Chapter 4
8 o'clock, the target arrived at the restaurant.
"Faye, please bring some hot sake to the guest in the Cherry Blossom room." Satoko said.
"Ok." I said.
I went to the kitchen and asked for some hot sake.
"Hey Stone, target here already?" Kenshi asked.
He was dressed in a chef outfit, he was putting the drugs in the target's food.
"Yeah, he's in the Cherry Blossom room. I'm about to bring him some hot sake." I said.
"Got it, first we'll get him drunk. After it looks like he's getting drunk, come back here ok?"
I nodded.
"This and this." He said and handed me a few things.
"A brooch? It's cute." I said as I examined it.
It was a small brooch in the shape of a butterfly.
"It's a hidden mic. Put it in your sleeve. If you need help, you can contact Riki with it."
"Ok." I said and put it on my sleeve.
"All right, get to it!"
I took the sake to the target.
"Sorry for the wait, here's your hot sake." I said.
Mr Kinzo Gondawara was sat at a table, he was dressed very well and looked quite rich.
"Ooh! Who's this, Satoko? Haven't seen her here before!" He said and smiled at me.
"Yes, she's our new waitress." Satoko said.
"Nice to meet you." I said and smiled at him.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Faye."
"I see, hmmm." He said giving me a flirty look.
The way he looked at me made me want to vomit but I somehow managed to hold back.
"Let's get to know each other better. Come over here next to me, Faye." He said.
"Ok." I said and sat down next to him.
"Mr Gondawara, as I said Faye is rather new here." Satoko said.
"Even better! C'mon Faye, pour me some sake." he said.
Uugh! This guy was gross.
"You're only waiting on me tonight, right Faye?" He asked.
"Yes." I answered.
I stayed with him and poured him all the sake that he wanted.
One hour later,
"Kenshi." I said as I came into the kitchen.
"Well? Is he drunk?" He asked.
"Yes."
"Ok, now bring him this tempura. Make sure he eats it with a lot of salt." He said.
"Salt?" I questioned.
"Yeah, just tell him 'This dish tastes best with salt' or something." He said.
"Ok."
I took the dish and returned to the room.
"Sorry for the wait." I said and placed the dish in front of Mr Gondawara.
The other waitress's and Kenshi's mum had left her, he had told them to leave to we could be alone.
"Come here Faye." He said and I sat next to him again.
"So what's this?" he asked looking at the food.
"Tempura, please eat it before it gets cold." I said.
"Ok. Can I have the soy sauce?" He asked.
"It tastes best with this special salt." I said and handed him salt.
"Salt? I don't really like salt." He said.
"Please try it." I said.
"But I always put soy sauce on my tempura."
Geeze!
"Open your mouth and say 'ahhh!', Mr Gondawara." I said.
"Oh? Are you going to feed me?" He asked and smiled.
"Yes, come on. Open up!"
"Hmmm... this salt is pretty good." He said as I started to feed him.
"See? Told you." I said.
I wondered if the drugs were in the food or the salt.
30 minutes later,
"Mwahaha... I'm feeling really good today!" He laughed.
"Is that so?" I asked.
He wouldn't stop staring at me, he was starting to freak me out.
Just concentrate on the mission, it's all for the mission. I told myself over and over.
"C'mere Faye." He said.
He reached out his hand and ran it down my thigh.
"Now now Mr Gondawara, that's not very nice." I said and pushed his hand away.
"What? Are you shy?" He asked. "What an innocent little girl you are you." He laughed.
His hand started to move towards his thigh again, I was getting ready to punch him when Kenshi came into the room.
"How is the food today, Mr Gondawara?" He asked.
"Oh, the food.. Pretty good."
"We have one more special dish prepared for you Mr Gondawara. Let's go Stone." Kenshi said.
We both left the room, the moment we were far enough to talk without Mr Gondawara hearing us, Kenshi burst out laughing.
"Hahaha that was close!" He laughed.
"It's not funny. What in the world did you give him?" I asked.
"Just.. Some kind of aphrodisiac."
"An aphrodisiac?! Doesn't that make you horny?" I asked.
"Yeah." He laughed again.
"Hmm.. That explains a lot." I said and sighed.
I shuddered at the thought of Mr Gondawara touching me.
"Stone, you're being pretty calm. Haha! Good girl! I'm impressed." He said and rubbed my hair again.
"Kenshi, stop messing up my hair." I said and pushed his hand away.
"Oh sorry, you're in the middle of work. But we're almost finished, you just have to wait on him a bit longer."
I sighed "Fine. I can do this, I just need to resist the urge to punch him." I said.
I got more food from the kitchen and returned to the room. For the next hour, I managed to deal with him.
"Thank you for coming today, Mr Gondawara." Satoko said.
We were stood by the front entrance, there was a taxi waiting for him.
"By the way my next stop is.." He said.
"Yes, we've already made your reservation for club Illusion in Ginza." I said.
"Oh club Illusion! I'm obsessed with that place lately. Rose is just so cute.. Mwahaha!"
Now all I have to do is see him off and my job is finally done.
"Ok let's go Faye." He said.
"Huh?"
He grabbed my arm and pulled me inside the taxi.
"Mr Gondawara?!" I gasped.
"Wait Mr Gondawara!" Satoko shouted.
"Start the car!" Mr Gondawara ordered.
Before I could jump out, the taxi sped off.
"I wanna spend some more time with you Faye." He said.
He held onto my arm tightly, what was I going to do? He was taking me to the club, I just needed to remain calm. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to slip away once we were inside.
"Welcome Mr Gondawara. Who's this?" The manager of the club asked as we walked in together.
"I'm a friend." I said.
I needed to find Hiro, he must be here somewhere.
"And who would you like to see tonight, Mr Gondawara?" The manager asked.
"Rose, I always see Rose."
"Of course, she's been waiting for you." The manager said. "Rose! Rose!"
"Hiii!" A beautiful girl said as she greeted us.
She had long ginger hair, but I recognized her but I didn't know where from.
"It's been forever Kinzo!" She said.
"Mwhahha!" Gondawara laughed.
"Oh you brought someone along today?" She asked.
She turned and looked at me and gasped in surprised, why did she look so surprised to see me?
"Why did you bring another girl here, Kinzo?" she asked.
"She's a new girl from Kikufuji." He answered.
"I see.. That puts me in a bind. Well whatever, let's go sit over there." She said and pointed to a booth.
"I need to use the bathroom first." I said.
"The bathroom's just over there, go ahead." She said and pointed.
Mr Gondawara finally let me go and I went to the bathroom. I needed to call Riki. I took the brooch from my sleeve.
"Riki? It's Faye." I said.
"What's up?" He asked.
"The target kidnapped me, he brought me to the club." I said.
"What'd you say?" He asked.
"What should I do?" I asked.
"There's a girl there named Rose, right?"
"Yeah."
"That's Hiro."
"What?! Are you serious?!" I asked and burst out laughing.
He looked quite convincing as a woman.
"You're making too much noise! Anyway, go back to the target and give some excuse to run away. Hiro will cover for you."
"Ok."
"I'll head to the club now. If anything happens, contact me ASAP." He said.
"Got it!"
I returned to the Hiro and Gondawara.
"Heheh... welcome back. Here's a warm towel." Rose said.
"Thank you." I said.
Is it really Hiro? He looked and sounded so much like a woman! It was so cool, it took all my strength not to laugh.
"Stop staring at me, you're embarrassing me!" She said.
"Oh sorry." I apologised and looked away.
"What's wrong Faye? Is Rose so cute even you can't resist her?" Gondawara asked.
"Yeah.. Something like it." I said.
"But she's cute too.. I'm jealous!" Rose said with a smile.
"Mwhahah! Oh really?" Gondawara asked.
"Hey Kinzo, can't we just be alone?" Rose asked. "I just want to be alone with you. I don't really want to be with that girl."
"That's fine, I need to go back to work anyway." I said and stood up.
"Wait, wait Faye. Don't go home." He said and grabbed my arm. "Rose, I can't believe you're jealous. You're so cute... Mwahaha."
Me and Rose both just looked at each other for a moment, this wasn't going to be easy.
"You're so difficult Kinzo." Rose said with a sigh.
"Will you get me a drink Rose?" Gondawara asked.
"Ok." Rose agreed.
She got a bottle and skillfully made him a drink.
I immediately noticed that he slipped a tablet into the drink.
"All done! Here you go Kinzo!"
"No one mixes drinks better than you Rose."
30 minutes later, Gondawara had passed out.
"He's finally asleep." I said with a sigh of relief.
"I crushed a sleeping pill and put it in his drink." Hiro said in his normal voice. "You better run away now, Faye."
"You make a convincing girl Hiro." I said.
He laughed "You realised it was me?"
"Only because Riki told me."
"Hm? Do you have a mic on you?" He asked.
"Yeah."
"Good, go ahead and meet up with Riki. I'll take care of this one."
I didn't argue and left immediately. The moment I was outside the club, I contacted Riki.
"Riki, I've left the club." I said.
"Ok, wait right there. I'm on my way." He said.
Riki arrived 5 minutes later in his sports car.
"I didn't know that was going to happen." He said.
"Sorry." I said.
"It's fine, what happened to the target?" He asked.
"Hiro slipped him a sleeping pill."
"Ok, we'll just have to see how long it holds." He said.
"Where are the others?" I asked.
"At Gondawara's mansion, it took a while to breech his security. So they just now got inside. We're about one hour off schedule."
"Will it be ok?" I asked.
"Who do you think we are? We're the Black Foxes!" he bragged with a confident smile.
He was pretty confident.
"Let's head over to the mansion, too." He said.
He drove and we headed to the mansion.
His house was huge! A tall wall surrounded the house and a big gate blocked the entrance. We both sat in the car waiting, Kenshi and Takuto were already inside, hopefully they had found the painting.
BEEP
"Hm? It's from Kenshi. Turn on your mic Faye." Riki said.
I nodded and turned on the mic.
"What's up Kenshi?" Riki asked.
"We're in the target's bedroom, but we can't find the painting."
"Ridiculous. From our recon, we determined it was in his bedroom." Riki said.
"Yeah, but it's not here anymore. Takuton's searching another room but.."
"Roger, call back if there's anything else. I hope Gondawara hasn't sent it to be restored." Riki said,
"What happens if he did?" I asked.
"Back too square one. But we need to find out what's going on first." He said.
A few minutes later, Riki's mobile rang.
"Phone call from Hiro. What's up?... what? Gondawara wants to go home?... He can't! We need one hour. Try and get him to stay at the hotel for something, got it?"
He hung up the phone with an annoyed look on his face.
"Tch. What terrible timing."
"What are you going to do?" I asked.
"I'm gonna go in with Kenshi and Takuto. You stay in the car." He said.
"But I want to help."
"You're not use to this stuff, you'll just slow us down. Anyway, there's something else I want you to do. I have a box of sushi in the backseat, if Hiro fails to slow the target down and he comes back, follow him and call out to him before he goes inside. Give him the sushi and say 'You forgot this!'." He said.
"Really? Won't that seem weird?"
"Sometimes Kenshi's mum sends a box of sushi home with customers who didn't eat much. She's sent him home with Sushi many times before. So just act like you got it from Kenshi's mum." He said.
"But if he comes back, first call me. Got it?"
I nodded.
He joined the others in the mansion, I waited anxiously. I felt so hopeless just sat here.
My phone then rang,
"Hello?"
"It's me. Contact the leader, can't stall Gondawara anymore. He said he's going home." Hiro said.
"Are you serious?"
"Depending on traffic, he'll probably be there in 20 minutes give or take." He said.
"Ok." I said and hung up.
I then got my mic,
"Riki, it's Faye." I said.
"What's up?" He asked.
"Mr Gondawara's going to be here in about 20 minutes."
"Damn it! We found the painting, but we need time to get it out. If Gondawara comes home before we get out, I need you to stall him."
"Ok, no problem." I said.
I took the box of sushi from the backseat and got ready.
20 minutes later, I saw Mr Gondawara get out of a taxi.
"Riki, Mr Gondawara's home." I said into my mic.
"We got the painting, we're coming out now. But stall him just in case." He said.
"Ok."
I got out of the car and ran up to him.
"Wheeee!" Gondawara said as he stepped out of the taxi.
"Mr Gondawara!" I shouted.
"Hmm.. Oh it's Faye! Where in the world have you been?" he asked.
"I had to go back to Kikufuji to get this for you." I said and held up the box.
"What is it?" He asked.
"A box of sushi. Mrs Inagaki gave it to me for you, I completely forgot to give it to you earlier." I said.
"Ohh! I see Mwahaha!"
He staggered over to me.
"Perfect timing, stay with me tonight Faye." He said.
"What? No I can't." I said and stepped back.
"Don't be shy.."
I had to stall him longer! I moved in front of the entrance and blocked his path.
"Why can't we just stay here and talk?" I asked.
"Huh? Here in the yard?" He asked and smiled and started taking off his clothes. "Well... well.. Well.. This is how you like it. Huh Faye?"
"What? No! Put your clothes back on." I ordered.
He laughed and grabbed my arm and pulled me towards him.
"Let go of me!" I shouted.
His grip was like a vice! I couldn't take this anymore.
"Stone!" Kenshi shouted.
He came out from a window and I could see him running towards us. Gondawara continued to pull me towards him. I clenched my fist and punched him hard in the face.
"Ooof!" Gondawara groaned before he collapsed to the floor.
"Whoa!... you punched him..." Kenshi said surprised, he stopped dead in his tracks.
"Well, he was annoying me. What are you doing here?" I asked and shook my sore hand.
His face was as hard as a rock.
"I knew you were with Gondawara so I came to save you, but I guess you can take care of yourself." He said and smiled.
He then burst out laughing and rubbed my head like he always did.
"You're amazing you know that? I can't believe you knocked him out cold! You're the greatest, really. Hahah!"
I couldn't help but smile proudly "I felt so bloody good to hit him, you have no idea."
We both laughed but stopped when we heard the sharp sound of a dog barking.
"Crap. Guess they got noticed." Kenshi said.
"Is that Mr Gondawara's dog?" I asked.
"Yep, a doberman. Let's go!"
We ran away and got into the sports car and sped off.
"Whew, that was close." Kenshi said.
"You're too slow Kenny." Takuto said.
"Haha! Sorry but Faye punched out Gondawara." Kenshi bragged.
"And it felt great!" I said and held my hands up in the air.
"You've got amazing strength Faye." Kenshi said.
Riki dropped me and Kenshi off at the restaurant, I had left all of my things at the restaurant.
"I'll contact you when it's time for our next mission." Riki said to us.
"Got it." Kenshi said.
"Good night." I said and waved to Riki as he drove off.
"Can I stay here tonight?" I asked as we walked into the restaurant.
"Sure."
"Thanks. God I'm exhausted." I said.
"Me too, a lot of unexpected things happened. Like somebody punching out the target."
He really liked that didn't he?
"I didn't mean to knock him." I said.
"Hahah Well, everything turned out all right in the end. Hey... you want to stay up for a bit longer?"
"Sure, what do you want to do?" I asked.
"It's a full moon tonight, let's go have a drink under it." He said.
He got alcohol from the kitchen and we sat in the garden together.
"Here's to a successful mission! Cheers!" He said and we clinked cans together.
"Cheers!" I said.
"Ooh! A cold beer tastes so good after work." He said.
"Definitely." I agreed.
It had been so long since I had a drink. I couldn't help but think of the mission, in a weird way I kind of enjoyed it. It was exciting and kind of exhilarating.
We drank several cans under the moon, at first it was just casual but then it turned into a game. Who could drink the most beer?