BEAUTIFUL AFFLICTION
"Love means nothing until it means everything"
Authors Note: Ahahaha told you I was coming back ;p And yes this fic is an E/T, I'm hopeless I know. Actually, this story's my first E/T before I took down all my previous works. It was sooo bad, it had to undergo several revisions, with new characters placed in or removed from the plotline as well as change the fanfic title. Phew! Big thanks to my best friends Alanna and Brenda, as well as Sheila-chan aka Akizuki Saifor beta-reading this fic of mine. So here it is…the final product!
Synopsis: AU. Two rival Japanese gangs fight for the title of being the ultimate Godfather. Out of this competitive war a forbidden love is forged between the leaders and while new life is made, one is tragically snuffed out.
Disclaimer: CLAMP owns the CCS characters. I own the rest ;p
Prologue: Hiiragizawa and Daidouji's History
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Screeeech!
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CRASH!
These were the typical traffic noises that filled the Tokyo night air in the year 2357, where many gang lords of the cities competed against one another to become the ultimate godfather in their region.
Participating in this contest were two main competitors, the Sapphire Blades and Amethyst Wings, two organizations that held a grudge against one another for over three decades.
Amethyst Wings was lead by the disowned heiress of Daidouji Toys, Tomoyo Daidouji. She was only 16 when she began to drive her very own air speeder, which as everyone expected, scandalized her authoritarian mother.
From delicate and soft-hearted to tough and ruthless, Tomoyo did everything in her new power to get what she wanted.
Using her intelligence, attitude and even sex appeal, Tomoyo became known as the Murasaki-Hime, for having the most enchanting violet eyes ever seen on an 18-year old woman.
With an estate of her own at the heart of the Shinjuku District, Tomoyo's Amethyst Wings had the most elite of technology and members. All of them female and loyal to their big boss even if some of them were older than her.
With a quartet of black-clothed bodyguards, Murasaki-Hime made herself known everywhere in the districts of Tokyo, using her power and wealth to her advantage with other gangs and business dealings with the militia.
On Tomoyo's rare and sudden visits to the old manor in Tomoeda, her mother would always try and persuade her into finding a man in her life, fearing that her daughter will get into more trouble until she gets herself tied down. But the strong-spirited lass would always reply, "Men are a distraction, who needs them?"
Tomoyo does not need a man. She is going brilliantly on her own and does not feel lonely at all, because she is too busy working for the benefit of her sophisticated female gang.
And if ever there was a spot of solitude within her young heart, she would just burn it off either during a good kung fu workout in her estate's gym or at a midnight gauntlet where she would shoot any member that had in any way betrayed her.
Meanwhile, the other equally ruthless gang, the Sapphire Blades, was an all male gang lead by the Kori-Ou also known as Hiiragizawa Eriol. He received this trademark household name due to his cold personality towards his personnel except to his best friends.
Eriol too was enigmatic and had many girls lusting after his looks that also carried a seductive charm. Even when he was not even trying to be seductive, it was still a good bonus.
His father's famous lineage was said to be dated all the way back to the twentieth century, when the Yakuza also known as the Japanese Mafia, hid in secret, away from the then powerful Japanese government. But now things had changed.
No longer did the Yakuza have to hide; now they could branch out and take over. To show off his ancestry, Eriol had a huge tattoo penned entirely around his upper arm in a bronze gold colour.
The tattoo was designed as a large circle having the sun in the centre and the moon in the top left-hand corner with little Chinese characters placed on the outer rims.
He had this done when he was only nine-years-old, but like his grandfather always said till his dying day, 'Hiiragizawa's never cry. They are as firm as titanium.' Eriol remained strong during the long process.
Eriol's mother, who was of English descent, was part of a noble family who accumulated their wealth through their title as successful drug lords; the entire family was well known in the United Kingdom and would always bribe police forces in various countries.
The Kori-Ou had pulled away from his mother's family business, in order to stick with his father's more ruthless way of life, as it appealed to him greatly.
He always loved a challenge and one of them was becoming the leader of his own Yakuza.
The Sapphire Blades was good enough to be a challenge…at least it was better than dating a thirty-year-old woman.
He was only sixteen when a tall woman with waist-length copper hair managed to infiltrate his gang's estate within the Minato District, just to inform him of a lesser gang's quest on invading his estate.
The woman called herself 'Hi' and used to be part of a less powerful gang, but began to strive for power upon finding it within the Sapphire Blades. Charmed by her wit, Eriol allowed the older woman to stay in his estate, being the first and only woman to be part of his gang.
Later as they worked together, Eriol found out that the woman's name is Mizuki Kaho, whose family lived and worked in a shrine, until she got fed up of the simplicity and moved to the heart of Tokyo where true adventures lay.
Kaho became Eriol's first true love and there was more to it than physical affection. There was something deep and meaningful between them, or so Eriol thought, until Kaho cheated on him with a man closer to her by age.
While on a business trip in Italy, Kaho seduced the lord of a huge business, who became her new boy toy, dumping the shocked and shattered 16-year old Eriol over a simple two-letter word email from the lord's mansion.
We're over.
Now 19, Eriol was more cautious with things that were related to love and relied more on his lust than actually feeling from the soul.
So here is the story of two gangster leaders…both the same yet so different…nemesis to one another, eventually lover…this is their story.
Authors Note: All right, what did you think of it? I know its short, but it's only to give you background information for chapter 1. Oh yeah, my best friend Alanna did the editing on my grammar for this story so thanks fire head sister; p
Ok extra bits so you can understand…Earth in 2357 especially in Japan is very much a lawless society with the gangs ruling and the tattoo on Eriol's right upper arm is obviously the 'Clow' symbol.
And those sounds right at the beginning belong to the fighting air speeders flying around the tall skyscrapers...I hope you all know what an air speeder is...um think Star Wars Episode II, that vehicle Anakin Skywalker drove. That's an air speeder :D
TranslationsMurasaki-Hime: Violet Princess
Kori-Ou: Ice King
Hi: Fire
Ok I think that's it, please review and tell me what you think :D Critical evaluation is accepted as long as you say something nice with it ;)