Welcome to the first chapter of Watch Your Back. I'm co-writing this with the fabulous 13 Hella S. This is the sequel to our previous book, The Live of the Seconds' Sisters. If you haven't read that book, go read it, then come back.

So, seeing as we haven't seen her in a while, let's bring Blake back!

[October 31st, 2004]

It's been nearly two years since I left Wammy's House... I wish I knew how they were going.

I wish I knew how Beacon reacted to the news of her dad being dead. I know how I reacted. I joined the LA mafia!

I miss everyone, including the panda! I know today is his birthday.

"Oi, Ames! We need you here!" my boss, Rod Ross, yelled.

I nodded to myself, looking in the mirror, right into my still blue eyes. My abilities will be back by the end of the week.

Katia Ames was my name here. I've been in hiding for so long.

Flashback...

"What do you mean 'sister'?" I asked. My mother was so weird.

"Like S, you have a twin sister, but she's different to Rain."

"How?"

"Well, Rain was first born, but was strangled by her umbilical chord, but she was still born, your sister was not, she was a miscarriage."

I blinked, what was the point of this? "So?"

"She's angry, you got to live, you devoured her. She's jealous, and she wants revenge. She will stop at nothing to get it."

I nodded. "What's her name?"

"Betrayal."

...End

That was why I left. My sister wanted me dead, and she would kill my friends to get to me. Somehow, her name fits.

Betrayal...

I walked into the main room. These guys used to try to get with me until I showed them what a 'little girl' like me could do. Zakk Irius still has bite marks.

"Ames, we have had word that Kira is getting more powerful by the day. L will be useless by the end of the week.

'When he dies.' I had looked at and memorised a fair few death dates before I lost my abilities, and L's was one of them.

I opened my notebook, looking at all the notes I had made about the Kira case. It wasn't too difficult for me. I devised that whoever was Kira was working with L, very closely. Too closely for L to like.

L was reluctant for even me to work with him, and he's my cousin... on my mother's side, obviously.

I wonder how people reacted to Axel's body...

"L is dying, and this Kira, the real Kira, will be the one take over. We need to make sure that, at all times, we address each other with aliases, and try to avoid getting your photo taken," I told them, writing a few notes.

"How do you know this? And why the photos?" Ross asked.

I sighed at their stupidity. "One, I am L's cousin, his other cousin just so happens to be one of Kira's victims, but my brother was stupid. Anyway, I have an ability, that I am currently unable to use due to minor illness, that allows me to see someone's real name and life span, which leads me to two. Two, the Second Kira has this ability, and she can use it with just a photograph, so I'd be careful."

"How do you know the Second Kira is a woman?"

"Easy, Kira 2 is infatuated with Kira 1, far beyond that of love, so it's like a crush gone way too far, easily that of a woman of Japanese-American desinence. The Japanese are emotional – I should know – and the Americans over play everything – I mean full offence with that, by the way," I listed. I missed Wammy's at times like this.

The boys all nodded and went back to what they were doing, usually their whores. I remember S telling me that Mello was going to join a mafia, and I absently wondered which one. I had ties to a lot of American and English mafias, and one Japanese one that are all but disbanded.

I logged on to one of the many computers we had lying around, searching through the files we had on all mafias in the area. I first searched Mihael Keehl, in case he was that stupid. Nothing. I then searched Mello. I found one file with that name with this mafia. Apparently he had his name on a list of recruits. So they must have heard of him, and be able to contact him.

"Oi, Ross, you think I could contact this kid?" I asked, pointing at Mello's sketch.

"Sure thing, Ames. Line seven, phone two," he told me.

I got up and walked to the phone room. I felt guilt wash up inside me. I haven't spoken to any of them since I left. I needed to know how Mello was, and Beacon, and S. I needed to know.

I held the phone to my ear after pressing '7'. I felt my gut twist in anxiety as it rang.

Then he picked up.

"Hello?" he asked. It was really Mello... He's nearly fifteen, but he sounds the same. I hope I do.

"Mello?" I asked quietly.

I could hear the familiar sound of a bar of chocolate dropping onto wires and carpet. He was in Matt's room. "Blake?"

I felt like crying. "I'm not meant to contact you, but I found you on the mafia's files. I... I miss you guys... and I can't even know how long you have to live, or contact Rain to find out how you are."

He was quiet. Matt was quiet. I was quiet. It was all silence other than the sounds of breathing and the buzzing from Matt's computer of TV.

"Why not?" he asked.

"I'm still under the influence of the serum. Look, do not tell Matt, S, Beacon, anyone, that I called you, but if you need to speak to me again, call back and ask for Katia Ames, okay?"

I prayed that he would agree.

"Okay, but if you ever need my help, or anyone's help, you call me as well, got it?"

"I've got it."

"Also..." he was quiet for a while, "have you kept clean?"

I sighed. I hadn't. "No, I haven't, and I can't, sorry."

"Alright. Last thing, Way's been in hospital since Christmas, not last Christmas, but the Christmas after you left. He refuses to eat and they have to feed him through a tube. Mikey can barely pay..."

I sighed. "I'll try to send some money over for him, but no promises, okay?"

And with that, we hung up.

I felt Barium rubbing up against my leg and I smiled. It turns out that, like S and Anima, Barium was my spirit animal, or whatever.

"You okay Blakie?" she asked, purring lightly.

I nodded, letting the tears that had welled up earlier fall, my eyeliner running. "I miss them. I really do. Those guys were my family."

S, Rain, Lucy, Suicide and Mello were like my siblings, Matt was my so-obviously-going-to-end-up-being-my- brother-in-law friend, Mikey and Way were my annoying cousins, and Wolf was that awesome friend that almost felt like family.

And then there was Bella... She really was my family, but I always hated the fact she was born out of hatred... but I knew what she did not. That no one did.

Looking into history, you could find three Life and Death God and human hybrids. The first was Edgar Allen Poe, my favourite poet. He had a Life God mother and Shinigami father. The second was Patrick Stump. I know what you're thinking, that bundle of adorableness? Part Shinigami? Yes. I don't know how, but he is.

The third is Bella Before Birthday, and I know exactly how it happened.

I heard a feminine giggle from behind me, and Barium tensed. Barium would have hissed if it was one of the sluts that had managed to wander off.

"You really love those kids, huh?" the voice said. The voice was familiar, and I knew exactly where I had heard it before.

It was like when I was nervous, my voice would go a higher pitch. That was the voice.

I turned around to see an almost exact reflection of myself, aside from the waist long hair and smouldering red eyes. "Betrayal, I assume."

"Hole in one, Lie," Betrayal giggled. "Although, I am called Lily most of the time... Ironic, huh?"

I crooked an eyebrow. Where did these names come from?

"Irony does run in the family, though. I mean, you've met our aunt's husband's brother's nieces and nephews, right? You lived with them, and our second cousin... Evelyn, wasn't it?"

I blinked at her. "I am not related to my favourite insane people. I'm ninety percent sure I would know."

"Well, we aren't related to them by blood, but through marriage, yup! We're one big insane family. It does make sense though, doesn't it Lie? I mean, S is really similar, isn't she?"

I shook my head. These are all just lies to make me question everything around me, and then, once I'm in a state of insecurity, she'll kill me.

"Can you just kill me already?" I sighed.

Betrayal, Lily, whatever her name is, laughed. "I'm not going to kill you now. I'm gonna help Kira out! Watch as you squirm around, knowing I'm watching you and when all your friends are dead, I'll give you just what you want. Death."

And with that, she was gone.