Chapter 17: Full Metal Yakuza
Italics: speaking in another language.
-Narita Airport, Tokyo, Japan.-
Devin had just gotten off his flight after 5 hours of murdering his legs, and decided to take a moment to stretch his muscles. Once that was over, he decided to make his way towards his first destination.
'Now that I'm here, it's time to get to work.' The boy said as he started walking through the streets of Tokyo, his first stop on his investigation was going to be the restaurant that his parents went to on the day of his father's death.
The restaurant was a high class Japanese bar that was actually part of a ring that was ruled over by the Yashida crime family. As the boy walked in he was soon sat down by one of the hostesses. As he sat and tried to figure out what he wanted, he noticed that two men were watching him out of the corner of his eye.
Both men were wearing suits and ties, the one on the right had a crew cut and had a razor scar going across his face, while the one on the left was covering one of his hands, which Devin noticed was missing a finger.
'They must be enforcers from the Yashida family. What good fortune.' Devin thought as he looked at the men, taking a sip of the drink his waitress gave him and intentionally caused his skin to ripple into silver for a second to try and get them to make a move.
This seemed to work as the men slowly started walking towards him. "And so it begins…" The boy whispered as the men sat down at the chairs opposite him at the table.
"What is your business here?" The one with the scar asked.
"Who are you?" Asked the man with the missing finger.
Devin ignored them for a second, at least until the first man opened his sport coat and pointed to a gun he had in a harness holster on his right side. As if to say, 'answer or die'. Devin just snorted at the gesture as if it meant nothing to him.
"I am Full Metal, disciple of the Silver Samurai." He then pointed a finger at the man and made it become a metal needle and made it stretch and stop just a millimeter from the man's face. "And I am here to find the man who killed my father."
"And you decided to come here because…?" The Scarfaced One asked with a raised eyebrow.
"This was where my parents were before the accident." The boy then leaned forward and looked at the men, rather fiercely. "Now, are there any people in the Yashida crime syndicate that drives a white Yoshimura Suzuki GSX250?" He asked the two men as his skin ripped metallic for a minute.
(About an hour later.)
Devin slowly walked out of the alley next to the restaurant as he cleaned his hands. "*sigh* Still nothing, guess I'll have to cross the Yashida's off the list. No one has the motorcycle I'm looking for." The boy said as he started walking down the streets. "Guess the next is the Yamahara family." He shrugged.
Though as he walked away from the alley, inside it, the two men from earlier laid there against the walls, dead, their blood streaking down the walls of the two buildings and soaking into their clothes.
The next stop of his investigation was a high school that secretly trained the enforcers of the Yamahara family and was one of their biggest centers of drug manufacturing.
The boy rolled his eyes as he turned himself into his liquid metal state, then entered under the door. As he quickly jumped around he eventually saw one of the guards of the school, who was obviously an enforcer since he had a gun on him.
The boy walked up behind the man and using his ignorance against him, Devin stabbed his now metal arm through the man's back, snapping basically vital bodily instruments and killing him instantly. Setting the man down and shoving him into a broom cabinet, he then started to use his powers to shapeshift into the man's likeness and took his name card.
The next thing he did was start heading down stairs, which he knew from past experiences was where most of the higher ups in the family met in secret so they could keep an eye on the drugs.
The basement of the school was indeed the spitting image of a meth lab in the movies. Girls from the school were forced to wear masks and gloves but basically only wear their underwear so that they wouldn't steal the products as they mixed the needed chemicals.
This sight honestly disgusted the boy, especially since the enforcers of the family watched the girls with lustful eyes. The boy shook his head, he couldn't get distracted, he had work to do. Turning the corner he entered a room where four men and four women dressed in suits or work clothes sat at a large table. These were the bosses of the Yamahara crime syndicate.
The man at the head of the table, Tanjiro Yamahara, an elderly man with slicked back gray hair and various dark spots on his prunish skin, looked at Devin discernibly. "Senji! What are you doing away from your post?!" He barked.
Devin grinned and he slowly shifted back to normal and then turned himself into metal and pinned the old man to the wall by stretching his arm to an incredible length and gripping the man's neck by turning his hand into a vice.
Everyone at the table got up in shock, drawing their weapons. "Don't even think about it." Devin growled as he tightened his grip. "Unless you want to see your leader die, I suggest you stand down and answer my questions."
Yuma Yamahara, the youngest of the Yamahara heirs, was the first to speak up. "Just who are you?" He questioned.
"You don't need to know." The metal mutant shot back coldly. "Now, tell me, are there any members of the Yamahara family that drive this motorcycle?" The boy asked, holding up the picture of the motorcycle in question. He then let go of Tanjiro as the group had seemingly calmed down and took a seat.
"Now I recognize you." Tanjiro noted, rubbing his neck. "You are Devin Shirakumo, the Half-breed bastard son of Seiji Shirakumo's son." The man said with clear distaste in his voice when he said 'half breed'. "I'm sorry to say no one in our ranks has a motorcycle like that."
Devin glared at the man as he clenched his fists. "Then do you know anyone who might?" He asked.
"To be quite frank, there's only one crime family who would have a motorcycle like that for one of their members." Saito Yamahara, the eldest male son of the family said in agitation. "And that is the Hamada family and their street racing circuit."
"Then I guess that's exactly where I need to go." Devin sighed angrily before glaring at Tanjiro. "Oh and if you ever call me a mongrel again, you'll regret it, greatly." He growled while turning his arm into a chainsaw.
The boy left the school and then continued to start asking around the city for more information about the Hamada crime family and their racing circuit. Once he found one of their meet up places, he learned that the person he was looking for was Tenya Obiwara, he was a regular racer who had a rep for doing odd jobs for the many crime families, and was actually the guy who was involved in the accident that killed Devin's dad.
'I'll need to bust a few stops if I want to get any information out of him.' The living Terminator thought as he walked.
As the boy made his way to the location of the latest race, he was suddenly stopped as the walkway was suddenly filled with a strong wind and then a bright light. This caused the liquid metal user to cover his eyes and the flash grew brighter and larger. As the light subsided, in the It's place stood a tall man dressed in the armor of a traditional Samurai, but his armor was all metal and was silver in color, with a red gem in the center of the forehead of his kabuto.
The man stood before Devin with a stern look on the visible lower half of his face, given that the top half was covered by a silver mask. The man stood in a readied combat stance, his hand poised around the handle of the Katana that rested at the right side of his waist.
"Devin Shirakumo, it has been quite awhile since we've seen each other hasn't it?" The man said in a deep voice.
"Shingen Harada." Devin said in reply, bowing respectfully. "It has indeed been awhile, sensei."
"Tell me, what brings you back to your homeland?" The metallic samurai inquired.
"Let's just say I'm here to settle some… Old grudges." The boy stated vaguely.
Harada nodded. "Well then, student." The man said while walking up to him. "I don't suppose there's any way I could help you resolve this, peacefully?"
And here it is people, the first in a 4 part arc involving exclusively Devin in his search for his father's supposed killer, this arc will be referred to as the Full Metal: Origin arc. This arc will go into depth of Devin's character, his and Gavin's backstory and of course flesh out just what caused so much tension between the two brothers, so stay tuned.
Also to the reviewer known as Connor (guest): Gavin only has two powers, three if you could his healing factor. The rest are merely either side effects of one of his powers or him being a mutant, or just him using one of his powers in a way where it gives the illusion of him having more than two powers.