Between the driving bass and music volume, it was nearly impossible to think here, but you didn't go to the club to do deep thinking. Some people came to dance and enjoy the music (if high energy techno was your kind of thing anyway), some came to socialize, others came to drink, or some mixture of those. Or other more personal or random reasons, but definitely not to think. For Yori, it was mostly to drink and socialize, it was always easier to hang out with his friends and not worry too much about everything that could go wrong when he had a few drinks in him. Yelling over the music could get a little old after a while but they were usually having too much fun to really care.
The little group Yori always came here with was an odd mix if you only knew them now, but they'd grown up together in a rough neighborhood in Osaka and all gone to the same high school together. Some had gone on to university, gotten good jobs, and moved out to nicer places in the city, others still lived in the old neighborhood and managed to get by well enough, and then there was Kazu and Yori. While the rest of the group mostly only saw one another on nights like this when they got together and abandon their responsibilities to their new adult lives for a little while, Kazu and Yori were as thick as thieves, almost literally. They had been all through high school too, but if anything they were even closer these days, and more than one person jokingly referred to Yori as Kazu's shadow.
It was surprising at first to anyone who met them perhaps, because they were so different from one another in so many ways. From their heights, to their style, to their hair, even their personalities were vastly different, but there wasn't anyone Yori was more loyal to than perhaps his own mother. And even then, it would be a hard decision to make. He owed a lot to Kazu and the Kakorai family, though he liked to think that he did well by them too.
Questions of loyalty were very far from Yori's mind at the moment though, a rare grin on his face as he celebrated beating one of their friends, Ichiro, in a little race to see who could down their shots the fastest. "You owe me a drink!" Yori claimed proudly, clapping his hands together before giving his old friend the finger, Ichiro rolled his eyes and returned the gesture. The normally reserved Yori just grinned some more and pushed his bleached blonde bangs out of his eyes. He looked around for Kazu, more than half expecting to see his friend with a girl somewhere, but it was second nature at this point for him to simply want to know where Kazu was.
More than loyalty to Kazu, he knew his friend's father looked to Yori to keep his oldest son safe and out of harm's way. And Yori took that very seriously, perhaps a little too much sometimes for Kazu's liking. He was hesitant to get up and go looking for him though, he didn't really like to dance so he preferred sticking to the table to drink and joke with his friends. Sighing when he didn't see Kazu fast enough for his liking, Yori got up, his slight build obvious without the table or booth chairs in the way. He was pretty short especially for a man, and not even the bulky, layered style of his black shirt and jacket hid that he wasn't especially big otherwise either, with a pair of close fitting black jeans on his proportionately long legs, a pair of studded boots finishing off the look. His angular face was more effeminate than he'd like, it got him called 'pretty boy' a lot though these days people mostly said that behind his back, not many dared to say it to his face anymore. Kazu was the only one Yori let call him that without getting angry about it.
"Where'd Kazu get to?" Yori asked another friend as he came back from the dancefloor, a girl under his arm. The friend shrugged and shook his head, rolling his eyes a little at how Yori never seemed to turn off 'bodyguard mode' unless he was asleep. Some might find it a little funny that someone as small as Yori would make a good bodyguard, especially for someone like Kazu, who was perfectly capable of handling himself. But looks were very, very deceiving when it came to Yori Matsumoto.
The little group Yori always came here with was an odd mix if you only knew them now, but they'd grown up together in a rough neighborhood in Osaka and all gone to the same high school together. Some had gone on to university, gotten good jobs, and moved out to nicer places in the city, others still lived in the old neighborhood and managed to get by well enough, and then there was Kazu and Yori. While the rest of the group mostly only saw one another on nights like this when they got together and abandon their responsibilities to their new adult lives for a little while, Kazu and Yori were as thick as thieves, almost literally. They had been all through high school too, but if anything they were even closer these days, and more than one person jokingly referred to Yori as Kazu's shadow.
It was surprising at first to anyone who met them perhaps, because they were so different from one another in so many ways. From their heights, to their style, to their hair, even their personalities were vastly different, but there wasn't anyone Yori was more loyal to than perhaps his own mother. And even then, it would be a hard decision to make. He owed a lot to Kazu and the Kakorai family, though he liked to think that he did well by them too.
Questions of loyalty were very far from Yori's mind at the moment though, a rare grin on his face as he celebrated beating one of their friends, Ichiro, in a little race to see who could down their shots the fastest. "You owe me a drink!" Yori claimed proudly, clapping his hands together before giving his old friend the finger, Ichiro rolled his eyes and returned the gesture. The normally reserved Yori just grinned some more and pushed his bleached blonde bangs out of his eyes. He looked around for Kazu, more than half expecting to see his friend with a girl somewhere, but it was second nature at this point for him to simply want to know where Kazu was.
More than loyalty to Kazu, he knew his friend's father looked to Yori to keep his oldest son safe and out of harm's way. And Yori took that very seriously, perhaps a little too much sometimes for Kazu's liking. He was hesitant to get up and go looking for him though, he didn't really like to dance so he preferred sticking to the table to drink and joke with his friends. Sighing when he didn't see Kazu fast enough for his liking, Yori got up, his slight build obvious without the table or booth chairs in the way. He was pretty short especially for a man, and not even the bulky, layered style of his black shirt and jacket hid that he wasn't especially big otherwise either, with a pair of close fitting black jeans on his proportionately long legs, a pair of studded boots finishing off the look. His angular face was more effeminate than he'd like, it got him called 'pretty boy' a lot though these days people mostly said that behind his back, not many dared to say it to his face anymore. Kazu was the only one Yori let call him that without getting angry about it.
"Where'd Kazu get to?" Yori asked another friend as he came back from the dancefloor, a girl under his arm. The friend shrugged and shook his head, rolling his eyes a little at how Yori never seemed to turn off 'bodyguard mode' unless he was asleep. Some might find it a little funny that someone as small as Yori would make a good bodyguard, especially for someone like Kazu, who was perfectly capable of handling himself. But looks were very, very deceiving when it came to Yori Matsumoto.