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.
Third coin: Important events.
Teito April twenty ninth 1920
The entire hanagumi are in training camp near of the littoral, but far from the city and curious people. They all are jogging around the large property. Even Iris is training. All of them are wearing the training clothes. The rhythm of them is not too fast or too slow. It is the enough to all of them keep it up long periods.
They reach a large house and enter on it, Kanna and Sakura moves to the kitchen since are the day of the duo to cook them breakfast. The others move to the bathroom, divided in a men's side and a women's side. Benji moves to his side and move to take a quick bath to remove the sweat from his body. He knows that the girls are doing the same.
The thought of peeking on the girl's crosses his mind as always happens when they bath. But he decides not to peek, after all he is still on the middle of the process of making the girls trust on him. And peeking on them would destroy all that he builded so far. Benji leaves the bath after washing himself. Now with fresh clothes he moves to the dinning hall to help the cooking duo.
Teito May tenth 1920, on the imperial theater
Ayame watches the hanagumi training on the simulators. Happy to see that they are all working together as a team. She is quite happy in seeing Benji and Maria working together to build better strategies during the combat as it moves on and gets more and more difficult, with the kazegumi slowly increasing the level of the simulation. And after another half house of simulations the hanagumi leaves the cockpits clearly tired with the long section of training. They make few comments over the virtual battle while moving to the showers.
Teito June seventh 1920
They hanagumi is in the middle of a heavy combat in Ginza district. Setsuna and Rasetsu are attacking with many wakijis and masoukiheis. Everyone is fighting fiercely against them. Maria fires a full blast against a group of them that was closing of her. But in the middle of the blast a dry sound of metal and metal colliding is heard.
Benji and Maria recognized that sound pretty well. Under his orders they fired her koubu cannon arm with one bullet until the dull sound of the empty gun was familiar to them. In that moment Maria froze, she forgot to keep a careful watch on her limited ammo. The group charges at her.
But before all the weapons can connect with her koubu they are blocked by Benji koubu sword and combat knife. But even the ninja could block all of them. Some of the missed attacks damaged his koubu legs. Benji manages to kill and destroy the group. "Are you hurt Maria!" He asks thru the radio.
"No." the blonde replies. "I am uninjured." Benji smiles on his koubu. "That is good. Stay behind me." He tells to her. "Ryokai." She replies staying close of him but far enough to let him fight. Benji hands the knife to her and grabs one of the wakijis swords. Benji fends off the attackers. Setsuna taunts Maria. But Benji keeps calming her or at least doing his best to keep her levelheaded.
After a tiring battle the Kuronosukai members leave after losing the entire army. Benji's koubu it is pretty beaten. Maria's is with some damages. The others are lightly or none damaged at all. The return to the theater. Kohran is complaining about fixing two koubus, especially Benji's.
Maria feels guilty over the damaged koubu. After all her careless actions made her run out of bullets and then Benji needed to protect her.
Teito June sixteenth 1920
The entire hanagumi are fighting on an open field two hundred kilometers from Teito. Even Iris is fighting. But the team is in a really bad situation. They are outnumbered in thirty to one. The team was forced to split during the heat of the battle. They were barely able to form duos to fight.
Even with a minor aid from the artillery of the army the hanagumi is not being fully successful to fight, with the wakijis carrying rockets launchers as long ranged weapons. With an amazing effort and skill the battle ends with the victory for the hanagumi. The price of it was the massive damages that all the koubus sustained during the four hours long battle.
Tired and all feeling lightly depressed they load the koubus on the carrier trucks and them the hanagumi splits in three cars driven by a military driver. On the seats all the members of the hanagumi tries to rest a bit. The rain that now falls over the land reflects the heavy moods of the team. As many of the other members of the team Benji and Maria who are sharing a car fall in sleep on the back seat and don't see the driver of the car where they are lose the control on the wet ground and run out of the street.
Benji wakes with the car shaking wildly. He sees the driver trying effortless regain the control. And he froze seeing the edge of a cliff closing. Benji grabs Maria that wakes scared. But before she can reacts Benji leaped out of the car with her. But unfortunately was too late to the duo avoid the fall.
The only fortune is that there is a deep river on the bottom of the cliff. Now terrified beyond her limits Maria clings on Benji before the hit the water. And they finally hit the surface of the river. Maria closed her eyes and covered her mouth and nose before it happened.
By her reactions Benji understood that she doesn't know how to swim. And he swims with her back to the surface. Maria is unconscious with the fall but she is still breathing. But the currents drag the couple wildly down the river. Benji hooks her to him tying them belts together so she won't escape from him even if she slips out from his grip. Keeping her head above the water they are dragged by the currents.
Sometimes they sink and Benji covers her mouth and nose during those moments while he swims back to the surface. Way later they arrive on a river bank where Benji can climb with her. He drags himself on the muddy bank glad of reaching land. He once again checks on Maria who is now shivering with the cold water and the rain.
He picks her up and looks around for shelter. He founds it under a large tree with a large hollow space near of the roots. Checking for any signs of snakes or any animal before entering Benji places Maria on the floor after cleaning it. He takes out his soaked clothes and do the same with Maria's. For an instant he is entranced with her beauty. But he soon remembers that it is an emergency and they need to heat up or they will fall ill. Seeking for dry leaves and branches Benji looks around the hollow wood cave.
He founds enough to build a small fire. He lights it using his survival training. He feeds the fire with more leaves and pulls Maria close of it holding her nude form against his to keep her warm from the cold atmosphere. They clothes are drying near of the fire too. Benji is shaking lightly with the cold and notices that Maria is shaking even more with it. Even being a Russian woman raised on a cold country she haven't passed the training that he had when a child to resist cold. He lays her near of the fire and lies besides her on the side far of the fire to keep her warm.
The night gets even colder with the never stopping rain. Benji keeps the fire alive, constantly checking Maria temperature and if they clothes are dry. On the next morning Maria wakes feeling very bad and tired. She doesn't recall of how she got there or where is there.
"You are up." A familiar man voice says. She looks to the direction from where it came and sees Benji entering on the wood cave wearing his uniform pants, he is holding a survival knife and dead rabbit. "I was beginning to get worried. You got a fever." He says getting closer of her. Benji touches her forehead after dropping the rabbit.
"You are still hot." Benji says. "Too hot." Maria shivers with his touch. And she notices that under the cover of her and his uniform jacket she is naked. "What happened?" she asks to him. After the months together she learned to trust him and she knows that he wouldn't take advantage of her.
"We fell in a river. The driver of the car where we was lost the control and we fell on the river. We were lucky that I woke before we fell or we would be dead." Benji answers her. "After a long time on the cold water I managed to get us here. I needed to get us warm so I had to take out the soaked clothes from you." Maria nods understanding. She knows that it is one the best ways to getting warm is the skin contact between two people. "Your pants and undergarments are dry now." Benji says picking them up.
Maria nods and tries to get up. But she can't seem to found the strength to do so. "Don't force yourself. You got a very bad cold, which might turn into pneumonia." Benji says pushing her back to lie down on the makeshift bed of leaves and his shirt. "I dress you up okay?"
Maria would have blushed if her face wasn't flushed because the high fever. "You already saw me anyway." She mutters unhappy. "There wasn't a choice." Benji says carefully dressing her. Maria helps him as much as she can to shorten suffering. Benji dresses her with all her uniform and his own jacket over hers.
"I got us something to eat and some medicinal herbs to help you." Benji says cleaning the rabbit. Maria noticed that Benji haven't looked her any longer than the needed to dress her and avoid passing his hand on her private parts and breasts. And that he kept himself cool and professional like a male nurse helping a female patient that can't dress by herself.
She can feel the scent of the meat roasting. Benji dress up his undershirt. And brings some water to Maria using a cutted bamboo.
He makes Maria eat the herbs and wash them down with water. After feel minutes she feels a little better. After the rabbit is done Benji helps Maria to eat it. And soon they leave. Benji carrying Maria on his back giving her a pig back ride.
Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil. August sixteenth 20XX
:Stage cleared. First phase cleared.: Benji reads on the screen. :Bonus points awarded 7.: Benji smiles and he sees his character file appear. :Bonus points can be used only to skills.: Benji nods and buy two more points in swimming. Using six points. The last point is stored and a new message appears. :Affection level up Maria Tachibana level 7. Kanna Kirishima level 5. Sakura Shinguji level 4. Sumire Kanzaki level 4 and a half. Iris Chateaubriand, Kohran Li 3 and a half.:
Benji smiles seeing the results. :New stage start. First phase.:
Teito June eighteenth 1920
After two long, tense and worried days Benji and Maria are found and rescued by the tsukigumi. Maria is taken to a hospital because her fever, but she is send back to the theater when diagnostic came back as a cold. During the entire day Benji stood by Maria nursing her back to health. Because Maria condition the plays were delayed. She could act ill. Especially since she could permanently harm her vocal cords.
Teito June nineteenth 1920
Benji is with Maria on her bedroom. She is sited on her bed covered from the waist down wearing thick pajamas. Benji is sited on a chair besides her bed and between them there is a chess board. Maria makes her move taking out one of Benji rocks. "Kind of a bad way to expend your birthday." Benji says to her in a friendly and worried tone.
Maria smiles with his comment. "Not much." She replies. "Taking out the illness everything is quite good for me." She blushes after saying that. Thinking how she could change so much in such short time. "I mean that I don't mind stay playing chess with you." She corrects herself before he can notice her slip of tongue.
Benji smiles back content with the blonde opening up and sharing some of her burden with him. "I don't mind at all too." Benji says. "But it could be better to go out and celebrate." Benji covers his mouth. Maria chuckles with a light blush at his words. "I wanted to take you on a birthday date." She clearly heard the hidden intention on his words and feels very warm in a comfortable way.
Benji keeps himself shut to not slip again. "I am not offended with your words." Maria says removing his hand from his mouth. "Honestly I am flattered by them. But I thought that you liked Sumire after seeing you helping her on getting a new swimsuit."
Benji recalls the event that she mentioned. In the beginning of the summer Sumire dragged him to a shop and asked to him which of one hundred new suits of the store looked the best on her. Well Benji never saw that much of Sumire before that day. Well taking out that after it when they all were on a hot spring when Kanna tore down the bamboo fence between the men's side and the women's side. In that day he saw a lot of all the girls.
"She dragged me there." Benji says to her. "Well and if that meant if you would fall for her seeing me as you saw two days ago would make you fall all over me." Maria says teasing trying to ease the mood. "It only made me fall more for you…" Benji clamps his mouth again for talking before he noticed.
And now he and Maria faces are tinted in a deep shade of red. Benji for speaking those words and Maria for hearing them. For few minutes they stay in an uncomfortable silence. "That is true?" Maria asks rather shyly to him. "It is." Benji answers shyly too. Once again Maria feels warm and fuzzy.
August sixteenth 20XX Location unknown
"Ma'am we got a level two alert. Someone reached the stage three." A soft feminine voice says. "The playing time is surprising short fifteen hours. The data tells that they were played mostly straight."
"Another Japanese?" another female asks. "No. This machine is not on Japan." The first replies. "Interesting. Who other than a Japanese would score so many hours so shortly?" the second asks to herself. "Very few people are as determinate to score so high so shortly. Get me more info about that player." She orders to the first.
End of the chapter three.
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. 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:
Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil. August sixteenth 20XX
Benji saves his game and moves to the market toilet after placing a small plaque written defective on the machine. After relieving himself Benji pops his spine back in the place with a satisfied purr. He buys himself a hot dog and a soda that he quickly gulps down. He returns to the game planning to staying there until the market closes or he finishes the game with Maria ending. Whatever happens first. Then he would rest and play once again on the following day. He returns to the game and closes the door that helps to simulate the koubu cockpit and he inserts his memory card on the slot. Glad to be a Sunday Benji continues to play.