Chapter Two: Sudden Disappearance

"Neku had a crush on his best friend?" Beat asked while laughing. They were at Ramen Don for lunch, the group ordered their usual while Nicole ordered teriyaki ramen, and she didn't look amused at Beat's question. "Either you stop laughing or else I'll make you." She threatened with a deadpanned look, which made him back away slightly.

"You've really changed." Neku commented as he fixed her flower clip which was lopsided. "What can I say," She started as the food was being brought. "I didn't like Tokyo the second I set foot in it." They ate in silence with the usual comments about shopping, games, and movies.

They went to Hachiko afterwards and chatted for a while, well the group did while Nicole looked through her IPod and noticed something off. "Does anyone know why there's a map of the Station Underpass and something called Dead God's Pad on my iPod?" She asked as she showed them her IPod with the map on the screen.

The three of them looked at it shocked until Nicole suddenly screamed and dropped her iPod, which Rhyme instantly caught. "What's wrong?" Shiki asked curiously and frightened. "Where's Brother?!" Nicole shouted, making the three realize that he suddenly disappeared.

"Neku!" Mr. H heard as a person stood outside his shop and he looked out the window. It was a girl with orange hair that spiked downwards, around her shoulders, and wore different pieces of clothes that were white and pink. "Neku!" She turned around and he noticed her resemblance to the former Player and her dark blue eyes matching his.

"NEKU!" She shouted rattling the windows, and his coffee mug, before she noticed him standing there. "Sorry," She said apologetically as she went inside to speak to him better. "I'm Nicole Sakuraba, my twin brother Neku suddenly disappeared and me, Shiki, Beat, and Rhyme are looking for him."

"Phones is missing?" He asked, surprising her until she calmed down. "You know him?" She asked before shaking her head. "Nevermind, can you at least give me your number so that if you found him you can text me or the others?" He gave her a phone number, but it was Joshua's instead of his.

"Hey Boss," He called after she left and looked outside incase Neku walked past the shop. "Neku is missing." He didn't brace himself for it. "HE'S MISSING!?" Joshua shouted in his ear as he held the phone away from his ear. "His friends and sister noticed he was missing and they're now looking for him."

A dial tone was the only thing he heard.

"Oops.." He said as he hung up and looked outside, noticing the darkening clouds. "I hope they find him soon," He said as he went to clean up a bit. "I fear something bad has happened to him."

In the UG

"He's waking up." A voice said as Neku opened his eyes to find himself in a prison-like cell. He looked through the bars to see a white room with gray furniture and Reapers walking everywhere. "Hello little Proxy." A voice said making him come face-to-face with a Reaper.

The Reaper was a boy, a couple years older than him, with wild dark brown hair and bright yellow eyes wearing a black jacket, a dark red shirt that had tears in it, torn gray pants, and camouflage shoes. He flashed a cat-like grin at him while he stared frightened.

"Where am I?" He forced out while trying to keep his composure. "The Realm of The Reapers in the UG." The Reaper answered happily. "And you are the next one." Neku got more scared after that. "The next one?" He asked purely frightened.

"The next one to become a Noise."