Yakuza Akira AU

In which Akira Aoyama, referred to as "Yakira" for the purpose of this AU, joined the Yakuza before she ever came in contact with the Hero Club.

## AU-Unique Characters

### **KENICHI**

A calculating and somewhat aloof man who deals with oversight in the local yakuza branch. He only has average combat ability, but has a natural knack for numbers and running complex operations. As such, he was placed in charge of managing and overseeing the yakuza operations.

Yakira falls directly under his command. At first, she did not get along with him, mostly because he treated her horribly. As the months went by and Yakira grew more and more indoctrinated into the yakuza, Kenichi began to treat her differently. Yakira assumed it was because he got used to her, but in reality, Kenichi's initial treatment of her stemmed from a desire to discourage her from staying with the yakuza. He hoped that if she was miserable enough, she would throw in the towel and leave. Unfortunately that didn't happen.

Kenichi is generally the "no-fun-allowed" person, but his concern for Yakira and Takumi is almost parental. He would never admit this, though, and mostly expresses this in a detached way or just by being hard on them.

### **TORA**

Tora used to be the ring's muscle, but years of combat and general age have put him past his combat prime. He was once a rough-and-tumble delinquent whose older brothers roped him into yakuza operations. As a young man, Tora was not especially ambitious and was perfectly satisfied with his new job. As he grew older, he might have started to wonder about what could have been if he'd taken a different path, especially after his brothers were killed. Right now he's transitioning into an oversight role, managing the younger members and making sure they don't do anything stupid. Usually a little grumpy.

He's very protective, in a weirdly parental way, of Yakira. She is not used to this, so the two get into arguments a lot: or rather, Yakira argues while Tora ignores her. This isn't well-known, but he and Kenichi have an on-again, off-again kind of relationship.

### **TAKUMI**

A young man who acts as a party face and negotiator. Naturally charming and weirdly intelligent, he's also fairly young—only a couple years older than Yakira. Like many members of the yakuza, he doesn't like to talk about his past, but Takumi is actually a runaway. His family was large and well-off, although he was not close to any of them except for his sister. They were also involved in some shady business, and a younger Takumi dipped his toes in by helping run errands for the aforementioned shady businesses. Takumi's sister was involved as well, but in bookkeeping. Their parents urged her to skim a bit off the top here and there, and she obliged. This was eventually discovered, and when some unsavory figures came knocking at their door for revenge, Takumi shot one and injured the other. Takumi's parents decided to protect the rest of their family by hanging him out to dry. So Takumi fled and wandered around until he wound up on the yakuza's doorstep, where Kenichi gave him a job. He does not have contact with his family, even his sister.

Often lumped together with Yakira on missions, playing the good cop to her bad cop. The two of them hit it off almost instantly, although it might be more accurate to say that Takumi was cheerfully intrigued while Yakira was weirded out but quickly latched onto him because he was close to her age. However, they grew much closer over time.