WIND BENEATH MY CLIPPED WINGS /  YAKUZA AU VERSE.
Name: Mizuki Tsuruga IshinoÂ
Alias: Hiddenite ( yes like kunzite this is part of the spodumene mineral varieties. I also love the play on words. ‘hidden’. )
Age: same as rin, twins ayy
Occupation / Role: student attending school, smuggler / errand boy / runner for the Shitennou gang, more tbd / being worked out
- Twin sister: @withagentleheart
- Adoptive father: @kingadcnis
- Parents deceased
- hopeful boxing / pupil of inu senpai @kizusedaiÂ
accepting: friends and more surrogate ‘rentals for my traumatized baby boy
At the age of 5 Mizuki’s parents were brutally murdered. He was separated from his mother and twin sister to watch in horror as one by one they killed his father, brothers, then moved on to him. He heard the sounds of his mother’s frantic cries as they took her, used her and killed her. His sister hearing him scream fought back but upon seeming him on the floor , his chest slashed to hell , eyes wide open and not moving assumed he was dead like the rest of the family.Â
As the paramedics arrived as social services took Rin they realized upon seeing his pinky finger twitch and taking his vitals that somehow he still clung to life and they had to get him into urgent care. They managed to stop the internal bleeding but the boy never woke. Through an online gofund me by a detective that worked on his case , he was kept on life support indefinitely with the hope that someday he would wake up. Years passed and as he slept his once brown hair turned stark white. Something the nurses thought , with their pitying glances that was probably a result of the horrors he witnessed.Â
More years passed and then, one day. He just ... woke up. Years lost and disoriented , doctors and nurses piled in to study him turning his hospital room into something of a circus. But out of this chaos came a good thing. Kanjo Ishino, otherwise reffered to as Kunzite within the Shitennou Gang’s circle and their current leader, happened to catch some gossip about what had happened. And took his time to get to know and talk to him for three weeks before formally inquiring about adoption. After being thoroughly vetted , social services released Mizuki into his care and he’s been with him ever since.
Due to the trauma he suffered, Mizuki struggles with PTSD and a severe social anxiety disorder. His brain has blocked out what happened to him. He’s been triggered sometimes by people and media. He’s trying to get better at that but it’s like trying to paddle your way upstream in a broken canoe with a shoe as a paddle. It’s hard to sometimes distinguish whether to block the hole in the boat or try to make more headway in hopes that he’ll get where he needs to go before he sinks. It’s ... a process.Â
He’s a very sweet , quiet boy. He’s surprised easily and is very inquisitive, taking his time to decide whether or not to like things. He’s very happy with his small victories and just wants to learn how to live in control of his emotions, his thoughts and fears and his life. I think he longs for connection but is scared to reach out.Â
- kunzite recovered his mother’s fan from the police evidence locker. paid off a cop to get it so that mizuki could have something to remember her by. he couldn’t look at it or touch it for months until one day kunzite came into his room to find him holding it to him and sobbing and he hasn’t let go of it since.
- he goes to weekly therapy sessions as per requirement by social services for the first year of his adoption. if they feel he’s comfortable and living a healthy, happy home life then they will lift the probationary period.Â
- mizuki wants a tropical fish aquarium. he and his therapist think it’d be a good first step for him to care for something that relies on him.
- he’s attending school again and likes his english lit studies
- while helping kunzite one day, they stopped at ninja food for ramen and mizuki over heard inuyasha boast he was the best fighter around. as they were getting ready to leave he asked him real quiet if learning how to defend himself would make him feel better inside. the man gave mizuki his hat and promised he’d teach him to fight good. mizuki’s worn that hat whenever he’s visit him since. one, in case he wants it back. but two, because he likes it. it makes him feel empowered and brave.
- he sleeps alone but from time to time has to sleep in kunzite’s room. kunzite’s almost tripped over him once or twice to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, because he never climbs into bed with him. he just brings a blanket and pillow and sleeps on the floor.
- he is beginning to feel a great deal of affection and gratitude towards kunzite but can’t bring himself to call him father yet. he knows that word won’t be so hard to say one day. and he wants to be able to say it, he’s just .... it’s hard to put what happened to his family behind him. I don’t think he ever will entirely, but he’ll learn to manage it better. and when he does, he’ll thank his adoptive father properly. and tell him he loves him.
