*Revised in Places. Thanks for the correction guys, they help more than you think. 3

AN: August 17th is my birthday! Fuck yeah! Some of Sao's past is revealed here. Like some of her name and what she looks like. I'll try and get a picture of my Skyrim toon which she's based off of up soon. Also I played Wolf quest and named my puppies Shaundi, Johnny, Carlos, and Pierce. Shaundi died and Pierce is super white while Johnny is black. I think I got my pups mixed up :3 Carlos is just perfect.

"Any luck at finding her yet?" Johnny asked, sitting at Sao's old desk. He had directed this question to Kinzie. She began to shake her head then stopped herself.

"Wait. I'm scanning. I have been the past five hours. You can't expect results from nothing." Kinzie said, running a scan over Stilwater to be sure. It was the last city on ger list and she had indeed picked up a slight trace. She waited a while to see if it'd grow larger and listened to the arguement at hand.

"I don't see why you need to find her. Just drop it, she's a stupid, selfish whore," Shaundi spat, "I mean, you have me."

"Oh fuck off, Shaundi! I told you already, she's basically the closest thing I have to family left. We're pretty fucking close. Kinzie... Trace?"

"Hmm," she murmured then nodded,"Stilwater... Call Pierce and tell him to watch out for her... She just used a cellphone to call your old number, Johnny. Shouldn't of changed it. The trace is huge. It's by the district with the Mall."

Johnny's eyes widened and he rushed out the room. Kinzie had found traces of her before but nothing important like this.

And, Gat knew exactly where to find her.

Sao walked down the street wearing a hoodie and sweatpants and Nike shoes. The hoodie's hood was flipped up to hide her face and the sweats were baggy to disguise her form (not very well, I might add). Even though she redyed her hair to its original fire truck red color and ditched the green contacts to let her yellow eyes show, she didn't want to risk being recognized. She realized she had stopped and shook her head, continuing on along the street.

"Hey baby!" some idiot said, making a fatal mistake of saying this to Th- Sao. He even spun her around, asking if she wanted to have some fun. She growled lowly and punched him right on the nose, picking his arms up and repeatedly kicking his side before flipping him onto the ground. She stomped his back once and walked away as if nothing happened. She had used the Ronin fighting style without noticing, which was a mistake.

Pierce grinned from afar and rang up Johnny, "Guess who I found."

Meanwhile, Kinzie was watching the Stilwater traffic cameras and other such cameras and managed to briefly see Sao. Her hood had fallen down and her brightly colored hair and face was exposed. She had quickly recovered her face and texted Gat with the news. He'd be pleased. Shaundi would not, though. Johnny and Shaundi got back together for some idiotic reason, since they wouldn't work out. But if you asked Shaundi, she'd say it was obvious.

But, since when has Shaundi not been a liar?

Shaundi wasn't happy about finding Sao at all due to Sao's outburst at her before she left. Shaundi scoffed when she thought about it. Obviously, Shaundi wasn't to be blamed. It was the stupid bitch who yelled at her who had to be blamed for everything. Like Johnny breaking up with her. Because who would break up with Shaundi? She's perfect.

As soon as Johnny heard the news, he was going back to Stilwater to try and find Sao. He had a lot to explain and so did she. She had more to explain than he did, though. Johnny also knew when she talked about her 'love life' to put it that way; she got really shy about it, even when talking to Johnny. And, they were extremely close at that. In fact, they had gotten so drunk one night that Sao ended up getting Johnny's name on her right tit and Johnny got her real name on his lower left abdomen section. Sao hid her tattoo from him and acted as if the name on his chest meant nothing to her.

That is, until he saw her tattoo when he walked into her bedroom on a day she decided to sleep naked.

They tried not to mention it, but Johnny would occasionally make a comment about her tits to Pierce and Sao would glare daggers at both of them. It wasn't her fault Gat walked into her bedroom without knocking as she was sleeping and got an eyeful.

Well, the point is that Sao was very secretive of her personal life unless pissed off, and then she starts screaming out secrets that she figured needed to be said. Such as her previous outburst to Shaundi.

Both Johnny and Sao shook their heads as if they were synced together. They each had the tattoo memory at the same time and both of them had a faint smile on their face.

Sao's quickly diminished as the guy she had fucked up earlier had got some of his buddies and they were charging at her. It was time to let her old extremely violent self out that not even Johnny knew.

'Welcome back Thorne,' she thought, letting her old self out to begin defending herself while Sao had time to think.

- I'd like to clear up this fact. Thorne is her birth name and who she was before she met Julius ad became Sao. Thorne was extremely skilled at protecting herself when she needed to, something that Sao sort of lacked. Sao was more of the offense part and Thorne is the defense part. They are the same person, just different mindsets. Did I explain it well enough? Oh, and happy birthday to me.-