"Ah! Who the fuck are you!?" The fat man yelled watching his hand twist the wrong way around, baffled at the strength of Tachibana.
"He's my bodyguard. Now let's get down to business. You call me Akuma, I am the new head of the Yakuza... And as you now know, a little respect is due"
Sujoji looked at her shocked "You killed Tenzo?"
"Yes"
"OK! OK! I'm sorry for my disrespect, I didn't know!"
Baiken looked at Tachibana "You may release him"
Tachibana let go and Sujoji moaned holding his fist.
"You owe me Thirty k..." Baiken only repeated what Kisandra said, she didn't know what thirty k meant.
"It's a very large anomout, Akuma-sama, I can't pay that immediately!"
Baiken looked at Tachibana "Head in, search the offices and see if you can find anything"
"Yes master" Tachibana said heading past them into a side door.
"You can't do this! This isn't your territory!" Sujoji protested.
"I know, but that also isn't your money, I want it back" Baiken said.
"You little bitch, how disrespectful!"
"This wouldn't have happened if you paid up"
Sujoji lost his patience, he looked at the woman in the kimono and twitched his head. She bowed and left to the back rooms. Not long and six men, almost the size of Sujoji came out and joined him.
"I think its time you left" Sujoji threatened.
"Excuse me?" Baiken asked, but Kisandra placed her hand on Baiken shoulder.
"This is why we struggle to get the money out of him, let's rather go"
Baiken looked at Kisandra amazed "You're afraid of this bag of air?"
"Bag of air!?" Sujoji barked.
"Yes" Baiken turned back to him "I want my money, now!"
"You dare say that woman! Know your place!"
Baiken smiled "I never had a place anywhere fatso, and no man will tell me otherwise, I want my money, or I will kill you, and the rest of your fattened up buddies over here"
"Why you!" Sujoji waved his hand at one of his men and the man came at her hands extended. Baiken twists and draw slashed so quick that the second she went out of sight behind the bulk of the man no one saw the katana. The man held his guts as they were bussy peeling out of the cut in his stomach.
Baiken swiped the blade and seethed it. The man collapsed making the other men gasp standing back. There was a moment of silence as they watched the pool of blood widen around the man, who was still somewhat alive. Baiken lifted the katana up and glared at Sujoji.
"My money?"
Sujoji fell to his knees "Please, I don't have the money now, I need more time"
Baiken looked at Kisandra who asked "Do you have a car?"
"Yes but it's not worth nearly enough to pay up"
Just then Tachibana came back, he saw the body on the floor and chuckled.
"Damn I missed the action"
"You find anything?" Baiken asked.
"Only about Five thousand yen" He said holding the bills to Baiken. She took it from him and turned to Sujoji.
"Stand up" She said and he got to his feet.
"This is a place of business right?"
"Yes"
Baiken held the bills out to him, he reluctantly took it.
"You may keep that, but I want twenty percent of your weekly profit until the money is paid up" She said looking at Kisandra, who nodded in agreement, then Baiken turned to Sujoji.
"Well?"
"Yes, I agree to the terms"
"Good, I'll come collect it in person to honor our agreement, I won't send my lower ranked men"
Sujoji bowed "As you wish"
Kisandra called Milo again and gave him the address, but outside in the car she couldn't help give a giggle.
"What's wrong?" Baiken asked.
"You're very good for business, I never would have thought of the idea to receive some of his profit, that's brilliant"
"Well, I want these guys to understand no more freebees"
"That's perfect, our next customer owns a weapon smuggling operation. We made sure he gets the best deals from other smugglers, but some of the profit they made had to come to us"
"How much do they owe?" Baiken asked.
"A hundred thousand"
"A hundred thousand yen!?"
"Yep"
"And Tenzo let it slide!?"
"Well, because it's a weapon smuggler, there's always the danger of being shot, so Tenzo was basically a coward"
"Ok, so extra caution then, let's go"
***
Sakura walked into the sauna parlor and found the dead man on the floor.
"What happened here!?" She asked.
"The new head of the Yakuza, she demanded dept we owe" Sujoji said.
"Head of the Yakuza hey?"
"Yes, cheeky little bitch"
Wordless Sakura turned and left, her heart pounded, she wanted this woman on her side, at all costs.
***
At an old looking factory building Kisandra brought the sedan to a halt.
"Ok, we need some countermeasures for in case this bastard decides to go on the offensive like Sujoji did" Kisandra said as they got out.
'Were in the back, well stand ready on a moment's notice' Zander said in her ear.
"Tachibana, move into the shadows and stay hidden. If you see anything you don't like I give you permission to take any action you deem neccisary" Baiken said.
Tachibana nodded and moved off.
Kisandra knocked on the steel door and a small peeking latch opened.
"Kisandra?" The man behind the door asked and looked down at Baiken "What are you doing here?"
"We came to negotiate the dept you owe us"
"Zuko isn't talking to anyone now" He said slamming the peekhole shut, but Baiken knocked this time, banging it with her fist. The peekhole opened again.
"Can't you two bitches catch a hint!?"
"Excuse me, but I'm the head of the Yakuza now, I killed Tenzo, and I'd like to see your boss about new arrangements with our partnership"
"You killed Tenzo?"
"I did"
The peekhole shut, and the door opened.
"Good riddens then, please enter" The man stood aside. When he closed the door behind him he passed them again "Follow me"
As they walked through the old factory building Baiken saw all the rifles, and now pistols as she recognised lying on tables, men packing them into crates and loading them into dairy trucks. Baiken also looked up and above she saw Tachibana already inside, hiding in the darkness behind the rooflights.
"In here" The man opened another door and stepped aside. They were greeted by a bald man in a white suit.
"So Kisandra, I heard Tenzo is dead?" He greeted them.
"You must be Zuko?" Baiken asked.
"I am, who are you?"
"You can call me Akuma, the new head of Yakuza, and I came to collect my money"
Zuko burst out with laughter "Seriously!? Didn't you realise you just walked into the gates of hell?"
"What is hell, I don't know that place" Baiken said, already scanning the surroundings, two men behind him, standing with rifles, she didn't recognise them, but Tachibana said they fire faster than muskets, so they had to be dealt with quickly. Behind her was two more, they probably had pistols with them.
"Maybe there is a political way we can negotiate the terms of your repayment?" Kisandra asked trying to kwell the conflict.
"You will receive your money when I see fit" Zuko said.
"How did you manage to let your dept grow to a hundred thousand?"
'The lights in the hangar just went out' Kisandra heard Zander whisper in her earpiece 'Something's happening inside'
"We got favours from Tenzo, and if our relationship with the Yakuza is to last, I suggest you keep the favours coming"
"No, the Yakuza is under my rule, and I need the payment, now"
"Or at least half of it" Kisandra said feeling the tension.
"You stubborn bitch, you looking to die today?" Zuko asked.
"Are you?" Baiken asked, it's time she put this eagle snake mark on her back to the test, she knows Yamamoto is the snake, not Zuko, so if the marking is correct, she won't die here today.
"You're not stubborn, you're stupid" Zuko said standing up.
"I want no part of this" Kisandra said stepping back and out the doorway.
"Stupidity never had me killed before, it only showed me who is the true stupid one"
"That's it, last chance you bitch, fuckoff or die!"