura. Writer and character of the story." He makes a pause and pulls a note pad from his pocket and reads it on loud. "Well first I would like to thanks HaruNatsu and Kanna Kirishima for the reviews." He pauses and put the pad on his pocket. "Well this is all. Thank you for reading." Benji says before bow to the audience and walk away.