Love At Gunpoint | Kurodachi

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Published: 2.10.21

  Adachi was aware of the dark world of Yakuzas since he could first remember. He knew that even if they were one of the most feared gangs at the moment, they needed to lay low.

Thanks to this secretive nature, Adachi was taught not to trust anyone. Urabe's always told him that anyone could be an enemy, and that amongst the allies, anyone can be a backstabber.

But his relationship with Kurosawa was nothing more than [ordinary] classmates. Two people who would occasionally pass each other but never say a word.

Kurosawa being in a gang so well known yet not, even Adachi, who knows not to judge a book by its cover, couldn't imagine it.

It's something he still doesn't expect, even after thinking it over many times.

"Being a Yakuza doesn't suit him at all." Adachi mumbled to himself as he stared at his ceiling.

"He'd be better suited as a prince instead." He sighed.

Well, it's not like it suits me either..

Majority of the yakuza end their education after high school, looking absolutely intimidating with their many tattoos, peircings, and muscle mass.

Adachi on the other hand looked like a normal college student.

He was skinny, only had the one tattoo on his back to signify his gang relation, and a few peircings that he'd always hide using his messy hair. It sometimes amused him really.

While most Yakuza were distant towards others because of issues in trust, Adachi and Tsuge were both secretive by nature, so joining a gang didn't affect their social lives at all.

Honestly, he's glad Urabe allowed him to study in college. He may not have made any new friends, but it was still fun, especially with his best friend in his class.

It gave him the chance to feel like a normal student for a few hours. No gangs, no guns, and no life threatening consequences.

Now that he thought about it, he wondered if Kurosawa was like him. Using college as an escape from his life, even if it didn't last very long.

Either way, he seems really good at keeping his double life a secret despite how popular and sociable he seems. Even now, it was impossible to imagine him being in a gang.

Kurosawa, someone who always seemed like such an open book, was now mysterious and confusing to the point of giving Adachi a headache from thinking about it so much.

It scared him. It was a sudden reminder that even the impossible could happen if you weren't cautious enough, and it could easily bite you in the ass if you aren't careful.

He realized that there was so much he doesn't actually know about Kurosawa.

So much questions floated through his mind.

Is his personality just a facade? How dangerous is he really? Is he really a threat to my family? His thoughts took a pause, Does he know about me?

He shook his head. No. When I saw his tattoo, he just looked so.. guilty..

Adachi turned on his side from where he laid on his bed. But why..?

The gang Kurosawa was apparently in was on tight terms with his own from a past power struggle between the two before a truce was decided on.

Now the two groups would often try to avoid the other, creating a routine in order to do so, and only ever offering help if another gang was becoming a threat. Nothing more, nothing less.

That was the agreement.

But things were becoming more strained by the day.

Adachi doesn't really know why. Neither he or anyone else were told anything about it, the only reason he knew being because he knows how Urabe's like, especially when he's anxious.

He's been acting more cautious, tightening security, sending more people out on patrols, and the biggest hint, he's been trying to keep Adachi busy.

That last reason is why he often ignores Tsuge's advice to tell Urabe off when he gives him a bunch of assignments in a row.

No one, besides Fujisaki, who's always so terrifyingly perceptive, knows Urabe as well as Adachi does.

Most think less of Urabe because of how much work he pushes off on him, only assuming that it's because of how rarely Adachi ever said no to [him]. But Adachi respects him the most.

Urabe, despite how it may seem to everyone else, goes easy on Adachi in comparison to the others, and Adachi's highly aware of it.

Everyone may think of Adachi as innocent and mostly oblivious, and they are right to some level, but his naturally cautious personality allows him to see things others don't.

He knows that Urabe purposely gives him more background work than field work, not because he thinks Adachi can't handle it, but because he doesn't want Adachi to be just like him.

Adachi's always known this, and though he does feel thankful for it, it also frustrates him that Urabe wants to keep him sheltered. But he gets it.

He knows that because of Urabe's position in the gang, he's had to make decisions that would scar a normal person.

That's why he'd never complain.

Besides, the work he's given is just as important as any other job in the gang since it keeps his family safe and prepared for any possible danger while on a mission.

So when Urabe started hiding more secrets and paid more attention to the Kage Okami group, Adachi knew that something was off.

Which leads him to his current problem.

While his gang and Kurosawa's weren't enemies, they also weren't technically allies. But when he found Kurosawa bleeding out on the campus ground..

It scared him.

Not only because he thought he was a civilian at the time, or because he admired him, but also because it reminded him of the danger his own family could face at any moment.

Many in his gang were regularly given field work that usually involved fighting, so it's not a surprise that a few get hurt every now and then.

So when he saw Kurosawa heavily injured and on the verge of passing out, he got chills.

And it only got worse when his mind finally took in the fact that he was knifed, and by that specific knife too.

Seeing the one of a kind design of the knife that often haunted his dreams on his worst days almost made him throw up. That knife, that was so vivid in his memories, made him sick.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, he knows that the man that attacked Kurosawa wasn't the same as the one from so long ago.

Still, the fact that the man had the knife in the first place was kept as a note in the back of Adachi's mind.

Which reminds him, Urabe made an anouncement that everyone was to keep a lookout on said man's group, which means that Kurosawa probably told his gang about the attack.

Thankfully, Urabe hadn't given him any work today, so he was free to sleep all of his problems away, which is exactly what he planned to do.

Besides, since the next day was a Saturday, he now had time to do some of his own personal research.

So with a final thought back to Kurosawa and the knife he was attacked with, Adachi closed his eyes and allowed his consciousness to drift off into a memory filled dream.

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