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Prologue

A hand wrapped around a small arm and yanked hard dragging Joey to his knees causing the smaller to wince in pain and dig his nails into the tough skin of his fathers hand, his nails seeping in slightly, drawing red crescents to the surface. A chuckle sounded from above him and the arm was released, Joey scooted back fearfully holding the bruised wrist to his body."You have fight Joseph, you'll do fine in this business, stand up son," The taller of the two's eyes flashed in anger as his son shook his head fearfully, still cradling the damaged wrist. "I said get up!" His voice was a roar as he grabbed the male's blond strands and dragged him up, "You are not weak Joseph!"

The small male's face was one of pain as he felt some strands come loose from the top of his head, "yes…Father." Honey-brown eyes looked fearful as the words came out of the pink lips parted in pain.

The elder of the two also named Joseph released his son's hair before smiling, "good boy, now I want you to behave and listen to your tutors while I'm gone at work for a month, if I come back and you haven't," a sick grin came over the handsome features, "then I'm afraid you won't like me much."Joey nodded before lowering his head and scurrying off toward the villa that they were staying at, well living at, his feet pattered against the white flooring as he headed toward his lessons. Birds fluttered past him in the wide windows and he longed for the hard metallic buildings of Japan, with the crowded streets he'd been here a week and already Joey wanted to go back, he couldn't stand this place, but most of all he wanted Serenity, his beloved little sister.

Pausing he glanced at the bird again before suddenly the winged creature fell to the ground, a loud crack reached his ears and he realized with horror that someone had killed the creature. The small blond stepped back from the window and headed toward the schoolroom, he couldn't do anything for the creature, just like he couldn't do anything for himself.

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Joey slung the army duffle bag over his shoulders so that it was straddling his chest diagonally before heading out of the airport, a pair of sunglasses were slipped over his eyes and he examined the crowd before a slight smile tugged at the corners of his lips. It had been a long time since he'd been on this giant island, too long, suddenly he had the urge to laugh, and for once since he'd left Japan he let it out. Tears slipped from the corners of his eyes as he walked into the sun and spun happily, ignoring the looks and words of crazy American. Then just as soon as the laugh had started it stopped and he regained his feet started walking and he merely wandered down the street taking in the place that he would be staying at fro an in defiant amount of time. Not that he minded, he was glad to get away from the lessons his father had provided.

His father wasn't that bad, after all he'd only seen the male about once a month since they had moved away from Japan; and every time his father would give him a look of disgust for some task he had not completed to a satisfactory level. Joey had never killed a man; he tried to and hadn't been able to pull the trigger that had been the worst case. His father had not been happy with that incident, especially since it was now causing doubts about Joey's leadership skills, if a mob boss couldn't even kill one man, how could he order someone else to do it. Joey paused in his walking before nodding and turning toward the train station, he'd been assigned to Tokyo as punishment. His mission was to get a group of followers in the span of four years, at that time it would be decided whether of not he would be allowed to run the family or if he would be marked off as an embarrassment and killed. Sighing he got onto the newly arrived train before sitting down and pulling out his cell, suddenly an idea struck him and he nodded before standing and tossing the cell out of the train, the doors closing a moment later cutting his off from his past.