Five:The Hit List
"Grandmother, I do not agree to this uncalled arranged marriage." Shizuru said to Shizuka the moment the elder Fujino brought up her talk with Minagi Jijirou, an old friend of hers.
"Ara, ara, you're not getting any younger and I think it's time for you to settle down. Plus Jijirou told me that his granddaughter saw you once and wanted to wed you, my dear girl. Give the other girl a chance, you never know…" Shizuka trailed off not wanting to give away too much when she's having more fun seeing her granddaughter squirm uncomfortably at the thought of an arranged marriage.
"Pardon me; I would like to just get some sleep if possible." Shizuru said as she stood up, feeling a headache coming as well as tears of pain and anger threatens her eyes.
She tossed and turned but couldn't sleep, not when she decided not to take her medicine to help her sleep. She looked at the clock, it's so very early in the morning but she couldn't sleep so she decided to come down to the kitchen to some tea. To her surprises, Nao was sitting at the table in the kitchen working on her laptop but Shiho was nowhere in sight. Shizuru found it odd when the two always seemed to be together most of the time.
"Yo, heard someone wanna marry you." Nao said the moment she noticed Shizuru's presence.
"Ara, ara, bad news travel fast…" Shizuru sighed as she sat down across from the red head.
"It's not bad news, I know her. Name's Minagi Miki and I bumped into her when we boarded the flight here. We've been talking via emails, see?" Nao said showing Shizuru her laptop of her reading an email from the very person she was talking about.
"Ara, ara, I think I need to go out for some air…" Shizuru immediately changed the subject and got up.
"Yeah, me too. I need to stretch my sore muscles," Nao said slightly loudly as she stood up and followed right behind Shizuru.
The moment they left the kitchen, a maid entered and circled around the table; she studied the laptop and jotted down something before she quickly left. She headed towards the front yard and towards the limo, handed a piece of paper to the driver before heading back inside. None of it gone unnoticed, not when Shiho is wide awake in her secret office with Mikoto viewing all the hidden security cameras around the Fujino's Estate. It wasn't long before Mikoto noticed she got an unknown email sent to her recently created email account. She opens it and saw a video file, a file of Shizuru being deflowered by men in mask. Just watching and reading the threatening content of the email alone made Mikoto tightened her right hand into fist and flexed them again for a few minutes. Shiho saw it too and was utterly disgusted by it that an idea hit her as she took the laptop away from Mikoto to work vigorously on it to locate the real person behind that email and attached file. By the time the sun came up, Shiho hacked into the computer that the email was sent out from and integrated a program that will wipe the computer clean upon the next boot up.
"So that's two of them," Nao said over a quiet lunch.
"Yashika Yume and Kashiwa Rinta," Shiho said as she writes the names down on her little notepad.
"I'm sure they have accomplices," Mikoto said coolly, looking over at her protégé.
"Looking into it," Shiho said hacking into their phone.
"That's my girl," Mikoto said handing Shiho a sandwich she whipped up while Shiho did her hacking.
"I'll tell the others once I got a full list of those fucking bastards," Shiho said and this would be the first time Nao heard the pink hair cursed.
"For now, I'm going to see my grandfather so please keep an eye on her." Mikoto said and Shiho felt touched and proud to know that Mikoto trust her enough to depend on her with such an important task.
Mikoto left, and called up her grandfather to inform him that she's on her way to meet up with him. They sat down and talked for a bit, Jijirou surprised her granddaughter by calling for Reito to join them for brunch. The cousin shook hands rather than embrace, Mikoto decided to come out to her family with the truth instead of keeping them in the dark. Upon hearing such news, Reito asked to have a look at the video. Mikoto called up Shiho for a meet up, together the trio decided to meet up later in the afternoon as Reito says he got good software to get the measurement of the perpetrators in the video. It is more like a geek get together for them, though Mikoto isn't really the technical type she stills know it somewhat to keep up with them.
"Do you have any recorded vids of all the men that come and go from the estate?" Reito asked after he put the video his cousin got through his new software.
"Yup, I got them on separate portable hard drive based on the date and how many men come and leave the place," Shiho said as she got up and headed for her personal vault to retrieve the right hard drive.
By the fall of the evening and a few dishes of snacks later, Shiho and Reito handed a list of five names to add to the two Shiho already got for her. The trio decided to keep it on the low profile; they told both Yukino and Nao just six names after Mikoto introduced Reito to them. The four started plotting and planning, and soon they set a clever trap for each one of the five guys. Nao volunteered, even though she's not in the States anymore and no longer running with this gang going at other gangs. She still got underground friends in other parts of the world, and Japan happened to be one of them. That in turn gives the group access to guns and ammos from the black market. The first two of the five died in what seemed to be a car accident due to drunk driving. The remaining three were taken out by Nao and Reito via gun with silencer that doesn't lead back to them.
The last two were saved for Mikoto, and surely she decided to kidnap them and tortured them good. So good that it made them wished they're dead, but she refused to give them that. She put them in the very warehouse they took Shizuru to, it was there that she got men came to have a good time with either one of them for a price. All of it was recorded of course; Shiho worked her magic on blurring out the paying customers' face and deepen their voice before loading it onto an online porn site. By the time she let them go, their families were broke trying to cover up what occurred to them from leaking onto the news channels.
Shizuru knows nothing of it, but Shiho and Nao let her in on what happened to her distant cousins and all she does was shaking her head as a sign of her pity to them. It has been a good five months since she got the news of Mikoto's death, but soon she will be wed to Minagi Miki. Despite all the strange news, Shizuru still think about Mikokoto and glad to dream of the girl every night. Maybe, just maybe, even if she'd married to this Minagi Miki but her heart will eternally belong to Mikoto.
