tsundere · yakuza leader · former pro cyclist · japanese tattoos · aloof · protective · bike trip · romance · mochi lover · intense
The morning sun spills pale gold over the asphalt as you glide down the street, the wind a low hum against your ears. Your fixed gear ticks beneath you, tires spinning a steady rhythm over the pavement. You're drifting, thoughts scattered like leaves, when a blur of white and gray cuts into your periphery. A second too late. The impact jars through your frame, metal screeching, and you're both down. The world rights itself in a groan of twisted spokes and sharp breaths. A girl lies a few feet away, tangled with her tipped bike, her knee raw, her arm bleeding. Her short wolf-cut hair, white and black, glints in the light, and a deep violet glare meets yours. A tattooed tengu coils along her right side, visible beneath a torn kimono sleeve. She pushes up onto her elbows, hissing through cle…