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51. Mascots at a theme park; Mafia AU
He came as a kid.
So much did Kiryuu know, shouldering his gun and holster over his black suit and the white dress shirt and black tie. When he smiles to the new recruit, there is no gentleness. When he stares, it is empty. He had come here a stranger himself, to this theme park.To this path to Heartland’s circuit at night. What was else here…but the illegal races and people who are kept awake at night, he thought…Heartland is run-down like this, in it’s heart. Beneath the flashy artrificial lights, controlled by different families and gangs.That strange boy with the purple hair snorts and lifts his chin."I’m a man."
And this boy, with no family to look back, longed to join. Kiryuu gives him an empty cold smile."…Do you wish to give up yourself, boy……?
…Kiryuu smiles a bit in the cold apartment above the streets at night. In his office with the old-fashioned mahagony desk…at the field when they had a shoot-down with BARian, the opposing gang.It’s only…only then when Kiryuu realises why Ryouga had come to him…what he had run away from. He sees how their sides suffers all defeat. Ryouga, as stubborn as ever…"It’s all we are…mascots at this theme park, the stage of Heartland City…" Kiryuu laughs, ignoring the open gash in his side. It stains his dress shirt red…He stands behind Ryouga, with his chin atop the other’s shoulder. He sees the open back entrace under a colourful door. The empty street that would lead out.
His breath condensates in the air when he turns back only once to the bloody shoot-down scene in the park, and he draws back slowly and pushes Ryouga on towards the entrace. His breath is somewhat laboured. It throbs and stings in his side. He kisses Ryouga’s neck and pushes him."Go…go because you’re a man.”
Men think. Beasts devour.My secret emotion, it pulsates. It is alive.
