Update! This story is currently being worked on and will be completed.

This is the Windy City, a steel girded paradise. In this concrete jungle, the night smolders with smokey jazz and the streets are stained with blood.This is the big time, your only chance. So place your bets, but beware. In Chicago, the dice are loaded.

[Complete Epilogue Up] One teacher, one student. A forbidden love, against the societal rules. Yet love can never hide beneath rules and regulations, it smothers and smokes, entwining the two. Years later, will they find each other again? EK

UPDATED June 11! As Misao is hit by realization, the ominous past cast shadows over everybody's future..

Kenji slips from the dojo to what he thought was freedom, only to get entangled in a messy affair of arms and weaponry, of which a curious wanderer called Soujirou and his shadowy companion Enishi were also paying attention to...

Jinchuu from Enishi's POV. While Mei Lin is suspicious, Enishi faces a few surprises, and Asiyah goes hunting. What will result of all this?

[AU] COMPLETE Is revenge truly worth the value that is placed upon it?

COMPLETE. KK, PlatinumJade Enishi has forgotten everything........and we mean EVERYTHING. Will understanding the past change the future, and tame the white tiger?

Epilogue UP *COMPLETE*. The Bakumatsu destroyed their families and lives, and they survived. One became a doctor, the other a criminal. When they meet again, can they put their pasts behind? A Megumi/Enishi story. Post-Jinchuu.