I decided to do chapter one for now, this takes place a few months before the events of Midnight Club: Dub Edition Remix 2.

I do not own any anime or any video games.

Enjoy….

I'm back in my hometown, a new day emerges and with it a new year, new events will happen over the next few weeks. There are new resolutions that I plan to stick to and a new semester will start next week, this will be my last year in high school, who would've thought that three years would pass by ever so quickly.

I am really anticipating on the next four months passing by, a lot has changed back in 2005 when I first started going to high school I was pretty much around a lot of my childhood friends, now most of them are gone.

Some either moved to another city or moved to another school, some either dropped out of school or might be in jail, who knows.

Every now and then I see some of my friends in the hood playing basketball, chilling in Druid Hills, Collegeville or Patten Park.

It's good to be back in Birmingham, this city is a very slow paced, not much goes on around here.

People call Birmingham the "Magic City," funny as long as I've been living in this city I haven't seen anything magical about it, especially the way things are now.

A lot of businesses are feeling the sting because of the economy being weak, some of the stores around here were shutting down for good and people were getting laid off, trying to find a job is pretty difficult.

I've been laid off on some occasions but luckily I managed to get a job working at 205 Customs on the south side of Birmingham, I got Uncle Mike to thank for that and my father.

I love customizing cars as much as I love street racing, both my brother and my father have been trying to get me into the Midnight Club, an organization that's been around for years people say that the Midnight Club is the best street racing organization in the world and rightfully so.

I cant see myself being a full time street racer though, I love to race on the weekends but racing all the time, I don't think so.

But unfortunately all that changed……….

Birmingham, AL.

Thursday, January 1st 2009.

Highway 10, 11:00 am.

With Deangelo….

I sped down the highway in my brand new 2009 Dodge Challenger SE, there were nothing but clear blue skies and the temperature outside was around sixty as I sped on the newly paved roads, the handling on this ride was sketchy but I didn't care, the upgraded V8 Hemi makes up for it.

My ride was colored royal blue and had black 18 inch rims, a carbon fiber hood, dark black tinted windows and a white stripe vinyl going from the hood to the trunk of the car.

Up ahead was a pink 2004 Mazda RX-8 convertible, it had chrome 18 inch rims from Sparco, a body kit and a very beautiful cherry blossom vinyl on the sides from the looks of the license plate it was a Konoha plate. There was a girl with shoulder length pink hair and forest green eyes in the driver seat, there was another girl with long blonde hair and aqua colored eyes sitting in the passenger seat.

As the stopped at a red light I pulled up right beside them and honked my horn getting their attention.

"Hey girls, ya'll new here in the city?" I asked the two.

"Yes I am, my name is Sakura Haruno and this is Ino Yamanaka. What's your name?" she asked.

"My name is Deangelo Manson; I was wondering do you street race?"

"Yes I do." She responded.

"Well I was wondering if you want to do a little one on one drag race, if that's okay with the two of you of course." I said.

Sakura reached into her pocket and took out a wad of cash and showed it to me, "How much money you want to wager?" she asked.

"Three thousand, nothing more nothing less." I answered showing her some money that I had in the glove compartment, "There's an exit just a few miles away, first person to the exit wins."

The light was still red as I put on my racing gloves and fasten my seatbelt, the car sounded like a ferocious beast as I revved the engine.

My left hand was gripping the steering wheel while my right hand was on the gear shift, a few minutes had passed and finally the light turned green.

Both Sakura and I accelerated simultaneously I switched to first and second gear doing 80 mph, Sakura manage to gain the lead but I was right behind her waiting to make my move.

There wasn't a lot of traffic out on the highway which was a major plus for me, I switched into third gear going 111 mph, Sakura was still in the lead and the exit was coming up real fast.

Suddenly I could see flames coming out of the tailpipe of Sakura's ride as she hit the nitrous button, she was gaining speed and she was getting close to the exit of the freeway, but I managed to hit the NOS button going from 185 to almost 209 mph.

I blew right by Sakura and managed to win the race; I reduced my speed and came to a stop on the side of the road along with Sakura who stopped right by me.

"You're a good racer Deangelo," She said as she reached out her arm and gave me the wad of money, "You wouldn't happen to be in the Midnight Club would you?"

"Not really, I just love to street race for the fun of it. Are you two in the Midnight Club?" I asked.

"We are, we've been looking to recruit some racers into our car club." Ino replied, "If you want to join you can, we could use somebody like you."

"No that's okay, but maybe we can race again next time."

205 Customs, 11:24 am.

I walked into the garage area of the shop to see my brother and Uncle Mike fixing on a 2008 Saleen S302, the whole shop was filled with cars of different class and different types.

Working here was never truly boring at all, on the weekends a lot of different car clubs would show up at night and hold exhibitions around here.

"Well you finally came back," My brother said wiping the oil from his hand with a rag, he had black hair and it has in a ponytail and was wearing a dirty white t-shirt and some black Dickie pants and some black high top Adidas shoes.

His name was Sai Saici; he was my brother well, my adoptive brother, my mother raised him since he was a little kid he's got the personality of Naruto: cocky, stubborn, and humorous but he's a determined and hard working kid.

"What you thought I was going to play hooky or something?" I asked chuckling a little, "I just wanted to test drive the Dodge, I was coming back."

"Yeah whatever, your dad was here not so long ago, he said that there is a race being held in Patten Park tonight."

"I don't know why you're passing that kind of information to me, it's not like I'm going anyway. I already know what dad is trying to do, he's been trying his hardest to get me into the Midnight Club." I stated.

"You should join; Shawn sees a lot of potential in you." Uncle Mike said, "Naruto is a member and he's rolls with the Unbeatable Street Racers up in California, come on dude why you got to be so scared?"

"I ain't scared; I just can't see myself being a full time racer that's all that is." I responded.

Suddenly my cell phone started to ring, I took it out of my pocket and checked the screen, it was my sister calling for the second time today.

"What do you want Kurumu?" I asked coldly.

"Damn you ain't got to sound like that big brother," she said, "Listen I was wondering if I could borrow your Chrysler 300 for today."

"Hell no, remember what happened the last time I let you borrow one of my cars?"

"It was only a small crash Deangelo, why you making a big deal out of it?"

"Small crash my ass, you fucked up the whole front of my car driving into the back of the pickup truck, then you and your friends messed up the suede seats. And let's not forget you sat up here and tore off the small little TV screen that was on the dashboard." I stated.

"It's not like that was your only car you had, you got about 10 or 15 cars." Kurumu replied.

"No you're not driving my car and that's it, if you want you better ask dad can you borrow a car from him."

"But I already asked him and he said no."

"Well too bad." I said as I hung up the phone, Sai Saici and Uncle Mike just shook their heads.

"Hey you guys would say no too if you had to pay $80,000 to repair the engine and more." I said.

My cell phone started to ring once more this time it was my mother, "Hey Juju, can you stop by and get some groceries for me?" she asked.

"Yeah I might as well." I answered.

Later that day….

Norwood, Deangelo's mothers' house. 2:00 pm.

"Hey mom I'm home!" I called out placing the groceries on the living room table, I noticed a man sitting in the kitchen drinking a Red Bull energy drink.

I walked into the are and saw mom busy with her cooking, the man sitting down was wearing a black hoodie along with some black mid top tennis shoes and a gold chain.

"Oh so this is your son huh?" the man asked as he looked around, "Where's his baby pictures, what your son is a shame to the family I wonder?"

"Mom who the hell is this guy?" I asked giving the visitor an intimidating look.

"Language kid you better watch your language, you don't want to see your mothers house get burned down do you?"

I was about to slap the guy right out of the chair when he said that, but my mom held me back though, "Mom who is this guy and what does he want!?" I asked her.

"Deangelo he's nobody important." my mom answered trying to calm me down.

"Nobody important?" the man said, "Funny coming from a woman who is in complete debt, if you were somebody else this house would've been got destroyed!"

I just stood there with an confused look on my face wondering what in the hell he was talking about.

"Wait a minute, you're a friggin loan shark?" I asked him, "My mom borrowed some money from you or something?"

"You can say that." the loan shark replied.

"Mom if you needed money why didn't you tell me!" I said.

"How would you get the money though?" my mom asked, "Don't worry about me, I can handle this by myself."

I shook my head and told her that I was going to pay off the debt rather she liked it or not, she pleaded with me not to do anything illegal that would end up getting me into serious trouble.

"You know I really like your mother," the loan shark said as we both went back outside, "She reminds me of my mom, very loving and nurturing and soft hearted."

"I'm surprised you even know who you're mother truly is." I said in my mind.

"You know how to fight?" the loan shark asked, "You look like the type of homie that would fight a person or two."

"I only fight people if they are messing with my friends or family members," I answered back, "If you think that I'm going to some underground fighting ring, you're out of your damn mind."

"Well then how are you going to pay off your mothers debt?" he asked.

"You into the whole street racing scene?"

"It's not really my type but yeah."

"Well come by Patten Park later on tonight at 9:00." I respond.

Well that's it for now, I'll try to work on chapter two, peace out for now......