A/N: This story may take place in the Durarara world, but it focuses on my OCs and their quest for revenge. Izaya Orihara is the only one in Durarara! who actively appears in this story. Also, this fic is very short, six chapters long, including the epilogue (well, the epilogue is very short compared to the other chapters and Chapter 5 even shorter). I might make it longer depending on the response I get because there are many loose knots that I need to tie up... So it will be up to all of you. Without further ado, enjoy! :D

WARNING: Major character death in this story.

Disclaimer: This story was inspired by the novel series Durarara! written by Ryohgo Narita. I do not own Orihara Izaya, nor the 'Color gangs' stated in my story. They all rightfully belong to the author who wrote this magnificent series. But I do own the OCs and the plot.

Chapter 1

The sun was setting and bathing all of Ikebukuro in its golden glow. The street lamps blinked back to life and the traffic rushed down the highway. A young girl was seen coming out of the subway and taking a taxi, heading for the outskirt of the city.

She stepped out of the car and thanked the driver when they arrived at the destination: the entrance of a forest sporting only a single dirt trail leading deep in the woods.

Everything was supposed to be quiet, no one was supposed to be at this place and no one was supposed to be screaming at each other at the top of their lungs, that was what she always thought. Today, it was different. Very different. And if something was out of place, that meant terrible things were happening, something that she couldn't even dream about.

It was total chaos. Fire fighters were running around transporting charred corpses, the siren of the police and the ambulance were wailing so loudly that she couldn't hear anything else. Yet, she wasn't focused on what was happening in front of her, she couldn't even seem to care as people pushed her and yelled at her to get out of the way. Her eyes were only focused on the top of the hill where her home was located but she could only see the raging flames, lashing out at anything that came near it.

Her mind was blank and her hands went numb. She let her body move on its own accord and it ran at full speed towards the dirt trail and up the hill. She pushed anyone and everyone that came in front of her, blocking her way to the place she most wanted to be.

She was gasping for breath on the top of the hill, her hands on her knees and her hair sticking to her face, wet with uncontrollable tears. She could not believe what was happening in front of her. The flames were even more threatening at the top than at the bottom of the woods.

When the fire engine finally arrived, it doused the flames with its water hose and they disappeared little by little.

"You shouldn't be idling around here! It's dangerous so go back to where you came from!" The fireman pulled her back from the scene but stopped when he saw the tears streaming down her cheeks.

"You're…"

She did not hear the end of his sentence. All the stress that arose from the disastrous evening came crashing down on her all at once and she succumbed into darkness.

It was dark. There was no light penetrating the abyss she was in. Seconds, minutes and hours passed by, not caring at all if she spent an eternity in this dark, cold place.

But she knew that she had other things to do, something more important than spending the rest of her life in this void. She had an obligation to complete, something that only she could do. With that in her mind, she succumbed into the land of living once again.

When the young girl woke up, the sun was glaring at her eyes. She squinted and shielded them with her tired arm that screamed in protest at such an action. She then coughed once and realized that her throat was dry and parched.

The high school student looked around the white room, searching for a cup of water. Her eyes landed on the night stand beside the bed and she stretched out her arm for the jug, hoping that it was water.

The black haired girl reached out as far as her frail limb could allow, but it was still too short to grab it. She gave up and returned her arm to her side. She was too tired to lift herself up, so she decided to wait for a someone to come in.

She gazed around herself, the room was devoid of any furnitures except for the bed, the nightstand and a simple closet. She felt a dull pain on her right arm and looked at it, an IV drip was inserted in it so she guessed that she was in a hospital room far from the city, probably somewhere near her home.

Her heart squeezed painfully at the memory, she tried hard not to remember the incident just until she found enough courage to face reality. She let out a shaky breath and emptied her mind.

Just when she was about to drift off to sleep once again, there was a knock on the door.

The young girl pried open her eyes and let out a small "Come in."

The door opened and it revealed a tall man in his late twenties wearing a dark trench coat and holding a metal suitcase. His dark black hair was a little bit messy and his eyes were charcoal black. He closed the door and approached her slowly.

He had a cold aura around him and with his tall stature, it made him all the more intimidating. When she looked closely at his face, she realized that despite the stress lines, he was indeed handsome but no one would actually dare to get close to him and fewer people would have enough courage to stare at his face.

"My deepest apologies for the accident. Sasaki Sadako, daughter of the late Sasaki Komura and Sasaki Mikoto," he stated in an emotionless tone as he pulled out a metal stool underneath the bed and sat on it gracefully.

Sadako tried hard to contain her emotions, even if she prepared herself mentally for the loss, it was not any less harder. She closed her eyes and let out a shaky breath and steadied herself. How she wished she could have the perfect composure like the man beside her...

He resumed after Sadako calmed down a bit. "My name is Takashima Sousuke. Captain of the Third Division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. My squad and I were assigned the mission of solving this case. Pleased to meet you."

When Sadako said nothing, he continued where he left off. "Currently, the Yakuza named Takame, is the primary suspect behind this incident, the only clue was their emblem painted on the only standing wall of the mansion."

The young girl nodded halfheartedly and stared at the ceiling, and thought of how her mother will scold her if she found her daughter lying down when someone was talking to her, especially when it was a Police Captain.

She saw him opening his metal suitcase from the corner of her eye and pulling out a stack of papers neatly arranged in a file. He put it on the nightstand and stood up, closing his suitcase.

"Six police officers will be here tomorrow morning. They should debrief you on what exactly happened with all the details so expect them to come, no more no less," Captain Takashima explained as he turned his back on Sadako and headed for the door.

"Are they the only ones involved in this case?" the young girl asked quietly at his retreating back, wondering if she should be suspicious of or not.

The taller man stopped with his hand on the door knob, titling his head just a little bit to show her that he was listening.

"Isn't it kind of weird? One police officer should be enough to interrogate one little high school girl for more information and yet why are there only six officers involved in this case? And why not seven or eight? Or even Ikebukuro's entire police station?" Sadako fired question after question, not caring at the least if he did not get all of it.

That seemed to catch his attention as he slowly turned back to finally face her. She shivered in surprise when he had a sinister smile on his face.

"Yes. There are only seven people involved in this case if you would be kind enough to count me in," the Captain replied back bitterly, his sudden bitter voice contrasting with his smile.

Sadako's eyes narrowed in confusion and demanded the Captain to explain himself.

"You will know soon enough. But for now, please do rest. Trust me, you will need it if you're going to talk with those six tomorrow morning," he chuckled in a tired way, his shoulders slumping a little bit.

Sadako then noticed the large bags under his eyes, it seemed that the Captain was having trouble with police matters...

The young girl coughed again and remembered that her throat was extremely dry. She tried to sit up and reach for the jug of water but her body failed on her and she slumped down on the bed.

She groaned in annoyance and tried again but was pushed back down gently by the Police Captain. Glancing at him in surprise, she let herself fall down on the bed. She looked at him as he took the jug of water and poured a glass for her.

He then kindly helped her sit up slowly and handed her the glass as she reached for it. She gulped it down greedily and when she finished it, he would fill it up again and again until her thirst was quenched.

Sadako laid back down on the bed and let out a satisfied sigh, closing her eyes in contentment.

When she reopened her eyes, Sousuke was gone. A frown marred her face, he could at least let her know that he was leaving... Well, she did hold him back, he must have had some urgent things to attend to.

Turning her head to the side, she stared out of the window. Winter was approaching so it was a little cold in the room, not that it bothered her in the least. She slept better in the cold than in the hot anyways.

Her eyelids fluttered shut on its own accord and she found herself drifting off to sleep soon after.

When Sadako awoke again, night had already fallen. The moon was shining brightly up in the air and illuminated the whole forest surrounding the almost rundown hospital. Her lips quirked up at the sight and she stared at the scene for a long time.

The young high school girl tried to sit up and was pleasantly surprised to find that her body recovered in such a short time. She placed her bare feet on the freezing tile floor and winced when the cold bit at her feet.

Sadako swang her legs back and forth trying to get the blood flowing for and stood up to open the window, bringing her thin blanket with her. She covered herself with it and let in the fresh breeze.

She breathed in and out, feeling the cold wind caressing her face and combing through her long soft hair. She leaned on the window sill and stared down at the forest, trying to see if she could locate where the hospital was situated.

When she was about to give up and just explore the building to search for a map, she saw a place where it was darker and blacker than any part of the forest. Looking at it more closely, she found some familiar spots here and there.

Sadako stared at it, she was quite surprised that her home was so near to this hospital, but she always did wonder what kind of building this was when she stared out of her room's window.

And now she knew that it was just some rundown hospital, used as a precaution to probably keep her safe from Takame if they were going to come back for her life.

As the night was cold, she decided to take the blanket with her on her little 'adventure', not wanting to catch a cold. Her feet started stinging just then, reminding her to find shoes to protect her naked feet.

Sadako approached the closet and opened it but there was nothing inside except for a pair of thin hospital slippers. She frowned at it in annoyance and took it out, it was still better than nothing.

The high school student gave one last backward glance and disappeared out of the hospital room.

The night was very cold, Sadako shivered while wrapping the blanket more tightly around her. Even if the mansion seemed so close to the hospital before, it was not the case. She had been walking for half an hour, but there was still no sign of burnt wood or anything.

The young girl sighed, wondering if she was lost. Frowning, she looked around herself one more time and shrugged. Oh well, she would come upon her house if she just kept walking straight.

And she was right, bit by bit, there were more burnt woods and ashes. The trees opened up and revealed a clearing filled with black.

Her heart constricted at the sight. The mansion was no more, and in its place was a pile of ashes and debris. She took one step after another and walked slowly towards where her parents' bedroom was situated.

She felt the sting of the cold wind on her cheeks and the acrid scent of burnt wood assaulted her nose. Pieces of broken wood pierced her abused feet but she refused to shed a tear, for it was simply ridiculous to succumb to physical pain.

It felt like an eternity when she finally arrived where she wanted to be. When she lifted her head, her breath hitched. On the only wall that stood in this desolate place was a crude drawing of an eagle spreading its wings. She approached it slowly and realized that the spot of red underneath the painting was in fact the kanji of eagle and eye.

But there was something strange as if this eagle was drawn with a substance thicker than paint. She moved her head closer to it, wondering what it was. Her face went pale.

Blood.

She vomited on the ashy ground and heaved up what little she had eaten a few days ago and let herself fall down beside it. Her cheek was cool against the ground and sweat glistened on her forehead. She closed her eyes and tried to slow down her heartbeat.

Sadako waited a few moments to cool down her raging emotions. She took a deep, shaky breath and sat up, looking around for any corpses. But of course, the police would have taken them away if there were any.

When she was about to give up, a glint in the ground caught her eye. She kneeled down and picked up the object. It was her mother's golden locket that she always had around her neck. Sadako opened it with curiosity but frowned when it didn't budge.

She tried several times and when she finally managed to open it, dark red blood dripped on her hands.

A strangled yell escaped her mouth and she dropped it in horror. A torrent of emotions rushed through her and tears streamed down her cheeks.

Why was this happening to her? Why was fate so cruel as to snatch away all her precious people and turn her life into a living hell?

Why were her parents brutally murdered when they didn't do anything wrong?

"I swear... I swear that I will catch you someday, Takame!" she roared at the night sky in agony, in sorrow, and at the unfairness she was suffering.

Takame. She would definitely make all of them pay.

The young high school girl opened her eyes slowly with the previous day's little 'night walk' still fresh in her mind. She clenched her fist in silent fury and waited for the police officers to arrive.

Just then, she heard footsteps outside her room and a quiet conversation between a few people. A second later, there was a knock on the door and all voice went quiet.

"Come in," she stated, staring at the ceiling with a blank look.

The door opened with a small click and several police officers came in, each in their respective uniforms.

After seeing them, Sadako straightened up on her bed and erased the last trace of sleep off her face. The black haired girl observed all the police officers present in the room and memorized their face and stature because she will be working with them from this point on.

There were two women and three men, not surprising as men police officers were more common. She was kind of expecting only one woman or none at all. But there was something amiss. Sadako frowned and raked her head for any sign.

"Expect six people, no more, no less."

The Police Captain's words rang inside her head, making her glance at them suspiciously. So she asked them quietly, "The Police Captain said that I should be expecting six people, not five."

They all blinked at her, not expecting her to ask such a question. The tallest woman, who was wearing glasses smiled at Sadako kindly and called out towards the closed door, "Kagura-san, will you come inside for a second please?"

The door opened and a woman's head poked in, "Is there something wrong? Anything I can help you with Lieutenant?" she asked curiously.

"This is our Sergeant, Kagura Yoshiko. She was supposed to guard the room until we were done speaking. Does that answer your question, Sasaki-san?"

Sadako glanced at the woman who stepped inside the room, quite surprised that those two women had higher ranks than the men present in this place. After all, in a squad like this, it was common sense that there was at least a Lieutenant and a Sergeant. When she was about to return her attention to the Lieutenant, the Sergeant's arm caught her eyes.

Sadako stared at it in surprise, it was extremely thin and bent in a curving way. Not only that, she noticed that the woman was very thin in general. But the way she moved and the way she stood screamed the fact that she was a warrior in hand-to-hand combat.

Sadako was staring at the Sergeant in awe when someone cleared their throat.

"Can we introduce ourselves?"

The one who spoke was a young man in his mid-twenties, sporting a tan skin. Probably from all the training he had done under the sun as he was very lean.

Sadako blushed in embarrassment and stuttered out, "O-of course."

"First of all, my name is Yokohama Daisuke. Freshly promoted Corporal. This is my third year as a police officer. Nice to meet you," Daisuke offered Sadako a small smile and backed off so that the others could introduce themselves.

"And I'm Sakaki Kohinata! I know that it sounds girly, but I'm a man alright!" the youngest of all of the police officers in the room declared cheerfully while performing the standard military salute.

"And, in only two years and a half I became a Corporal! It's amazing right?" he boasted with a large grin. "Unlike my sister who idled around five long years before she rose in ranks! If I took as long as her, I would already be a Lieuten-"

"Stop chatting!" the last woman in the room smacked him on the head with the papers she was holding. "And we're not in the military." she added as an afterthought.

"That hurt Onee-san! And why did you interrupt me? I was getting to the better parts!" he whined at his older sister and rubbed his head with a pouting face.

The older of the siblings sighed and faced Sadako, "I'm sorry about that. He can get a little annoying from time to time, but you get used to it after a while..."

"Please take care of us." she bowed a little and straightened up.

"You forgot to introduce yourself Onee-san!" Kohinata whispered discretely into her sister's ear. But coming from him, it was not so 'discreet'.

Kohinata's sister flushed in embarrassment and hushed her brother. She coughed into her hand, "My name is Sakaki Sakura, Kohinata's older sister as you already know... I've been a police officer for five years, as he already stated it, and I was promoted just a few weeks ago."

Sadako smiled bitterly at their little sibling quarrel, she had always wanted a younger brother but that was now impossible. Now she had other things to focus on. Out the corner of her eye, she saw the Lieutenant and Sergeant discussing something.

And finally the police officer who stayed off to the side came closer to the center. He was also around his mid-twenties, he had black hair and black eyes, nothing out of common for a Japanese man. Even though he could be easily missed in a crowd, the atmosphere around him was slightly different than everyone else's.

The image of Takashima Sousuke flashed in her mind.

Oh.

Sadako frowned to herself. It was still strange for someone so young to have such a cold and empty aura.

"Takasato Kaname. I've been a police officer for a year and was promoted along with Sakaki-san. We've been asked personally by the Police Captain to handle this case. Pleased to meet you," he finished with his empty voice, bowing a little and retreating to the back of the room.

"As all is said and done, let's begin. Oh and by the way, my name is Hayate Yugito," added the Lieutenant while flipping over the papers she was holding, searching for the right one.

"As you already know, the percentage of this 'accident' being caused by Takame is very high, even if their crest can be done by anyone, it is all known in the police that Takame had a grudge against the Sasaki family," she announced reluctantly, as if hoping that it was not the case.

"And if those scums hold a grudge against someone," she continued with a frown on her face, "they will eliminate everyone who're close to that someone. And in this case, it'll be you. You'll most likely be their next target," the Lieutenant explained, looking straight into Sadako's eyes.

"If they want me, then they'll need to try their damn hardest to catch me because I'm not going down without a fight!" Sadako retorted angrily, glaring at the opposite wall with hatred.

Yugito smirked, "Well said. I want you to join us in this investigation if you're up for it, so that they'll know that messing with women is playing with fire!" she extended her hand towards the high school girl, knowing full well that she will accept her task and complete it with perfection.

Sadako looked around the room and all the police officers threw her an encouraging look, even Takasato. She glanced at him in surprise, it seemed that she was mistaken about him, and a lot of other things...

She inhaled and exhaled, trying to get rid of her nervousness and looked at the Lieutenant straight in the eyes with a determined face.

"Of course I'm up for it, I'll do my very best!" Sadako announced, taking Yugito's outstretched hand and standing up beside her.

Yugito smiled down at her and led her out of the hospital room, leading her to an unknown future full of anguish and betrayal. Not knowing what awaited her, Sadako followed the Lieutenant and took her first step into the real world.

A/N: I hope you liked it ^^ Let me know in your reviews if I should post the next chapter or not :) Either ways, all my chapters are written and ready to be published. For those of who are waiting for Izaya to appear, he'll be in the next chapter.

Edit 07/10/15: I just realized that Sadako didn't act like someone who just lost her entire family... So I just changed some paragraphs to make her seem more realistic. And please tell me if there're any mistakes in your reviews! I just constantly seem to find them and it's just bugging me out... ^^"