Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:09:53 +0900 From: Andrej Koymasky <andrejkoymasky@geocities.com> Subject: Tattoo-1 -------------------------- I started writing gay stories in 1985 and to now I wrote about 80 of them. Being Italian, of course I wrote them in Italian. Now, many of my friends asked me to translate them in English. But my English, also if understandable, is surely not a "literary" one: I can't know all the nuances and literary tricks I can use in Italian. I need somebody revising my translation. Now, I found a person that is kindly helping me with my stories. But I can't ask to one single person to help me with all of my stories. So, if amongst you there is somebody (with a good English style) that thinks this unpaid work worthy, and wants to help me, I would be really happy. If such a person exists, can send me an e-mail at: andrejkoymasky@geocities.com ---------------------------- FOR DRESS A TATTOO (YAKUZA) by Andrej Koymasky (C) 1998 written the 21st of June, 1994 translated by the Author English text kindly revised by Randy. ----------------------------- USUAL DISCLAIMER "FOR DRESS A TATTOO (YAKUZA)" is a gay story, with some parts containing graphic scenes of sex between males. So, if in your land, religion, family, opinion and so on this is not good for you, it will be better not to read this story. But if you really want, or because YOU don't care, ore because you think yo really want to read it, please be my welcomed guest. ----------------------------- CHAP. 1/8 THE ENCOUNTER He slowly emerged from the sea, his usual bright smile lighting his face. Erect, his slightly tanned body streaming water, shining at the sun. His lean, athletic torso underlined by a red fundoshi splendidly swollen. He was completely unaware... of his sensual beauty that attracted the envious glances of the men and looks of not well hidden desire from the women. Unaware like all the virgins, though not out of need or by choice, but simply because life hadn't yet offered an occasion for the awakening of the senses. It is not that Takeda Jun knew nothing about sex. Since puberty he would at times give himself relief with his hand. But no one had yet awakened his desires nor his fantasies. Occasionally he thought that one day he would marry and have children, but never lingering too much on those thoughts. Like at times you think that one day you'll have to die but, especially when you are still young, you don't think of that as something real or concrete. You don't worry. So, unaware, he stretched, pleased with the nice swim he had had, with the cool breeze and the warm sun that caressed his skin in competition with the glances of the many bathers and swimmers. Then, with involuntarily voluptuous indolence, he went towards his towel and lay down to dry in the sun. Unaware of the long, careful look of appreciation and desire with which Yamaguchi Kazunari had followed him from the reserved solarium on the roof of the seaside resort. A look that didn't escape to the attention of Soda, the young and faithful Kazunari hanger-on [attendant?]. "Boss, do you want him?" the youth asked with a cunning smile. "Idiot! You'll never understand what I want, never." the young man answered drily. "Come on, boss. I've noticed exactly how you were looking at him. And now, just look between your legs, a little more and your swimming suit breaks apart!" said Soda sniggering with a know-all face. Kazunari gave him a blow on the head with the rolled magazine. Soda undaunted continued: "If you want him, you have just to tell me, no? Tonight you'll have him without that fundoshi on him, like a good boy, ready on your bed. Did I ever disappoint you, boss?" "They were hustlers, it's different. Anybody can persuade them to be ready on my bed, maybe after making them give head, as you do." "Boss! You know that I dig just females, right?" "Shut up! They told me." "Well... it was just to be sure that they were able to please you really, believe me. They were almost not able to give me a hard on, for real!" the youth answered almost sulky. Kazunari had been stricken by that boy: not so much by and not only for the physical beauty that he wore unaffectedly, like an everyday dress, without showing off, but above all for the fresh and clean expression of the boy. For his luminous and sweet smile and for that incongruous bright red fundoshi that made him look almost like a mikoshi carrier at a procession. Of course he desired that splendid boy, but not just to fuck him one or two nights, to just enjoy his body: for the first time he felt a desire for somebody in a different way, in a new way... to make love, to love. And it was for that reason that Soda's remark had bothered him so much. Jun stood up, shook the bathing sheet to free it from the sand, folded it and went towards the showers. Again Kazunari followed him with his eyes. From the back, the Y shape of the boy's body was even more evident: broad shoulders, narrow waist, a small ass abundantly and pleasurably exposed because of the fundoshi, straight and sound legs. A delicious male body, well shaped, adult, but with a wonderful adolescent face. He felt such an intense desire that he felt quite ashamed for it. He saw him disappear in the seaside resort and inside his heart he whispered: good bye, vision from a dream! Why didn't he go downstairs to look for him? Why didn't he think of a pretext to buttonhole him, to get acquainted to him? Why did he remain up there, not budging from his deckchair, with his faithful and dumb Soda nearby and discreet body guards scattered all around? Yes, why? Possibly because he was too used to treating the boys he desired like objects, but that boy, on the contrary, could not be an object! He was a boy to be conquered, courted, loved, not to be grasped, used, thrown away... he had at once understood that. Who knows... perhaps it will be better to forget him, he thought, almost with regret. That one was not the right boy for him. Besides, he probably had a girl and there wasn't even the faintest idea in his mind of the possiblity of having sex with a man... Yes it was wiser to push him out from his thoughts... After all he was happy with the boys he could find in the gay bars, waiting just for a client or an adventure. At least those boys were skilled and without needless complications "Let's go, Soda!" abruptly and dryly he said. "Already? Ok, ok, as you want, don't pull faces, now! It's just that you said you wanted to wait for Hiroshi..." "I don't even know if he will really show up. Today he is with his new girlfriend, can you guess how much he would think about our appointment!? Let's go." Soda nodded to the others and they went down at the resort's lower level, where the Yamaguchis had their private rooms. Kazunari showered, put on his cream suit, went downstairs and got in his special-bodied car and went home. None of his family was there, just the servants. He went into his room and opened the shoji toward the garden. He switched on the TV but didn't look at it. He loosened his necktie and sat on the veranda. Lit a cigarette. That garden was full of memories for him: the bamboo water balance implacably beat the time, since before his birth. That sound was omnipresent in his most remote memories, but in one in particular: when his father had caught him, nine years before, with the gardener's son, sucking each other, completely naked on his futon. He was sixteen and his companion fifteen. There was no one in his family at home and none of the servants would have dared to enter his room. But his father had returned home before he was expected and he didn't hear him coming. For some strange reason his father had wanted to talk to his son and had caught them. He slipped off his belt and gave them a good trashing, with ferocious calm, to the rhythm of the water balance. Then, when he tired, he told the gardener to send away his son. It didn't matter where, just that he never show up in their house again. Then he tried to get from his own son a promise that such things would never happen again. But Kazunari had discovered, more or less two years before, that he was attracted only to his own sex and that boy for sure wasn't the first one he had had sex with. He had absolutely no intention of giving up. So he bluntly said so to his father. His father's only answer had been to order two of his men to follow his son, with the order not to leave him alone under any circumstance: except when he entered his school, they waited outside for the entire time, in a car, to be sure the boy couldn't sneak out. So Kazunari looked for a couple of mates inside the school. He would go with them to the rest room and have sex. Always a couple because, while he was fucking with one of them inside the box, the other was on watch outside. Then they swapped places - he couldn't be satisfied with just one fuck, on the contrary the first just increased his yen. "My poor dad, you thought you were stronger and more shrewd than me..." he said in a low voice, stubbing out the cigarette he had just lit on the crystal ashtray and standing up. With his mother, after his father death, he managed a compromise: as long as he didn't bring his boys home, with discretion he could do as he pleased. So, at seventeen he got his pied a terre, an apartment, small but elegant, furnished with all the comforts, downtown. And Soda would bring him the boy he had chosen in one of the gay bars of the town. Soda, the first time he had entered a gay bar, was ashamed to death. But afterwards, was amused and had become a friend to all the hustlers, even if he was married and anyway he liked women. But that didn't deter at all, his occasionally getting head from those boys, in his car, before bringing them to him. The same Soda that now was waiting for his commands in the kitchen, where he was quite surely courting the new cooks helper, a hale twenty years old girl freshly arrived from the countryside. He took the telephone and dialed the kitchen. Soda immediately answered. "After dinner we go to the Adon." Kazunari said. "Sure boss. Do you have something in mind, or do you prefer something new tonight?" asked the lackey who, when referring to the bar boys, never said somebody but always something. "If he shows up, I'll like Ken. If not a new one. We'll see." "Sure boss. Do you want to have dinner in your room?" "No, if there is family, I'll eat with them." Kazunari changed his clothes, preparing with care for that night going out. Even if they were generally always hustlers, but not all of them, he liked to wear good clothes and, above all, refined underwear. Even a fuck, by his philosophy, was to be done with art, and enjoyed. Ken was a really gorgeous boy, and not an hustler, and that's why, probably, he preferred him to the other boys. He was in high school and was feared and respected by everybody. He intimidated everyone owing to his strong will and cleverness. Kazunari had first met him when he went to his little brother Tomoya's High School to assist at the baseball match his brother played against another High School. Ken was the captain of the team and he at once liked that boy. He inquired about the boy and found out that he was the son of the owner of a small sushi bar. After the match, won by his brother's team, he went to the locker room ostensibly to greet and compliment his brother, but really to meet this Ken that had awakened his desire. He buttonholed the boy and found out that, besides being handsome, he was attractive with the impudent air of a little boss. He invited Ken to have a drink with him to celebrate the victory. "Are we waiting for your brother?" Ken quietly asked. "No, you and me, alone. I want to know you better, you interest to me." "All right." They drank, then he invited him in his pied a terre. The boy accepted. Here Kazunari, going straight to his aim, put his hand between the boy's legs and fingered his basket. Ken had jumped on his feet: "Hey, who do you think I am? I'm no fag, you know! If you've got any idea of doing..." he said belligerently, being on the defensive and looking at him enraged. "Come on, calm down. I know you are no faggot, otherwise I would not even have tried. You are all male, that's why I like you." "You are out of your head! It's better I leave." "No. Now you undress, completely." Kazunari said, self confident. "You are crazy! Does drinking always have this effect on you?" Kazunari seized his arm, pulling him nearer and, with an amused accent, said calmly: "Go on, undress: you'll see, I'll make you enjoy it." Ken attacked him with a karate move, to free himself, but Kazunari, from earliest childhood, did martial arts and was more than skilled. With a few simple moves he held him fast: "Boy, if I want I can force you to do anything I like. Why don't you simply accept it without making so much fuss? I said I want you enjoy it. Undress, if you don't want me to get you nekkid." "Try it!" the boy answered in a defiant tone. "All right." Kazunari answered. Then keeping cool and taking it easy, turning him between his arms and legs like a rag doll, without tearing off one single button, without making a single rip in Ken's clothes, first made him naked, then undressed himself. Ken struggled with all his might, ruthlessly, furiously, even if uselessly, but when he saw the naked body of the young man, covered from shoulders to the mid thighs by the artistic, colorful tattoo, he suddenly stopped his struggles. "You are a yakuza!" he said at low voice, with an accent of reverent awe and respect. "Yes." the young man quietly answered. "An important one?" Ken asked, barely touching with his fingers the complex drawing that covered the man's skin like a fitting dress. "Rather." the other answered, looking at him with desire. Kazunari was excited, but noticed that Ken also had a hard on, so cunningly laughed: "You say you don't want it, but you have a real boner, uh?" "I've never done it, never with a male." the boy said, grim, but giving up the struggle. The young man, still keeping him so that he couldn't escape, started to caress him in all his body. "You'll see, you'll like it. Relax, boy." "I've no choice, right? You're too strong... and powerful. So, fuck me and let me go. At least, don't keep on." "No, I want you to ask me to do it. I don't want to rape you, even if it would be easy for me. I want you to enjoy it with me, as I said." "Oh, shit, but what do you want from me? That I say I like it?" "Well, not before, but after." Kazunari answered continuing to caress him and to excite him little by little. And little by little he loosened his grasp, even though he was ready to block him if he tried to escape, but the boy did nothing to shirk. "Really you've never done it, before?" "No, never with a male." "But now, don't you feel like trying it, with me?" Ken for a while didn't answer, remaining tense and still under the more and more intimate caresses of the other, then emitted a soft sigh: "You are a devil. You are exciting me in spite of that tool you are brushing on me. You are making me want it... possibly because it's a month since I've had sex..." Ken murmured and his hand lowered to grasp the young mans member, that he fingered it for a long while, then said: "Who could have said I would find myself naked and with a man's cock in my hand..." "And... don't you like that?" Kazunari asked, brushing Ken's small, hard and dark nipples, making the boy quiver from head to toe. "It's strange, but... yes." Ken said starting to masturbate Kazunari and looking at the young man's member almost fascinated. Then without looking him in the eyes, with a low voice, he said: "And I bet that now I have to suck it and that afterwards you will shove it in my ass, right?" "What do you think?" Kazunari asked pushing lightly, but firmly, the boy's head toward his groin. "As I thought..." the boy sighed and lowered, resigned, to lick that hard flesh rod he had in his hand. Then Kazunari turned on the carpet and went to suck the nice turgid and straight pole of the boy. Ken moaned, prey of pleasure, and at his turn started to suck the young man's meat almost with ardour. When Kazunari felt that the boy was losing his control, turned him over and started to skilfully lick him between his strung, small, nice buttocks. "Oh, that..." the boy moaned, pushing his back against the man's face, to better feel those incredible licks. He knew what would follow that licking, but he didn't mind anymore - he was really, terribly excited. "Relax. The first time can be a little painful, but you'll see, afterwards you'll like it. Relax, Ken." he said turning again the boy over and preparing him for the penetration. "The more you relax, the less painful it will be..." "Go on, hurry up." Ken said, sullen but excited. And Kazunari took him: he was not surprised by the fact that Ken didn't lament when he sank into him with a set of strong pushes, until he won past the resistance of the incredibly tight virgin channel, even if he betrayed his pain with a short contraction of all his body's muscles. Ken was a tough boy, he knew, and that made Ken even more desirable to him. He was not even surprised at the docility with which Ken accepted the vigorous hammering that followed - the boy accepted the unavoidable as a real man. But he was astounded when the boy, just a second before him, started to moan wildly: "Oh, I'm coming... oohh, coming... aaah... ah... oooooh... oooh... aah, cooooooming!" and downloaded himself against the mattress without even having touched himself, intensely quivering, while Kazunari discharged in him, fully satisfied to have tamed that cockerel and to have gained his cherry. He remained pleasantly and deeply embedded in the boy, while regaining his control. Afterwards, when dressing again, Ken was silent and gloomy, almost sulky. He tried to make him talk but the boy replied in monosyllables. Then Ken asked him if he was now free to go away. "I have you driven home in my car." Kazunari said. "By one of your lackeys? No, thank you, I'd rather go back with the bus." "See you again..." the young man said at the door. Ken didn't reply and went down the stairs quickly, taking the steps two at a time, almost fleeing. But they met again and it was the same Ken, to whom he had given his telephone number, who called him and asked him, with an air halfway between brazen and shy, to fuck him again. They met several other times. One evening Kazunari brought Ken to the Adon and the boy, at the bar, started to look for a partner: he was fully converted to the same sex love, even if Kazunari thought that he hadn't completely given up with girls. When they met at the Adon, Ken always accepted his invitation, without problems. And now that he had fully accepted that kind of sexuality he participated with eager pleasure in the sexual encounters with Kazunari, giving himself to the young man without restraint and with manifest pleasure. At times Kazunari had thought about proposing him for entrance into the family, but something had held him back, til now. That evening everybody was present at dinner, even his elder sister husband and the family lawyer. Kazunari immediately felt that something important was on the air. "So, Eguchi, we really need to conclude that contract with the Matsuda Company?" his mother asked as soon as they sat at the table. "Madam, if we renounce to that contract, Oshima will do it and we really don't need him becoming stronger right now." "Oshima? That would be the limit! That pig!" Tomoya upset said. Hiroshi trew him a rough glance. Tomoya become silent but kept his belligerent expression. "Do you mean that we cannot manage to have the control of the Matsuda, then?" "We will, soon, madam, but not soon enough to obtain this contract and afterward it will just become more difficult." "Okay, I understand. Then, lets conclude it." Michiko said. "But the Matsuda is shilly shally... they evidently want to rise the price. They are trying to make us understand they have received better offers." "From Oshima, right?" Tomoya asked, hard. Hiroshi gave him a kick under the table. Kazunari smiled in himself: Hiroshi cold and rational, Tomoya passionate, as usual. And Hiroshi was disturbed by the passionate nature of the youngest brother. "Well, let the Matsuda understand that they accepts our offer or they risks not to be able to accept any other offers ever again." Michiko said drily, eating an oyster. "We've already put pressure on him, but..." the lawyer said. "Kazunari, tomorrow morning you will go to visit the Matsuda's President, Mister Nakamura, and made him listen to reason." "Can I use the hard methods?" the young man quietly asked, weighting his mother's expression, in fact he knew very well that more than the words, it was how she said them that counted. "Nothing personal, little men at times have a martyrs soul, unhappily. What counts for him..." "We can kidnap one of his children." Tomoya said and received another kick under the table from his brother, who said "You heard, right? Kazunari has to about it. Shut up, once and for all!" "Kazunari, always Kazunari, just because he is the eldest." Tomoya complained, "I'm eighteen, now, when will you charge me with something, mother?" "When you behave a little more maturely." Hiroshi said. "You are not my mother!" Tomoya retorted harshly. "Enough!" Michiko said dryly. "Do you need a hand, Kazunari?" asked Ryuta, Naoko's husband, more to turn attention away from Tomoya than for real. "No, not yet. If tomorrow he still doesn't sign, then perhaps..." "Do you have a plan?" Hiroshi asked. "Just a truck loaded with explosives parked in the underground parking of the Matsuda Company's skyscraper, I think." Kazunari slowly said. Tomoya brightened up, but all the others looked at him perplexed: those were not Kazunari methods. He faintly smiled at the others reaction, and continued "And a voyeuristic tour for Mister Nakamura from his office to inside the truck, just to show him that really he signs with us or he will no longer be able to sign with others. If we are able to introduce a truck into his so well protected underground, we will be able to introduce anything we want, anywhere we want." Kazunari concluded, "But this is just as last resort..." They discussed a little more then, around at eleven pm, Michiko wound up the reunion. While Kazunari was going to summon Soda, Tomoya approached him: "Why you don't have him find a dynamite charge in his presidential bog? That man, cares more for his ass than for his skyscraper, I bet!" whispered rapidly then parted to take his bike in the garage. "Are you ready, Soda?" "Sure, boss. Who do we bring tonight?" "Choose a couple. And be sure they are presentable, where we are going. The last time they seemed like two policemen." "Boos, if they hear you, they will feel offended!" "It's not my fault. They chilled the entire atmosphere." Ken was not at the Adon, that night, so Kazunari choose a big boy with the aspect of a baseball player and a tough glare: he liked to tame those young bulls, in his bed. He pointed him out to Soda and asked one of the other of his men to bring him to his pied a terre. When the teddy boy arrived, Kazunari, already wearing just his yukata, ordered him to undress. The big boy complied with a smile and when he was completely naked, fingering his big rod still erect, asked, self confident: "Do you like it? What do you say about it? Where do you want it?" Kazunari smiled: "Not bad, but... now you give me a good blow job nicely preparing my rod, so that afterward I'll fuck your nice ass." he said letting his yukata glide away from his body and showing the boy his hard member. "Hey, you're joking! I'm just a top, not a bottom." the other said, still self confident. "Want to bet? And we will even have an encore?" Kazunari answered grasping him and, just with one move, holding the boy fast under him. The other tried to fight him, but Kazunari was strong and skilled so that soon the other understood that he didn't have any way out. Then Kazunari so expertly excited the boy as to completely bend him to his wishes and when he started to penetrate into the teddy boy's ass, he completely surrendered. He slid in him with smooth easiness, so said in amusement: "I'm not the first, it seems." "No... but I prefer to be a top." "And who's your top, then, seeing how easily you are taking it?" The boy didn't answer. Kazunari enjoyed him for a long while, even if he was no virgin, he had a nice ass, that the young man worked at his pleasure, always keeping the boy thoroughly aroused, until they both came. Then, while relaxing before the second round, he repeated his question. The boy that time answered: "It's my boxing coach. Each time, in exchange, he pays me a young boy that takes my dong in his ass." "It's a threesome?" "Right." "And you are in the middle?" "Yes." the boy answered, amused, caressing the young man's member that was rising again, then asked: "So really do you want to have an encore?" "For sure. I enjoyed you." "If I just knew it would have ended that way, I could at least bring a chick with me. You don't get fucked, right?" "Right. But with the money my man gave you, you can buy yourself a couple or even more chicks, if you want them." said Kazunari setting about fucking again the boy, with renewed desire. Yes, he really loved to tame those cockerels who played the macho... and the more they pretended to be all male, the more he liked to completely subdue them to his pleasure. Kazunari didn't want anybody with him and he had been right. Nakamura had been impressed first by the fact that the young man had arrived all alone, by the fact that he didn't menace, he never did rise his voice, and was convinced in just forty six minutes of an "amiable" conversation. Kazunari didn't even need to show the man the truck filled with explosives in the underground parking. And now Kazunari was coming out from the presidents office, on the twenty seventh floor of the building, with the signed contract in his pocket. His men were waiting for him in the hall, but Kazunari decided he wanted before go on the roof garden to admire the panorama: he had heard it was breathtaking and hadn't yet had an occasion to see it. He took the cellular telephone from his pocket and called Soda at the ground floor: "I'm done. I'm going upstairs to see the panorama, then I'll come down." "Do you want us to come up?" "No." Up on the last floor, at the center, there was a bar surrounded by a roof garden and a glass wall surrounded all on the four sides all around the building perimeter. The panorama was really breathtaking. That skyscraper was the tallest in the town and dominated all the town that his family dominated almost uncontested after the last war with the Oshima yakuza family. According to his mother the Oshima were to be eliminated, but not with an umpteenth war as Tomoya would have done - it was sufficient to simply erode little by little their vital space. And that move with the Matsuda reduced greatly Oshima's opportunities, Kazunari thought with satisfaction. He never drew back but, like his mother, he preferred discrete and elegant means, without useless slaughter and deaths. Even if the last war, five years before, was provoked actually by him. Unwillingly or, to better say, without foreseeing that a banal accident could stir up a chain reaction like that. Only his mother's temerity had succeeded in appeasing that last war. Kazunari emitted a light sigh and decided to go downstairs. He quietly went toward the elevators. The one in the middle was coming, so he waited in front of it. Young families, tourists, people that like him wanted to admire the panorama, come out from the elevator, and then... "he". He immediately recognized him, the boy that had emerged from the placid sea waves, less than twenty four hours before. Now he was wearing soft water-green trousers and a straw-coloured shirt that hid the perfect shape of his body, but the serene and clean face was unmistakably his, even if now he wore sun glasses. The boy was about passing in front of Kazunari and the young man thought that it was sufficient to hold out his hand to touch him. He felt a terribly strong, all consuming desire, a yearning, a violent and irrational compulsion to embrace him, to kiss him, even there in front of everybody. Jun was just passing in front of him and was searching with his eyes the panoramic glass walls, when the pandemonium happened: a sudden, very strong earthquake shock, screams, panic, from the bar came the noise of glasses and bottles falling and crashing on the floor. Kazunari saw the boy turning pale and instinctively hurling himself toward the still open elevator. The shake, or better the continuous set of shakes, continued strong. Kazunari dashed off and stopped the boy from behind, while the others were running staggering here and there like a herd of mad little mice, and pushed him with energy against a concrete pillar: "Here it is safer." he said shortly. The boy tried to wriggle, a scared expression in his eyes, but Kazunari surrounded him with his arms, kept the boy's legs still with his own legs and then they fell on the floor. "Quiet, quiet... it's nearly over." Kazunari said. And while he was realizing that the earthquake was really over, he also noticed that the embrace with which he had blocked the panicked boy, had provoked in him a vigorous erection that was now pushing, not quite his will, against the boy. Awkwardly he released the boy and they rose up. He heard a sharp noise coming from under his shoe: he had tread on and broken the boy's glasses. He bent to keep them: "Oh, sorry! Forgive me! I broke your glasses." "Doesn't matter..." "You should have entered the elevator, it is the most risky place in an earthquake." Kazunari embarrassed, justifying himself, holding in his hand the broken glasses of the boy. "I know, but I couldn't see reason, at that moment." the boy said in a low voice, quite ashamed. "I broke your glasses. I'll buy you new ones." "It's not your fault, really, it doesn't matter. Thank you." "No, no, I want to buy them. Do you have time now? We can go down together and look for an optician." "Really, you don't have to worry." the boy insisted. "Let's go." the young man resolutely replied taking his arm and driving him to the elevator. "Will it be safe, now, the elevator?" Jun asked with a doubtful smile. "I think so, anyway we cannot remain up here forever, right?" When in the hall, Soda was about to approach him, but Kazunari with a glance, made him understand he didn't want to have him in his way and went out on the road with Jun. Soda nodded to the others and with discretion followed his boss and the boy, without losing sight of him and without being outstripped. "We didn't even introduce ourselves. I am Yamaguchi Kazunari." said smiling. "Yes, really. I am Takeda Jun. How do you do." "Do you work? No, you must be a student, right?" "First year at the University. Literature." "Do you like it?" "Very much." "Oh, here is an optic. Let's go in." "It is too elegant, it must be an expensive shop." "I'm paying, of course. Don't worry." "I'm sorry to give you so much trouble..." the boy said doubtful, but followed him in the shop. "Choose the model you like best, and don't worry about the price. I can afford to buy the entire shop, if I want." Kazunari said with a playful tone. Soda and the others were outside of the shop, with the attitude of someone who is loafing about, admiring with deep attention the several glasses models displayed in the shop windows. Kazunari looked at the boy with interest, curiosity and growing desire. Destiny had thrown him literally in his arms: would he now be able to not let him slip out of his life? "This model suit you nicely." he said to jun. "It's very beautiful..." "Then, this one, with the best lenses. When would they be ready?" he asked the shop assistant handing him the frame. "Tomorrow at eighteen, sir?" "Very good. What time do you close?" "At eight pm, sir." "Good. We will come shortly before eight... Is it ok to you, Jun?" "I can come, just I, thank you mister Yamaguchi." "No, we will come together." Kazunari said and went to pay at the desk with his credit card. While they were going out, Kazunari said to Jun: "Can't you call me by name? Or I will feel like an old man..." "As you like, thank you. But an old man, you, Kazunari? How old are you? Twenty four?" "Twenty five. And you, nineteen, right?" "Yes. We are not so far apart in age, are we?" Jun said with a nice smile. Kazunari felt himself melting inside: he loved that smile and would have liked to have that smile all and only for himself. "Can I offer you something? Do you feel like going in a coffee shop and to spend some more time together?" "With pleasure... But aren't you busy?" "No, I just settled a good business deal and I would like to celebrate. With you. Come, let's go to my car." He drove toward the hills, just out of town, to an elegant bar belonging to one of his family men. All along the short way they talked of this and that. Soda with the others, in the car following them, emitted a relieved sigh: at least that was safe territory. Also Soda had immediately recognized the boy and understood that his boss was working on the boy, talking him around. "The one from yesterday wasn't enough..." he whispered shaking his head. The man near him asked: "What, Soda?" "Nothing, nothing. Keep driving." At the bar Kazunari was received with extreme courtesy and respect. He asked for the private lounge at the second floor and took Jun in there. ----------------------------- CONTINUES IN CHAPTER 2 ----------------------------- In my home page I've put some of my stories. If someone wants to read them, the URL is http://www.geocities.com/~andrejkoymasky/ ---------------------------