Personal Message
TW: Depression, suicide
It was just a matter of time until Kazuya’s life broke down once and for all. He was just twelve years old when his father abandoned him and his mother to build a new family, leaving the already depressed woman in an even worse condition. A year later, she wouldn’t move from bed, to the point that the son checked her pulse every now and then to make sure she was still alive. When asked, her ex-husband would just say the woman’s state was not his business anymore, he simply didn’t care at all. All the man did was sending the money he had to according to the law, a minimum that wasn’t enough to support two people. Kazuya could probably ask for extra help from the government, but he didn’t want to. He knew that the moment they got to know about his mom’s condition they would want to throw him into his father’s hands - the last thing he wanted in life.
To be able to keep on living in the shadows of the official institutions, Kazuya started to act in the shadows of the law. At the beginning, he just did small schemes, like asking strangers for money saying he had lost his own and needed to buy a subway ticket to get back home, but it quickly developed to stealing from shops, mostly expensive food he couldn’t afford. However, even when doing crimes became recurrent, Kazuya still blamed himself. What if his mother found out what he was doing? She would probably get ever worse… And he was stuck in a loop he didn’t know how to get out of.
A neighbor that used to be friends with Kazuya’s parents was a psychiatrist and helped the mother treating her illness. Until then, none of the medications he tried to give her seemed to work, but almost two years later things finally started to change. After taking the new drug for a while, the woman finally got out of her bedroom and started to slowly get back to doing her daily activities and chores. However, the more she came back to reality the more she noticed how ruined her life was. She didn’t just lose her husband, but left her child alone for more than a year, struggling to keep going day by day. This realization made her feel guilty and, even if she was more active, deep down nothing changed. Of course, she didn’t let Kazuya notice that, to avoid making him worry even more.
For the boy, seeing his mom getting things done again was a light in the end of the tunnel. He had gone through so much and had done many bad deeds that he regretted, but then his life could finally go back to being a normal teenager’s life. However, his hope didn’t last long. A few months later, when Kazuya got back from school, his mother had disappeared from home. He tried looking everywhere, called all her friends and relatives that she could have gone to meet, but no one had any information on her location. Kazuya stopped going to school to stay home waiting for her to come back, but days, weeks went by and she never did.
After a month, it was the biggest turn in the student’s destiny. The neighbor’s wife suddenly knocked on his door while breaking down in tears. She could hardly speak, but as soon as she calmed down, she said that it was just broadcast on TV that the body of a woman on her thirties was found drown on a river, that according to the description it was probably Kazuya’s mom. Just as they were speaking, her husband had gone to the morgue to identify the body. As soon as she said that, Kazuya threw himself at the woman, even if they weren’t very close, and cried so loud his sobs could be heard all over the neighborhood. While waiting for the call of the psychiatrist to confirm the death, he had the worse moments of his whole life.
As soon as the neighbor went back to her own house, leaving only the bad news behind, Kazuya ran off. He didn’t know where he was going to, he just ran, ran and ran. He wanted to run away from the guilty thoughts, from the house that had memories of his mom all over. Maybe if he wasn’t so selfish and asked for help, even if it meant living with his father, things wouldn’t have turned this way… But he was just a boy, how could he be expected to do the best choices all by himself?
Hours went by and his mind was blurry, there was nothing but sadness inside him. His legs started to fail after using them intensely the whole day without eating, so Kazuya finally sat down on the curb. It was already night and he ended up in a lively neighborhood, a place full of lights and beautiful people he had never been before - that later he would find out to be Kabukicho. A fancy dressed woman, surprised to see a young guy crying in a place like that, started talking to him, so Kazuya told her everything that had happened and how he had nowhere to go anymore. It wasn’t like him to open up to a stranger, but at that moment he really needed someone by his side.
The woman took Kazuya to a room in the back of the club that she worked at, where a tattooed man was. She told him the whole story and went back to the club’s main saloon, leaving just the two males in the room. The older one seemed interested in Kazuya and said that he would have a place to stay if he did some tasks in exchange. The teenager wasn’t innocent anymore and quickly figured out that those “tasks” probably wouldn’t be legal, but who cared? It wasn’t like he had never done anything of the sort before. That was still much better than going to his father’s house, where he would probably be sent to after his mother’s death became official. What could be better to keep on living undercover than getting protected by a yakuza?
In the next day, there was no more room for crying. Kazuya, now under the alias Kame, had to wake up early to start his chores, that surprisingly weren’t illegal - at least not the first ones. He had to help cleaning the whole club and wash an enormous quantity of glasses, just having free time during the night, when the club was open for visitors, because it’d be bad if someone saw a minor working at a place like that. Later, he realized that those initial tasks were most likely some kind of test, to see if he would really stay and was someone who could be trusted.
About a month after joining Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest yakuza organization, Kame was assigned to more risky errands, like delivering small amounts of drugs to clients. He also started training boxing, because physical violence and threats are a big part of being a mafia member, specially when still in the lower ranks and without some underlings to do the dirty work for you. He got used to his new reality incredibly quickly, not minding punching debtors or traitors if he had to. Having nothing to love or lose anymore, Kame had shut down his heart and became a cold person. He did everything he was told without hesitation, no matter how cruel or dangerous it was, what made his position inside the organization grow as much as his recklessness.
He was only thirty and already in the mafia for fifteen years when he became a wakachuu, the third highest position in Yamaguchi-gumi. Kame inherited the club that made him join the yakuza, that was actually a brothel as well, which es were mostly foreigners living illegally in Japan. His nickname became “the black dragon”, that referred both to the darkness of night and the coldness of his heart, because the King Black Dragon according to mythology is the dragon from the North. To celebrate his new rank, Kame had a huge black dragon tattooed on his entire back, sealing forever on his body the path he chose to follow.
It was just a matter of time until Kazuya’s life broke down once and for all. He was just twelve years old when his father abandoned him and his mother to build a new family, leaving the already depressed woman in an even worse condition. A year later, she wouldn’t move from bed, to the point that the son checked her pulse every now and then to make sure she was still alive. When asked, her ex-husband would just say the woman’s state was not his business anymore, he simply didn’t care at all. All the man did was sending the money he had to according to the law, a minimum that wasn’t enough to support two people. Kazuya could probably ask for extra help from the government, but he didn’t want to. He knew that the moment they got to know about his mom’s condition they would want to throw him into his father’s hands - the last thing he wanted in life.
To be able to keep on living in the shadows of the official institutions, Kazuya started to act in the shadows of the law. At the beginning, he just did small schemes, like asking strangers for money saying he had lost his own and needed to buy a subway ticket to get back home, but it quickly developed to stealing from shops, mostly expensive food he couldn’t afford. However, even when doing crimes became recurrent, Kazuya still blamed himself. What if his mother found out what he was doing? She would probably get ever worse… And he was stuck in a loop he didn’t know how to get out of.
A neighbor that used to be friends with Kazuya’s parents was a psychiatrist and helped the mother treating her illness. Until then, none of the medications he tried to give her seemed to work, but almost two years later things finally started to change. After taking the new drug for a while, the woman finally got out of her bedroom and started to slowly get back to doing her daily activities and chores. However, the more she came back to reality the more she noticed how ruined her life was. She didn’t just lose her husband, but left her child alone for more than a year, struggling to keep going day by day. This realization made her feel guilty and, even if she was more active, deep down nothing changed. Of course, she didn’t let Kazuya notice that, to avoid making him worry even more.
For the boy, seeing his mom getting things done again was a light in the end of the tunnel. He had gone through so much and had done many bad deeds that he regretted, but then his life could finally go back to being a normal teenager’s life. However, his hope didn’t last long. A few months later, when Kazuya got back from school, his mother had disappeared from home. He tried looking everywhere, called all her friends and relatives that she could have gone to meet, but no one had any information on her location. Kazuya stopped going to school to stay home waiting for her to come back, but days, weeks went by and she never did.
After a month, it was the biggest turn in the student’s destiny. The neighbor’s wife suddenly knocked on his door while breaking down in tears. She could hardly speak, but as soon as she calmed down, she said that it was just broadcast on TV that the body of a woman on her thirties was found drown on a river, that according to the description it was probably Kazuya’s mom. Just as they were speaking, her husband had gone to the morgue to identify the body. As soon as she said that, Kazuya threw himself at the woman, even if they weren’t very close, and cried so loud his sobs could be heard all over the neighborhood. While waiting for the call of the psychiatrist to confirm the death, he had the worse moments of his whole life.
As soon as the neighbor went back to her own house, leaving only the bad news behind, Kazuya ran off. He didn’t know where he was going to, he just ran, ran and ran. He wanted to run away from the guilty thoughts, from the house that had memories of his mom all over. Maybe if he wasn’t so selfish and asked for help, even if it meant living with his father, things wouldn’t have turned this way… But he was just a boy, how could he be expected to do the best choices all by himself?
Hours went by and his mind was blurry, there was nothing but sadness inside him. His legs started to fail after using them intensely the whole day without eating, so Kazuya finally sat down on the curb. It was already night and he ended up in a lively neighborhood, a place full of lights and beautiful people he had never been before - that later he would find out to be Kabukicho. A fancy dressed woman, surprised to see a young guy crying in a place like that, started talking to him, so Kazuya told her everything that had happened and how he had nowhere to go anymore. It wasn’t like him to open up to a stranger, but at that moment he really needed someone by his side.
The woman took Kazuya to a room in the back of the club that she worked at, where a tattooed man was. She told him the whole story and went back to the club’s main saloon, leaving just the two males in the room. The older one seemed interested in Kazuya and said that he would have a place to stay if he did some tasks in exchange. The teenager wasn’t innocent anymore and quickly figured out that those “tasks” probably wouldn’t be legal, but who cared? It wasn’t like he had never done anything of the sort before. That was still much better than going to his father’s house, where he would probably be sent to after his mother’s death became official. What could be better to keep on living undercover than getting protected by a yakuza?
In the next day, there was no more room for crying. Kazuya, now under the alias Kame, had to wake up early to start his chores, that surprisingly weren’t illegal - at least not the first ones. He had to help cleaning the whole club and wash an enormous quantity of glasses, just having free time during the night, when the club was open for visitors, because it’d be bad if someone saw a minor working at a place like that. Later, he realized that those initial tasks were most likely some kind of test, to see if he would really stay and was someone who could be trusted.
About a month after joining Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest yakuza organization, Kame was assigned to more risky errands, like delivering small amounts of drugs to clients. He also started training boxing, because physical violence and threats are a big part of being a mafia member, specially when still in the lower ranks and without some underlings to do the dirty work for you. He got used to his new reality incredibly quickly, not minding punching debtors or traitors if he had to. Having nothing to love or lose anymore, Kame had shut down his heart and became a cold person. He did everything he was told without hesitation, no matter how cruel or dangerous it was, what made his position inside the organization grow as much as his recklessness.
He was only thirty and already in the mafia for fifteen years when he became a wakachuu, the third highest position in Yamaguchi-gumi. Kame inherited the club that made him join the yakuza, that was actually a brothel as well, which es were mostly foreigners living illegally in Japan. His nickname became “the black dragon”, that referred both to the darkness of night and the coldness of his heart, because the King Black Dragon according to mythology is the dragon from the North. To celebrate his new rank, Kame had a huge black dragon tattooed on his entire back, sealing forever on his body the path he chose to follow.
biography
Description
Full name: Kamenashi Kazuya
Yakuza (Yamaguchi-gumi)
Occupation: Brothel owner
Age: 34
Position: Top, dominant
Alignment: Neutral evil
Short bio: Kame got into the yakuza when he was still a teenager, after his mom passed away. He wanted to live hidden from the law so he wouldn't be forced to live with his father who he despised, and the mafia provided the protection he needed. Without the only person he cared about and any reason to live, he blindly followed orders, no matter how dangerous or brutal they were. He was lucky enough to survive and never be caught by the police, rising through the yakuza ranks. Nowadays, he manages an illegal brothel covered as a night club and doesn't need to dirt his hands as much.
Preferred pov: 3rd