"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" The woman screams before breaking into a run.

"What the hell?!" Rika growls before continuing her pursuit into an alley.

"Wait! Mom!" Rika cries out desparately when suddenly a shadow with red eyes appears in front of Rika stopping her in her tracks. The mysterious figure strikes to attack Rika who just barely dodges.

"I don't have time for you!" Rika screams angrily taking the intruder by the wrist and flipping her into a pile of garbage.

"Wait! Fujihata Sayo!" Rika continues to chase after her own mother. After another 5 minutes of running, Rika finally corners the woman into a wall.

"…Mom…Is that you?"

"I don't know who the hell you are! You're a debt collector aren't you? I told you I'd pay by the end of the week, just leave me alone!" The woman screamed.

"Mom calm down! It's me, Rika!"

"I'm sorry but you must be mistaken, I've never seen you in my life,"

"But-"

"Look I once had a daughter and I know my husband died from drugs leaving me in debt. But my daughter died after her father had died. Looking at the way you're dressed, you're a debt collector blackmailing me!"

"..How could you say that?! You left me out to die and yet you deny it!? Why-!?" Rika stops her strings of screams when she realizes a knife is sticking out of her lower abdomen. Turning around she sees the same shadow from the alleyway. Pulling the knife out, the slasher disappears. The woman took this chance to run as Rika falls to the ground in pain.

"Stop leaving me behind damnit!" She cries holding out a hand as the woman grows smaller and smaller in her blurred vision.

"You're always leaving me behind…"


Rika wakes up the next day to find herself in the hospital. Looking under her shirt, she sees bandages before remembering what had happened. Curling up into a ball, Rika starts to tremble. Not in fear or agony, but in rage. Suddenly her cell phone beeps on the table next to her. She opens it to find a text from Kaoru.

'Sorry I couldn't make it, I had to go back to town for urgent business, hope you didn't get into too much trouble!'

"Go f*ck yourself," Rika grumbles at the phone before throwing it away.

"…This is definitely Izaya's doing…"


"Going to see him now," Rika hums once she's released from the hospital. She makes it all the way to the building where Izaya resides. She enters and after many doors and keys and locks, she finally gets to him. There, she sees Izaya sitting in his chair smirking at her as if he was just waiting for her to arrive.

"Well? How did your little reunion go?" He smiles sinisterly.

"It didn't go quite as expected," Rika shrugs before smiling and sitting up on his desk.

"Is this why you wanted to know what my mother's name was the last time we had a decent talk?" Rika cocks her head slightly at Izaya's sly smirk.

"Ah, I don't know what you're talking about!" He starts to laugh before Rika leans in and whispers.

"Thank you," Smiling in triumph, she hops off his desk and makes her way out the door.

"Toodles~" She waves slightly before exiting leaving Izaya alone in his room to think.

"What an interesting human reaction," He starts to chuckle and that chuckle turns into something more maddening.

"You may just be my favorite human indeed!" He laughs psychotically. Namie walks in to see Izaya laughing uncontrollably. Her facial stays the same as she turns around and walks out of the room.


"You alright?" Shizuo asks Rika as they are in the park and inhales a large breath of smoke.

"Yeah, they told me I should stop smoking for now but hey, living on the wild side," Rika shrugs and crosses her arms as she told Shizuo what had happened.

"That flea," He growls while snapping his cigarette.

"Shizuo, if you're going to be breaking my cigarettes, you need to pay for them at least," Rika sighs but then smiles.

"It's ok, come on, let's go take a walk around, cool your head," Rika pulls on his arm and they start to walk around.

"I would tell you to be careful because of this slasher/saika thing but considering it's you, I don't think you'll have a problem,"

"Yeah, I'll kill him," Shizuo starts to bounce and Rika sighs.

"Why are you so cute?" Rika sighs wiggling around in awe before laughing. She threw cigarette on the ground before stepping on it lightly. Shoving her hands into her pockets she looks up into the night sky.

"I wonder where mom is now?" Rika mumbles out loud.

"Huh?"

"Oh sorry! It's nothing! Really!"

"Damn, now I'm pissed off," Shizuo grunts before stalking off.

"W-What?! Where are you going! Shizuo!"


"…Are seriously coming here…Just to punch him," Rika holds her head in aggravation as they stand in front of Izaya's building.

"Izaayaaa-kuuun, let's plaaaay," Shizuo walks into the building.

"…I'm staying outside then," Rika leans against the wall when suddenly Izaya comes out and flings his razor out, almost cutting Rika.

"Woah there! Watch where you swing that thing!" Rika stares at a lock of her air on the ground that was cut off.

"Oh, you're here too?" Izaya raises a brow.

"I was with Shizuo until he got pissed and wanted to punch you," Rika explains before widening her eyes at the sight of Shizuo pulling out a metal beam from the ground.

"Seriously?" Both Izaya and Rika said simultaneously. Rika backs off for Shizuo to hit Izaya when suddenly Celty appears and stops them. Shizuo then hops onto Celty's motorcycle and they ride away.

"Seriously, how is an idiot like him so smart," Izaya scoffs.

"Because he's so f*cking kawaii," Rika responds.

"But that's exactly why I hate him," He smiles eerily and Rika stares at him weirdly.

"Because he's cute?!"


"Shizuo!" Rika yells when she finally finds him. Which was on the ground laughing madly with an entire crowd around him shaking in fear.

"Shizuo?" She takes a step back.

"It finally did what I wanted it to do!" He laughs while shaking a fist in the air.

"…Come on, let's go," Rika sighs before putting a hand on his shoulder and smiles.

"Good job,"