Chapter One

Rio was spending a nice calm day in hell. When Elsie dropped from the sky and landed on her. Rio instinctively screamed at this, causing the clumsy demon to freak out and apologise profusely.

"D-Don't worry about it," Rio smiled, her ribs killing now. "Aren't you Elsie? From that Loose Souls thingie?" Elsie face lit up, happy to be recognised by someone.

"Yes! I'm from the Loose Souls Team!" she announced proudly, not that being a member of the Loose Souls Team was anything to be proud of, they just cleaned up after ancient demon souls. Normally these spirits weren't too bothersome but if left alone or consumed by other demons all hell could be raised to ground, quite literally. So the Loose Souls Team made sure that didn't happen and if it did, it was them who would die in an attempt to stop these souls. Rio knew this and tried to avoid them whenever possible. Sadly now was not one of those times.

"I see, that's very admirable!" she lied, trying to think of some excuse to get a way. Not one came to mind.

"Chief Dokuro said we could use more members! So how about you join us!" She said with a with a look in her eyes that basically said "You're coming with me whether you like it or not". Rio knew she was helpless in this situation.

"N-No that's fine!" she protested, however the demon had already grabbed her wrist and before she knew it she was in the miniature shinigami's office.

Chief Dokuro was once a full fledged shinigami but after some incident, she was sent to hell to deal with demon souls. Most shinigami would hate such a "demeaning" job, as they like to put it. She however enjoyed working with the demons. None of the demon's she worked with caused trouble by stealing human souls, and she got along with quite a few of them. Except, Elsie. She was a nice enough kid, but she had no brains and lacked any redeeming qualities besides her cleaning. Dokuro often joked about how she'd probably have a klutz attack and send the Loose Souls right back where they belonged. She happened to be enjoying her morning, when Elsie broke the door down, dragging some poor kid closely behind.

"Chief Dokuro! I brought a new recruit!" She beamed. Dokuro just stared at her. Wondering whether to get mad or be glad she found someone. She did, of course, like any reasonable being with emotions, go with option number one. Or at least she would have. Had she not have seen the already terrified look on the half demon Elsie had dragged in's face.

"Elsie. What do you want? And why have you dragged a child in here?" she gritted her teeth to keep calm.

"I'm not a child! I'm seventeen!" Rio cried out, annoyed. Dokuro sighed.

"I'll rephrase that, why have you dragged this loli in here?"Dokuro said in an almost monologue tone.

Elsie stared at her like it was obvious."She's the new recruit!" she said, like she was answering a stupid question.

"Really?" Dokuro raised an eyebrow or she would have, if she had any.

"Yes!" Elsie smiled brightly. For a demon she was especially... happy. Dokuro was about ready to burst out laughing, when she remember all the other recruits Elsie had brought in. This one was at least human looking, so she wouldn't scare any humans she buddied with. Then it began to seem like not such a bad idea. "Fine, I suppose it's worth a shot at least," she sighed. Elsie's eyes lit up as all of Rio's hopes of not joining vanished. She'd had some hope Dokuro would say no. For obvious to certain people reasons. "Yay!" Elsie shrieked.

"Now go make a contract with a buddy! Hurry it up!" Dokuro shouted. Elsie quickly grabbed onto Rio again and went off to the human world.