Friday morning. Has it really been a whole week? no wonder I'm actually feeling used to life here. I lay in bed not wanting to get up yet. When the pounding came to the door as it always seemed to happen in the morning here.
"Good morning." It wasn't Rose? that was strange. "Touta! Wake up." I tried to place the voice, who is it? Not Pearl either? Someone else from the building...
"Lisa?" I guessed.
"Thats right." She giggled. "I have a surprise for you."
"What?" I said sitting up.
"Its a surprise. I can't tell you." Hm well that should have been an obvious answer.
"Give me a minute." It wasn't Rose so I wasn't to worried about what it was since she wasn't likely to have a crazy plan for my day in mind, I was just a little confused by her wanting me to come with her. I pulled on a new outfit quickly before heading out the door. Lisa was wearing one of her fetching outfits that I was still having trouble growing accustomed to, more lycra and leg wamers today. "Whats up?" I asked.
"Someone is here to see you." Could they have found me!? It didn't seem possible as I hadn't left any track of myself anywhere in Portland so far...But still they could have...
"Come on." She took my hand and led me to the other room. The room was oddly empty. Chief Yagami had to go back to work because of the disappearances. Pearl was watching television, for so a small child she sure watched a lot of news or tv in general. "Close your eyes." Lisa said.
"Whats going on?" Pearl asked looking up over the top of the couch.
"I really don't know." I said.
"Just close your eyes." Lisa said. I did so reluctantly.
"Now wait." I could hear her run to the door, pull it open and another person enter, both giggling. Who do I know who giggles?
"Open your eyes!" Lisa and the new girl yelled. I opened my eyes at the sound of this new voice, which I knew for sure was one I had heard many times. Now in the room standing next to my neighbor was Misa Amane...
"Matsu!" Misa yelled throwing her arms around me with her ever present enthusiasm.
"Misa what are you doing here?!"
"Well Misa was missing Matsu, so she came to see you." She said with a wide grin.
"But how did you find me?" There was no way that she could have done that on her own. Could the others be setting me up in some way? But what would make them use Misa for a task like that?
"Misa Misa is very smart." The two girls smiled.
"Whos she?" Pearl asked still on her perched spot on the couch.
"Shes a friend of mine from home." I guess thats what you could call Misa...
"Best friends!" Misa added with another giggle and wrapping her arms around me once more. The door flew open as Rose burst in closely followed by Bob as she always seemed to be.
"Who's the slut?" Rose asked not missing a beat.
"Don't call her a slut." I said granted she wasn't the most mature dresser, but that was still a little mean for someone Rose had never met.
"Shes your friend?" Rose asked. "Looking at her I would have thought that she was one of Lisa's friends for sure." Well they did seem to get along fairly good, which she was right that did figure as much.
"No Misa and Matsu are friends." The smaller blond stuck out her chest as though getting ready to fight that taller one.
"So are Rose and Matsu." She said with a slightly evil smile flipping her hair from her face as she turned to meet eyes with Pearl who laughed.
"Really?" Misa said kind of backing down, clearly she had missed the sarcasm, it was better that way.
"Yeah Rose and Matsu hang out all the time."
"Don't make fun." Bob said, for once the voice of reason in a situation. "That happens to be a famous Japanese model slash actress." Hm I didn't think there were tons of people outside Japan who knew that?
"Oh a slash." Rose now seemed to be unable to contain herself, the amount to make fun was apparently to much for her.
"You've heard of her?" Lisa asked obviously she hadn't.
"Yeah I'm a huge fan." Bob shrugged leaning against the door frame.
"I would not have called that." Lisa said she clearly didn't believe him and thought he to was making fun of the other girl.
"Me either." I said. Misa shock her head in agreement, but smiled and bobbed over to him.
"Do you want Misa's autograph?" She giggled at him.
"Maybe later." Bob said, Misa nodding her head.
"But we seem to have diverged from the initial reason we came over." Rose said.
"You had a reason?" Pearl asked.
"Yeah we were gonna go to the park today."
"Oh yeah!" Pearl jumped up from her spot and towards her two friends at the door.
"Want to come Touta?" Bob asked. "I know I can't think of anything more fun then that."
"Sure." I said. "Misa, Lisa how about you guys?"
"Misa wants come!" She said jumping up and down in a very childish way.
"It could be fun." Lisa said. "Why not." She shrugged. We all headed out to the car.
"I think we're one over." Lisa said doing a quick head count. "There are six of us."
"Pearl can sit on my lap." Bob offered.
"Are you calling me fat?" Rose asked.
"What are you talking about? In what way do you see any connection between those two statements?"
"You didn't offer me." She pouted at him.
"Oh in that case, yes your fat." He shot her a cocky smile.
"Hey!" She smacked his arm turning away.
"Rose would you like to sit on my lap?" Leaning in closer to try and make her turn back to look at him. She turned her head even more towards the car.
"No thank you." She said with mock anger.
"Pearl?" Bob turned back to the young girl who laughed.
"Sure." She said.
"Problem solved. By the way shoot gun!" He called racing towards the front passenger door before the blond girl could.
"No fair." Rose said.
"How so? I called it."
"Still." She said slowly seeming to try and think of a reason why that wasn't fair.
"What about Pearl?" I asked.
"What about her?" Bob didn't seem to see a flaw in sitting next to me.
"I thought she was going to sit with you."
"Yeah and she is. I still don't see what the problem is."
"Never mind." I climbed in the drivers seat, even though like always I had no idea where we were going. Bob and Pearl were next to me quickly and the three girls all piled into the back. Bob lead the way through side streets so not to make me take the highways I was not very found of, and we got there fairly quickly. We arrived in the park which was evidently located under a bridge and though it was louder than I would think most people liked parks, it was pretty with crisp green grass and tall over hanging trees. We all got out of the car.
"Can I go play?" Pearl asked. We all nodded not really sure who she was addressing. "Yah!" She ran off in the field playing some kind of game I didn't understand.
"Hey!" A girl called running in our direction. She was small with shoulder length dark hair, her dress which was oddly long for her how young she appeared to be reached all the way to her ankles.
"Hey Thelma!" Bob said hugging the newest girl. "This is Thelma." He introduced though it was hardly needed with his greeting.
"Hello." I said.
"Hi." Misa said. "Why are you wearing such a bad dress it makes Misa very sad to see it."
"Misa thats not very nice." Lisa sad. "You didn't like when Rose made fun of you." She pointed out in a tone that made it sound like she was talking to a little kid. Misa stuck out her lower lip out.
"True, but Misa is just stating the truth so that poor Thelma knows and doesn't think that that is a good dress." She probably really did think that she was being helpful, knowing Misa I knew she wasn't really heartless, just not very bright at times.
"Oh I know its not that normal." Thelma said. "But hey this is Portland."
"What does that mean?" Misa screwed up her face.
"Oh are you new here?" Thelma asked.
"Yeah Misa just moved here."
"Moved?" I said surprised, she hadn't mentioned that before had she?
"Yeah Misa is going to stay here." She said excitedly.
"What?" I tried to continue my inquiry but Rose butt in before I could.
"Anyone want to go hiking?" She asked loudly.
"Sure." Thelma said with an enthusiastic smile to the group.
"Someone come play tag!" Pearl yelled.
"I'll stay with Pearl." Lisa said.
"You two?" Bob offered.
"Misa doesn't like hiking."
"I'll stay with you." I offered.
"Yah." She said.
"Well were off then." Bob waved as they left.
"Lisa!" Pearl called.
"I guess I should go. Nothing like a game of tag." She ran over and tagged the younger girl.
"So Matsu." Misa said sitting down. "Why are you all the way here?"
"Why are you?" I asked back to her, she rolled her eyes with a laugh.
"No fair Misa asked first."
"Yeah, but its a little weird you showing up and all."
"Misa can't come and visit her good friend Matsu."
"Really?"
"No, I'm here to see someone else but I heard that you were here so I came to see you."
"And your planing to stay?"
"Misa's gonna move in with him, her friend not Matsu." She assured me quickly.
"Oh I see." There did seem to be a lot of people we knew here, it made some sense.
"So Misa's turn, why is Matsu here?"
"I needed some time away from work."
"Mastu doesn't like work?"
"Not really theses days."
"Everyone was really worried, they even called Misa to see if she had heard anything." She giggled. "Oh I was told if I saw you to pass on a message."
"What was it?"
"Call Motichi immediately or he is going to kill you." She said in her best Aizawa voice.
"I guess I can do that. If they were calling you they must be pretty desperate." I laughed. She nodded.
"Thats what Misa thought." I was suddenly hit by a weight as Pearl threw herself on my lap.
"I'm on base!" She yelled.
"Theres no base!" Lisa yelled.
"Then I need a break." Pearl said moving to the ground.
"Ok then." Lisa sat down as well. "So... How do you two know each other?" She signaled the two of us.
"Work I guess." I said. "How about Thelma? How do you guys know her?" She must have come to meet us here since she was already in the park when we arrived.
"Shes dating Bobs roommate." Lisa said. "You still haven't met him have you?" I shook my head. "I'm sure you will, you can't miss him. Hes got a... Presences."
"Hes mean and loud." Pearl corrected.
"But Thelma is really nice." Lisa said. "They balance."
"True." Pearl said. "Like Bob and Rose."
"There a couple?" I asked. Pearl and Lisa laughed.
"Of course." Lisa said. "But they are so much more normal since they got each other."
"Rose normal?" That was not a statement I ever expected to hear.
"More normal." Lisa corrected. "She used to wear wooden clogs and swim in duck pounds, that kind of crazy."
"Really?"
"Oh yeah. And Bob he just didn't do much at all. So I think that they have really helped each other." Lisa said. "Anyways... Off break." She tagged Pearl. "Your it."

Near
Days and there had been no real progress. We were trying to find him in anyway possible, but apparently he was untraceable. Our teams had actually taken a whole day putting up posters claiming that he was a missing person, which was more our less true. There were phones set up around the room taking calls, not that anyone had any real information that could possibly help us.
"Near." I looked over at Aizawa.
"Yes Mr. Aizawa?"
"I was wondering if you had another plan. I mean if no one calls."
"Optimistic I see." I said rolling my eyes. "Of course I have other plans but I think that at this time we should be handling this as low key as possible. I'm sure that you don't want to make a big scene, do you Mr. Aizawa?"
"No I don't, I just want us to find him." One of the phones rang, Ide answered. We all watched.
"Hello." He said. "You saw him...When was that.. And your sure it was him... and where was that... and you have reason to believe that he will be there tomorrow... thank you so much." He hung up the phone smiling.
"Good news I suppose." I said.
"Yeah that woman said that hes working at a market downtown. She said that she had talked to him and that he should be there tomorrow."
"Well it looks like we don't need another plan, now do we?" I said.