Title : Trigger Chapter 9
Pairing : RyoUchi
Rating : PG-15
Genre : Crime, drama
Summary: Nishikido Ryo was a disillusioned investigator in the Tokyo Major Crimes Division, filled with self-hatred and regret for not being able to save his sister. Uchi Hiroki was a journalist looking for a scoop. A macabre crime by a killer with a personal vengeance soon ( Read more... )

Title : Trigger Chapter 8
Pairing : RyoUchi
Rating : PG-15
Genre : Crime, drama
Summary: Nishikido Ryo was a disillusioned investigator in the Tokyo Major Crimes Division, filled with self-hatred and regret for not being able to save his sister. Uchi Hiroki was a journalist looking for a scoop. A macabre crime by a killer with a personal vengeance soon ( Read more... )

Chapter 7

Ryo was once again back in his nightmares again. He knew he was going to wake up from this, just like he had countless times before but this time, he felt an urgency, as though he was running on borrowed time. In the twilight realm of his dreams, there was always the overpowering smell of ammonia, the smell used to cover up rotting flesh. ( Read more... )

Chapter 6

Uchi Hiroki simply quirked his brows upwards, still leaning his frame against the door and making no effort to invite Ryo inside.

"So why would one of Tokyo's elite take an interest in me?" Uchi said with a slight melodic tilt in his voice, taking pleasure in having control over the situation and Ryo was willing to indulge his little ( Read more... )

The room was small, the sharp irregular corners all too jarring under the harsh fluorescent light overhead. The paint was peeling off the whitewashed walls, and the fine spiderweb cracks spread over the surface like a creeping vine. Ryo liked it. It reminded him of his office and the cramped space always worked in his favor when he was ( Read more... )

Uchi shrugged off his jacket and flung it over the sofa as he sat down on the cluttered sofa and propped his legs up on the coffee table. He was tired. It was only coming face to face with Nishikido that he realized someone like him who was exposed daily to the atrocities men could commit in the name of jealousy, greed and love could still be ( Read more... )

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was nothing like what Uchi had expected. It was not a warzone with sergeants barking out frenzied orders, there was no big homicidal case waiting for the police force to solve, no overworked, grouchy police. Instead there was a strange silence that seemed to lull people into false security, because the space ( Read more... )

Nishikido Ryo regarded the bulky envelop in his hands with barely-concealed skepticism as he flipped it over. Taking the letter opener, he cut the envelop open with a clean swipe. There was no indication of where it came from, the address was typed and there would probably be no traces of DNA because no saliva was used in the sticking of the stamp ( Read more... )

It was dark, and it smelled like mold. Nishikido Ryo liked it like this. It was fitting that his office should be decaying, considering that he was fighting a losing battle against all the corruption, all the depravities on every corner of the street outside in the real world. And he would have given up, would have handed in his badge and Glock if ( Read more... )