It's Christmas Eve, and you wake up to a baby outside of your home. Your yakuza friends quickly come to your rescue, and thus begins your journey of finding the baby's parents. Daitou ponders his own future family with you. Content: female reader, violence, mentions of pregnancy, based on Tokyo Godfathers
A/N: Hello everyone, I haven't updated my Wattpad in quite a long time. Here's a little reminder that if you have Tumblr, you can find many more shorts and doodles featuring the Yakuza characters over there! I tend to keep this book for longer chapters only, but I might include some of my answers and additional lore as well.
You stare at the little basket in disbelief.
On the front steps of your apartment complex, a lone baby is crying and shuffling in the bundle of stale sheets. The event would've been baffling enough by itself; even more incredulous is that someone has decided to drop an infant in the middle of a yakuza quarter, in winter, during a gang war. You glance at the bullet holes left in the entrance wall with pursed lips.
You do the only reasonable thing that comes to mind: call Daitou.
As you settle the baby in your much warmer living room, you hear the door rattle. Daitou barges in, face pale as a sheet. Behind him, Kazuya struggles to catch his breath.
"Why- Why didn't you tell me," he shouts, collapsing to his knees.
"What? I literally just did," you argue, eyeing him in confusion.
Kazuya pats his friend's shoulder, giving you an awkward smile.
"Just my two cents, (Y/N) love, but perhaps telling him 'I have a baby' wasn't the smartest idea. I didn't have time to explain the logical fallacies to him."
Indeed, it was a speedy affair. They were hanging out at the headquarter across the street when Daitou answered your panicked call. He nodded, hung up, then sprang out of his seat, bemoaning that he's the biggest dumbass on this Earth. How could he have missed the fact he'd gotten you pregnant? When did it happen? Was it a surprise birth? There was no time to consider the logistics – he ran, and ran, indifferent to Kazuya's desperate pleads to listen.
"Oh my God," you whine, ruffling his hair. "I found the baby, you idiot. Outside my apartment. It was there, in a basket. I hear it crying this morning and went downstairs to see what's happening."
The dark-haired man swings his head back up, having finally connected the dots. The movement is so abrupt, his prosthetic eye plops out and rolls away inconspicuously. You catch it before it reaches the edge of the sofa.
"So, what now?" the blonde man is the first one to break the silence. "Does it have a return address?"
"Nothing," you confess. "We should figure something out; I don't have any food or diapers."
"We could keep it," Daitou mutters mainly to himself. Maybe it was fate, y'know? Or something like that.
"Yeah? Are you going to breastfeed it, momma?" Kazuya groans, flicking his friend. "A stray cat caring for another stray."
He's about to place a cigarette in his mouth, but you slap it away and angrily gesture towards the baby. Ah, yes. Of course. He stuffs it back into his pocket, and continues:
"I say we take the kiddo over to our brothel. Plenty of girls that'll have a better idea."
You nod thoughtfully. Kazuya's mom is one of those girls. How many children came out of this business, you wonder? You wrap the infant back into its sheets, and carefully lift the basket.
The street is suspiciously empty as you make your way to the soapland. Well, it's Christmas Eve, after all. You recall last year's Family event, when you met Boss for the first time. Back then you were pouring sake for all the underground elite, now you're carrying an abandoned baby around. It seems that peaceful holidays aren't something you can enjoy with the yakuza.
In an immaculately ironic timing to your complaint, a loud, thundering sound flashes past your ears. Before you can turn around, you feel Daitou's brawny arm around your waist, effortlessly lifting you in the air. You let out a quick, involuntary shriek.
"Keep your head down," he barks, suddenly grim and serious.
Kazuya mutters a curse under his breath, swiftly turning on his heels and shooting at targets out of your sight. You've been caught in one of the armed conflicts.
What a day, you think, hands gripped tightly around the basket. The baby is crying, the bullets are pouring. Daitou is holding you with one arm, the other is occasionally returning the shots.
"You get used to it," you whisper to the infant. "I'm telling you now, there's no better company than these two."
It's probably better to not be involved in the first place, of course, but if you do find yourself caught in gangster business...Kazuya and Daitou are your guarantee to survival.
Eventually, after what feels like an eternity, your feet touch the ground once more. The matron of the brothel hurries over, fanning herself and tugging at the collar of her kimono.
"My, what a mess. I hope you managed to put a few holes in those rascals," she says in a husky voice. One can immediately guess she's a heavy smoker.
She notices your unusual package.
"What's that?"
"Haven't you heard? (Y/N) and Daitou are parents," Kazuya announces with gravity.
The rest of the women gather around, gasping and cheering. You elbow the blonde man, furrowing your brows in annoyance.
"Nonsense. This baby was dropped this morning in front of my building. We thought we'd-"
"Ah!"
One of the women steps forward, inspecting the basket with trembling hands. She narrates the story to you: her friend – the mother – was involved with one of the rival Family members. She'd planned on running away with her partner, you see, but escaping the biggest yakuza branch with a baby in the backseat wasn't an easy task. She begged to drop the newborn in her friend's care before her departure. They'd decided on a locker by the train station to perform the unusual exchange.
"I waited for hours, but she never arrived," the woman concludes. "My God, I thought the poor kid froze to death in one of the postal boxes. She must've gone for the nearest convenient hideout!"
You hand her the bundle, and she scurries towards the neighbouring room to do a proper health check. Daitou follows her movements in silence.
"Don't tell me you wanted to keep it," you joke.
Kazuya jumps in with a smirk:
"Are you kidding me? He probably planned a whole family trip on the way here."
The yakuza coughs dryly, a faint blush dusting his cheeks.
"D-don't be ridiculous, man. If we're done here, I'll be taking miss (Y/N) home."
The idea of starting a family with you has crossed his mind, certainly. On the other hand, Daitou isn't in a rush by any means. He's rather enjoying the current arrangement, and he loves having you as the most important thing in his life.
"Oh, will you be staying over?" you turn towards your boyfriend. "I haven't finished wrapping your presents."
He twirls the glass eye nervously. If you ask him, he's already gotten the deal of a lifetime. You.