#also fucking riko running the yakuza syndicate lmao

Deadly Class AU

Nathaniel Wesninski was raised a killer. When he’s sent to King’s Dominion, a deadly school for assassins, he’s expected to hone his natural born talent for murder, and prepare to take over his father’s legacy as the infamous Butcher of Baltimore. More importantly, he’s supposed to join the Ravens gang, led by the sadistic Riko Moriyama, and solidify ties between the Butcher’s people and the Yakuza for good. 

But Nathaniel’s never been very good at doing what he’s told. And when two of the Butcher’s right hand men are found dead just outside Maryland, hacked into pieces by a cleaver that was certainly not wielded by the hand of the Butcher himself, Nathaniel Wesninski is declared a dead man.

Nathaniel is a legacy at King’s Dominion - a position which offers some protection, but draws far, far to much attention. So Neil Josten attends the school in his place - a runaway rat with no connections, no contacts, and a thirst for blood. Hidden in plain sight.

But it’s never quite that easy. Neil doesn’t belong. The other rats don’t trust him. Especially not Andrew Minyard.

But Nathaniel will do whatever it takes to takes to succeed at King’s Dominion. And he’ll take his father’s organization down the best way he knows how: with lies and secrets and a knife in the back.

part 1