The Yakuza's flower

Meaning?

Hanayama Pov I went to the underground fighting arena because I was told Mitsunari Tokugawa had an announcement to make. I guess he wanted to let us know that the new fighters were coming soon and let everyone know when the tournament was going to start. During the meeting I saw a lot of familiar faces like Baki, Retsu , Doppo Orochi, and more. But Kureha Shinogi was sort of new to me because he mostly spends his days in the hospital, and I thought he wasn't fighting anymore. The meeting went by fast, and we all quickly went our separate ways after it was over. When I was leaving the arena, I got hungry and decided to get a good bowl of ramen in a nearby ramen shop. The man that owns the shop already knows me since, I always come to his shop to get his food because he really knows what he's doing. Plus, we never really talk to each other and I'm fine with that. Once I finished eating and paid for my meal, I left the shop after checking the time on the clock that was hung up above the door way and It read 9:30pm. I left the shop and made my way to a small public park, that wasn't too far from the hospital. The park didn't really have good lighting, so it was pretty dark, but I took a seat on a bench that was next to a street lamp and had a little smoke while I waited. It didn't take long before I started hearing small footsteps coming towards my direction. I looked over at her and took my last puff before putting out my cigarette. "Hey, seems like we keep running into each other." Ume says to me as she stands a few feet away from me. "Seems so, late shift again?" I say to her as I stand up from sitting and place my hands in my pants pockets. "Kind of, but it's okay because I really like helping people but anyway. What about you? Late business meetings?" She says to me as she leans on the lamp post to rest her weight a bit. Telling people my business has never been my thing and no one really asks. But since we've been seeing each other a lot around town and talking a bit from time to time, I tell her light stuff. "Helping is a rare thing to do now and days. But yeah, just meetings and things I need to do. Tired? " I say to her, and she nods her head slowly as she yawns softly. "Are we walking together again?" She asks and I give her a quick nod of approval and begin to walk. I tend to give her some bullshit of an excuse sometimes when I walk her to her neighborhood so that she doesn't think I'm stalking her or anything, Because I'm not. Once we make it to her street, I stop walking with her and she notices "Well here we are. thanks again Hanayama, you're always keeping me company in these late night walks." She says to me as she looks up and smiles at me before continuing to walk home. "Ume" I call out to her before she took another step, she quickly turns around and looks at me. " let's get ramen sometime." I say to her, and she puts a big smile on her face. "Yeah, let's do that." she says to me as I stand there looking at her for a moment, as I begin to realize I probably asked her on a date... Dating isn't something I do. I meet, I fuck, and move on, because my lifestyle is dangerous, and I can't really afford a distraction. But fuck it, oh well. I saw her reach into her small little bag that she's always carrying around and pull out a small piece of paper that held her contact information, and she walks up to me and tries to place the paper in my hand. I took one of my hands out of my pocket and opened my hand so that she could leave it on my palm. Her hand was small, which wasn't surprising since our size difference was very obvious. "Here, just text me anytime." She said to me as she avoided eye contact for a moment, I could tell she was blushing and trying to hide it. "Tomorrow then at 7" I tell her as I take the paper and place it in my pocket. "Oh okay." She said to me before she turned away and started making her way home, so I did the same.

Ume Pov It had been a long evening at the hospital, and being assigned as one of Dr. Kureha Shinogi nurses has never really been easy, however I don't mind it much because it keeps me on my toes and busy. I usually clock out at 8:40pm, but today Dr Shinogi wanted to wrap up with all his appointments and patients. He's such a nice man but can be quite demanding and sometimes full of himself in my opinion. After clocking out for the day and leaving the hospital to head home, I've often seen Hanayama at the public park near the hospital having a smoke. I'm sort of convinced that he waits for me to get out of work because it has slowly became a habit. We would both walk together at night and talk about different things. It's funny because even if I'm the one that does most of the talking, he still listens. Even if we walk in silence, it is fine because being in each other's presence is enough for us. In a way We've sort of gotten used to each other. By the time I make it to the small public park that I usually cut through to get home. I see him sitting on his favorite bench, looking over at me before putting out his cigarette. I smile at him and greet him like usual and he does the same, we have a small little chat before starting to walk. See the thing with Hanayama is that he's a man with few words and tends to keep his sentence short and simple. However today was a bit different because by the time we made it to my neighborhood he usually says good bye and leaves. Today just before I walked away from him, I heard my name called "Ume." He says in his deep voice, and I quickly turn around to look at him. "let's get ramen sometime." He said to me, and I couldn't help but get really happy for some odd reason. I quickly pull a small piece of paper that I've had ready in case I'd ever had to exchange info with anyone, or for whatever reason. I think it's cute that He likes to walk with his hands in his pants pockets sometimes. But when He pulls one of his hands out and opens his large hand so that I can leave the paper on his palm. My hand was SOOO small compared to his, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised because I practically have to look up to talk to him. I told him that he could contact me at any time. I eventually felt myself getting shy for a moment and I didn't really want to look him in the eye because I could tell I was probably blushing so hard. Before I could say anything else he said "Tomorrow then at 7." I got a bit surprised since He wasn't asking me, he was telling me and letting me know that he wanted to go out to eat tomorrow. I didn't really know what to say so I just agreed and walked away to go home. Once I got home, I went straight to my room and jumped on my bed, squealed like a little middle school girl who just got complimented by her crush. I heard a small knock on my bedroom door that caused me to stop and jump out of my bed. "Ume, are you okay?" my grandmother asked as she opened my bedroom door to check on me. "Yes! Why?" I say to her with a big smile on my face, and she looks at me with a confused expression but shrugs my behavior off. "Nothing, I wanted to tell you that I'm going to the country side to visit my sister. Do you want to come or stay?" She asks me and I get a bit sad because I usually go with her to the country side. "Is it okay if I stay this time? I sort of made plans with a friend." I say to her, and she gives me a small smile "of course, I'm glad you are making friends. However, be sure to check on the cafe while I'm gone." She says to me, and I nod my head, before she closes my bedroom door. Before I got comfortable in my bed, I tried on so many different outfits to see what I should wear to the lunch date. but I couldn't decide in the end. Plus, I was getting sleepy, so I called it a night and went to bed. The next day everything went as normal, my grandmother got up before me to wake me up so I could start the day before she left. I then did my normal morning routine and worked my morning shift at the cafe. I like to volunteer sometimes at the local daycare not far from the café, the kids there are just wonderful and always make my day. After my volunteer hours were over, I went home to get ready for my date? Or dinner hangout? I really wasn't sure if it was a date or not, but I also didn't want to go over or underdressed. So, I went home and got ready. I wore a blue skirt with long black socks and a white top with a cute jean jacket. Then I put on my white sneakers and walked out the door to make my way to the park that we were always meeting at since he didn't really tell me where to meet up. I arrived at the park around 6:30 Ish and didn't see him yet so I decided to walk around the little pond that was near by. I waited but it was starting to feel like he wasn't going to come because it was already 7 and I hadn't gotten a text or a call. By this time, I was sitting by the pond kicking my feet in the water and humming to myself to pass the time. After a couple more minutes, I got up and started walking back home when I heard my name called "Ume." I looked around and saw Hanayama . "I was waiting for you at your neighborhood-" I cut him off as I started laughing "Haha s-sorry I'm not laughing at you or anything I thought we were going to meet here so I came here." He just shook his head and asked me if I was still hungry, I just nodded my head and followed him. [Ramen shop skip. Blah] After eating we went to a cute little canal area and hung out. I couldn't help but get this feeling of getting watched, so I turned around and noticed some men dressed in black suits sort of following us everywhere we went. I didn't want to bring it up to him though, so I ignored them. At one point everything felt calm and there wasn't anyone around but me and him. "That ramen shop was great, thank you." I said to him with a smile as I looked up at him and he looked back at me, we were standing very close to each other and I could tell I was probably blushing so hard by now. I really don't know what happened because in a split second I was barely on my tippy toes, almost lifted off of the ground and my lips were pressed up against his lips. The kiss that we shared was something unreal... It was like we were fighting and had a hunger to devour one another. At one point we broke the kiss we shared as we pulled back and saw the shock in each other's eyes. I could not believe it!! I gave Hanayama a small cut on his bottom lip and he noticed it because he felt it with his tongue. "I... I-I am so sorr-" he cut off my apology when he pulled and picked me up for another kiss and I just wrapped my arms as best as I could around his strong neck. Let me just say .... He was a really good kisser, he made his way into my mouth with his tongue and eventually our tongues clashed with each other. I started to feel myself burning up and running out of breath, so I slid my hands from his neck and to his chest as I pushed us away from each other. Doing this caused him to kind of drop me since he was lifting me up. I wanted more I really did but I just kissed a man I barely knew. We stood there just staring at each other. I really didn't know what to say so I did the most stupidest thing and ran away from him. God I'm so stupid ugh!!! When I got home, I had to get some ice for my lips because when I saw myself in the bathroom mirror my lips were a bit swollen and I had a small Bruise forming at one corner of my lips. I laid in bed hoping he would text or call me, but nothing happened. I just really wanted to know what this kiss meant, but whatever. I did my normal night routine to get ready for bed and placed a little bit of ointment on my lips. I got in bed and hugged by pillow as I couldn't stop thinking about him and the kiss. It wasn't my first kiss or anything.... Eventually I ended up falling asleep. ——————————————————————————- So, it gets spicy from here. Added the picture of the first girl Hanayama ever kissed as a joke lolz. Like and comment :D