[A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY AND ON THE WATTY'S 2018 LONGLIST] "As if I'm dreaming, his lips touch mine. It's awkward, with my head turned to the side and his beside mine, but when his hand comes up to hold my jaw, it becomes all too easy to kiss him back." Cover: @MuriLexa Copyright © 2019 by Sooaura

・(18+) Japanese Crime-Infused Dark Romance・ Kana was never meant to be his sheath. She was never meant to bleed for Shion's future. And yet, she did. Okita Shion, heir to a yakuza legacy soaked in blood, must choose between inheritance and the woman who taught him what normalcy felt like; and where Emori Kana, an ordinary civilian, learns that survival in the underworld does not always mean fighting-sometimes it means standing still, and letting the storm decide who it will spare. A slow-burn descent into power, grief, love, and devotion. (Yakuza no Iro = The Colours of the Yakuza) A tragic love story set within the gokudo (yakuza) world, where deep-seated hierarchies, rigid etiquette, and entrenched traditions and cultures intertwine with crime, leaving love to struggle in between duty and ruin. Written from a civilian's perspective on how the boryokudan (violent group) is seen here in Japan. Generally, we do not care much what they do.