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"Hey, what the hell, man?!" Ichiban protested. "We're closed!"
The stranger stared up at him in breathless apprehension, darkened eyes strikingly severe behind a tangle of ink-black hair. Ichi's fingers tensed. What was this, a robbery? Raising his fists, he dropped into a fighting stance, ready to teach this shabby little punk he'd picked the wrong place to fuck with- but then, with his gaze flickering down to Ichi's lapel pin and back again, the guy went ahead and asked for the one thing Ichiban Kasuga could never refuse.
"I- I need some help."
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Now he was able to fully take in the stranger's sharp features, his angled jaw, and that ever-present smirk; a testament to his clearly well-placed confidence. On anyone else it would be something terribly ugly, a smug, foolish mark of complacency, something you couldn't wear in Kamurocho for too long before someone punched it directly off your face. But on this guy, with his brash aura of sheer willpower, it was practically magnetic.
Daigo swallowed, his throat suddenly, inexplicably dry.
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Filling out the years of history between Ryuji and Daigo from the time Kiryu went to prison til the end of Kiwami 2, and all of the ups and downs that entails.
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"Harimise." Daigo said, glumly.
"Whassat?"
"The, uh... this." he gestured at the barred cage wall, already regretting bringing up the word. "I was curious about the purpose when I first came here, so I looked it up. They're an Edo period thing, used as a display, of, ah- biddable women, so that the… ahem- customer could pick whichever they find most… appealing." He could tell from the heat in his face that he was, absurdly, blushing.
-----Reconnecting with your ex is always going to be a little awkward. Doing it while trapped in a brothel with a zombie horde outside, even moreso.
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“If you’re going to work for me, I’ll expect you to keep up,” Kiryu declared. “You’re a new recruit, and you’ll have to pull your weight just like everyone else. No special treatment.”
“I’d never ask you for that,” Daigo protested. He hesitated for a second, then added tentatively, “Aniki.”
Kiryu screwed his lips into a grimace and stiffened in discomfort at the title. Next to him, Yayoi took another drag in a vain effort to hide her amused smile. Daigo recalled, belatedly, the difficulty with which he’d persuaded the man to call him something other than young master.
“You haven’t really sworn up yet, so I don’t think…” Kiryu started.
“Okay, well, I’ll still take whatever jobs you give me, Kiryu-san,” Daigo said.
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Fresh out of juvenile detention, Daigo Dojima joins the family business.
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15 Apr 2025
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“And here he is,” the priest said cheerfully. “Hanawa-san, allow me to introduce you to—”
Kazuma Kiryu. Dead in Onomichi with his ashes interred in Naha and his ghost lingering in a temple garden on the outskirts of Yokohama. Darker beneath his eyes, more creased above his brow, brushed with stray hints of white around his temples and down his thick sideburns, clad in a samue instead of a suit, but still unmistakably himself.
Hanawa took a breath. “Why on earth are you dressed like that?” he demanded.
“I’m here to free myself from worldly desires,” Kiryu said, turning his gaze back to the garden.
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A story about a dead man and the ghost in his care.
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24 May 2024
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solid ground by MissTatsu for saltandbees
Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)
31 Dec 2021
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“I knew that business about being followed was a load of crap,” Kiryu grumbled. He slid out from beneath Majima’s arm and took a step back. “Did you really have to call me all the way down here to pick a fight? We could’ve just had it out at the taxi stand, niisan.”
Majima grinned at him again, and the snake on his breast seemed to grin with him. “If ya figured it was a setup, ya coulda just, y’know… not shown up.” He gestured demonstratively with a leather-gloved hand toward Kiryu’s visibly present-and-accounted-for body. “If ya had a prior engagement, ya coulda said sorry, Majima-no-niisan, gonna take a rain check when I was spoilin’ for that game of shogi. Coulda walked right out the door when ya saw your ol’ buddy chuckin’ balls in the bowlin’ alley last week, for that matter.”
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04 Jan 2022
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don't tell me we've grown (for having loved) by SummerFrost
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
03 Jul 2020
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According to Jaskier, they've lived this day almost a hundred times. Geralt doesn't remember any of them.
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The broad expanse of the stranger’s back was intact apart from a few minor bruises and abrasions, which was a relief, but the tiger inked onto his skin left no doubt: the ocean had spat a family man out onto the beach and Kiryu had willingly hauled that problem into his own home.
“He’s—” Haruka started.
“Hurt,” Kiryu finished for her.
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07 Nov 2021