Black Nightmare

The Black Nightmare (, Kuro Akumu) are a street gang featured in Yakuza 4.
== Background ==
The Black Nightmare was formed by an unnamed martial artist who believed that the gangs of Tokyo could be brought to heel and street-level crime could be controlled if a highly-organized gang made up of combat experts began operating there and drove out the other gangs. To this end, this martial artist began recruiting other trained fighters from across Japan to form this gang. The group named themselves the Black Nightmare and wore black outfits to represent their membership. They also segmented themselves into ranks based on their combat skill, with higher level members being allowed to wear nicer suits and use better weapons, while lower ranked members had to wear cheaper clothes and less effective weaponry or just their bare hands to fight. The group's founder took on the alias of "Rank Zero", symbolizing his position as the genesis of the Black Nightmare.
== Yakuza 4 ==
In 2010, the Black Nightmare began to expand into Kamurocho, unwittingly aided by Kazuma Kiryu's defeat of many other street gangs in the neighborhood. Prompted by a desire to increase their rank within the gang, low rank members of the Black Nightmare attack Kiryu in the hopes of killing him to impress their superiors. However, Kiryu manages to defeat all the members of increasingly higher rank that come after him, until he's only left with the two Rank One members and Rank Zero to defeat. 
Eventually Kiryu defeats a member so low-ranked that he's embarrassed to admit what his rank even is. To get Kiryu to stop hitting him, this low-ranked member tells Kiryu that Rank Zero hangs out in the vacant lot at the south end of the Champion District. Kiryu travels there and confronts Rank Zero and his two Rank One cronies, all of whom attack him at once. Unfortunately for them, Kiryu proves too skilled a fighter and all three are beaten. Humiliated and no longer believing that his gang can keep control over their territory in Tokyo, Rank Zero decides to disband the Black Nightmare.
Category:Gangs