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Chapter 2

I Met The Two Monsters

The next morning Cecilia woke up brutally because of a nightmare she had.

" It's only the first day, and I have nightmares? What the hell." She complained as she threw the sheets off her annoyed. Being scared was ok, not being able to sleep was not. Rest was something important.

She got dressed and got down for breakfast. The only good thing that the nightmare did was to wake her up early at 8. Saya was so excited to see her that she offered her a huge plate, full of food for breakfast. Cecilia smiled awkwardly as she looked down on her plate. She couldn't eat that much.

"I know that you aren't used at eating a lot, but you keep in mind that from now on you will be eating regularly! Plus you need to gain some weight! You are so skinny! How did you survive there for so long?"

"Um...i guess I was lucky… " Cecilia smile awkwardly.

"Of course you were! Eat up! Eat up!" Saya smiled warmly and kept counting Cecilia's bites. Very comfortable for Cecilia, that's for sure. "So while you are eating, I will tell you some things about the city so pay attention! FIRST! The best sushi in this part of Tokyo is the Russian sushi so go there sometime. SECOND! You have to stay away from some people. The first one is named Orihara Izaya and the second one is Heiwajima Shizuo. Those two are very dangerous guys. Izaya is an information broker and a big manipulator. Shizuo is a crazy strong guy who can even lift a track!" Cecilia almost choked on her food. " You will recognize them as they are always fighting each other. I don't know why but it seems like they hate each other! You know last year they had this huge fight, and they both ended pretty badly wounded! They say that Shizuo's girlfriend stabbed Izaya. Oh, such love!" The owner said dreamy and continued. "THIRD! This is something like a secret, but there is a famous underground doctor, name Kishitani Shinra. He is an excellent doctor and like you and me and the rest that came here and has second names, we can't just go to the hospital. So you better go talk to him one day. Tell him that I send you! And LAST! There is also the headless rider! And when I said headless, I mean it! He doesn't have a head! There is smock coming out of his neck! It's amazing! I don't know about him. But you better be cautious around him."

'A monster? Wow.' Cecilia thought as she placed her chopsticks on the table.

Saya kept babbling and giving more info trying to make her new friend as comfortable as possible. She managed to get out of that wrecked city alive after all, so she deserved it. Once Saya finished her lecture Cecilia was able to ask some questions herself.

"About that information broker you told me. What else do we know about him?"

The owner looked at her with a weird look, but at the end, she answered her question. "Well, it is known that he has two sisters. Crazy those two and twins. Also, he is well known for having connections with the yakuza. Dangerous things. Also, he likes to play with other people's lives, so stay away from him at any cost!"

This last sentence kept echoing at Cecilia's head while she was wandering around Ikebukuro, after breakfast, looking for a job. If she wanted to get her own place and leave the hotel, she needed cash and asap. "According to Saya-san, I could find a job by reading a newspaper… " She looked around to find a store or something where she could get one, but she didn't find anything in the next 30 minutes of walking until she finally noticed one paper sitting alone under a tree. She hurried and took it, ignoring the fact, that right next to it, was its owner sleeping. She walked away like a cat, without a sound, and disappeared into the crowd.

"Too easy… let's see… they need a cashier… nope...walk out dogs? I hate dogs… shooter? Nuh, I am no good with long distance guns… an assistant at the TV station? Fuck no! Too dangerous..." She kept checking the column for jobs until she threw the paper away as nothing was in her taste. But she didn't lose hope, so she decided to look again on another paper. Until noon she had read like five to seven different papers, but there was no job which she could be at a high place and not be seen too much by others. She started to feel depressed until she listened to two people talking behind her in a somber tone yet having a heated conversation.

"Boss! I can't go alone! I am afraid of heights, and that guy just quit! And it's getting dark too! I am not going there alone!" Said the younger of the two men. He was wearing a full body cloth, dark blue and was holding a bucket. The other man was much older, short, fat but his face was kind.

"Oh my, oh my… now what? I don't have anyone else available today, and this client is one of our best clients! What are we going to do?" That old man was in distress. Then Cecilia broke into the conversation so naturally that you would think she was already part of it all the time.

"I am not afraid of heights, and I am currently looking for a job. Should I go with him instead?" Her tone was serious and professional but also kind and offering. The older guy looked at her with a desperate expression.

"Are you available now?" He asked with some hope. Cecilia nodded. "You are hired! Kotarou take her to get changed into the right clothes and go to the client immediately. Oh yeah! Your name?"

"I am Kendo, Kendo Cecilia. Nice to meet you."

"Oh, nice to meet you too! My name is Aida Akihiro. I am the owner of the cleaning company 'Fast and Clean.' That guy here is Asari Kotarou."

"Nice to meet you Kendo-san," Kotarou said kindly.

"And about your payment. You will get paid with every client." The owner continued.

"O-ok…"

"Now go to work!"

Cecilia bowed and followed Kotarou to the company's building to get dressed and informed about the job's responsibilities. Once ready she followed Kotarou to the client's house. Kotarou was a guy at his 25, married with a kid. He was working to support his family. According to him, this job was paying good so he could support his family. That warmed Cecilia's heart. According to Kotarou, their job was to clean everything and everywhere without asking any kind of questions. They would clean from houses and office buildings to murder scenes and battlefields between yakuza groups.

"That sounds amusing, but aren't you afraid for your family?" She asked concerned. Doing dangerous jobs to feed your family was a common thing in Yogsai-City.

"No as long as I smile and follow orders, and of course keep my mouth shut. By the way, have you ever heard about our client?"

"No."

"Ah! Let me tell you then! Orihara Izaya is one of our best clients. He has also suggested us to many of our current clients. He is an information broker, you know, he sells information. He also works for Yakuza. Now, this is a dangerous job. But himself, in general… he is a dangerous person. You don't want him as your enemy."

"I see…"

Cecilia stopped talking from that moment and let Kotarou talk alone. She didn't really want to talk but kept in mind all the info her partner gave her freely. She liked chatty characters. They talk without understanding the value of the information they give. Unfortunately, many of them end up dead, for that exact reason. Regardless Kotarou just went on and on about previous jobs of his this time. He didn't stop talking until they found themselves out of Izaya's apartment. They rang the bell, and the door was answered by a young, attractive woman with long black hair and a cold expression on her face.

"Hello hello hello! We are from 'Fast and Clean'! We came to clean as requested by Mr. Orihara. We may come in?" Kotarou asked with a bright smile as the woman allowed him to enter the house with Cecilia following him.

'Really… how much do they pay him to act like that?' The girl mentally questioned herself. 'I hope a lot because this was embarrassing.' She smirked and started to examine the apartment. It was a huge one. It made her wonder how was this even possible?

"Ok. Here are the keys. So do your job!" Said the woman who had opened the door for them and left. Cecilia didn't even bother to look at her or say goodbye. She was absorbed by the beauty of the apartment.

"Cecilia-san! You can explore the house while cleaning it." Kotarou joked and threw her a cloth to use.

In a couple of hours, the whole house was as good as new. The windows were shining, the furniture looked like new, the floor and the stairs were clean and sparkly, and the whole place was tidy and fresh. Even the bookcase was cleaned. Of course, the windows and the bookcase were cleaned by Cecilia alone as Kotarou was afraid of the heights. The whole reason Cecilia was accepted to do the job. Once they were done, they looked at the house, Cecilia from the top of the stairs and Kotarou from the base.

"Wow! It's gorgeous! Well done!" Said the male worker as he withdrew to the kitchen on the first floor. The girl walked back to the bedroom. The room was huge and spacious. It had a bed in the middle with gray pillows, a big wardrobe at the side and its own bathroom. There was also a balcony from where you could see the city. She felt a little jealous of the guy as she never had her own room in the past. A room like that at least.

"That bed looks so comfy, though." She said to herself, not realizing that she said it out loud.

"It's a nice bed indeed! Wanna try it?" A deep but playful voice was heard from behind her.

"If you are suggesting us having sex on it, then I am not interested." The girl answered bluntly as she turned around to meet the owner of that sexy voice she just heard.

"Hahaha! I like the reaction." The man answered making the girl raise one of her eyebrows.

"Who are you?" She asked. No emotion in her voice.

"I am Orihara Izaya. The owner of this house. And you?"

"I am Kendo Cecilia. I am here to clean your house."

"Oh! I see I see! You are new, right? I haven't seen you before." The raven asked, being a little interested in the person in front of him, but the playful tone was gone. Also, he got his answer by Kotarou who just entered the room. That didn't amuse him at all, but he swallowed it with a grin.

"Oh, Kotarou! How is your family?" He asked faking his smile, something that Cecilia noticed quite easily.

Kotarou didn't suspect a thing and answered honestly to the owner of the house. Izaya smiled and asked him to go to the kitchen to check something that he wanted to know. Kotarou rushed and left them alone again. Cecilia had still her frozen expression on and waited for him to make a move.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" He asked faking his hurt feelings.

"You are a manipulator as I heard, but I didn't expect you also to be a pervert." She continued with an empty voice, stating the obvious.

"Oh… I am not a pervert, I just like to mess with other people's minds and see their reactions. What can I say! Humans are fascinating." He smiled widely.

'That man is fake. He knows how to fool someone and play with him… just like Saya-san told me… And he didn't take the bite either. He is a smart one. ' Cecilia thought and sighed deeply. She sat on the bed and laid back on it, completely ignoring the man in front of her. She was really tired and didn't feel like playing with him. She closed her eyes for a while and took a deep breath. Izaya was watching her the whole time trying to understand her reasons and actions. He took a step closer to her when suddenly she got up and walked by him leaving him clueless. She really shouldn't do such things to a stranger's house. Where were her manners?

"Hey!" He called her.

"What?" She snapped at him boldly. Izaya was taken aback from the sudden change of personality. She took that chance to escape and kept walking away when Izaya stopped her again.

"Wait-" He started, but Cecilia cut him.

"Mr. Orihara I have a job to do. Please don't waste my time anymore." She wanked his hand off and started to get down the stairs. Izaya stood at the top of them and shouted down at her again. "Hey! You! Work for me!" His face had a creepy smile from ear to ear.

Cecilia stopped and looked at him. "Work for a manipulator who enjoys playing with people, uses his information and lies so he can send them to the wrong path just to see their reactions. No, thank you. Let's go Kotarou?"

Her voice was cold, almost dead but she was straight to the point. For some reason, Izaya had annoyed the shit out of her. Izaya's eyes widened open from her words as he felt his heart beating like crazy. It was like he was in ecstasy.

"How?" Kotarou asked Cecilia while they were walking away.

" You know eyes are the windows of the heart..." The girl said with a sad tone as they entered the elevator. Her heart fell heavy, and an unwanted feeling had sat on her chest.

Meanwhile, Izaya's house was filled with his creepy laugh. He was in the middle of the room spinning around himself satisfied. "That girl… oh, I love humans so much! They never stop to amaze me! hahaha!" He screamed as loud as he could feeling like his heart would explode in any minute. He was excited, and he wanted to play with her so badly.

"That guy… he has lost it..." Namie Yagiri commented when she entered the house and saw him in that crazy state. She ignored him and went to make some tea to relax leaving him in his craziness alone.

The next morning Cecilia found her self walking down the street to look for an apartment to live in and maybe buy a phone. She needed one so they could reach her from her job. She wondered around Ikebukuro's streets until she found a building still under construction.

"Perfect!"

She approached the building slowly, checked if anyone was around and just started to climb it. Once she reached the roof, she walked at the edge of it and looked around to see if she could continue her travel through the roofs. She could jump, run and travel through the rooftops easily from a young age. She had stopped using the roads like normal people for years now, as in her hometown streets were dangerous. So better be covered as no one would ever think about jumping off from a building to another one, to simply come after you for your money or your life. Life wasn't fair after all.

After some time of inspecting her surroundings, she noticed a lower roof at the right of the current building she was on. She took a deep breath and ran to her fall. She jumped to the other roof, and from there she climbed to the next building and continued like that. That way she could see the city and from another angle.

But the fun didn't last for much time. While she was jumping from roof to roof, she heard a man shouting angrily and then a vending machine appeared in front of her out of the blue. She managed to stop her next jump or else she would fell on it and then to her death.

"What the-?" She looked down shocked and saw a blond guy, dressed like a bartender throwing stuff around. "Are you for real?" She said annoyed and started to climb down the building to where the bartender was. That dude was far from insane.

"Oi! Shizuo! Please calm down!" A dark guy in suit tried to calm down the blond guy.

"Oh… I am sorry-" Shizuo tried to apologize, but an angry Cecilia cut him off.

"Excuse me!" She cried making him turn to her. To her surprise, he was tall and handsome. But she had met many of his kind. She shouldn't fell for his charms. "The vending machine you just threw almost hit me!" She continued in disbelief. Shizuo looked at her surprised and bowed apologizing making Cecilia forget her anger in seconds. She was ready to fight, and she definitely didn't expect him to apologize. She was actually left with her mouth open.

"It's ok… Just don't throw them between buildings. I would be grateful." She said and let him go. She on the hand stood there like an idiot trying to understand what had just happened. Could he be the guy Saya had told her before? The one who can carry a track?

"Oh, you met Shizu-chan! How lucky of you!" A familiar voice was heard right next to her which made her temper raise once again. How could he make her so annoyed? He didn't do anything to her, yet.

"Oh my. Orihara Izaya, right?" She asked with a calm tone.

"The one and only!" The black haired guy jumped in front of her giggling in a victorious manner. He spun around himself once and stopped to face her smirking.

"Are you always acting like you are in the circus?" Cecilia asked unimpressed by his behavior. Izaya didn't flinch but hugged himself with both of his hands and looked at the sky with a hot-mess face.

"Oh! I can't get angry at you! You are human after all! I love all humans equally so even if you hurt me with your words I will still continue to love you! Like you did yesterday!" He explained while moving his body left and right.

'Yes…. He IS annoying! And crazy. Better leave.' Cecilia thought.

"Duuuude. You are so lame! Goodbye." Cecilia said coldly and returned to the building where she had just got off. Izaya stopped his circles and watched her every move. A little after he realized what she was doing, she had climbed the building and was lost in the roofs leaving him smiling to himself. He dialed a number on his cellphone and fled the scene too.

"Here you go! Thank you for choosing us!"

Cecilia exited the store holding her new phone in her hands. It was black, with a touch screen and shiny. She couldn't stop looking at it. She had fallen in love with it. She immediately climbed to the nearest building and sat to play with it. First, she saved the number from the Russian Sushi Restaurant, then she saved Saya's personal number and email along with the hotel's number and then she saved Kotarou's, her boss's and her job's numbers. She had them all written down in a small notebook in her bag. Once she finished and was satisfied, it was already midday, so she decided to look for a place to stay again.

She didn't have any problem living in the city she just wanted to be in a high place so she could see the city from above. She looked around Ikebukuro, from the streets now, and she found lots of places, but most of them were quite expensive. After some more places, she decided to mail Kotarou her number and pass from her company to give them her contact information. Once done she went to Russian Sushi to eat something.

"Oh! Cecilia! Welcome!" Simon said happily when he saw her entering the restaurant.

" Hi, Simon! Dennis!" The girl said with a smile and sat at the counter in front of the chef. Dennis greeted her with a smile too and started to prepare her order. Cecilia looked around the restaurant to check the rest of the clients. The only ones were a young couple and a gang. The couple was talking cheerfully and feeding each other. The boy had a big build and was looking at the girl like she was his princess. She secretly wished to find someone like that one day and then turned to the girl. She was sitting right next to him, holding his arm and talking non-stop with her light blue eyes always stuck on her boyfriend. She noticed that she had a scar at her neck. It looked painful though. Then she sifted her view to the gang. They were four. Three boys and a girl. One of them was really good looking, and his smile was beautiful. He seemed very happy being with his friend. Next to him was a long haired guy. He was laughing like crazy. At the opposite side were a blond guy and the girl. They both looked like they were in an entirely different world. But the four of them looked so good together.

Cecilia sighed and turned her view to the chef.

"You know... This city has some crazy guys but really handsome ones." She said with a nostalgic tone.

"Like?" the chef asked her amused.

"These days I met two totally different types of people! A crazy guy who says that he loves all human beings and is annoying as fuck and another guy who threw a fucking vending machine in the air, but was very polite too." Said the girl amused by her adventures. She started to like the city a little more.

Dennis smiled and placed her order in front of her.

"You met Izaya and Shizuo, huh? You just can't miss those two. What? Were they fighting again?" the chef asked interested.

"No no. But I would really like to see them fight! I believe it would be a good show."

"It would be yes." The old man agreed and left to take care of the rest of the orders. Cecilia started to eat her food peacefully when the doors of the restaurant opened with force, and a dude entered the restaurant screaming to anyone who was into the restaurant to get down immediately. The chef and Cecilia looked at him annoyed. The man was holding a gun waving it here and there and was wearing a mask to cover his face. Behind him was Simon on the ground with blood coming out of his body. The old man behind the counter said something in Russian and got out of his kitchen next to Cecilia. The young girl with the light brown hair and bright blue eyes jumped next to her boyfriend, and the gang of four was alerted. Cecilia turned around on her seat and let her back rest on the counter with her elbows on it.

"Didn't you hear what I said? All down!" The unknown man said with his hands trembling. Cecilia noticed it and smirked evilly.

"You are an amateur right?" She asked with confidence making the man point his gun straight at her.

"Yes… you are! Look at how you hold the gun. And I guess this is also your first time committing, what? A robbery?" She continued without caring about the gun. The man took a step back still trembling like a fish out of water.

"I wonder what made you go all the way to buy a gun and come here next." She asked.

"No… I didn't buy it. He gave it to me." The man said feeling ashamed for his actions. That made Cecilia smile more.

"Oho~? Yet you took it. And you came here for the money right?"

"Ye-yes… now shut up and give them to me!"

"You do realize that you shot a man, right?" Cecilia continued ignoring his screams and threats. The man looked behind him at Simon who was still on the ground.

"And you do realize that when they find you, you will be charged with murder, right?"

"No… they won't find me!"

"Are you sure? I mean this is a very popular place. Also, lot's of people are outside right now. Half of them saw you shooting that guy over there, and the other half are wondering what is going on inside here. I mean how can you escape from all this?"

"I will take the back door of course!"

"Oh! I see. You have thought everything, huh? And tell me one more thing. What your family is going to think? After all, you shot a man, came in here holding a gun requesting money, which you will use I guess to repay debts and then you will run away? What a coward they will think, right? Or better, a criminal! Because, what are you going to say to them about the source of the money?"

The man got angrier when she mentioned his family. He tried to aim at her head and pulled the trigger. Everyone went silent for a few seconds. Then they turned their heads towards Cecilia. He missed because he was trembling from anger. Cecilia again didn't move an inch from her seat. She just burst out laughing.

"Just give up! It's over! You can't even shoot someone from 10 meters apart, and you want to robe a restaurant? Are you an idiot or something?" She continued to laugh without being able to hold herself. The man started to lose it and started to repeat again and again 'I am not an idiot.' The rest in the restaurant were watching astonished by her behavior.

"I am not an idiot! I am not an idiot! I AM NOT AN IDIOT!" He continued to shout as he kneeled down and caught his head with his hands. Cecilia stopped and looked at him in a very deserving way.

"Ok, then you are a loser! That suits you better! A loser who will go to prison because he took the wrong decisions in his life sending to hell him and his family! Yeah, loser suits you better!" She screamed and continued to laugh. The man stopped talking for a while. He thought all the things she said, and he realized that she was right after all. Then he started to cry like a little baby apologizing to his family for him being such a useless husband and father while he was pointing his gun to his head ready to fire.

"Nooo!" Everyone screamed trying to stop him. The man closed his eyes shut and took a deep breath ready to end his life. But then his voice was heard as the gun fell to the ground.

"Oto… we don't want that now, do we?" Cecilia was heard, and everyone turned to her shocked. She had thrown her chopsticks and managed to hit his hands making him drop the gun before he sent himself to the other world. The man stayed in place looking lost in his own thoughts.

"Call an ambulance!" Dennis said as he rushed to Simon. Then the door opened again, and the blond, beautiful woman that Cecilia has seen before entered the restaurant along with another handsome blond guy, who she also had met before.

"Boss! The police need to speak to you- Simon!" The girl said surprised looking at her fallen friend.

"Simon! Who did that, huh?" The blond guy spoke angrily as he looked around to spot the shooter, ready to kick his ass.

"Oh crap! Shizuo is angry. The poor guy doesn't stand a chance!" One of the gang of four commented amused. Shizuo walked towards the man in the middle of the restaurant and got him from his shirt.

"You bastard shot him?" He asked ready to explode.

"Yes..." The man answered.

Shizuo then took him and sent him flying out of the restaurant. Cecilia followed the flying guy until he became one with the stars.

"Ts and I wanted to know who gave him the gun..." She said disappointed as she turned around and continued to eat ignoring the voices and panic behind her. Once she finished her food, she left the money next to her plate and left the building from the hole that the flying man created minutes ago. She didn't want to get involved with the police.

"Idiots will remain idiots… forever..." She sighed as she resigned back to her hotel exhausted.

But she really couldn't sleep. She was bothered by her actions. She kept wondering why did she even bothered to help them anyway? Why didn't she just let him kill himself? After all she had promised to herself that she wouldn't play the hero anymore and that she wouldn't help nobody without having something in return.

"That's it! I own them! They did promised to keep my secret after all…"

But what about the other dude?

"Maybe like an unnecessary casualty…"

Ok! She met with lots of our favorite characters! See ya next chapter!