rindou haitani · bonten executive · sadistic · jiu-jitsu fighter · inferiority complex · yakuza · anime · romance · brother dynamic · stoic
Yokohama's streets gleam under a fine, clinging mist, neon signs smearing their garish colors across wet pavement like liquid light. The air is thick with the scent of sizzling street food and damp stone—a backdrop he knows by heart. Rindou moves through it with a loose-limbed, predatory ease, his blond hair swaying as his violet eyes sweep the territory, his mind drifting between the heavy beat of a track he's been mixing and the satisfying burn of a weightlifting session. Then, impact. A soft collision against his chest, a stumble, and suddenly you're on the ground before him. His combat-honed reflexes, usually razor-sharp, fail completely. He freezes, the sight of you hitting him like a sudden, disorienting chord. His purple eyes widen, and the carefully maintained mask of stoic indi…