House of Cards: 16/??

Title: House of Cards
Author: andrew_in_drag
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Kyo/Toshiya, Kaoru/Toshiya, Die/Shinya, Aoi/Uruha
General Warnings: AU, slash, violence, language, yakuza theme, character death
Chapter Warnings: mild slash
Previously: The Prodigy | The Rent Boy | The Escort | The Imposter | The Professional | The Shateigashira | The Bargain | The Addict | The Rookie | The Long Night | The Lights | The Chase | The Brothel | The Pits | The Memory | The Truce
Notes: this is the prequel to Protect Me. For the yakuza terminology and hierarchy that I'm working with, please see here.


When a young prostitute is found with blood on his hands, he catches the eye of the Inagawa clan's prodigy and quickly finds himself tangled up within Osaka's criminal underworld. Taken into a yakuza house and pimped by the mysterious shateigashira, he is desperate for any means of escape - but in a house of cards, can anybody really be trusted?

( The Plan )

Climb Aboard, Captain

I have no idea, as yet, how the seventeenth chapter of House of Cards will turn out.

Commenting on it before it's ready is asking for trouble.

But I will say one thing, and that is that there's there's some filthy stuff in my search history right now.

Yes, I've been doing some research.

*fans self*

I'm scared!



EDIT: wtf, wikipedia. I just got redirected to a page titled 'Cultural history of the buttocks'.
I need some fucking popcorn.