Me:Whoo, I'm back baby!

Taylor:That would've been appropriate, if it was for the BBB fic you JUST published.

Me:Ahh well, what can I say?

Taylor:That that was stupi-

Me:SHUSH IT! And before you ask, yes. I am aware you don't like coffee. I just put it in for the sake of putting it in.

Taylor:Okay then. Why are you working on this?

Me:Simple. When it comes to this fan fic, tons, and I mean TONS of shit is running through my head about what to do with this one. Hell, I've been planning ahead about what might happen when the THIRD SEASON of the anime comes out.

Taylor:Really?

Me:Yeah, but I digress. So, I own nothing but myself and this story. So let's fuckin' do this!

(Sydney's POV) (First person)

Damn, I'm having that dream again. You might be asking "what dream?" or "how do you know it's the same one?" To answer the secondnd question, even though when you wake up you keep forgetting about 10% of what happened in your dream, I remember it because I dreamt it almost every night. For the ones asking what I'm dreaming, it goes kinda like this:

I'm sitting in what looks like a handcrafted crib, rocking side to side, with a carousel made of purple and teal butterflies spinning round and round above my head. I would let out a cry of delight and reached for the butterflies with small, pudgy hands.

And then, I would hear a sweet and graceful chuckle, and the source of the sound would start to loom over me. My baby brain wouldn't really know it, but throughout the dreams I could tell that the figure was shaped like a woman. When I look up at her, the woman's face is nearly blank. No eyes, no nose, no chin for that matter. It looked kind of like an oval really, I couldn't even remember what her hair looked like. However, the one thing I could see about the woman was that she had a sweet, content smile upon her lips.

She would gently put her arms underneath me and lift me up while I giggled and clapped my little hands together. Then, the woman would gently rock me side to side and sing a sweet melody that I can't completely remember no matter how many times I try to. This would make me sleepy, and when I look up at the woman, she smiles at me, and then she opens her mouth and says-

"BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP, BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-"

"*slams hand down on alarm clock* FUCK,"

I groaned as I slowly opened my, probably, bloodshot eyes and sat up to stretch.

"*twists back, crackle, crackle* Damn my back is TENSE."

I sat still for a moment, yawning, then actually got up and opened my aqua blue curtains to let some light into my dark purple room. I've been in Japan only a few months, but I already made myself at home in our quaint apartment. My room was already dark purple, and once my stuff came in (my paintings, aqua blue rug and bed sheet, purple comforter, and bookshelf), I became a little spontaneous and bought an aqua blue footrest and curtains and a white fluffy chair for really cheap and placed them by my large closet.

I stared out the window for a moment to take a deep breath, then walked out of my room and into the one next to mine. Taylor's room was painted a light blue, but she wanted to paint it darker one day. Aside from her bed and closet, all that was in her room was a nightstand, desk and her electronics that were on her bed. Taylor slept with her long black hair in her wide open mouth, snoring loudly. I chuckled at the fact that she was clutching her computer in both her arms.

I sat on her bed and shook her shoulder while cooing, "Taylor, it's time to get up."

Her only response was mumbling in her sleep and curling up into a little ball.

"Taylor~~."

That didn't work either, so I resorted to drastic measures.

"Nicole #2."

"DON'T EVER CALL ME THAT!" My friend hissed as she rose up fast enough to head butt me. (Small explanation: Coincidently, we both have the same middle name Nicole, so we never refer to each other that way. However, we both get pissed whenever one of us calls the other "Nicole #2.")

I fell on my ass at the impact and rubbed my sore forehead. "Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, OW! That hurt like hell!"

Tay snorted. "That's what you get for calling me that."

"I wouldn't have if you had your own damn alarm clock," I retorted bluntly.

"*tilts head* You're cranky-er than usual today. That dream again?" Taylor asked as pulled the covers off of her.

I sighed and sat back down onto her bed. "Yeah, it was." In case you're wondering, yes, I told her about it. "*sigh* I just don't get it. Who WAS that woman? Why did she treat me with so much care?"

"Maybe it was your mom?"

I looked up at my friend with an expression like 'U_U'. "I highly doubt it."

"Huh? Why?"

"Remember what the orphanage told me?"

A look of realization crossed Tay's face. "Oh yeah. The whole, your mom died in childbirth and your handicapped grandparents dropped you off and moved back to Japan."

I nodded as I ran a hand through my slightly ratty hair. "Yep…Crap! We're gonna be late for school!" We then rushed our morning through eating, getting dressed and packing our stuff before running out the door we hopefully locked.

Our morning classes went well. I took plenty of notes, helped a few classmates out with the translations, and even got out of class a few minutes early. Taylor still had some stuff left to do, so I waited outside the campus entrance.

I'm not really a patient person, so I tapped my foot to the beat of whatever song was stuck in my head at .and tapped my fingers on the concrete entrance gate I was leaning against in annoyance. Looking and sniffing around, I noticed two people sitting outside a cafe talking. One of them smelled off, and ordered a sandwich that they barely took a bite out of.

"Sorry for the wait," Tay said as she walked up to me.

I stood straight up and stared at the person while saying quietly, "That chick across the street? I think she's a ghoul."

Taylor followed my gaze with interest. "How can you tell?"

"She smells different from everyone else," I shrugged as we started walking. "Although I'm a little confused."

"About what?"

"Why did she barely eat her food?"

"Maybe she wasn't that hungry?"

"…Or maybe she was saving her appetite for the person next to her."

We stopped walking when I saw two shifty guys in gray trench coats carrying matching briefcases out the corner of my eye. Taylor did too, so we quickened our pace, but not enough to seem suspicious. Once we no longer saw them, we continued our conversation. "Well, maybe she was just dieting or something. Nothing to be suspicious about Syd."

"If you stop to think about it, everything is suspicious to me."

It's true. I never met another ghoul in my life, minus the two that I ate on our first day here. Even when the news of ghoul's existence became international, there had been no reports of similar incidents in American news. For all I know, I could've been the ONLY ghoul in America.

"Hmm. I guess that's true…We've still got a lot of questions, don't we?" Taylor asked quietly.

I looked away from the street and up to the bright blue sky. "I think so."

We continued walking until we heard screams and guttural cries coming from a dark alleyway underneath a bridge. Taylor and I ran towards it in curiosity. And let me tell you, all I saw was blood splattering everywhere and a person being stabbed with red root thingies while up in the air. I just stared at this horrifying sight while Taylor went to throw up off to the side due to the wretched smell.

She walked back next to me and wiped her mouth onto her sleeve. "Should we leave?"

"Yeah, that sounds good," I said as we slowly backed away, before breaking into a full out sprint home.

Here's the thing, we got lost. So, the sun was starting to set when we somehow ended up walking on the wrong side of town.

"We might wanna get out of here. This place DOES have human eating people," Taylor said after she puffed her inhaler.

"No fuckin' kiddin'," I gasped as I fell to the ground panting.

"You're really out of shape."

"Shut up."

"I'm just being honest," Taylor said with her hands up.

I crawled back up to a standing position and took deep breaths. "Okay then. Let's get going." We walked along arm in arm as we didn't see anyone suspicious.

"Damn, how lost ARE WE?!" I shouted rhetorically.

My friend whacked the back side of my head and scowled. "That was too loud."

I just sighed. "Whatever. Let's keep walking."

We did so, and it caused me to bump into someone. I let go of Taylor and went to apologize to them. "My apologies. I did not see you there."

Looking up at the guy, I almost gasped in shock. He had long greasy white hair, a messy white coat and deranged uneven eyes.

His white eyebrow rose and he gave me a sleazy grin. "It's not a problem young lady. Completely understandable."

"Mado-san, we need to get going," said his tall and extremely handsome counterpart.

I waved them off and saw that they both carried briefcases in their hands. "Were those…?"

"Yep. Ghoul Investigators."

I exhaled and my shoulders dropped. I had no clue I was that stiff. "Thank God they couldn't tell."

Taylor placed her hand on my shoulder. "There there Emo Wolf. We need to get going."

I nodded and we started walking again. It wasn't until 10:45 pm that night that we finally found our house.

We didn't have any classes that day, so I didn't set my alarm and woke up at around 11:00. As expected, I had that dream again, only this time, I remembered a verse from that song the lady in the dream sung.

"…Oshiete, oshiete yo, sono, shikumi wo?-"

"Well it's a start," I muttered while cracking my back. "Why the hell is my back always tense when I wake up?"

I stood up to stretch, then walked out of my purple room and into our kitchen/living room. Tay was already up, eating cereal while looking over some papers. We wished each other good morning and I fixed myself a bowl of cereal as well. "Hey Syd? You mind the reading this?" She handed me a newspaper.

I flipped it open and didn't see much interesting stuff, but when I looked on the front page-

"Holy crap!"

This peaked Tay's interest. "What is it?"

"Apparently around the time we got here, two college students were crushed under a shit ton of beams at a construction site. The girl one was already dead from impact, but the other one, a guy, was still alive when they rolled him into the E.R. Here's where it gets crazy; the doctor performing the operation replaced some of the guy's organs with the dead girl's organs to keep him alive."

"Woah, that is weird. But doesn't he need to sign off on a few things to make that happen?"

"Yeah he would need consent from the family members of both of the students, but he pushed that aside in order to go through with the operation. It's brought up quite a bit of controversy from what I can tell. *looks back at paper* Apparently, the doctor got lucky. Neither the woman who died nor the guy who lived had any next of kin. Kinda sad really. The surviving young man was released from the hospital a few days ago. It looks like his name was…*reads kanji carefully* Ken…Kaneki."

"Hmm. That's a nice name," Tay shrugged.

"Yeah…Oh by the way, I had the dream again."

"Oh? Did something change in it?"

"Yeah-well, kinda. It went the way it always goes, except this time, I remember a little bit of that song she sings to me."

"Really? How does it go?"

"Well, it was in Japanese, so its English translation is up for discussion, but I guess a rough but catchy translation would probably go like, 'Oh can you tell me? Can you tell me, the way, that this should work?'"

"Ooh, it sounds pretty. But I could do without YOU singing it."

"Fuck you!" I said with a glare.

My friend just laughed and we finished our breakfast in silence. When I put our bowls into the sink, Tay suddenly asked, "You wanna watch some anime?"

I grinned and turned around. "Sure, what were you thinking?"

"One Peice?"

"Nah, maybe later. Deadman Wonderland?"

"Little too early for blood and gore. Ooh, I know! How about Ultimate Otaku Teacher?"

"I'll set up the laptop now."

I then ran down the hall with Taylor shouting behind me, "You don't even know my password!"

"That's what you think!" After I logged on, Tay came into her room and we spent the rest of the day watching said anime and other videos.

Me:Whelp. That's it kiddos. Sorry there was no violence or blood, but at least there was some character development in this chapter. Just to clarify, that scene where I and Tay walked into a bloody alleyway is that one awesome scene at the end of episode 2. So, my battery is low, which seems to be the case for most of the time I upload stuff. Anyway, I'm sorry there was no action, but I think it's better than nothing.

Unity:Also, please, please, PLEASE review this. It REALLY means a lot to Syd when her stories get reviewed.

Taylor: And favor and follow it too. Also, you REALLY put the anime's opening in here?

Me: Damn right I did it's a good opening!

Taylor:…Whatever.

Everyone:One Peice OUT!