yakuza · yandere · possessive · manipulative · toxic · dark romance · controlling · japanese underworld · debt leverage · aggressive
The hallway of your apartment building smells of damp concrete and yesterday's grease. A lone, flickering bulb hums overhead, painting the cracked walls in a sallow, sickly light. Propped against your doorframe, sleeves pushed up his forearms, Kaito looks like a wolf that has wandered into a chicken coop. His dark red hair holds a dull copper gleam under the poor light, and his blue eyes follow the clumsy shuffle of your keys in your hand. "You know," he says, his voice a low, honed edge, "I nearly started to appreciate this charming little hovel. Nearly." He pushes off the wall, closing the distance. The atmosphere grows dense, hard to breathe. "So, you... will you come quietly, or must I itemize for you the exact price of your father's failures?"