bringing into the fold (Ichiro)

[Perses]

i'm taking it slow

feeding my flame

shuffling the cards of your game

❧

Perses had his ways of finding out who was suspected to be behind the recent attacks on the city - except for Viper's attack on the pier. He'd ordered Viper to do that so that wasn't a mystery at all. But this Bakuhatsu... He knew very little about him, next to nothing in fact, and he hated that. He hated it so much that he'd ordered Amrit to change it.

Thank to Amrit's skills, he'd learned about drugs that seemed to link back to Bakuhatsu. He'd also learned that they seemed to be going through warehouses in the abandoned warehouse district. The cliche of it all was not lost on him.

He'd sent Xander, Ariel, and Caleb to cause this drug operation a major headache on numerous occasions. He'd just arrived after they'd finished the most recent attack, the warehouse in complete disarray. It was late at night, close but not quite at midnight yet. He appeared out of the shadows, cloaked in his costume.

He gave a nod to Caleb to let him know his job was done and that it was time for him and the Amador boys to leave. Xander and Ariel exchanged a look, Ariel's eyes fell on him for a moment, no doubt trying to read his body language. He remained calm, holding his arms behind his back and clasping his hands together. He watched the three young men extract themselves from the scene.

The shadows in the room darkened as he pulled them closer around him to hide him and create a better atmosphere for him to work in. He hid in the darkness, waiting for someone to arrive. If it was a grunt, he could get information out of them. But he was waiting, and hoping, for the man himself to show.

He was waiting for Bakuhatsu.

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The attacks had forced Ichiro to lay low, let the heat die down. Bakuhatsu was full for the time being and even though they had been foiled by the mayor at City Hall Ichiro had tons of stuff to work with, stuff to break down for black markets. He had staff to pay after all. Plus he had hurt himself pretty badly, to pull off his stay in Japan his doppelganger was making the necessary public appearances vowing to catch Bakuhatsu! It was comical, the people ate it up.

While on the mend he had to recruit for the deaths and capture of his soldiers, they wouldn't get anything from the live ones because they didn't know who Ichiro was. Also most of them kept a code of harakiri, those that didn't would get dealt with by the right channels. He wasn't worried. Monstre was dead, problem handled without his own hand being bloodied but InkShot had been arrested along with Mr. M. BC Hydro was in the wind. Punktown Brawlers eradicated by his very obedient dog Arsenal.

Ichiro was able to grieve properly the death of his youngest nephew, his death left a void in there lives. They buried his ashes in the sea. With his death Akio had to take over his operations while abandoning her security position, she wasn't thrilled as their drug flooding began to take a hit. Multiple attacks, random robberies, and a few drug busts. Akio blamed it on poor security and Ichiro agreed, he would clean it up.

Down in the warehouse district their pill factory had gone silent, so he had called up Kenji and Akio to check it out. He needed to stretch his legs. Plus with the effects of that pulse, which negated his powers, finally wearing off he had to know if the situation went south whether they were less...boom-y...than before. The black town car pulled up Kenji scanned the parking lot, "Dammit," he cursed as the attack was very apparent, "what is going on?! Uncle let me go scope this out and make sure it is safe."

Ichiro nodded and then he slide his mask over his face, "Makes sense, Akio stay with me," Kenji exited the town car when it came to a stop. He pulls a knife from sheath hanging on his side, a devilish smile spreading across his face as he walked toward the warehouse. Akio rubbed her temples clearly distressed, "Kiyoshi ran this stuff so smoothly! Why am I messing this up Uncle?"

Ichiro smiled under his mask and with his good arm grabbed her hand, "Kiyo was just different with stuff like this but Akio this isn't your fault, no this seems....odd...planned? Yes planned, maybe someone thinks they can do this better than you? They aren't happy with you getting the position? So many reason's, we knew I would ruffle feathers here."

Akio smiled and that was enough to reassure Ichiro she was fine, for the moment. A few more moments passed with no word from Kenji, "He has been gone to long to not give a clear, want me to go check on him?"

Ichiro didn't feel comfortable with the long silence and he checked his watch sighing, "Let's go."

Perses

[Perses]

i'm taking it slow

feeding my flame

shuffling the cards of your game

❧

He was growing impatient. Of course being made to wait was better than being outright denied but his pride still took a blow. Not that Bakuhatsu had any clue he was waiting. Still - That didn't mean he couldn't wish the man would hurry up.

He was just starting to consider more drastic measures to get the man's attention when someone entered. He didn't think this person was who he was waiting for. If Bakuhatsu was as smart as his coordinated attack led him to believe, then he had surely sent someone ahead to stake out the place.

Perses could've done nothing. He could've remained hidden - but where was the fun in that?

He emerged from the shadows and acted quickly, creating ropes from the darkness around him to wrap around the young man. His goal was to simply hold him in place and gag him so he couldn't alert anyone. He didn't plan to hurt him unless needed, though a part of him hoped it would be needed.

He didn't say a word to him. The more he looked at him, the more he was certain this wasn't the man he was waiting for. Thus he had nothing to say to him. He was starting to consider turning this into a kidnapping when he heard someone enter again.

He grinned, the action hidden behind his mask.

"Do you always keep your guests waiting?" he asked, turning his attention to whoever had just entered.

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Ichiro and Akio at first found the silence uncomfortable, Akio lead the pair her hand resting upon her own knife on her hip. It was poorly lit compared to how it should be but it didn't stop them from noticing Kenji restrained on the ground, Akio almost acted on instinct and sibling love but Ichiro stopped her with a simple gloved hand on her shoulder.

"Be still he didn't get that way by himself," he whispered in Japanese as his own eyes scanned the dim warehouse finding nothing until someone spoke out....

"Do you always keep your guests waiting?"

Akio dropped into a squat and pulled her knife but her eyes found no one either, she was ready though. Ichiro didn't even flinch but he did smile behind his own mask as he replied, "I wasn't informed of impending guests, so forgive me for my lack of manners. However I will counter with this, do you always break into the business of a host? Are you responsible for the previous minor disruptions?"

[Perses]

He recognized the language spoken, fluent in the words. He remembered a time when those around him had thought he was foolish to become fluent in so many languages. Now it came in quite handy as head of the Cabal. And those that had thought him foolish had quickly learned the errors of their way - and hadn't been given the chance to repeat them. Both, he thought, were ready for a fight. He'd have to tread carefully without making it look like he was treading carefully. He needed to appear as if he was in total control. He was cautious, yes, because he knew what this man was capable of. He'd seen it on the news. He'd heard about it from people who had experienced those attacks or the fallout of them firsthand. "I find going through the front door to be boring," he replied, emerging from the shadows but keeping his power's grip on the young man, knowing he could be leverage if needed. He clasped his hands behind his back. He considered lying, denying involvement in the disruptions he had very much ordered. But he was pretty sure he was standing in the presence of the closest thing he'd ever had to an equal, especially in Astaria City. No, he didn't think they were equals - He held too much pride to think that. But perhaps this Bakuhatsu was as close as anyone could get to being equal to him. "You're a hard man to get a hold of," he said instead, "I hope you can look past my tactics. After all, I have a business proposition."

... your guns are loaded and your lies are the bullets. so here is the trigger, go ahead and pull it ... perses @bakuhatsu costume 268 words 1) I'm so sorry about the wait. 2) I'm so sorry about how short this is. ;-; ❤

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