Mika moaned as her alarm clock beeped. She debated ignoring it and going back to sleep, but finally sat up. She turned it off and got out of bed. It took her ten minutes to shower and change into her dark blue waitress outfit. She then started to fix her hair. Once she was done she stood in front of her mirror to examine herself. She was 5'6 and had bright blue eyes. Her long red hair streaked with black highlights was pulled up in a pony tail and was braided.
She pulled on her dark blue jacket over her white and blue shirt and headed out, locking her house up.
"Hey Mika!" A man yelled.
"Hi. Rengo." Mika smiled.
"Heading to work?" He asked putting a box down in front of his house.
"Yep. How's Amai?"
"Good. I'm taking her out to dinner tonight."
"Well then I'll see you later." Mika laughed, walking off.
She soon came to the restaurant "Blinds Eye." She walked in already finding tons of early morning customers. She waved to a few of the ones she knew. Then headed up to her boss.
Kachi Reto, the manager of "Blinds Eye" was a big burly man with dark blue almost black hair tied back in a small tail. He had dark black eyes that were piercing and made people nervous. At least most people, Mika was unaffected.
"Hi Kachi."
"Mika!" He boomed patting her on the back, laughing. "Good to see you!"
"It's good to see you too." Mika giggled. "So then what do you need me to do?"
"Just get to work." He laughed waving her towards the kitchen.
Soon Mika was happily working, being one of the two waiters at "Blind's Eye." The other waiter was a young girl, 13, with long blond hair braided back. Her name was Norami, Kachi's niece. Her green eyes sparkled with childish enthusiasm.
"Mika!" Norami giggled running over. "Look!" She waved at the man who had just walked in. "Isn't he cute?!"
Mika glanced over at the semi spiky black haired man. "Sure he is." Mika said just for the benefit of the girl. "Why don't you go be his waiter?"
"I can't do that!" Norami gasped. "I'll drop all his plates!"
"Alright! Alright! I'll take care of him." Mika sighed rolling her eyes. She walked over to the young man and smiled. "Can I help you?"
"Huh?... Oh yeah. I'm hungry." He said in a bored tone.
Mika rolled her eyes at his attitude, but smiled and directed him towards a table. As soon as he had sat the door opened again and a young girl, with long blond hair, and a man, with sandy blond hair wearing a hat and eye-patch, walked in. The two glanced in his direction and walked over.
"Hey Princess." The black haired boy waved at the girl.
"Train you had better not have ordered yet!" The man growled.
"Here I'll get two more menus." Mika nodded hurrying away from the squabbling men. She returned to find them sitting there calmer. "Here you go. I'm Mika and I'll be your server." She said handing them the menus. "Can I get you any refreshments?"
"Milk." Train said hardly glancing up.
"Train! I'm sorry about his attitude." The man sighed. "Eve and I will have some water."
"Alright." Mika nodded. Then headed towards the kitchen.
She returned with the refreshments and stood back as they looked over the menu. They then ordered after squabbling a bit. Mika went back to the kitchen relieved to get away from the group.
"Mika!" Norami called running over. "What's he like?!"
"Hard to tell. He just argues a lot with his partner. That's about it that I know."
"Oh." Norami sighed.
"Why don't you go refill their cups? Milk and two waters." Mika smiled sending the giggling girl off.
Mika watched as Norami filled the cups, blushing her head off as she scurried off. "He's so amazing!" She giggled running back over to Mika.
Mika sighed. "Okay love bird, go get back to work."
"Alright…" Norami rushed off and Mika smiled at the hyper little girl.
"Hey, Mika! Shipment out back can you take care of it?" Kaichi called.
"No problem!"
By the time Mika was done taking care of the shipment and had come back in the men and girl had left, and Norami was acting like it was the end of the world. Mika sighed and got back to work, knowing the girl would be fine by the end of the day.
"Bye!" Mika waved as the restaurant closed up for the day and headed home calmly. She hummed to herself as she walked. She paused, half way from her house, and looked behind her. It feels like someone is following me…
She glanced around cautiously remembering the wanted poster for a man in the area. He had killed 18 people. Mika tried to remember his name but she could only remember he was tall and had purple hair.
"It's not safe for a young lady like you to be out and bout on your own." A voice said, startling Mika. She spun around clutching her chest as her heart beat quickly.
"Man you scared me." She laughed taking a calming breath. She looked the figure over.
He was wrapped up in a cloak and hunched over like an older man. He wore a scarf around his lower face to keep the cold out.
Mika smiled calmly. "I'm okay… But what about you?"
"Oh, I'm sure that murderer will have no care for killing me."
"You never know. Who can understand the thoughts of a murderer?"
"Yes. It's true…" The old man nodded.
"Here allow me to walk you home sir."
"Such a sweet young lady. You'd better be careful of Jargon will get you.."
"Jargon… Oh is that the murder's name?"
The old man flinched. "You couldn't remember his name!"
"Yeah it kind of slipped my mind. I just remember what he looks like so I can avoid him."
The old man frowned, then straightened. He now was taller than Mika. She froze as he pushed her against a wall and spoke. He now had a deep darker voice. "You should really remember names… It's Jargon, Jargon Brumon."
Mika gasped then screamed as loud as she could.
Jargon shoved her into an alley and covered her mouth. "Stop that. I made sure no one was around. Now you'll pay for not remembering me."
Mika shivered, scared for her life, as he pulled out a knife. Her heart started to race and her eyes flashed red.
"HEY! Let the girl go!"
Jargon frowned and looked over his shoulder. The man from the restaurant with the suit and eye patch stood there. He held his briefcase in front of him.
"I said, let the girl go."