Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic. Is a Sakura Taisen 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.
Pre-story author notes:
This story is an altered universe for Sakura Taisen. As it will be told on the story it is a game being played. At least that is the very beginning of the story. Things might take odd turns as the story develops. But so far one thing is for sure. Ogami Ichiro won't be the leader of the hanagumi and I am not sure if he will appear on this story. Kyougi means game in Japanese the title of this story is Sakura Taisen the Game. But it isn't based on the real Sakura Taisen game.
"Text" Talked or thought sentences.
(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language. As English when everyone else speaks Japanese.
:Text: Messages show in an electronic screen.
Second coin: Changing time.
Teito April twenty fifth 1920, on the imperial theater
On the training room Benji can see that the training is doing very well. At least they trust on the other. Well taking out the problems between Kanna and Sumire. "Okay girls breakfast pause." Benji says to them. "Yay! Food!" Kanna cheers raising her arms. And by that not holding Sumire who was falling. The brunette was going to hit the floor but Benji dove and got under her before she hitted it.
Kanna blushes covering her mouth for her mistake. It takes Sumire a couple of seconds to realize that she is not being held by Kanna. But she is lying over Benji, which is holding her by the shoulders. After they get up Sumire and Kanna begin to argue.
"Miss Tachibana do you mind on remind me of not mentioning food breaks before ordering everyone to stop training?" Benji asks to Maria. "I don't mind." Maria answers a bit disgusted with the arguing duo. And the hanagumi moves to have breakfast. And all the members are hungry because the previous hours exercising. There is a light chat in the dining room.
After the breakfast they continue to train. Now the doubles are having one leg tied to the partner leg. "Well now we do a three legs race. The rules are simple since it isn't a competition. All of you need to cross the line there and return to the starting point in less than two minutes. If you fall the double will need to start all over again." Benji says to them. "Why I have to race with Kanna?" Sumire asks. "Because you two argue like two old ladies." Benji replies making the duo, especially Sumire fume with anger. "I am racing with Maria because we have our own issues." Benji replies. And the blonde pinches him discretely. "You are making sound like we have a relationship." She says in a low and harsh tone. "And when I let you treat me on first name basis?"
"I treat everyone in the first name basis." Benji replies in a whisper too. "And I would like to think that we are friends." Maria looks at the other direction. "Well as I was saying. This isn't a competition but a test for our ability to work together with a partner. The entire point of this is that the two racers have to work together to achieve the goal of finishing the race. There aren't prizes or punishments for the ones that don't make it on the time limit or for the ones that do really well." Benji continues to explain to them.
"And we will be taking turns on the pairs as we did before but now it will be decided by luck." Benji adds. "But that after the two first races." The hanagumi nod and they begin. And on the first step Kanna and Sumire move the opposite legs and fall face first on the tatame. Benji and Maria don't do much better. But after three steps they fall too. Sakura and Kohran stumble a bit to get the pace, but slowly manage to walk with out falling. Benji and Maria return to the starting line and begin again. As well Kanna and Sumire that argue during the way.
After three long hours or failure to Benji, Maria and Kanna they begin to actually cooperate to walk. While Kohran and Sakura raced two times and began to cheer the pairs in an attempt to help them.
Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil. August fifteenth 20XX
A soft knock on the side of the cabin makes Benji look to the side. "Excuse me, but the main store is about to close and I need to shut everything down." The clerk says to Benji. "Okay." Benji replies. "What I do now?" Benji thinks. He presses the start button a menu opens and he looks around. "Yes. A save option." He thinks selecting. The screen gets a bit misty as a bar slowly fills up showing the save status.
"But what might happen if someone else plays?" Benji thinks. The saving ends and a small port open. Benji looks at it and a small card and a case with a cord on it leave the port. Benji picks them.
:Exclusive memory card. All the information and game status are now saved on the card. With 100 MB of storage capability, shock, water and heat proof. With an exclusive protective case to carry the card and protect it from shocks, water, magnetism, heat and impacts. Credits remaining 1. Please insert card on next time playing.:
Benji looks a bit surprised as the screen changes to the game main screen. "Nice." He whispers placing the card inside the case and the case on his pocket. He picks his plastic bag now filled with an empty bag of potato chips and a two liters bottle also empty. He leaves the store after saying farewell to the clerk. A quick stop on a trash can and a toilet and Benji leaves the large supermarket.
"Damn 10 PM already. I stood there for thirteen hours and I didn't notice the time…" he says to himself while crossing the street. The empty streets are cold with the autumn wind. He walks by the very familiar streets. His daily path returning from his classes to his home. He curses the fact that he left his CD player along his bag pack on his mother car when going shopping. She left hours ago and the already boring walk turns worse with out music. He makes a turn after passing by a club. The loud techno roaring from the house. He passes it seeing a handful of bars where people are drinking, eating and chatting. As he advances reaching a more residential part of the street he notices a group of teen walk on his direction.
Better saying stumbling on his direction. He can hear the loud drunken voice of them. And feel the lingering scent of the marijuana joint that they are smoking. He knows that far ahead there is another club. And those clubbers are smashed with alcohol, ecstasy and marijuana. He moves to the other side of the empty street to not cross the path with them. But he was spotted and they shout loudly when one of them gives the idea of beating him up.
Two clubbers try to run to attack him. Benji easily avoid them. But three more came. Familiar with the street Benji moves backwards and climb over a larger stone that leads to a balcony of a house. He easily lifts himself to the balcony with his right arm and stay facing down to the street crouched on the ten centimeters wide balcony rail.
As two of them clumsy climb the slippery rock a girl shouts to one of the two who gave the first attack.
"Shot him down!" Benji froze hearing those words. That crack head was armed. And that is dangerous to everyone. Thus stoned the guy moves closer to the boulder. Benji smiles at that. "Within my range." He thinks jumping from the balcony. The sudden motion confuses all them since they couldn't follow it. Benji lands hard on the guy chest. His right knee connects with his solar plexus. During the landing Benji grabs his arm and twist it snapping it cleanly, picking the gun and tucking on his belt. He picks a plastic card on his pocket and he slashes open the wrist of one of the clubbers that climbed after him.
The duo screams in pain. Another one tries to attack Benji. But he blocks and slashes his wrist open. After few second is over. All the clubbers including the girl are down and screaming in pain. "That was dangerous." He mutters walking to a phone covering the gun with his shirt. He dials the emergency number and asks for an ambulance. He walks away from the scene not wanting to pass hours on the police station. Two blocks away from there he enters on a cheap bar.
"Uncle give me a soda and crackling." Benji asks. The older man nods and gives to him his order. "I guess that I will give the gun to Ringo later. She is a cop she will know what to do with it." Benji thinks eating the crackling. "But why I used my bus ticked card as a knife instead of using my key chain as a flail. I used it before in the boarding school."
He gulps down the soda washing down the crackling and places the bottle on the counter. The barkeeper moves to picks it up but he drops the bottle. Benji helps him to pick up the glass shards. He picks a large shard from the neck bottle and keeps it. After tossing away the rest Benji moves away with an idea drilling on his mind.
He arrives on the building where he lives and moves to his apartment. On the hall of his apartment his mother stops him. "Why you were out so late!" she asks to him. "The marriage of Mayumi is in one hour and half. If you don't rush we will be late!" she scolds him. Benji nods and moves to his room. He empties his pockets placing a wallet, one coin, the case with the memory card, the glass shard and his key chain on his computer desk. He undresses to his under shorts and grabs a towel that was over his door and moves to the bathroom. After a quick shower he moves to the room where his brother sleeps and opens the closet to get his suit. Then moves to his own room to dress up
Few minutes later Benji leaves his room wearing a dark blue suit with a dark blue shirt under it. He places his wallet and chains on his pockets and moves to the kitchen. His mother is now showering on her own bathroom and his brother is taking his turn on the shower. He sigh, she scolds him for being late but haven't even began to getting dressed. He takes out his jacket and places on the sofa. He moves to the kitchen and picks some of his material from his prosthesis manufacturing course. He rolls up his sleeves and puts on a long white lab coat.
He picks a blue powder, a transparent liquid and a small drill. With the drill he cuts the glass shard that was looking like a crude claw in a slender claw. He drills two holes on the base close of the tip of the former bottle neck. He pours some of the liquid on the glass and then places the powder over it. He repeats process until making a ring with the blue resin. He adds a half ring on the right side of the existing one and then places the worked claw in a pot filled with water. He looks at his watch. Half hour passed since he began to work on is idea. Ten more minutes passed and he removes the glass claw from the water. The transparent claw cased in a transparent blue resin forming a ring that fits his index finger with a bar and another ring that goes until his index finger mid-joint. And the side half ring that is held by his middle finger. Benji looks at his work on his hand.
He opens the fridge and takes a piece of meat from there and quickly slashes it. The cut is deep and the slash was smooth. He stored the meat again and cleans the claw. Moving to the table me now makes a sheath for the glass blade to mow break or get dull. After placing it on the water his mother and brother enter in the kitchen and drag him away.
"Wait I need to get my jacket!" he shouts. "No time." Her mother replies. "I am using my lab coat!" he adds. "Then goes as Seta-san." His brother replies. He is wearing a bark brown suit with a black shirt. Inside the elevator Benji sighs. Benji brother has more oriental features than Benji, a longer hair and a beard.
"Easy to you to say since you are on your suit." Benji replies. "And I thought that you hated wearing it, Victor."
"I hate. But mom told me too." Victor replies. Later in the car they move to the church to watch the wedding of they family friend daughter. After the long and boring religious ceremony they move to a party hall in another part of the city to celebrate the wedding. Benji a long ago fixed his shirt and thanked to the skies for picking up a dry lab coat. After a while they arrive. While Benji mother gives the invitations to the doorman a guy pass running on the side walk. And a female voice shouts. "Stop thief!"
Benji recognizes the voice and reacts. He gives a high kick on the man mouth he falls backwards with blood gushing from his cutted lips and broken teeth. "Getting slow Ringo?" Benji says putting his right feet back on the floor. The motions made his lab coat move following the motion. "Are the high heels." A woman with short blonde hair replies. She is wearing a black night dress. Very figure hugging with a cut on the left side of her legs. With a low V cut and a low back line.
"And wasn't you too brutal?" she asks. "No." Benji replies looking into her green eyes. "Well give him this card when he woke up. I am sure that I broke his entire anterior arcades. Both of them."
"Mercenary aren't us?" She asks teasing. "You just broke his teeth and you want to charge him the fake ones that he will need to have." She smiles at him. "I need to gain my money." Benji replies in the same tone and replying her smile. "Well get inside we chat later. I will make sure that this scum gets charged on stealing after talking to the cops, well the other ones because I want to enjoy the party too." She says. Benji nods and get inside.
Benji moves to a table reserved to his family. He gets for himself a soft drink. Few of the guests look at him and chatter excitedly over the incident on the entrance. Benji moves far from the loud sound boxes to get some peace.
He thinks over the two violent incidents that happened to him in the night. And he is aware that the night is only starting. "A sight of a hero. Far from the others and staring at the distance." Ringo says walking to him holding two cups of wine. She hands one to him. "It is an interesting choice of clothes." She adds looking at him. "I kind of like it actually. It is sexy. You look like that teacher guy from Love Hina."
Benji sighs. "Seta-san." He corrects her. "That is right!" she squeals. "Just needed some glasses." Then she gets serious. "Benji be honest with me, why you stopped that thief with a kick like that? Anyone else would have tripped him or grabbed him." She asks seriously.
Benji looks at her eyes. "Honestly I was wondering that." Benji answers. "I just moved before I could even notice. When I noticed I was already moving my leg down."
She sighs. "You are not troubled because I 'forgot' to tell about you." Ringo says before taking a sip on her wine. "Be more careful on the future. You shoved that guy teeth on his stomach." Benji nods.
Ringo light up. "Enough with serious talk. Let's enjoy the party." She says holding on his left arm and pulling him to the dance court against his will. After a half hour forced to dance on the loud techno music Benji manages to sneak away from the festive police woman, just to be caught by another friend. A woman with long black hair with a shade of dark silver and it is tied on a ponytail on the top of her head. Her eyes are in dark silver color. She is wearing a sexy black dress.
"So Mister Hero trying to get famous?" She asks teasing. "Not at all Lisa. I was only being a good citizen." Benji replies.
End of the chapter two:
Please read and review. I will answer every review. Good or bad. If you have time to read and send a review. I will send you an answer. I want to say thank you for the reviews to SilverBlue Dragon, Murasame Warrior, Posthumous and HaruNatsu. Thank you a lot for the reviews. I also want to thank to anyone that is reading and not reviewing.
I am making two versions of this story. One with out explicit sex scenes and one with then. As well with sexual related omakes. The unedited version can be found in MediaMiner fanfiction page. The address is on my profile.
Well I am going to try a new thing to spice up my fics. I am adding songs to certain scenes. Like Sakura Taisen did. For example the episode nine when Maria recalls when she meet her captain. I have showed Benji humming, singing and hearing to many songs, in different occasions. Well I just love hearing musing when I am on the computer, when I got outside my house I always carry my CD player so I can listen to it when I walk, when I am not watching TV or anime on my computer I always have the winamp on with my favorite playlist. For example if I stay too long with out hearing music I began to think on music or sing. I will place the songs that suit more the scenes. Try hearing it sometime. If you can listen to the song when reading the scene might be even better.
Bonus scene:
On the following morning Benji runs out of his apartment. He is with the memory card holder cord between his teeth and he is buttoning up his shirt. He leaps the stairway of the entrance and after closing the gate he runs out by the streets. He has a bag pack on his back and a belt bag around his waist. A cord is leaving the belt bag and it is connected to a head phones that are over his ears. And it is loudly playing Euro Koi Hassha Allright! And Benji is humming the song while passing the necklace of the card holder around his neck. His destination is clear to him as he finally reaches the right street. The large market where 'his' Sakura Taisen machine is.
Benji races the stairs of it and all the way to the arcade. The clerk was opening up the doors when Benji races in and sits on the machine cabin. That turning off his MP3 CD player and shoving it carefully on the bag pack. Benji inserts his memory card on the machine.
:Game start…Data loaded…Welcome Benji.: The Machine greets him. "It is nice to be back." Benji whispers making himself more comfortable.