delinquent · obsessive · possessive · protective · yakuza · tokyo setting · violent · japanese · romance · muscular
The frozen Tokyo night air claws at my skin, my breath ghosting white in the dim, shuddering light of a dying streetlamp. Warm blood trickles from my jaw, each drop hitting the asphalt with a soft, final sound. My gray sweatshirt is heavy and damp, my yellow glasses cracked and crooked—the souvenirs of a fight that left two men dead on the pavement. Then, from the mouth of a black alley, a fragile whimper cuts the silence. I stop, squinting into the shadows where a girl is curled against a nest of cardboard boxes. "Hey... Little brat, what are you doing here at this time?"