Wow, welcome back to chapter 7! We are halfway through our story now *roughly* anyway thank you all you reviewers, now, without further a do...

"You came here to check out the eye candy too?" A sweet voice came from behind me, although it surprised me, it didn't make me jump, mainly because the voice didn't sound menacing but also because I'm used to Izaya Orihara sneaking up on me. I turned round and flicked my bangs out my eyes so I could get a better look at the owner of the soft voice, when I saw her, I couldn't believe a voice like that came from her.

She was taller than me by a good few inches, standing at 5"9, I felt instantly dwarfed by this girl whom I was expecting to me much shorter than me. I looked up to see her face, it was pale white, as if someone had chucked a bag of flour over her, but her hair was black, pitch black, blacker than Izaya's hair, her own ebony hair was pulled up into a high ponytail and she had her own outgrown bangs pulled over onto either side of her high cheek-boned face, framing it perfectly. Her blue-gray eyes stared intently at me, although they were soft, I had the impression that she wasn't as innocent as she seemed. She was the vision of tidiness, not a hair out of place, she smiled at me then, I guess she was a bit gullible too; I wasn't looking at her as if i were trying to be friendly, more sizing her up.

"Suzuki, Rei Suzuki!" She said meekly, she must have been brought up well, those manners were forced.

"Akiyama, Tomoko Akiyama." I parroted back, for decency's sake.

"Nice name, " She said with a smile "So, you never answered my question," she probed.

"I guess I didn't, no I am not checking out the "eye-candy" but I am checking out the fight,"I replied to her, this friendship lark was easy, and she was taking the bait, it's amazing how all I have got to do is turn on the charm and I have people practically throwing themselves at me, didn't they learn not to trust so easily?

"Oh, well thats what I'm doing, I like the look of that blond, whew he is irresistible!" she breathed, the lust practically dancing in her eyes. Talk about comical, she was practically dribbling, I wouldn't have been surprised if her nose had started bleeding but maybe I had just watched too much anime.

"My bet is that the blond is going to win," she chattered excitedly, she didn't have a mute button sadly.

"What, Shizuo Heiwajima? Naah, I think it's going to be Izaya Orihara." I said simply, turning to walk off when I was literally pounced on and bombarded with question.

"You know them? Will you introduce me?! Will you set me up with the blond?! Do you think they will like me?! Oh my gosh, you are my new best friend forever."

If I wasn't going to break this stupid obsessive girl in the future, I would have probably smacked her round the face and told her to shut up and back off, but I just smacked a smile on my face and turned and spoke to her in the best bubbly voice I could muster.

"I'm not cupid, but I will do my best!" Before dashing it down the stairs as the bell rung for the end of the day and take off after Izaya, it was as I was running that the idea stuck me, set Rei up with Shizuo and turn them against each-over using none other than me.

So for the next few months I had to deal with the socially awkward Shizuo and the over obsessive Rei, lady luck seemed to favour me seeing as the end of term dance was fast approaching and my plan was finally falling together.

Shizuo and I were stuck in Math detention together; I had sat across the room from him staring out the window, swaying my feet lazily on the table in front of me when his voice disturbed my thoughts.

"Hey, Tomoko..." he began. "So, er, you see that, er... don't worry..." he broke off. I turned around to face him, seeing him look red would have been a picture for an album but I choked down my laugh

"No, no, you have my attention, I'm interested, curious what-not and anyway, I'm not a cat so I won't get killed..." I purred to him, giving him my best half smile and making my eyes go all big, play innocent I thought to myself.

"Well, it's just that I wondered, oh y'know that dance, well, I wondered, if you wanted to, if you would want to go with...me?" He stammered.

"Awh, thanks Shizzy, but I'm not much of a fan of dancing," I lied drastically "Anyway, I don't want to dash the dreams of a particular young girl who would kill to go with you..." I said, trying my best to sound all sweet.

"You're going with someone already...aren't you?" He asked softly, his face now a shade similar to Izaya's eyes.

"No, like a say, not much of a dancer me." I said, looking and the clock and deciding it was time to leave. "Пока!" I called, as I walked out the door, giving him a little wave.

"You're Russian?!" Shizuo shouted, sounding amazed "I never knew that..."

"Well you learn something new every day huh?" I called back, before dashing down the corridor and out onto the courtyard, none other than Rei Suzuki was sitting there, waiting, though I guess she was waiting more for Shizuo than for me, I was probably her excuse.

"Is Shizuo still in there then?" She asked sounding disappointed, I comfirmed her disappointment with a nod.

"But guess what? Shizuo Heiwajima asked me to the dance!" I told her, I watched with an inward smirk was the blood drained from her face.

"Wha-what...did you..." She stammered, staggering a little, I found it amazing that Shizuo was oblivious to her affection towards him , he still put the "accidently on purpose" brush of hands down to an accident.

"I said no." I relived her of her pain, but changed it into anger. "Why would I want to go to a dance with a freak like that, I mean talk about a fairy elephant, I don't know what I would die of, being crushed to death or the embarrassment of turning up there with him." I said disgusted.

If looks could kill I would have been dead, but I just neatly skipped ahead and headed for home, ready for the fun that was about to begin, I didn't particularly feel bad about saying those things, I didn't have anything against Shizuo but he did make me feel a bit awkward, oh well at least that problem would be solved. The second I had gotten in, I informed my informant friend of the recent turn of events, and together we thought out a plan, in the background of the call, I could hear game pieces being moved, and the air around me had seemed to shift, it was most definitely the calm before the storm...

Chapter 8 will be up shortly! Ohhh Tomoko is up to trouble, what do you think she will do next? Oh and the Russian translates to "bye" if anyone was wondering.