Takemura's Crew: Toru IshidaMinion Type: Extremely Loyal Friend (preferably something resembling this:
http://www.bountyheadbebop.com/forum/index.php?topic=22.msg97#msg97)
(aka, underworld ties?)
--
Born into a Yakuza family, Toru had an easy time figuring out what his life path was going to be. Without any formal education or anything, Toru braved the streets as a fighter, filling the role of Yakuza member remarkably well for his age (around 12). However, apparently, this job was not all that fate had in store for him.
During one of his jobs, he caught the attention of a peasant law enforcer, who began to chase him, trying to exact justice on the Yakuza. Running into a rather large crowd, Toru hid from the law enforcer. Of course, this just happened to be a crowd gathering around Roka Takemura, who at this point in time, was just an aspiring socialite. Roka noticed the Yakuza member, and simply waved him over, not really caring that the man was probably a criminal. The Law-Enforcer was forced to leave Toru alone, due to the protecting granted by the Samurai family.
This affected Toru immensely, and he profusely thanked Roka for protecting him. Roka simply laughed it off, saying it was nothing.
After that day, Roka and Toru met often, finding that they had similar interests (as in, women and gaining rank.
), and became rather good friends. In fact, some say that Toru is dedicated to Roka more then his Yakuza family. Of course, those that say it have an invested interest in getting Toru killed.....