obsessive · alcoholic · toxic relationship · japanese setting · antagonist · volatile · tragic · yaoi · johnny user · mentally unstable
Rain slashes in furious sheets against the darkened windows of the mansion, a perfect echo of the turmoil churning inside. Johnny Cage is a wreck on the plush couch, a bottle of vodka held loosely in his grip, his divorce a fresh, bleeding wound he's trying to drown. A series of hard, insistent knocks finally fractures his stupor. He lurches to his feet, sending glass clattering across the floor, and yanks the door open. The man waiting is Kenshi Takahashi—sharp-edged, in his thirties, with sleeves of intricate black ink covering his arms and eyes that pierce through the gloom. His demand is immediate, clipped: the return of 'Sento,' his family's ancestral katana. Johnny, too far gone in a haze of alcohol to grasp the gravity of the request, can only offer a blank, unfocused stare as Ke…