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.
Seventh coin: Slick prey
September seventh 20XX Location unknown
Shizue wakes feeling revitalized. Well taking out a pain on her neck. And the numbness on her arms. She gets a can of soda from a mini bar under her desk. She let out a sigh of pleasure. "Sweet cold caffeine." She whispers. Picking a cold meat bread there. "I am no better than the player. While he is still on a run I have only this to eat." She sits back on her chair and makes a call to order some food. She might be alone in the command center but she can ask for the others at least take the food for her.
September seventh 20XX Vitória
Benji wakes up. After dealing with his morning needs he eats something. "Satsuki you are there?" Benji asks. "I am." She replies. "I just woke. And I am feeling very rested." Benji smiles a bit. "That is good to know." He says to her. "Let me give you some information about what I found." "Okay!" she replies.
Half hour later she is analyzing the data. Benji is using the finger painting paint to paint the bike. He has a frown on his face. But since the paint is removed with water he does it. "That is why you bought it." Satsuki says understanding the why of Benji buying them. "Yep." He replies. He picks some black paint and changes the numbers of the plaque too. He waits it dry after storing the cans he leaves the house. He walks to a bar and hear the news by a radio while eating some appetizers. His name isn't revealed, which is good for him.
He drinks some soda and finishes his plateful of fried sausages with onions. After paying he leaves. He founds the bike already dry on the house and leaves with it to do some recognition on the hotel surroundings. Benji is aware that he taking many risks by doing that. But if he doesn't do anything it might be worse. And since they are somehow tracking him being in one place too long is not a smart choice. Besides stay waiting for them making the first move might get him killed.
Two hours later Benji is on a dental material store near of his hideout. Actually is also near of his own apartment and his grandmother's too. He is buying more resin and few more items there. And he hasn't said why to Satsuki. After paying for it Benji leaves the store he is riding on his bike when someone calls him.
"Benji why you weren't on the class yesterday?" she asks holding on his left arm. "Sister Emi?" Benji asks shocked. "What you are doing here?" "I am buying some teeth to make a provisory. Now answer me." She replies. Emi is wearing a plain black dress, a nun clothes. Her brown hair is partially covered by her veil. Benji was about give an excuse when seeing a black SUV getting closer and lowering the black windows. Benji grabs Emi and sits her in front of himself and speeds off barely avoiding a spray of bullets. She let out a scared cry and holds tight on him.
Benji extra careful to not make her fall Benji enters on a street where is very hard for cars maneuver on it. Escaping thanks to the location Benji drives away. But another SUV appears. Benji keeps moving to escape from them. Emi adjusts to movements to not fall. She doesn't know why he is being chased, but she knows that is the reason because he wasn't on the school.
Thanks the time of the day there isn't a heavy traffic on the streets. Bad for Benji since means less obstacles between himself and the SUV. Benji leaves the city moving to the street of the airport of Vitória. A huge three kilometers straight road. Emi cries out of surprise when Benji speeds up more, getting more distance between them and the SUV. With two hundred meters between themselves and the car Benji makes a full turn.
Emi shrieks in fear clutching on Benji for her life. The tires burn on the asphalt. Benji speeds up and goes straight to the SUV.
"Hold the gear and keep it straight." Benji says to Emi who obeys hesitating. Benji gets up lifting himself only by standing on the feet rest of the bike. Emi is even more shocked by that but tries hard to keep things still. She knows that if he falls she will die. Benji draws his sniper rifle. Changing the fire more to semi-auto Benji fires two sets of three shots on the car hood.
The heated engine block ignites all the fuel and oils that came in contact with it. The hood explodes. Benji sits back and shoves the rifle on the holder and accidentally smacks Emi butt with his hand. He holds the gear over her smaller hands and makes another inversion and moves now with the flow. The car explodes as the fire reaches the fuel tank. Leaving the airport road Benji moves to the right to return to Vitória by another road, now in a gentler speed.
Few minutes later Benji enters on his hide out with Emi. The nun who was frozen on the seat since the moment that she noticed that Benji was tossing them against the car doesn't react. Benji places the blanket on a covered and protected corner and gently sits her there. "I will get something to help you calm down and something for you to eat." Benji says in a gently tone before leaving the abandoned house.
Half hour later Benji arrives holding two plastic bags. He founds Emi looking around his bag with one of his spare trousers on. "What you are doing Emi?" Benji asks confused in seeing her half dressed in casual clothes and a nun outfit. She smiles at her. "I am changing my clothes." She replies. "Mind in explaining why?" he asks. "Sometimes you can get so dense Benji. You are running away from those people on black cars. And you saved be from being hit from stray bullets and carried me halfway thru the town. Until then everything was normal. But instead of leaving me in a bus or cab stop you took me to you hideout." Emi says in a gentle tone
Benji smacks his forehead with his free hand and passes his hand by his face. In a traditional gesture that says. "Why I haven't thought in that before?" Emi walks closer of him. "And think that was sweet since you thought that now that those people know that you protect me and think that I am connected to you, they might use me to get you. So you brought me here to protect me from them." Emi says giving him a light kiss on the cheek.
"Thank you for saving me." She picks the bags from him.
Benji let her take the goods. "I think that you can still return if you want to." Benji says to her. She sits over the folded blanket. Opening the bags. She nods sideways. "No. By the way I am quite impressed with you. When you left me alone here, I could have called the police, or ran away with your weapon and you even left your cell phone behind. You trust me that much?" she asks placing a lunch box over her lap and getting the plastic fork and knife to eat it as well a bottle of water.
Benji moves to his bag and pulls a shirt. "I was more worried about your state then." Benji says handing the shirt to her. "And if you did one of those two I would have just ran away again." She tilts her head to the side, but accepts the shirt. "I think different." She replies draping the shirt over her shoulders. "Want some?" she asks offering to him her meal. "No thanks." Benji replies picking few cereal bars and a piece of salami.
She looks to his meal. "You are eating that?" she asks. "Tasty and nutritious with out being heavy to carry." Benji replies. "On the run I can only have what I can carry on my bike and on my bags." Emi is honestly surprised. She never thought that Benji could actually think in ways of run away from people. Much less kill as he did. In the last forty five minutes she founded much about him. Things that she wouldn't mind not founding.
(It is all right Satsuki. I can deal with this.) Emi hears Benji saying to someone in Japanese. Not that she understand it anyway. Before she thought in him as crazy she noticed the headset. "A cell phone." She whispers seeing it. Benji continues to talk with Satsuki. Emi finishes her meal and water. She puts the shirt over her robes and removes her veil.
"I never thought that you hair was long." Benji says seeing the woman now loose long hair. "It happens all the time." She replies. "They might be seeking for a nun. Not a woman in casual clothes." Benji nods. She figured that quite quickly. "By the way why you bought so much resin, plaster, alginate, resin isolating, a hand whip engine, drills and silicon?" she asks showing him his filled small bag pack.
Wanting or not Benji had involved her too deep on this run. "I am going to make some weapons for me. Since resin is strong as hell and it is undetectable by metal detectors I can make few things." Benji replies. "But you can't make a pistol with it. The resin isn't strong enough." Emi says. "I never said firearms." Benji says picking the bag. He enters on the kitchen and Emi follows taking Benji rifle. She wasn't going to leave as it was to anyone just take it.
She mutters about the weight of the weapon. Benji turns on a lamp on the dark kitchen. "I stole energy from the bar next door to here." Benji explains the reason about the light. She sees a large pan, two buckets and a large bow and a large spatula. Looking to another part of the kitchen she sees two large water bottles used on machines that are placed on receptions of offices.
Benji empties his bag over an old table and mix some of the alginate on the bowl. He pouts it one of the buckets and rising his sleeves he sunk his arms until the elbow on the very viscous material. After two minutes Benji removes his arms from it and mix the plaster. Then Emi understood. He would make some kind of armor with the resin. The plaster and the alginate were to create replicas of Benji arms and other body parts that he will cover with the armor. She picks the large pan and fills with water. She sees an electric oven and turns it one and places the pan there. As the plaster hardens and the water boils Benji picks many metal bottle caps.
"We will fill those with the thermo-activated resin and press them." Benji explain while they remove the rubber from inside the caps. "I will make a scale mail with it." Emi nods understanding. They work in silence for a while. "You know why they are trying to kill you?" Emi asks.
Benji nods his head sideways. "No. One night a sniper trying to kill me and I killed him first. After that I got suspicious that someone was trying to kill me. But I don't know why." Benji says to her. Emi have an idea of when Benji was first attacked. They night falls and they continue to work. While Emi mixes the resin and fill the caps with it Benji is fixating a one centimeter thick layer of red dental wax on the plaster hands.
Emi watches with curiosity. She also played a bit with the resin. She once made a key chain with her name written on resin. But she never saw someone doing something that big before. She notices that on the wrist Benji leaves a space free of wax. So the armor will have mobility there.
Using a spray and a lighter Benji smoothens the wax. He does the same with the other hand and he mixes the two phases silicon and covers the hands with it. When it hardens Benji picks a wood box and mixing more plaster he places the hands on a plaster bedding. He lets it harden and passes the resin isolation on the plaster.
He cuts the silicon on the length of the arms and fingers. And pours more plaster on it. He places a plank over the wet plaster and stands over the plank, with his weight pressing down the plaster. He stays there for one hour, while Emi using a hand press presses the caps one on the other and place them on the water to polymerization take place. When Benji leaves the top of the box Emi removed the caps from the hot water. Using heat proof gloves she removes them from the press. And Benji aids her to removing the half centimeter thick resin disks from the caps.
Benji ties the box tightly and puts it on the fire too. Tired Emi falls on sleep. Benji covers her with his lab coat and moves to the window with the rifle. Half hour later Benji removes the box from the water and opens it. The mold is now free of wax. Benji turns off the oven and sleeps by the window.
September seventh 20XX Location unknown
Shizue followed the entire process with curiosity while munching a bag of rice chips with a can of iced coffee to wash it down. She is not entire convinced about the idea of making weapons with that resin. After all she doesn't know how strong it is. Besides those armors will be useless against machine guns. She swallows hard when she finally figured out what Benji is planning. She coughs hard when the chips scratched her throat and gulps down the remaining half can of soda.
"He is wanting to fight hand to hand and melee with them!" she shouts a bit hoarse. She can understand why he wants that. But she knows that is insane.
September eighth 20XX Vitória
Benji wakes and after his morning needs he looks around for Emi. A bit worried that she ran away and got caught Benji is about to leave when he sees Emi entering on the house. "Woke already?" she asks. "I was going to prepare the breakfast before you could wake." "Where you was?" Benji asks. "I was on the market on the next block. You can't just eat crackers, mariola, salami and cereal bars. It is not healthy. And since we are still making those armors that you want to we will stay here for a while. So you can eat normal food." She says with a smile. But Benji can feel the very well hidden forcefulness on her voice. "I took some of the money that was on your bag. Two hundred reais." She says. Benji nods. It wasn't much comparing to the amount that he had.
Benji moves to the kitchen after barricading the door. Emi follows and while Benji tosses a thick layer of wax on a large empty paint can she pulls a frying pan from one of the shopping bags and places on the oven. Benji moves to another room to polish the resin disks with a sand paper using the whip engine and a drill especially for that use. Half hour later Emi calls Benji to breakfast. The writer dusts himself and moves to eat.
"We need to found a place to bath." Emi says while Benji eats a sandwich with a fried egg and bacon, with some salad. "I was using the shower room of the gym of the UFES." Benji says. He is aware that he doesn't smell all that well after a day of chases and a night working with heat. "That is good. I am feeling uncomfortable with myself." She says eating a sandwich too. "But a closer place would be good."
"There isn't any close place where we can bath here." Benji says sipping some tea. "Unless that you want bath on those open air cold showers of the beach." Benji knows that those are only used by swimmers to remove the salt water from they bodies. Emi denies. After the breakfast Benji and Emi moves to the Wall-mart where she buys few clothes for herself and a pair of towels for both of them. One hour later they are back on the house working again.
Emi is making more disks while Benji is making more resin and applying on the molds and pressing it until he is satisfied. Pressing the molds and tying it he places on the water to polymerize the resin. Emi places another batch of one hundred caps on the water to boil with the box.
"We will need more resin." She says to Benji. "I will buy more." Benji says. "No. I go." She replies. "You are the target. And they aren't looking for a woman. I will not call attention. Besides the dental shop is just two blocks away." She pulls five bills of one hundred reais and leave. Benji sighs but allow her to go. Half hour later Emi is back with five kilos of transparent resin powder and five liters of liquid.
"It was cheaper than I thought. They gave a huge discount since I bought so much." She says with a smile, placing the bags on the table. "Here the change." She says pulling two one hundred bills and one of fifty reais. "Keep it." Benji says "If you go out again you might need it." Benji hands to her one thousand reais. Emi nods placing the money on her pocket.
"I think that we need to buy fabric and a resistant thread." Benji says. "So we can link the disks to make the armor." Emi nods. "I will go get them. There is a store specialized in sewing near here." Emi says. Benji nods. "Take care." Benji says before she leaves. She smiles and moves away.
Benji removes the box and the caps from the water. After removing the disks from the caps Benji opens the mold and picks the left hand armor. There is two pieces. One smaller that covers the back of the hand and the knuckles and a larger one that covers the forearm. After placing more caps on the water Benji picks a drill and cuts the larger piece on the half on the lengthwise and drill four holes on the upper wrist area. He also drills smaller one on the wrist and on the knuckles.
He repeats the process with the other one. Emi returns and sees Benji working on the right hand armor. She picks the left one and exams it closely. It was crystal transparent. The back of the hand was plain taking out on the index finger where was an elevation. She puts it on. Taking that it is loose on her arm she understand why the elevation on the armor. To move his index finger easier to pull the trigger.
Hearing few instructions from Benji, Emi begins to link the disks. The thinner part of the disk was to be joined with the thicker part of the upper disk. She passes the thread by the holes with a needle. On each ring she ties a knot to firm them well. In the end of the day Benji is test fitting the armors on his arms. With resin covering until the second joint of his fingers. Benji nods at his work. On the wrist joint there is many smalls resin bars linked together by the thread. It is firm enough to sustain blows but malleable. The knuckles are holding the fingers using a hole on the sides and a pin on the outer sides of the finger joint and some thread. The armor doesn't make any noise when moving. And thanks to a layer of cotton fabric on the inner part it doesn't annoy the user.
Emi smiles seeing the resin gauntlets working well. She is rather amused by the success of the entire idea. The design is simple but a bit complex when building. And now the gauntlet isn't crystal transparent as it was when removed from the mold. But a dull and misty white thanks to a rough application of a sand paper with the single purpose of removing the resin shine.
She is happy because her own share of the job is moving well. She linked together a square of twenty two scales. It is not enough to cover Benji abdomen but it is going well. Benji now helps her with the scale linking process until they fall on sleep. This time Emi lay besides Benji while he watched the window with his rifle near him.
September ninth 20XX Vitória
After waking and doing a now usual morning routine of going to UFES and bath the duo returns to the house. Emi is now using Benji and a t-shirt of him to test fit what they already got. They got enough to cover his abdomen and lower chest. Benji leaves to buy more resin while Emi continues to link them.
Benji returns with ten kilos of resin. Benji explains an idea that he had during the night. Emi agrees. After making more scales and placing them to boil Benji moves to his idea. With some work with the wax and plaster Benji has a new mold that he fills with resin and places on the hot water. Then he goes help Emi again. Three hours later after another test for the mail Benji removes the mold from the water. He opens it revealing a transparent slim sword.
Emi smiles seeing the sword. She is aware that resin can be very, very sharp. Benji works on it for a while. The transparent weapon is tested on a piece of salami and it cuts easily. After cleaned and polished Emi hands to Benji a sheath for it made of auto-polymerizing resin. Benji takes it and wraps some fabric on the hilt. Of the sword and places it on the bike. He also makes two combat knifes with the resin and gives one to Emi who hesitated to agree in taking. But his concern over her safety convinced her.
When the night fell the mail was ready, sewed on the t-shirt and tested by Benji. They sleep near of the other once again.
September tenth 20XX Vitória
Benji wakes before Emi and deal with the breakfast. After using the last bit of resin to make a brass knuckles Benji dumps the containers away. Emi wakes and agrees with Benji on leaving the house. Three days in the same location was too much. And someone must have noticed them entering and leaving the house or the sound of the whip engine. Are cutting the electricity wire and cleaning the place a bit they leave. Missing being caught by Ringo just by two minutes of difference.
In the house Ringo curses loudly. She saw all the trash that Benji left behind. She knows that was him. She moves to station to think a bit. On her desk Ringo is resting her upper half on the desk. Her car keys on her hand and she is playing a bit with the key chain. She got a report of a fire fight near of a dental store. It was followed by the report of a car explosion on the airport street.
She knew that Benji found a way to destroy a second SUV. She questioned the workers of that store just to found that Benji bought loads of material there. That is what is confusing her. "What good would do to him buy material when chased. He is not going to the school." She thinks. She found dozes of containers of resin on the empty house.
She sighs and looks to her key chain. It is a resin chain, made of blue links with five links. Each of the links with one letter of her name buried deep on the link in a black color. She sighs at it. "Damn Benji what you are doing?" she whispers recalling that the chain was a gift from Benji.
"Don't worry Ringo. This chain is made out of thermo resin. And it was pressed while polymerizing. This stuff is really strong. It won't break easily. I once made a brass knuckled with it for fun. And punched a wall until it broke. Trust me it was hard to break." She can hear Benji words when he gave it to her. She recalled very well that she complained because her key chain broke. And on the other day Benji appeared with a hand made one for her. Then understanding fills her mind and shows on her face. "You are arming yourself!" she whispers. "That explains the broken plaster and chopped silicon there. You molded something."
She leaves the station and visits the dental stores near of the house just to found that two people bought large amounts of resin. A man, that was Benji and a woman who was unidentified. Then Ringo frowned. Or it was a huge coincidence or Benji got a helper. Dismissing the first she moves to investigate the second. She watches the store security tapes again. And sees Benji grabbing a woman and saving her from being shot. After sometime she manages to get a blurred image of her. She can't make the woman face but her clothes.
"A nun?" she says recognizing the clothes. "What a nun would be doing on a dental shop?" she thinks a bit and remembers of Emi. "Emi is helping Benji? That explain what a nun was doing there. She is the only one that we know that is taking that course." Unsure if she is right or not she decides to investigate.
Far from there Benji and Emi are eating on the restaurant on UFES the nun agreed that was a good place to hide with the crowd with out risking the others. They discuss a bit trying to found another place to hide. Emi recalls of a construction site near of the Beira Mar Avenue that was abandoned for months. The building there was almost done. But the elevators, electricity and water weren't done.
Benji considers it. Electricity can be stolen from a near power line. Elevators won't be used since they will stay on the ground level. Water was a problem. Emi knew that too. There weren't toilets on the bathrooms or sewers working. For Benji that is a minor inconvenience. But for her is a worse one.
Benji considers in using an empty depot by the downtown. At least those have working toilets and water. But breaking in an empty depot is a crime. Entering on abandoned sites wasn't such a bad crime. Then Emi recalls of something and pulls Benji away. In Jardim Camburi Emi shows an empty convent.
"It was scheduled for being demolished." She says. "But since there were protests against it the date was indefinitely postponed. There is working waterlines and toilets. The power can be turned on." Benji nods hearing her explanation. The enter by a secondary road and enter on the convent by the back door. They do a quick check on the convent. It is empty. With a small cleaning it is ready to be a shelter for sometime.
Sited in a bench near of the altar Emi sees Benji doing something that she never saw before, counting bullets that he have. "Six magazines with thirteen bullets each. Seventy eight bullets." He mutters counting the full magazines. He ejects the one on the pistol. "Six bullets. Five on the clip, one on the barrel. Eighty four bullets."
He picks the rifle and eject the magazine. "Six, seven with the one on the barrel." Benji says reloading. "Two twenty rounds magazines full. Forty seven." "It doesn't look good, does it?" Emi asks. Benji nods his head sideways. "I can't count on luck anymore." Benji says. "I am no longer alone on this. Luck is no longer a factor to be pushed."
Emi blushes with his words of concern. "So you aren't betting that you can explode a SUV with six shots anymore." She says. Benji nods. "The glass is armored. But to reach the driver it would need about six shots. In a close range using the rifle. The pistol is out of the game against a SUV." Benji says.
She sits besides him and holds the pistol. "So to fight them you need to take them out of the cars?" she asks ejecting the magazine and pulling the slide back ejecting the bullet there. "Yes." Benji replies. Emi loads the bullet on the magazine and loads the magazine on the pistol. "So we need to make them leave the cars. But in a situation that they can't kill you or shot innocents." Benji nods after her words.
Emi releases the slide loading the pistol and locking it. "Then I have an idea that might work." She says to him. For a moment Benji saw a experienced fighter, not a nun in front of him.
End of the chapter seven:
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.