I do not own the R.O.D characters, owned by the respectful owners. I own Shuffles, no stealing! First R.O.D fic, be nice Please? Dman it! Sorry, just all the times when I uploaded it it wouldnt let the indents show up, so I'm sorry if they don't ; Not my fault! Just to let you know that!

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A lone figure stood on the edge of a cliff that hung over a city gazing off into the distance

"One day, I'll get you" it muttered shuffling a deck of cards constantly "I promise you that" with that it strode off into the city.

After folding a paper crane and letting it flutter away, Yomiko Readman watched as her friend Nancy stared at the flying paper bird in awe

"Sugoi!" Nancy said reaching up to touch the fluttering crane. Yomiko smiled and conentrated on making the paper land on her friend's finger. Before the crane landed, a black icicle tore through the paper crane and struck Nancy through her chest

"Nancy-san!" Yomiko cried and flew to her friend's side.

Nancy's eyes were starting to grow dark and the color leaked away from her face as the blood poured from the wound.

Drawing a piece of paper from her travel case, she quickly surveyed the area and dragged Nancy behind the bench

"Show yourself!" she ordered only to have a gaint black icicle tear through the bench reducing it to splinters, luckily, the icicle missed both Nancy and herself, dodging another icicle, she threw the paper into a nearby tree. She quickly grabbed more paper when she saw something black streak from the tree before a couple of branches were hacked off, seeing one icicle falling directly above her and used the paper as a shield, suddenly, it began raining gaint icicles.

"Nancy!" throwing what paper she was using as a shield to protect Nancy, an icicle flew down and slashed her trenchcoat sleeve, gripping her arm and falling on one knee, anotehr barrage of icicles flew towards her

"This is it," she thought, "Here is where I die, and I still havn't finished reading that book yet..." Squeezing her eyes shut there was a flash of red and a wave of heat. Then, there was nothing.

Yomiko opened her eyes to see a dark red cloaked person with a hat standing in front of her, remember Nancy, she dashed to her side

"Nancy!" she called "Nancy-san!" tears began to well up in her eyes, then there was a shadow over her

"Excuse me..." it muttered, drawing a single playing card and pulling it's glove off with it's teeth, it made a sweeping motion near it's hand and watched it's blood run freely. Bending down beside Nancy, the person reached out to the black icicle still wedged in her body. On instinct, Yomiko threw one remaining piece of paper at the stranger only to watch it stop in mid air as soon as it left her fingers, the stranger raised a hand

"Don't worry, there is no need for violence," the person said and and closed their hand firmly, Yomiko nodded and watched at the paper crumble itself into a ball and begin burning into ashes.

Placing the bleeding hand on the black icicle, it quickly melted into water splashing over Nancy. Then taking out a deck of cards, shuffled them once and pulling a card from the deck, set it over Nancy's bleeding wound

"Queen of hearts" the person said and Yomiko gasped as Nancy's spilt blood began seeping back into her body and the wound closed. A couple of moments later, nancy's eyes fluttered open

"What-" she said weakly "Yomiko-chan?"

"Nancy-san!" Yomiko cried throwing her arms around the blue haired woman, then turned to where the mysterious person was only to find them gone.

"I didn't even get ot say thank you" she said looking around

"Are you ok Yomiko-chan?" Nancy asked, Yomiko turned ot her friend and smiled

"Hai" she said then thought "Who was that person? I didn't even see their face"

Joker sat at his desk sipping a cup of tea when there was a small ringing, Joker lazily pressed a button and a screen slid down with The Paper's anxious face on it.

"Joker-san!" she said excited "Nancy-san was attacked at teh hospital" Joker's eyebrows arched in interest

"Go on"

"During the attack, a strange person came and revived Nancy from the brink of death" she continued "Using playing cards!"

"Hm," Joker said sipping his tea again "I shall see into this, thank you The Paper"

"Hai"

"Meanwhile, report to DIET headquarters" he ordered "I'll get Mr. Drake here too"

"Roger" and with that, the screen went blank. Joker sighed and finished his tea

"Well, better get to work" he said and heard a soft knock on the door "Ah, Wendy!"

"Yes Joker-san?" she asked walking in, Joker silently counted down the seconds with his fingers.

Three.

Two.

Once.

Wendy squeaked triping on the corner of the rug and then quickly scrambled to her feet brushing herself off

"Yes?"

"I need more tea please" Joker said smiling. Wendy nodded furiously

"Hai, hai" with that she left the room.

Drake Anderson was molding a pot in his hands, All was peaceful. His daughter was watching intently while his wife was in the living room reading. Watcing the pot forming, he had nearly finished when his cell phone suddenly rang. Jumping up in surprise making the pot sag into itself, he quickly stopped his pottery wheel and groaned

"Jeez I thought I turned that thing off..." he wiped his hands on his apron and picked up his phone.

"Uh huh, yeah, ok..." he said, then his eyes widened

"Daddy why are your eyes all big and round?" hi daughter asked curiously

"Nothing nothing!" he said smiling then growled into the phone "I hate you Joker, you know that?" he heard Joker chuckle and hang up.

After packing a few things and bidding his family farewell, Drake set off to meet The Paper.

"God I really hate that Joker..." he grumbled shoving his hands in his pockets while waiting for a light to change to cross the street. When the light finally changed and he began walking across, he smirked

"Well," he thought "At least I'll have some fun" he reached the other end of the street and waited for another light to change. Then he heard a humming sound, as he strained to hear over the city noises, it started to sound like a car engine speeding. He shrugged it off, but as he was crossing, he saw a small boy wandering into the street following a bubble that floated in the air. Hearing the hum again, he looked at the otehr street and saw a bright red car speeding, just nearly upon the child.

Before he could move, something dark red streaked past him towards the boy.

"What the-?" he rushed ot the end of the street and began to step onto the road

"Stay where you are!"

There was the screaming of metal, the boys mother and the driver as the car scrunched together like a pop can. Steam poured out of what was left of the car's hood and something smelled like it was burning. When most of the steam cleared, they saw a clear picture of what had happened.

"Now I've seen everything" Drake said shocked.

There was a red cloaked strange boy with a hat holding the little trembling child in one arm with the other hand pressed against the grid of the car

"You shouldn't drive so fast," the stranger said tossing his head slightly to move his hair revealing one of his eyes, which glowed a ruby red "You could hurt somebody" Removing his hand while leaving the imprint of it in the car, he strode over to the boys mother

"I believe he is yours?" he said handing to boy to the mother who was in tears of fright and joy. The mysterious boy walked over the the scrunched car and with a playing card, cut open where the door might have been and pulled out the dazed and shocked driver.

"Anything broken?" the boy asked, the driver quickly backed away

"Y-You are Satan! Get away from me Devil!" he screamed and ran away into the crowd. Drake looked at the driver run and looked back at the wreckage to find the boy had left

"Whoa..." he said and felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Kinnichiwa Drake-san!" Yomiko said cheerfully and stared at the ruined, mangled car

"Oh my! What happened?"

"Some guy nearly turned a kid into road kill" Drake explained "But then this weird kid stepped in grabbing the kid and crushing the car with one hand"

"Really?" Yomiko asked amazed "How'd he look like?" As Drake listed off a few of the things, Yomiko began hopping foot to foot anxiously

"That's the person!" she sai "The person who saved Nancy-san!"

"What? Seriously? Stop confusing me woman" Drake asked raising his eyebrows

"Yes! Joker-san said he'd look into it and to go to DIET" Yomiko said

"Well we better get going then" Drake said shoving his hands in his pocket's once more.

At HQ, Yomiko and Drake waited in a room for Joker to come. Drake tapped his foot impatiently

"The Joker better hurry up before I beat him to a pulp if he get's here..." he growled picking up an apple that was lying in a fruit display and began tosing it in the air. Yomiko was silently reading her book with a funny smile on her face. After a couple more moments of silence, the door slowly opened and Joker began to step in

"Hello you two-" he then screamed as Mr. Drake whipped around and tossed the apple at his direction. Closing the door to avoid getting hit and hearing a loud thud, he slowly reopened it to see it Mr. drake would hurl anymore fruits at him, and when he found out that he wasn't going to at that moment, stepping into the room closing the door behind him and looked at the door to see the apple wedged into the wood of the door.

"'Bout time you showed up" Mr. Drake said

"Sorry, but-" he paused in font of Yomiko and pulled the book out of her hands. She blinked and looked around her and saw Joker holding her book

"Oh hello Joker-san!" she said then looked at where the apple was still wedged "What happened to the door?"

"Nevermind about that"

"So there has been an attack?" Drake asked

"Yes, but the problem is, we don't know who is behind it" Joker said "So that's why we called you here"

"To babysit Nancy?" Drake said sarcasticly while grinning

"Great idea Mr. Drake!" Yomiko said jumping form the couch "We'll do exactly that!"

"What?!"

"Excellent" Joker said "But first, I'd like you to meet your new partner, Wendy?"

Exactly on cue, Wendy came in followed by...

"You!" Yomiko and Drake both exclaimed at teh same time jumping up to their feet.

"This is one of our newest agents" Joker explained "Meet Agent Shuffles"

There in the doorway stood a boy standing over five foot five in height wearing a blood red cloak with a poncho a lighter color of the blood red over it with a brown cap that was tilted to the side hiding his right eye. His left eye was a ruby red that seemed to glow and in his hands, was a deck of playing cards that he shuffled over and over again.

Authors notes: Damn it! As soon as I watched Read Or Die with my friends, I've just gotten addicted to it! I know I haven't been working on my other fanfics lately, but I'll get righ to them! I'm on a roll here! But I asure you, I will get to work on those otehr fics. HOpe you like this! BYE!