(AN: I had gotten a review mentioning how I had switched from first person to third early on. So, I thought I should go back and change this to third person since that is how it will remain for the rest of the story.)

Chapter 1 (First Sight)

It all started with hearing a convenience store trashcan crash…

Akira was being shown around Ikebukuro by her friend Sora after school that day, since Akira had just moved here.

After hearing the crash Akira immediately started running towards the direction of the loud crash, completely ignoring her friend's wary look. Akira probably wouldn't have gotten so far ahead of Sora if she hadn't stood in hesitation. Between the two of them, Sora had always been the more athletic one.

Akira couldn't help herself but to check out what was going on. She felt that Sora should have known that by now

Akira's curiosity was too much. Although, she probably wouldn't be able to do anything if the cause of the loud crash sound really were as bad as it sounded. Granted, Akira probably wasn't really thinking ahead as she ran towards the sound. As she stopped to catch her breath from running, Akira realized that she was in front of an interesting scene. There was a blonde man in a bartender uniform that seemed to be threatening another man. The blonde's voice sounded low and gruff.

"Didn't I tell you to get out of Ikebukuro?"

Akira looked over at the man the blonde was talking to and felt her breath catch.

A man was getting up from what appeared to be out from under a convenience store trashcan that for some reason had been on top of him. As he stood up, Akira found myself staring at one of the most gorgeous guys she'd ever seen. He had sleek raven black hair that seemed dazzling to me. His hair was long enough to be sexy but not too long (it didn't seem like a girl's length). He was wearing a black parka with white fur trim. Yet somehow, he didn't appear to sweat, from wearing that jacket, in the slightest. The raven-haired man sneered at the blonde man talking to him. Hearing the raven speak almost made me swoon out loud. There was a certain edge to his voice, in the way that he was nonchalantly teasing the aggressive man, that just caused my heart flutter.

He didn't even seem fazed by the fact that a convenience store trashcan had been on top of him.

He said something to the bartender man, but Akira couldn't remember what he said though. She was too dazed from looking at him. Yet she remembers watching his lips move which just seemed to make him more attractive. Just what was he? Something about him just didn't seem real. She couldn't help but feel completely awed by him.

Akira was so dazed from watching him that she didn't notice when her best friend caught up to her.

"Um, Akira?"

At the time, she didn't even notice her friend talking to her or the incredibly anxious look Sora got from seeing Akira's crush face again.

Sora knew that look anywhere. That look was Akira's crush face. It may have been a while since they went to school together, until recently that is, but Akira hadn't changed much in this sense though.

Sora had come to know by now that Akira tended to have crushes a lot. Akira was such a hopeless romantic, and she was completely hopeless in the crush department too. Usually she would obsess over said crush but always be too nervous to act on it.

The scary part wasn't even the fact that Akira had a crush on Izaya Orihara of all people. No, the scary part about that was that Akira was extremely terrible about hiding the fact that she has a crush on someone. Sora had no doubt that it wouldn't be hard for the informant to figure out her friend's feelings, and she feared for what he might do with it once finding out this information.

Sora had dealt with Izaya enough in the past to be completely terrified for the sake of her incredibly naïve and fragile friend who was new to the city. Sora had sworn that she would protect her practically sister. Akira always seemed to get herself into situations. Sora needed to do something about this.

"Akira, no." Sora said. During the arguing between the two men, Sora grabbed her dazed friend's arm and ran as far away from the scene as she could. Once she felt like they were far enough away they stopped by an alleyway.

"Akira, not him. Please not him."

Akira just gave Sora a confused look.

"Just trust me, alright? Look, I know you can't control your feelings or anything, but please promise me you won't pursue him. Please? You're just going to have to trust me on this one. Alright? That guy is just bad news. I've witnessed first-hand the amount of destruction he can cause. He's very dangerous and I don't want to see you get hurt. Alright? In fact, try not to interact with him at all if you can help it." Sora could tell that Akira was doubtful about the dangerous part, but she knew that Akira trusted her judgment.

Akira nodded at this.

"Oh, um, oh ok."

Sora noticed Akira's face fall at her advice. It was for her own good though.

Akira always tended to overestimate what she could handle. Sora wondered what Akira would do without her as a friend.

"Well, what are you two chatting about it?"

Sora jumped and Akira nearly yelped. They both turned to see the very man that they had just been discussing. He had an amused smirk on his face. Sora really hoped he hadn't overheard them. Out of the corner of her eye Sora already noticed Akira blushing and beginning to act nervous.

Uh oh. Izaya clearly noticed, his eyes were drawn to Akira. This of course caused her to blush even more. He was still smiling smugly but now an eyebrow was raised. Sora wondered if this was his plotting face.

Sora cleared her throat and stepped forward, half blocking her friend from Izaya's view.

"Why should we tell someone like you?"

Izaya paused and then laughed.

"I see your negative feelings towards me haven't changed at all."

Sora just narrowed my eyes at him, trying to warn him.

"Now, who's this with you?" Izaya stepped towards Akira, and Sora further blocked her from view by standing in between them. Akira was too busy stuttering nonsense to be able to comprehend the movement.

"I don't think you have the right to be introduced to any of my friends. That is, not anymore."

Izaya glanced at Akira again. She stopped her stuttering and simply stared back, blush growing brighter. Izaya curled his lips into a sly smile and looked back at Sora.

"Well, I don't really have to be introduced by you, now do I? After all, I am an information broker. I can just do some research on her." He laughed seeing Sora's eyes widen.

"Somehow I can get the feeling we'll be seeing each other again in the near future." Izaya said to Akira.

"Farewell Sora Tanaka." He gazed at Akira again. "And Sora's friend~." Izaya winked at Akira before running off again.

As Izaya ran off he couldn't help but laugh to himself at that new girl's reactions to him. It appeared that he had found a new toy to play with. It had been extremely obvious that the girl had a crush on him.

Sora seemed to have made it her goal to protect her friend from him. Not like that would stop him at all though. He couldn't wait for this new game.