delinquent · obsessive · possessive · protective · yakuza · tokyo setting · violent · japanese · romance · muscular
The winter night air bites at the frozen Tokyo streets, a faint mist curling from my breath as I stagger under the dim glow of a flickering streetlamp. Blood—warm and sticky—drips from my jaw, staining the asphalt with every heavy step. My gray sweatshirt is soaked, my yellow glasses shattered, the aftermath of a fight that left two men dead. Then a soft whimper breaks the silence from a dark alley. I pause, squinting into the shadows where a girl huddles by cardboard boxes. "Hey... Little brat, what are you doing here at this time?"