Disclaimer: I only own Ashely, her dad, and Linda. Other characters belong to Durarara

~Shizuo's P.O.V.~

Damnit! That girl is fast! I ran faster and faster struggling to keep up with her. She ran faster than that Flea Izaya! How that was possible, I don't know. I finally caught up to the little brat when she ran up to my annoying childhood friend, Shinra Kishitani's house he shared with Celty. I guess she seen the Black Rider (a.k.a Celty Sturluson) enter the house. Shit! Celty's cover is blown now. I stopped behind her and failed to stop her before she rung Shinra's doorbell. I grabbed her hand after words and she looked at me. The look in her eyes looked shocked, annoyed, pissed off, and sad. Who is she looking for? Why not ask somebody else other than Celty? Why does she look so sad? As she went to pull her arm back as the door opened, her chocker came loose around her neck revealing what looked like hickies and bruises. My eyes went wide at that. She looked only about fourteen or fiffthteen. Why would she have so many bruises, just on her neck? Why would she have hickies? Then again, in Ikebukuro that kind of stuff is common. I'm worried about this girl for some reason. I snap out of it when I notice a very bubbly Shinra, waving his hand in my face.

I looked at him. Shinra had a smile on his face as usual. "Did you finally get a girlfriend Shizuo?" he asked. I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks. "She's pretty cute but she looks really you-" he was cut off by a punch in the head by the black hair girl with purple in her choppy, teased, layered hair. Shinra was holding his head fake crying like usual. He looked at the girl. "Ouchy! That hurt! All I said is that you are cute!" She hit him again. "Don't call me that!" she said. I have never met a girl that didn't like to be called cute. She's...strange. Shinra looked at her then at me and smiled that goofy smile of his. "Right. I sincerely apologize." He told her. "So, why did you bring her here, Shizuo?" he asked me.

Me? Bring her here? Yeah right! "First off Shinra, she isn't my girlfriend. And I didn't bring her here! I chased her here because she was chasing your girlfriend so I stopped her and she ran off and ran here!" I told him. The girl, Ashley, crossed her arms. Shinra looked at her and fixed his glasses and looked dumbstruck. "What's your name?" he asked her.
"Ashley Kate. Yours?" she replied. She seemed so much calmer now. Shinra smiled once more.

"It's an honor to meet you Miss Kate. My name is Shinra Kishitani. I'm an underground doctor." he said. As if the lab coat and glasses weren't easy to guess he did something with medical crap. "It's just Ashley. No Miss or Kate involved. And the feeling is mutual." she said. "Hey, is the Black Rider in there? I need to speak with her about something." she said. And people say I'm blunt? Let's just say if you look up the word blunt in the dictionary then it would show a picture of this girl. "Oh...yes. Come in." he said as he let us walk in. Ashley looked around like a lost puppy. It was kinda cute to tell the truth. Shinra closed the door as I sat down on the couch still wondering what the bruises and hickies were from. Well the hickies, I was wondering who they were from but the bruises...what happened? "Sit down, Ashley." she looked at the couch and sat down by me. "Celty! Someone is here to speak to you!" he yelled. The underground doctor smiled. "I'll go make tea!" he said as he walked into the kitchen.

"Thank you..." she said rather quietly. I looked at her. She looked back. "What?" she asked. I just noticed then and there that her voice was raspy like she screamed so much. "..." I fixed her chocker before Shinra could see it when he got back. Or Celty saw it. Celty may be headless but for some reason she can still see. She was a Dullahan anyways. I looked at the now blushing girl that scooted over away from me. I sighed and took off my sunglasses and put them in my vest pocket. "You're a pain. Worse than the Flea." I told her. She glared. Celty soon came in from the office she and Shinra had in the backroom and seen the girl. She sat down across from us in the luvseat and typed on her PDA *Hello. What brings you here?* she then showed Ashley the PDA and the girl read it. "I'm sorry for intruding. I honestly am but I wanted to ask you something if you don't mind." Ashley said. She pulled down her sleve more. Celty typed once more. *Alright? What's your name?* the headless woman asked. Once again the girl read it. "My name is Ashley Kate. It's just Ashley. Black Rider I need to ask you if you know where a guy is. I need his help." she said. *My name is Celty Sturluson. It's nice to meet you. Okay, who is it you're looking for?*

"Okay." she looked at Celty almost hesitant. "I'm looking for an imformant broker by the name of Izaya Orihara." she said. Celty froze. I jumpped then fell onto the floor. The girl looked at me and held back laughter. I picked myself up when Shirna walked in placing a tray of tea on the coffe table. Sitting back on the couch I wondered, 'why does she want to find that Flea?' Celty finnally started typing again as Shinra sat by her drinking his tea. *If you don't mind me asking you, Ashley, why are you looking for him?* Ashley read it and sighed. It took forever for the girl to reply. She made her hands form into fists holding onto her purple and black chained skirt so hard that her knuckles turned white. She looked down and wouldn't look up. What's wrong with her? "I want information on how to get s-somebody to kill my f-f-father. I would k-kill him m-myself but..." that's when she started to cry. Her shoulders were shaking and she was trying not to cry. Why would she want to kill her father? "...b-b-but I can't." she said.

Shinra was so surprised he stopped smiling then started frowning. He sat his tea down onto the coffe table. Celty got up and sat down beside Ashley and typed on her PDA again. *Why do you want him dead?* Ashley kept her head down. "H-he...I can't t-t-take a-anymore of h-h-h-his hurting..." she said. Does she mean the bruises? Shinra looked at her. "Hurting? What happened, Ashley?" he asked her in the most kindest way possible. I could tell that he was worried. She shook her head. "Can't t-t-tell...I n-need to find I-i-izaya O-orihara..." she studdered. I got mad at just the sound of his name. Stupid ass Flea! What the fuck did her dad do? I stood up making my way to the door I was stopped by Celty. She grabbed my hand then let go when I turned around.

*Can you take her back to her house? Like excourt her? Please Shizuo? She seems so tired.* I leaned down and read the text and straightened myself out and sighed. "Sorry but no. If he's hurting her then she shouldn't go back there." she said.
*Then could you take her to your place?* I read the message. I couldn't say no...why? "Why? Can't she just stay here?" I asked. Staying with Shinra and Celty would be much safer that her staying with me. I'm easily angered and have monsterious strength then there's the fact she wants that Flea's help.
*Because Shizuo, gang members come here to get help from Shinra and if they see her they will most likely try to take her. She's really adorable and she's really tired and wore out.* I read that and sighed. "Fine." I walked over and grabbed her wrist and she winced. I ignored it for now. Probably just more bruises.

"Wh-what? L-let me go! I need to talk to Celty!" she complained. Celty showed her a text on her PDA. *We'll continue this tomorrow. Go with Shizuo and get some rest, Ashley.* it read. Ashley pouted. Celty was right. She was adorable.
"Fine..." she said. I waved at Shinra and Celty walking the girl out of the house closing the door. I let her go and took out a pack of cigarrettes and took one out and light it with my lighter. I put my sunglasses back on after I put my cigarrettes and lighter away in my pants pocket.

"So, how old are you, Ashley? I asked her as I put my hands in my pants pockets. She looked up wipping her eyes pretending like she was never crying. "Fourteen...and a hafe." she said. I was right. "How old are you? 19?" she asked. I chuckled and puffed out smoke.
"No. I'm 24." I said chuckling. "Oh...so were are we going." she asked. I stopped chuckling and walked into my apartment. "You mean where are we? We're at my place. Sorry if it's a bit messy." I apologized as I threw my cigarrettes, lighter, and bowtie on the counter. "Celty asked me to let you stay." I explained. "Okay." This girl was confusing me. Is she bipolar or something? "You don't have any clothes with you do you?" I asked her. She shook her head. I sighed then put my cigarrette out in the ash tray then made my way upstairs to my room and grabbed a shirt and jogging pants then walked back downstairs to her.

She looked at me confused. "It's to change into. The bathroom is just across the hall." she nodded and walked to the bathroom. I walked over to my couch and sat down and turned on the television to find a movie with my little brother Kauska starring in it. I missed him. About three minutes into the movie, I felt someone sit beside me. I looked over and seen her. Only in the white polo shirt that I gave her to wear that came down to her knees with no jogging pants on her. I felt the heat rise to my cheeks once more and looked at her raising my eyebrows. "Where are the pants?" I asked. She looked up. "They were too big and kept falling down so I folded them up and placed them on the shelf in your bathroom." she explained. I noticed she was still wearing the chocker and took it off. "What the hell? That's mine!" she yelled. She gave me such a head-ache. I rolled my eyes and threw her chocker on the floor. "I seen the hickies and bruises. You don't need to hide them here." I told her. "How did you get them anyways?" I asked. She stayed silent and looked at the television and jumpped up and smiled.

"Yuuhei Hanejima!" she yelled excitedly. "Can I please stay up with you and watch this? I love his acting! He's amazing!" I smiled at her little outburst and plead. "Sure." I said. The thing she said next shocked the living hell out of me. "Your little brother is amazing!" "How did you know he was my younger brother?" I asked. "My dad sponsors him. That's the only good or cool thing about that baka." she said. It was about an hour later when the movie ended that Ashley was leaning against my shoulder sleeping. She looked so peacefull. I can't help but to keep wondering and worrying about what her father did or why she would go that low as to asking the Flea called Izaya Orihara for help. I stood up and picked her up and walked upstairs walking into the guest room I used for when Kasuka. It was the only clean room in the place really. I layed her down and covered her up. I was about to walk out when I seen blood seeping through my white polo shirt I let her wear on her left wrist. I covered her up and gently unbuttoned the left sleve and seen more than 32 fresh cuts on her wrist. Is that why she winced when I grabbed her wrist when we were leaving Shinra's. She was hidding so much...I just knew it.

I walked to the bathroom and got the first-aid kit that Shinra had given me beings I am always over there at his apartment getting bandaged by him from fights with Izaya. I walked back into the room and bandaged her wrist then walked out of the room closing the door. Then when I got into my room I took my pants off keeping my boxers on of course and took my vest and shirt off then put a old tee-shirt and the jogging pants the girl couldn't fit on. As I layed in my bed, I stared at the ceiling wondering about that girl, Ashley Kate. No wonder she sounded so familiar. Her father sponsors my brother. Soon I sighed and went to sleep.