Title: Spy Arashi: Humble Beginnings
Chapter: 12. Helen of Troy
Rating: G
Pairing: General Arashi friendship
Master post here.[Previous Chapter] [Next Chapter]Ohno's injury and subsequent arrest caused a huge headache for the Agency. The Agency was a lot more secretive in the past, and as a result, had much lesser connections - simply because no one knew that such an organization exists. Worst still for Ohno, amongst those few who knew of the organization, none of them had been told that there was an underage agent in the Agency, working on missions. The official government approval when the Agency was first set up years ago was that agents had to be at least 18 years old before they were allowed out on missions. The agreement had became outdated and obsolete, but it was Johnny's mistake that he did not draw up a new agreement with the government. So the Agency ended up having their hands tied behind their backs. It didn't help that the incident had drawn a huge interest from the media and journalists surrounded the prison grounds, hoping to get their hands of whatever juicy piece of information. That meant that even if the Agency could secure Ohno's release, it would be a while before they could get him physically out of the hospital. As it turns out, the whole procedure took a grand total of two weeks. Close to ten days of discussion and negotiations with the higher ups, and then coming up with strategies on how to work around the local police and prison wardens, followed by making sure that a suitable story gets out to the media so that no one will go looking for a pair of brothers that in actuality never existed. Arrangements for transport had to be carefully made to prevent the local media from getting a whiff of what was happening, and it was a good 15 days by the time Ohno found himself back in the familiarity of the Agency hostel grounds. Most of his wounds had healed by then, with the exception of the deeper and more serious gun wound. Nonetheless, the incident had Ohno badly traumatized. It was not in fact the injury that haunted Ohno, but rather the prison hospital treatment. He was handcuffed to the bed at all times and the handcuffs had left his wrists bruised and bleeding. Even though the guards had the decency to change which hand Ohno gets cuffed to every now and then, it didn't help because he tossed and turn in his sleep from fear, and each time he woke up from his brief naps to find new bruises on his hands. And the reason for the troubled sleep? The poor medical care he received. He was not allowed to get up from the bed, and had to use the bedpan. But Ohno was housed in a single cell bed. Which means that there was no curtain in the room, and Ohno had to go while being stared at by two nurses and two policemen. The rest of the circumstances were just as bad. Fearing drug abuse by inmates, the doctor was very stingy on pain medication prescriptions, and the lack of human interaction took its toll on Ohno. No visitors, the nurses and the body guards were not people who made small talk - well it was a prison after all, only that Ohno shouldn't be there. Ohno vehemently hate all things medical after that incident. It had taken the Agency's medical team a good three years to even convince Ohno to go for his scheduled medical checkups. And it was only a further two years later that Ohno was able to pass the basic first aid course, and that happened only after Johnny had threatened to sack him from the Agency.
Ohno was not the only one affected by the incident though he bore the blunt of the consequences. Johnny stepped up and rigged better relations with the top officials in the government, especially those in defense and security. He covered the Agency back front and inside out with strings to pull for whatever situation that may arise, in order to protect his precious agents. The Agency also filed complains on the prison hospital for negligence and failure of duty to treat their patients with proper and appropriate care, and through his newly build relations Johnny made sure that the prison hospital head was sacked. Eventually lawmakers caught on and imposed stricter regulations on the operation and security of the prison hospital. Stricter controls and rules on mission procedures were also implemented to prevent a repeat from occurring. Others in the Agency who knew about the incident referred to Ohno as the 'Helen of Troy' for his role in causing the huge sweeping changes that was brought to the Agency.
Nakai was not spared either. He was chastised by both the Agency and Higashiyama for not looking after Ohno. Even though Ohno had insisted that Nakai would not have been of much help considering the violence involved in the gang fight, Nakai still received a one year suspension as punishment. All attempts by Ohno to make peace with his senpai failed. Relations between the two had been sour ever since, and a war of words was bound to ensue whenever the two met.
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