I remember reading this back when MegKF was still around and scanlating and now NoDeadline's taken over this project. I just read up to volume 20 of the doujinshi spin-off series to Kizuna, and while I love it, I am pretty conflicted at the moment.
The story is about a 22 year-old boy named Kazama Ryuji who is the last son of the Kazama yakuza group. When he is young, his parents and the entire group were cut down and massacred, and he managed to escape with his aunt. His aunt raised him along with her own son, Tomoya, and everyone was doing well until some men started looking for Ryuji and went to his house. When Ryuji came home one day, the men were raping his aunt, and when she told him to grab Tomoya and run, they killed her. Ryuji lost it and murdered all the men in front of Tomoya, which further traumatized the young boy. Ryuji then went to prison for a few years where he was the sex tool and plaything for the other prisoners until he came up with a plan to kill them all, while making it look like self-defense. When he was finally released, he met a man whom accosted him for sex. Since Ryuji did not have any money, he decided to let the man do so until memories of his prison time made him nauseous and he did not want to go through with the trade. The man was insistent until Araki Hitoshi, a yakuza, stepped in and saved Ryuji.
At first Ryuji wanted to repay Hitoshi by having sex with him, but Hitoshi refused his advances and treated the boy kindly like a friend instead. Over time, the two develop a good relationship with each other and Ryuji falls in love with Hitoshi. Meanwhile, people are still searching for Ryuji and want to kill him, and this causes the two men to constantly be in danger. Still, Hitoshi and Ryuji fall for each other and become lovers.
This is the first 16 volumes of the story, and somewhere in volume 11 & 12, Hitoshi and Ryuji go to Osaka where they meet the Sagano family and see the younger Araki Masanori plus young Sagano Kai. Things start out pretty depressing in the first several chapters, but becomes much better during 11-16 for the two characters, and then hell breaks loose after that. I saw volume 22 on sale somewhere, but can't really afford it. Doujinshi is really expensive =_=; More expensive than regular manga tanks or bunko even =_= *sigh*
Anyway, after reading volume 20, I am ok with not reading it for a while, because it made me really mad and banging my head against walls so yeah... I do like the story, don't get me wrong, but it is kind of vexing at the moment. It is definitely much darker than Kizuna, and by a lot =_= It's so dark, I can't even look at it anymore =_=; *sigh* Anyway, I should sleep and get up early to study -- I say this every day =_= and then I choose sleep over studying, so sad. Well, going to try anyway.
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