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Kyohei was walking through the plaza along with his gang and friends Saburo, Erika, and Walker. They had to park the van elsewhere since they couldn't legally go four-wheeling through the plaza areas, and Saburo did promise Erika a favor. Thus he and Kyohei were following the two Otakus around as they animatedly discussed their experiences at the last shop they just came out of.

Just when Kyohei and Saburo were reaching their limit on embarrassment, the other two froze with a gasp. As Kyohei closed his eyes, figuring it was another shop they spotted, Erika cheered, "It's Titania!"

"No way!" Walker exclaimed, but was just as happy. "How lucky are we?!"

"Titania?" Saburo questioned, apparently just as confused as Kyohei was. "Oh, right."

He glanced at him. "Huh?" Saburo just nodded his head, gesturing ahead of them. Kyohei leaned to the side and searched past Erika and Walker's bouncing figures. He then spotted the familiar woman sitting on a bench holding a newspaper, the sunset beating down on her and reflecting brightly off the water fountain a few feet away.

"Erika and Walker made that nickname for her," Saburo explained. "Mikajima Hana, remember?"

"Right... That girl's sister." The red jacket Hana wore brought memories flooding back. "Leader of the old Red Stains."

As if she heard him, or perhaps just registering Erika and Walker's otaku-meltdown, she blinked her grey eyes and looked up from the paper, staring at the fountain. She then looked over, staring . Her expression always seemed a tad angry, but that was something you just had to get used to. The anger part faded away to mild surprise as she easily spotted them. "Oh... It's you guys."

"Titania!" They cried out in joy and ran to her.

"Agh- hey!" Kyohei frowned as he and Saburo calmly followed. "Would you two give it a rest?"

"She's a real person, ya know," Saburo tried reminding them.

"Of course she's not!" Walker replied, still smiling over Hana.

"She was once Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail!" Erika once again retold the tale the two of them fabricated for the woman. While Kyohei felt bad for her being practically harassed, he couldn't help but admire her a bit. While Erika and Walker went over the top, she merely sat there and stared, listening to every word they were saying by the looks of it. It was respectable. If she was bothered, she didn't let it damper their mood. "After she was pulled through the tear in space-time, she now goes by Mikajima Hana by day, but by night in the Ikebukuro underworld, she's Titania!"

"Instead of dying your hair brown, you should dye it red!" Walker suggested.

Erika added, "And wear the Flight Armor!"

Without missing a beat she replied, "Perhaps I'd wear the Robe of Yūen, mainly for the Bisentō, but anything else would be too revealing and uncomfortable."

Erika squealed in delight, holding her blushing face in her hands as she imagined her dressed up. "She admits it!"

"No, no, no!" Walker was quick to correct Hana. "Erza doesn't care if anyone sees her nude. She's more than willing to bathe with males!"

"Sorry to disappoint."

Walker slumped over dramatically while Erika raised a hand excitedly, "As a female I'm more than happy to bathe with you!"

Ignoring his friends, Kyohei stared at Hana in surprise. "You're into that anime stuff?"

She glanced at him. "No, but I've been forced to memorize all the information about this Erza Scarlet by these two reciting it religiously." He smiled in amusement, but as he smiled she looked away, returning her attention to the newspaper.

"Whatcha reading?" She tensed, realizing too late that Saburo was standing behind her now. He had the special ability to not really be noticed. Made it easier to move around conveniently. "Huh? Job positions?"

She promptly snapped the paper shut and glared over her shoulder. "Do you mind?"

"Sorry," he backed off sheepishly.

Kyohei stared at her irked expression. "Looking for a different job?" She didn't respond, only staring at the closed newspaper in her hands. Maybe waiting for them to leave?

"Hey, didn't Izaya say-" her grip tightened, crumpling the paper, "-that Titania was working with the Yakuza?"

Kyohei watched her eyes widen, and he felt a little shocked himself. No way... "No, no, she can't do that. Not unless she was Scarlet's counterpart, Erza Knightwalker!" Kyohei composed himself and glanced over at Saburo, who was remaining composed himself and nodded.

That's right, Izaya did say something about that. Something like 'a friend of ours is getting too deep into the underworld.'

"In the words of one Friedrich Nietzsche," Izaya recited about a week ago, encountering them outside of Russia Sushi after dinner. "'Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.' Or something like that."

"Cool quote," Kyohei replied, "but what does that have to do with a friend of ours? I can't think of anyone staring into abysses." He looked back at his friends, "You guys?"

The boys shook their heads as Erika replied, "Nope! Not a one."

Kyohei knew a lot of people, and everyone was going to get into some trouble at some point, but he couldn't think of anyone dealing with monsters. Izaya smiled, humming in contemplation. "I would think after that incident, you would be closer to her."

"Her?"

His sideways look seemed sly. "Mikajima Hana. Remember her?"

Kyohei was surprised. "Who?" Walker questioned.

"Ugh, seriously?" Saburo put his palm to his forehead. "That chick you two keep calling-"

"Titania!" Erika cheered.

Walker perked up, "Oh, right! Erza Scarlet come to life!"

Kyohei ignored them. He knew Mikajima Hana, but couldn't say they were friends. Sure they were closer after that incident with her little sister, but they were more like... Not enemies anymore. She didn't seem bad. She was having a tough time with her sister being in the hospital, and her gang falling apart, but besides that she seemed pretty normal. "What kind of monsters would she be getting involved with?" He felt more on edge now. She might not be a friend, but she would be in a fragile position with the stress she no doubt was going through. It wouldn't be good for anyone if she got into trouble.

"There's a certain monster lurking in the underworld by the name of Awakusu... Heard of it?"

That caught him off guard. "You mean the Yaku-mmph!"

"Shut it, will ya!?" Saburo was quick to cover Walker's mouth. "You shouldn't talk about that stuff at night!"

Kyohei was thankful. Keeping his voice low he asked, "You saying Hana's getting mixed up with them?"

"Well, I would, but I only planned on telling her friends, as friendly warning." Izaya shrugged. "Since you aren't friends with her... Then this was my mistake." With a smile he lifted his hand in farewell, quickly disappearing into the shifting crowd before Kyohei could ask anything more.

He wasn't quite sure what to make of that situation. As an information broker, and being Izaya, Kyohei would think that he would know who were Hana's friends. He didn't make mistakes like that. Now he wished he thought more about Hana's predicament. He didn't quite believe it, but with her reaction just now, it was hard to deny.

"Sadistic, cruel, and sexy!" Erika continued to gush, but it seemed Hana wasn't listening anymore. She was tense, glaring at the crumpled paper in her fists. "I wonder what she would hunt in this world? We can make her new epithet!"

"Hey, yeah!"

Hana suddenly stood, bringing them out of their excitement. They blinked and stared at her, waiting for something. Despite her grip on the paper, she seemed composed. "Ridiculous. You should know not to listen to those with crooked mouths." She then began walking away from them.

"Hey," Kyohei asked, "Where you going?"

"To work." She tossed the ruined newspaper at a waste basket, but missed. She kept walking, tucking her hands into her loose jean pockets.

Saburo looked over at him. "What should we do?"

Kyohei didn't respond, watching her walk away. There was nothing they could do. He then walked after her, confusing his friends. Picking up the discarded paper, he glanced at the inside. A few job positions were circled. He caught up to her. "Hey." She stopped and glanced back at him. He held the paper out to her. "Only losers litter."

As she stared at him, there was no way of him guessing what she was thinking. He didn't seem to piss her off, though. After a minute of a standoff, she walked back to him. "My apologies."

She grabbed the paper, but he didn't let go. She frowned up at him, looking like a glare, but he smiled, knowing better. "If you're looking for a new job, the carpentry company I work for is hiring."

She closed her eyes, giving up her hostile aura. "I appreciate that, Kadota, but pittance can't support me." She calmly took the paper from him.

"Maybe, but something is better than nothing." She hesitated, but quickly continued on without a farewell, taking the paper with her.

He sighed as he watched her go. She could be going to meet with the Yakuza and he wasn't doing anything about it, not that it was his place to, but still. He'd known her for a long time, and while they weren't close, they'd been through some tough shit involving one another. "C'mon, let's go. I'm starving."

He first met her back in junior high.

She was a rebel, a delinquent. He didn't think anything of it at the time. There were plenty of kids like her. She had a natural talent to rub people the wrong way. Teachers, classmates, strangers... Maybe it was because of her face. She always had that slightly angered expression. Or maybe it was because she never smiled.

Whatever it was, he didn't think anything of it, until one day. He remembered that one day, in the class they had together, she arrived late. The teachers lecture was interrupted and everyone stared. He was a bit surprised that day.

Rumors were sprouting up about a gang being formed, and Mikajima Hana was the leader. It was a bit hard to believe, even with her reputation, but there she was. Her ruffled charcoal hair and dirtied school clothes made it clear that she had gotten out of a brawl.

A girl in junior high being the leader of a gang. Crazy, right? But whether you thought it was ridiculous or not didn't matter. The gang only grew, large enough to take on a signature.

Red.

They were difficult to spot in school, but outside you couldn't help but notice them. Kids wearing red everywhere you turned, huddled in their own groups. The biggest group would follow Hana, who wore a bright red jacket.

Once they made it to high school, the group only became only more official. They went by the Red Stains, and became the first color gang of Ikebukuro. He remembered standing with a few of his friends, all of them watching in surprise as Hana walked up to the school gate, her hair now dyed brown as a statement, with about twenty people in tow. Twenty. That was enough to fill a classroom.

What shocked them the most was that just before they crossed onto school property, Hana addressed her group. "Listen up! I'm only going to say this once. Once you step foot on these grounds, you straighten up and follow the rules and regulations. The faculty here have enough to deal with in their lives, and your worthless selves aren't worth a bad day. If you cause any trouble for them you'll cause trouble for me. And I'll snuff you out like a used up cigarette, got it?"

"Yes, ma'am!"

Kyohei found himself blinking at the sight. "What the hell...?" With that she led them inside, and they went their separate ways.

They hardly ever caused trouble at school. There was one incident where a Red Stain member from another school was sent to the principal's office. Word on the street was that Hana met with the kid personally and beat the shit out of him with a metal pipe. Some say he died, some say he was sent to the hospital, and others say he was forced to move away on Hana's order of banishment from Ikebukuro. But who the hell knows. All of it was hard to believe, but maybe Kyohei was just being sexist.

Since that incident, there was hardly any trouble from them... Until another gang showed up. Then it all went to shit, for everyone involved.