Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic. It is a Sakura Taisen and FATE/STAY NIGHT story. I don't own Sakura or any of the characters. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of SEVENTEEN are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.

Signed: Benji Himura.

This story revolves around a heavy subject and things that many might found uncomfortable reading. Anyone who doesn't feel comfortable with the story subject is advised to not continue. Anyone that dislikes what will happen on the following chapters is also advised to stop.

Many characters will be suffering on the events displayed bellow. Non-constructive critics, flames with harsh words and just saying that the story suck won't be accepted or replied. You might voice your discontentment in seeing your favorite character suffering on the story as long you keep civil and understand that his is only a story and the suffering is a main part of the story plotline. It won't be changed by requests of readers; I won't spare one of the characters because the readers are telling me to.

I write this story. If you don't like it please don't read it. Some characters might be out of character and acting in ways that they wouldn't act, that is because what happen on the story. If you dislike seeing OOC stop reading because it will appear a lot. There will be original characters and self inserted characters on the story if you dislike them stop reading here and go look for another writer because I ALWAYS write SELF-INSERTED fics.

If you do read the story being against something that I wrote above I just tell you this: "You have been warned."

Author notes: I am trying a new story style on this fic, it might be slight different from my usual one and if I dislike it I might change to my normal style.

"Text" Talked sentences.

'Text' Thoughts. (Mostly Benji's)

-Text- Sounds effects.

(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language. As English when everyone else speaks Japanese.

: Text: Messages show in an electronic screen or written.

Text: something being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.

Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.

Ankoku no Gekijou

Chapter twelve: New lead

Teito streets May sixth 1927 2:45 AM; Somewhere in Ginza district

Benji runs on the empty Teito streets; he is with a black suit and with a black shirt bellow it. He is with a mask covering the lower part of his face. About twenty meters away from his there is a two meters and a half tall large man with dark skin wearing something like armored quilt covering his waist, groin and going until the middle of his thighs, holding something that is a mix of a stone club and sword. His howls of rage echoes on the night as he chases Benji on the streets each of his steps making the ground shake.

Because of the intense energy not to mention the partial destruction of the streets the hanagumi is deployed. And the hanagumi try to keep up with Benji and the monster man. "What that fuck is that?" Kanna shouts seeing the monstrous man chasing a masked man. "It doesn't matter. What matters is that we have to destroy it!" Maria told to the red head. "Slow down!" Kohran shouts. "There is a stair way ahead!"

The hanagumi cautions slow down. Benji jumps from the edge of the first step, pulling his legs near of his body and spinning on the air adjusting his angle. He is upside down on the air and he pulls a very large barreled, two piped saw off shotgun from the small of his back. He aims at the monstrous man stomach and fire. A very loud gunshot fills the air and a large single slug leaves the right barrel and moves to the monster gut.

The massive recoil of the gun thrusts Benji backwards. He spin his body on the air adjusting his fall now seeing the slug connecting on the monster's stomach, tearing a large hole on it and making it fall back. Benji lands on his feet and takes off running changing the used bulled.

The monster gets back up and chases after Benji not even caring about his severe wound. The hanagumi is shocked it that. Benji's bullet had slammed into a car where exploded. "WE have no time to stare! We have to stop them!" Maria shouts. The hanagumi leaves the stupor and chase them.

Using the koubus' jetpack they get down the stairs and get closer of the monster that is pursuing Benji. They turn a corner and two loud shots are heard. They get to see Benji reloading the gun while the monster lies with out his legs on the ground crawling to reach Benji.

Benji levels the reloaded barrel to the monstrous man head. "Sorry about that. But I can't die." Benji says before squeezing triggers. The recoil pushes him backwards a couple of meters. The two bullets smashed the man skull and tore out his chest when exploding. The hanagumi watches in shock. Benji looks at them and tosses a small ball on the ground. A smoke cloud rises on the air and when it is gone Benji is missing.

Maria curses in Russian and the others are still shocked with the bloody mass that once was a body and it was quickly vanishing in a light dust. "What is going on?" Sakura asks confused with everything. And they are forced to return to the base confused and unable to do anything.

Tsuki private detective office building 3:07 AM; Benji's apartment

Benji enters on the apartment and tosses the keys over a table. "I am tired…my legs and right arm are sore…" he mutters while undressing and moving to the bathroom where a warm tub was waiting for him. "I never thought that I would end chased by a monster like that…I think that anything bellow an assault rifle wouldn't take him down…" he mutters entering on the tub to soak a bit.

Imperial Theater 3:09 AM; Locker room

"I don't think that I will be able to eat anything for a while." Kanna commented on her changing stall. She is taking out her uniform shirt. "I think the same Kanna-san. That was horrible." Sakura replied on her own stall. The others are in silence specially Maria. She can't accept that she allowed the mysterious man to escape while they were surprised with the effects of the gun that he used.

After they changed their clothes they leave the locker room. Tsubaki hands to Maria a small note from the tsukigumi. "From the cartridges found on the scene it was matched with a .577 nitro express bullet to kill elephants when charging." Maria reads on loud to the hanagumi. 'Jesus! That was for sure overkill.' The blonde thinks.

"A gun used to hunt elephants? Isn't that a bit too much?" Kanna commented. "If you think in how to use a bullet like that depending of the scenario it isn't. I am pretty sure that a bullet like that can punch a hole in a koubu armor and that could kill one of us." Kohran retorts.

"I think that facing a monster like that also makes sense." Sakura added. "I mean that monster was huge." The others nod agreeing but the knowledge of a mysterious person with a gun with firepower enough to kill them while inside the koubu didn't make them rest easily.

Teito streets May seventh 1927 9:45 AM; in a café

Benji is meeting with Ai. She gave to him a brown envelope and they had tea with cake to make up as a date once again. They part on their ways and Benji moves back to his office. He enters on his office and walks thru the empty waiting room and enters on the office. "So how it went?" Sumire asks sited on Benji's chair.

"It went well. I got the information that I asked her now we have to look it and see what is relevant or not." Benji answers sitting on a chair facing her. "I thought that your job was mostly more exciting. Reading papers and walking around asking things isn't what I pictured a private detective doing." Sumire commented sighing on his chair.

"Most people think that all that we do are those thrilling cases that show on books and movies. But most of our works are boring things as checking an unfaithful spouse, find missing pets, missing objects and things like that. The exciting cases are rare and sparse." Benji answers with an amused smirk.

Sumire clicks her tongue leaning back on the chair. 'No wonder they picked Rin to replace her. They are too similar with gestures and personality. Well breed and a bit spoiled.' Benji thinks placing the envelope on the desk. "Anyway you have any idea of what was chasing you last night? I mean it got out on the papers. Your altered express gun made lots of noise and made people curious." Sumire asks trying to change the subject to a more exciting one.

"To be honest I have no idea. That huge guy popped out of the nowhere and tried to hit me with that odd weapon. I just ran from him. In some point of the chase your friends appeared and I decided to try killing the guy." Benji answers while opening the envelope. "But I have the feeling that I will see that guy again sooner or later."

Sumire doesn't say anything but she decides to trust on his instincts; after all he was a seasoned detective and bodyguard. Benji hands to her half of the papers from the envelope and they begin to exam them.

With a pencil Benji and Sumire underline telephone numbers that appears often on the list, in an unusual rate and period. After one hour they have checked all the pages and found more than one hundred numbers that appeared on the list more than it would be common in a period of two years. Dismissing the ones from stores as markets, clothes stores and other stores that sold material to build the scenarios it left them with seventy six numbers.

"It is still too much." Sumire commented checking the new list that they had made with the help of a phone book. "Well we already dismissed stores and other numbers related to common things." Benji replied. "Now it must be private numbers."

"These two are international numbers. If I am not wrong they are from Orihime's mother and Iris's parents. So it was the two of them calling to chat with them." Sumire told him pointing to two distinct numbers. "Seventy four numbers that we still don't know about." Benji commented writing them down again in a small notepad.

"So what you will do next?" Sumire asks curious. "I will ask to my contacts if they can list the owners of the numbers. Since we didn't have access to the theater finances we can't tell if the incomes of those actions are being added to the theater." Benji answered placing the notepad on his pocket. "Jeez… more boring things. And I thought that coming here it might keep me amused." Sumire said in an annoyed tone.

Imperial Theater 3:09 PM; Yoneda's office

Kaede is standing in front of Yoneda's desk with a report on her hands. "The report that you asked is here sir." She told him placing the report on his desk. "Thank you. You can leave now." Yoneda replies. Kaede quickly obeys him and leave. Yoneda proceed to read the information gathered by the tsukigumi concerning the Servants of the FATE agency, especially Benji or as he is also know Stabber.

Tsuki private detective office building 6:07 PM; Garage

"I will be going now. Keep me informed if anything happens." Sumire tells to Benji while entering on her car, where Akiko is waiting on the drive's seat. "Sure. You two be careful." He replies. Sumire and Akiko nod and Akiko drives away. Benji sighed and walks back to the agency. 'At least I can work with out worrying about her."

In his apartment Benji takes out his clothes and takes a shower. He is going to the imperial theater to watch the most recent place of the hanagumi. He knows that after the play the hanagumi will be holding an autograph section for the guests and that the section will be a good chance of having contact with the hanagumi in a more discrete way and that no one will be able to be sure if they trade written information.

Imperial theater May tenth 1927 11:45 AM;

"Mina we got a visit!" Tsubaki shouts running to the recreation room where the hanagumi was. "A visit? Who? Don't tell me that are Sumire's deliver boy again." Kanna says on a teasing tone, Benji's visits to the theater were almost part of theater routine. "If you don't want my gifts ape woman then I won't send you anything." Sumire says in a teasing tone, walking inside the room with Benji close behind her. "And if you don't want to see me I will just avoid making the delivers with you around." Benji adds on the same tone as Sumire.

Sumire is warmly greeted by the other hanagumi girls. Benji moves to a side and let the girls have their reunion. Since Sumire left that is the first time that she actually went visit the hanagumi, her reason was the still healing wound that she had suffered, now that is healed she can walk with out a cane even thought still limping a bit.

During the entire day Sumire stay with the hanagumi and chat, trade stories and play a bit. Benji stays at distance of them allowing the group to enjoy themselves. But Benji noticed that during the entire exchange the team leader Ogami wasn't there or even present in the lunch.

'If Sumire noticed that Ogami and the other commanders haven't appeared to see her at all she is doing a hell of a job faking that she isn't.' Benji thoughts while following them to the stage where the girls decided to mock rehearse to recall the old days. After the rehearsal the hanagumi decides to have some tea. After it is all set Reni says something. "I forgot that I had stashed some German cookies that I had made recently. I need help to pick them from where I stashed, mind in assisting me Himura-san?"

"Not at all." Benji replies with a smile. "You don't want to let the ape woman know in which high place you stash things or she might raid it isn't it?" Sumire asks to Reni. "Affirmative." Reni replies making the others but Kanna laugh. Reni leads Benji to the kitchen.

In the kitchen Benji looks down at Reni. "Where you placed them?" he asks to the much shorter German teen. "Here." Reni replies opening a cabinet and pulling from it a can labeled as beans. She opens it revealing the mentioned cookies, Benji is about to ask why the reason of him being there, but Reni touches her lips with her index finger signaling him to stay in silence.

Benji stays in silence. Reni pulls a cookie from the can and places it on Benji's hand suddenly, and then she moves to another part of the kitchen where she arranges the cookies on a plate. Benji felt that Reni had slipped a paper to him. "That cookie is for you to have later." Reni says arranging the cookies on the plate in a neat pile. Benji nods and places the cookie on his jacket pocket.

Reni finishes and stashes the can on the proper place and with the plate in hands she moves away from the kitchen. Benji follows Reni in silence. The rest of the afternoon moves with out any other events other than what used to be the regular hanagumi routine. After the dinner Benji and Sumire leave.

"You noticed the absence of your former commanding officers?" Benji asks to Sumire while driving her to Yokohama. "I did." Sumire replies in a plain tone looking at the window at the landscape. "I decided not to ask at least not about the commanders. But shoui is in Paris and after going there he is going to New York. You know what it means?"

Benji takes a look at Sumire. "You told me about the kagekidans on those cities. You mean that he is either visiting them or bringing them here?" Benji says looking once again at the road. "Yes. As much we would like to be the former but the most likely is the later." Sumire answered on a serious tone. "We now got a tight timeline here. I don't know why shoui is obeying but I am sure that he was ordered to bring them here but whatever is the reason that those behind this have for ordering the two kagekidans to come here must not be good."

Benji sighs, Sumire looks at him. "There is a chance that the people behind this want to add those girls on the scheme. I would say a really big chance here." He commented. "We have to do something before they arrive." Sumire nods. "I think that we have also sometime as safety. Even being kagekidan girls they are unknown. I believe that they would be safe for around one week after beginning the shows. The clients must know the goods." Sumire tells to him. "Still I would prefer to solve it before they arrive." Benji nods agreeing his job just got much harder.

Benji recalls of the cookie and stops the car; Sumire looks at him curious as he pulls it from his pocket. "Sumire what you know about the Otome Gakuen?" Benji asks to Sumire on a serious tone. "It is an all girl's school to teach girls to be the next generation hanagumi." Sumire answers. "Why?"

"Now I know why they selected Rin, she goes to that school." Benji replied. "And Reni said that there is something happening bellow the school." "So you want a way to sneak inside?" Sumire asks. Benji nods confirming. "If I am not wrong there are few unused tunnels all around the city. Not even the Imperial defense force uses them because they are small and unsafe, but you can use it." Sumire tells him.

"And I have already an idea of where to ask for the blueprints of it." Benji commented staring the car again. "I hope that you don't mind a quick stop on a certain bar." "Not at all. I am actually a little thirsty." Sumire replies with a smile.