Love is War

Chapter 3

“Hey Rei,” John called to me from one of the doors in this hallway. I scanned through the doors to find where he is, my attention was quickly stolen when I saw a hand waves at me in one of the doors. There I saw John motioning me to get to him. I sighed before I started to walk slowly towards him.

In fact, I don’t want to go where he is right now since that room is our meeting room. My father will just give me orders and I don’t have the rights to deny his orders since I’m his son and the sole heir of this organization. I am not even proud to be called the Shinigami by my enemies since every time I hear that word, I feel like that I am the evilest person in the world. I don’t even like seeing people die, I am sick of it, but what choice do I have?

“Your father is waiting for you,” John escorted me inside when I reached the door. We walked together inside the meeting room and there I saw my dad’s associates and of course the one and only, Yamato Yoshida, my father and the founder of this yakuza clan.

“Have a seat son,” he said to me smile while pointing his hand towards the vacant chair in this long table. I walked towards the empty chair while John remained behind me, and I sit on the chair when I reached it. “As I was saying, my son will go there,” he resumed the meeting and, in an instant, I became confused on the topic. He did not even bother to tell me what this is all about. I remain quiet. “My men got a tip that the Smiths are planning to attack us tomorrow morning, and I will not let that happen so I want to make the first move before they even begin their first step,” he explained, not it makes sense to me. Well, another fight as soon as the last one ended. Probably I will meet that annoying girl again that is constantly chasing me angrily in every battlefield.

“What is it about me?” I asked and father looked at me.

“After this meeting son, you and the group that I assigned that will accompany you will attack, one of the Smith’s territories,” he answered my question.

“Then what is this meeting for if I will immediately attack their base?” I asked again, this is not an act of rudeness to my dad since he always knew that I always think about utilizing my time. He also knows that I am intelligent enough to devise a strategy on scene.

“To inform them that we will engage in their war that they started,” he answered.

“What about it? Do any of you here object?” I asked all of his associated inside this room. I could feel that all eyes are on me, but I don’t care about it since they can’t harm me. No one answered my question, and I stand up and started to walk away. “I will be going dad because I will take their silence as a yes,” I said as coldly as possible. “John bring me the group that dad assigned to accompany us,” I ordered him and I immediately heard the dial pad on his phone.

I closed the door behind once I and John got out. Another tiring job. When will be these two gangs be at peace? I always wondered why the Smiths suddenly started a war with us, we didn’t even bother meddling with their business. All I know is that they attacked us from nowhere and since then this constant war continues.

I saw my black mustang outside our mansion and I went there while I hear John talking to someone. Why do I care? John sped up and get ahead of me just to open the door for me in the driver’s seat.

He puts his phone down.

“What’s the status?” I asked him.

“They are on their way on the location Rei,” he answered. I get inside my car and put the key in the key hole and I twisted it. The engine started and it roared loudly. John sat beside me while I wait for the lackies to open the gate for us and as soon as the gate is opened, I accelerated immediately towards it.

“So where exactly is the location?” I asked John while I remain my eyes on the road.

“In the town of Machia where their weapons center is located,” he answered my question while looking at his notes. This guy has it all from being physically capable in battle to being the wisest smart ass in the town. I can’t even figure out how he can handle multiple tasks at once. In battle he is my shield since I am pretty vulnerable while my eyes are on the scope and he can even fend off that girl, stalling enough time for me to regain my ground.

“How long till we get there?” I asked him again.

“At this speed we can reach your sniping ground at exactly 10 minutes and our allies will reach their base at five minutes more than us,” he answered my question in detail.

“Ten minutes,” I whispered at myself so I doubled the speed of my car so I can get there in 5 minutes. I can tell that John is very surprised on what I did.

“Slow d- down,” he protested but I can’t hear his voice clearly since the speed of the car voids the loudness of his voice. I’ve encountered countless near misses with fellow cars on the road but I did not feel even the slightest ounce of fear inside me. I felt like that I was born for this.

After five minutes we finally reached our destination and John is catching up with his breath. I went at the back of my and opened it. There I saw my blue rifle that I customized in my liking. It’s shining blue and it is so beautiful. I don’t like killing people but I did not say that I don’t like shooting. In this scope my enemies turn into dummied. Moving dummies. Literally, it has the technology to mask them with training dummies so I can’t get bothered in the battle field. I really don’t like seeing them in their last moments since it reminds of someone I love. It traumatized me, and I don’t want to remember it at all.

I get hold of the rifle and I wiped it with my hand and saw it shining. Seeing this gun as gorgeous as it should be, satisfy me more that anyone or anything could. I checked on the ammo and after a while, everything is ready. I scanned this 5 storey abandoned building. It’s decaying that it could collapse any minute now.

John led the way upstairs and he told me that he is already done preparing my sniping spot. The plan is that I will shoot down escaping enemies and the guard from their weapon center and escort our assault group that will invade their insides. A pretty easy job if will be compared to all of my missions… Oh wait. All of them is easy enough for me to handle. I am not bragging, but I was a prodigy in archery when I was a child because of aim.

No dummy can escape my bullet once fired at them. The trajectory, the bounce, all of it is calculated inside my head before I release the bullet inside my rifle. Actually, I named my rifle rose, she’s, my girl.  Don’t get me wrong I am not infatuated with a gun.

We reached the top of the building and there I saw a clean spot and I immediately went there. I assume that this is my spot since John knew that I like my area clean, if possible, I don’t want any dust on my rose.

“Kuro’s group will arrive at their weapon center at exactly 3 minutes,” he informed me as I am already done preparing my rifle. “Two minutes,” I put my eyes on the scope and I scanned the whole area and saw a mansion guarded with 4 dummies. 2 at the gates and one in each watch towers also located at their gate.

“Kuro,” I heard John talking to the leader of the assault group that will engage inside. “In my signal we will start the plan and put them down in their places,” I heard him being ruthless. Well, I am used to his personality switch, and he better do his job guarding me.

As I prepare to shoot the dummies in less than one second. Bam! All down.

“Mission Start.”