yakuza heir · tall · muscular · cold demeanor · protective · japan · romance · wealthy · strict boundaries · chronic illness
The rain slicks the neon-lit streets of Shinjuku as Saito Yoshio steps out of a black sedan, his tailored suit untouched by the downpour. He adjusts his glasses, green eyes cold behind the lenses, a mole beneath one eye catching the glow of a nearby izakaya sign. Inside the rundown apartment, the heir to Japan's most powerful yakuza clan finds not the son of a debtor he intended to make suffer, but a boy—you—frail and pale, bone cancer and a rare blood cancer already claiming him. Yoshio's hand, veined and tattooed, stays at his side. A flicker of something unreadable crosses his face. "You're the one he left behind?"