4 more days part 1

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Oniko, four days prior to Gantz

The door to one of the run down wearhouses used by the Kiryu clan to smuggle goods cranked open as a squad of about ten large thugish Yakuza came running in followed by a beautiful Japanese woman wearing sun glasses a suit and a miniskirt, behind her was a smaller girl with pink hair and an odd hairband with two deely bopper antenna decorations coming out of it. The older woman was Aki Kiryu, acting kumicho of the Kiryu clan, her father Yamada Kiryu was currently terminally ill and she had taken over clan affairs in his absensce. The younger girl was her personal bodyguard known only as Oniko, even most of her own clan knew very little about her except that she was completely insane.The Kiryu clan was the most powerful yakuza clan in the region. But recently the Odai clan had also come under new leadership, a younger leader who was eager to prove himself and all to willing to drag his clan into unnessecery bloodshed. Rumor had it the Odai clan was planning a war against the Kiryus.

Aki walked over to one of several dead men laying in crimson puddles of their own blood on the dirty ground.

"What the hell happened here?" she asked no one in particular, although her icey features were unreadble, her men could tell she was pissed by the tone of her voice.

"Their all full of holes..." Oniko said bending over and looking at the bullet wounds on the back of one man. As Aki walked away Oniko quickly followed her.

"Tetsuo, I want you to contact "Jackle" immediatly, tell him we need him for a clean up job." Aki said to one of her men.

"I'll call him immediatly ojousama!" he said pulling out a cell phone.

Suddenly a box fell in the back of the room, lightning fast Oniko pulled out a stilleto knife and hurled it intot he shadows not bothering to wait and see what had made the noise. A racoon fell to the ground dead with the blade imbedded in his skull. Oniko ran over to it pulling the knife from its body

"Awww...poor Mr Racoon, you shouldnt come in places like this its dangerous! Here, Oniko will clean you."

"Oniko, put that down its dirty." Aki said flatly

"Oh...ok..." Oniko said removing her knife

Later that night

The sound of rain hitting the skylight filled the dimmed room. How long had it been since she had come here?

Oniko looked at the Raven hair covering the back of the head of the woman who was laying next to her. Something seemed to be bothering Aki more then usual lately.

"That racoon today....he died....didn't he....it's kind of sad isn't it?" Oniko said looking at the back of Akis head as she lay silently next to her.

"I guess..." Aki wondered about Oniko sometimes, she killed people in incredibly brutal ways, one time stabbing a mans eyes out with two pencils, none of it phased her but she felt sorry for that rodent.

Aki felt the smaller girls nude body press up against her back. "Why is Aki so quiet? You won't leave Oniko? You won't be a racoon?"

"You should stop thinking about such stupid things..." Aki said turning to face her smiling slightly. Oniko giggled and hugged her closer.

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4 more days: part 2

3 days prior to Oniko in Gantz

One thing that Aki had done for Oniko over the years was hire a number of private tutors to give her private schooling. Oniko didn't care much for this , but as Aki had told her on a number of occasions even demons needed an education. As she studied over a couple of papers full of complex looking math problems her tutor had given her for homework. This certainly was a task worthy of a demon but right now she wasn't feeling up to it. She put the papers down and opened the door to the courtyard of the expensive Japanese mansion that belonged to the Kiryu clan. Outside it was still raining, coming down pretty hard. Oniko stepped out into the rain walking out to the middle of the courtyard wher ethe koi pond was.

Inside the pond was a big orange and white fish that hovered near the surface of the water, it's tail occasionally twitching. She crouched near the edge of the pond watching the fish even as the water soaked her. The fish stayed where it was occasionally twitching its tail. "Hey...how does it feel to you when it rains?" she asked the fish.

Of course the fish didn't answer and just stayed where it was occasionally twitching in the water.

"Oniko doesn't like it...." she said galncing at the sky, her wet hair going over her eyes. she looked at the fish, he wouldnt care, he's already under water, to him, that'd be like it raing air to her...how exactly would it rain air? No that just wouldnt work at all.

It was then that she noticed something, a red glint of light from the bushes, the same sort a laser site would use. Oniko dove to the side landing in the koi pond as a gunshot went off.

"Shit!" The assasin said to himself, his primary targets were Aki Kiryu and her bodyguard Oniko who was supposed to be the best killer the Kiryu clan had. He got up from where he was hidden outside the mansion and began to run away. Oniko got up out of the pool and pulled out her gun, all she had to go on were occasinal flashes of the assassin through the bushe's but that would be enough. Taking careful aim she pulled the trigger. The bullet wizzed through the rain soaked air slicing through the foliage in its path striking the assassin on the bicep of his right arm. With a grunt he fell over in pain dropping his gun. He could here footsteps coming up behind him. He quickly grabbed his gun with his left hand turning in time to see Oniko brandishing one of her stilletto knives. He hand blurred as she threw it, a glint of silver light went through the air as it sliced through the mans left hand causing him to drop the gun.

"Damn it all!" He cursed as Oniko rounded on him delivering several blows to his head shattering his nose , one of her hands shot out ripping off his left ear causing him to scream in pain. She let up for a moment as he staggered, both his arms useless.

"Now then, who sent you?"

"You probably already know, not that it'll matter." He pressed his big toe down inside his shoe and a small switch blade knife style blade popped out. Oniko evaded the knife redirecting his foot so that he showed her his backside. Before the would be assasin could do anything More she took out her pencil, with all her streingth driving it into the mans center of the mans back puncturing through one of the cartilageounous disks in his spinal cord even as the wood splintered in her hand from the force of the attack. The assassin fell to the ground no longer moving. Oniko removed a wooden splinter from the pencil lodged in her hand just as some of the Kiryu clans men had come running out noticing the skirmish in the yard.

Oniko walked over to the pond as the men ran over to the fallen assassin and she held her hand out over the water.

"Here's something different for you, hope you like it." she said as a few drops of blood fell into the pool directly over the fish.

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4 more days part 2.5:

The assassin that Oniko had fought had died later that day. As she watched them take his body away for "The Jackle" to dispose of she noticed his dead eyes staring out into nothingness. Something always made her a bit uneasy about how dead peoples eyes looked. That's part of the reason why she often gouged peoples eyes out before she killed them.

It had been another rainy day, it was still raining even as it neared midnight. Oniko hated the rain sometimes, but that didn't matter now. She was dry and warm right now, and Aki was here by her side so none of that mattered. Aki pulled Oniko in closer to her body. "Hey, you seemed a little quiter then usual today. Is something bothering you? You can tell me."

she breifly remembered his blank dead eyes staring out at her. That wasn't something a demon should be upset by.

"It's nothing...nothing at all..." She hugged Aki burying her head under the covers.

Later that night

Onikos dream:

Oniko sat on a large rock sticking out of the ocean. Waves occasionally crashed against the rocks in a rythmic pattern as a heavy fog covered the area.

"HEEEEEY! Oniko, what are you doing over there? Were about to eat!" A mans voice called out, it was the voice of her father.

"Oh....ok! I'm coming!" She jumped off the rock and ran across the beach. Sitting on a lump of sand were two peculiar creatures, they resembled those strange Telitubby things from that show she hated. There was a pink and a blue telitubby, both had faces white as snow with glassy doll like eyes that seemed to stare into nothingness.

"Oniko, what took you?" Were about to eat the blue telitubby said opening the picnic basket. Inside was a dead racoon with a stilletto knife stuck in its head.

"Honey, could you help me carve the bird?"

"Of course dear." the pink Telitubby cut open the racoon and removed several white Lollipops from inside it's body. "Here, this ones for you, be sure to eat it all..." she said handing one to Oniko.

"Something's strange about this bird...Oniko doesn't want it." she put the white sucker down and backed away a little.

"But Oniko, this was all we could get. You know we have no money, we need to work with what we can..." Oniko looked at the sucker and then at her parants.

"Why do your eyes look like that?"

"Our eyes are glass now, much better then before, we can get you eyes like ours too."

"Why are you all small? Why is your skin made of cloth?"

"Cloth isn't something people are made of. Were dead, we aren't people anymore. You should eat your bird before it gets cold..."

"Why are your faces all white and shiny?"

"White and shiny things break easier, we thought it would be easier to break our faces if they were white and shiny." the pink Telitubby picked up her sucker and smashed it against her fore head. Several cracks went down her face. A blackish green fluid seemed to slowly drip fromt he cracks. Oniko backed away in fear.

The blue Telitubby turned to her as the pink one went limp dangling from strings pulling it into the sky like a tangled marionette"Why be alive Oniko? You should become a doll like us, we can be a family again. It can be cruel to be alive, it can be hard, but it's always fun in toyland, we always have plenty of birds to eat and everyday we sew buttons onto the faces of stuffed animals, come join us....become a doll like us!"

Oniko let out a scream, she pulled the knife from the dead racoon driving it into one of the eye of the Telitubby. She slammed one knee down on its body and grabbed both arms wrenching them from their sockets. She pulled the knife out again and stabbed it into the remaining eye.

"Even demons must succumb to inevitability..." Oniko turned to see a man with a porcelin white face standing behind her. There was a bullet hole in the right side of his chest and his neck, in his right hand he held a wooden bat that had a coule of nales driven through it. Something about him seemed familiar and terrifying, where had she seen him before? "Once a cup of coffee grows cold, it can never heat up again under it's own power. Someday this entire universe will grow cold and die, your no different, some day you too will be a doll, just like them, and when that day comes, I'll be there..."

Oniko woke up screaming in terror "NOOOOOOOOO!!! NEVER A DOLL!!! Oniko doesnt want it...she doesn't want to be a doll...."

"Oniko stop!" Aki grabbed her as she struggled about in the covers. "It was only a dream....whatever it was it wasn't real...." she said hugging the smaller girl.

"Never a doll...never a doll...." she mumbled over and over again as she returned Akis embrace, it was three in the morning. The third day had begun.

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the 3rd day

At a shady night club owned by the Odai clan

"That assassin of yours failed pretty badly....killed by a pencil according to our informant. A pretty embarissing defeat for one of the Yamamoto clans best assassins." The man talking was a man in his twenties wearing a white business suit. This was Shirow Odai, a man who was adopted into the clan at a young age and quickly climbed the ranks reaching the top at age 24. The man sitting opposite of him was Kojiro Yamamoto, current head of the yamamoto clan, he was older then Shirow, age 43, a receding hairline showed on his head.

"Yes it's true our assassin failed, however the first half of our plan so far has gone off without a hitch, so far weve taken out five of the areas the Kiryuu clan uses to do business. They've been greatly weakened."

"Yes, but even if you cut off several legs of a bug it'll still live and try to scamper away. We need to cut off it's head..."

"Uhh...actually cockroaches can live for two weeks without a head..."

"Kojiro, shut up, it's a figure of speech, in any case if the Kiryuu clan is gone within two weeks we'll be able to devide up their territory between us. The Odai and Yamamoto clans will be too powerful for any of the other yakuza to oppose us. We'll own this town and then some. But before that can happen, Aki Kiryuu must die, her father is of no consequence, he would be gone within a few years anyway. She's the one calling the shots."

"Yes, but she's too well guarded, unless you have a better assassin..."

"Not a better assassin, a better idea. I have an idea for a trap. They might suspect it's one or even both of us, but they have no proof our clans have anything to do with the attacks. I'll be giving them that proof later tonight."

"YOU WHAT?!?"

"My plan is to make it so that it looks like a group of my men were acting of their own volition in doing this without my approval. As an apology I'll schedual a reconsciliation meeting tommarow, I imagine they might want more then a few fingers, not that I care I'll tell them if they want they can have their heads. But that will all just be a reuse, both your men and mine will be hiding outside while the meeting is taking place. I also have someone on the inside who'll be setting up an extra suprise to put the icing on the cake. When they least expect it we'll strike, Aki Kiryuu and all her men, they'll be completely taken by suprise. And in one fallow stroke our greatest obsticle to getting to the top will be dealt with."

"I had hoped to resolve this without so much bloodshed....and that plan is so underhanded, there must be another way."

Shirow lit a cigarette and took a long drag "If your afraid of dirtying your hands in this business you'll never get anywhere. Tell me, when did you take over the leadership of your clan?"

"When I was 39." Kojiro wiped some sweat from his brow.

"I took over mine at the age of 24, I climbed to the top and did what was nessecery to get there." he snubbed out his cigarette on the table not bothering to ask for an ash tray.

"I see. If this is what it takes then so be it." Kojiro said looking slightly defeated.

"Good, as of tommarow, the Yamamoto clan will take its proper place as the second most powerful yakuza clan in Japan."

Elsewhere that night

Oniko was setting up a huge line of dominos throughout her room It went all over the place covering almost every part of the floor. The dominos were always interesting to her, they reminded her of that big black monolitk that was in 2001 a space odessey. There were also monoliths in Evangelion. She always liked the part in end of Eva where Reis big giant head fell down out of the sky and collided with earth, that was her favorite part.

She took out a hello kitty figurine and put it in front of several of the dominoes

(Oniko pretending to be Kiel holding one of the dominoes like a monolith): This isn't going according to our scenerio Ikari!

(Oniko pretending to be Ikari using the hello kitty action figure as Gendo): Oh yeah, well lets see what you have to say when I kick you and you can't get up!

Oniko moved the hello kitty figure closer to the first domino getting ready to knock it over when suddenly she heard Aki's voice from the other room "WHAT!! YOUR MEN WERE THE ONES WHO DID THIS! IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, LIKE HELL IT'S NOT!!" this outburst caused her to prematurly knock over the dominoes causing them all to fall.

"Ahh...they fell down...." Oniko observed as the dominoes all came crashing down. The door came swinging open, the person who opened it was Aki and she looked pretty pissed about something. "Uhhhh...."

"Oniko tomarrow....what's with the dominoes? Never mind that, tommarow, I'm going to need your help. Tommarow the Odai clan wants to have a reconsiliation meeting. I want you to come with me."

"A reconsiliation meeting?"

"Yes, they admitted that it was some of their men that have been attacking us. Supposedly they werent acting under the bosses orders and they want to set things straight with us to avoid unnessecery bloodshed. But something doesn't seem right to me."

"You think their lying?"

" If what they said was true, I don't think that bastard Shirow would ever admit to doing it, even if it was his men acting on their own. I want to be ready just in case, they'll be coming here tommarow. I already gave Tesuo the heads up, all our men will be on guard in case they try to pull something, I'm going to need your help too Oniko. I know trying to attack us in our own territory would be crazy, but I wouldnt put it past that son of a bitch."

"Does this mean Oniko will have to dress up tommarow?" She didn't care much for wearing traditional kimonos, they restricted her movement too much when it came to fighting.

"Normally yes, but this time I'll make an acception, even if nothing's going down, their coming to us to apoligize afterall!"

"Yay! Oniko doesnt need to dress up!" She did a couple of somersaults over the piles of dominoes just for the hell of it.

"Yes, but I would like you to be on your best behvior though. No random somersaults, no saying weird things, and no picking anyones nose's, especially not Shirows, as funny as that might be."

"Awww...ok..." Oniko said a little dejected looking. She always hated long boring yakuza meetings.

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The 4th day:

The day of the reconciliation meeting finnally came. Oniko didn't know why, but she had a feeling something would happen today. She didn't know what but it made her uneasy.Oniko sat a barbie doll down on a stool in her room she turned her back on it and then suddenly whipped around. A glint of silver shot through the air, in an instant the dolls head shot from its shoulders and the blade was embedded in the stool. not far from the headless doll. Not even beheading toys made her feel better. Something just seemed wrong today, and the feeling just wouldnt leave. Oniko took out her roller blades and put them on. Soon the Odai clan would be arriving for the meeting.

A bit later

An expensive looking white limosine drove up in front of the Kiryuu clans mansion. Shirow exited the car dressed in a flashy white suit accompanied by two of his best men. Behind him seven men walked, each had their hands tied. Not to far away a large van drove up to the left of the Kiryuu clans mansion obscured by the trees between the road and the mansion. Behind it the bushes moved slightly as several snipers took up their positions. Now everything would be dependent on the man he had on the inside. Last time he checked everything was proceding smoothly enough. Shirow walked towards the mansion leading his men with a confident smug smile on his face unbecoming of someone going to a yakuza reconciliation meeting. Not wasting any time they were escorted to a large traditional japanese room complete with tatami mats. Shirow and his men sat down next to the table in a seiza position while facing Aki and her group. Oniko nearby Aki fidgited slightly not really comfortable in the tense atmosphere. Aki was dressed in a black kimono with a red dragon picture going across it. At her side was a very expensive looking black katana.

"So Shirow, these seven are the men you say were responsible for the raids in our teritory."

"Yes, it's very embarrassing. The Odai clan would like nothing more then to put this matter behind us."

"Indeed. But somethings been bothering me ever since you so generously let me know your men were behind this." Aki said coldly

"Oh, and what might that be?" Shirow said feigning ignorance about any suspicions.

"At one of the places raided, we had 25 men, all but one of them died. The 25th man escaped, he was badly injured and didn't know what group the men who attacked him belonged to, but he did say one thing that makes me confused. He said that he and the others were outnumbered when they were attacked. Tell me Shirow, how do seven men outnumber a group of 25?" Aki gave a nod and several of her men surrounded Shirows group, their weapons out.

"Well, that's a very interesting question. But you know, when your fighting a war, numbers aren't everything, strategy is pretty important too." A smile slowly spread across Shirows face. At that moment two deafening explosions roared through the two opposite end sof the mansion. The blasts were strong enough to bring down bits and pieces of ceiling in the room, but of course not enough to do any serious damage since Shirow happened to be there at the time.
Aki drew her katana and was about to slash Shirow head off when he pulled something out of his pocket, a detonator. She stopped in mid swing.

"Are you fast enough? Even if you are, those other two bombs were set off by someone else , a man on the inside who helped set things in my favor. Even if I die, he can still set off the third bomb, want to know where it is? It's planted somewhere in the room your sick father is staying." As shirow was talking several of Akis subordinates including Oniko were getting ready to make a move.

"Stop! Don't attack him!" Aki said holding out one hand.

"That's a good girl. You guys don't have to pretend anymore." the seven men who were tied up broke their ropes and pulled out hidden guns or knives from various places on their bodies. Several gunshots could be heard elsewhere in the mansion along with some screams.

"No! What are you doing? You've won already!"

"Some of your surviving men might not be so cooporative. After the bombs went off , the best hitmen from the Odai and Yamamoto clans moved in and began sweeping the area taking out any survivors. Don't worry, I ordered them not to kill your father. He alone should be safe. But anyone else...." A small gun came out of Shirows sleath and he blasted one of Akis men right in the face then and there!

"TETSUO NO! Shirow let them go! I'll order them not to try resisting , just let them live!"

"Nope, I don't like situations that aren't completely in my control. You and your dad, your the only ones I'll spare, everyone else is expendable!" He blasted another one of Akis men. Several of his men also took out their guns and did the same.

Oniko hugged onto Aki crying, wincing as each shot went off.

"Well isn't that precious, that's the infamous child killer weve heard so much about." Shirow motioned for one of his men to Kill Oniko. He walked up next to Aki and Oniko pointing his gun at Onikos face careful not to get Aki in the cross fire. Then in a split moment the mans arm was seperated from his body, a spray of blood shot across the room.

"Father, forgive me..." Aki said under her breath as she took a second swing slicing the mans head off with her katana.

Another yakuza ran at Aki brandishing his own katana , the two swords clashed several times before Aki sliced both the mans fore arms clean off before impaling him on the blade. At that moment five gunshots rang out as Shirow fired his gun repeatedly, several bullets hit the body of his own man. One bullet went through Akis shoulder and another entered her chest. She fell backwards as the bullet went straight through her body.

"NOOOO!!!!!" Oniko had frozen up back there for a moment, something that she hadn't done in years and now Aki had payed for her moment of indecisiveness. As the moment of horror over what had happened passed, she no longer thought coherently anymore, her mind had gone completely red with rage! One of the Yakuza who had come up behind her and was about to shoot suddenly fell tot he ground dead. Between his eyes was a stilletto knife. Another one ran at her swinging his sword, Oniko evaded the swing coming under it, a sharpened pencil between her fingers as she drove it straight up the mans nose into his brain.

"You little bitch!" Another man pulled a gun, but Oniko was faster whipping out her own gun blasting his gun out of his hands. She then lowered her aim and fired repeatedly into the mans crotch causing him to scream in pain. Shirow backed away walking out of the room as several more of his men arrived. Oniko grabbed Akis katana she was wearing her roller blades right now, she could catch him. She skatted across the room and leapt over the table evading several ill placed shots as she did a slide between two men slashing the legs out from under one of them with the katana, she adjusted her body doing a summersault and coming to her feet. Two other men charged at her, rolling backwards on her skates she flung one of them straight into the wall with an aikido throw. As the other one came she spun on one skate delivering a hook& heel kick to the other mens face smashing her wheels into his nose. Another man wielding a grenade launcher ran into the room and fired off a shot in her general direction. Oniko dove to avoid the blast as it exploded, bits and pieces of tatami mat rained down around her. She rolled across the floor and fired several times blasting the legs out from under the man. As he fell tot he ground she pulled the trigger once more firing her last bullet which whizzed straight into his fore head. Another man came attacking her with a tanto blade, her right hand knocked his downwards while her left struck the area beneath his elbow breaking his arm. Taking a step backwards Oniko shot one hand out like a snake striking, in the next she had ripped one of the mans eyeballs clean out of his face. Screaming the defeated man stumbled into the fire burning alive.

"Your not to bad little girl! My names Yoshi Yamamoto, I'm one of the best martial artists in the Yamamoto clan, I'll take you on, one on one!" he said arrogantly.

Oniko got up to look at him. Another man was coming at her from her side, in a flash her knife sliced through the air, a red stream of blood shot from his neck in the next instant painting her red, someone had set fire to something and the mansion had begun to burn around them.

"Well, how about it then little girl?" The large man asked taking out two katanas. Oniko grinned letting out a scream as she came at the man. He slashed at her and parried a strike from her knife with one of his blades. Oniko kicking one of the tatami mats off the floor sent it flying at the mans face as a destraction, it was sliced apart in mid air. He struck several more times, each time she evaded his blades skatting around him. He lowered his stance intending to slice her legs out from under her. Oniko jumped over the blade landing in a roll, he was already on top of her bringing his sword down, Oniko brought up one foot, her roller blade in the path of the blade, there was a sound of slashing metal that rang through the room.

"No way! Armor plated roller blades!" In his moment of destraction, she kicked him in the face sending him flying backwards and jumped to her feet skating towards him. The man quickly got to his feet raising his sword to defend. One of Onikos knives sailed straight over his head, the next moment a vase that was on the shelf above him came tumbling down smashing one his head.

"Arrgh..." he shouted in pain, but before he could get his bearings he felt something sharp and pointy drive straight into his left eye socket and into his brain. He fell backwards dead, the handle of a salad fork sticking from his eye socket. None of the other sweepers had come through here, as the smoke began to make it too difficult to breath Oniko walked over to Aki and dragged her outside.

"Aki wake up! Wake up! Oniko saved you!"

"Oniko....sorry...I'm so sorry..." Aki stroked the side of her face before falling limp.

"Aki no!" she hugged her freind crying as the mansion burned down behind her. It was all over now, she had nowhere left to go.

Awhile later

Oniko didn't know how long she had been skating from where the mansion had burned down or where she was going. She was completely lost now. There was nowhere left for her to go.

Atop a nearby office building a couple of disgruntled salary men were drinking.

"H-hey...you know...those people look like ants down there...hic...maybe they are ants....I'm gonna squish em...hic!"

"Hic...you shouldn't do that...hic...ants are people too...hic...you know..."

"Shut up...hic...your not the boss of me!"

"hic...yeah I am, I hired you...hic..."

The first guy picked up a water melon and chucked it off the side of the building. Oniko never knew what hit her, to the disgruntled guy on top of the building she had just been a weird pink ant, and she had died like a pink ant. That would have been the end of the story then and there, but sometimes, even after you think youve exterminated all the ants, they find a way to come back.