How To Save A Life

Chapter Three: Meeting Joshua

Nicole looked through the Scramble frantically before stepping into the street without noticing. The last thing she remembered was a car going past the speed limit, the driver was either drunk or stoned by her view, and the last thing on her mind was finding her brother.

Then she woke up in the Scramble confused and remembered what she was doing before.

She looked around frantically for Neku, looking at the places she remembered that he would be. She ran through Hachiko twice before stopping at the Scramble and deciding to check there. She walked to it, the two places were right next to each other, and she noticed that he wasn't there but someone else was.

The person was a boy, the same age as her but a couple centimeters taller, with curled silver-blond hair and purple eyes wearing a pale blue shirt, the top two buttons undone, black jeans or slacks, and white shoes who was staring at the statue before he noticed that he was being watched.

He turned to look to his left and saw her staring at him slightly shocked. "You must be Nicole," He said as he smiled and approached her in a calm way. "I'm Joshua Kiyru, one of Neku's friends." She shook his hand cautiously before realizing something.

"You look familiar," She said before shaking her head. "Nevermind, you know my brother? He never mentioned you." He smiled again as his eyes flashed for a second but that second caught her full attention. "You're the Composer!" She shouted as she took a few steps away from him.

"How did you know?" He asked curiously as he stared at her. "Four years ago in Tokyo, a car came out of nowhere past the interstate and ran into me. When I woke up no one noticed me in the street or even heard me shouting for help! I went through eight weeks, two months, trying to find a way to figure out what happen...and the second I did I was told that I won the 'Game' and woke up again on the street in the interstate with people around me and they were relieved that I woke up saying that I was in a coma for two months! And the second I get out of the crowd I see a boy."

"A boy?" He asked as he smiled mockingly. "A boy, the same age as me but a couple centimeters taller, with curled dirty blond hair and amber eyes wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, the top two buttons undone, dark brown jeans or slacks, and black shoes but he was shocked when he saw me and ran when I was two feet from him!" She shouted angrily and he took a few steps back.

"He looked familiar but I didn't know why until I realized he was Neku's best friend, and then I saw him with white light around him until it vanished," She said as she stepped towards him and he tried to step back but was stopped by the statue. "You have the same thing except it didn't vanish, it's still there! That means you're the Composer!"

He stood shocked at her analysis and never blinked even as she waved her hand in front of his face. "Joshua?" She asked curiously. "Joshua? Composer? Josh? YOSHIYA!" Both of them looked shocked at her statement but she was even more shocked.

"I never said that name in four years or remembered it in three years since the day Neku stopped writing-" "And it was the week I became Composer." He said as she stopped herself to look at him in shock. 'He's the one my brother-!' She thought before shaking her head.

"Either way can you help me find him?"

In the Reaper Realm

"Ouch!" A male Reaper shouted as he pulled his hand back and saw the burns marks on it. "That bastard!" He shouted as he walked away, the amber-eyed Reaper looking at him in confusion before looking at the cell holding Neku.

"Whatever you have around yourself won't protect you forever," He said as Neku looked at him in shock. "Soon it's gonna fade and you'll be a Noise!" He left to find another person to turn into a Noise, leaving Neku alone with no food or water which he didn't have for two days.

He slowly reached into his oversized collar and pulled out a white feather, it had a string connecting from it to around his neck and it appeared the second he came into the Reaper Realm. "Josh..." He said as he looked out of the bars, hoping that he or someone would notice his absence.