Once he got out of the reform school, Koko was the first person Inupi spoke to. Koko told him about Black Dragons, what happened to it, who fucked it up. It was not okay but it would be. He would revive Black Dragons. When he told so to Koko he laughed but stated that they would do it together anyways. They recruited Shiba Taiju (it was a bloody fight for Inupi). He was a brutal but he also was charismatic (in his own way). He was the 10th generation Black Dragons' Captain.

Now they needed to recruit gang members, Inupi thought, it was his first time building a gang from scratch. He reached out to some old members and most of them joined again. He beat up small gangs on the streets and forced them to join as well. By December they had a little army on their side.

There was a little problem on the side: school. He spent a few months to revive Black Dragons but he had been told to at least finish middle school. So he found a school that was close to the Black Dragons' turf and rolled in. In January he started school. There were rumors about him going on but he couldn't care less. What he cared instead was to see if there was anyone worth recruiting. So he asked around (scared off some of the though looking students) and found out that there was one person at the top of this school: Hanagaki Shiro.

On the second day of the term he knew he was going to get in trouble. He looked for the Hanagaki anyways. He found 'him' easily. 'He' was on 'his' classroom and was wearing p.e. clothes. He called out to 'him';

"Hanagaki-kun, can you come with me please." It looked like polite speech but the voice he said it was rather cold. Hanagaki blinked at him but wordlessly stood up from his seat and followed him.

Inui walked into an alley behind the school and without saying another word he pounced at Hanagaki.

He had lost.

He had lost.

He had lost terribly. He had lost to someone almost half his size. He had lost to a girl. It was shameful on his side.

It wasn't that this bo- girl had overwhelming power, no, she simply played dirty.

"I'd hate to repeat myself." The girl said, "What were you trying to do just now? Answer or I'll call the cops on you. Because it seemed like a really bad thing to me but of course I wouldn't want to assume… I actually heard great things about Black Dragons, going by your jacket, but I'd also heard pretty disgusting things and I want to know if you're the type to lure small girls to black corners."

"I-" what was he supposed to say? "I thought you were a guy?"

A silence descended upon them.

"Not that I'm against homosexuality but that's gross as hell."

"No- Stupid-"

"Swearing will not help your case."

"I wanted to recruit you." He finally said it out loud.

"Recruit me?"

"Yes." Inui nods, "The 10th generation is still building its strength. I wanted to recruit you, because the thugs in the school said you were the top dog. I didn't think you were a girl. I-"

"You also didn't think that I would be stronger than you, I assume. You don't seem the type to seek out a beating, hmm?"

"That's right. I just wanted to test your strength. But the only thing you've shown me was underhanded tricks."

"A mind, a weapon." The girl answered, "There is no unfairness in thugs' fights. The 'underhanded tricks' were me protecting myself."

"Thugs…" Inupi spat out, "have their own moral codes, which you don't seem to have."

"Just because I'm a girl? Trust me; it hurts us as well when we're kicked between the legs."

"Hard to imagine."

Hanagaki scowled, "So? Still want to recruit me?"

"We aren't so desperate to recruit a girl lacking morals."

"The girl part stinks more, you know…" the girl smiles coldly, "You've wasted my time as well. Don't you think you owe me?"

"What would I owe you? It ain't like you got hurt."

"Time is the most precious gem of them all." Hanagaki recites, "I will not ask for much."

"What in the hell do you want?"

"Easy," the girl grins, showing her teeth, "I want a meeting with your boss."

"My boss?" the boy asked with narrowed eyes, "How do you know I'm not the boss?"

"If you're the boss I pity the gang. It won't survive for long."

He gritted his teeth. This damn bitch was…

"Fine." He answered, "I will bring you to the boss."

Boss had no problems about hitting girls after all.

Boss was struggling.

Shiba Taiju was struggling against a short stack of a girl.

He was doing so in front of all the audience.

Inupi didn't mean for this to happen. He only wanted the girl to feel the shame like he did when he lost against her.

(Not that he actually lost, she used underhanded tricks after all.)

After they departed that day he went to the boss and told him what happened, not in detail obviously. He said that this girl badmouthed their gang knowing that Inui was part of it, that she insulted their honor.

(Yes, he was a little dramatic while explaining.)

The boss got angry and ordered him to arrange a fight, to bring that 'bitch' to the 'fight' even if he had to drag her through her hair.

He didn't- had to drag her that is. The girl was eager to follow him after all.

And to be honest the audience was too big for such a small show, perhaps people only wanted to see the new boss of black dragons. The idea was open for anyone to see too; Black dragons would not show mercy to anyone who stood against them, whether it's a powerhouse or just a girl.

Nothing went as planned as one might think from the previous sentences.

Taiju was struggling.

Taiju was losing.

It started off normal, in an abandoned parking lot. The watchers were scattered around the rotting cars. Inui, who was standing beside Koko watching everything unfold. They heard someone saying something like, Black Dragons would leave the girl when they were done for the other's to play with.

The same thug swore as he cut his hand with a broken glass.

Inui hoped he would die from tetanus.

"I can't believe you did this." His friend remarked, "This is sick."

"You're saying that just because she's a girl."

"Duh."

Koko looked like the 'more' decent one of them. If anything, he was the corrupt one who also was the actual sexist.

It didn't matter if she was a girl or not, she had what was happening to her coming.

Wasn't that the real gender equality?

"Maa… This fights are getting more boring by time, don't you think so bro?"

"Hmm, should we make it more interesting?"

"You wanna be the next ones in line?"

Koko was the one to snap. He really hated those Haitanis.

"They have too much money for their own good", he'd said.

"Just sit down and watch. This isn't about you." Inui locked eyes with the younger one of the brothers.

"Watch your mouth, you aren't even the top of your gang." The older brother remarked.

He would've kept it going, Inui really would, but the fight was about to start.

That girl, Hanagaki, looked smaller when Taiju walked into the fighting pit. If Inui had to be honest, he would admit that he was impressed with her. She kept both the eye contact with the much bigger teenager and her back straight.

They seemed to talk but neither he nor the audience was able to hear them.

He heard one of the Haitanis snort, he must've read their lips and made out what they were saying. Inui wished he knew what the girl had said too.

"…Then…" the girl's voice was louder as if she wanted the audience to hear her, "if I win, Black Dragons is mine."

Inui wished he had not heard anything.

Taiju was the one who threw the first punch, unsurprisingly.

Surprising thing was how the girl managed to land the first hit.

Inui had thought that this girl had no strength or any fighting experience. He was not wrong but…

This person was dangerous and it did not even cross Inui's mind that she could be.

Obviously Taiju had the upper hand at almost everything, he was stronger, he was bigger, he was (even though slightly) faster.

But the girl was more vicious, the girl was the one who played dirt, she was the one to pick up a piece of glass from the ground and stab the other on the leg; who had no reason (read: morals) to hold back, to not use dirty tricks; who scratched, who bit- Oh god she'd actually bitten the boss' ear clean off…

She was like a rabid animal, fighting for her life. She had no actual power; she didn't have the t of tact.

Taiju was losing.

Taiju was losing.

Fuck-

When Shiro woke and found herself in a different body, in a different country, in a different time she panicked.

That much was normal but panic didn't suit her, she had strong mentality, it was one of the things her father gave her. She was not the emotional, dramatic child of the family; that would be her brother.

She really didn't like her brother; she didn't understand why her parents never taught him to be strong, independent or at least manageable. Perhaps she envied the way he was free.

So no, she didn't get lost in her rapid heartbeat and scared mind. She did the level headed thing and checked her memory for any hints that might help her figure out her situation.

She'd asked herself who she was, because that's the question doctors asked to the patients who come with head injuries; they asked them who they were, if they know where they were and how many fingers they were holding.

And then she screamed, she would not admit she screamed, and fainted in pain.

When she woke up, after she received the memories of the body, she wasn't panicked.

She was outraged.

This body, Hanagaki Shiro, had been hurt in the worst way a child- a person could have been.

The poor girl had even tried to kill herself but survived so why did that put her in the wrong?

No, no, no- Shiro, the previous owner of this body, wasn't the one people were supposed to scowl at. Shiro, the new owner of this body, would not have that. She would not have such disrespect directed at her, at the owner of this body.

She had a survivor's body and yes she might not have lived through it herself but she still remembered the fear, the pain; she remembered-

She was going to fuck shit up.

Shiro had been pleased once she remembered that she knew this world, she knew people and she would not shy away from the power she held.

She would not spare people, no matter if they were little boys same age as her new brother, who were willing to let people under their command commit such crimes.

She did get out the very next day to get piercings and a tattoo.

She was rebelling against the time she was born into. The piercings would be a little memento from her previous life.

She did ask around, she did end up on Roppongi; she did catch the eyes of a man with twin braids. She gave him a side eye but nothing more.

(She hated a man who was willing to serve under a man who would kill her own sister for no reason at all.)

She found the place all by herself.

She didn't need help.

A boy who had faced loss came to her, seeking trouble. She had no problem with providing it.

It was a letdown, she expected better from his character but it simply was that kind of time.

It was a good opportunity.

She could never turn such a kind offer from the fate down.

Taiju had lost.

No one had expected it.

It was a weird scene. A short middle school girl standing beside the unconscious body of his boss (Prevşous boss, a voice from deep inside his head said, you've failed. Black Dragons are done for.). The man was an ear short from the time he had stepped into the parking lot and even from the ground he laid, he was a giant compared to the girl.

She'd battled such man and came out on top. Even with bruises, a split lip, torn skin, maybe even broken bones… She looked like she bathed in blood.

In a way, she did.

It was quiet as the girl raised her face, her bloody face, to look into his eyes.

Inupi gulped audibly.

Hanagaki would end him too. They were done for, they were-

He had failed.

The girl raised brow.

"Won't you call an ambulance?" she had asked with a smile so bloody, "Your boss is about to die from blood loss."

Koko swore as he darted forwards to their boss and took out his phone.

Bloody girl, because the word that described her perfectly in any way was bloody, dropped the brick, which she had used to knock out Taiju, and walked past him. Leaving the battlefield.

There were no voices suggesting following the girl or having any fun with her.

Once he regained control of his limbs he ran. Not away from the battlefield or towards his (previous) boss, no.

He ran to Hanagaki.

At this point it was either her or no one else ever.