Nogitsune (17 page)

"Sanko’s dead," Hayashi said.

"So I heard. I don't get why everyone is sad."

Hayashi glared at David. "I was wondering the same about why you're not."

"He was a corrupt cop," David said. "For all we know, he could be the reason why all this got started. Why should I care after all the shit he pulled?"

Hayashi shook his head. "You don't understand anything, do you?"

He abruptly got up from his seat, roughing the desk up and walked away quickly. David got up seconds later chasing him. A part of him felt sorry due to never seeing Hayashi act with emotion before. He managed to catch up with him as he went outside smoking a cigarette in the back of the precinct.

"What the hell was that?" David asked. "I didn't know you cared so much about the guy."

Hayashi kept smoking deeply, ignoring David.

"Okay, I didn't mean to bad mouth him now that's he's dead. He was a corrupt cop, but a cop nevertheless. I should be more respectful."

Blowing some smoke, he mentioned, "Do you know why up to this point, we never had a yakuza war like this? Because of men like Sanko."

"And men like you?" David interjected.

"I understand that kind of man. Someone who has to go beyond the realm of darkness to find that light. Sometimes we find that light. And sometimes...we get stuck in the darkness and never get out of it. I'm not saying it excuses what Sanko had been doing, but when you see the entire picture and all we do every day with the bureaucracy of it all, you would think we learn our lessons by now."

Hearing Hayashi in his philosophical place, David just took his cigarette and smoked it as well. "So where are you going with this?"

Hayashi shook off his thoughts. "Someone's playing both sides. Putting one family against the other in the hopes of wiping them all out. I mean..."

A pause.

"Wait a second!"

Suddenly, Hayashi ran back inside. David put out the cigarette and followed. From there, they went to their desks. Hayashi made some calls.

"Send some units down to Sugamo. Tell them to transfer him out and send him to Tokyo. No matter what. Anything you see out of the ordinary, react with force."

Hayashi slammed the phone down. "I'm going down to Sugamo to make sure Daiichi makes it to Tokyo. Keep watch over everything here."

"And do what?"

"Await my arrival."

"What are you thinking?"

Hayashi stopped in his haste. "If I'm right about this, and someone else is pulling the strings, they just up the stakes."

****

Ryu Korashi got up one night and prepared to kill every Fukushima he saw on sight. The only thing he knew was that since the death of Tomonubu Inato, people in his organization were getting murdered left and right.

Ryu cocked his gun and tucked it in his belt buckle under his shirt. Then, he looked outside to see if there was anything that looked suspicious.

Ryu Korashi had risen fast in the ranks of the Inato organization since he left Robert Martin and became a bodyguard for Kento and the Inato underbosses. With Kento taking over, and Daiki dead, he became Kento’s eyes and ears within the underworld.

He kept a low-key profile ever since; a loner true to his purpose and not looking for much else. Being a loner, no one knew where he lived or his routines. He had no hobbies. He lived modest and saved his money whenever he can. His job was all that mattered to him.

Ryu carried his thoughts with him outside as he was putting trash out in the dark for the morning pick-up. It almost seemed surreal how hours before he was just in the
Night Nurses
with Chion.

He put the trash out in a metal basket. He breathed in the air. The minute he turned his back, someone shouted his name. Ryu grabbed his gun from under his shirt and quickly turned to him and out of nowhere, a shotgun bullet shot ripped Ryu's chest open and threw him back across his own driveway. The assassin kicked Ryu’s gun in the grass and then took out a nine millimeter and blasted him three more times in the chest and then took off his mask.

“My have the mighty have fallen!” his killer said in Japanese.

Ryu coughed up blood. “What… Ayuko…”

"I bet you never thought you would see me again,” Ayuko Fukai said pistol-whipping Ryu, who at one point stuck her head down his penis. “And I most definitely knew you never thought that the girl you disgraced would put a bullet in you.”

Ryu gasped for breath, trying to break free from the grips of death, but the blood continued to leak and his holes were too large to fill with just his hands. Then, when the bullets cooled, the excruciating pain started.

“Before you die and take that final plunge into hell, I just wanted you to know who I am,” Ayuko continued. “My name is Ayuko Fukai, the sister of Daiki Fukai, one of the hardest gangsters to ever live. He was once known as the Monster. Do you know why? He used to killed little schoolgirls. He was half the killer your ass would ever be.”

“Fuck you,” whispered Ryu as he coughed up blood.

“My brother is dead because of someone like you. My brother is dead because his so-called best friend didn’t protect him. But that’s not why I went after you. I’m not killing you because of what you did. I shot you…because I wanted to…” 

Ayuko bent down to Ryu. “I just want you to think about this as you breathe your final breath of life. Last night, I followed you ever since that happened. I followed you to your mother’s house where your sister leaves with her two kids.”

Ryu’s eyes widened as tears began to fall from the side of his eyes.

“When you're dead, I’m going to go there and first, I’m going to have fun with your mother. Then, I’m going to have fun with your sister. And then I’m going to have fun with your niece while your nephew watches. Then when I’m done, I’m going to kill your mother and your sister in front of the two kids. Oh, but don’t worry! I’m not going to hurt the kids. Your nephew? I’m going to give him a job working for me. He's going to sell his body for me. The new… Monster!”

Ryu balled up his fist and tried to muster enough strength to get up but it was no use.

“Your niece, on the other hand? She goes to my school. I’m going to make sure she suffers the worst fate. I’m going to get her raped by some of her own students. Maybe some of the teachers. Hell, I may find some homeless man and have him get some. Then I’m going to make her my own personal whore. You have seen and known personally some of the things my brother has done to his whores. It's going to be nothing compared to what I do to your niece. Think about that on your way to hell. And know all of your friends will join you very soon. Like my brother went after schoolgirls, I’m going after…criminals like you.”

Confident about getting her revenge, Ayuko Fukai, the younger sister of the deceased Daiki Fukai, went on her bike and left Ryu’s body casually as if she was just walking like a regular Japanese person: without emotion and focused on just her destination.

Ryu struggled to breathe as reached in his pocket and got his phone out. With every bit of strength he had left, he dialed Kento's number, hoping that he could give Kento the message. Praying that God would grant him a couple of more minutes to ask Kento to protect his family.

“Hello! Hello!"

Ryu opened his mouth and breathed his last breath…..

****

Yuki Williams went outside the balcony of the Sagawa home in Osaka, embracing the night air. She looked up to find the full moon out and brighter than it normally would be. Just as she was getting used to the glow, her cellphone rang. She immediately opened it up and answered.

“Ayame, give me some good news!”

Yuki looked down at her hands as Ayame Komatsu, her good friend back in Yokosuka, talked to her.

Our girls did a good job. The Inato and Fukushima are running around with their heads cut off. We’re getting close. How are things down there?

Yuki smirked. “Get the shipments ready. We’re pushing
Pussy
. We’re not waiting for these bitches to kiss and make up. Starting pushing
Pussy
into Yokosuka. Send some of our girls to the other bases as well. Yokota. Atsugi. Camp Zama. Better yet, have a couple of girls go down to Okinawa and check out the landscape there. See if we can shake some things up.”

We’re really doing this, are we?

“Best believe it. Let the rest of them know.”

You got it! Be careful out there!

“Don’t worry about me! I have everything taken care of over here.”

Yuki closed her cell and placed it back inside her pocket. She raised her head back to find that the same white moon turned red before her eyes. Yuki closed her eyes.

“The crime families are warring with one another. The girls are doing what they are supposed to. It’s your turn now!”

Standing to her shoulder was a nogistune resting her head. “David Hamada’s soul is cracking. It won’t be long now. Hayashi Ohba continues to be a pest, but it’s nothing that I can’t handle.”

Yuki took a breath. “I guess once we bring it all together, then we finished it.”

“You have done great work for me,” Illicit said. “I’ll never forget this. For now, finish this deal and then, you can strike the final blows. I’ll let you know when I’ll need you again.”

“It’s understood and shall be as you wish, Goddess!” Yuki responded.

The nogistune disappeared and when Yuki opened her eyes again, they had turned red. “Amaterasu! We’ll see if you can save Japan now. Once he comes back to life from that cop, I’ll be coming for you!” 

Yuki closed her eyes again, right around the same time a voice came out, “Yuki? Where are you?”

When Yuki opened her eyes again, they turned back to normal. She shook her head wildly as her name continued to be called. She slipped back inside and presented herself before the woman wanting her: Chisato Sagawa.

“Here I am!”

Chisato lied down on the bed, already drunk and high from alcohol and Yuki’s personal
Pussy
. Yuki stared at her as Chisato reached out her arm.

“Strip for me,” the Diamond Princess ordered. “I want to see all that beautiful skin you have.”

Yuki obliged as she started taking off her shirt and her bra gradually.

“I can’t wait to show you to everyone. Say it for me.”

Yuki grinned as she let the shirt slipped from her arms down to the floor, exposing a tattoo of a fox that went down from her back all the way to the crack of her buttocks. From there, she gave the Diamond Princess the words she wanted to hear.

“I belong to you, Diamond Princess,” Yuki said.

From there, she crawled to the bed and kissed Chisato tenderly… 

TO BE CONTINUED…