Purple Haze (Bonten x reader)

You set my heart ablaze

warning: gun violence and deaths (but no one in Bonten)

"Listen up my beauties. Tonight's meeting is very important. We want to be the sole distributors of this new drug. You girls take good care of 'em, got it?"

I'm hanging out in a dressing room where the girls are getting ready to be this evening's "entertainment." Since we met at the retreat, Nozomi and I have become good friends and hang out a bunch. It's been nice to have a girlfriend to talk to, not just about the fun stuff but business ideas too.

We all take another shot as I'm spraying body glitter onto the bikini-clad girls, when Nozomi starts crying on the phone. She gets off the phone, and I grab her in a hug.

"Oh my god, what's wrong?"

"It's my mom. The hospital called and said to come see her right away, said she won't make it through the night."

"Nozomi, you have to go. I can take you."

"She's not going anywhere, she's working."

"Sanzu! Her mom is dying. She's going to go see her."

"Listen, babycakes. We have 5 guests out there and we need 5 girls. Work comes first."

"Call someone else in!"

"Too late! Meeting's starting."

I throw a jacket on Nozomi, call one of the guards over and tell him to take her to her mom.

Sanzu blocks the way.

"Let her go Sanzu! I'm taking her place," I say as I sit down and start taking off my shoes.

"You think you can handle this?" Sanzu says as he walks towards me.

"You think I can't? Am I not pretty enough? Is my body not hot enough Sanzu?"

He squats down so he's eye level with me, and his voice softens. "That's not it Nishi." He pauses as he gently puts a hand on my thigh. "This isn't something you do."

"Tonight it is. Let her go."

Sanzu backs away, shaking his head at me. I quickly change into one of the matching bikinis and throw heavier makeup on my eyes.

Another girl, Shiori, comes over to spray body glitter on me, so I ask, "Okay, so, can you tell me what it is that we're doing?" as I down another shot.

I follow the other girls into the room. Looks like we're on a stage. Didn't know we had a small strip club in the building. Some of the Bonten execs plus 5 men were seated around the stage, smoking and being served drinks. There were also a few guards along the back walls. All I had to do was dance. Easy.

I am glad I had those shots because dancing sexy for an audience is not my thing, but it's not like I haven't done this before. A lot of hip action, some confident steps, tossing my hair around... I end up right in front of Ran and he coughs up his drink when he realizes it's me. He stops talking and just watches, lazy smile on his face. When I turn around to bend over, I see Rin on the other side of the stage. He stops what he's doing and stares daggers at me. Oh shit, he is not happy seeing me up here. I walk across the stage, then get on my hands and knees and crawl towards him and he can't even look at me, so I entertain the man he's sitting with.

Some of the girls have gone off the stage to dance up close for the guests. The tall good-looking guy sitting with Kakucho has a girl dancing next to him but he keeps watching me. He nods my way and points. "You. C'mere and warm up my lap for me. It's getting cold."