Disclaimer: Nuramago belongs to Shiibashi-sensei

Warning: AU, violence, language, oOC-ness, possible mistypes and grammar errors, etc…

A/N: Yaaah, sorry for the late update. I actually wanted to update yesterday, but I got flu and got really dizzy to check the chapter (still dizzy now). Anyway, now this chapter is up and I hope you will enjoy reading it ^_^ *sneezes* Oh, almost forgot this. I also installed another story for Yakuza Brothers Series, if you haven't noticed. It's called 'Summer 'Love' Festival' telling you the first time Zen and Shouhei met Rikuo and proceeded to fall for him as well *grins*

Chapter 13: Counter Attack! Nura Gumi versus Inugamigyoubu 'Tanuki' Gumi

"Oh, this is ridiculous!" Rikuo complained. "Why should I be tied and locked up like this? Haven't I told you that I'm not the enemy, here?" the chocolate haired boy said as one of his hands was cuffed and the other end of the long chained cuff was clipped on a bed-post by Inukami.

"Shut it, evil manipulative brat. It's Tamazuki's order," Inukami growled at Rikuo as he finished putting on the cuff.

"I don't want to be told that by you!" Rikuo spat back in annoyance. "Moreover, don't you know that Tamazuki is a manipulative bastard too? You're being used by him!"

"What are you saying? Of course I know that," Inukami said with full of confidence in his voice, almost making Rikuo fall over for its ridiculousness alone.

"Then why…? Why on earth is a guy that can fight as strong as you willing to work under a guy like Tamazuki? You're already powerful enough on your own!" Rikuo could see that Inukami was an independent person. He fought with his own principle and pride as well. That was why; Rikuo didn't understand why he was working for Tamazuki who clearly only used him for his strength.

"Isn't that totally obvious? It's because I love Tamazuki," Inukami said as if that was the most logical thing in the world.

Rikuo's sweat dropped hearing that. "What's with the absurd answer?" he couldn't help asking then. What was wrong with this person? Maybe his nickname wasn't that far off. This guy was 'mad'.

"Which part is absurd? It's as simple as that. I love Tamazuki," Inukami deadpanned.

"Then he's using your feelings for own his advantage! Aren't you angry being used like that?" Rikuo hadn't given up yet turning this very strong 'Mad Dog' against his own boss.

"Angry? That's exactly why I love Tamazuki," Inukami threw a ludicrous look at the chained up boy on the bed. "He recognizes me and loves me for my power, something that's not usually appreciated by the others. Don't you know? He sacrificed his own 'friends' to gain my attention," he smirked now, remembering how he met Tamazuki for the first time.

"Day by day… Tamazuki would send people to harass me until I snapped and half killed them and one time he himself came forward to watch the show and at the end of those weaklings he called friends, he came to me while saying….

"You… you're very strong. I want that strength. I want you."

"At that moment I fell in love with his confidence that wanted me for exactly who I am. There's no greatest joy for me except being his fangs and power… for him to rule the dark world of Japan," Inukami grinned evilly now and Rikuo had to admit that with that kind of conviction for his own boss, it would be impossible to turn this person against Tamazuki.

This guy's belief was entirely moved by his feelings and not his head. And his feelings already chose Tamazuki. Inukami would be totally troublesome to deal with. Though, Rikuo had to admit that the guy's loyalty was amazing. Stupid… but amazing.

"You are totally brainless," Rikuo resorted to another tactic to get out of his captive then, by pissing Inukami off so he would act more recklessly and create an opportunity for Rikuo.

"What did you say?" Inukami growled and grabbed Rikuo's collar to glare at his eyes hatefully.

"You are a moron for not telling Tamazuki to accept my offer," Rikuo repeated, deadpanned.

"He doesn't trust you," Inukami said, glaring even harder and moving his face closer to Rikuo's.

"He's a fool then, for passing up this amazing once in a lifetime chance," Rikuo glared back heatedly at Inukami's reddish amber eyes, completely challenging.

Inukami growled again. "Are you picking a fight with me?"

"Why not? You're already banged up. I bet I can kick your ass with one hand," Rikuo scoffed.

"You—!" Inukami showed off his pointed canine and was close to bite Rikuo's neck when someone opened the door of the room.

The two turned to the door direction and found Tamazuki blinking at them with funny expression. "Oh… sorry for interrupting," he said while closing the door again.

There was a brief silence befalling inside the room as Inukami widened his eyes in shock while Rikuo was tilting his head aside in confusion, before "Did he…?" the dark-chocolate eyed boy pointed at the door while turning to look at Inukami, wanting to ask when reddish-chocolate haired boy raised his hand stopping him.

"Don't say anything!" Inukami said with paling panicked face. "Wait, Tamazuki! You've got the wrong idea!" and he hurriedly left the room to go after Tamazuki who apparently thought that Inukami had been just about to have an 'intercourse' with Rikuo. Yep, the apostrophes were there for that metaphorical reason.

Rikuo's sweat dropped again seeing that. Tamazuki was too smart to the point of breaking into idiocy if he thought something like that could happen between Inukami and Rikuo. What a joke. And he was captured by these morons? Crap, now what was Rikuo if those guys were the idiots?

Rikuo sighed in defeat.

But…—Rikuo then looked at the cuffs that connected his wrist to the bedpost, and scowled. He was stuck now. Damn Tamazuki for not believing his story. And he thought that story was very good too. Maybe Tamazuki was too cautious if Rikuo was too smart. He was probably afraid if Rikuo would turn on him too after he was finished destroying Rikuou.

Rikuo then sat down on the bed, trying to think of something to get out of there. But first, he had to be sure that Yura and Tsurara were okay.

"Oi! Is there anyone at the door?" Rikuo shouted, checking if he was guarded.

The door was opened slightly and someone… middle aged man with green hair appeared. "What is it, brat?" he asked with croaking voice, like a toad. Rikuo wanted to laugh at that idea, but thought better of it and kept silent for a moment, calculating if he could use this guy for his advantage.

Rikuo then saw the key, a lot of keys, actually, hanging on the man's belt and smirked as an idea to escape and save the girls in the process struck him.

"I demand to know if the girls are alright," Rikuo said then, copying Rikuou's usual attitude for being a pain in the ass to piss this guy off. He didn't know how many people present in the base of his enemy, but he could measure the opponents' power by collecting information from the one he already met.

"Ah, what's with the attitude?" the green haired man said with an annoyed look.

See, Rikuou's personality was indeed a pain in the ass. Thank God Rikuo was a patient person. If not, he himself would have berated his younger half brother for his annoying manner alone…. Wait, Rikuo already did that. A lot of times, actually, Rikuou just didn't care to change his infuriating trait. And, being together with Rikuou for so long had made the older half brother know exactly how to act like him.

"My attitude has been like this since I was born. So, where are the girls? Or your boss is actually a coward who can't even protect the Yakuza Code?" Rikuo smirked. It was easy to make people angry after all.

"You—brat! You've gone too far!" the older man shouted and was ready to throw a punch at Rikuo's face, but Rikuo was ready for the attack and caught the man's wrist with his free hand, using the man's own power and momentum to tumble him on the bed and then proceed to twist his arm behind his back as Rikuo sat on top of the man's back.

The man yelped and howled in pain as Rikuo gave pressure to the twisted arm. "Shut it, old man! If you scream so much, I'll break it!"

It seemed Rikuo's threat was so scary for this short old man because he then drowned his face on the bed mattress and bit down the sheet, moaning painfully with muffled voice.

Rikuo sighed slightly in relief. "Good. Now, if you don't want to die with broken bones in your entire body, you'll cooperate with me," he smirked evilly then…

Wait a sec! Since when had Rikuo turned this way? It wasn't like him! Well, he was acting to be Rikuou yes… but he was too good with this. Did that mean this personality was his natural element too? Well, he was Nurarihyon's grandson after all. And both his dad and mom were the Nuras, so maybe it was indeed already in his blood.

Rikuo had suppressed that personality down all this time because of his civilian life and his mom's way to raise him. Anyway, this was an emergency time, so his conscience and good nature had to excuse his slightly evil behavior for this. Being a good guy in a time like this would only bring bad luck for him anyway, so he had to do this.

The middle aged man under Rikuo nodded frantically with pale face. He looked so scared. Poor thing.

"Now… which is the key to open this cuff?" Rikuo asked, or more like, whispering creepily near the man's ear and the guy visibly flinched.

"The… the smallest one…!" he whimpered, apparently still in pain because Rikuo didn't loosen the twist on his arm.

Rikuo then pinned the guy's arm behind his back with one of his knees while his hand fumbled with the stack of keys on the green haired man's belt. He quickly spotted the smallest one and yanked it off of the man's belt until the pants ripped. "Oops, sorry for that," he said, not entirely feeling bad about it.

Rikuo quickly released his cuffed hand and after he was free, Rikuo used his formerly cuffed hand to pin the green haired man's arm again and continued his questions. "How many people are in this base?"

"Like hell will I tell— AAAKH!" the man screamed again because Rikuo twisted his hand harder and he had to push the man's head to drown on the mattress once again to muffle the scream.

"Idiot, don't scream!" Rikuo hissed in annoyance. He hoped that didn't alert the other guys in the base then and thought that this man wouldn't even cooperate anymore as Rikuo decided to just knock him out for good. "Sorry, it's not personal," he said before he raised his hand high and the chopped the guy's neck hard, rendering him unconscious.

Rikuo then released the man and cuffed both of hands on the bed post in his place. After that, he stole the keys and using the man's own tie, he tied it around his mouth to prevent him from screaming for help when he was conscious later.

"Yosh," Rikuo swept the beads of sweat that were prickling out on his forehead. "Now…," he stood "-time for a little adventure in the enemy base…."

Rikuo opened the door slightly to make sure that there was no one outside his room so he could escape and look for the place where Tsurara and Yura were held, more freely.

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

"What do you mean by that?" Rikuou shouted while grabbing Mezumaru's sailor uniform collar as he heard his unbelievable report. "I put you together with Gozumaru there to protect Riku! How could you say he was kidnapped when both of you were by his side all the time!" Now his shout had already morphed into the scream of anger and disbelief.

If these brats had neglected their duty and left Rikuo alone…! Oh, they wouldn't be able to imagine how he would punish and torture them for it.

"Calm down, Sandaime!" Kubinashi tried to calm him down, but FUCK! How could he when Rikuo was in danger?

"Shut up, Kubinashi! Don't tell me what I can and I can't do!" Rikuou glared at his attendant and the blond-black haired man flinched at the sharp tone and gaze. Rikuou then turned his glare once again at the trembling Mezumaru. "Well? What's your excuse?" he demanded.

"There's no excuse," Mezumaru gulped in pale face. "We fought one of Shikoku Yakuza…."

"Two versus one and you still lost?" Rikuou cut Mezumaru's explanation with a sneer, making the shorter feminine boy angry.

"The opponent is that Shikoku 'Mad Dog,' Inukami Shiba, you know! Cut us some slack!" Mezumaru shouted back in protest at Rikuou, surprising the Sandaime for a moment that this guy actually yelled back at him. "Gozumaru was injured really badly and this Tamazuki guy suddenly came out of nowhere and showed us a proof that he had that Tsurara girl and one of Rikuo's classmates!"

Rikuou was startled as he heard that very familiar name. "Tamazuki, you said?" he yelled again, surprising everyone because his voice was a lot louder and intense as he mentioned his name. "That bastard…!" he could almost see his 'raccoon' face smirking slyly and mockingly at Rikuou and it pissed him off so much.

"Eh… yes, it's Tamazuki…." Mezumaru blinked in surprise as well at the sudden outburst. "Anyway, he threatened to harm the hostages if we refused to follow his demand, that's why Rikuo agreed to go with them! In that kind situation, what do you think we could do to stop it?"

Rikuou was silent again after mumbling his deathly threat to maim Tamazuki and then mutilate him and feed his minced meat to the fish in Atlantic Ocean, before he glared again at Mezumaru, the obnoxious brat.

How dare he talk back to Rikuou like that! Though, Rikuou wasn't stupid and he knew that Mezumaru and Gozumaru couldn't be blamed for this if the situation was like that. But… it was Rikuo, damn it! He was captured by the group that had almost killed Hihi in cold blood.

Wait, Zen was also involved in an accident today… coincidence? Or was Zen also attacked by the guys from Shikoku? Aaah! The Sandaime didn't know anymore!

Rikuou couldn't stay calm like this, when he knew exactly that Rikuo, his beloved half brother, was in total danger. He had to do something… anything to save him… and fast! "Tell me you at least know where he was taken to! Is it directly to Inugamigyoubu Gumi?" Rikuou yelled at Mezumaru again, desperate now. He absolutely couldn't waste time. He couldn't even to imagine what would happen to Rikuo.

"Wait, Sandaime, we'd better gather more information first before accusing Inugamigyoubu Gumi as the enemy…." Kurotabo suggested, but Rikuou couldn't have that!

"What more information do you need? It's TAMAZUKI for God's sake! He's the youngest son of Inugamigyoubu Gumi!" Rikuou screamed at Kurotabo now. "That guy is a manipulative bastard! He must have convinced his father and brothers to attack us! We should head directly to their main base at Shikoku and attack—!"

But before Rikuou finished his yell, someone cut it by smacking, or actually kicking, his head very hard until he was thrown away at least six meters, breaking the sliding door in the process and then fell on the pond outside the house.

"Sandaime!" Everyone shouted in shock at that and was shocked even more as they noticed who had kicked the head of Nura Gumi Alliance into the pond.

"Cool your head off, you idiotic grandson," Nurarihyon said while smoking his pipe coolly.

"Nu-Nurarihyon-sama…?" All the people in the room looked at him with widened eyes.

Rikuou slowly emerged from the pond while glaring daggers at his grandfather. "What the hell do you think you're doing, you shitty old man!" he actually yelled at his grandfather angrily for being interrupted so suddenly.

"Think with your head, not your emotion. How many times have I told you that?" the small old man frowned at his grandson in displease. He huffed. "That's why I pointed Rikuo to be the third first before you. You're too easy to provoke. Are you going to start a war with another family just because one of the opponent family's members does something you dislike?"

Rikuou gritted his teeth in anger at that. "They kidnapped Rikuo! You expect me to act calmly! Are you insane? What if Rikuo gets killed?" he protested hard while standing up.

"So? This family doesn't operate with Rikuo in the center. Are you intending to endanger the entire family for one person?" Nurarihyon narrowed his eyes sharply at his grandson now.

"I will if it's for Rikuo!" Sandaime shouted with total conviction in his blazing crimson eyes that surprised Nurarihyon and the others.

"Sandaime…," Kubinashi and Kurotabo widened their eyes in disbelief at that unexpected response.

Nurarihyon was silent, so was everyone in the room as the atmosphere got very heavy after that. He sighed. "No good… you're really… not cut out to be the Sandaime, Rikuou," he said solemnly.

A pain stabbed Rikuou in the chest at that remark, but he ignored it for his anger sake. "I don't care about that title right now! If you're unwilling to help me save Riku, then I'll go by myself," he said sharply, full of resolution.

"You're really… really a moronic grandson of mine," Nurarihyon sighed again. "Of course we will save Rikuo. But not by acting recklessly like that! Firstly, contact Inugamigyoubu Gumi for confirmation if they really have Rikuo! What if this is a set up to destroy both families?"

Rikuou widened his eyes at that. "That… can happen…." He looked down, starting to think more carefully that indeed, he had jumped into conclusion just because of Tamazuki's name… and because Rikuo was still in danger, more the later than the previous, though.

"Of course that can happen," Nurarihyon huffed. "Kurotabo, call the HQ of Inugamigyoubu Gumi in Shikoku. Ask about Tamazuki and if they really kidnap Rikuo," he ordered the long haired man then.

"Yes, Nurarihyon-sama," Kurotabo hurriedly responded to him in a snap, and then left to do the work.

"Kubinashi, try to contact Ryouta. He's been there more than a week. He must have gotten some information by now. It's weird that he hasn't sent any news," Nurarihyon now turned to Kubinashi and the blond-black haired man nodded.

"Certainly, Sir," he said before he excused himself to do just that.

"Now, Rikuou… haven't you got that troublesome friend of yours to extract information from Hebidayu? How is the progress?" Nurarihyon asked then.

"Eh? Ittaku?" Rikuo asked and Nurarihyon nodded. "I haven't contacted Awashima yet… and the deal is to release Ittaku from prison. I'm still looking for some important guys in the police department to help me with that," he said slowly, totally more composed now since his grandfather had stepped up to take charge.

Well, Nurarihyon was indeed very cool when he was so authoritative like that. He was the founder of Nura Gumi after all.

"Moron, don't use police for something like that. They're too straight to do something dirty. You should use more sly people like politician for something like this. I know someone who owes me some favors. We can use him to free Ittaku," Nurarihyon said as he turned to Kino.

"Kejourou, call Mito Mitsukunikou. Tell his secretary that it's from me, that old man will take my call anytime," Nurarihyon said to the wavy long haired woman and she nodded politely.

"At once, Shodaime-sama," Kino said before she got out to do her task as well.

"Now, are Sanba brothers-sister here?" Nurarihyon asked.

"We're here, Nurarihyon-sama," immediately Kuromaru, Tosakamaru and Asami came forward from the shadow, like ninjas.

"I want all of you to inform The Generals to gather. Also, ask for the branch families to be ready for combat in case there really will be a war," Nurarihyon said sternly at the three youngsters.

"Yes!" and then the three disappeared to do his bidding.

"That's… really awesome," Senba, who was still there but totally in silence because he didn't want to be caught in the cross-fire, was stunned at the authority show Nurarihyon had performed. "As expected from Nurarihyon-sama…."

Mezumaru could only nod several times in stunned agreement.

"Of course. I'm in different league from my foolish grandson here. As a Sandaime, he's still no good. Too hot headed and rash, too young and inexperienced," Nurarihyon huffed again after inhaled the pipe.

Rikuou winced at that and looked up nervously at his grandfather. "Well, sorry for being too rash and inexperienced. Are you going to revoke my title for this?" he asked then, feeling a little intimidated by that.

"Don't say stupid things. I don't have authority for that," Nurarihyon said while walking approaching his drenched grandson. "Surely, I pointed the candidate, but the one who picked you were the family and they gladly picked you after seeing your trial result. Moreover, even if we revoke your title after that kind of stunt, I doubt anyone will want to replace you. Rikuo already refused that offer a year ago, and he won't change his answer just because your title is revoked."

Rikuou clenched his fists, feeling self-deprecating now. "Rikuo is in danger… I want to save him as soon as possible…!" he said, very scared that he would lose him, that he would lose someone he loved very much… just like his mom and his dad.

"Don't make that kind of face. We will save Rikuo. He's my grandson, my family too, you know," now Nurarihyon was standing in front of Rikuou, looking up at his grandson's crimson eyes. "Involving the family as support to save Rikuo is one thing, but endangering them unnecessarily with reckless action just because you can't think clearly... I won't allow that.

"Rikuo is fine. You heard the boy. It was Rikuo's own choice to come with the kidnapper to keep the hostages safe. He must have thought of something to keep himself safe as well. He's Nura Rikuo, my grandson, your brother, one of Nuras. Trust him a little bit," Nurarihyon said surely and Rikuou was slightly convinced seeing the total confidence in his grandfather's golden eyes.

"You bet I do, old man," Rikuou said with a sure smile now. He had to thank his grandfather later for throwing him into the pond. The cold water of spring season cooled his head down for real.

"Now… are you going to follow me to greet the old weasel?" Nurarihyon grinned.

"Weasel?" Rikuou blinked in confusion.

"Mitsukunikou. I think I should introduce you to the old man for future reference," Nurarihyon smirked mischievously now.

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

Tsurara and Yura were held in a dimly lit room. There was a man with long wavy blond hair watching them like a hawk and the big man that took down Aotabo and kidnapped them was outside the room, watching for the intruders.

Tsurara couldn't believe this. He had been fooled by Yosume! That girl never spoke out her feelings, but she was supposed to be her good-natured savior from perverted stalker. She couldn't believe that Yosume was one of the Shikoku Yakuza members!

Now, Tsurara's hands were bound, together with Yura who was supposed to be the enemy as well since she was the daughter of the Keikain, the all law enforcement family. Moreover, she failed to do his Young Boss' bidding and let herself and Yura get kidnapped! This was the worst situation ever.

"What on earth is going on here? Why are we suddenly kidnapped?" Yura seemed doing her brainstorming process now, collecting all the facts and tried to formulate the deduction. "Rikuo-kun was attacked by Shikoku Mad Dog, a brutal delinquent, and then ran while bringing me away only to be trusted to this girl and a takoyaki seller named Kurata-san, and then we were brought to a clinic to treat my wound while Rikuo-kun came back to save Yuuki brothers who distracted the Mad Dog when we were running earlier. But then, a short time later suddenly, Arai 'The Demon Hand' Oni, an ex-pro wrestler who got kicked by his association because of his tendency to kill his opponent on the ring, came to the clinic and knocked down Kurata-san. The girl who was together and supposed to be friends with this girl," she glanced at Tsurara who looked at her back with a bead of sweat dropping from her cheek, "-actually sprayed our face with some kind of drug to make us unconscious as well, which meant, she's also involved in this crime. So in underline… Rikuo is involved in some kind of trouble with criminals and we're kidnapped to force him cooperate?" she tilted her head aside, probably thinking if she had missed something.

Tsurara was sweating profoundly beside her. She had no idea that Yura's observation and deduction skills were this good despite her young boss' story and her clueless look. She had to be careful when she was explaining their situation so as not to blow her young boss' cover in front of this girl.

"But why is Rikuo-kun targeted by criminals…? And every one of them seems from Shikoku," Yura then looked at the blond haired man in front of them and frowned. "Muchi, right? I know I have seen yer face somewhere before. Ya were a former assassin of Kazetsume (1) Gumi in Shikoku, a yakuza… why are ya kidnapping us?" she asked sternly while narrowing her eyes suspiciously to the long haired man.

Wait! She knows that guy?—Tsurara dropped her jaw in shock at that revelation.

"Hoo? Was I that popular before, that a little girl like you actually knows me?" the man smirked wickedly at Yura.

"Oh, ye'r famous alright…. How wonderful it will to convict ya with multiple murders after this, Muchi," Yura smiled evilly as well at him and Tsurara went slightly pale, unable to decide which was creepier, the guy or Yura.

"I see… you're the Keikain… then it will be pleasure to rip you apart with my claws. Anyway, you won't get out of this place alive after our boss is done with that Rikuo brat," Muchi then took out multiple knifes between his fingers and walked approaching the girls.

Yura narrowed her eyes. "Why do ya target Rikuo-kun? What has he done that ye'r so keen to hurting him? Ye'r a yakuza once. Ya should have the code not to involve civilian in your family matters!" she shouted at him.

"Civilian, I don't think a Keikain as a civilian…," Muchi snickered.

"I meant Rikuo-kun! He's just an ordinary high school boy!" Yura continued in annoyed tone.

"Ordinary? Oi, oi… you call yourself a Keikain, but you don't realize who he is?" Muchi sneered.

Oh no!—Tsurara panicked.

"What do you mean?" Yura narrowed her eyes even more.

"He's that Nura Gumi Alliances Leader's-…"

"That's a lie!" Tsurara screamed then, very loudly and so suddenly, cutting Yura and Muchi's conversation and completely surprising them. "It's impossible that Rikuo-kun is involved with Yakuza!" she continued in panicky. She had to deny that fact as hard as she could. "I'm Rikuo-kun's childhood friend! I know him more than anyone else! He's a very good kid. There's just no way would he have anything to do with Yakuza!"

"You…," Yura looked at Tsurara with widened eyes then.

"Then the kid is good at pretending that he duped you as well, huh, little missy?" Muchi grinned at Tsurara's outburst.

Aaah! Just give up will you!—Tsurara screamed on the inside as she glared angrily at Muchi.

"No, wait…. Haven't you've got the wrong guy?" Yura asked then. Rikuo-kun's name is very similar with the Sandaime of Nura Gumi Alliances, yes, but he isn't him," she continued.

"Moron, who said he's the leader? There's no record that he has ever been in the Yakuza. That's not what I wanted to say," Muchi huffed for being interrupted again. "That Rikuo kid is dearest for Nura Gumi Alliance leader, Nura Rikuou. They have a 'connection' you see… and using the little guy, we can bring Nura Gumi down!" he laughed very evilly now while Tsurara bulged her eyes in surprise that they knew about something as sensitive as that. Though, the original fact that Rikuo was Rikuou's half brother wasn't mentioned. So Tsurara could be relieved a little.

"What the hell are you saying?" Yura scrunched up her face in confusion at that. "That's completely impossible… because Rikuo-kun is Yuuki-kun's boyfriend," she said so surely that Tsurara dropped her jaw a second time that day.

"EEEEEEEEH!" and Tsurara shoutedin shock too.

Yuuki is… Gozumaru and Mezumaru's fake family's name for the purpose of the undercover work, right?—Tsurara began to sweat a lot at that. She didn't know what to react to that little detail of information. Who's the boyfriend of Waka? Moreover, 'boyfriend' and not girlfriend… REALLY?—she continued disbelievingly.

Yura looked at Tsurara again, sweat dropping at her reaction. "Err… you don't know that he's gay?" she looked nervous, probably thinking that she had blown her friend's secret about his sexual preference, but Tsurara didn't care about that.

How come Waka never said anything to me!—Tsurara was quite angry at the fact. Since when has he and those Gyuuki Gumi boys have…!—and unintentionally, her killing intent leaked out as she thought about that in fury.

"Um… Tsurara-san… right?" Yura was paling as she called her seeing the murderous look on Tsurara's face and Muchi was taken aback as well seeing it.

"What?" Tsurara glared at Yura coldly and she flinched.

"Um… what's the point of glaring at me, now? The enemy is right there," Yura jerked her face upward at Muchi's direction and Tsurara turned to face the infuriating man now.

"You're right…." Tsurara then slowly stood while the bind on her hands got slightly loosened and the dropped to the floor as she freed herself. That kind of binding was easy for her to escape. She just had to wiggle a little and using her concealed weapon characteristic, it was a piece of cake.

"What? How did you—!" Now Muchi looked very surprised at that.

"It's your fault for bringing us here… that I have to hear something as unreasonable as Waka… being gay for that Gyuuki Gumi kids…!" Tsurara glared even harder at Muchi with killing intent visible in her every gesture. "You're going to pay very dearly… for angering this Oikawa Tsurara, the protector of the young boss of Nura Gumi!"

And before everyone could even react at what she had said, Tsurara already attacked with all of her power.

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

Rikuo had been walking carefully inside the big building. How come Tamazuki had that much of money for getting this building as his HQ anyway? Wait, Tamazuki introduced himself as Inugamigyoubu 'Tanuki', right? Did he act as a member of Inugamigyoubu Gumi? But… he said he was no longer in his father family, so he must have acted upon his own desire.

But then, how did Tamazuki know so much about Nura Gumi anyway? They must have an information center or something in this place… though, wasn't this place a little bit too 'empty' for a Yakuza lair? Don't tell me… they were actually just a small group of people?

Rikuo the continued to pursue his goal by opening the room door one by one, trying to look for the room where Tsurara and Yura were held as well as the room where the information center was placed. If Rikuo couldn't talk and ask the members, he could just sneak in and steal the information by himself.

On the fifteenth time he opened the doors and found an empty unused room, on the next one, surprisingly, he found a dark room where a lot of machine… or probably CPUs were stored. "What… is this room?" Rikuo widened his eyes as he came inside out of curiosity and found that those CPUs were actually active and working, all the cables traced down and connected to a big computer screen where someone was standing in front of it, organizing the data or something while looking at the computer seriously.

What… is that…?—Rikuo widened his eyes in more surprise as he realized what was monitored on the screen. There were notes and photographs and some of the faces he knew as the generals and the heads of the smaller groups that were the Alliances of Nura Gumi. Some of them were crossed over as if marking that the one on the photograph was already dealt with.

And there was Zen's picture too. He wasn't crossed over yet, but he was the next.

"Jeez, what are Moki-jii and Inuhou doing? It's three hours past the deadline already," the organizer of those data, which turned out to be a woman with spiky long bluish hair, scowled in annoyance as she looked at her watch. "Those slackers! They will definitely get scolded by Tamazuki-sama later," she huffed then.

Rikuo was hiding while carefully watching the bluish haired woman who inhaled the aroma of a cup of coffee before she sipped it. It seemed this room was the center information he was looking for. Now if he could get the woman away from this place, then he could steal all the information he needed to save Tsurara and Yura and to get them out of that place.

Getting to peek at the manpower of this group wouldn't hurt either and uncovered their plan as well… Greedy, yes, but Rikuo could do that if he really wanted to. He could bring a gift for Nura Gumi to do the counter attack.

Deciding that, Rikuo then waited for the woman to leave the room. He would hate to hurt a woman after all. As influenced as he was by Nura Gumi and Yakuza, he was still a good boy who would never lay a hand against a woman.

Rikuo was waiting for almost two hours, but the woman didn't seem like about to move from her spot, Rikuo had to improvise a little to make her leave. But how…?

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

Rikuou and Nurarihyon were on their way to the super max prison. After talking to Mitsukunikou, they were required to go to the prison themselves to bail Ittaku out and to sign some papers as a guarantee and precaution that they would supervise Ittaku so he wouldn't do criminal activity again as soon as he got out of the prison. Though, Nura Gumi needed him to use his criminal's expertise anyway, so it would just be a formality.

"How could you have a connection with that higher up?" Rikuou asked his grandfather in disbelief.

"Oh, Mitsukuni was a high school friend of mine… looking at him now, you'd be surprised how much he was bullied back then, and if it wasn't for me, he wouldn't be able to pass the high school alive," Nurarihyon snickered at that.

"Seriously?" Rikuou looked at Nurarihyon in surprise. "He looks so smart though…."

"That's why he became a politician now. So he can manipulate people to do his bidding without him having to dirty his own hands," Nurarihyon said again shaking his head at his friend's antics.

As they arrived at the super max, Amano Awashima had already waited for them in front of the entrance.

"Yo, Awashima," Rikuou greeted the shoulder-length blond haired man as he turned to look at them.

"Oh, Rikuou, nn? Nurarihyon-sama?" the stick in Awasima's mouth dropped as he saw who was walking beside Rikuou. "Never expect to see the founder of Nura Gumi in person…," he muttered slightly in nervous look and Nurarihyon laughed in humor.

"Such a pretty young man, you are. Kama Ittaku's partner, I presume?" Nurarihyon asked.

"Yes…, I'm the partner… and I'm a woman, Nurarihyon-sama," Awashima said with a flush on his face.

"Oh? But…," Nurarihyon then glared at his grandson and Rikuou looked away, almost snickering. "Well, sorry for being rude then," he stepped on Rikuou's foot as a punishment and the grandson yelped in surprise at that. "So, where can I sign the paper to release Ittaku from his cage?"

Awashima then brought them to the warden office and then some paperwork later, finally Ittaku was out of his lock up, of course… with tracking anklet on his ankle.

"This thing is bothering," Ittaku looked at his ankle with a disdain on his face.

"Don't sulk, Ittaku. It's the best we can do. Anyway, now you're out and I need your help," Rikuou said, looking at Ittaku seriously.

"I've already helped you from the prison," Ittaku protested.

"This time I need your cybercrime skill," Rikuou then proceeded to explain what happened between Nura Gumi and Shikoku.

"So, basically… you want me to find their base location?" Ittaku asked and Rikuo nodded. "Measure their manpower," he added and Rikuou nodded again, "-and find a most efficient way to save the hostages?"

Rikuou nodded surely at that.

"And what exactly will you do if I'm going to do all the work?" Ittaku frowned at him.

"I'll do what I do best. Charge frontally with brute strength!" Rikuou said so confidently Ittaku had to face-palm himself.

"Help him, Ittaku. He got you out of prison after all," Awashima said while holding the black haired man's arm and he sighed in defeat.

"Fine, get me a computer and I'll grant your wish," Ittaku said with a smirk now.

"Great!" Rikuou brightened at the positive answer and now he just had to find the computer thing to provide Ittaku with the tools to do his magic.

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

Rikuo had thought a lot of things for distracting the woman away from this room, but he didn't find the less painful way than this. He hated to do this. He really did. But he had no choice. It wasn't like conning his way to get her out of the room was going to succeed after all, so he made some noise behind the massive amount of CPUs, hoping to get her attention.

It did the trick alright when she hurriedly came to his way to check when Rikuo attacked her by surprise using a single powerful chop to the neck, knocking her unconscious. She didn't even have a chance to yelp because of the abruptness.

"Sorry auntie…," Rikuo winced as he caught her so she wouldn't fall down hard on the floor and laid her down gently there before he opened his gakuran to drape it over the woman's body.

Then he stood, shivering a little because of the cold air inside the room and his ripped uniform did nothing good to cover him from the chill. He walked slowly to the big monitor and keyboard, and then tried to figure out what button should he push to look for the information.

Rikuo wasn't really good with computer, he admitted, but Kiyotsugu was outstanding with this thing. Rikuo knew that he could send message via email as long as he had the email address of the destination. Unfortunately, Nura Gumi was old fashioned. There was no such thing as computer there.

The first thing I'll tell those fellows in the main house after I get back there is get the fucking cell phone for everyone and big super computer for the house!—Rikuo grumbled inside his head as he began to take the mouse and clicked on the internet service.

He could send email to Kiyotsugu and asked him to call or go to Nura Gumi and asked them to trace the IP address of this place internet service. After all, Rikuou had that Ittaku guy. He said he was the cybercrime expert, right? Just tracing IP address would be easy for him…

But by asking Kiyotsugu to help him like this, he'd totally blow his cover as a civilian. Kiyotsugu was dense sometimes, but he wasn't stupid. He would make the connection pretty fast. Ah, but it wasn't the time to think about that, though. Rikuo would deal about that later.

Rikuo opened the internet and then logged in into his email account before starting to type the request for Kiyotsugu.

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

"Okay, now laptop is in hand… I can't believe you don't have any computer here. What are you, cave men?" Ittaku shook his head in exasperation because the Nura Gumi main base was so ancient. In the end, Ittaku used Awashima's laptop because Rikuou couldn't find the computer for Ittaku to use in the house. Buying the new one would take too much time to set, so Awashima offered to use her laptop.

"Thank god the wireless connection from the nearest café can reach this place. Got to love the techno period, huh?" Ittaku licked his bottom lip in spirit as he began to connect once again with one of his passions, computer science and network system.

"Now, can you look for Riku… I meant the place where Riku is held?" Rikuou asked impatiently.

"Easy now, don't rush me. Do you have something I can trace back? Phone number or email from the opponent?" he asked then.

"There's no such thing," Rikuou said, deadpanned.

"Oi, oi, then how do you expect me to find them if you don't have anything for me to start looking?" Ittaku protested.

"I don't know! You're the cybercrime expert! Use your mojo or something!" Rikuou started shouting now, getting annoyed because Ittaku didn't just start.

"It doesn't work that way, you idiot! Don't make the cybercrime world sound easy to do!" Ittaku shouted back and they would have started bickering if Kino didn't interrupt them.

"Excuse me, Sandaime," Kino said, earning Rikuou's attention.

"What is it?" the silver-black haired boy asked in annoyance.

"There's someone at the door, claiming to be Waka's friend. He said he received a cryptic email from Waka which told him to come here and look for the boss of Nura Gumi," she informed.

Desperate for any news about his beloved half brother's condition, Rikuou quickly said "Send him in!"

Short time later, Kiyotsugu was inside the very old house that seemed being haunted by youkai or something. He sat down on the tatami, which was so old that it made Kiyotsugu wonder how this house could escape from his attention as one of haunted spots in Ukiyoe.

"You… aren't you the boy from that day?" Rikuou knew this curly black haired boy. He was one of Rikuo's friends from school who he had saved from Kyuuso's Gang, along with some elementary kids, a blond boy, and a girl who looked like Rikuo.

"Ah, you're the Yakuza Boss from that time!" Kiyotsugu said while pointing at him. "Huh? You and Nura-kun knows each other? Why did he ask me to meet you?" he looked slightly confused.

"Anyway, did you really receive message from Riku…o?" Rikuou added the o as an afterthought, but Kiyotsugu seemed not noticing and answered.

"Yeah, he said in his mail that he needed you to trace his mail address now. Here," Kiyotsugu then took out his cell phone and showed Rikuou the message. "He also typed something strange, not to ask anything to you guys and he'd explain in detail when we met again or something. So, I won't ask anything. He seemed in rush when he typed though," he explained.

Rikuou received the cell phone and looked at the message. "L-let me borrow this! Thanks, Kiyo!" he then hurriedly ran back to where Ittaku and Awashima were.

"Huh? How did he know my name?" Kiyotsugu blinked in confusion as he was left alone in the guest room with Kino serving the tea for him while smiling friendlily.

As soon as Rikuou gave Ittaku the cell phone, the All Crime Expert began to trace the IP address of where the email was sent and in no time, he found the location.

"I found where it is," Ittaku said with a smirk.

"Where?" Rikuou stared hard at the computer screen, though he had no idea what he was looking at.

"It's still in coordinate. I'll turn it into an address for you. In the mean time, I'll try to establish the connection with the computer your brother had used to send the email." Ittaku said as he began to type the series of command in the laptop and did what he usually did to hack the system of his opponent's computer.

"Huh? Someone already opened the way for me to go in?" Ittaku was a little surprised as he found a door to sneak into the system and he began to crawl his way in to retrieve some data from there. "Oh, your brother is awesome," he smirked.

"What? What happened?" Rikuou asked in confusion.

"I believe he's the one who opened the backdoor of the main system. He knew I'd be here to help you or something?" Ittaku smiled at Rikuou and the Sandaime nodded.

"I told him about you. He must have faith in you," Rikuou smiled as well at that and Ittaku raised his eyebrows seeing the tenderness in the younger boy's expression when he talked about his brother.

"Well, I'll guide him to ease my way more so I can download the data more freely," Ittaku said as he focused once more to his task.

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

"Oh… he's in?" Rikuo saw the popped up new window and read the message from Ittaku there. He smiled. "Thank god Ittaku is really there." He typed back the reply fast and then they had a shot conversation of how Rikuo could help Ittaku in doing his job stealing the information.

Rikuo followed the instruction and everything moved smoothly until he was stuck in a file that was password protected. "Crap, it's password protected," Rikuo muttered curse under his breath and typed the problem to send to Ittaku before short time later, he replied to just leave it to him and Rikuo should open the other folders.

Rikuo nodded and just did what was told, but when he opened the next folder, something very strange happened and there was something like bugs starting tofly around eating the data. "Uh-oh! What happened?" he quickly typed what he had seen to Ittaku and Ittaku said it was a defense mechanism of the computer and now the system was self destructed to keep others from stealing anymore data.

"Crap!" Rikuo typed what should he do and Ittaku said to just leave it. Ittaku had retrieved most important data after all. Rikuo nodded and left the computer then. "Great, now I just have to look for Yura and Tsurara."

But when Rikuo turned around, someone was already behind him and he widened his eyes in shock as the girl brought something up to his face and sprayed the content.

Instantly, as the spray made contact with Rikuo's eyes, he screamed "OWW!" Rikuo tried to get away from the spray as the tears started to do its job to defend his eyes from the irritating substance that caused his eyes to burn so badly he thought he would go blind.

Pepper spray?—Rikuo tried to run then, but he was completely blinded and couldn't see anything while his eyes were hurting so much.

Still, Rikuo didn't want to get captured again, so he kept moving in the dark, occasionally tripped on something or hit something on the way to get out of the room. Luckily, he wasn't electrocuted as he hit the running CPUs. He didn't know how he could manage to get out of the room, but he did and he bumped someone on the corridor.

Shit—!

Rikuou was ready to hit the person in front of him when he heard "Waka?" Tsurara's voice.

"Tsurara!" Rikuo couldn't tell how relieved he was hearing her voice, and she sounded perfectly okay and healthy too.

"Rikuo-kun?" Now it was Yura's voice and she sounded… well, shocked and in disbelief.

"Yura-san…," Rikuo was about to say sorry to her when Yura suddenly hugged him. "Eh?"

"Idiot! Ya worried us!" Yura said, her hug tightening.

Eeeeh?

"Wait a second, Yura-chan! Don't hug Waka like that!" and now Tsurara tried to pull them apart while shouting in annoyed tone.

"Isn't it okay? I'm worried about him… ah! Rikuo-kun, what happened to yer eyes?" Now Yura was trying to check on the Rikuo's red, swollen eyes which were closed the entire time because he couldn't open them even if he wanted to.

"Pepper spray… anyway, it's not the time to chit-chat. We have to run away from this place! That girl must have alerted the others to get to me!" Rikuo said in a hurry as he remembered about that.

"We know the way out of this place!" Yura and Tsurara said in unison.

"The stupid blond had his butt kicked by Oikawa-san here and he started babbling about deal to turn his boss in to prosecute in exchange of protection. What a crazy guy," Yura laughed slightly while Rikuo winced and Tsurara's sweat dropped nervously.

"W-well, let's go then. Can you lead the way, Tsurara?" Rikuo asked then, trying to ignore the scream inside his head that his identity was already compromise to Yura.

"Sure, this way, Waka," Tsurara also didn't bother to call him Rikuo-kun anymore; apparently there was no need for the pretense because Yura already figured that out.

"I have so many questions I want to ask ya later, Rikuo-kun…, but let's save that for after we get out of this situation," Yura said as they walked slowly with Tsurara's hand on Rikuo's guiding him and Yura behind him watching out for his back. "I know about one thing, though, that you're a nice person, Rikuo-kun," she added and it put Rikuo's nerves at ease for a moment.

"Thank you… for putting your faith in me," Rikuo smiled a little and the tears might have welled up a little bit as well and it wasn't because of his hurting eyes, but he was glad that Yura was willing to wait for his explanation before jumping into conclusion.

"After all, I haven't gotten the all facts," Yura said with a grin and hearing her last line made a bead of sweat drop from his cheek as well.

0oo—Rikuou x Rikuo—oo0

"Okay, so from Kurotabo's info, Inugamigyoubu Gumi has nothing to do with Tamazuki's stunt. They said he ran away from home after establishing a new group under the name of Inugamigyoubu 'Tanuki' Gumi. Oh, and he took most of the men in Inugamigyoubu Gumi with him as well.

"From Kubinashi, Ryouta found out that somehow, Shikoku yakuza is in contact with Kyoto Yakuza and there's a mysterious corporation that supports Tamazuki with a lot of money and assets to do their evil deed. It seems those 'Tanuki' wants to destroy Nura Gumi economic balance by attacking the stores and corporations which have supported Nura Gumi operation all this time. So the closing of those stores and corporations were indeed Tamazuki and his cronies' doing.

"As from Riku's information we got through Ittaku hacking their system, we know they have eight main personals plus Tamazuki as their leader, so there were nine main personals we have to watch out most, but after contacting Shouhei who had heard the full story from Zen, two of those nine were already subdued. So, there are seven left and a lot of lackeys under them. Their location is in the third district inside a new building purchased by the Giant Corporation of Koromo Group. We still have no idea about this group, but the building is the place where Riku, Tsurara and Keikain Yura are held.

"Now…," Rikuou finished his assess of the opponent they were going to deal with. "We're going in for a rescue mission. I know some of you wanted an out of all war, heck even I want to have that war with those insolent bastards, but there's a civilian hostage there, and you know the code. No civilian should be involved in yakuza's war, so rescuing the hostage is the main priority. I don't care how we will do it. I even overlook the killing if it's necessary. We're going to destroy those bad-bad ugly 'Tanukis'."

"Yeaaaaaah!"

"Go for it!"

"We're gonna teach those bastards a lesson for messing with Nura Gumi!"

"Let's destroy theeeem!"

Rikuou smirked as he saw all of his subordinates worked up spirit to fight. "Now… walk behind me, you awesome bastards. We have a lot of racoons to hunt down."

And the counter attack begins!

End of Chapter 13

Tbc…

Additional Notes:

1)Kazetsume: a mix of words between Kaze (wind) and Tsume (claws).

A/N: Phew… this chapter really gave me so much trouble… T_T. I hope I can pull it off okay, though. So… about this chapter… a lot of things happening at the same times and a lot of people are involved again. Trust me, it gave me a headache. So, what do you think? Eh, no fan service? I will put that in next chapter. Besides, I count Inukami and Rikuo's interaction and Tamazuki's wrong idea as a fan service, so… XDD. So... what do you think? Review please? *puppy eyes*