Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: Don't Stay Gold

Yashiro sees potential in Eishin Kuga, a violent young man known as the “Mad Dog,” and wants to recruit him into the yakuza. Kuga refuses to let anyone dictate his life, however, and rejects every attempt. After one of his violent episodes, underground doctor Kanji Kageyama treats him and ends up housing him temporarily. Kageyama is unlike the people Kuga usually confronts: calm, unafraid, and willing to care for his injuries without trying to control him. Their forced proximity begins with constant teasing and provocation, but the distance between them changes as each sees parts of the other that are rarely shown in public. What was supposed to be a temporary solution to Yashiro's problem gradually becomes the beginning of a relationship neither Kuga nor Kageyama can define simply.