TWITTERING BIRDS NEVER FLY (2025)

The sexually masochistic yakuza boss, Yashiro, isn't the type to warm up to others easily. But when Chikara Doumeki, his newly hired bodyguard, catches his interest, he reconsiders his "hands-off" policy with subordinates. As Yashiro's invitations fail, the yakuza boss finds out his bodyguard has a very personal reason for staying at arm's length.

Young and powerful Yashiro can't stay out of trouble long enough to catch his breath. Will a brand-new bodyguard give this hot-headed pervert a taste of the calm he's never known...or will mayhem erupt as other gangsters take note? Twittering Birds Never Fly pulses with the energy of passionate men who won't take "no" for an answer! In a world where contracts are signed with blood, can a fragile friendship take root and grow into love?

After surviving an attempt on his life, masochist mob boss Yashiro finds himself being cared for by his deeply devoted bodyguard, Doumeki. As the line between their personal and professional relationship continues to blur, other members of their syndicate scramble to assert their power. Will the feelings they potentially harbor for one another provide them a moment of repose... or will it only bring about more conflict?

Yashiro is the young leader of Shinseikai and the president of the Shinseikai Enterprise, but like so many powerful men, he leads a double life as a deviant and a masochist. Chikara Doumeki comes to work as a bodyguard for him and, although Yashiro had decided that he would never lay a hand on his own men, he finds there's something about Doumeki that he can't resist. Yashiro makes advances toward Doumeki, but Doumeki has mysterious reasons for denying. Yashiro, who abuses his power just to abuse himself, and Doumeki, who faithfully obeys his every command, begin the tumultuous affair of two men with songs in their hearts and no wings to fly. For readers ages 18 and up.

At the height of the dispute, Yashiro, deputy boss of Shinseikai, faces Doumeki in his room. Yashiro has long avoided his feelings for Doumeki. Likewise, Doumeki has been resolute in being Yashiro's bodyguard and that alone. Although they have been painfully aware of each other, they have kept their feelings penned up, determined not to cross the line. But, when Doumeki is cornered and confesses his feelings to Yashiro, that line is washed away. To get something he wants, or lose it for pride, which will Yashiro choose...?

"Yashiro and Doumeki have finally crossed the line that for so long they dared not. Doumeki confronts the fact that Yashiro is irreplaceable to him, while Yashiro realizes his own contradictory feelings for Doumeki. Because he values him, he can't let him go. Because he values him, he must let him go. With his dispute with Hirata coming to a head, Yashiro leaves Doumeki and attempts to settle matters himself What will be the outcome of this life-or-death conflict? What of Yashiro and Doumeki's relationship? Turbulence, at least!"

Four years have passed since Yashiro's fateful battle with Hirata. Having left the family, Yashiro now makes a living as an investor of an underground casino. However, despite Yashiro no longer being tied to the family, Musumi still visits him in the casino, from time to time, in hopes that Yashiro might change his mind and return to the Shinsei-kai. Unlike Yashiro, who has removed himself from the yakuza world, Doumeki, on the other hand, has fallen deeper into it. Having been abandoned by Yashiro, Doumeki now works as a full-fledged member of the yakuza under the Sanwa-kai's Sakura Family. Separated and in their own respective worlds, Yashiro and Doumeki have not seen each other for four years. However, when a certain incident forces their paths to cross, will these two lovebird's time, which appeared to have stopped, begin to move