A/N: Sry if I freak out too much about reviews that tell me on what I can improve on. I'm not really used to it. I mean, older people do know more than I can possibly hope for….TSSC cheered me up. (Thanks!) So here's chapter 5 and sry if my story sounded a little flat in places, I try to fix what people say in reviews that sounded weird. I edited bits and fragments in my other chapters. Anyways, here's chapter 5!

Chapter 5: "Am I dreaming?"

Narita, Tokyo:

Beat was on his bed; still dazed looking. His eyes were deep in sorrow and guilt. Mostly all the shine in his eye wasn't there. He still couldn't believe that he had shot Gum; the woman he held most dear. But he know if he didn't kill her, his father or one of his father's associates would do it sooner or later; his fate sealed either way: kill or not kill. He felt like shit right now.

"Gum….." Beat then began to remember how he first met her.

Flashback\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

Two years ago….

Dogenzaka Hill:

"huff…huff"

Gum skated down an alley way, desperately trying to lose her pursuers.

"Where'd that bitch go?" a keisatsu asked.

"When we find her, we'll make sure her and her gang gets locked up in jail and never see the light of day again." replied another officer.

"Goddamnit, if they find me, I'm caught…"

"There she is! Get her!"

Gum quickly turned around and saw about six officers standing there. She saw that they were coming at her and tried to run away. But due to being too exhausted because of her earlier fight with another group of keisatsu and having reinforcements every now and then, her legs wouldn't move.

As the keisatsu came nearer, Gum closed her eyes and lent her head against the wall, waiting for them to slap the cuffs on her. But she heard them all fall down followed by the sound of spray paint and a small chuckle that sounded like a guy. When Gum opened her eyes, she saw a boy no older than she was standing there. He had reddish-brown hair, headphones similar to a graffiti soul's, teal goggles, a neon yellow shirt with the katakana of "Beat" on the front, along with black sleeves that had a "L" and "R" on the sleeves, black gloves, black pants and to top off his attire, black skates with the katakana of his name on them

"Are you alright, miss?" asked the boy.

Gum could only nod her head saying that she was fine. She couldn't believe that a complete stranger just saved her from being thrown in jail for the rest of her life. Beat held out his hand to her to help her up. She grabbed his hand and he helped her to her feet.

"I'm Beat"

"I'm gum….thanks for saving me I guess…." Gum looked away noticing that she was blushing. "he's cute!...what am I saying? I'm acting like a crazed school girl…" Quickly returning to her tough girl attitude she looked at him with her usual face.

" You're on GG territory you know?" she said in her normal tone.

Beat becoming surprised about her sudden change of tune and returned to normal as well.

" Yea, but Dogenzaka Hill belongs to me. Tell you what, If you beat me in a race around Dogenzaka hill, then it's yours. But, if you lose, you and your friends are gonna listen to me from now on, got it?" Beat said with a smirk.

"You're on!" Gum said with her game face on.

Seconds later….

"3…2….1….GO!" DJ Professor K's voice echoed through the ears of both Gum and Beat as they took off down the hill.

/End Flashback\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

"The good old days…" Beat thought. "before everything wrong went happened after Rokkaku Gouji died and all the yakuza wanted economic power over the government, before they killed everyone else and took me away, while "they" took gum away from me." Beat then shook all thoughts from his head and then fell into an uncomfortable sleep.

Shibuya General Hospital:

The warm inviting rays of sunshine awoke Gum the next morning. "Ugh…" Gum reacted by the blinding rays of the sun. "Where….where am I?" Gum then opened her eyes and she noticed that was in a white room. To her right was window on one side of the room that had white curtains. Suddenly remembering what happened to her the day before, she glanced at her arm and noticed an I.V. needle hooked into her arm along with medical bracelets, and she was wearing a pair of white pants and a shirt. Sitting up, she shook out her hair and noticed a sharp pain in her neck.

"What-... what happened?" Gum felt the back of her neck. She felt a scar that ran from the bottom of her neck to her head and remembered the night before.

/Flashback:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

"Goddamnit, how does dad manage to do all this shit?" Gum sighed, filling out a few sheets of paper work. Suddenly she heard a loud "bang" and before she could turn around, a sharp pain hit her neck as she fell to the floor with a hard thud. Before loosing consciousness, she saw a black figure that was shaped somewhat like Beat and then it went black……

/End Flashback\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

"No…Beat….It can't be….."

Author's Note: wipes head whew!...I actually cured my writer's block case and finished this chappie! More will come soon, I promise. R&R plz, thanx!