My Akuma (Book One of The Yakuza Series) (✔️)

三十 (Thirty)

(Ryu's POV)

I don't know how long I've been strung up. If I had to guess, I'd say a few days. Two men have come in twice to loosen my chains enough to where my feet are fully on the ground and I have a little bit of room to move.

They only let me stay like that long enough to use the restroom and for them to shove food in my mouth. Nakamura didn't seem to appreciate my hunger strike. My arms ache severely and have started to go numb sometimes.

All that plus the fresh new cuts and bruises he's given me has made this an exciting experience.

Nakamura comes in every once in a while. He sits in his chair and either talks to me or stares at me. Before he leaves, he always dumps two buckets of cold water on me.

The door opened and I didn't bother lifting my head up.

"Not so tough looking now, is he?" A voice asked.

I peaked up to see Tanaka standing by Nakamura and Kana.

"Just like a dog. All aggressive until you chain them up and then they just usually bark at you. Although he's not barking much." Nakamura grinned.

"Has he agreed to run our program?"

"Your program?" I asked.

"Yeah. Nakamura here came to me with the whole idea. I didn't see much potential at first, but then he showed me videos of you and I became very intrigued. This was right before I met you the night of that fight. He showed me old videos of your father training you. They aren't very long videos and don't have good audio, but I saw enough. You're very good at what you do. You demonstrated that by taking out Skull Breaker."

"You want me to train men for you to use and sell. Train men to be like me."

"So you understand. Why are you so against it? We'd be paying you a large sum of cash. Enough for you to live the rest of your life on in luxury."

"F*ck you and your money." I spat.

Tanaka then turned to Nakamura. "May I?"

"By all means." He answered.

Tanaka came closer to me before punching me twice. First in the ribs and then in the face.

I gave him a bloody grin and spat a mouthful of blood at him. That earned me a growl and another punch.

I spat more blood out onto the floor.

"I have to say it's rather amusing." I said.

"What is?" Nakamura asked.

"You want me to train men for you, yet you're here torturing me. If you hurt me bad enough, I can't train anyone."

"I'm not going to torture you to that point. Just to the point where you give up."

I shook my head. "Neither of us will last that long."

At that moment, someone came rushing in.

"Boss, we have a problem."

Nakamura gave Tanaka a look before they both practically ran out of the room leaving Kana and I alone. Kana silently walked over and filled up the bucket. He came over dumped it over me, except he did it a rate in which I could drink a good bit of it. He did that on purpose.

"Thought we were friends, Kana." I said.

"You don't do friends, remember?" He asked putting the bucket down and leaving.

Right before he shut the lights off, my eye caught something. I don't know how I hadn't seen it before. It was a camera in the corner of the room. It was real small, but it was camera.

As Kana opened the door to leave, I heard Nakamura yell. "Shut it down! Now!"

I looked back up at the camera and smirked.

"Aimoto, you sneaky f*cker." I muttered.

Nakamura pushed Kana out of the way and came storming back in seconds later and roughly grabbed my face. That's when it clicked.

"What's wrong? System glitch?" I grinned.

"Who is it?" He asked.

"Who is what?" I asked.

"The person that hacked into my system? I know they're watching us. My men found them. They've been watching us since day one. Who is it?"

"Haven't the slightest idea." I said.

He was in a fit of rage at that point. See the one thing you should know about Nakamura is that he is bipolar. His mood swings are crazy.

He pulled out his knife and pressed it to my cheek. "Tell me who it is." He growled quietly.

"F*ck. You." I whispered back.

As quick as he could, he dropped his knife down and plunged it into my side.

I didn't make a sound. I didn't flinch. I didn't do anything except stare at him with a slight smirk on my face.

He went to pull his knife out, but as he did I jerked my body to the side as much as I could.
He yanked it out and pointed it at me.

"You want to play games, Ryu? Then we'll play games." He hissed before storming out again.

As Kana actually left his time I gave him a grin. It caused him to get a confused look on his face as he shut the door and the lights went out.

Once they were gone, I looked down to where I knew my new stab wound was and I grinned.

"We'll play a game alright. I just hope you're ready for it."