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mr sexy hardcore yokohama bad boy godfather ([personal profile] coasts) wrote2019-04-16 07:02 pm
steelo: i'm right where i should be. (107.)

[personal profile] steelo 2019-11-06 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that's a good point, actually. samatoki insulting himself sort of is enough to get him out of raging angry bull mode at least enough to try and figure out what the fuck is going on. he's still fighting with the hands, which have stopped tugging on him for the moment, as if they're interested in the game itself. ichiro's really sick of this game shit, actually. why is everything like a bad hentai???

he huffs like a caught bull and tries to look at his screen again, lifting his arm up towards the stupid phone. ]
I don't know, answer the question? I didn't ask for that either!

[ the question looms, again, just under the timer, innocently ticking down.

what did you like about your partner? ]
steelo: sometimes i have (111.)

[personal profile] steelo 2019-11-09 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ and it stings, a little, wounds a part of ichiro that he's kept buried, that deserved to be shoved deep into a hole and ignored. his year with samatoki--now that had been a mistake. he'd been so caught up in the dirty dawg, so caught up in him that he'd lost friends (friends like kuko), that his priorities were so out of whack he almost lost sight of what really mattered in his life.

ichiro's always been reliable. that's something he prides himself on, that anyone in ikebukuro can count on him. that anyone who calls on odd jobs yamada has a guarantee that ichiro will get it done. it's why he's been successful at running a yorozuya. it's why he's been successful as a division leader. it's why, in the darkest part of his life, mozuku saw him as useful and valuable. to hear samatoki say that just confirms it--that he's wrong about everything, that he always has been. he can't see past the life he surrounded himself with, and ichiro's sworn never to walk down that path ever again.

as much as he's reliable, ichiro sticks to his guns. he made the right decision with samatoki, who left him on that stage. no going back from that now, and no regrets from it either. the memory hurts a year later, festering and painful, samatoki's snarl as ichiro begged him to stay etched into his memory no matter how hard he tries to force it away.

so, his expression doesn't change much. there's a brief flicker across his eyes of some other emotion, but it fades into anger instead, a chained beast held in place by the shadowy hands squeezing tight at his wrists. there's a pull on his end, back towards the wall.

the game wants him to answer too? fine. ]
Used to be somebody worth respecting.

[ it's cutting and sharp, though he's not shouting. just boiling, boiling, ready to tip over. is this the end? is this stupid fucking thing satisfied? ichiro was having a perfectly good day, until like normal, samatoki aohitsugi showed up and ruined it. ]
steelo: (51.)

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[personal profile] steelo 2019-11-20 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thankfully, the comment from the question is enough that ichiro's able to rip his arm out of the shadow's grip. he's left staring at samatoki's face on the other end, adrenaline still high--and really, he's getting tired of getting caught in these stupid situations--but maybe, begrudgingly, a little grateful.

nevermind, samatoki sucks. he makes a "tch" noise and turns his head away. the mature thing to do here would be to just hang up the stupid phone, but he's still got a shadow around his ankle and he'd doesn't want to piss it off any worse.

...so. ]
Unlike you, I've got morals. There's no point in shady shit when I can just take you in a fight on my own time, and I'm not going to kill someone, either, even if you deserve it.

[ that's yakuza shit. that's delinquent shit. that's the life ichiro left behind, and the life he never has to go back for again, because he saw something better for himself, grabbed hold of it with both hands, and never looked back. ]
steelo: (41.)

[personal profile] steelo 2019-11-20 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ samatoki was right, though. now that ichiro has his bearings, it's obvious samatoki couldn't have done this, especially with a question like that. not to mention, he at least answered honestly, which is more than ichiro was really expecting.



there's a long pause. it's like he's getting his teeth pulled. ]
...thanks.

[ CLICK BYE HE'S HANGING UP HE NEEDS TO WASH HIS MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP. ]