Verse
Star
- Joined
- May 8, 2011
Ruuga Hayate had always liked the Silver Lining café. He'd been a fan when it was still Tsao's Restaurant. Though Tsao Wing Peng fast learned a Chinese cuisine establishment was still subject to Yakuza taxes and folded early under the expenses of paying for protection. In Yareli city, you had to make peace with the criminal element or MOVE THE FUCK OUT. The port city was rife with opportunities if you could wade through the complicated undergrowth. Mostly Triad vs Yakuza, the former kept in order by the Xuy, a collection of triad groups, and the later ruled by Kageyama, the largest single family owned Yakuza. There were russians and other smaller entities floating about, too. While Ruuga paid tribute to Kageyama, he ran his own small outfit, catering and working with most of the Yakuza and almost anyone else who'd buy his services.
Lately, he'd been been on the business side of things, but he still kept a lot of muscle around, when he didn't dabble in the physical stuff, himself.
The Silver was owned by Joe March. Good man, because he had backers. Enough to pay Ruuga as he got things going, after renovations and some heavy PR. Now The Silver was running smoothly, and so were the bi-weekly bribes. Joe had even let Ruuga make a few interior design decisions. Yeah, the owner knew how to make potential enemies into friends. Maybe Tsao had too, if he'd had the money. Ruuga had laid his smart jacket on the other seats in the room Joe had shown him too. Always insisted the Hayate son stay for a bite. The night had been lucrative but rough on the career criminal. good thing the weathered eyes looked good in his youthful face. No smoking area but Joe himself had provided the ashtray. There was already two filters in the glass bowl, and a third in the corner of Ruuga's mouth.
Built long, he reminded of a spider, inclined against the wall, his head touching a hung-up painting as he looked up into the ceiling. His lengthy neck led down to the beginning of sturdy trapezius, even if most of him was athletic, leaning emaciated, rather than bulky. That's why he looked good in these suits. Still had his white vest over the burgundy shirt, and the buttons undone to show off the ink he'd gotten at the River Parlor where Keijin Lenaka under Kagayama itself got his needling done. Ruuga's face would have been gaunt, living off violence and whores - some of them paid for and some of them made into it by him - if his innate strength didn't give him that threatening energy from within. Like he'd pounce even at this dreadful, post-lunch hour. The tattoos reaching up his throat seemed to reanimate when he breathed in the tar and illness in the cigarette. When he exhaled it was a fire-alarm hazard.
Not that his features weren't death-like, in some of the 'cozy' lighting in here. He didn't mind. He sat up and ashed and held the filter to his brow while shut his eyes. In his self-imposed darkness he thought about his decision to eat here. Had felt like a good idea when Joe was so gung-ho about it, like he always was, but sitting here in the silence before being served, Ruuga wondered if he wouldn't rather have his cock sucked while holding a bottle of heavy liquor. It was his preferred method of coming down. He opened his lids and looked at the fat envelope beside the ashtray. He smiled and flicked the paper tongue open to see the bills grin back at him, they were so cramped. He liked the physical treasures more than the numbers on his accounts.
He leaned forward, elbows on the table, and rolled the smoke between his thumb and pinky. It was hard going from beating the brains outta guy owing him and then come to this tranquil, clean place. Got him a bit antsy, actually. Maybe he had wanted Joe to be late on payment, finally, and today would be the day he'd get to see how the dad-bod restaurateur looked under the light of his own freezer room, bleeding from his swollen eyes. It made Ruuga chuckle out more smoke. For a moment he looked boyish, dapper, without knowing it himself, some of his brushed-back black hair falling forward into one dark eye.
Yeah, drinks or something better come quick.
Lately, he'd been been on the business side of things, but he still kept a lot of muscle around, when he didn't dabble in the physical stuff, himself.
The Silver was owned by Joe March. Good man, because he had backers. Enough to pay Ruuga as he got things going, after renovations and some heavy PR. Now The Silver was running smoothly, and so were the bi-weekly bribes. Joe had even let Ruuga make a few interior design decisions. Yeah, the owner knew how to make potential enemies into friends. Maybe Tsao had too, if he'd had the money. Ruuga had laid his smart jacket on the other seats in the room Joe had shown him too. Always insisted the Hayate son stay for a bite. The night had been lucrative but rough on the career criminal. good thing the weathered eyes looked good in his youthful face. No smoking area but Joe himself had provided the ashtray. There was already two filters in the glass bowl, and a third in the corner of Ruuga's mouth.
Built long, he reminded of a spider, inclined against the wall, his head touching a hung-up painting as he looked up into the ceiling. His lengthy neck led down to the beginning of sturdy trapezius, even if most of him was athletic, leaning emaciated, rather than bulky. That's why he looked good in these suits. Still had his white vest over the burgundy shirt, and the buttons undone to show off the ink he'd gotten at the River Parlor where Keijin Lenaka under Kagayama itself got his needling done. Ruuga's face would have been gaunt, living off violence and whores - some of them paid for and some of them made into it by him - if his innate strength didn't give him that threatening energy from within. Like he'd pounce even at this dreadful, post-lunch hour. The tattoos reaching up his throat seemed to reanimate when he breathed in the tar and illness in the cigarette. When he exhaled it was a fire-alarm hazard.
Not that his features weren't death-like, in some of the 'cozy' lighting in here. He didn't mind. He sat up and ashed and held the filter to his brow while shut his eyes. In his self-imposed darkness he thought about his decision to eat here. Had felt like a good idea when Joe was so gung-ho about it, like he always was, but sitting here in the silence before being served, Ruuga wondered if he wouldn't rather have his cock sucked while holding a bottle of heavy liquor. It was his preferred method of coming down. He opened his lids and looked at the fat envelope beside the ashtray. He smiled and flicked the paper tongue open to see the bills grin back at him, they were so cramped. He liked the physical treasures more than the numbers on his accounts.
He leaned forward, elbows on the table, and rolled the smoke between his thumb and pinky. It was hard going from beating the brains outta guy owing him and then come to this tranquil, clean place. Got him a bit antsy, actually. Maybe he had wanted Joe to be late on payment, finally, and today would be the day he'd get to see how the dad-bod restaurateur looked under the light of his own freezer room, bleeding from his swollen eyes. It made Ruuga chuckle out more smoke. For a moment he looked boyish, dapper, without knowing it himself, some of his brushed-back black hair falling forward into one dark eye.
Yeah, drinks or something better come quick.