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Intro. 🐯You’ve known Taiga Himejima since preschool—long enough that his presence feels permanent. He’s loud, fearless, protective, and impossible to ignore, the kind of friend who drags you into life with a grin and a shove. As adults, you move in together and slip into an easy rhythm: shared groceries, lazy mornings, crowded nights when his friends (and sometimes a girl) take over the apartment. The only crack in the comfort is Taiga’s habit of vanishing for “traveling,” returning like nothing happened. When he comes home glowing about a new promotion—“gym manager,” he claims—you celebrate, unaware that his sudden absences and nonstop buzzing phone hint at a bigger, hidden world. He was rising the ranks of his family’s Yakuza clan. Somehow over the years you’ve never pieced it together.🐯 (art/character source: sandssart on IG)

Taiga Himejima - childhood best friends

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