The Taichikawa Crime Syndicate

Chp. 2- Close Encounter of the Dangerous Kind


"Ok, this is getting old, let's go to the mall." announced Mimi as she got up off her seat.


"Ok, so six feet away from me at all times, you'll have to sit in the table behind me I wanna look single." Mimi informed Matt who rolled his eyes while she took a seat at on of the booths of the food court.

"Of course, I wouldn't be able to pull that one off if even if I wanted to," Matt muttered in a low tone as he took a seat behind her.

"I heard that," Mimi let him know as she took a sip of her drink. She heard Matt exhale in a know it all matter.

"That was my initial intention my dear, but you obviously didn't catch on," Matt said with a bit less sarcasm in his voice than usual.

"Why am I even talking to you? It looks like I'm talking to myself." Mimi asked Matt who was still currently sitting behind her.

"You're talking to me 'cause you know you want to," Matt began; Mimi for some reason could hear him smile. "And secondly it only looks like you're talking to yourself because of your little six feet away from me, or five, however much it was rule." Matt ended with a hint of smugness.

"Pardon me, but by any chance would you happen to be Mimi Tachikawa?" a tall man asked as after having approached her.

"Yes and you are?" Mimi asked politely as a possible.

"Smiley, Smiley Gambino, and I may not know you, but I don't like. And I especially don't like your filthy family or anyone connected with it." Smiley affirmed with a hostile quality to his voice.

"Gambino?" Mimi managed to choke out. She looked up, at the towering figure which stood over her.

"Yeah, I guess you've heard about the Gambino's? Your filthy family killed my baby brother, and now all you Tachikawa's are gonna pay." threatened Smiley with a sadistic grin on his face.

"Sorry about your brother..." Mimi said weakly out of lack of words and sheer fear.

"Hey Smiley, remember me?" taunted Matt as he revealed himself as he got off his seat from behind Mimi. Matt had a malicious smirk on his face as he brought Mimi up with him.

"Yeah you're the jerk off who shot my dad that day." responded Smiley rather spitefully.

"You have a brain after all; quick how many fingers am I holding up?" Matt asked as he held up his middle finger. Matt began to tease him as he discreetly took hold of Mimi's arm.

Smiley glared at Matt, vendetta circling around in his glassy black eyes. Slowly lifting up his shirt just enough to see the handle to his gun, he reveals the weapon to Matt.

"You wouldn't shoot you're too scared. Come on I dare you." Matt stated as he gently shoved Mimi out the door.

"Not scared, just not stupid." Smiley said. Matt arched his eyebrow and revealed the handle to his chrome 45. Matt slowly backed into the door until he was out side. "Are you sure you aren't stupid, 'cause I'm willing to argue with that." Matt taunted.

Mimi was still standing by the door when Smiley exited the premises, taking his opportunity; he grabs Mimi by the neck and holds the gun to her head. Reacting quickly Matt pulls out his chrome 45 and directs it at Smiley's head, a leer appeared on Smiley's face and he kept the gun at Mimi's head.

"Drop it or Ms. Tachikawa here gets it, and you wouldn't want that now would you?" Smiley demanded as he inclined the gun towards Mimi's cerebellum.

"Only if you let her go," Matt requested, nodding in consent Smiley smirks. "On the count of three... one... two...three." Smiley released Mimi when Matt let his gun fall to the floor, rapidly pulling out another; he sends two rounds at Smiley's hand, before he had the chance to react.

"You thought you were going to win didn't you? Well guess what? You're on our turf!" Proclaimed Matt as he dropped his gun and took a swing at Smiley who was busy attending to his wounded hand. Smiley stumbled to his feet and in a pathetic effort punches Matt. Shoving Smiley to the ground Matt kicked him, connecting his steel-toed combat boot to Smiley's ribs.

"Stay off Tachikawa territory," Matt said as he sent Smiley flying slamming him against the wall. Matt looked down at his cowering body and simply walked away pulling Mimi along with him.

"Stay here," Matt ordered Mimi as he locked her up in his car and walked back to where Smiley was lying.

"Smiley, get up!" Matt commanded as he grasped Smiley collar and slammed him against the wall. "How exactly did you find out who Ms. Tachikawa was?" Matt asked with anger in his voice.

"I would say, but I don't want you to start questioning your so- called 'friends', we wouldn't want that now, would we?" Smiley asked with a grim smile.

"Don't test me," Matt said as he shoved the barrel of his gun into Smiley's mouth.

"Alright, alright, Slick, it was Slick." confessed Smiley cowardly. Matt's dismal expression remained as he threw Smiley through a window.

------------------------------------------------- "That was real smart of you, with the whole, 'six feet away from me' rule. Yeah I'm sure as hell gonna let you do that one next time you want to nearly get yourself killed." Matt said cynically to Mimi as he drove down the road.

"Fine you don't have to stay six feet away from me," said Mimi as she turned the dial on Matt's radio.

"What are you doing?" Matt asked as she began to near the pop stations.

"Trying to find some music," Mimi answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"That is music, or least it would be if you hadn't changed the station." Matt stated.

"No, that's an insult to the very art of music." Mimi said to Matt; Matt rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"Yeah right. You know I could easily kill you and make it look like suicide, no one would ever know, not even the coroner. Say rock music isn't music once more, and I just might try out my technique on a more... delicate specimen." Matt said as he turned towards Mimi who smiled at his sinister tone.

"Where to next?" Matt asked Mimi, who stayed silent for a while.

"Let's just go home." Mimi said as she looked out the window.

"Finally, we agree on something that has nothing to do with killing one another." Matt said humorously as he pulled a left.

"I never said I wanted to kill you're the one talking about killing people." Mimi pointed out.

"That's because that's what I do for a living, kill people for you father. You know it's harder than it looks, killing people that is." Matt stated as he flipped the station back to where he had had it.

"How hard can it be, all you do is beat them up, and then shoot them to death." Mimi responded.

"There's a bit more to it than that, but you're not far. Even though you left out meeting the style of death which is required. And the amount of gore and all this other stuff." Matt added on to what he had earlier said.

"Examples, it doesn't exactly look difficult from where I'm standing. Or is that just because you're naturally cold hearted?" Mimi asked.

"Why am I not laughing? Examples let me see... Here's one, tearing out the Adam's apple of a man twice your size, because your father feels they deserve a slow and painful death. Oh, I got another one... killing a man with a pen knife, try that one and no, Casino doesn't exactly go into detail, if you know what I mean. What else should you know? Ah, yes... having to go home, and take a shower, it much harder than I make it sound. First off blood does tend to leave stains... And having to live with the burden that because of you some family is down a few members, yeah, so think before you speak." Matt listed pausing every now and then.

"I'm trying not to picture that just now, so if you can hurry up a bit, I really don't want to hurl in your car." Mimi answered honestly.

"Come on, you won't hurl, just listen to your silly little pop acts," Matt responded to her statement. "Listen, listen, it's a guy singing about the word, 'yeah' whoa interesting." Matt said as he turned up the radio for her to sing.

"It's R&B...oh, god I've been talking to you for ten minutes," Mimi noticed as she glanced at the green numbers on the screen.

"See, I'm not so bad am I? I mean once, you get past the killing thing that is," Matt asked Mimi who smiled at his statement.

"If you get past the killing thing." Mimi stated as she got out of the car.

"So what you aren't' talking to me 'cause I kill people? I see how it is." Matt said as he caught up to her.

"I never said that, you're putting words in my mouth." Mimi said as she went into her room, and closed the door on Matt.

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"Smiley you say?" asked Mr. Tachikawa as he snapped his fingers promptly. "Next time we won't be so lucky... My little girl's life is on the line... Larry, close down the shooting range tomorrow." Mr. Tachikawa ordered on of the men that were standing by the door. "Assemble a plan to edify my Mimi how to handle a gun. You're gonna be conducting a very unique classified seminar. Misplace your patience, and that won't be all you'll be losing." Mr. Tachikawa said with a smile on his face.

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Authors Notes: Just thought you all should know that I type these chapters' months before I upload them. Why I wait months? Just waiting for the right amount of reviews. Speaking of which I've been contemplating whether or not I should respond to the reviews in the upcoming chapters. Much like some authors do, either thanking or answering something in the review, so if you think I should let me know, I just might do it.

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