The thudding of her heart in her ears told her that she needed to calm down. He was still chasing after her and she knew he had to be pissed as hell. No one in their right mind ever stole from him, then again she had never had a right mind so she guessed it made since that she stole from him. She eventually calmed herself and focused on the sounds outside of the dumpster she was hiding in, it was silent other than the sound of the trickling rain. She took that as a good sign and hopped out of the dumpster.

"Well, there you are." His voice was like velvet, "I don't like to hit girls but you've made me very angry."

"I don't really want it." She said tossing the flash drive with his entire hard drive on it over to him. He caught it without taking his eyes off of her and then he flashed a smirk that made her skin crawl, "It was all a game; my friends said it was impossible to get anything past you so, I decided I would try to do just that." She smirked at him now as he looked at her blankly, "I have to say I am surprised that you actually were able to keep up with me." Her heart began to pound again but it wasn't because of fear, "I moved to Ikebukuro a few weeks ago and I haven't found anyone that's as clever as you, thanks for the game." It pounded from the excitement she felt pulsing through her from the new game she was about to play, "Oh, and by the way, the name's Madoka."

"Well Doka-chan," he said with an edge to his velvet voice as she walked down the alley, "I hope you know I'll be keeping an eye on you."

"As will I be doing the same to you." She said over her shoulder with her smile stretching from each side of her face. The smile made her look like the mad woman she truly was. The mentally insane weren't meant to escape from the hells their supposedly 'sane' families sent them to. Madoka had escaped from that hellish place and left the place in ruin. Everyone suspected her dead – and by everyone she meant one person – as were all the other prisoners, doctors, patrons, and nurses. No one knew who started the fire and no one knew that the warden's daughter even lived in the place. Then again no one knew he had a daughter.

Madoka kept walking until she couldn't feel his eyes on her anymore. She decided she would find her new friend and neighbor.

"Ah, just who I was looking for!" The overly happy girl said throwing her hand up and snatching the cigarette out of his lips and taking a hit off it.

"Madoka-san what are you doing?" The bartender clad debt collector said to the young woman.

"Talking to you of course Shizuo-kun!" she said after blowing the smoke into his face. Her breath was minty behind the cigarette smell. She reached up and stuck the cigarette back between his lips as he tried not to smile.

Shizuo remembered meeting her for the first time and her doing that. He nearly threw a trash bin at her but she had calmly and friendlily walked up and poked him in the chest and smiled at him saying, "Haha, your funny Bartender-kun!" she had stuck the cigarette back into his mouth and smiled happily up at him. She wasn't in the least frightened of him and she didn't even seem to notice that he had unusual strength. That had been weeks ago and she still seemed to find him when he was between an angry mood and a calm one. She usually tipped the balance to the calm side despite her seemingly annoying personality.

"Besides that silly." He said reaching down and messing up her chocolate colored hair.

"Well I just got back from Shinjuku." She said with a smile, "You'll never guess what I did!"

"What?" he asked and she smiled as she spun around and walked in front of him rather than beside him.

"I went to this info broker's place and kidnapped his hard dive!" she said dangling a flash dive on a chain around her neck, "I put it on two flash drives and he actually thought I only had it on one." She pouted sadly, "I gave him my other 256 GB flash drive and I still had things on there that I…" she looked up at Shizuo's angered face and blinked a few times before cheerfully saying, "… Oh so he's the infamous 'flea' you spoke of."

"Uh huh," He grumbled at her, "stay away from him."

"I'll try my damnedest to!" she said smiling happily up at him.

"Why'd you steal his hard drive for anyway?" Shizuo asked her as he pulled out a fresh cigarette since he had broken the other one when she spoke of the flea.

"Boredom mostly." She said with a shrug as she spun into step beside him, "I also heard that it was nearly impossible to troll him and I just wanted to see if I could be the exception to that."

"Yeah, I'd say you sure as hell have him a run for his money." Shizuo said and she laughed.

"And yet he still didn't come out on top." She said to him as she smiled up at him, "Hey, what cha doing out and about anyway?"

"I'm meeting up with my coworker before we go to work." He said after rolling his eyes at her annoying curiousness.

"I'm on my way to work too." She said and then silence fell between the two. It was enjoyable and unusual for the chatter box of a girl walking next to Shizuo. He glanced over at her after awhile and noticed that she had a rather distracted expression written across her features. He wondered what could be on her mind. He knew very little about her and she knew little about him but there was something about the girl that seemed familiar and comforting to Shizuo. It could've been that her bubbly personality reminded him of Shinra but he felt like that wasn't it.

"Yo, Shizuo!" Tom called from across the street and the blonde man glanced up at his friend and nodded in acknowledgement.

"See you later…" Shizuo looked over and realized that Madoka had kept walking rather than stopping when he did. Shizuo didn't mind but he knew something was on the young girl's mind that was distracting her.

Madoka said goodbye to Simon like she did every night when she left work. She had to act normal there (so she did frighten away the customers,) but when she was out on the streets she could be herself.

She enjoyed being in the company of the manga obsessed Erika and Walker when Kyohei brought his gang in for dinner every night, but she still didn't let her full control go. She wanted to say off the wall things like she always did with Shizuo but not at work. She had to keep this job no matter what. She would serve people their drinks and food there and sometimes pass out flyers outside. It was boring but it put money in her pocket. That was all that mattered.

She had to make money to pay for her rent, internet access, electricity, and food. That pretty much took everything she had and she rarely was able to buy new clothes. She only had the ones she stole from the asylum before it went up in smoke. She knew that the clothes were what many of the patients had been brought in wearing but they were clothes, and the ones that fit weren't too bad. Some were baggy and some were tight but she still liked her wardrobe.

The best thing about the asylum, she guessed, was that they only took in insane teens so everyone there had been close to her age, and the clothes weren't 'out of style' well, most of them anyway. It helped her fit in with the world. She needed to fit, although, she didn't necessarily want to fit in.

Madoka was happy when she got home to her apartment next to Shizuo's. She unlocked her door and flipped on the lights. It was sparsely decorated but there was a fridge, table with two chairs, a really nice sofa she had found out behind some apartment building, and she had a bed. It was more than she had ever had growing up and she was happy to have it. The other thing she loved was that laptop she had swiped before she had set fire to every exit in the entire asylum.

"Ah, the wonders of Chloroform and the help of a few suicidal teenagers!" The thought made her shudder as she remembered taking out each and every one of those doctor, patrons, and nurses. It had been easier than she thought it would be, but it was horrifying when the patients who hadn't wanted to die began to jump from the only place they could go.

Madoka shook the thought from her head and went to her bedroom. She curled up into a warm ball and went to sleep. She hoped for sweet dreams but she knew it was in vain.

Ladybug's Ramble: I made this out of a sudden explosion of inspiration and I'd really like to know if you like it? Also I want my readers votes as to who you want her to be with. Madoka-chan x Shizuo-kun or Izaya x Doka-chan. Also I'm not sure if strealing someone's hard drive is considered as trolling, but then again I'm not sure what trolling is exactly. Anyone care to explain? (I know I feel so dim minded for asking but I'd rather ask than not know) Anyway... Ladybug out~!