Reality

She parked the motorcycle on the outskirts of Tokyo, breathing hard from the adrenaline rush. She ran her hands through her dark chin length hair.

"Dammit." She looked around, while she smoothed out her coat. Her dark wash skinny jeans were slightly ripped from the exertion of sprinting through the crowds; the knees had found an opening in the denim.

The night had finally awoken to dawn, she figured she should relocate, perhaps to Hokkaido, or Okinawa.

While she was busy in thought, a shadow emerged from the corner of a nearby business center, it grabbed a hold of her shoulder. She spun around quickly ready to fight, but he quickly slid his hands down too her wrists, holding them together while he forced her to her knees. She looked up into the dark eyes of her leader.

He backhanded her left cheek. "You. Have destroyed something that I have spent so long building up!"

"Tch," She spat, "You would have never gotten any higher."

He slapped her again, but he pulled out a switchknife to form a long gash across her cheek . "Oh Raven. You belong to my gang. They may think that you are the smartest, but I know your secrets, your even darker past." He whispers into her ear. His midnight hair pulled back into a high ponytail fell slightly from its hold, gently brushing her wounded cheek.

He pulled a gun from his back jacket pocket and hit raven in her collarbone, knocking her unconscious.

She awoke in her leader's bed, but when she tried to sit up she realized she was chained to the metal headboard. She was still clothed, but she knew she was only safe for a little while longer. She glanced around and noticed that her leader was just outside the door talking with Garth. She strained to overhear.

The hushed tones fed through from the small opening underneath the door, "The deal is finished…"

"But you have not completed your end of the deal…"

Her leader spoke up, "She is useless…"

"I think otherwise"

"That won't be hap-…" He was cut off, a gurgling sound was heard and the door opened to show the pooling blood around her leaders neck.

Garth looked at the chained girl, "Hello, precious."

She kept her gaze on Garth.

Immediately he turned away from her to meet with one of his other cronies who seemed absolutely fearful, "the government is here! We have to go. They say we killed the ambassador!"

Garth glanced back at raven, "Alright, go. Take all the weapons you can and kill the rest of this gang, but leave her alive."

"We aren't gonna take it?" He referred to Raven.

"Nope." Garth stepped over her fallen leader and didn't say anything more as he exited the building.

From a distance she heard muddled screams, and gunshots ringing throughout the abandoned apartment building.

She struggled in her chains, but did not say a word to Garth.

Sirens blared just outside, and doors were kicked open. In about ten minutes the police were scouring the building, collecting evidence alongside detectives, witnessing the dead bodies littered around every floor. Blood stained each and every walkway.

A man stood in Raven's doorway with a gun aimed straight at her. He had nice spiky hair, young, about twenty three, like her, but he in a dark t shirt with similar jeans, adorned with a utility belt holding various weapons and a badge. The most striking were his deep blue eyes that bore into her dark indigo one's.

He made his way closer to her until he stopped once a sweet hearted voice rang out behind him. A red head in a pencil skirt and blazer in bloodied black heels appeared. "Richard. It's all clear." She looked up to see raven. "Oh? There's a live one."

Raven was livid, "I'm not some bug that just managed to survive an impact to your car's windshield!"

The man called Richard spoke next, "Why are you left alive? Did you kill the others?"

She shook her head and her hands to rattle the chains, "Do I look like I would have just killed somebody when I am the one chained up?!" She asked rhetorically.

The red head only stared. Then looked worriedly at Raven's wrists noticing they were bleeding. "Richard, her wrists…"

"Shitte imasu!" more people armed with guns appeared behind him. "Unlock her and take her to the squad car. I'm not done questioning her."

He turned on his heal and the others rushed forward, some putting weapons away to untie her, while some aimed their weapons at her. Raven reluctantly went with them down the gloomy, yellow and red tinted halls. The smoke-smell would never go away, and would always be a dark stain to join her comrades' blood. She saw the few women that were in her gang, mangled, abused and dead, eyes open in fear. Normally a gang member would have no fear, but death was always a scary thing.

Raven did not cry it wasn't that they didn't deserve pity; it was just that she was enraged over the choices she had made, the past that she barely escaped from, the pain her parents had caused, and the terrible things she brought herself.

In the street, blaring lights and more armed people stood at the ready, while she was placed into a cramped vehicle that had glass in between the back seat and front seats.

In silence, she allowed life to just flow, she had no family, and the only thing close to home was now forever gone.

A humongous metal structure encompassed a glass office building. It opened up into an underground passageway that was apparently a governmental association building. She was stopped, only to be blindfolded.

The red head was the last thing she saw before she was led into a room a ways away from the actual front door. This room was an interrogation room, those rooms you see in American investigation movies. A table in the center, a single light overhead, and all of that, including the mirrored window. The dark blindfold was removed, to reveal the Richard standing in front of her.

He wasted no time, "What's your name?"

She glared at him from behind her hair, "Raven."

The redhead watched from the other side of the glass, and spoke to Richard through a headset, "Allow me to join you in questioning."

She let herself into the room to join the accused and interviewer.

The man glanced to the redhead, "Kori, it's really unnecessary for you to be in here."

Kori ignored him and walked to Raven, unlocking her cuffs. She gave a small smile.

Raven rolled her eyes.

Kori questioned this time, "Did you hear of the ambassador's death?"

Raven hesitated, "Only recently. An aquaintence of mine was speaking of it before he was killed."

Kori continued acting innocent. "You mean the leader of your gang?"

Raven mused.

The blue eyed man leaned over to the table, "Don't try to hide anything we know of your gang. Its just as notorious as the one you were betrothed to."

She widened her eyes, but not in shock, "Oh. So you know about that? I'm amazed you don't know more." She challenged.

He groaned with impatience, "Just answer us."

"You know, I'm way too tired to answer your questions at the moment." She stood to leave but was stopped when he pulled a gun on her, once again. Maybe I should just let him kill me. What else do I have to live for…

"You're not leaving." He commanded.

Kori never moved. Barely even blinked. "Raven, friend, you could have a future life if you comply."

Raven smirked, "I am not your friend. And what's the use of saying I have a future when I'm locked up in here."

The man rejoined the conversation, "We have a proposition. Help us on the case, we set you free, or we give you a job."

"It's useless to dream. Its only survival that I'm after."

He groaned again, putting down the run, "Stop being so difficult! Who was it that killed your leader and the others?"

"Garth."

He was shocked that she answered, "Why?"

"I ran from marriage. They only want me for…" she didn't continue, they already knew the end to her statement.

"Ahhh. Help us get rid of him. You, too, are in danger of being killed by him."

"It's simple, I would just evade him."

He laughed, "That's why you were chained?" He asked mockingly.

She bit the inside of her cheek. And stayed silent.

After two hours of questioning without answers, Kori and Richard left her. Once they did she passed out on the table with her arms as a pillow from exhaustion.

A/N:Review! I don't own teen Titans. This is AU and sorta OCC, so too bad. Sorry. Love Nano1012