Iliada__III

[su_ede]

Title: Iliada
Author:su_ede
Length: About 4173 words
Pairing: Matsumoto Jun  x OC
Rating: g
Genre: AU - Action - Police
Disclaimer: I don't own Arashi...or maybe I do, who knows?
Summary: Sonoda Miyako works as a secreta agent at Japans National Security Agency. After a hard mission his boss want her to work in a new case. The man? Matsumoto Jun, a guy that for the police is like a ghost. They need her to capture him.
A/N: I'm so sorry for the late update. But I was busy with my thesis, and then I had to go out of town.
Also, sometimes when I read the fic, I feel like I'm stretching things, but please bear with me, the good stuff is coming.
And last, comments are my vitamin. I know you guys are there, my google analytics graphic goes wild. Feedback is really important.
And this is really the last one, when I re-read my fics I find always a tiny misspell, sorry for that, but I don't have a beta reader (I wish I had one). It doesn't matter how many times I go over it, I always miss something.


Sonoda Miyako’s movements between January 27 and January 29.
By Yamada Shinichi

Friday 27
7 pm. Sonoda leaves the Matsumoto household. She walks five blocks and gets in to the subway station. There she buys 2 magazines. One about society and the other a weekly manga magazine.
7:30 pm. She gets in to the express car and gets off four station later. At the station she charges her card.
7:40 pm. Outside the station she stops at a konbini and buys a frozen pizza, meron pan and a bottle of coke. She walks 2 blocks and gets in to a 4 floors apartment. She lives at the fourth floor, apartment number 12.
No more movements during that day.

Saturday 28
9 am. Sonoda leaves her flat and runs for 20 minutes.
9:30 am. She’s back at her flat.
3:00 pm. She leaves her flat and walks to the subway station.
4:00 pm. She arrives at Ikebukuro. Outside the subway station she answers a survey.
4:20 pm. She arrives at a private library and spends 2 hours inside.
7:30pm. She’s back at home.
No more movements during that day.

Sunday 29
9:00 am. Sonoda leaves her flat and runs for 30 minutes.
9:40 am. She arrives at a gym called ‘sportime’ and spends 2 hours inside.
12:00 pm. She goes to the konbini. She buys lunch (Pasta a la Bolognese) and some toilet products.
12:30 pm. She arrives at her flat.
No more movements during that day.

I leave my position at 5 am of Monday 30. Sonoda Miyako was still inside her flat.

Saturday 28

Miyako looked outside her window and saw the same car. “He is still there?”
“Yes” Sakurai grumbled from the other side of the screen. At 8 o’clock she, Sakurai and Aiba had their first meeting since Miyako started her mission. Obviously, they did it through video conference. Miyako had already identity the guy. His name was Yamada Shinichi, one of Matsumoto’s ‘friends’. “I’ll go running, Aiba-chan, keep the webcam connected…in case someone gets in”
“What do I do if someone does?”
“Nothing, once I’m back, tell me” She put on her earphones and sneakers and went out of her place.
   That Friday, as soon as she leaved the house, she realized that someone was following her. And she wasn’t surprised. Ohno told her that it was going to happen. The guy was good. If it wasn’t for the fact that she had a sixth sense, she wouldn’t have notice. The guy barely looked at her. But followed her steps carefully. That gave her a bad feeling. After all, Matsumoto was a smart man. As soon as she arrived at her new place, she checked every corner of it looking for microphones or hidden wires.
   She found nothing. Maybe she wasn’t that suspicious. Or Matsumoto wasn’t that mistrustful.
   She came back from running, and the voice of Aiba received her. “No one got in”
“Thank you Aiba-chan” She turned off the computer and started to do some training.
   At 2 pm she got an email from Ohno. It said he would be waiting for her outside the Ikebukuro station.
   Ohno let people pass by him, holding his folder on his hands and a friendly smile on his face. He spotted her as she put on the hoodie of her jacket. “Excuse me miss, May I have a minute of your time please” Miyako smiled at him and took a step back, showing no signal of surprise. “Sure” Ohno looked at her, admiring how she acted her roll. Suddenly he felt proud. “Is there anyone following you right now miss?”
“Yes, He is standing in the corner, the one with the black pants and the grey jacket” Ohno didn’t look. “Very well. What are you going to do now?”
“I was going to look around, get inside some stores” Ohno wrote some random words on the sheet “Ok, don’t do that. There’s a library over there, get inside and go to the Polish writers section. There, in the book with the number 134 you’ll find different props and instructions”
“Ok, if I realize that the guy follows me inside the library, I’m not going to do that” 
“Don’t worry, is a private library and Aiba already got you a member card, you can’t get in without one, the card is inside the tissues that I’m about to give you” Ohno took out a blue bag of tissues from inside his pocket and gave it to her. Miyako took it and saved it inside her bag. They bid goodbye to each other, and she walked to the library as indicated.
   Aiba’s indications were clear. Inside the book she found 5 ‘Good for spy gadgets’ “We have to be cautious. Maybe during this week, they could get inside your house, so be careful to take all this with you, inside the same book. You don’t have to install them immediately but be careful to keep them with yourself” Aiba was eating with her, in video conference. “During the week I’ll go to your flat and install some video cameras, maybe two in every corner of your street, one outside your door, and one inside”
“I don’t like the idea of have a camera inside my house” Aiba gave her a mocking laugh “I’m not going to spy you If that is what scares you, I’ll put one in the living room”. Miyako nodded absently.

February 14th to February 28th

By now, Miyako knew the house by memory.
She draw a small map of the house in the back of one of her book. The map was full with little notes. Like at what time her co-workers wake up and go to sleep. At what time the rest of the staff arrives or leaves.
   Some other notes were about how many unlocked entrances each room had and how the security system worked. It wasn’t a very intricate system. With some more research and some help from Aiba she will be able to master it. But that wasn’t a priority right now. The priority right now was create a plan.
   She was already inside. And apparently Matsumoto already trusted her since no one followed her again. The rest of the staff had already accepted her too. Miyako didn’t ask about anything related to Matsumoto to the rest of the staff.
   Those people really loved their boss. They said only good things about him. They didn’t had reasons to not like him either. What Miyako saw those two weeks was a nice, well behaved boss. Twice a week, and without early advice, he would have lunch with them. And the words exchanged during those times were light conversations about any of them or about something they read in the newspaper
   The exchanges with her were always about nothing in particular. And always started by him. Miyako was playing safe all the time.

Aiba was right. Matsumoto was a hikikomori (1). In those two weeks he leaved the house twice. In those two occasions he went with the cookers to the fish market.
   The days he stayed at home he followed a routine. And Miyako had followed that routine carefully. Every day he would wake up at 8 o’clock. Four times a week he would run for 30 minutes around the overly huge garden. Later, Momi-san would serve him breakfast. After that he would smoke a cigarette and then locked himself in his office. He would appear again for lunch. His activities during the afternoon were diverse. Sometimes he will grab a book and sit in his library until midnight. When the days weren’t too cold, he would play the entire afternoon with his two dogs. His computer was another loyal companion. And sometimes he would sleep the entire afternoon. Although that didn’t happen very often.

With the years working as a secret agent Miyako had learned that probably the success of a mission consisted in 60% of work and 30% luck.
   The other 10% depended of how good your gun was.
   That’s why, when Hana-san, one of the woman’s in charge of cleaning, quit due to grandmother duty, Miyako did an internal fist pump. And her happiness was even greater when Matsumoto called her and Momi-san to his office. “Momi-san, what should we do?”
Matsumoto looked somehow tired when he asked the question. “Should we hired a new girl?” Momi thought about it for a second. “Two new girls in such a short time could be a bit hard, especially for you sir” Matsumoto smiled at her with gratitude “I’m not sure we could have the same luck we had with Miyako-chan, so I have an idea sir”
“Please, I’m all hears” Momi looked at Miyako first “Miyako-chan, what about a change?”
“A change?”
“Yes, a change, we have been talking, me and the rest of the girls, maybe we need to re-arrange things. Leave the hard work to the youngsters” Miyako looked at Momi not really understanding the meaning behind her words “Since Naru-san is the older one, we want to move her to ironing. Tamako will stay as kitchen assistant and Mikako will take Naru’s place, cleaning the south of the house, kitchen, dining room and pantry. I will take care of the living room and bathroom, and Miyako-chan will do the library, your office and your room” It took Miyako a lot of effort to not scream. She was finally in.

Matsumoto accepted what Momi-san proposed. And Miyako-san liked the idea too. She looked like a very hardworking girl. She WAS a very hard working girl. Jun could tell by her resume. He would have prefer one of the senior to took care of his personal rooms, but the cleaning of the north part of the house was a lot of work. Momi-san was right, they should leave the hard work for the youngsters.
   Jun re-read Sonoda’s resume and Shinichi’s report. The papers didn’t gave him a reason to not trust her. On the contrary. Miyako looked as a trustful girl. Always with a low profile, working as an ant. And with a pretty boring life.
   Of course Jun would take some precautions. Change some password and hide some files.

That Friday night Miyako run to her house without stopping for food in her way. “Aiba! Aiba?!” She could saw the image of Aiba’s laboratory but no signal of him. “Aiba?!!!” In front of the screen didn’t appear Aiba but Ohno “He is on the field, what happened?”
“Senpai, I have good news. No I’m in charge of Matsumoto’s room, office and library” Ohno hit the table and twirl on his chair. “Ok, let’s start with this, go and buy some food, we will work a lot” Miyako nodded, and got up, unable to control her excitement.
   Finally some action.

March 3th to March 12th

Aiba taught her how to do a Hostile Takeover. It was a long work. Even with Aiba’s tailored programs. It required introduce, kilobyte by kilobyte, small fragments of information until a very simple program was created inside Matsumoto’s HP computer. The speed of the process depended on how often Matsumoto surfed the internet. Thankfully it was quite often. Then, another few days were needed to transmit all Matsumoto’s information in to a mirror hard drive.
   On March 7th, they had full access to Matsumoto’s computer.
   And they found nothing.
   Sakurai almost blushed at Miyako’s curse. “Bastard, how can someone be so old school? Does he hides his money under his mattress?”
“Mmm…I would check if I was you. But Miyako-chan, he must have his information in some place, like an external hard drive”
“Ok, I will look for it, or try at least. But Aiba, what else can we do?” Aiba scratched his cheek for a couple of second. Sakurai looked at him expectant “We can…I need to work on it. For now, remember all those microphones we gave you a while ago? You should start using them” Sakurai nodded, agreeing with Aiba “Matsumoto has been calm for a while now, we should be alert to any move. And for what we know, Matsumoto held all his meeting there, in the fortress of his home”
“Ok boss, I’ll have my eyes and hears wide open, now, If you sirs excuse me, I need some sleep. I’m mad and frustrated” Miyako cut the communication and got in bed holding her pillow against her face and cursing Matsumoto for the nth time that day.

“We need a new tactic” Said Aiba that weekend, so Miyako started to work on it. She picked up some microphones the day she visited Ikebukuro but she hasn’t been able to do anything with them. Now, that she was in charge of cleaning the main rooms, she had a chance. That Monday, she will take her new position. She was pulling her hair up in a ponytail when someone knocked her door. “Yes?”
“It’s me Miyako-san” Her body stiffed for three long second. The microphones where spread on her bed, a small map of the house was glued to the wall and her
Boss was knocking at her door. “Just a minute sir” She hid all the gadgets under her dirty clothes and took off the map in one swift movement. She gave one last look to her room looking for something weird or suspicious, but she found nothing. She could finally open the door “I’m sorry sir, I was cleaning a bit”
“It’s alright, I came because you start today working in my rooms of personal preference so I will like to show you some things” Miyako followed him agreeing, always with a polite smile. Matsumoto was wearing a kimono, with dark square patterns and his hair was combed to the back. He looked very elegant. As if he had somewhere to go.
   No words were exchange until they reached his office. “So, here the cleaning is quite basic and I don’t have any special request…well, just one. If you come here and you find something on top of my desk, leave it there, don’t clean the desk. If I leaved it there it was probably because I got tired, so in order to finish that work, I need to find it just as I leave it”
“Understood, anything else?”
“No, follow me to the library” Jun gave her a signal, and Miyako obeyed. This time she led him and opened the door for him. This was the second time she visited the room since she arrived to his house. And now she was looking at it with detention. She couldn’t suppress the surprise exclamation. Jun smiled next to her, closing the door. “Pretty big, there are 1000 books here, all displayed in this two walls. And the thing is that once a month, I want you to clean them” Miyako’s eyes grew three times wider. Jun smiled again “Not one by one, just taking them off the shelf, clean the shelf, maybe the top of the book and the spine, is just that this house with this huge windows hoards a lot of dust”
“Ok, I can do that, it’s going to be fun”
“I like that positive thinking” Miyako walked around the room looking at the books, she could tell that Matsumoto was a man with a lot of interest, she saw English classics and books that talked about math theorems and human evolution. “How do you organize them?”
“By theme, and then alphabetically…you like reading?” Miyako nodded, not lying. “So you understand how important this room is”
“I do, I’ll treat it with special care” Matsumoto smiled at her in appreciation.
   The last room was his room and bathroom. There weren’t too many things to clean. Just a bed, two night stands, a couch and two shelfs. “I want you to change my sheets every two days, keep the curtains open the entire day and not get in to my wardrobe, I take care of it, I’m really OCD when it comes to my wardrobe…and I think that’s all”
“Jun, are you finished with your indications to this poor girl? We have something to do” Miyako turned around, surprised by this new voice. She recognize him as soon as he saw him. It was Ninomiya. She was already wondering when she will be able to meet Matsumoto’s right hand, and there he was. “Good morning, I’m Ninomiya Kazunari”
“Good morning, I’m Goriki Miyako” Ninomiya answered to her bow, with a flirty smile pocking his lips “Well, aren’t you young, that’s new, isn’t it Matsumoto?” Jun rolled his eyes and walked closer to Ninomiya “Cut it, Miyako-san is a really capable girl, now let’s go, we have a meeting, Miyako-san, I will leave this under your care”
“Of course sir, leave it to me” She gave them her best ´Good girl´ smile and watched them leave.
   Ninomiya leaved the room with Matsumoto following his steps. She was now by herself in Jun’s room. With a long sigh she pulled up her sleeves and started inspecting the place.

Ninomiya choose the grey Volvo for the occasion. It was a low profile car but still very comfortable. Matsumoto passed the wheel to Kazunari. It was raining and he had never enjoy driving under the rain.
   It brought him bad memories.
   “So, a twenty something maid uh?, What? Looking for an affair?” Matsumoto gave him a low chuckle “Don’t be stupid, you saw her resume right? She’s very good for the job”
“And cute, simple but cute” Jun grinned at him. Talking about girls, it felt like high school. “Well, I’m not going to deny that, but she is very professional, with a low profile. I already took my measures and she represents no problem”
“But why did the agency send a file from someone so young, they know you hire middle-aged women” That issue had caught Jun’s attention before, but he got a convince response from the agency “ The guy that talked to me a couple of times said they were short of personal and that she was one of the best. Did you saw where she worked for the last time?”
“National security. Quit for sexual harassment. Men are disgusting”
“Yes. But also, that means that she has a character and values”
“That’s all good…but it surprise me that someone with your line of work cares about that” Nino got a very un-kind hit in the head “Hey! My job may be illegal, but it requires a good character…and values” Nino gave him a mocking nod, just to mess with him, he completely understood what Matsumoto meant.
   They reached their destination after an hour of driving. Inside the room there was one of Matsumoto’s closest and oldest business partners, Yoshimoto Hide.
   Yoshimoto was a well-known Yakuza boss. The boss of one of Tokyo’s biggest groups, and a big influence in every circle in Japan during the 90’s. Politics, police, journalism, you name it and he would have someone inside doing favours. One day he did a bad move and everything he had was confiscated by the police. All his bank accounts were frozen and his manpower was reduced to zero. He got 10 years in jail. On 2008 he was finally out. The same day he crossed the door of Ueno’s prison facilities, a young men was waiting for him outside “Yoshimoto-san” he said back then “I’m Matsumoto Jun, and I bring you the deal of your lifetime”
“Well, I’m 50, lifetime may be too much”
“I’m here to help you build your business again” He thought about laughing at him but something about this young men made him thought that it was a bad idea. Instead he followed Matsumoto and got in to his car. That was the first time he trust in someone at first sight. And now, each time he saw Matsumoto the same feeling invaded him. He could trust this young men. “Good morning Yoshimoto-san”
“It’s Hide, we are long time companions, you can call me by my first time”
“Sorry but I can’t, you’re my senpai, I learned everything from you” Yoshimoto patted Jun’s shoulder and invited him inside the private room of his restaurant “Isn’t it backwards? You taught me everything” Nino released an exasperated sight and interrupted them with a charming smile “We get it, you guys respect each other, now let’s get to business” Matsumoto stared at him with reproaching eyes but still followed his instructions. “Yoshimoto-san, tomorrow morning a new shipment will arrive from Spain. This shipment comes in a container from a well-known leather brand. Two of my guys will take it with them and leave it at the gasoline station at the kilometre 40 in the south highway. From there, another of my guys will take it and leave it at the hotel we always do. This time at the room 25. If my people realizes that something is odd, the delivery place will change to the Shibuya intersection”
“It’s surprisingly simple this time, the delivery I mean”
“Yeah, is a small delivery, a new brand we are trying, if you like it, I will make a bigger order”
“Good, I’ll keep you informed. Same requirements as always?”
“Yeah, only calls in disposable phones” Jun leaved the box on top of the table with a basic cell phone inside and 50 minutes pre-charged. “That’s yours, also, leave no trace, no notes or written orders”
“Very well, my people will very careful, now, can I offer you gentleman something to eat?” Nino and Jun accepted, finishing the formal part of the reunion.

Miyako took her time to analyse the three rooms. Two of them had secure places where she could install some microphones. The office and the library. Matsumoto’s room was out of the question.
   The office had some wood timbers on the ceiling that could hide a couple of sensitive microphones. And they were quite high, so the probability of someone finding them was close to zero. Install them will take her a bit of work, she had to plan it very well.
   The library, on the other side, had several places where she could hide them. She hid two, one on top of a shelf and the other on top of a sample of the bible that was clearly new, never opened. For now it would work, it was a test run.
   After ensemble all the things she had to, she begun to do her actual job. Just when she was getting on top of a chair to clean the windows, Matsumoto and Ninomiya arrived. “Miyako-san, be careful”
“Don’t worry, I have done this before, you need the room?”
“Yeah, just for a while, give us 30 minutes and you can go back to work” Miyako went down the chair with a grace that surprised Ninomiya and Matsumoto. Both stared at her as she leaved the room bowing at them. “She is seriously cute, if you don’t try something, I will”
“No one will Nino, now let’s go over tomorrows plan so you can tell the others” Nino sat in the sofa next to Jun. The sight he released wasn’t out of tiredness.
   He just had realized that his friend will probably make a move.
   Too bad. He really wanted to see what was under Miyako’s long skirt.

Miyako leaved the office with a calm step. Once she reached the hallway that lead to her room, she hurried her step and dashed inside the room. She took the MacBook from under her bed and turned it on, thankful that she had it in hibernation. In less than 2 seconds the screen was on. She opened the software that Aiba had built for the microphones. It worked as a digital recorder and thanks to the Wi-Fi signal of the house, the signal from the microphones was received in the computer.
   Miyako could hear Matsumoto’s voice as if the men was standing next to her. She pressed rec and listened to the conversation in complete silence. “If this one sells well, we should start thinking about changing providers”
“Yeah, our seller from Rumania is starting to bothering me. This American guy is better”
“Yeah, what about the costumers?”
“Let’s offer some grams to Murakami sensei, if we tell him that he is the first one trying it and all that he is going to love us, maybe he can get us more people inside the police districts where we don’t have anyone” Miyako slapped her leg as a celebration gesture. Ohno was right, they had people inside. “Very well, so, March 22. 2 pm. I’ll go visit our guys and give them the information. Anything else?”
“No, take care my friend”
“You too” She could hear the sound of the door closing and Matsumoto opening the sliding windows of the room.
   She saved the MP3 with the conversation and upload it to the cloud. With her heart still rising, she turned off the PC, arranged her hair and leaved the room.
   Finally after so many days, they had their first proof.

TBC

(1)  Reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement.