Jolyne didn't know the man that everyone was talking about, but she felt sad all the same.

Higishikata Ryohei had been a police man. Someone who caught bad guys like her dad.

When Jotaro had told her they were going to the graveyard, she was expecting a grave yard like those in California or Italy. Large rolling hills, dotted with little towers with crosses on them or simply crosses themselves. But the graveyard in Morioh, and learning when she asked, most of Japan, was a small, cramped one. There were gravestones, many with flowers or candles, but they were all close together. She noticed the urn, and her father whispered to her that inside they kept the ashes of Josuke's grandfather.

"Did he die in a fire?" She asked quietly. She had thought the enemy Stand used water.

"No, they just burn people's bodies when they die here."

"Why?"

"...It's just what they do." Jotaro said. "I never paid attention much to the reasons. I've only been to a… few funerals. And they weren't…" Her father became quiet for a while, looking at the grave.

"Daddy?"

"…they weren't Japanese. The funerals I saw before."

"Oh."

One day after the funeral

"So, who's the girl?" Josuke asked, looking down at her.

"My daughter."

"You have a kid?!"

"I'm Kujo Jolyne!" She said proudly.

"Higishikata Josuke" he said, caught off-guard. "But seriously, someone like you, with a little girl?"

"Is there something wrong with that?"

"No, no... it's just. Someone with your face doesn't strike me as the 'father' type, y'know?" Jotaro shrugged, and began walking away from town.

"Where are we headed?"

"I need to find a private spot. Josuke, there's something I'd like you to do."

"Anything." the teen said, determined.

The two followed Jotaro's lead as he took them farther and farther out of town, into an area that was sparse with cars and houses.

"Hm. This will do." Jotaro said finally, and turned towards Josuke and Jolyne.

"For what?" Josuke asked, before jumping wildly to the side, dodging a sudden strike from Stone Free. "What the hell was that?"

Jolyne put her hands on her hips, and behind her Stone Free did the same, the glowing blue Stand fully formed and wound. "Show me your Stand!" She declared.

"Wait, is this what was so important? I thought this had to do with that bastard Angelo!" Josuke shouted.

"Jolyne wanted to meet you. She hasn't had the time to meet any other Stand Users." Jotaro shrugged. "I figured it would be fine."

"So what, just bring him out?" Without waiting for a response, Josuke's Stand appeared at his side, copying his pose.

"Cool!" Jolyne said. "This is mine! Stone Free." Bringing out her own Stand, the two looked to Jotaro, who shrugged and summoned Star Platinum.

"What now?"

"I was thinking we should experiment. We'll be fighting Angelo, so we should get used to each other. Being thrown head-first into situations like this have had a tendency to work out for me, but planning ahead and learning how to work together would also be beneficial."

"That... makes sense." Josuke admitted. "So what do we do now? You can't exactly train a Stand can you?"

"...That's a complicated question. A Stand doesn't get 'stronger' or 'weaker' than it already is, but you can practice using it in ways that can make it more effective and powerful. And bad habits or a lack of knowledge of your own abilities can make your Stand less effective or dangerous." Star Platinum suddenly had in its hand the golden heart button that Josuke nearly always wore on his neck.

"Wh- hey!" The teen growled, and his own nameless Stand reached out to take it back, but Jotaro simply stepped away out of range.

"Josuke. Can you get this back, without taking another step?"

"How could I? You got out of my range." Jotaro frowned, and Star Platinum threw the button out into the field, it disappeared into the grass, out of sight. "Hey! What the fuck do you think you're doing?"

"I think you can get it back without moving from that spot." He pointed down to Josuke's legs. "By fixing your uniform."

Josuke blinked. His Stand tapped the collar of his jacket, and from the field, the button sped past, before affixing itself back to the neck of his uniform. "What do you know..."

"I've been trying to figure out your power since we met. You have the power to 'restore' things to their previous shape, and you've used this to heal injuries or repair clothing. But at the same time, when you get angry, you mess up when you 'fix' it. Whatever you affected became warped and bent..." Jotaro shrugged. "So I'm trying to get a handle on what rules your power works by. It's obscenely powerful, but then again, most Stands are, if you keep pushing forward with what you imagine you could do with your power."

"...When I get mad, I'm still 'repairing' the stuff. Just... partially, I think. At it's core, my Stand 'restores' things. When it gets warped, it's because I'm punching it, and repairing whatever I'm taking my anger out on at the same time, so that the shape my punch gave it becomes solid. I permanently repair its shape to the moment it got punched. But when I'm really pissed off, I'm just doing that shit partially, so that I'm only warping one part of what's getting hit at a time, making it turn out all weird, rather than just having a permanent fist-shaped indent."

"Huh..." Jotaro smiled. "I think we might have found a Stand that trumps Star Platinum. You're essentially immortal, aren't you?"

Jolyne gaped, before turning to Josuke, amazed. "You could beat Dad?"

"What? Nah." Josuke pulled up his sleeve, pointing to a number of scratches and old scars. "I can't heal myself with my Stand, only other things."

"How does that work?" Jolyne asked. "You're made of the same stuff as other people."

"The only logic Stands follow is their own. It shows you have a selfless heart." Jotaro said. "Now then, the question is, how far, and how abstract, can this 'repairing' go?"

"Huh." Josuke looked appreciatively at his Stand.

"To start off with, I'd like to test something out." He looked over to Jolyne, and picked her up. "I want you to unfurl as much as you can, and I want to see if Josuke can pull you back together."

"As much as I can?" She asked, hesitant.

"Josuke can heal any injury up to death." Jotaro said, serious. "Go as far as possible."

"Wait, wait, is she going to get hurt OH MY GOD." His Stand's arm rushed forward to repair the holes that appeared suddenly in Jolyne's body, as more and more string was created from her body.

"Hey!" The three watched as the string glowed with the energy of being fixed by Josuke, and returned back to their proper place, fusing directly back into Jolyne rather than winding back into place like it usually did.

"Josuke, that's her Stand power."

"You just fucking said that she's gonna get hurt, and then holes start appearing on her! I knew it was her Stand, but," the teen growled, crossing his arms, "I think I'm justified for panicking a little."

"Jolyne, go ahead and try again. Josuke, wait until Jolyne says she's gone as far as she can."

Giving a little glare at Josuke, she began unwinding again, dispensing string in every direction, holes started dotting her entire body, and soon both arms and legs began to disappear. She was a mostly-empty torso and a half-unwound head before she began panting with effort. "I... I think that's as far as I can go."

"Are you okay?"

"It hurts a little."

"Can you go farther?"

"Maybe?"

"Try."

Squeezing her eyes shut, the holes on her head and torso grew even further, before what was there was only half a face in a pile of string, and what visible skin was left was beginning to turn red with effort. "I... I really can't go farther." She grunted out, tearing up.

"Okay then." Jotaro bent down and grabbed the end of a nearby length of string. "Josuke, take this, and run as far as you can with it, pull it taut."

He looked a little squicked out, holding the end of the string away from his body as he began backing away. "Um, Jolyne, what part of your body is this?"

"It doesn't work like that." She said, annoyed and getting weaker by the second.

Josuke kept running, until Jotaro called for him to wait. "She's too long. Sorry, I was stupid. Jolyne can turn herself into an impossibly long mass of string. An adult human body's arteries and veins alone stretch can 100,000 miles. Jolyne will have substantially less than that, but still far too long for you to stretch to its limit... You should be good enough there. Heal the string like you healed Jolyne earlier, but be sure to hold on to the end of the string."

"Alright." Josuke's Stand appeared once more, and soon the mass of string that was Jolyne glowed. All at once, she seemed to be flung to the two hundred feet away where Josuke was standing. Appearing completely whole, she turned around and checked herself over before giving a sigh of relief. She jumped on Josuke, giving him a hug, before turning to run back to Jotaro.

"I teleported!"

"Not quite, but you definitely got from point A to point B fast." He waved to Josuke, and the teen ran back over to him. "That's a fast method of transportation, your healing."

"Well, it's kind of gross."

"When something breaks, and you fix it, does the entire object, if it's been split apart, return to where you are, or are you able to heal a piece of the object, and it'll go to where the rest of it is?"

"Whichever way I want." Josuke said proudly. "Shit, I can teleport people?"

"Well, we'd have to cut off part of their body for it to work." Jotaro said. "Not everyone can stretch like Jolyne."

"Hmm... I know for a fact that my own hair and dried blood I can fix, but it won't go back into me. But I don't know if that'd be enough for others."

"Interesting." Jotaro pulled a hair from his head, and gave it to Josuke. Taking a few steps back, he ordered "Try to heal the hair, and have the rest of me go to it."

It glowed with pink energy, and Jotaro frowned as he was tugged forward.

"Whoah." Josuke grinned. "So... how do we use this to catch that bastard?"

The next day.

"Are you absolutely sure this is the bottle?"

"Positive." Josuke growled. "You ready?"

The sky grew darker as Jotaro watched their water bottles closely. Tomoko was out of the house at the moment, which meant Jotaro could be out in the open. Jolyne had been left back in the hotel room once again, and Jotaro felt confident he had harmlessly ditched all of her following and listening strings. The things went everywhere. There was no limit to how far Jolyne could stretch them, and when she was worried she stuck them on him. Jotaro wasn't even sure whether the listening-in was subconscious or not. "Yeah. Let's get this over with."

The bottle that killed Josuke's grandfather sat in the palm of Josuke's Stand's hand. It glowed pink, and soon it began to fill with liquid droplets, gathered from every direction.

The droplets coagulated, turning from water into alcohol, and finally, into a screaming, hissing, blue humanoid. "What?! How?!" Angelo's Stand, Aqua Necklace, pounded harmlessly against the glass container. "I don't understand!"

"Just repairing an object to its former state, right?" Josuke said, his voice brimming with tranquil fury. "Your Stand mixes with the water." He shook the bottle savagely, the Stand inside bouncing against the walls of the glass. "I 'fix' an empty bottle so the same water's back inside it again. So that it turns back into the alcohol you tricked my Grandpa with. And that alcohol, was, after all, just your Stand plus the water."

"There." Jotaro said, pointing out a man who had just fallen from a tree. "Shake it again."

Josuke obliged happily, and to their grim satisfaction, the man in the distance jerked in the same direction his Stand did each time.

"There he is." Josuke said. Gripping the bottle tightly, he simply walked forward, the walls of his house collapsing around him as he stepped inward and restoring themselves as he stepped outside. Jotaro, acting quickly, followed before the hole in the wall could disappear, following his young uncle over to the collapsed man.

"Anjuro Katagiri." Jotaro said quietly.

"CRAP!" The enemy Stand user shouted. "No way! This isn't how it works!" His eyes darted back and forth, looking for anything that could be used to his advantage. The two Joestars advanced, closing in on him, on their faces identical looks of quiet rage. "Y-You bastards aint thinking about killing me, are you?! You don't have the right! S-sure, I'm a criminal! A sick one! But even if I was sentenced to death, you don't get to kill me! Because you'd be just as bad, a filthy murderer! Ahahaha!" The fist of Josuke's Stand forced the serial killer's hand into a nearby rock. "What the hell?!

"Don't point at me like that. It's fucking annoying." the teen growled.

"My hand and the rock! Oh God, its fused together!"

Watching Angelo trying to pull himself free, Josuke's face was covered by a look of dark amusement. "No one's going to kill you. Not me, not Mister Jotaro, and not the Government."

"Huh?!"

"Josuke. He's all yours. Go crazy." Jotaro said dismissively.

"One more day! One more day and I would have had you cornered in the rain!" Angelo moaned. "What do you think you're going to do to me?!"

"Welcome to purgatory Angelo." Josuke said, glaring wildy at him. The fists of his Stand rammed the man over and over into the stone behind him. Each punch mixing flesh and rock. "You'll be atoning for your crimes right here. For every person you killed, and especially my grandpa!"

"NOOOO!" He screamed, his voice warping as stone filled his lungs.

"Hey, Angelo." Jotaro said casually. "While you can still talk, answer me. How did you become a Stand User?"

Panting in pain, Angelo looked between the two, Jotaro's stoic mask, and Josuke's suddenly surprised face, when the stone-man suddenly shifted. Smiling gleefully, he stared down at them. "Ghaa... you know what, sure! I'll tell you everything. It was a man in a high school uniform! Now that you're interfering here in Morioh, he'll kill you for me!"

Angelo told his story, and the two Joestars became more and more disturbed as he continued. Culminating in the mention of Dio's name, Jotaro came to his own conclusion.

"That story, it's bull!" Josuke argued.

"Nah, I believe him." Jotaro said, turning his back on the rock-man. "I know the Dio he's talking about. I had always wondered how he got his power ten years ago... from the same bow and arrow."

"Huh." Josuke said, he didn't know who Dio was, and was only beginning to comprehend the true threat Stands had to society. Eyeing the bottle, he quickly repaired the scratches that Aqua Necklace was making in the bottom. "Looks like he was just trying to distract us while he attempted his getaway." He shook the bottle once more, watching the Stand bounce inside.

Inside the rock, Angelo moaned painfully, what parts of him he could move twitching and jerking in the direction Josuke shook the bottle.

"Yeah, we should take care of that." Jotaro said. "Would you do the honors?"

"Yeah." He swung his arm back, and then threw the bottle as hard as he could against the rock face.

"What?! HAH! You idiots I'll just-" before Aqua Necklace could even reach out, let alone move, Josuke's Stand punched through the stone in the same spot, partially shattering the boulder. Glass and rock formed back around the liquid and enemy Stand, fusing and burying itself in the boulder as the rock returned to more-or less its previous state. Letting out a pained gasp, Angelo's eyes and mouth morphed fully into stone.

The two Joestars looked at Josuke's handiwork. Cupping his ear to the rock, Jotaro noted the slight rasping sound continued, but was satisfied.

"Hey Josuke, I thought of a name for your Stand."

"Huh?"