Author's note: SPOILERS, SPOILERS, and more SPOILERS!!! :) Thanks to my Jetzelda as usual. And yes...she's MINE!!! *Glomps her*
Music listening to: 30 Seconds to Mars- the Kill, Oblivion. Magical Melody. Thousand Foot Krutch- I Climb.
Mood: Wanting to eat more pizza and needing coke. If that's a mood...lol

"One order of fries, coming up!" A preppy girl with blond hair in pigtails said happily. She wore the standard uniform that all Sunshine employees wore. Gracie stood at the counter, arms crossed, and her chunky headphones blaring. "That'll be 320 yen! Thank you for your purchase! Please come back again soon!" The blond said with a smile handing Gracie her French fries as Gracie put the pile of yen on the orange counter. Gracie walked away without a word. The blond glared at the girl who had short choppy black hair with white highlights in them. "Rude..." she muttered under her breath.
"I heard that..." Gracie said, still walking away. Gracie sat at a small table for two in the back of the shop. She looked at her iPod and started to fiddle through all of her songs.

"Hello" A male said. Gracie looked up, her black bangs falling into her green eyes. A teen her age stood by the table she sat at. He had shoulder length ash hair and violet eyes. He wore a grey oxford shirt, with the first button showing part of his chest, and black jeans. A smirk was plastered on his face. "May I sit down?" His voice brought Gracie out of what she was thinking about.

"Umm...sure." Gracie said quietly. He sat across from her in a smooth, fluid movement. One that seemed like only a god could do it.

"My name is Yoshiya Kiryu." He stuck a pale, seemingly luminescent hand out. Gracie figured that he wanted to respond but all she did was grab a hot, crispy French fry and pop it into her mouth. He pulled his hand back. "But mother and father call me Joshua." This was getting weird. Who actually told somebody that right after they met them? "You can too since we'll be seeing each other quiet often." Okay... more than just weird: creepy.

Gracie stood up quickly and grabbed her fries and iPod." I'm leaving she said abruptly. She hooked her iPod into the headphones and "The Kill" by 30 Seconds to Mars started playing.
"I'm sorry, Gracie" Joshua and stood up. Gracie turned to face him. She was ready to get some answers from this creep. How did he know her name?

The next moment seemed as if in slow motion to her.

Joshua pulled out a gun and pointed it at words "I'm sorry, Gracie" seemed to echo and mix with the lyrics of the song. "~come break me down~"
"I have to kill you."
"~Bury me, bury me~"
-BANG!!-
"~ I am finished with you. Look in my eyes~"
The bullet shot through the air and pierced through Gracie's heart. "It's my entire fault... My unfinished business."
"~you're killing me, killing me~"

Gracie's limp, lifeless body hit the ground. The blond cashier screamed in horror and in fear for her safety. Customers ran out of the fast food restaurant. Joshua took out a small device that looked like a garage door remote and pushed a button.

Everything froze in time. The fleeing customers, the screaming clerk, the blood rushing from Gracie's chest. Joshua took out a purple phone and a few pins from his pocket and put them in Gracie's left pocket. He picked up her dead body and walked out of Sunshine. He stared at a group of teens standing near by at the statue of Hachiko. One had spiky, orange hair, blue eyes and headphones like Gracie's around his neck. Next to him was a girl with black hair that went to her chin and framed her face nicely. She had black glasses and dark brown eyes. She was holding a stuff pig-cat thing and was frozen in motion laughing. Next to her was a boy with a black beanie with a skull on it and pieces of blond hair that stuck out from under it. He was holding the hand of a younger girl in a pink shirt with a skull heart on it and a bell necklace.
He knew them all.

Neku Sakuraba

Shiki Misaki

Daisukenojo Bito, or Beat

And Rhyme Bito.

A year before Joshua had gotten them involved in the Reaper's Game. He had done terrible things to these four teens... but in the end everything was fixed, except for their new appreciation for life.

And he was about to do it all over again.

He carried Gracie to the Scramble Crossing, the place where all Players started the Reaper's Game. He placed her body on the ground and took a black pin with a skull on it out and dropped it on her body. He took a moment before he turned to leave to look at the dead girl. She had black nails, black cropped hair that was spiked into spikes, and pale skin. She wore a black halter shirt, which had a newly acquired hole in it, and black cargo pants.

Joshua's phone started playing the most annoying song he had ever heard: "Once I was the King of Spain." He was going to kill Hanekoma when he saw him next. He sighed and answered the phone. "Yes, Hanekoma?" He asked impatiently, he really didn't have time for more problems.

"Did you hear the new ring tone?"

"Yes. And if I could fire you, I would."

"Mean old Joshua, same as ever. Anyways, Sho is about twenty miles from Shibuya. You better-"

"I know, I know." Joshua said boredly.

"Just be careful." Hanekoma hung up on him.

Joshua took out the small device again. It had three buttons on it: RG, UG and BOTH. Joshua hit the RG button and the city came back to life. Gracie's body disappeared from where it was before. Joshua walked to the group of kids he had watched before.

"Neku, Shiki, Rhyme, Daisukenojo-"

"BWAAAAAAH!!!!!!" Beat freaked out waving his arms around "Don't call me that!!!!" Rhyme smiled politely.

"Calm down, Beat." She said calmly.

Shiki and Neku turned to look at Joshua. "You haven't changed a bit." Neku said, his arms crossed against his chest.

"The UG is in trouble." Joshua said, getting to the point.

"Well we're not helping" Neku said flatly.

"Why not, Partner?" Joshua said mockingly. Neku glared at Joshua in the I-hate-you-so-much-I'll-cut-off-your-head-with-a-toothbrush- kind of way.

"I forgot how much I wanted to choke you..."

"What seems to be the problem?" Shiki asked.

"Bwaah!! Shiki!! Don't help dis punk!!" Beat yelled.

"But if we don't, who will? And sometimes people just need a good listener, right Rhyme?"

"Uh-huh!" The two girls smiled at Joshua as Beat and Neku glared with all their might.

"Sho is coming back."

"Whaaat?! But you killed him!" Shiki yelled. "Apparently not..." Neku mumbled.

"And he has friends. After we got rid of all the Taboo noise we thought they were gone for good. But Sho has created a new form of noise called Chaos noise. They attack everyone and anything. If they can get into the RG-"

"Everyone will die..." Rhyme finished sadly. "And you think we can help?"

"Yes. If we can stop him then both the UG and RG will be safe again."

"So, let me get this straight...you want us, all previous players, to go back into the UG to help you the reason we all died?...We'll do it." Neku said, arms folded across his chest.

"Whaaattttt?!?!" Shiki yelled.

"It Shibuya's in trouble, we have to help. Just like you said before Shiki."

"But- How do you purpose we get back into the UG, Neku?"

"The only way we can: die."

"Whaaat?!"

"BWAHHHHHH!!! Phones, we can't just kill ourselves!!!"

"You're right. He can." Neku pointed out.

"Well, I suppose..." Joshua said taking his gun out and cocking it. "Who's first?"

"Why the hell do you have a gun on you?!?!" Neku yelled.

"A previous engagement. Now, as I said before: Who's first?" Joshua smirked.