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.
Sixth coin: Hunting and being hunted.
Benji hears a faint beeping. He looks to his bike. And hears it again. Like a phone ringing. But he turned his phone off. Benji walks to his bag pack and opens it. He sees the palmtop that was turned off beeping and with a light pouring from the screen protection. Benji picks it up and open it. A message appears. :Please put on the head set.:
Benji does as it says putting the ear and adjust the microphone on the left side of his face. He straps the holder on his belt and moves with the bag pack to his nest and waits to see what will happen when a feminine voice says. (Let me aid you Player.)
Benji is surprised by hearing those words in Japanese. Especially because he understood them. "Who are you?" Benji asks also in Japanese. "I am your aid." The voice replies. "Mind in telling me what is happening then?" Benji asks. "A group of people ordered your death. They won't rest until you are dead." She replies.
"I already noticed that." Benji says in a tone dripping with venom. "Something that I didn't know would be good." He can hear the girl swallowing hard on the other side of the line. "I don't want to scare you. But I am not feeling like being a nice guy here." He says to her. "I am sorry. I am your only ally. The people that I work with are your allies too. We are trying to help you, but we can't interfere because many laws. I can only aid you giving you intel." She says with her voice shaking a bit.
"You have a name?" Benji asks. "Since I can die in any moment I would like to know the name of the probable last person that I will talk to." She swallows hard on the other side. "I was ordered not to tell. Can you call my in anyway that you want to. But I can't call you of anything else than player."
"Satsuki sounds good for you?" Benji asks to her. "It is fine by me, Player-san." Satsuki replies. "So Satsuki what kind of Intel you can give me?" Benji asks. "Pick up your personal com link. I will send you a GPS image of you and your pursuers." She replies. "You mean this palmtop?" Benji asks. "Yes. We call it com link." Satsuki replies. "It has many functions and it is more advanced than a palm top." Benji picks it up and the screen lithe up. Benji appears as a blue dot on the middle of the screen and far from there a black dot is moving to the downtown.
"For the moment you are safe." She says. "Good to hear that. But I need to get them before they get me. I don't have much ammo or resources." Benji replies. Placing the com link on his belt Benji moves to the bike. He picks his bag pack and places the rifle there. Making sure that is well hidden Benji leaves armed on with the 380.
"For the moment the police don't know what happened. I will buy supplies." Benji says to Satsuki. He can almost hear her nodding. He moves down the hill. He passes by the market where he usually goes, but decides not to go there. It would risk his machine and they probably know that he stays there a lot. So Benji walks further to a Wall-mart.
He moves to the sport section after picking a shopping car. He looks for a discrete but large bag pack to replace his old one. On the run he can only have what he can fits on a bag pack or on his bike. He founds a black one. Designed changed from a camping one with many pockets. Benji puts it on the car and also buys a canteen and a long belt made of the same material of a car seat belt. He moves to the clothes section. He picks up two pairs of trousers, three shirts and one coat.
He goes to another section and buys a thin but very warm blanket. He moves to the food department. Benji picks many cereal bars of many flavors, many one kilo bars of mariola, two kilos of salami, some salt cookies packets, a box of chewing gum and a package of hardened gelatin ready to eat. He moves to the personal hygiene hall and buys a generic body deodorant and travelers kit of tooth brush and tooth paste. He pays for all the items and on an empty clerk counter Benji fills the new bag pack with all the goods, including his old and smaller bag pack. He passes by a drug store and buys some bandages, gauzes, alcohol and cotton. He also buys few generic anti-biotic. Then he moves back to his hide out.
Somewhere between Vitória and Jacaraipe.
Ringo is even more pissed. Benji wasn't on his family beach house. And each minute that passes is a minute that Benji is closer of being killed by whoever that is trying to kill him. She knows that the target is him. The shots were all aimed at him. The pursuers went after him. She gets even angrier because she missed it entirely. Now the sniper makes more sense. He was sending to kill Benji. But somehow Benji killed the sniper in less than ten minutes with out being seem by anyone.
Rosetta kidnap was for sure a happy coincidence that he was around and rescued her. But back then he was already armed with a 380 so he couldn't have got the gun there. In some point before that incident Benji got a gun. And that same gun is one of the only two that he has to defend himself against well paid and well armed mercenaries. Professional soldiers, used to combat and to kill.
Ringo doesn't understand how Benji was able to kill the first one. She saw the guy record. The guy was a pro, veteran of many combats, trained by elite. And a civilian with none military training killed him with one shot in the back of the neck. She is sure that Benji got something that is giving him the leverage until the moment. She doesn't know what is it or even how long it will last. But she wants to found him soon, so she can place him under protection.
September fifth 20XX Location unknown
Shizue is looking to the screen that displays the location of the player and the image of what he sees with a small camera on the visor. She needed to admit that his calm under the circumstances was at least frightening. Her superior had left to fetch him in Brazil before he gets killed. He is too precious to leave him by himself in that situation. But by diplomatic problems she can't interfere with the events.
If she wanted the player, would need to go to her. Shizue saw him shopping his supplies. She gets surprised because he bought only food that last for at least months. At least on the expiring dates. She is now seeing him rearranging the supplies on the pack. Placing some food on the upper pockets to easy access. The clothes on a middle pocket. And the blanket on a pocket above the one with the food.
After doing that Benji is checking the magazines of the guns. Counting his bullets. Shizue nearly cry seeing the small amount of bullets and equipment that he has. Yet he is calm, considering what to do next. She keeps am GPS image open showing the surroundings for herself so she can warn him if needed. She notices him picking the rifle and the blanket and moving to the window where he was before her first call and sits there.
On the next day
Benji wakes feeling very bad because the position that he slept on. He stretches and moves around folding the blanket and placing on the bag pack. Having tied the pack tightly on his bike set behind himself Benji hides the rifle on the pack. Pushing the bike Benji moves far from there. He buys two different newspapers on a stand and moves away to a hidden square to read them. He sees that the gunfight made the cover. But there aren't any specific details over the why and who fought there. After tossing the papers on a trash can he gets on his bike and considers his next move.
On the Civil Police station. (Actually very, very near of Benji's hideout. Just near of the stand where Benji bought the paper and on the corner of the street across the hill where he was.)
Ringo is on her desk. Her coworkers pass by her with some distance. She is irradiating an aura of danger and anger that no one wants to risk being the target of that. By a twist of fate Benji's gunfight was also assigned to her. Just because she was there on the moment of the shootout. That was the good news that she got after the entire incident. But she recalls a conversation with Lisa and Rosetta on the previous day.
The talk on the previous day
"Benji must be feeling really bad now." Lisa says seeing the sky getting darker and darker. "Alone, hunted, hungry, cold and scared." Rosetta that is on the backseat hugging her knees close of her chest looks at the older woman. "He is not scared." She says with a certain tone. "You all know how Benji plays RPG." Rosetta looks out of the window.
"He is most likely hidden in someplace obvious where we won't even consider searching of so obvious. He probably has food with him. His clothes will keep him warm." Rosetta continues. "You all knows Benji's motto 'carry all that you can. You never know when you will need it.' I believe that you two remember that when we went to that Matilde place he was the only one who had matches and a knife. No one even considered in taking those to make a barbecue. Taking out him."
The older women nod recalling of the event. And they also know that Benji have the habit of hiding things on plain sight. And no one found it. "Benji will act here as he acts on the RPG and on his stories. He will found a place to him to hide. Then he will try to found out the people trying to kill him and he will kill them." Rosetta adds. "I am the person that knows Benji on the best on that way. I read all his fics and played RPG with him many times."
Present time
Ringo is munching a pencil while she tries to think on places where Benji could hide. She knows that seeking the mercenaries will be futile. The best way to found them is founding Benji. She spits the destroyed pencil on a trash can and leaves the station after picking a bullet proof vest and a shotgun on the armory. The last thing that she needs is to be out armed again.
She goes to her car and moves to her house. She goes up the hill and sees the abandoned building next door with her building thinking as usual that they could have finished it. She chats with the doorkeeper. And Ringo get shocked when he mention of a black car racing down the hill. She engages the rear and parks in front of the building.
Ringo leaves the car with the shotgun on her hands and look at the stones of the road. No marks. But when her eyes reach the always half done sidewalk she sees a tire mark on the dirt there. She enters on the construction. She notices a less dirty spot by a window and looks from it. It showed the street very well with out being exposed to the people out there.
She sees tire marks on the dirty floor and recognizes as Benji's bike tires. She also sees two small transparent plastic pieces. She picks them up and sniffs it. "Mariola." She whispers. "Mariola is a good sweet to carry around. It is very filling and caloric with out being heavy. You know Ringo that eating just two of them you fill up quite well." She hears on her mind Benji talking to her when she once asked why he carried four pieces of mariola on his bag pack.
"You devil." Ringo mutters. "You were here." She sniffs the air and on a far corner she can feel the scent of urine. "You most likely slept here too. Rosetta was right. The most obvious places." Ringo is once again angry. She missed Benji because she was too busy angering on the work. She leaves the building and enters on her own. After showering and changing clothes she leaves, now with an idea of where Benji could hide.
In another part of the city
Benji is on the UFES it is a good place to hide where only the federal police can act, where he has plenty of places to run with his bike in case of pursuit and he can mingle with a crowd of students. "Found anything about those people chasing me?" Benji asks to Satsuki. "I am still searching." She replies. "I am trying to found where they might be staying or who is paying them. But until now nothing" Benji can hear her sighing tired on the other end of the line. He moves to a near store and buy a long and thick document holder. Thick enough so he can slide in it his rifle.
He leaves the college and moves to his new hiding spot. An abandoned house near of one of his old schools. Deep on a neighborhood where Benji almost doesn't hang out. Thanks a quite isolated location Benji can hide there with out being seem. But there is only one way to leave the place and Benji disliked that. But he won't look a given horse by the teeth. Hiding his bike on the corner of the room Benji assembles the rifle and slides it on the holder and straps it over his shoulder. He stays there for a couple of hours before leaving again. This time he moves to a small mall near of his grandmother building. He enters on a sportive equipment shop.
In there Benji buys a pair of adjustable saddle bags for his bike, a combat knife, a Zippo lighter and fluid for it, a gas lighter with gas for it, a portable electric oven and a camping pan with lid that won't leak, one brass knuckles, a water proof jacket, a compass and many shurikens and twenty throwing knifes with sheaths for the knifes and a belt like holder to the shurikens. He also buys water proof matches and few pairs of socks.
He leaves the store and passes by another drugstore. He makes a quick buy there and leaves. He moves to a scholar material store and buy three large cans of finger painting paint.
Later Ringo arrives on the mall when she heard that someone with Benji description was there shopping. She is a bit surprised with the purchased good. "Adjustable double leather straps?" she mutters on a café munching a croissant. "Finger painting paint. Duct tape." She sips some chamomile tea. "What you are planning Benji?" she whispers. "You are running away from us? That is why you bought a compass?"
She knows that he bought equipment to fight and to camp. But she is not sure if Benji would just run out of the town. "You are staying on the open here in the city. The compass is to set me on a wrong trail. You aren't going to camp you are tricking me to look for you far from here!" she says reaching the right conclusion.
On his hideout Benji is busy adjusting the saddle bags to his bike and putting the new items on both bags plus the bag pack. He adjust the leather strap on his waist and places the 380 there and adjusts it again to hold the pistol there. He tests to see if it will be easily draw out but won't fall. After few tries he is satisfied with it. Now with the pistol safely on the small of his back Benji sits down to munch a piece of salami.
"I detected movement near of your location." Satsuki says. "It doesn't seem to be a car from a local. It has a GPS." Benji nods barely whispers his response swallowing down the remaining piece of salami. With the scope that he bought for the 380 and decided to not use it he sees the black SUV closing. But still two blocks away. Benji pockets the scope and rides on the bike and speeds out of there entering on a secondary street before the SUV can reach him.
Ringo got the word about the chase and speeds her work car to the direction of them. This time she is ready and her car is tuned for chases. She barely breaks in time when Benji raced by her car in the opposite direction. The sees the SUV passing her too. With a sudden turn she follows them. She is shocked to see that even with her car she is still unable to keep the speed of them. She forces the engine even more.
The roar of the three engines and Ringo car siren fills the air. Benji makes a sudden turn, that the others follow. Benji gains more space on the lead and with another turn moving to a familiar place where he has the advantage he speeds up and burs his tire on the asphalt creating a smoke cloud. Benji moves forward and stops. He removes the rifle from the document case and aims at the path where he was. He hears the SUV getting closer and sees the lights of it. Benji changes the firing mode to semi-auto and squeezes the trigger.
Three bullets fly and smashes against the bullet proof glass of the windshield. The driver speeds up trying to run over Benji. Who just stays there.
The SUV smashes hard over three concrete blocks between Benji and itself forcing it to a violent halt. Benji smiles since his plan worked. He moves to the car and opens the drivers door. The driver face is smashed against the wheel. The air bag haven't opened. Benji searches on him and take all that he has. Taking out he pistol that was broken and the ammo for it.
Benji moves to his bike hearing Ringo getting closer. He sees a flyer on the car and pick it up before leaving on his bike. Ringo knowing the area are driving slow. She sees the smashed car. "A trapper till the end." She mutters seeing the damage and the tire marks that Benji created. "Get an ambulance and the fire fighters to the street…" she calls on the radio picking up the fire extinguisher on her car and putting down a beginning of a fire.
September sixth 20XX Location unknown
"Good plan." Shizue says when seeing his action by her monitor. "You need to found another place to hide." "I am aware of that. But there isn't many places where I can hide. I am going back to the college and mingle with the people there until the night fall." Benji replies. "Then it will be easier to hide." Shizue nods at his words. She yawns tired even with the excitement over chase. "Feeling tired?" Benji asks. "Just a bit. I am working alone and there isn't anyone to replace me in helping you." She replies happy to hear that he is worried.
"You can sleep a bit here. Just leave the radio on so I can call you when I need you." Benji says to her. "I can handle. I just had some coffee." She replies. "Not good." Benji says back. "Listen I can handle things for a while. You know that things are peaceful. And they will be for a while. If I have problems I call you."
"Okay. But I will leave my side on the max volume if you need me just call." Shizue says. "I will call if I need." Benji replies. "I will turn off my side. If I don't need you I won't turn it back on for six hours okay?"
"Okay." She replies setting everything and resting on her desk sleeping as soon she relaxes.
Back in Vitória
Benji is on the University restaurant eating after turning off the com link. He is reading the flyer that he took from the SUV. It from a five stars hotel, with top of the line security. It is his best lead. Benji finishes his meal and leaves. In a quite corner of the library he scans thru the other belongings of the driver. A card key, a thick pack of one hundred dollars bills, a thinner one with one hundred reais, a bar match box, a pack of cigarettes and picture of Benji.
Benji rips the picture and tosses it away. Benji pockets everything. Now with more money he can do more things. And with the location of the others mercenaries it will be easier to attack.
Benji waits until the dark to leave. While he drives seeking for a hide out Benji thinks over what he will do after surviving that. By his actions he might be arrested. Illegal possession of fire arms, murder of fourteen people at least. Benji could list all the wrongs that he did but he decide not to do so.
He founds a half destroyed two stored house and enters on it. Seeing it empty and reasonably clean he build a small camp there. He is a bit surprised to see that inside everything is in a good shape. The walls was loosing the cover over the bricks but was still solid. On the outside was looking much worse. Benji counts six empty rooms on the first floor that should be living room, kitchen, dinning room, bathroom and two bed rooms. On the upper from more bedrooms and one bathroom.
Benji sits by a window covered from being seeing from outside by a wall and the tall grass of the garden. He eats a couple of salted cereal bars, some crackers and a piece of salami and after making few noise traps he sleeps with the rifle near him.
Unaware of Benji, Ringo drives in front of the abandoned house where Benji is hiding. Stressed over the chase and all the factors that she doesn't know she wants to found Lisa to see if they can think over what Benji can do next. She already knows that he is able to kill.
End of the chapter six:
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 scenes:
Vitória September sixth
Rosetta walks inside the arcade where Benji expended so many hours on. She sees the Sakura Taisen machine. After buying coins for it she enters on the cockpit. "Let's see what you have of so special that he wants to stay here so much." She mutters starting the game in the story mode. And she follows Benji's steps creating her own leading character. But unlike his hers is a female.
Somewhere over the Pacific ocean
In a large private jet a woman is traveling alone. Her face is covered by a cap. A military cap. She is reading a file on the half lithe compartment. "The data is sure interesting." She says. "He is growing better than we could ever hoped. We can have hope now. If we have him we can hope for a better future."