In the middle of the sky, the guys looked over and saw the city, Liberty City to be exact. They had received word about from their employer Sora, who told them about it; saying that there would be more opportunities in it... how could they say no to that?
"Seems like San Andreas," said Kentaro.
"To you, but to me, it's different," said Keitaro.
"I know... it's the same size as it, but without the country sides, which I think is a lot better. I just hope that there's some damn good work here for us."
"Ease up, Ken. I'm sure that there is."
The two continued to gaze at the city that they were coming onto, chatting about it and everything. They had already been in one city and had gotten a taste of the "American Life" so they knew what to expect when they stopped at the airport. As the plane neared the landing strip, the guys then grabbed their baggage and went outside of the plane and through the airport and outside; they saw a cab waiting for them.
They looked at each then went to it, putting their luggage in the trunk and got in. The driver looked at them. "You guys Keitaro Urashima and Kentaro Sakata?"
"That's us," said Kentaro. "Who're you?"
"A friend of Soras'," the man said, "He and I go way back and he told me about you two coming to Liberty City, so he told me to take you someplace where you two could get started on your move here."
"That's real nice of him to do this."
The cab driver drove off to their place in Broker.
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Soon, the cab stopped at the curb of Meadows Park, where the cab driver didn't charge them for the ride, saying that since they were friends of Soras', he'd let them go free. Both guys grabbed their luggage from the back and went up the stairs to the house, their new home. Inside the building, it was just like any normal place in Liberty. "Seems cozy," said Kentaro.
"More or less," said Keitaro, putting the bags on the bed.
Then they heard a ring of a phone; they looked for it and realized that it was coming from inside their luggage. Keitaro opened his bag, finding two cell phones, one of which was ringing so he answered it.
He put it to his ear, "Hello?"
"..."
"Oh hey, Sora, yeah both of us are here in the house in Meadows Park, since you recommended it. How'd you know when we were inside?"
"..."
"Oh, I see. Well, you said there would be some more work for us, and we're always looking for work as long as it pays, that is."
"..."
"Well who are they?"
"..."
"Lucy Bloodwater... where do you we meet this woman at?"
"..."
"Got it, be there soon."
He then hung up the phone and told his partner all about it, even saying that Sora had let them keep the phones as a gift so they could keep in touch with one another. Soon after they had gotten situated in the house, they got out and closed the door. Outside they didn't see much, save for some cars passing by, so they stopped one and Keitaro went to the driver side, knocking the person out with a kick to the face and threw him out as he climbed in, followed by Kentaro; soon, the two were on their way to meet Lucy Bloodwater.
*
Moments later, they stopped their car at a large mansion at Shinnecock Avenue in Beachgate; both got out as Keitaro shut the car off before closing his door and followed his partner. At the door, Kentaro knocked at the door; they could hear sounds of glass breaking and somebody rushing to it and opening it, showing a woman with long pink hair.
"Oh, it's you guys, come in," she said, welcoming them into her home.
"Thank you," said Kentaro as he and Keitaro went inside while she closed the door and followed them to the living room where a shattered bottle of port lay on the floor. "Have a bit of a bad day?" he asked.
"You could say that," she said, going to sit on the couch in front of the coffee table. "So I heard from a friend of mine that you guys are looking for work. You know about business?"
Both looked at each and were quiet, and then Keitaro spoke. "We've had experience in another place called San Andreas before, so we know about business.
Lucy nodded, "Very good, but let me ask you this... Why come to Liberty? Why leave your home and come here?"
Keitaro knew the answer to that question as did his partner. Keitaro took a breath in and out. "When your own grandmother puts you as manager of a dormitory for girls without telling you, you start to think that it's paradise, but when the girls start abusing and torturing you for no reason at all, you start to wonder if you're better off without family, who never does anything to help you in anyway to make it stop."
Lucy whistled. "Wow, kid, never knew that was the reason. So your grandmother put you through that for years, what a heartless bitch."
"I often said that my self at times, saying what kind of person is she to do that to me? So when I had left for San Andreas, I was hoping that this change would also make things better for me. And then, we both came here to Liberty, I still had high hopes that they wouldn't find me."
"Who would?"
"The tenants at the dorm I was manager at. Whenever I try to escape from it, they always find me somehow and try to drag me back... I just want to forget about the past and move on."
After Keitaro was finished having his say, Kentaro spoke with his, "For me, his tenants saw me as a gentleman, and I even tried to win one of the girls hearts', but this one had a bad temper so I gave up on her, knowing she wasn't worth anybody's time; then I made a mistake and ended up working at Keitaro's Aunts' teashop, working there till I paid her all the money I owed her, so one day, before Keitaro quit as manager, I quit working there and wanted to find someplace new besides Japan, and that's what got me to San Andreas then to Liberty City."
"So in other words, you two are looking for a new start?"
They only nodded while Lucy just poured some Vodka into a glass and brought it to her lips. "Well maybe doing this would be your new start here in Liberty City."
"Sure," Kentaro said, "what do you need?"
Lucy downed her drink and slammed her glass on the table. "Ah, that's the stuff... yeah! Anyway, there's a rat I need you guys to trap, this guy's been getting on my nerves and I want him out of the picture." Lucy then poured herself another drink. "He tells me that he's going to have me turned to the feds because he has dirt on me about that drug bust a few months ago. To me, the guy's a stupid dick and he has the files on me about what I had done before."
"Sounds fair, where is he?"
"What's fair is that that asshole doesn't open his mouth to anybody about what I did. Now listen, he usually hangs out over near the Cluckin' Bell on Huntington Street in East Island City, I want you two to go over there and deal with him and then take the files and bring them back to me where I can get rid of them myself."
"It's not going to be cheap, Lucy," said Keitaro.
"Bullshit, you think I don't fucking know the meaning of the word cheap, Keitaro? You two do this for me, I'll give you even shares for your work, and here these will help," she said, handing them two Mirco Uzis with an extra magazine. "...Now go, and call me when you get there," she said as they left; Lucy looked and her glass and hurled at the wall, deciding to drink out of the bottle.
*
Keitaro got in the car and drove to the fast food joint and stopped at the curb, got out his cell and called Lucys' number, which she gave to both of them. "We're here, he's just leaving the place," he said.
'Make sure he doesn't get back to the station with that file. Take care of him.'
"Sure," he said, as Keitaro drove up and motioned for his partner to get into position. When Keitaro got close enough, Ken smashed his window open and stuck his body out and aimed at the car, spraying it with bullets; the car then took off with Keitaro following close behind it while pedestrians scrambled out of the way, and some not so lucky. Both cars turned lanes, dodged corners, went through alleys, and dodged obstacles chasing each other till Kentaro managed to blow out his rear tires. The feds' tires shredded, showing sparks while making it hard for him to control his car.
After a good ten minutes of the chase, his car got fire so he bailed, hitting the street hard while Keitaro smacked into him, and stopped, launching him three feet away and hitting a building wall. Their car stopped near his corpse and Kentaro searched the inside of jacket. "Jackpot," he said, pulling out the file, showing it to his friend. Keitaro dialed Lucy up. 'You got the file?'
"We got it, and you got our money?"
'I'm a woman of my word, Keitaro. Bring the file back to me and you guys'll get your pay.'
Keitaro hung up and got into the car with Kentaro soon following, speeding away from the blazing wreckage while firefighters took care of it. Back at Lucys', they knocked on her door and she greeted them back inside while Keitaro gave her the file. "Well least I won't have to worry about any kind of shit anymore... thank you, boys."
Lucy took the file to an empty trash bin and stood over it; she dropped the file in, poured the rest of her Vodka that she had left, pulled out some matches from her back pocket, lit it an dropped it in. "Like I promised, here's your pay," she said, handing them a manila envelope. Kentaro pulled out the money inside. "Seven-fifty, not bad, Lucy."
"Good, now get out of my sight... I'll call you if I got more work."
Not wanting to further piss her off, they casually left the place and got back in their stolen sports car, heading back to Saratoga Avenue in Meadows Park. Inside their safe house, they both kicked back on the couch on the turned on the TV, channel surfing. But soon, they would be someone else joining the fun... very soon.
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Black Waltz: Voila, another chapter done and I hope you like it because it was hard for me to come up with a mission of my own. If you can think up a mission of your own, then your help is appreciated. Anyway, I'll update WHEN I HAVE TIME.
Until then, my friends.