A life outside this box we live in
Chapter 0: The arrangement
Osaka. It was a hot day as usual, the sun shined, the birds sung, people bustled about their day with chatter and boisterous laughter, but unexpectedly, even as much as she loved her hometown, Uraraka Ochako was in no mood for that today.
The gates to the Uraraka house slammed open, the brown-haired girl hurriedly entering as she kicked off her shoes. "Grampa! Are you here?"
"Miss," one of the guards at the door said as he gently took her school bag from her. "The boss is in the western styled room on the first floor."
"Thank you, Shishikura!" Ochako smiled gratefully, although a little tiredly, and marched forward, her feet nearly slipping on the polished wooden floor.
"Grampa!" She once again, slammed open the door to the room where said relative was, sitting cross-legged on the floor as he flipped through a book. The white-haired man looked up from his reading, his chestnut eyes perking up as he saw her.
"Hey, my little mochi! It's been a while, eh? How're ya doing?" The man, Uraraka Seiji spoke in a heavy Kansai accent, causing Ochako's to spill out.
"I'm doin' fine, or, at least I thought I was!" Ochako flipped open the magazine held tightly in her right hand, holding it wide and clear for her grandfather to see as she pointed at a certain paragraph. "Can ya explain to me, what does this mean?!"
"Ah?" Seiji squinted at the small print. "Am I supposed to be lookin' at somethin'?"
"Dad, what's going-" The door from the next room opened, and another familiar tuff of brown hair entered Ochako's vision. "Oh, Ochako! Welcome home!"
"I'm home daddy! But, did you know about this?!" Ochako frantically turned the magazine towards her father, who was walking towards her with an apron around his waist and soup ladle in his hand.
"Huh? The Kanto and Kansai syndicates uniting…? Oh yeah, that's why your grandad was out of Kansai for the entire week, Ochako. He was meeting up with the elites in Kanto, ya remember?"
"I know!" Ochako frowned, feeling frustrated now. "I was talking about the thing under the title!"
Seiji grabbed the magazine out of his granddaughter's hand from behind, bringing it close to his face as he attempted to read the words. "At long last, the feud between the East and West is coming to a close…Oh, this thing! It came out today, huh? Uraraka Seiji, the leader of the Uraraka, fourth generation subgroup directly under Yaoyorozu, the largest yakuza group in the Kansai region and…"
Her father, Yuji, continued, reading next to his father. "Bakugou Ryou, president of the Bakugou, fifth generation subgroup directly under Todoroki, the largest yakuza group in the Kanto region, having shared sake and sworn ties…"
"Well, don't I look real cool in this!" Her grandfather cackled, a proud glint in his eyes as his eyes roamed over the picture printed out on the pages. Seiji, although hair white, had a serious look in his normally goofy looking eyes, his hair slicked back stylishly as it matched with his black kimono. In the opposite picture, one who was assumed to be Bakugou Ryou, was dressed similarly, except that his back was turned and the only thing standing out was his spiky blonde hair.
Ochako sighed, feeling her shoulders slump. "Grampa, the one after that?"
"Let me read it for you dad, Ochako, could you hold this for me please?" Her father passed the soup ladle to her, which Ochako reluctantly took. Yuji then took the magazine from her grandfather's wrinkled hands, proceeding to read.
"Further testified by the close relationship between the grandchildren of president Bakugou and the leader of the Uraraka, an insider divulges that they are even counting down to a marriage. The 60 years long feud between the two yakuza groups could very well resolve with the establishment of these new 'family' ties…Wait, dad, you're tellin' me?"
"Oh, yeah, Ochako!" Seiji suddenly clapped his shoulder onto his granddaughter's. "Pack your bags! You're gonna meet your future husband in Tokyo two days la'ter!"
"WHAT?!" Ochako and Yuji's voice resounded at the same time. "Grampa/Dad, you can't just do this!"
"Dad, Ochako's just seventeen, I know that you want her in the yakuza business as soon as possible, but-"
"Ah naw, Yuji, ya getting it all wrong. Come on, just sit down with me, both of you, hm?" Seiji plopped to the floor, patting the space in front of him with a jolly smile. Ochako glanced towards her father, who made the same shifty eye contact as his gaze flickered to the kitchen equipment in her hand to her smiling grandfather.
If worse comes to worse, just hit him with it.
Ochako nodded. 'Kay, daddy.
They both sat down on the fluffy rug.
"So, after me an' Ryou talked it out, we decided that it was best if we had some other kind of proof to show that the East and West banded together, y'know? And the fact is, Ochako, yer already seventeen and yer still completely ignorant when it comes ta guys, I bet lots of normal girls oughta have gotten a couple of boyfriends or so, hmm? So, I took the liberty of helpin' poor and lonely you find a partner!"
Ochako threw the ladle at her grandfather's head. Of course he had to catch it perfectly.
"Dad…" Yuji said in mortification, sinking his head into his hands. "Oh, when Hana finds out about this…"
"Eh, that's your job as the husband, son," Seiji returned the ladle to Ochako's sulking father. "Well, I'm not sayin' ya gotta get married to him now. Just go over there and test the waters, huh? From what I heard, he's a pretty good lookin' fellow, and he's the same age as ya! It's a win-win for us all!"
Ochako threw her hands up in desperation. "But ya can't just do this! I have a life here, in Osaka! I can't just drop everythin' and leave! And I'm not going to get married to a random guy I dunno!"
"Eh, come on little mochi," Seiji pouted, an action very unfitting for a man his age. "After all, ya got my genes in ya making ya look like an adorable kitten, but you're too wrapped up in yourself! Meet new people! Get a boyfriend! Have fun!"
"People don't get close to me because I'm your granddaughter, Grampa!" Ochako shuffled around, bringing her knees to her chest. "I can do martial arts and I can float. But I only have Momo-chan and Deku-kun as friends, and its only because I've known them since childhood…"
"You're still keeping in contact with that Kawada brat?" Seiji said, surprise reflected in his eyes. "Why didn't cha make a move on him instead?"
"We were three the last time we met, Grampa," Ochako said, exasperated. "And he's a Midoriya, not Kawada anymore."
"Eh, details, details," Seiji flicked his wrist. "Oh, but he and his mom are in Kanto, ain't they? Ya can go to him if the deal with Bakugou don't work out! God knows how many women I dated back in my time, compared to that, two is hardly a number!"
"Dad!" Yuji exclaimed. "Stop trying to turn Ochako into a yakuza woman! She's not going to cheat on her fiancée!"
"I'm not getting married anyway!" Ochako intervened, hitting her father on the shoulder with the rolled-up magazine.
"Anyway, I'm just tellin' ya to go meet up with him for a few days fer now. Besides both of you are still in your last year of high school right? You're gonna turn eighteen soon, but until then, you're still ain't yakuza. So, no need to worry! The boy can't be as bad as his grandad and if he's anythin' like his dad!" Seiji cackled, ruffling Ochako's hair.
That was how it all started.
But never in her life, did Ochako ever think that she would come face to face with burning red eyes and a scowl so dark it sent shivers up her spine.
"Welcome to the Bakugou household, Uraraka Ochako-san," Bakugou Ryou greeted her, his ash red eyes regarding her as the boy that seemed like a splitting image of him stood at his side. "And this is my grandson, Katsuki. It's nice to meet you."
Ruby red met hers for a second, before that boy clicked his tongue and turned away furiously, his hands stuffed into his pockets. Ochako felt her hand twitch, but she was unable to do much but smile back, cold sweat forming at the back of her neck.
What exactly had her grandfather gotten her into…?
So, Yakuza arranged marriage AU! I couldn't help it.
This story is more or less based on a manga called 'Raise wa tanin ga ii'. If you want a crazily badass female main with a sadomaso male lead who wants the female lead to make his life a mess, I suggest you giving this a read! It's a really fun manga, with the darkness of the yakuza aside.
I don't know if this will be long or short, but hopefully it won't be too long. Just a fun ride with all my favorite ships and stuff. Since the characters are all 18 and or up, I have decided to challenge myself in writing smut. Yes, you teenage people who snuck in and ignored the rating! Be prepared!
See you the next chapter!
~LunaricFairy12~