Warning, this fanfic contains graphic material in the form of obscene language, gore, violent deaths and strong sexual content.
Ken: 26
Shigeru: 24
Arthur: 36
John: 26
Officer Cortez: 45
Chapter 7: Striking Back
-Rising Sun-
It was another night for Ken at the Rising Sun sitting at his desk in the office, another day of business and the Butcher was reviewing the amount of money made for the day and as usual each passing day him and his crew made more money than the previous one. He was pleased with how well the restaurant was doing despite opening recently and it looked like it was going to be a great front for Morimitsu-kai. Despite the amount of money the crew was making any organized crime boss would expand their territory and businesses, more money meant more power and he could use the money to obtain some serious firepower off the black market which is something he would like to build up.
Aside from thinking about how and where Morimitsu-kai will make money there was another thing on his mind and it was Tetsuda and Kyo, two of his members who he let go on a night off of working under the circumstance that they check in with him at a certain time. Now it was a few hours passed that time, he had told them to check in at about nine and now it was almost twelve in the morning and he was getting worried. He had tried to call them a few times but the times he did he just got a busy tone. He had told Shirase about it and his adviser took some men with him to check their last known location was the Burger Shot they said they were going to before they left.
There was a knock on the door.
''Come in.'' he said.
The door opened and in walked his brother Shigeru.
''Hey brother.''
''Hey ototo, you didn't go home yet?''
''No, I decided to help and close down the restaurant and check up on you to see what you were doing.'' Shigeru said shaking his head.
''Ah, that's great I appreciate it that.''
''I have also been looking into potential targets for sokaiya to help bring in some money and one that comes to mind if the CEO of Lifeinvader Jay Norris.''
Ken nodded.
''I see, whenever you're ready you may take some men and seek him out, just dig into something embarrassing about him like if he's married and he's cheating on his wife and is really gay or anything like that. Anything so embarrassing understood? There's no way anyone would say no to the Yakuza if they threaten with such information.'' explained the older brother.
''Yeah I got it.'' Shigeru, nodding to show his understanding, ''Hopefully we get a good amount of money from him since he runs the biggest social media network on the internet.''
''Do you happen to know if the porn industry is controlled by the likes of the Italian or Russian mafia?''
''Not that I know of but I remember you mentioning something about it.'' Shigeru answered.
Ken let out a chuckle. ''You're damn right on that, you see Otomo-gumi has never really been involved in the porn scene so I thought I'd like to have Morimitsu-kai be the player in that and plus, porn makes a lot of money and that'll make us trillionares.''
Shigeru couldn't argue with that, though there was one thing he wanted to know about his brother's decision.
''How would you go about this?''
That caught Ken off guard, he didn't think how he would go about a porn business if he did start one but now that was another priority for him.
''I guess we can call Otomo-san to try and use his influence to send some of the more popular male stars from the country to come over here and break that Asian stereotype. Small dick good dick?'' Ken said jokingly.
Shigeru let out a light laugh.
''Those stereotypes annoy me, they're just jealous because Asians are smarter and we fuck better. We don't leave vaginas looking like pastrami sandwiches.'' he joked with a shrug.
The two brothers shared a quick laugh.
''That's true, so Morimitsu-kai is going to also be a porn production crew?''
''Yes indeed, we'll bring in some known directors from back in Japan and whatever money they make from the movies they make over here we'll take a share of it. So do you have any other potential targets for sokaiya?''
''I've only decided on the guy I mentioned for now since he is one of the more well known figures in the states. Anyone else I can think of I'll let you know ototo.''
Ken looked at his watch and saw the time, being about 12:20 now he thought it was a good time to shut down the restaurant completely for the night before heading back home with Shigeru to his place. As usual he reached for a Beretta 92F and a sawed off Remington 870 from under his desk. He puts the pistol under his top and hands Shigeru the shotgun, the sibling a bit apprehensive before accepting the weapon.
''Okay, it's late so let's get on home.''
The two brothers were heading for the door when they suddenly heard some yelling and multiple gunshots ring out.
Outside on the side entrance of the restaurant being the employee only door stood three Morimitsu-kai members all dressed in their work clothes after staying to watch over the place before Ken went home for the night. As usual they always liked a smoke a cigarette before calling it a night and they were discussing various topics ranging from being in America for the first time and banging the local women. Not only that, they were also on lookout for any potential cartel attack since the last one resulted in the death of one man. However, two of their members they knew were in town eating burgers not coming back made them even more on edge.
''Tetsuda and Kyo have not returned from their little burger eating marathon.'' spoke one of the gangsters.
''Yeah, here's hoping they got drunk instead, pray nothing bad happened to them.'' said another.
''All that aside, do you two think SAMLOS will be a very good partner for us?'' one of the gangsters spoke in an accent.
''I think so and let's hope this street gang, what were they called? The one that black kid is from is reliable and from what I've read on eyefind street gangs will always be inferior to groups like the Yakuza and the mafia.'' said another.
''Ken-san mentioned there are Triads in San Fierro. I know we have deals with the Chinese in the Philippines and Vietnam and if we can ally with them we'll be even more powerful considering SAMLOS is on our side. The Sons of Anarchy are the biggest and most well known biker gang in the United States so that's good for us.'' said the third.
Just then a car turned around the corner and the sound of the engine and music playing from the radio caught the attention of the three gangsters. On the streets leading up to the Rising Sun they saw what they thought looked like the gray Karin Sultan Tetsuda drove and they held their hand up in greeting but their hopes of seeing their missing comrades vanished when they noticed the car came to a complete stop halfway down the street. At first they thought Tetsuda and Kyo were playing a prank on them but they noticed one thing that made it clear it might not be their fellow gangsters.
There were four men in the car and if they remembered correctly it was only Tetsuda and Kyo who had permission to take a break from Ken. That and the fact that the headlights illuminated the four unknown figures and the gangsters could see that they were all wearing ski masks and the windows slowly rolled down. The Karin then roared to life and sped its way fast toward where the gangsters were standing and as the car came close they saw the barrels of AK-47s being pointed out of the windows. The music blaring within the car being of tejano, a favorite among Mexican people playing loudly through the speakers.
''Chikushō!'' (Oh shit!) one of the gangsters shouted.
''Karuteru!'' (cartel!) shouted another.
The revealed sicarios aimed at the gangsters with their AKs and opened fire on their Japanese rivals and while the Yakuza gangsters attempted to draw their weapons to fire back at the unknown assailants they were shot to ribbons and two of them fell to the sidewalk dead. The Karin came to a halt and one of the sicarios came out and hurried to the trunk as his driver pops it open. The sicario slings his AK and reaches into the trunk and pulls out a large garbage bag and carries it over to the sidewalk and drops it on the pavement. Just as he was about to head back to the Karin he heard a moan and saw that one of the Yakuza gangsters was still alive, albeit barely holding his gunshot wounds. Smirking sadistically to himself he goes for his AK and jams it into the Japanese gangster's mouth and before he could try to fight back he fires off several shots completely obliterating the man's head, brain matter splattering all over the ground. He spits on the corpse before turning to head back to the car and the door where the gangster's were standing near opened and out popped Ken and Shigeru.
The Butcher had his pistol in hand and aimed at the sicario and opened fire hitting the man in the shoulder and he was sent to the ground in pain. Ken ordered Shigeru to open fire and the younger sibling did so without questioning his brother and took aim at the car and fired off a shot. The buckshot was ineffective at that range and the two brothers were forced back into the building for cover when the other sicarios fired back with their rifles so they could cover their comrade as he made his way back into the Sultan despite his injury. With their mission done the sicarios drove off while giving Ken the middle finger which only served to anger the Butcher who fired his Beretta in their direction until the gun clicked empty.
''See you later puta!'' the driver shouted.
''YOU GODDAMN BURRITO FUCKERS!" Ken screamed at the top of his lungs.
He turned and saw his brother checking on the bodies of his fallen men and he didn't even have to ask if they were alive, let alone the man with his head destroyed. That's when they both noticed the huge garbage bag on the pavement and Shigeru looked to his brother for permission to inspect the contents inside and despite his ceasing anger Ken nodded letting his brother know it was okay to check the bag.
Shigeru looked inside and almost vomited from what he saw. Ken already had an idea of what was inside and before he could tell his brother to help him take the bodies inside his phone vibrated. Reaching into his pocket he saw that the caller ID was Arthur.
Putting his anger aside Ken answered the call.
''What is it Arthur?''
Ken's ear was immediately greeted with the sounds of gunfire and shouting in the background as well as a frantic Arthur.
''Ken boy we're getting shot at! We need your...!''
The call then ended abruptly and wasting no time he texted Shirase to head over to the SAMLOS clubhouse right away and before they could go they took the bodies and the garbage bag into the back room of the Rising Sun before hopping into Shigeru's Sultan and driving off to the SAMLOS clubhouse.
-SAMLOS clubhouse-
''Goddammit! They fucking got my phone! That cost me 99 dollars!" Arthur growled as he looked at his iFruit, full of bullets laying on the floor nearby.
''What the fuck!? Who the hell is attacking us!? Better not be the cartel!'' John shouted in confusion.
''This is fucking bullshit!" Mitch screamed at the top of his lungs.
''These pussies can at least give us a chance to shoot back!" Teller exclaimed in anger.
Though they all had their weapons with them they knew that if they tried to get out of cover they would be riddled with lead and the best thing they could do now was just lay down completely flat on the floor narrowly avoiding the bullets that were wizzing passed their heads. As fast as it started the gunfire stopped, Arthur then slowly low crawled over to the shattered window and very slowly peeked to see if the coast was clear. Just as he was able to look outside he was greeted by more gunfire as a bullet came very close to blowing a hole in his face and he was forced to fall to the floor once more.
''Dammit!" he shouted.
"Muere gringos!" (Die gringos!)
The sudden insults in Spanish revealing the identity of the attackers shouldn't have been a surprise to the Sons. They helped Ken murder several sicarios and lieutenants but they didn't expect a retaliation like this so soon and so brazen.
''Fucking cartel.'' Teller said under his breath.
''One of you try to reach your phones and call a few of our guys! I've already reached for Ken hopefully he can..''
Over the gunfire they heard what sounded like some more cars pulling up and their stomachs turned inside as they could've been more cartel sicarios but to their relief they heard a familiar voice.
''Fuck you damn Mexicans!'' Shirase shouted.
''Get lost you illegals!'' Ken exclaimed.
Then the sound of more gunfire erupted and the gunfire that was closer to the building, being the sicarios stopped and they heard them cursing in Spanish before they drove off finally giving the Sons breathing space. The Sons listened still ducking for cover despite hearing Ken and Shirase's recognizable voices they heard several footsteps approaching the shot up exterior wall of the table room and that's when Arthur decided to speak up.
''Ken boy is that you?''
Thanks to the street lights that were now illuminating the room from the holes shot through their walls they saw several shadows approaching their location and that was when Ken peeked through the shot up window.
''You guys okay?'' asked the Butcher.
The four Sons got out of cover and slowly walked toward Ken and peeking out the window Arthur saw Ken was with Shirase, Shigeru and the Morimitsu-kai members Shirase had brought to look for their now deceased comrades.
''Phew, we thought we were done for. Damn, those Mexicans were really lighting this place up really hard. We couldn't even get up and shoot back.''
''I'm not surprised those damn cartel fuckers were the perpetrators. Just didn't expect them to fight back so soon.'' John said.
''Thank the reaper you guys came when you did otherwise we'd be dead.'' Teller added.
The mentioning of the cartel attacking made Ken's face scrunch up in disappointment and this was unnoticed by Arthur.
''Something wrong Ken?'' asked Arthur.
''Yeah, we're fine, just..''
Ken motioned for them to follow him and they knew it was urgent if he didn't say much. Nodding, Arthur made had Teller and Mitch call a few Sons to come and help them patch it up and not doubting the LSPD would show up they can make the themselves appear as the victims to avoid getting arrested for gang warfare while they went with Ken back to the Rising Sun to see what was up. Arthur and John then went into the garage to hop on their bikes and soon they followed the Japanese gangsters back to the Rising Sun.
''Oh man, we're gonna have fun explaining this to the pigs.'' Teller chuckled.
''We can play victim and that'll get them to fuck off trust me.'' Mitch said as they went to start patching the table room up.
-Rising Sun-
''Fuck, I should've spoke too soon.'' Ken said as he saw several LSPD cruisers blocking off the street leading up to his restaurant.
''Ah shit, you gotta be kidding me.'' Arthur growled.
The officer out of the barrier noticed the vehicles and positioned a megaphone near his mouth and began to speak.
''I need you all to get out of the vehicles with your hands up right now.''
Ken and Shigeru did so without protest and seeing what was going on Shirase and the other two Morimitsu-kai members followed suit. Arthur and John did the same action as well and that's when several officers came from the other side where the cruiser was blocking off the street and began to pat all the men down. Ken was confused as to why none of the officers went to pat him down and that's when he noticed another figure approaching him. Turning around he saw that it was officer Cortez walking toward him with a stern look on her face and out of the corner of his eye he saw that the blood from his dead men was still on the pavement and he knew he couldn't defend against the evidence right there, that plus the spent shells on the ground would make a defense hard on him.
''Don't make any sudden moves.'' she said as she began to pat him down.
When she was done patting him down from the front she ordered Ken to turn around so she can do it on his back side and Ken notice his brother, fellow members and the Sons were now handcuffed and saw that his Beretta and the Remington he gave to Shirase on the hood of the car.
''Fuck.''
''Well good to know you have nothing on you Mister Ken but I'm afraid I'm gonna have to take you back to the station for questioning. This is the second time your establishment was shot at so something is up here.'' Cortez said as she put him in handcuffs.
Shigeru did his best to suppressed his nervousness and the two brothers were then taken to Cortez's cruiser and placed in the backseat while the other five were put into a paddy wagon. Despite wanting to search his establishment Cortez knew she needed a warrant but she was glad she managed to catch Ken because now she can really start questioning what was going on.
-LSPD Vespucci Building-
Time: 1:45 AM
The LSPD were smart not to have the Sons and the Morimitsu-kai in adjacent cells because who knew what they could talk about? It was very dangerous on the department's part so they knew the best idea was to put them all in different cells minus the brothers of course. Originally Cortez wanted them in different cells but after Ken had told her they were brothers while they were on the way to the station she allowed them to be in the same cell. Ken was now seen sitting in a cell waiting for his turn to be questioned by Cortez and it would come at that moment as he saw his brother being escorted back to their shared cell. The most noticeable thing about Ken was that he had his tuxedo top and shades off and was just wearing his white dress shirt. Shigeru was in the same state too as they were asked to take them off to further prove they didn't have any concealed weapons on them the police may have missed.
The officer escorting Shigeru opened the cell door allowing the younger sibling to enter and go sit on his rack. The two siblings looked at each other before the officer told Ken he was next. Slowly getting up Ken walked over to the officer who told him to walk in front of him as he took him to the interrogation room and when he walked passed the one Arthur was in he wasn't able to make it what Arthur was saying which made a lot of sense. The officer then escorted him to the room next to Arthur's and the officer walked in front of Ken and opened the door for him.
''Go ahead.'' said the officer.
Ken nodded and walked into the room and saw Cortez sitting down a the table with another officer accompanying her, probably for back up. He was a black man with a name tag that read 'Tenpenny' and the smug look on his face Ken already knew he wanted to take out this cop. He also noticed the tattoo for the USMC symbol that he recognized seeing American forces in Japan.
''Ken, please have a seat.'' Cortez said pointing toward the chair.
Ken did what he was told and took a seat in front of Cortez as she looked through his wallet. She took out his ID and read out his info.
''Ken Morimitsu, immigrated from Tokyo, Japan, date of birth is September 2nd, 1987?''
''That's right officer.''
Cortez then handed his ID and the Butcher took it and put it in the pocket of his dress shirt.
''So you mind telling me what is going on? I already went to your restaurant a few nights before to respond to a drive by shooting, this time however I saw spent cartridges laying on the sidewalk and pools of blood. I was going to have some officer check inside the place but I didn't have a warrant.''
''So what? What would you even want to look for if you went inside anyway?''
''Who knows? Maybe I would've found something that we can use as evidence to convict you. We got a call about multiple gunshots and I just so happened to find out it was where your restaurant was. I'm just trying to help you out sir so relax will you?''
Ken knew how cops in Japan operated and American police were no different from his homeland. He knew deep down she suspected he was involved in organized crime but if he played the clueless and innocent immigrant restaurant owner he could buy some time to plan a retaliation against the cartel and maybe...seduce and break this veteran Latina cop and have her cover for his operations in exchange for good Japanese dick?
''I was not present when the shooting happened. I was coming back because I had forgotten something in my office in the restaurant.
''Then please explain to me the weapons we found in your car? Why do you have a Beretta and a Remington? Do you have a gun license?'' asked Cortez.
''Yes, but I have it in my drawer at home.'' Ken replied.
Cortez had a feeling he was lying but decided to drop the issue, ''Okay, then next time you better have it on your person because if we catch you again without it you will lose your firearms and be charged accordingly. What about the blood on the floor? Where or whose is it?''
''Like I said before officer, I wasn't there when the place was shot at, we just closed for the night and I had forgotten something at the restaurant. I give you my word.'' Ken said raising his hand up to show his sincerity.
While Cortez was being patient with Ken Tenpenny wasn't having any of the faked innocence.
''I call bullshit on this Mister Ken, so you're telling me blood just appears in thin air when guns are shot? There had to be people there when the place was shot at. At the scene our forensics specialists found a few pieces of what they said was brain matter and some skull fragments. You're obviously hiding something from us.'' Tenpenny then walked over to the table and lowered himself to Ken's level, ''So who got shot? Whose brains were all over the pavement?''
Ken looked intensely at Tenpenny and only glared deep into the officer's eyes.
''I do not know, officer.'' he said sternly, ''They could've been harmless pedestrians caught in the crossfire.''
Tenpenny only smirked at the Butcher and scoffed.
''Hmph, whatever you say.''
''Tenpenny it's fine I got this.'' Cortez said hoping to defuse the situation.
''All yours partner.''
''So are you positive about what you're saying? We have a witness describing a gray Karin Sultan speeding away from around the corner and men in ski masks, Hispanic males to be exact. Do you know anything about this?''
''I do not officer. As I've said before we were not in the vicinity of the Rising Sun when the shooting happened.'' Ken answered, ''I'm just as lost as you are.''
She tried, she really did and knowing this wouldn't go any farther than this she decided to just end the interrogation right there. Shigeru said the exact same thing, the Morimitsu-kai members with Shirase didn't speak English and Shirase pretended he didn't know English. That was that and she knew it despite her wanting to prove that Ken was a criminal figure.
''Okay, that is all for now. However you guys will stay here overnight in protective custody since we believe you were the targets of the shootings. The moment you wake up an officer will let you be on your way.''
''Thank you officer.''
Ken was then taken out of the room by the officer who had escorted him there leaving Cortez and Tenpenny alone together.
''This guy is full of shit, he has to know what happened. Who would target random pedestrians and blow their brains out on the ground?'' said Cortez
''No idea but the body had to be taken away I mean, the other two pools of blood means the other two could've ran away and got help but the brain matter makes zero sense to me, unless someone moved the body elsewhere.'' Tenpenny inquired, ''I've seen similar stuff like that in my younger days.''
''Anything is possible, but good thing we're keeping him and his brother here overnight.''
''Yeah, the other guy who refused to talk we have no choice but to let him be on his way.''
''You don't think the deaths of the cartel members at the hotel are connected to this do you?''
Tenpenny gave it a bit of thought and the more he thought about it it seemed to make sense.
''You know what? I think it makes sense. First the lot under the freeway, the bodies found out of town and then the manor? All the while that place gets shot up twice, SAMLOS gets shot at twice too.''
''There HAS to be some kind of gang war going on here. But we just can't arrest Ken without proper evidence so we need to do this fast. No mob war is happening in this city.'' she said, crossing her arms and thinking about the consequences a mob war could have on the city's infrastructure and economy, ''The Los Santos gang wars between Grove street, the Cambodian gang and the Vagos saw many murders so there's no doubt a mob war in a city this huge is gonna kill more people. I gotta stop this from happening.''
''Damn right. Keep sticking to him and tell me what you dig up.''
The two officers then left the room.
Half an hour later..
''Thank you kindly officers.'' Shirase said as he and the Morimitsu-kai members were let out of their cells.
Arthur and John followed suit and they made their way toward Ken and Shigeru's holding cell only to be told they were being detained overnight for the matter of ''protective custody''.
''Well just let me talk to him real quick officer.''
''Alright, but you got five minutes.'' the officer standing guard over the brothers said before walking off.
''Tch, damn fake tough guys.'' Arthur commented.
''Daijōbudesuka?'' (Are you okay?) Shirase questioned.
''Hai, watashitachi no tame ni jū o motte iki, asamade basho o mimamotte kudasai.'' (Yeah, take the guns for us and watch the place until morning) replied Ken.
''Wakatta.'' (Alright)
Shirase and the others walked away to ask to pick up Ken's guns for him to hold onto until his release and Arthur took the chance to talk with his ally.
''What's going on boy? Something seems to be eating away at you.''
Shigeru knew what Ken was thinking, what they saw in the bag was truly gruesome, but Ken decided it would be better to show Arthur when they both get out in the morning.
Ken only looked up at Arthur, ''I think it's better for you to see for yourself.''
Arthur only nodded in response.
''Alright then, just give me a call when you get out and we'll head over right away.''
Arthur turned and walked away.
''I'll see you fellers later.'' John said before joining Arthur.
Ken then went to lay on his cot and the two brothers only laid there for several minutes before sleep soon took over.
-LSPD, Vespucci building, next morning-
Time: 9:30 AM
After collecting their belongings in bags the two brothers were free to go. Having just woke up and not eating in the past twelve hours Ken was definitely in the mood for some breakfast.
''Let's go eat at Burger Shot, get a quick breakfast.''
''If you say so ototo.''
Ken took his phone out and went on the map app to see the nearest fast food joint.
''A ten minute walk from here, not bad.''
The two brothers then made their way toward the fast food place and eventually they were able to head inside. Ken ordered a casual breakfast sandwich while Shigeru got a few pieces of hashbrowns, nothing special but enough to satisfy their morning hunger.
''This is good, I like it.'' Ken said.
''Don't eat too much fast food though or you'll become a sumo wrestler.'' Shigeru chuckled.
''This is the first time I've eaten American fast food so let me savor the flavor and grease.'' Ken said as he took a big bite out of his sandwich.
Shigeru turned his attention to his phone as he was browsing eyefinder's map app and the sound of hip hop music playing loudly caught both their attention. Looking up toward the source they saw a navy blue Imponte Ruiner driving up to the parking lot of the Burger Shot. The driver parked in an available spot and when the occupants left the vehicle the brothers noticed that they appeared to be Southeast Asian men wearing blue clothing, some of them having blue rags in their left back pocket.
''Oh crap, I forgot we're in Cambodian Hit Squad turf.'' Shigeru said hoping the members wouldn't recognize him as that ''Japanese nigga'' who hung out with Grove Street.
Ken watched the laughing gangbangers as they entered the fast food building and then turned to look at his brother.
''There isn't going to be a problem right? Aren't they and Grove street allies?''
''Yeah I only know a few guys in that gang, I've never seen those four before so they must be juniors or something.'' Shigeru said.
Ken then turned back around to look at the four Cambodian gang members through the window and saw that they were already getting their orders. He then took his iFruit out and went onto eyefind. He clicks on the search box of Wakipedia and types in ''Cambodian Hit Squad''. When he clicked enter he was greeted to a page that was created that contained the history of the street gang. Wondering what his brother was reading Shigeru got up and sat next to his brother and together the brothers read the information that was provided.
The Cambodian Hit Squad, sometimes called Khmer Boyz for short is an ethnically exclusive Cambodian street gang that was formed in the San Andreas area sometime during the mid 1980s. When Cambodians began to immigrate to San Andreas following the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia the younger generation began to face discrimination and harassment from the well established Latino street gang, the East Side Vagos.
''So they did form to protect themselves from those Vagos.'' Ken said before he continued reading.
Since then they have been engaged in a deadly blood feud with the Vagos and what originally was a gang war soon turned into a race war. Mostly concentrated on the west side of Los Santos around the Vespucci beach where there are many Cambodian immigrants CHS has a large membership comprising over several hundred members which makes them almost as large as other Los Santos gangs like Grove Street Families. Despite being outnumbered by a sizable margin by the much larger Vagos gang they formed an alliance with Grove Street who too faced similar racial attacks from the Vagos and the CHS makes up for their lesser numbers with brutal machete attacks on Vagos members.
'This is really interesting, I never knew anything about this.'' Ken said.
''Yeah, they got into a really bad feud in the early 90s and Grove Street always had their backs.'' Shigeru added.
''Text CJ to see if they want to seize the territories of the Vagos, since the Vagos could be pushing drugs for the cartel also and being a rival to these Cambodians if they help Grove Street out in fighting them they can have a share in Vagos territory. When we take control of all the cartels assets we can give them cocaine to distribute alongside CJ and his gang and reimburse them with guns and our protection.''
''Do you want me to ask if we can set up a meeting with the OGs of the Cambodians?'' Shigeru asked.
''Hai, but we'll send Shirase to handle it, being my adviser it would be less intimidating to talk with a mob boss like me. So see what CJ says and we can set up a potential alliance with this Cambodian Hit Squad. Those Mexicans stick together, so us Asians will stick together.''
Ken sent Shirase a message letting him know that he was coming back to the Rising Sun and the brothers finished their meal and Shigeru called for a cab using the Downtown Cab Co. app and soon a cab arrived and the two brothers were headed back toward Little Tokyo.
-Little Tokyo, Rising Sun-
''Thank you, have a great day.'' Shigeru said to the driver as he and Ken exited the cab.
They then saw that it was opened thanks to Shirase watching over the place and he saw that customer traffic was a little low compared to the previous nights. While he didn't show it Ken was secretly angry at this and he knew the place being shot at twice had made the local population a bit wary of the place and since it was the only way Ken was making legitimate money if this kept on going it could seriously damage his potential rise to power in San Andreas and that's not what he wanted. He knew losing men was inevitable but since the cartel had already did some form of major damage to him he decided that once SAMLOS gets here they can plan an attack against the cartel.
''Come on, let's head inside.'' Ken said to Shigeru.
The sibling nodded and both men walked around the corner to the employee only door and Ken knocked on it. A few seconds later the peephole slid open and the Morimitsu-kai member saw that it was Ken and his brother. The gangster then slid the peephole shut and opened the door. He stepped aside and gave Ken a bow to which the Butcher returned the gesture before heading in with his brother. Hearing the door close the two brothers made their way down the hallway until they reached Ken's office. The Butcher knocked on the door and heard Shirase's voice telling them to come in. Ken opens the door and when Shirase saw that it was him entering with his brother he stood up from Ken's desk and immediately bowed.
''No need for formalities now Shirase, we have important things to discuss, let's go I have something to show you.'' Ken motioned for his adviser to follow him into the basement of the restaurant.
Shirase and Shigeru looked to each other and knew what Ken was going to talk to them about. Shigeru especially having saw what was in the huge garbage bag. As they were walking to the basement Ken reached for his iFruit and gave Arthur a call while sending CJ a text to come over.
*45 minutes later*
Ken, his brother and Shirase were seen standing over the garbage bag as it rested on the floor of the room, this was the same room they had tortured the cartel drug dealer and the smell coming from the bag wasn't doing the room any justice. After murdering the drug dealer this room was soon named the death room by Shirase and what was about to be shown to SAMLOS and CJ was give that name justice. The three Japanese men just stood there looking at the bag until the door to the room opened and in walked Arthur, John, Teller and Mitch who were followed by CJ. Ken told CJ to shut the door and soon the stench became noticeable with the five visitors.
''Oh my god, what is the hell is that boy?'' Arthur gagged.
''Goddamn Ken homie, smells like period blood!" CJ said between coughs.
''What the hell, smells like Ramadi.'' John groaned.
''Smells like my ex-wife's bloodied pussy.'' Mitch said sarcastically.
''Good lord, did some bitch on her period explode?'' Teller laughed, a few coughs escaping his mouth.
''No time for jokes men, everyone gather around this bag.'' Ken instructed.
Everyone did what they were told and when they all formed a circle around the bag Ken ordered Shirase to open it and when he did what the other five saw almost made them shriek in shock. Despite all four of them being former U.S. Army soldiers they have seen people die, Arthur having it the worst since he was Special Forces and has been up close with Taliban fighters but he never expected to see such gore since he was discharged. CJ, being a gangbanger at most saw people get shot or stabbed but nothing prepared any of them for what they were looking at now.
''Holy shit...'' Arthur said under his breath.
''Nigga the fuck?'' CJ thought.
''Son of a bitch...'' Teller, Mitch and John all said.
What the men were all looking at were the decapitated and dismembered corpses of the two Morimitsu-kai members Ken had allowed to go on break Tetsuda and Kyo. In the bag clear for all eyes to see were their severed heads, arms, legs and their limbless torsos. It was the trademark of the Madrazo drug cartel used to intimidate their enemies and that was the reason why Madrazo had ordered his men to give Ken a special delivery.
''The cartel shot at my restaurant again and took out five more of my men so now I've lost six.'' Ken said, no emotion in his voice.
''Six? There's only two here.'' Arthur gagged.
Ken spoke into his walkie and a few minutes later the door to the room opened and three members of his crew carried the lead riddled corpses of the three men that were killed in the drive-by shooting by the cartel the night before were brought into the room and set on the floor gently by their brothers. Ken nodded at his men and they exited the room leaving them all with more corpses.
''Oh Jesus Christ.'' Arthur thought in disgust.
''Aight, this some sick shit my nigga.'' CJ groaned.
''Not long before you called me Arthur the cartel did another drive-by here and took these three men out. Poor little brother here had his head completely blown to pieces. Not only did I call you men here to see this gruesome sight, I have decided that after we were shot at again we need to start acting against the cartel fast.''
Ken walkied for his men to return back to the room and take the bodies away to be disposed of and led everyone else into the meeting room from where he first spoke with SAMLOS. All the men sit down with Shirase providing everyone with water bottles and the single light in the room hung quietly over the group. Arthur, his fellow Sons and CJ could see the change in the appearance in Ken's eyes and saw that he looked incredibly determined with a mixture of anger and thirst for vengeance. Their seating was as follows, Ken at one of the table with Arthur on the opposite, Shirase and his brother his either side of him diagonally with the Sons on either side of the table going down with CJ next to Shigeru.
Shirase and Shigeru knew it was about to get serious, especially Shirase since he had worked with Ken since he joined Otomo-gumi years ago.
Ken looked at Shirase and held his hand out and reaching into his pocket he pulled out the notebook and cellphones he got off the dead cartel members from the Chumash Manor several days ago that had a ton of information on it that would prove useful. Ken unlocked a phone and gave it to Shirase.
''I had Shirase review these phones for information, Shirase explain to them please.''
''Hai, so when I looked deeper into these phones, not only does the cartel have a potential cocaine stash under an iFruit phone store near the El Burro Heights area I was also able to dig up that the cartel is indeed tied with the Mayans MC and using the East Side Vagos gang to push drugs into their neighborhood. In addition to that information the cartel has a legitimate business in the form of a bar and grill located in the Mirror Park area with Vagos acting as muscle and they are using a warehouse in the Port of Los Santos as a weapon storage.''
''Shit, LSPD has been trying to figure that for years now and I really did have the feeling of the cartel and Mayans being close so what are you planning Ken?'' Arthur questioned.
''Shirase also discovered that the cartel and Mayans have a monthly meeting at a place called the Redwoods Light Tracks up north. You know it?'' Ken answered.
''Yeah, it's that construction and motor track site located near Harmony.''
''We are in luck, tonight is when the Mayans and cartel meet to exchange drug money for guns so I was wondering if Morimitsu-kai and SAMLOS can organize a joint attack.'' Ken suggested.
They've both been shot at by the cartel and tensions with the Mayans have reached a near boiling point in recent years, being connected to the cartel was enough of a reason for SAMLOS to fight it out with the Mayans and despite the Mayans being armed by the cartel with some powerful weapons, Arthur knew that Ken's group, despite being small as of right now compared to the other crime families was enough to give him the confidence to aid his ally. He was very confident that with Ken and his crew their victory was ensured, it wouldn't be without men dying on their side but it would not be in vain. SAMLOS had always wanted to see the Mayans in neighboring Sandy Shores taken down and this as the perfect chance to take over and expand Sons of Anarchy influence in San Andreas.
Arthur looked at his fellow Sons and they all nodded, SAMLOS, Morimitsu-kai and their brothers from SAMFARE and SAMDEN plus Grove Street and possibly CHS dealing with the Vagos would bolster their numbers which should make it a fair fight.
''They're all in favor Ken, okay you have my support.''
Shigeru was very nervous about being involved in an organized crime war and he knew it would be much, MUCH worse compared to wars waged between street gangs but he had to toughen up if he wanted to help his brother when it came to dealing with rival crews. So he knew he had to toughen up or he'd be dead.
He looked to his brother and nodded to show his support, CJ and Shirase doing so as well.
''Good, CJ I want you to get in touch with someone from the Cambodian gang to aid you in stave off any threat the Vagos might pose. Having possible connections to the cartel it makes them an enemy too so we'll leave them to you and the Cambodians. Shirase will order some men to give your gang a few spare guns we have.'' Ken said.
''Aight, you got it dawg.'' CJ said with a nod.
''Arthur, tonight we will plan a hit against the Mayan and cartel meet, take some of that money and claim those guns for ourselves and then we'll hit that bar and grill.''
''What kind of guns did you say you were packing again? Is it enough to wage a gang war?'' Arthur asked.
Ken took everyone out of the room and they headed into the hallway and heading toward the end of the hallway and taking a key unlocks the door and when he let the Sons and CJ the contents of the room they saw several racks full of guns that Otomo-san had smuggled with the men he sent to back up Ken. On the racks were a variety of weapons such as pistols like Berettas, Colt .45s, Desert Eagles, a few submachine guns like MP5s and a dozen Minebea PM-9s. On a few other racks there were rifles neatly placed such as Howa rifles given to Otomo-gumi from rogue soldiers in the Japan Ground Defense Force, M4s with ACOG scopes on them stolen from a U.S. Army armory in Okinawa, a few AK-47s with aimpoint pro red dot sights and several crates with hand grenades in them. It was a simple arsenal but a very good start and Arthur liked what he saw.
''Wow, this a good cache here.'' Arthur whistled.
''Damn dude, all GSF has is 9 mils and that's it.'' CJ added.
''Looks like a typical army lock up, pretty bad ass.'' John said, Teller and Mitch nodded in agreement.
Ken walked over to one of the racks and took a Howa rifle and attached an ACOG scope onto it. He pointed Shigeru toward an AK-47 and ordered his brother to attach a sight on it to which the sibling did without question.
''And what kind of weapons did you say SAMLOS is packing?'' Ken asked.
''AR-15s, some AKs and TEC-9s from each member's personal stock.''
Arthur then reached for his dual Colt Pythons and showed it to Ken. John, Teller and Mitch brought out their weapons. John had a SIG P226, Teller had brass knuckles and a Beretta while Mitch had a Colt M1911 on him.
''It's still better than nothing. You guys help yourself out, you too CJ, grab a box of grenades for your gang.''
CJ nodded excitedly and carefully took a box of M67 frag grenades, The Sons each grabbed a rifle, two M4s and two AKs and looked over the weapons. It felt good because these weapons were capable of killing and that's what the goal would be in a mob war. The M4 was a weapon Arthur learned to love from his time in Special Forces and Marston when he served in the 2nd Infantry Division.
''It feels like I'm a soldier again.'' Arthur said.
''Yeah..it does.'' John seconded.
Ken then took a magazine and loaded it into his Howa and turned to look at his men.
"Arthur, I request you call a few men to provide some security along with my men to watch this restaurant while we hit this meet. We head out to the tracks tonight, their little exchange is at 10. We wait for both sides to greet each other and just as they seal the deal we take them out.''
He then turned to CJ.
''You head on home, get in touch with someone from the Cambodian gang and send them here as soon as you can to meet with Shirase.''
''Aight dawg, good luck.''
CJ took his box of grenades and left the building.
The seven remaining men then went over to discuss possible battle tactics they can use against the cartel and Mayans once they get involved before settling down and waiting until it was evening. When nightfall hit the restaurant had reached its peak hour but with the recent shooting traffic was a little low, but still enough to sustain the restaurant.
The back door to the restaurant opened and a white Speedo Custom a Morimitsu-kai member had left for Ken to use was seen parked ready for his use. From the door emerged Ken and the others with duffel bags containing the weapons they were going to use against the Mayans and cartel. Shirase placed the duffel bags in the back of the van and got into the van with his fellow Japanese mobsters and waited for the Sons to mount their motorcycles. Soon they then headed out on the road and made their way north to where the joint Mayan and cartel exchange was to occur.
Ken turned on the radio and putting on Headbanger Nation he grew to enjoy he then found himself lost in the sounds of 80s Thrash metal playing.
-Redwood Lights Track-
Time: 9:50 PM
The sound of the van and roaring of the Sons' bikes filled the silent night sky as they finally pulled up on their destination. Ken, being the logical criminal he was knew it would be best to park a quarter mile down the road from the meeting place as to not make any noise that might've deterred their adversaries and cause them to abandon the meeting. If they were caught that would put the Sons and Morimitsu-kai in a bad position as the opposition would then be prepared.
Ken, Shigeru and Shirase exited the van and were soon followed by the Sons. Heading toward the back of the van Ken opened the doors and pulled out the duffel bags and unzipped them. He takes a step to the side to let everyone take their weapon out and load them for the assault. He then told the others to lay in an over watch position over the central tracks so that the may have a word alone with Shigeru.
''Yes nii-san?''
Ken smiled at his brother and placed both his hands on his brother's shoulders and the soft look he gave Shigeru made the younger sibling feel strange. Why did he give him such a loving and sincere smile?
''I just want you to know you can sit this one out, if you aren't comfortable killing more people then I won't hold it against you. You can wait in the van if you want ototo.''
Shigeru knew he had to toughen up and the only real way that was going to happen was to be exposed to more violence to become desensitized by it. He can see that with Shirase and his brother after the Yakuza wars back in Japan. He decided he had to toughen up for his brother's sake because he was all the family he had left, if this was a way they can recreate that lost sibling bond then so be it.
''No I'm fine, I want to be here for you to make up for those lost years.'' Shigeru answered confidently.
Ken could tell his sibling wasn't lying and can sense the confidence within him so he nodded, his smile being bigger than ever. Taking the AK-47 he hands it to his brother who loads a magazine into and puts a round in the chamber and the two head off to join their allies.
''Any sign yet?'' Ken asked as they walked up to the others.
''Nah boy, but we're getting close to 10.'' Arthur answered.
''Okay, Arthur, Shigeru you're with me, Teller, you and Shirase head to those porta potties right there and Mitch, you and Marston head over to that bulldozer and take a position.''
Everyone went into their position and when looked from an aerial point of view it gave them a complete high ground ambush which would surely play into their advantage. When the clock struck 10 everyone noticed a couple of lights coming from the eastern road while a pair of headlights was seen coming from the western road. They knew it had to be some Mayans and cartel goons heading to the area and after several minutes it was revealed the unknowns from the east road were Hispanic men wearing biker attire, their patch being a Mayan tribal symbol with the words Mayans, MC, and Sandy Shores rockers. Four members of the Mayans MC out of Sandy Shores, just like the note said. They park themselves in the middle track as the other vehicles, an orange Vapid Caracara 4x4 pulled up to meet the Mayans.
''Fucking Mayans, I had a feeling.'' Arthur thought as he looked on.
The Caracara came to a stop and there were crates in the back of it and out came four sicarios from the Los Sonora cartel and both sides slowly walked toward each other. The lead Mayan and sicario greeted each other and the exchange began.
"Hey, you have the drug money?'' asked the lead sicario.
''Yes, here you are.'' replied the Mayan.
The Mayan has one of his men hand him a small foot locker and and pulled out what Ken was able to see was over a hundred thousand in cash. The cartel sicario takes the cash and counts it to find it being the exact payment Madrazo had asked for this month's exchange and he smiled in satisfaction.
"Do you have the weapons for us?''
"Take out the stuff and show them.'' the sicario said to the others.
The other three sicarios walked to the back of the Caracara and unloaded three weapon crates and a duffel bag onto the ground with the Mayans following the lead sicario to look at the items. One of the sicarios opens the crates and inside were AK-103 assault rifles, the latest in the AK weapon series stolen straight from Mexican army armories and smuggled straight into San Andreas from the cartel's factions south of the border. The sicario opened another crate and in this one was full of FN Five-seven pistols and USP 45s, and the third was a mixture of M1014 shotguns, a PSG-1 and Barrett M82 sniper rifle, an M79 grenade launcher and in the duffel bag were a few G3 rifles, more M4s and several HK33s with attached M203 grenade launchers. Ken, Shigeru and Arthur were amazed at the armament of the cartel and to know the Mayans were being armed with this kind of weaponry they knew they hit the jackpot with this. The sicarios then pulled out a fourth medium sized crate and when they opened it it contained rounds for the M203s and rounds for the rifles.
"Here you go, do you have any requests for next time?'' the lead sicario asked.
"Javier wants RPDs and RPGs if you can, this is sure to wipe out those Japanese who have been messing with you guys and we plan on hitting them in a few days.''
''Okay, I see what we can do at the same price and when we win this we'll split the territory.''
Just as the two sides were about to shake hands to seal the deal was when Ken gave the signal for the ambush to start. In a split second a loud gunshot rang out and the lead sicario was dropped with a round straight through the skull. An uproar of gunfire erupted and a Mayan was shot a dozen times in the ensuing chaos with the surviving Mayans and sicarios drawing their weapons. Being only pistols it stood no chance against the power of the AKs and M4s being used against them and while they were able to fire some rounds back, the ambush had them surrounded from three sides and before they can identify their attackers the were each dropped one by one, a Mayan's head was blown in half from Shigeru using his AK-47 while a sicario had both his face and arms shot to bits. Eventually both the Mayans and cartel thugs were slaughtered and the gunfire stopped, the silent night air being filled with the chirping of crickets and a few seconds later Ken and the other emerged from their locations and slowly made their way toward the massacred bodies of their enemies.
While seven of the bodies lay still, one of the sicarios was seen gagging and holding his wounds on his chest, his eyes closed as he suffered from great pain and Arthur almost walked up to him to put a bullet in his head but Ken looked at Arthur in a way that told him to stand down. Arthur nodded and knew this was Ken's kill. Ken walked up to the dying sicario and not feeling pity for the man he took his Howa rifle and jammed the barrel onto the man's chin right under his jaw and squeezes the trigger, the last sound heard was the spent cartridge hitting the dirt.