Black Stars-

Misa's P.O.V.-

Shizuo bringing me to the Café was actually pleasant, even if it was somewhat forced, but it would have been better had it not been for a certain green eyed, short haired bluenette. We locked eyes for a split second, and then glass cups and porcelain plates shattered to the hardwood floor. I stood still and heard Shizuo from behind me asking me who it was. "It's… Ren." I was ready to walk out. In fact I was ready to run cross country in the pouring rain and in heels. But sadly, Shizuo just got irritated and pushed me forward. The only thing I saw was bright blue coming at me and pushing me against the clear, clean door to the Café. 'I'm in for it now.'

"What the hell did I tell you? I told you to call me once you got here! I texted you half an hour ago telling you to call me! I got worried, you idiot! What was so important you couldn't do that? Huh, Misa?" She said.

A single tear rolled down my face and I could feel myself smiling. "It's good to see you too Ren." I hugged her for the first time in four months. Ren, to me, would be described like this: spiky light blue hair with dark blue highlights, perfect for when we go out to clubs and parties she's apparently the "life of the party," she has bright lime green eyes that looked like they could glow in the dark, she was tall and thin about an inch shorter than Shizuo. She's my best friend, three years older than me and like an older sister to me actually. We found each other while roaming the streets, and in the same appearance; dirty faces, torn and baggy clothes and nowhere to go. We were both runaways.

I broke the hug and she was wiping a tear away from her eye. "I thought you said you never cried." I teased.

"I'm not crying! I just got something in my eye like dust or air." She laughed. "It's good to see you Misa."

"I'm not all for emotions and seeing as how you two are the best of acquaintances, I'll just be leaving." Shizuo stated. I know he would leave too, but a deal's a deal.

I grabbed his hand before he could leave. "You're not going anywhere. This makes up for almost killing me twice."

He growled a little and gritted his teeth before saying. "Fine" like he was going to die of defeat. He walked all the way into the Café and went past me and Ren to a booth by the window. I smirked at the victory just handed to me. I'm not competitive or anything, I just don't like to lose.

"So you came here to for a date huh? You didn't come to visit your best friend?" She nudged me in my side. "Does your Prince Charming have a name?" I could feel myself turning slightly red.

"He's not my boyfriend. He's a…" I cut off. What was he to me? Not exactly a friend though. I got it. "He's my savior." 'Okay that sounded weird. "His name is Shizuo Heiwajima."

Ren eyes got huge and she looked like she was going to scream.

"Ren?" I touched her lightly on the shoulder. "Ren are you alright? You look like you just saw a ghost or something." My smile faded away. Now I was worried. "Hey. Ren. Ren what's wrong." I shook her.

"Misa, I can't stop you from hanging out with someone but be careful around him. I've heard bad things about Shizuo Heiwajima." She looked at Shizuo and then at me with a serious look on her face.

"Okay Ren. I'll be careful." I wasn't about to call her crazy but Ren was just being protective of me. "Um you should also clean up that mess before your boss comes out." I said pointing at the shattered bits and pieces of cups and plates.

"Ah you're right, uh talk to you later." She frantically started cleaning and I walked over to the booth Shizuo had chosen and sat across from him.

"What're you getting?" I said looking at the menu.

"Nothing." He stated bluntly

"Fine." The waitress came over five minutes later with my ordered of a turkey sandwich with an iced tea.

I began to eat but I felt a little guilty that Shizuo wasn't eating and I was. I cut the sandwich in half evenly and gave one half to Shizuo.

"I said I didn't want anything." He said a little annoyed.

This was not happening. "Listen I'm sorry I threw a rock at your head and forced you to come here but I'm going to feel really guilty if you don't take this." I said with an apologetic look.

He took the sandwich and began to eat it. "Happy?"

I smiled "Very." And I offered him some of my iced tea, which he took thankfully. We ate in silence for about ten minutes. When we were done, he paid as part of the deal and we left. I couldn't find Ren anywhere so I didn't get to say bye. 'I'll just call her later.'

Shizuo and I walked side by side in silence. Not many people were out to my surprise. 'I thought Ikebukuro was supposed to be a busy place.' "Hey Shizuo." I said looking up at him.

"What?" He asked. Not sounding annoyed for once, but didn't look down to face me.

"Where's everyone? I thought Ikebukuro was a busy place. Shouldn't there be like a bunch of people out. It's not even two yet."

He looked at my out of the corner of his eye and then looked forward again. "Well there are the recent Slasher attacks and colored gang fights so I would expect everyone would be inside hiding." He stated like it were the most obvious thing in the world.

Right as he said that we passed a group of people sitting down on a bench wearing yellow. I recognized one guy as the one who grabbed me last night. He looked at Shizuo angrily and I noticed he had a black eye. 'Shizuo must have given him that. Way to go Shizuo.' They got up and walked past and ahead of us towards a group of three teens around Anri's age. The teen were different though, they didn't wear yellow. They wore regular cloths but had black stars on their bodies. One boy had a black star mark on his cheek, another boy had a black star mark on his chin and the only girl of the group had a huge black star mark on her ankle. 'They must be the part of the Black Stars.'

Shizuo and I walked past the two groups but when we did the girl of the black stars group looked at me. She didn't smile or give me a nasty look. She just looked at me and then went back to talking with her group, like the Yellow Scarves members weren't even there.

'That's not going to end well. Those Black Star members were young. What if Anri were in the Black Stars gang?' I shook the thought away. 'I know my sister, she wouldn't join any gang. I wonder if Shizuo has to deal with siblings.

"Hey Shizuo do you have any siblings?" I asked.

"Why do you want to know?" He asked sounding a little angry.

"Sorry I didn't mean to offend you or anything. It's just I saw those teens and they were in the Black Stars gang so I thought about Anri. And then I thought of you and wondered if you had any siblings to take care of. But if you don't want to answer it's alright. Sorry for asking." I said putting my head slightly down.

He didn't say anything so we just kept walking in silence again. 'Well, that went well.' I thought.

"I have two younger siblings." He said after about five minutes of silence.

I looked up at him a little taken aback that he decided to talk, or even tell me he had siblings. I smiled after getting over my little shock. "Can you tell me about them? Please?"

"I have a brother that's twenty-one, his name's Kasuka. Most people know him as Yuhei Hanejima though." He looked up at a billboard advertising a movie and I followed in his direction. It read: Come see Yuhei Hanejima in his latest film.

"Are you two close?" I asked turning to look at him.

"Not really. We don't speak much."

"Oh. Sorry. So what about your other sibling?" I asked.

"My other sibling is eighteen and her name's Ayame. We have a different brother/sister relationship."

"Um okay. What does Ayame do?" I persisted.

"Honestly I don't really know. She tends to do or go wherever she wants. It gets her into a lot of trouble though, that I know for sure." He said.

"Well I can't really say I can relate. Me and Anri keep to ourselves."

Before I could ask anything else I heard a phone ringing. Shizuo dug into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Shizuo answered and he only asked 'where and when' to whoever was on the phone and then hung up.

"I have to get going. I have something I need to take care of." He said and ran off.

"Okay. Bye Shizuo." I watched him run until he turned a corner and he was gone from my site. I turned around to find a man in front of me. I was startled and jumped back a bit. He looked familiar but I couldn't figure out where I had seen him before.

"Sorry didn't mean to scare you there. Misa was it?" He said with a sly smirk on his face.

"Uh yeah. Have we met before?" I asked cautiously and a little confused.

He just kept the sly smirk and then chuckled. "Well not officially. My name is Izaya Orihara and I" He put a hand on his chest. "…am an information broker." He said with his sly smirk. "It's a pleasure to meet you my dear Misaki Sonohara."

I am so sorry it took forever to update! I was supposed to update on MLK day but apparently I was on trial for word document and it expired on that day. And then I tried using the home computer after realizing VERY VERY LATE that it had word document. But then it set on FIRE! And I was like what the hell! And my mom and sister didn't let me use their computers, those selfish jerks -_-. And so finally my dad installed the word document yesterday to my computer and now I type. Sorry for the delay. T-T

I'll update later on today, like in two hours or so. Again. sorry for the delay. _

~Circus