RARARA! VOLUME 2 CHAPTER 1-THE SHADOWS DISAPPEAR

(Ok that's it for me today. Anyways, sorry, I'm having a little problem breaking up the spaces in vol. 1. I'll get right on that as soon as possible! Possibility of another OC. Not sure yet.)

TOTAL CATASTROPHE IN IKEBUKURO! KIDNAPPERS, SERIAL KILLERS, HEADLESS RIDER, UNDERCOVER MEN, ALL TO YOUR HEART'S DELIGHT!

Events that would normally be unrelated seemed to clash last night in Ikebukuro, Tokyo after top idol Hanejima Yuuhei got kidnapped yesterday. The kidnapping seemed to be connected to a series of occurrences such as the appearance of two well-known serial killers in broad daylight. It was a mess yesterday. People didn't know where to go. To leave or stay. To try to catch up with the action or try to avoid it. Those who tried avoiding it were caught in the middle of it and those who tried to see it, didn't catch a glimpse of it. Such a mass of chaos and confusion seemed to disintegrate so fast, looking back, it all seems like a nonexistent dream. People are starting to debate whether this is another publicity stunt and if Jack-O-Lantern has gone too far. Then again, Ikebukuro is known for the most wildest occurrences which leaves people to wonder WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?

It's kind of funny.

Many things lurk late at night. They're all hiding something. They're things you generally avoid. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you never have to confront these things in your life. But that's a luxury.

Which isn't in fact, totally true, because at times, you need to confront these things.

You need to be reminded.

So once in a while, a city wishes to drag these things into light. They may seem totally unrelated.

Correction: they may BE totally unrelated.

And yet,

Something ties them together.

Some thin connection makes the barrier breaks.

Despite these lives being irrelative to others, some kind of a web or link ties them close together

Because

If you think about it,

Everyone is tied together.

Be it a thief, a politician, a common citizen, or a relic.

Living in the same world, breathing the same air, we are all connected.

Whether we stand loud and proud, try to just pass by unnoticed, or lurk out of sight, something, at least one thing, keeps us together.

You share at least one thing in common with a certain information broker who, although he may deny it, in return shares something in common with a certain fellow in a bartender suit. The man in a bartender suit shares common traits and goals with other people he may not know. Although no two people can be exactly the same in thoughts and feelings, that doesn't stop common traits from connecting the human being to one another. It could even be the fact that they are human that connects them. If not human, as certain headless riders and part vampire serial killers aren't, it could be the human quality that contains them. Emotions they can never erase or run away from. The list goes on and on since there are millions of countless reasons anything with life is connected to one another.

If it didn't, this world would be even crazier than it already is.

Now that's a thought.

The sound of sirens is ever present. All lights are directed to a single spot.

The police all wait in silence. Near them, some 15 men in suits also wait with the same heavy silence.

A man in a bartender suit is not so far behind, restrained by a unit of cops who still struggle to keep the man from making any rash movements. There's obvious rage in his face but he is making an effort to restrain himself as well.

It seems that every person in view has their focus on the garage door in front of them.

Police, men in suits, young teenage girls, a man in a bartender suit, common citizens alike all wait breathlessly for something to emerge from the building.

Finally, among all the silence and tension, a rustle of movement could be heard.

In front of the crowd stands a police with a white motorbike. His face is stern and fearless. As the crowd steps back in fear and awe, he steps forward.

The bleached blonde bartender breaks free of the unit's grip with ease then lets out a low growl as he charges in front of the white motorist.

The garage door clinks as it slowly opens. The tension creeps to a suffocating level.

In a flash, two well-known figures emerge from the building.

The man in a bartender suit twists away from the sight. He grinds his teeth in frustration at the sight before him.

"C-Celty...?"

His surprised cry goes unnoticed as the two figures slowly come to a halt in front of the crowd.

One is famous actor Hanejima Yuuhei, perfectly fit and emotionless as ever, holding onto the second figure on a motorcycle with relative calmness. He blinks a few times at everyone around him but there's no serious response, giving the feeling that even if he was stabbed or majorly injured, he'd give the same response.

The other person that Yuuhei clings onto is the Headless Rider, blending in with the darkness aside from the bright yellow helmet he's never seen without. The neighing of a horse is heard from the engine of his motorcycle as if the motorcycle is bursting with life. People in the crowd have their doubts on if it is an inanimate object.

More silence follows after.

Whether it's from confusion, shock, or disbelief, no one could tell.

A single clap shatters into the silence. Soon, the sound of clapping echoes in the night sky. Not just one, but everybody in the crowd is clapping. Some whistle. Some cheer. The cop in white grunts with distaste. The bartender, who looked bewildered at first, also joins in the clapping.

This is the day the Headless Rider is seen as a hero.

Cops later investigated the scene and found at least 23 men of different age with weapons knocked out on the floor. They searched the building thoroughly but found no explanation nor any other sign of life. Officer Kuzuhara Kinnosuke stated that he had his doubts that the Headless Rider had done this, and if he had an accomplice and had not told them, that would be withholding evidence. The cops were especially suspicious when they had two reports of different serial killers running around at daytime.

"This kind of behavior is very uncharacteristic to both Loveless and Hollywood", a skilled psychologist stated when interviewers asked her opinion on the matter. "Now, I've been following the two closely and cannot come up with a conclusion as to why they would just appear like that! I do have my theories though..."

Interviewers desperately turned to Hanejima Yuuhei for answers or explanations but the top idol only had one statement for them:

"I apologize for the scare. It was just an old friend reminding me I needed to take a vacation."

And left it at that.

Hanejima's lover, top singer Hijiribe Ruri, had nothing to say since she was not involved at all with the incident.

With so many loopholes and unanswered questions, one could only imagine what happened.

You don't have to imagine though, we'll just go back to see what happened.