A/N: I hope you liked the last chapter!

Black Cat's Assistant

Chapter 1: An Old Friend

There in the café sat four people. A man with green hair, a woman with light purple hair, a young girl with blonde hair, and a young man with brown hair. The four sat there talking about the next bounty to go after, for they were sweepers who had to get money from capturing criminals. The brown haired boy sat next to the blonde girl and sat there eating deep fried bread crust and drinking a glass of cold white milk. A bell rang from the door being opened, but neither of them looked up. "Milk please." Came a young woman's voice.

The clatter of glasses could be heard as the waiter got a clean cup and some cold milk. "Here you go miss."

She took a sip before turning to the waiter again and held up a picture of a boy with brown hair and gold eyes and a girl with white hair and green eyes. "Have you seen this young man? He'd be about my age." She said as she place a piece of white hair behind her ears. "His name is Black…I mean Train Heartnet."

"Train Heartnet." The waiter repeated loudly for everyone to hear. "I'm afraid that I've never heard of a Train Heartnet, but I have heard of Black Cat and Chrono Number Thirteen."

The young woman sighed. "I see." Her eyes lowered. "Maybe I'll ask some people around here, if that's alright…" Her words faded.

"It's fine, but don't terrorize my customers if they do know."

She nodded. "I promise." Then stood up and went around asking people. Soon she was standing before the blonde, purple, brunette, and green people's table and sat down before them in a chair. "Have you ever heard of young man by the name Train Heartnet." She held the picture up. "He looks like this…unless he changed a lot." She said as she turned the picture toward her and looked at it. "He disappeared a few years ago after I was injured in a…an accident." Her eyes stared at the picture. "That idiot…doing such a thing for me." Her hand tightened around the glass in her hand and it began to crack and then break. "I'm sorry." She said suddenly. "I'll clean it up and pay extra sir." As she bent down to pick up the small shards of glass, a hand grabbed hers.

"You cut yourself." Pointed out the brown haired young man. "Idiot. Don't you know that glass breaks and cuts?" Without hesitation he pulled her to the bathroom. "You guys, clean that up for her. Her cut needs to be cleaned and then bandaged." Pulling her into the bathroom, he ran her hand under hot water and watched as she winced and tried to pull back, so he grabbed her wrist and held her hand underneath the hot water. "Don't pull away. Why are you looking for Train Heartnet?" He asked as he kept her hand underneath the faucet. "Why do you look for him?"

Wincing she looked into the mirror. "I have a message for him from me."

"What do you need to tell him?"

Green eyes stared at the mirror intensely. "I need to tell him how insanely stupid he was for leaving after a stupid incident. I promised that I would protect him, but I couldn't even protect myself. That incident was an accident, why did he have to leave me when I needed to tell him something about myself." Her other hand became a fist and hit the counter hard. "That idiot, why did he have to be so stupid?" Teared green eyes looked at the young man before her. "Why did he leave? I needed to tell him…I need to tell him that I…I…"

"Train!"

The white haired girl looked up and pulled her hand away. "I'm here to protect you. I've promised Chrono Number One. I'll keep my promise. And how dare you leave without saying anything." Her hand came down on him to hit him, but stopped. "How dare you. How dare you disappear and leave me behind Thirteen! What did I do that was wrong?" Tears fell from her eyes and she quickly wiped them away. "Thank you for your help sir. Good day." She said and then walked off.

The brown haired young man sighed. "I'm sorry Silver, I didn't mean to leave you alone, but someone changed me." He whispered. "I'm sorry."

Two months later

"The sudden appearance of Silk has made a change to us all. We thank her for coming to sing here at our fundraiser for sickly children. I happily bring you, Silk!" A young woman came out on the TV with a smile. Her white hair was in a braid yet it didn't match very well with her jeans and black tanktop.

"Sorry, but there will be no song." She bowed. "I'm afraid that all my songs were stolen. I'm sorry everyone." With that she walked off the stage.

"It seems that Silk has turned down every invitation in the past two months to sing at any foundations and fundraisers. Why is this happening? Can you tell us Silk?" A reporter asked the white haired young woman.

She shook her head. "I'm afraid that someone has stolen my music and my voice. I'm sorry that I can not sing any long." She bowed. "Sorry everyone, good day."

"And to think I was called an idiot." Train whispered to his self. "She is the one who is giving up all these opportunites.

The blonde girl next to him looked up from her book. "Do you know Silk?" She asked as she looked at him with dark pink eyes (is that right?). "How do you know her?"

Hesitantly he blinked. "Well… You see… Silk and I are part…"

"You two are lovers?" She asked cutting Train off.

Wildly he shook his head. "Of course not! Eve, Silk and I or should I say Silver and I are partners. She used to be my assistant or partner when I was still with the Chrono Numbers…" his words faded as he looked out the window. "It makes me wonder…why did she come back?" He stood. "Eve, I'm going out."

"For milk?" She asked.

Train shook his head again. "No, just for a walk." And with that he walked out the door.

An Hour Later

Train sighed as he waited for Silver to return with their glasses of milk. Is it a coincidence that we met each other here today? Or was it planned?

"Here." A glass of milk appeared before his face. "I didn't mean for it to take so long. The waiter is still mad about the broken glass from two months ago." Sitting down, white hair blew in the autumn wind. "Would you like to come with me to get some lunch? We can go anywhere you like…"

"Silver, tell me what your real name is…" His words faded.

Silver blinked. "Real…name…" The words came out softly and were tossed around as if she didn't understand them. "Train, I have a confession…" Green eyes lowered and looked as if they were searching for something in her full glass of milk. "I…I…"

"Train!" Came a voice. A light purple haired woman came running up. "There you are. Come on, we have a new bounty! Come o…" The woman's eyes widened slightly when she saw the white haired girl sitting next to him. "Oh ho ho, is this your girlfriend, Train?"

"No." Came his flat reply. "She is an old friend."

Without hesitation Silver placed her glass on the table that they sat at. "I'm Silv-Silk." She held out her hand. "Nice to meet Train's girl."

"Train's girl? Oh, no way. I don't like Train. Train is a kid compared to me."

"He is?" The girl's head cocked to the side. "But you look around twenty or so. I didn't think that you were thirty or forty, my fault."

The two smirked. "I'm Rins." Said the purple haired girl.

"You can call me Silk or Silv," she held out hand. "It's nice to meet one of Train's friends."

"Nice to meet you too!" Said Rins. "I know, why don't you come with us to get that bounty! All of us can get to know each other."

Green eyes blinked. "Well…I would love to…but I…"

"Alright then, come on!" Rins exclaimed as she took Train's and Silk's hands and pulled them to the car. "Let's go find that bounty."

A/N: It's short, I know… I just didn't want to ruin the second chapter!! I hope you liked it! R&R!