"Wise ass"

Matteo lulls himself to sleep. He sits on a corner of an alleyway in the cold night of the street of Chicago. He is a mess. His hair and beard are wildly grow on his head. His clothes are violently rugged. 2 days before, he arrived from Toronto from the job that made him use a whole month.He made some deals that the Musatino people agreed on. 4 fold the money for guns and drugs is sure a good business for the family.

However, he has not yet report to the office. He still feels exhausted from the job. 3 bottles of scotch sure won't make him occupied. His eyes are still full of vigor. Many people passed him, thinking he may be just another bum. He smiled as people give him that look. 

"I knew your father.." that phrase from a stranger made all of his energy peaked up. Matteo will be mad if someone talk about his father, not because he reepected his oldman, but because he dreads him.

His father left the 8 year old Matteo in the streets of NY just the day after they arrived at America. They went from Italy to America, hoping to have better life. But instead, Matteo needed to struggle, to be where he is now.

"I knew your father..and his friends." The man said again.

Matteo is really mad now. He jumped up from where he sit and took the collar of the man who said that.

"Wise ass" Matteo sneers.

"Your father left something for you." The man pulls down Matteo's grips with such an ease.

"Fox, they say? More than just an angry pup with trust issue" The man smirks.

Matteo angered. He tried to punch the man with a right hook. The man immediately saw this and grip Matteo's neck instead. Matteo struggles with the man's big stature and huge arms. 

"How many have you betray? Hundreds? Did you even betray that brute bear of yours?" The man shows his teeth as he grins.

Matteo shocked by this. He wondered where the hell that man has all the information from. He doesn't remember him at all. The man laughs as Matteo seeks the mystery out of him.

"I know foxes like you. I know secrets too. You think you are the only fox out here?"

Thunders strucked Matteo's mind. He is completely puzzled by the man. His anger is quickly turned into curiousity. He seizes up the man, looking for information he can get. The man sees as Matteo does his little investigation. He grins, he then turned around and walks toward the brighter side of the alleyway.

"Cub, come with me to the den. Many of the other cubs are there too." 

"I have seen your trickery and quiet impressed."

Matteo didn't answer for a while yet he follows the man. He is still seizing up the big man. He looks for places that may come handy if Matteo needs to break him. If things go worse. 

"Yea? What you have? A pimping guild?" Matteo scoffs.

"Not exactly, but sort of."

"You are the pimp, then?"

The man take a deep breath. He rummages his breast pocket, making Matteo uneasy. But then, he only pulls off a cigar.

"Well, I am trying to retire some time..." He lights his cigar.

"How 'bout you become the pimp?" The man puffs the smoke to Matteo's direction.

"I am controlling informations and trickeries in the city at the moment. I am looking for someone to succed me."

Matteo scoffs in disbelief. He can't understand what the man is talking about. Information and trickeries controller? Succesor? The questions made Matteo's mind occupied. But then, the man walks closer toward him. Matteo couldn't react faster when the man grabbed him in the collar bone. The man's cold-by-weather gloves chilled his body. The man crouched down to be in the same height with Matteo, locking him in the eyes.

"Your father was a bear to my foxes. Shame, their trickery couldn't work..and I couldn't help them" The man sounded dead serious.

"However, their legacy is still alive, and have been nurtured for years.. personally by me." He smiles at Matteo.

      Matteo was strucked by realization again. He flashback into his childhood years. There was a man, a huge man. He was the one who told him how to do in the strange world he would be living. He also told him things such as foxes, bears, and code of ethics. He respected the man so much but didn't able to see his face as the man was so tall he couldn't see him. Nothing can be remembered from that man from his past, not even his name, except all the things he taught Matteo. However, at the age of 13, when the man left Matteo too as he said 'the little pup should learn by himself' , the man concealed his name to Matteo. His name was......

"I am the Sun" the man's words stutters in the breezy night of Chicago, making Matteo stunned.

   Yea. Sun was that huge man's name too. What sorcery is this? Matteo thought at himself. Nevertheless, he is now following the Sun striding across Chicago Street. Matteo is a little bit happy yet unsure, he followed him with that extra caution in his head. After several minutes they finally arrive in a place. It is a 2 storied building, a little bit run down, but still good to use. The wallpaper is pink, made it visible in few yards. Many women also available there, smoking pot, or having comversation outside.

       "So, this is the den?" Matteo asks.

       "No, it is a cat house" 

Sun then open the door and gets inside, followed by Matteo. In the inside, many people are fucking. Many also just strolling around nude. Matteo rises his eyebrows, confused by the scene he saw. Sun laughs as he see confusion in Matteo's face.

      "You see, Men give secrets way easier to women" 

      "And trickeries... are always be the women's speciality" Sun gives out a big grins.

After a few waks around the building, they stops at a rom that somewhat called 'the office' by Sun. Matteo made himself at home. He took Sun's cigar and start puffing smoke. Sun took out 2 glasses and a bottle of whiskey from his cabinet. He pours the whiskey to each glass. He took his glass and drinks the booze in steady pace. 

      "Someone need to watch them. When everything goes crazy, they need someone to tell them what happened." The Sun preached.

      "Trickeries should be known, otherwise it won't be trickeries."

    Matteo peeks at the window and saw the women fucking around. He is bemused by the scene he sees. He then sits on the chair next to the Sun. He is kittke laid back on the chair, looking Sun directly in the eyes.

        "Yea? What should I do now that you have me here? Can I be the boss now?"

     Sun grins. He drinks his liquor.

         "Not really. Now, you have got some task to do. Go down there, eavesdrop some info fro  the men. Tell me what you know later"

Matteo reluctantly rrises from the chair. He killed his cigar on the ashtray and proceeds to go down where he sees many people talking.