Tsutomu was not impressed with his parents, mostly over the decision that was forced on him. His parents got the great idea, after getting a pamphlet from a college in the U.S, that they should send him away from all of his friends to go to college. Birdy didn't seem to mind, getting out of his parents house would be a relief of pressure off of her for always getting in fights with the local alien population in Tokyo. So, he was given a packed bag, a plane ticket to Ballenger, Massachusetts, and a kiss on the cheek. Birdy was no help at all through out the whole thing, since she had gotten in the habit of making record breaking naps. The current one happened to be on the 32nd hour, and he was worried that Birdy had actually disappeared.

Tsutomu got off of the plane, and walked over to grab his luggage. 5 people were coming in the other direction, and he accidently bumped into a tall skinny blond woman in a dark blue blouse, and a pair of shorts that were almost pants. Birdy started grumbling about losing something important, and finally came slowly awake. She seemed a little groggy, and Tsutomu couldn't help but start talking to her.

"Birdy, you need to start taking this more serious. I'm worried that you won't wake up sometime." Tsutomu said quietly to himself, trying not to alienate everybody in this world.

"Hmm, you really need to start taking it less serious. When are we going to get some fresh air, I need to go through my workout regime, or we'll both be in trouble." Birdy grumpily said as she finally gained consciousness.

Tsutomu reached in to grab tute/the cell phone robot thing and found out that it was lost. Birdy snapped to full wakefulness and took control of Tsutomu.

"Did you put Tute in your luggage?" Birdy seemed to be a little nervous, and Tsutomu was already trying to tell her to let him have some control.

"No, it was in my pocket the whole time. Maybe I dropped it. Let me look for it before you start to panic." Tsutomu said as he finally gained control back and started look for his cell phone.

"Maybe it was stolen, America has quite the reputation for pick-pockets." Tsutomu said as he remembered the blonde woman that had bumped into him. He started running back the way he came, looking around for his cell-phone. He spotted the blonde woman, and run back up to her.

"Have you seen a blue and white cell phone, kind of shaped like this" Tsutomu said as he shaped it in the air. She gave him a funny look, sighed and handed the phone back.

"Sorry, thought it looked too cool." She said, as she looked a little sad. Tsutomu wasn't sure about how sane she was, but he needed to go get his luggage from the rack before it got claimed as abandoned. He rushed off talking quietly to Birdy about how he still wasn't sure about this whole "college in America thing".

Parker, the blonde woman that had nicked his cell phone, was really intrigued by this Japanese youth. Unless they had special training of some sort, nobody realized that they had been pick pocketed, especially by her. She turned around and started following the guy that she was intrigued in. She followed him out of the terminal, and across to where she saw him enter a Taxi. The taxi sped off, and Parker was barely able to locate the taxi number before it went around a corner.

"Hardison, could you tell me where taxi number 7835 is going. There is somebody in there that I want to talk to." She said as she placed her ear mic into her ear.

"Sure thing, should I be worried about whom you want me to track down," Hardison commented while he quickly looked up the gps coordinates for the taxi.

"Nope, I just want to talk with the guy" Parker said as she walked around a corner and turned on the motorbike that was lying under a tarp there. She smirked to herself; people were always way too obvious. She'd swiped the owner's keys, after she had saw him park there earlier. She got on the bike, and sped off in the direction of the Taxi.

"Ok girl, that taxi is currently on route to the local community college. You know where that is right." Hardisons' voice came over nonchalantly.

"I do, by" Parker raced forward trying to beat the Taxi to the college. She got there just as the taxi pulled up to the administration building. The young Japanese fellow got out of the vehicle, and it seemed like he was quietly talking to somebody about something. Odd that he didn't have a phone on Parker thought as a couple of ideas filtered through her head. She waited outside until he came back out, his backpack just a little bigger and started walking in the opposite direction. Parker kept getting more and more intrigued, sure that he was a thief that was trying to steal from the college. If it weren't for the fact that the college was so close to McRory's bar, she would have been fine with it, but since this was in her territory she was having problems with it. She parked the bike, and left a note on it that had the drivers license of the person who owned it. She set off at a quick pace to try to catch the would be thief and tell him to give back the stuff that he had stolen. She almost caught up to him when he turned a corner and just disappeared.

Tsutomu was glad that all the hassle that came with getting his textbooks, and getting everything set for classes was over. He was still worried about getting any friends; also that Birdy would ruin any chances that he could gain of making friends. His parents had negotiated a small apartment that was only a few blocks from campus, so all he had to do now was get settled into his apartment.

"That blonde girl that we bumped into earlier is following us you know." Birdy commented after they turned a corner onto a quiet street. Tsutomu started worrying a little, what if she wanted to shut me up.

"Birdy, how about we switch for most of the rest of the way" Tsutomu said nervously. He knew that Birdy was much better equipped to take on anything that they could possibly face in this area.

"Sure, I need to stretch out a bit anyway. Turn into that alley real quick." Tsutomu quickly entered a squat dirty little alley and the change took place. Standing in Tsutomu's place was a rather tall girl with pink and white hair, and a rather flattering skintight suit that almost looked like a sort of armor. As soon as she changed she launched herself up of the roof. It was a good thing it was getting about evening, they didn't want to attract any more attention than they needed. Birdy let out a squeal of delight as she finally got to stretch out her muscles after the long hibernation that she had been doing. After an hour or so she finally set her self down in an alley across the street from the place where his apartment was.

"Did your parents realize that your apartment was located above a bar" Birdy commented noticing the big Irish "John McRory's" sign that was located just on the side of the building.

"Nope, and I doubt I'm going to tell them. They just said that they had found the coziest little apartment they had found. Comes with free Wi-Fi, and utilities as well, would have been better if there was a meal plan involved, but they said I had earn my own money for food. Probably because of the amount of food that you go through in one sitting, we might be going hungry for a little while until I can locate a job that allows us to eat." Tsutomu sighed at that last bit. He hiked up his backpack, knowing that all of his other stuff had already been delivered. He went up the steps, and knocked on the landlord's door, a skinny black guy opened up, and gave him his keys. A perky face poked around the corner and nearly tackled the landlord; the blonde woman was here as well. Such great fortune I have today, Tsutomu just sighed again. As soon as the woman saw him she straightened up and tackled Tsutomu, she reached up to his ear and started searching it.

"What are you doing", Tsutomu was so shocked that he had lapsed back into Japanese for a little while. He quickly got up, and the woman stopped him.

"I want to know what your doing here, and you need to give back the stuff you stole from the college." She said casually.

Tsutomu barely made out most of what she said, he looked up at the landlord for help, but he just had an equally confused look on his face. "I didn't steal anything, and my apartment is right down the hall. I just moved here from Japan to go to college." Tsutomu was getting a little bit frustrated. This girl was nearly as bad as Birdy was sometimes.

She backed off at that, and the landlord apologized and told me his name was Hardison. He also said that he wasn't always in and if I had any questions just ask one of the waitresses down in the bar.

Tsutomu just kept getting more and more confused, and hungry as his stomache made a very large grumbling noise. Tsutomu excused himself, and stalked over to his apartment.

Hardison still couldn't believe that Parker had jumped the poor kid that had just moved into his building. He had to question her about the whole situation.

"Parker, what was that all about?" he said as he shut his door and they headed over to Nate's apartment.

" He seemed like a pretty experienced guy to me, noticed that I had snatched his cell phone, and escaped very easily when I chased after him. Thought I had lost him. He has more experience than you seem to think." Parker said a little ashamed, but not too much. She was going to keep an eye on the new guy in the building. Especially since their recent mark was Japanese fellow that had quite a few connections with a particularly nasty group over in Japan. Just finding out the leader of the sect had given them trouble. Christina Revi was their next big mark, ever since she had placed some of her men into the local area to start kidnapping and experimenting on children.