AU history

[yakan]

• He's friendy and he's cheerful, and sometimes, he meddles. Particularly if he cares. If he doesn't like a person, he completely ignores their presence, because it's the most hurtful way he knows to treat someone. But he likes people, and also, call him "Kii-chan" because "Kiyoshi" feels so stiff and serious. He is a heavy smoker and loves food. He isn't as lazy as his canon counterpart. He also tries to not be as shady as Gon is. He doesn't love gossip as much as Gon does, but he still enjoys it. He is not addicted to gambling. To any children he has that he knows about, he's very doting. He likes children and he likes people and he likes and gets along with animals.

• If there are people from his past around on the app as well, who knew his as Kiyoshi Nanashima, they might find his name familiar once he's on the app. People who know him by the name Aihara will have to pry out why he's changed his surname. He'll make vague talk about adoption and try to change the subject.

• Any PC's mentioned are part of his history with permission given by their players.

• Kiyoshi was born in Kansai, Japan, his full name is Kiyoshi Nanashima, and his birthday is February 11th, 1976.
• He's an illigitimate son of a lawyer who doubled as the legal advisorto a yakuza family.
• His mother worked as an ikebana master.
• Both his parents have legitimate children with their respective spouses, and his father has many other illigitimate children besides him.
• When he was four years old, his mother married and her husband didn't want anything to do with her bastard son, and she was done with the yakuza relations, so she abandoned Kiyoshi at his father's doorstep and left.
• His father took care of him for a while, but since his wife was jealous and showed it, he eventually left Kiyoshi with one of his other mistresses, a geisha, when he was seven years old. She became his real mom, in his eyes. She also had illegitimate child(ren) of her own.
• He rarely met his father even while he lived at his house, but sometimes he was called to his home for various reasons, under the guise of being friends with his legitimate children. He went to a different school from the legitimate children, but some of the other illigitimate children went to the same school as he did.
• His foster mother taught him how to play the shamisen and the koto, and taught him traditional dancing.
• He doesn't care much for ikebana or law stuff.
• He worked as a host and musician at his foster mother's workplace, when he wasn't at school or ran around hooking up with pretty men and women, to whom he lied about his age.
• He may have one or two illegitimate children of his own both in Japan and in America that he may or may not know about.
• When he was 17 he accidentally ran into his biological mother, and followed her out of curiosity. He met one or two of her legitimate children, whom he didn't know about and whom didn't know about him. He later got in trouble for this, once she found out and went to his father, and she said that Kiyoshi was not alowed to go near her family again. Though he has spotted her from a distance a few times.
• So that he wouldn't cause as much trouble for his father, Kiyoshi was officially brought into the family and was given a job at one of the family's casino's, where he was made a dealer who rigged games in the casino's favor.
• He has an irezumi on his back/side that he's had work done on over the years while he was in Japan. The motif is a geisha, cradling the skull of her dead lover close to her cheek, with the rest of the body, that's only bones, stretched out in front of her and in her lap. She is surrounded by sakura. It's not entirely coloured in, the most part of the skeleton that stretches toward Kiyoshi's hip is lacking color. It was never finished but the beautiful art, the vibrant colors, and the incomplete illustration gives the tattoo a sort of fleeting feeling.
• He got into fights with members of both his and other yakuza families, and generally lost.
• At one point he made a wakagashira of another family lose a whole lot of money during a rigged game, and was hounded by the wakagashira's subordinates a lot, and they beat him up and sent him to the hospital several times.
• Eventually, his father tired of him and sent him to America on a wone-way ticket. He got a new identity, Kiyoshi Aihara, and he was 29 at the time. He has not spoken to his father since.
• He traveled around the States by hitch-hiking and repaying the favor with sex.
• He ended up in Recollé at 33. He only intended to stay for a little while, as was the norm when he stayed somewhere, because he had a couple of well-paying hook-ups in town. He initially didn't have his own place to stay at, and originally stayed with whoever wanted him for the night. His favorite places were generally the ones who also provided him something to eat. He also had a nephew called Shinpachi Kuramoto and Shinpachi's mother around, so he took the chance to get to know them since he encountered them again anyway.
• After around four months in Recollé he was hired as a waiter at a Japanese-style tea house named Chabana Tea House, where he eventually started playing koto and shamisen to the guests. This is what he's now doing, though he still sees some of his clients from his days as a prostitute, and sometimes he gets new ones through referrals. Sometimes he goes to parties as a "date". He's made friends with several of his co-workers at the tea house and with several of their guests.
• He has his own apartment these days, though it's not the biggest, It's cozy and welcoming, though, and sort of messy. Beside his job at the tea house, he runs a popular food blog.
• He has a child who was dropped on his doorstep by their mother as a small child, who's at most 12 years old.
• Seven years ago he adopted the female cat Radish.
• Who knows how many years ago he befriended Saif Essa and started letting him randomly crash on his couch.
• About five years ago he started hooking up with Hizashi Yamada. These days they're music friends.
• Dated Robin Nikolaev for a time, and they're still friends.
• A few years ago his cousin Mikazuki Chikamune moved to Recollé to work as a doctor.
• Two years ago he adopted a female bearded collie Hestia, and the male cat Beatrice. They came as a set.
• About 8~10 months ago, his niece Kouran Yamazaki came to Recollé and moved in with him. Her dad is one of Kiyoshi's half-brothers, and her step-siblings, Kiyoshi's hephew and niece, Yanagi and Akinobu Taira are also around. His niece Tsuyu Asui also lives in town.
• About two months ago, he found out that he has a 19 year old son, Natsume, with one of his old hook-ups. The two of them are still getting to know each other.