Target Locked Chapter 9 (Final)
Title: Target Locked
Chapter: Nine (Final)
Summary: The final act, can they catch the real culrpit?
A/n: Sorry for the week late update, I was caught up with packing as I'll be leaving UK soon and next week I'm graduating yay! Ok I stop my babbling, hope you enjoy as I did it in rush and at 1 am.
Nino sat on the rooftop of where his agency building is, looking out at the sky where it is clear than yesterday. Both Aiba and Jun were busy with their respective works assigned by Ohno after he supplied them the information they needed. Then why is he alone there on the rooftop?
“Have you waited long?” Nino turned towards the familiar voice. Ohno Satoshi strode towards him. “No not really but I didn’t mind.”
“Good to hear, Matsumoto-san and Aiba-san are currently progressing smoothly.”
“You know you have not told me the whole plan.”
Ohno smirked, “It is really a disadvantage if you told your entire plan, Detective.”
Nino scowled. “Fine, I play along with your game. Just make sure you did not backstab us.”
“I’m a gentleman, Detective. You offended me.” Nino scoffed and Ohno chuckled before looking at his watch, “We better go now or else or fish going to escape with the bait and the line will be cut and lost forever.”
Nino nodded, “Wait, what will you do after we succeeded?”
“I will disappear from this world.”
Nino is deadpanned by the reply, “You don’t mean you will kill yourself, are you?”
Ohno just gave his usual mysterious smile that Nino cannot read from his expression.
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Sakurai has just finished with his meeting with client and now planning to go back home when suddenly a black van with tinted screen pull over and a pair of man with mask grabbed him as he exited the building and knock him out with some chloroform before he can protest or anything and pull him into the van before drove off.
He awoke later when a bucket of water was splashed on his face. Sho coughed out some of the water and shook his head. Slowly the blurry vision came into clear view. His body feel numb as it is tied tight by thick rope to a chair, both his wrist and ankles also tied that he could not move a muscle.
In front of him, a tall man with an earring on his left ear observed him when the door opened and two burly guys entered behind them is a man with a fedora hat and three piece suit walked in smirking smugly at the sight of him bound there.
But Sho know the latter, “Nakai Masahiro,” he hissed.
The boss, Nakai laughed out loud, “So you know my name, interesting.” He pull out a chair from somewhere and sat, Sho realised they are in some kind of warehouse by looking at the dusty floors and some irons piled up around them.
“Kusanagi, release him,” Nakai ordered the first man Sho saw after he awoke. He is the right hand man.
The ropes are cut and Sho rubbed the red marks around his wrists, “So may I ask why you decide to kidnap me when I was on my way home?”
The one who answered is Kusanagi, “Well, because we found information regarding the murderer of the cold cases.”
“Oh you mean Kimura and Katori? You think I killed both of them just because you found information that I’m the suspect, I thought you could do better than that.”
Kusanagi punched him in the face that Sho cut his lips. “But you see here, Sakurai-san, you know my name although this is our first meeting.”
“Who don’t know you? You run a stock market that both legal and illegal-“
Kusanagi punched him again and Sho coughed the blood that flood in his mouth.
“We also found that you were an orphan back when our last operation is the orphan’s owner.”
“So you think I’m going out for revenge?” Sho raised his eyebrow. He laughed, “How simple minded are you, why should I took a revenge on a trash like-“
This time Kusanagi hit him hard that he fell off the chair on the dusty floor.
Nakai stood up, “Tell me what else you know more about us? And how did you kill Katori and Kimura without leaving the evidence?”
“You’re the murderer!” Sho managed to choke out the words. “You killed Inagaki.”
Nakai laughed, “That useless soft hearted idiot, he was planning to come clear to the police so that the murderer will not be after him, but that’s where he’s wrong, the police will arrested all of us if they investigated and know the truth of the case.”
“You coward!” Nakai kicked Sho’s stomach.
“You are just waste of my time, despite your doing with all the killings it’s just helping to remove the burden. I say I must thank you.”
“Kusanagi, finish him.” He ordered before turned around from Sho.
Kusanagi raised a gun aimed at Sho who bravely glaring back at the gun’s owner. “Shoot me if you dare, I hope you rot in hell.” Sho spat.
Kusanagi cocked the gun when a shot rang out in the warehouse. Kusanagi hissed as his gun flew out of his hand. “Shit!”
All of the occupants turned towards the source, the two bodyguards raised their guns. There on the top of some iron pipes, sat a relaxed looking trained assassin, Ohno Satoshi, pocketing his gun back to its holster. “Yo.”
“Who the hell are you?” Nakai cocked his eyebrow towards the intruder.
“I am your worst nightmare.” Ohno dropped from the iron pipes. He pointed to Sho, “That man there is innocent. I am the one who you’re looking for.”
“You?”
“Aniki, there is also a kid name Ohno Satoshi in that orphan,” Kusanagi said to his boss.
“I see, so you’re the phantom?”
“That’s only my media nickname, not my choice though.” Ohno shrugged.
Nakai smirked, “Kill him.”
As soon as he ordered, the bodyguards fired shots at Ohno who easily ducked and ran into cover to avoid those bullets. He rolls over to hide behind some brick wall at the same time throwing daggers to the bodyguards, strike them right at the throat.
Ohno pulled another dagger out ready to attack Nakai when the man himself already produced a gun and aimed at Sho who lying helplessly on the floor, too weak to move for his safety.
“I’ll kill him. He is your friend right? I am sure two orphan boys have formed a close bond, you don’t want to see him dead right?”
Ohno glared at him deadly, he dropped the dagger, “I really don’t want him dead...but I really like to see you dead.” Ohno grinned to Nakai’s surprise.
Nakai feel a cold metal pressed on the back of his head. Kusanagi who have stood behind him all this time recovered his thrown gun and aimed it at his boss’s head.
“Kusanagi, what are you thinking?”
Kusanagi wore an identical grin as Ohno. “Oh I’m thinking in just arresting you, killing is not my thing, I will just leave it to the assassin.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You see here Aniki, I’m not your Kusanagi.” With that the not-Kusanagi grabbed the skin on his neck and ripped it open revealing an undercover Ninomiya. Nakai is too shock for words that he caught off guard when Ohno attacked him and grabbed his gun, throwing it far away before pinned him to the ground.
“You’re finished, Nakai.” Ohno claimed before knocked Nakai out with the butt of his dagger.
Nino who helped Sho to stand up looked at the unconscious Nakai and Ohno. “I thought you’re gonna finish him like...” Nino made a motion slit a throat.
“The time has not come yet, you have to give him to the police so the case can be brought to light. I want Ogu-san to rest in peace finally.”
“That’s why you ask Jun and Aiba to reopen the case properly?”
Ohno nodded then turned to Sho, “Sorry for getting you involved and getting banged up like this.”
Sho shrugged, “It’s alright, and you better treat me for a soba next time.”
“Oh shit, I hit you hard, you’re dying,” Nino gasped after looking properly at Sakurai.
“You can be a good actor, Ninomiya-san. Did you give him a crash course, Satoshi-kun?”
“Yes, he’s a fast learner.”
“And where’s the real Kusanagi if I may ask?”
“Already behind the bar, he will supply with all the information we needed. They really planned to kidnap you when they have all the info they stole from the agency. We manage to get Kusanagi before the plan is put to act.”
“Good to hear, can we go now, I felt like a truck just hit me.” Nino gave him an apologetic look. “Don’t worry, you’re just doing your job and with Satoshi-kun as the teacher, you definitely work it.”
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Jun, Aiba and Nino sat in the Inspector Matsuoka’s office who have been promoted as his superior appeared to be corrupted. Inspector Matsuoka himself did not look that good as he still covered in bandages, actually before the Sho’s kidnapping case, he have been ganged up in an alley by Nakai’s men and thrashed until he is knocked out but thank god he is still alive.
Kusanagi have been sentenced a life-time prison and Nakai is still waiting for a trial for his case. Sakurai Sho is declared innocent as he has done nothing regarding to the case.
Despite solving the Inagaki’s murder case and bringing the old case of orphan owner’s suicide to light, they were surprised to see a grim expression on the Inspector’s face.
“Nakai Masahiro is found dead in his holding cell.”
“WHAT?”
“You mean he’s dead already? The trial?”
“He is declared guilty by the investigation, but it is still mysterious. The way he is killed is the same as the first two cases.”
“You mean the murder weapon is a dagger?” asked Jun.
The inspector nodded. “The Phantom is still around but I feel like this will be his last victim.”
The three private detectives fell silent. When they are back at the agency finally they spoke what is on their mind.
“You don’t think Ohno killed him?”
“He disappeared after he left Nakai in our care. We didn’t see him after that. Sakurai even confessed that Ohno stopped seeing him, he did not even know where he is as his things in his rooms are emptied.”
“Do you think he just want to complete the revenge?”
The other two shrugged, when someone knocked on their door alarming them. Nino got up and opened the door.
“Express delivery!” A cheerful deliveryman handed him a large thin square parcel.
After thanked the deliveryman, Nino went back to his fellow comrades and open the parcel, silence fill the room as they waited to see what the express delivery.
It was a portrait, the three of them grinning in joy and written below ‘Thank you Kaze Detectives’. The three of them gasped and Nino quickly turned around the portrait and sure enough Ohno Satoshi written small at the back.
“It’s from him!” Aiba exclaimed.
Jun inspected the parcel wrap, “Hey, there is no shop’s delivery stamp...”
“You don’t think...”
“...the deliveryman...”
“...is Ohno?”
A/n: I know it is not the best ending, forgive me T.T anyway I'll write an epilogue to this and will posted it asap if I have time. Thanks again for reading.