Page 62 of Dragon 7

I came back and gasped.

Yoichi's eyebrows rose. "What's wrong, Tora?"

"N-nothing."

He held my gaze. "What did you see?"

That wasn’t real. . .right? He. . .shifted into a man. . .

I blinked.

"Be careful, Tora." And suddenly, Yoichi’s voice had an edge that hadn't been there before. "Find a way to control your visions. I would not want you to see things that could get you killed."

My bottom lip quivered. I looked away. "How am I supposed to control it?"

"You'll learn." He paused. "Until then, perhaps. . .don't look my way too much. . .it might be dangerous."

I didn't push that conversation because I knew that I’d just seen the most dangerous secret in this room. And I couldn’t explain how I knew, but I knew that I shouldn’t tell him I saw that vision just like I'd known the doctor's father was dead and I was on the East side of the island and even that Deja had put a silk bag over Rin’s head.

I felt this truth beating in my heart that there was some old law older than yakuza and even older than Tokyo where. . .Yoichi would have to kill anyone who witnessed his other shape.

And I just knew this the way I knew my own name.

Kitsune. That’s what Yoichi is. . .a fucking kitsune. And. . .he’s old. That vision was. . .so long ago. . .

My heart slammed against my ribs.

Or now I’m crazy.

Fear ran up the inside of my arms in a hot wave.

Deja was three steps away.

I made myself smile.

"Hey, sis." She slowed and stopped at the side of my bed. "How do you feel?”

“Good.”

“You looked like shit and no one would tell me what happened? Who attacked you? I’ve got my gun and nothing but time.”

I gave her a weak smile. “Oh yeah. About that. Why did you bring your gun?”

“Betty Boop doesn’t ever leave my side, so she had to come to Japan.”

“Well. . .no need to bring Betty out right now. I’m good.”

“What happened?”

“A lot but I can’t explain.”

“Yakuza shit?”

“Yeah.”

Deja nodded. “I’m starting to see that being here on this island and around. . .these men. . .requires a healthy dose of going with the flow."

“Yeah.”