Title: Her Hero
Author: Snoweria
Beta: aime0x (.net/u/2302610/)
Summary: Matt is a famous gang leader who had conquered Tokyo for two years now. He, along with Taichi, Jyou and Sora are pop culture icons. Besides being a gang bangers and pop culture icons, Taichi is also a soccer star, Jyou continued his career as a doctor and Sora is a fashion designer. Everyone was happy, until a criminal organization from Odaiba lead by Tachikawa Keisuke, have Matt, Jyou and Sora captured and held hostage on plane. Jyou died while they were escaping and Matt with the rest of his gang decided to take revenge and take over Odaiba. When Matt found out Keisuke had a daughter, he decided to capture her and see how far her father would go to save her. What Matt doesn't expect is that Mimi (Keisuke's daughter) seems to like him and is very willing to be his hostage.
Characters/Pairings: Matt/Mimi, Taichi/Sora
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Action, Crime.
Rated T for languages and violance.
Notes: Glad you all liked the idea of this story. Thank you so much for the reviews! and once again, sorry about the grammar. I would appreciate it if any of you could help me beta. I re read chapter one and realized I made lots of mistakes and I've gone through them (again and again) and corrected the mistakes I noticed I made (like missing letters, spellings, missing sentences etc, etc...) Anyway, about chapter two (this chap), (spoiler)you'll get to know more about 'bad ass' Matt and you'll get to know his cruel side. I dropped in the 'trivia' section at the end of this chapter, if you want to know more about the characters in this story, read them ;)
This chapter had been updated in beta-ed version
Chapter 2
Tachikawa's captive turned out to be Izumi Koushirou, the same Izumi Koushirou Sora knew. When Sora found out that it was him, she was very pleased and excited to see him again. The two shared a hug, while on the other hand, Taichi was experiencing a foul mood and appeared to be scowling like a kid who just lost his toy.
"Thanks for letting me out of those ropes..." Koushirou shivers, "..and the dirty sock."
"What dirty sock?" Matt questioned.
"The one your boys kindly took out from my mouth."
"Eeeww!" Tai grimaced, "Too bad Sora."
"What is that suppose to mean?"said Sora with a frown.
Matt cleared his throat and said, "Stop you two!" then looking back at Koushiro, he asked, "So, why did they captured you?"
Koushirou let out a sigh, "I refused to give them the chemical formula I falsely made."
"What sort of chemical? And why would they want it if it's false?" Sora asked, puzzled.
"It was a silly experiment I did a month ago, to see if I could create a medicine to cure cancer...I tested it on rats and it went wrong..." Koushirou sounded scared, not wanting to remember it.
"How so?" asked Matt, slightly interested.
"The… rats well became zombies." Koushirou answered, looking very serious.
"A what?" Tai cried.
"You created zombie rats?" said Sora, freaking out.
"So? What did Keisuke want with the chemical? Create and command a horde of human zombies or rat zombies?" asked Matt impatient.
"Human zombies," cried Koushirou, "See, not only could the chemical damage any kind of living brain, it could also bring the dead alive." Koushirou said gulping, "Somehow, one of my collagues had found out about my experiment and got me kicked out from my job." he paused, "I dont even know how Keisuke knew about my experiment. He came to me and insisted that I work under him and make more of those chemicals for him, which I did indeed refuse, and that's how I ended up being a captive."
"Do you still have the chemicals? And also the formula with you? Or have you destroyed them?" asked Matt urgently.
"I destoryed them of course, but I lost the formula back when I was still in CBRC. I suspect that, that colleague of mine who got me fired stole it from me."
Nb: CBRC is Computational Biology Research Center a research center of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Odaiba.
"Shit, this is bad!" Matt muttered.
"Like you said, Keisuke wanted the formula so he could create a horde of zombies to fight for him and his organization, to go against everyone in his way, including the military," Koushirou stopped for a minute, wondering whether to continue or not. He decided to continue. "Including you."
"We need to find that colleague of yours. Do you know where he is?"
"I know where he lives," said Koushirou, "It's somewhere near the CBRC. Do you have GPS on your phone? I could locate him on your cell and set anti detector on it."
"Sure..." Matt said, slowly handing the red head his phone. "Just don't get into my personal stuff."
"Oh..What kind of personal stuff Matt? Care to elaborate?" teased Tai, looking extremely curious.
Matt sneered at his nosy friend, "Mind your own business."
"I already know everything about you. Including you and you." Koushirou said refering to Matt, Tai and Sora, which left them with their jaws hung wide open, "Everyone does."
"What?" the three of them cried in unison.
"Each and every one of you, has your business all over the internet." Koushirou grinned as he was tapping his fingers, doing magic ,on Matt's phone, "I know your real name, Matt. It's Ishida Yamato. Your parents are divorced and you have one younger brother. You left home when you were 12. You killed your brother's cat when you were just 6, and you also dated Sora here for about a year until just last year. You have too been sent to jail 12 times since you were 10. You had killed a total number of a hundred and thirty seven police officers four years ago and you have been sent to death row twice and you have managed to escape with the help of your crews and bribes. Correct me if I'm mistaken." he spoke really fast.
"Fuck, how did you know all that?"
"He's like a machine." said Tai sheepishly, while Sora just nodded in agreement.
"Internet. Like I said, internet. When you are a celebrity, which you are, absolutely everything about you is on the internet. When was the last time any of you three even browsed the internet or even looked at a computer?" asked Koushirou earnestly.
"Let's be clear here, Izumi. If you research on me again I'll cut your hands off." Matt threatened.
"Sorry Matt, I already knew everything." He said calmly, as he continued with Matt's phone."I even know what's in the video you have in your phone, long... before I met you."
Matt slapped his face with his palm.
"What, video. . ?" asked Tai, looking overly curious at Koushirou.
"It's..."
"Dont you dare tell him Izumi!" Matt sent Koushirou his death glare.
"So Kou-chan, what do you know about Taichi?" asked Sora, eager to know.
"N-" before Tai could protest, both Sora and Matt covered his mouth and held him down.
Koushirou chuckled, "I assume you all knew his real name and his background. He and Sora joined your gang seven years ago and you guys have been busting each other out of prison ever since. They also found several photographs of Sora in his phone, some of it shows Sora's in zero percent thread."
"Noooo!" Tai yelled as he finally managed to free himself from Sora and Matt.
"What?" Sora cried, as she turned to face Tai and began strangling him, "Show me asshole!"
"Here... Done." said Koushirou, handing Matt the phone. "Now no one could track or dig out any information from your phone. Check your GPS, I have put my ex colleague's address in it for you to go to."
"Well thanks, but no thanks for violating my personal life and information."
"You are very welcome." Koushirou smiled.
Matt stood up from his seat and grabbed Tai (who was trying to hide his phone from Sora), before he walked any further, he looked back at Koushirou, "Hey Izumi."
"Yea?"
"You want to join our gang?" Matt asked him with a smile.
Koushiro chuckled, " Horrible idea." then grinned, "But then again, I'm in."
It was dark around the neighborhood. There were a few street lights, but the one that was standing near the destinated house was appeared to be broken, the street lights that were working were far down the street. The house appeared to be empty at that moment in time, since none of the lights in the house were on. It was almost pitch black as in you can't even see the whole figure of the house.
Tai and Matt had stolen a new car, which was a black BMW from the penthouse's garage. The two parked the car a little further from their destination; to prevent the owner from noticing that someone had broke into his house before he came back later. The two stepped out from the car and made their way towards the house and through the garden.
"Fuck this, I cant see a thing!" cried Tai who stumbled on a brick and almost fell to the ground.
"Less bitching, get moving." said Matt with a serious tone.
Matt made his way to the front door, which seemed to be the only entrance into the one story house. He tried turning the rusty handle and as expected..."It's locked. Help me kick it open."
The two quickly kicked the door open and walked into the house uninvited. The house was dark and smelled like chicken corpse and garbage, which made Matt and Tai wrinkle their nose in disgust. "This place smells like my granpa's feet," said Tai. "...and I think I just stepped on something... dead and fuzzy. I suggest you turn on the light Matt."
"Stop nagging will you? We can't turn on the lights, If we do that, the first thing he'll do before he gets in here, is run. Plus, I don't even know where the switch is and I dont want to risk touching something weird while searching for it," said Matt, "just, use your phone light."
The two took out their phones. Matt started scanning the room with his phone's screen light. The room was filled with filth. Cockroaches were crawling around the house and seemed to be nesting in one of the kitchen's cabinet. Dirty clothes, along with pizza boxes were all over the floor and the old green sofa, some shirts were hanging on top of the fan and television. The place looked worst than Tai's hook up dead grandpa's apartment.
"Why didn't we think of flashlight?" Tai flashed his phone's screen to his shoes and to where he stepped on the fuzzy thing. "Ugghh, I just stepped on a dead mouse."
"Shhh! I heard something." hushed Matt with his whispery voice.
There was a sound of a car engine approaching and soon, the sound stopped in front of the house. Matt peeked through the window and saw what he assumed was the man he was looking for, the owner of the house. "He's here. Get ready."
Matt and Tai hid themselves next to the door (which they managed to quietly close before the owner of the house could see that his front door was open), holding up their pistols as they waited.
As their victim stepped into the house, Matt quickly human shield him from behind and jabbed his silver pistol on his victim's temple.
"W-who are you? W-what do you want?"
Matt could feel his captive quivering in fear, and he just loved it whenever his victims displayed their act of fear. They fear him. No matter how many he had killed, he would always have this tingling sensation and excitement of having to kill someone and their fear just multipled his excitement. He was in fact a bloodthirsty man and was known so. Some even called him a psychotic killer, the butcher.
"Where is the formula?" Matt hissed in his victim's ear with a threatening tone. He almost couldn't hold himself from not killing him before they could get any information they wanted.
"Wh-what formula?"
"The zombie formula!" Matt barked at him.
"If I tell you where it is, Tachikawa is going to cut me off!" the captive cried, still able to argue and struggle with that amount of fear. I'm going to enjoy killing him.
"If you dont tell, I'm cutting you off! So, where is the formula?" he will cut him off alright, tell or no tell. This technique of threatening always worked out well.
"I-I left it in the Tachikawa's lab where I usually working on it."
"And where is this lab?" this time, Tai was the one to threatened and was pressing the tip of his black pistol on the captive's forehead.
"I-it's somewhere underground, u-under the Tachikawa plantation building." the man gulped, fearing his life.
"Are you the only one working on this project?" Matt growled.
"N-no… there are two others."
"Tai! Call Izumi and ask him if he can locate this underground lab." Matt ordered as he jabbed his pistol's head harder on his captive's temple, " I assume you remember Izumi huh?"
"Y-yes! He was the one who came up with the formula. I-I've told you what you asked for, so please let me go!"
"Sorry dude, not until I make sure you are telling the truth." Matt lied.
"I am, I swear!"
After a few short moments, Tai came back into the house, "He knows. He managed to track down the place right from his computer." he informed Matt.
Matt smirked, "Right." and with a dark chuckle,
Bang.
He shot the captive straight in the temple and the man died instantly.
"So, did you get any useful information regarding the underground lab?"
Koushirou shrugged casually, "All you have to do is barge into the place, kill everyone inside and destroy the formula. I will handle all the security system for you. But before that I have one suggestion."
"Pray tell."
"I suggest that you kidnap and bring someone important to Tachikawa Keisuke with you.." said Koushirou, "...to the lab."
"And who could that be? His wife?"
Koushirou grinned widely, "No, his wife died over ten years ago. Someone more important to him, his daughter. Trust me on this, if her kidnapper is you, she will come along willingly without you having to drug or drag her. Plus, none of Keisuke's thugs would dare to attack you, if you have the girl hanging around you."
Matt raised a brow, looking slightly puzzled, "Care to explain why she would come willingly?"
"You'll learn, as soon as you meet her in person." Koushirou said as he turned his laptop for Matt to see, "This is her."
An image of a beautiful young lady with long chestnut brown hair, was layed big enough on the screen for Matt to notice how beautiful her soft caramel eyes were. In the picture, she was wearing a short red dress, which seemed to be a formal and she was also wearing a sweet innocent smile on her face.
Just the photograph of the girl had left Matt speechless and lost in his thought. She was absolutely gorgeous.
"Tachikawa Mimi." Koushirou said.
Matt blinked his eyes and shook his head a little as he was caught by surprise, "What?" he stuttered.
"Her name. Tachikawa Mimi. And I can tell you are interested in her." teased Koushirou, smirking. He completely read Matt's mind. Damn
Matt's face turned slightly red and quickly look away from Koushirou "Hell no! She's the daughter of the man who killed one of my best friend and we are going to put her to good use." Obvious, yet reasonable excuse, true, but Matt could tell, Koushiro did not buy it.
"Well, I have to tell you. Her personality is the exact opposite of her father's."
Matt raised a brow, "How so?"
"Come on! Can't you tell, just by looking at her photograph? She's sweet, charming, innocent, ditzy and loving. She never know what her father does. All she does and cares are doing girly stuff like shopping, hanging out with her girl friend, sleep over, pedicure, menicure, singing lesson, mod..."
"Hold up man, you sounded really creepy. Have you stalked her or something?"
"No. Like I said in your case. Her information..."
Matt cutted him off, "..was all over the internet. Got it. I've just copied and pasted that into my mind."
"Wow, you know how to copy and paste?" said Koushirou, looking slightly surprised.
"I'm no idiot Izumi." Matt said, narrowing his eyes. "So, where can I get this girl?"
Koushirou frowned, "She could be anywhere girly right now, and I could easily track her down through her phone, but..." he trailed off.
"But what?" Matt urged.
"She has bodyguards with her, and they are no ordinary guards. Keisuke has her securely protected."
"You know me, I could easily take them down, grab her and we leave."
"I'm not sure you could handle those guards physically Matt."
"And why the fuck not?" Matt questioned, raising his tone a little, slightly irritated with Koushiro's remark.
"Like I said, those guards are no ordinary guards. They are like ninjas, really fast and professional. I dont even know how many guards she has with her. Some might be at sight and some might not. You need plans."
"Ninjas huh? I can deal with that." said Matt.
"Dont get too cocky Matt. You dont know what they are capable of." Sora pointed out as she walked into the living room with Tai, "Kou-chan is right."
"And what the hell do you know Sora?"
"I've discussed this with him, before you guys came back." Sora said pointing at Koushirou who nodded, " We have everything planned out."
"So, you two weren't spending some quality time together?"asked Tai spontaneously without thinking.
"What?" Sora made a face at Tai's assumption.
"Nothing!" Tai shook his head,"So, what do you suggest we do?" he asked, quickly changing the topic.
Ignoring Tai's silly remark, she said "Okay, here's what we'll do." and sat next to Koushirou, "Show him the model."
Koushirou quickly clicked on several buttons on his computer and show them a model of a mansion.
"What the hell is this? We dont have time for the sims right now!" Tai carped.
"This aint the sims idiot! This is a model of the girl's private mansion." Sora pointed out, "Anyway... We'll wait until the girl gets home from her singing lesson, make a move when it's dark, Tai is going to pretend to be a scared thief who appear to have lost his way in the mansion, after stealing something near the girl's room."
"The hell you say? I aint gonna be the thief, girl."
"Shhhh!" Matt hushed Tai and have his attention back to Sora,"Then?"
"So, Tai will later get himself cornered by the bodyguards and he will pretend to cry like a little bitch..."
"Hey!"
Ignoring Tai, Sora moved on, "...and while the guards are distracted, I'll take my chance to sneak into the basement here," she pointed at the basement location in the mansion on Koushiro's computer, "...to cut the power. And Matt has less than a minute to get into the girl's room and ..."
"Hold up Sor! I love the graphics here...they are awesome.." Matt said as he pointed at the mansion model, "..but how about we just walked into the mansion and shoot all the motherfuckers who gets in our way?"
"Oh God!" Sora rolled her eyes," Not the 'kill everyone we see in sight' plan again."
"I agree with Matt. It'll be more fun and faster that way." said Tai.
"But you know what will be faster Tai?" Matt grinned at Tai, "I'll say we bring rocket launchers with us."
"What? Are you insane?" cried Sora.
"Boss, that is the most awesome plan you've come up with in years!" Tai said, bumping his fist with Matt's.
to be continued
And yes, Tai keep Sora's naked pictures on his phone. He was being creepy, those pictures were taken secretly.
There's chapter 2. I hope I didnt dissapoint you. ;) remember to r&r
Trivia:
- Matt, Tai and Sora are 25 years old.
- Koushirou is 23 years old.
- Koushirou was Sora's childhood friend and they met when Sora was 7. Koushiro was Sora's mother's best friend son.
- Matt, Tai and Sora had been friends since they first met 7 years ago. Three of them met in prison and busted out together.
- 7 years ago, Matt was arrested for blowing up a police station in Tokyo.
- 7 years ago, Tai was arrested for murder.
- 7 years ago, Sora was arrested for drug trafficking.
- Matt dated Sora for a year and broke up because the two's getting further apart.
- Tai had a crush on Sora since they first met and Tai kept his feelings for 7 years.
- Matt, Tai, Sora, Koushirou are single.
- Matt almost killed his father, which was why he left home.
- Tai's parents died on a car accident 9 years ago. He sent her sister to an orphanage and haven't seen her since.
- Sora had a huge fight with her (single) mom when she was 16 and she moved out since.
- Matt, Tai and Sora met Joe 5 years ago, and had became best friends for 4 years now. They met in the hospital.
- Joe joined Matt four years ago, to take revenge on his dead brother (who was killed by another gang).
- Matt's gang operation had been running for 7 years, since he met Tai and Sora. The three decided on the leader (Matt) by the number of crimes they have committed. The gang was famous for 2 years now.
- The gang have their own brand of clothing line (Sora is the designer) and bar.
- Matt's not only a gang leader, but also a famous singer in Tokyo. (He became a singer last year.)
- Matt, Sora and Tai were on commercials.
- The gang color is dark blue.
- Tai return to playing soccer just eight months ago.
- Matt and the gang were able to survive in Tokyo because they bribed and payed every month.
- Matt keeps porn (mostly his own) in his phone. You can find Sora on one of the video too.
(trivia on Mimi next chapter.)